Q&A
Fiscal year 25 public realm grant
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Council Member Rivera inquires about the fiscal year 25 public realm grant, asking about its origins, eligible organizations, and the number of applications received and awarded.
- The grant evolved from the previous fiscal year's commercial district lighting grant
- It was developed based on feedback from partners about improving the experience on commercial corridors
- The grant aims to improve lighting while also expressing neighborhood cultural identity
- The program was expanded to include other public realm components like neighborhood navigation and art installations
- The grant's focus on cultural identity aligns with feedback from 39 completed Commercial District Needs Assessments (CDNAs)
Carlina Rivera
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0:42:04
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0:42:07
Like, can you just describe the the fiscal year 25 public rum grant?
Haris Khan
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Yes.
Carlina Rivera
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Where did the idea originate from and what organizations were eligible to apply and how many action we applied and were awarded?
Calvin Brown
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So the public ground grant for FY 25 really came from the previous fiscal year when we did a commercial district light and grant.
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And this came back from feedback that we got from partners about how we can improve the experience on commercial corridors by improving the light in, but also speaking to a neighborhood's cultural identity.
0:42:41
So this wasn't just putting up any type of light in.
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1, we wanted to improve the light in, but also have a way of them expressing their community identity.
0:42:50
So after the success of that grant, we wanted to open it up to other components of the public realm, like neighborhood navigation, which is wayfinding, how can we direct people to the businesses within those commercial corridors, the type of businesses that are there, art, canvas and murals, the other ways of the these organizations, ticks, amplify those cultural identities of those neighborhoods.
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So we expanded the options under the public realm.
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And this was once again came from feedback.
0:43:24
We've done 39 CDNA's, And as stated in the testimony, they included some of those components, but we wanted to specifically create a grant where then those organizations can focus on those public realm interventions that help improve the commercial corridor experience.
