Virginia gets $1.6 billion in stimulus aid

By Lindsay Barnes III |
Published online 4:33pm Friday Mar 6th, 2009
and in print issue #0810 dated Thursday Mar 12th, 2009

Governor Tim Kaine (D) announced Friday, March 6 that Virginia has received $1.6 billion in aid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act recently passed by Congress and signed by President Obama. Kaine says citizens can track expenditure of those funds through the stimulus.virginia.gov website. Already the original bill specifically allocated $730.4 million for K-12 education, $39.8 million for public safety grants to localities, and $694.5 million for transportation infrastructure.

2 comments

DF March 6th, 2009 | 5:38pm

Wow. That should help fill the budget gap. Does it have to be used immediately on construction projects, etc?

John Giuliano September 30th, 2008 | 3:56pm

Stop spying on me!