Q&A
Partnerships developed with agricultural experts and organizations
1:23:31
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Council Member Farías inquires about partnerships developed with agricultural experts and organizations. Qiana Mickie describes the various ways the Office engages with stakeholders and supports their work.
- The Office engages with community stakeholders to further their work in community gardens
- They provide funding roundups and awareness about existing funding opportunities
- The Office supports businesses through free sessions on starting a business
- They work on identifying pathways for more city procurement contracts and agreements
- The Office helps inform interagency partners and businesses about stakeholder needs
Amanda Farías
1:23:31
Okay.
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And what partnerships have you developed with agricultural experts and organizations?
1:23:39
Which which partnerships?
1:23:40
What what partnerships have
Qiana Mickie
1:23:41
you focused on?
1:23:41
What partnerships?
1:23:42
Yes.
1:23:42
So, the breadth of stakeholders, we continue to be informed and engaged with our community stakeholders on how their work can continue to be furthered, on the ground up in their community gardens.
1:23:55
So we've created opportunities, to support any events and activities.
1:24:01
We've also created community, funding where we're since we're not able to directly give funding, we provide funding, roundups and awareness around existing fundings that they're eligible for and continue to support and, inform them in any ways that they can get funding for themselves, for their, projects.
1:24:22
In terms of other partnerships, we explore ways to support, businesses through our free, sessions around supporting their starting to business.
1:24:34
We've identified pathways to create access to more city procurement, contracts and agreements, and we'll continue to expand that in order to support, partnerships in their work.
1:24:45
And then, again, continuing to identify with business partners, what are ways that, speak to their needs around engagement that tends to look like, testimony or hearing or other advocacy around other initiatives.
1:24:58
So we continue to help inform on the inside, our interagency partners as well as businesses to inform that their needs are at other agendas.
