CARES Act distribution still a work in progress

In the next six months, Alaska municipalities will need to figure out how to distribute a total of $569 million in federal CARES Act coronavirus relief in a quick, effective and legal manner. There is little uniformity in the way local governments are tackling this challenge.

“It feels like someone passed away and there’s a will and nobody knows where the will is,” Haines Borough Assembly member Gabe Thomas said at a recent commerce committee…