Butler County will receive more than twice as much from the recent American Rescue Plan Act as it did from last year's Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.

And it won't have to share with municipalities.

Leslie Osche, county commissioners chairwoman, said the county government is slated to receive roughly $37 million from the coronavirus-related stimulus package signed into law earlier this month, more than twice as much as the $16.8 million disbursed to it by the federal government under the CARES Act.

Unlike last time, the county will not be responsible for then dispensing a share of that money to the dozens of municipalities within Butler County. Last year, the county shared $7.99 million with the municipalities.

As such, the county's aid will be more than four times what it was in the CARES Act.

Read more in Thursday's Butler Eagle.