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OTTUMWA — It wasn’t exactly Christmas in August, but Ottumwa’s city leadership wanted ideas just the same.
With the city receiving approximately $1.8 million in American Rescue Plan funding each of the next two years, city administrator Philip Rath and mayor Tom Lazio held a listening session Thursday at Bridge View Center with a handful of residents regarding ideas on ways to spend that money.
All told, Wapello County will receive almost $6.8 million in funding, about half of that to Ottumwa. The first allotment will be arriving “very shortly,” Lazio said…
