MARSHALL — The city of Marshall will be using up its remaining American Rescue Plan Act funding for a new fire truck, and some of the costs of the city’s Aquatic Center project.

At Tuesday’s Marshall City Council meeting, council members voted 4-1 to approve allocating a total of over $800,000 in funding.

E.J. Moberg, Marshall director of administrative services, said the city needed to allocate its ARPA funding by a Dec. 31 deadline.

“In chatting with Baker Tilley, our consultants, we have noticed that it might just be easier for us … to have these funds paid for yet in 2024,” Moberg said.

Council members and city staff talked about possible uses for the money during a Nov. 26 work session.

The city received a total of about $1.47 million in ARPA funding in 2022 and 2023, plus an additional $200,000 from Lyon County.

Moberg said Marshall Fire Chief Quentin Brunsvold was able to get an invoice for a new aerial truck that the Marshall Fire Department anticipates will arrive next spring. He was recommending that the city use the remainder of its ARPA funding from the county for the fire truck.

“Lyon County did allocate $200,000 of their (ARPA) allocation to the city of Marshall. We’ve used a small portion of that for some grass rig units, so we have $172,150 remaining,” Moberg said.

The city also had $655,889.54 left of its own ARPA funding. Moberg said the recommendation was to use that money to help cover architect and engineering fees paid for the Aquatic Center project this year.

“The full amount could be used to offset that (cost),” Moberg said.

The city’s ARPA funding would be spent by the end of the year, he said.

A motion to allocate the ARPA funding to the aerial truck and Aquatic Center architect and engineering fees passed 4-1, with council member James Lozinski casting the vote against.