While the Fall River School Committee's CFO pledged that Cost Center Budgeting would be the norm for the Fiscal Year 2024 budget, the members of the Fall River City Council had questions about how ARPA dollars would be used in the Fiscal Year 2023 Municipal version, during a three hour long session in Government Center Thursday Night. . 

Fall River Mayor and School Committee Chair Paul Coogan indicated during the session last night that some of the ARPA dollars would be used to cushion the blow of the Durfee Debt Exclusion that was to be part of the FY 2023 budget, and that an ARPA Director was hired this week to help the city make decisions on dollars that are to be spent by 2026.