BRADLEY, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – The Gun Lake Tribe is doling out some of its CARES Act cash.
In a statement released by the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians on Thursday, the tribe announced a half-million-dollar donation of money received into its Coronavirus Relief Fund through the federal relief measure. Half of those funds will go to Allegan County in order to purchase a mobile vaccination unit that “will provide area residents with a COVID 19 vaccine once one is available to the general public,” tribal officials said in the statement.
The other half of the donation will be split evenly to 11 local school districts, including all 10 of the public education districts in Allegan County (Allegan, Fennville, Glenn, Hamilton, Hopkins, Martin, Otsego, Plainwell, Saugatuck and Wayland), as well as the Allegan Area Educational Service Agency. The tribe is hoping that the money would fund “school safety mitigation efforts.”
In the statement, Tribal Chairman Bob Peters said, “We are happy to provide our friends and neighbors with additional funding during these very difficult times. The mobile vaccination unit will play an important role in getting our community back to normal, but in the meantime, helping to keep our local schoolteachers and students safe is the next best thing.”
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