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QUESTION
What needs are covered by the Small BID Support Grant Program?
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The Small BID Support Grant Program enables business improvement districts to enhance their services like sanitation, marketing, and beautification without raising assessment costs.
- Grants allow districts to amplify their existing activities creatively.
- They help increase foot traffic to commercial areas.
- Utilized for a variety of needs depending on the district, including sanitation, marketing, and beautification.
- Districts have shown creativity in how they apply the funding, without any impact on their assessment.
Oswald Feliz
0:46:35
And what are needs that would be covered under that program?
0:46:38
I'm sure sanitation, security event.
Calvin T. Brown
0:46:42
I would say that I've been network the fact that they were given an opportunity to sort of increase and amplify the work that they currently do and and without any impact to their assessment.
0:46:54
Some bids were very creative with some of the programming that they wanted to do to bring more foot traffic to their commercial corridors.
0:47:02
Some did add additional funding to their sanitation or their district marketing or they have boasted up their beautification So it really depended on the bid and what they felt was a need that they, you know, was unable to meet given their current assessments.