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QUESTION
Have grants been considered to establish a minimum funding level for specific BIDs?
0:44:21
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Deputy Commissioner Calvin T. Brown acknowledges the idea of using grants to set funding floors for specific bids as unexplored but is open to further discussion.
- Council Member Oswald Feliz suggests exploring grants to ensure specific bids are properly funded, mentioning a hypothetical increase from $90,000 to $150,000.
- Deputy Commissioner Brown states the concept has not been explored before.
- Brown expresses openness to discussing the proposal further with Feliz.
Oswald Feliz
0:44:21
Have we thought about or explored any grants that could potentially set floor in terms of funding for specific bids just to make sure that they are properly funded.
0:44:33
For example, a bid that has a total budget of $90,000 per year, bumping it up to 150,000 through grants and making that the potential floor.
Calvin T. Brown
0:44:46
Something that we haven't explored, but welcome, you know, to follow-up with you to kind of walk through what that would look like.
Oswald Feliz
0:44:54
Okay.
0:44:55
Cool.