QUESTION
Council Member Stevens Asks DYCD About Partnering with Economic Development Organizations
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Council Member Stevens inquires about how Department of Youth & Community Development's (DYCD) economic development programs foster partnerships with Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), Local Development Corporations, and leverage city resources. Deputy Commissioner Mike Bobbitt details the initiation phase involving consultations with the EDC and Small Business Services to ensure complementary yet distinct services. He highlights the contracted providers' existing relationships with these organizations and ongoing efforts to support the program’s portfolio cohesively.
Speaker 1
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How do you economic development programs provide providers, partner with bids, local development corporations, and take advantage of city resources?
Speaker 3
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Two pieces to that answer, chair 1, buffet inception when we launched the concept paper, and we did the RFP.
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We consulted EDC And Small Business Services.
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We wanted to make sure we were approaching something that would be complementary, but not duplicative of their work.
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And so we spoke cooperatively and gendered their their buying.
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And then once we entered into a contract with the providers, each of them do have relationships with with bids and and with what's the other term.
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I'm just I'm my brain is freezing for a second.
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Excuse me.
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Look.
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Thank you.
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Local Development Corporations, and we continued to meet we actually had a call yesterday with s US to think of ways to continue to bolster and support the portfolio as a whole.