Cheney Free Press -

MEDICAL LAKE – During a Sept. 21 meeting, the City Council approved a $50,000 grant to help with rental assistance as the current eviction moratorium was extended and is set to expire at the end of October.

City Administrator Doug Ross presented the topic as an action item and said this is the first expenditure the city has made with funding it received via the American Rescue Plan Act.

The city was approved to receive close to $1.4 million in rescue plan funding and has received half of that total.

The remainder will sit in an overall budget allocated to fund specific rescue fun...