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Advocating for budget flexibility and customized allocation for community boards
5:04:38
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Mark Diller advocates for greater flexibility in budget allocation and spending for community boards, emphasizing the need for customized solutions based on each board's specific needs.
- Diller suggests a fixed additional amount (e.g., $200,000) that can be spent flexibly by each board
- He highlights the importance of allowing boards to allocate funds based on their unique requirements
- Council Member Brewer acknowledges the request for flexibility in spending across budget categories
Mark Diller
5:04:38
If I could jump in on that as well.
5:04:40
Having a fixed number like 200,000 does make a world of sense because there are different needs across different boards.
5:04:47
One of the ways in which I think about this is compartmentalizing in effect what is spent inside our office, and that would be personnel as well as some equipment and some supplies and so forth, and then what is spent on consultants and so forth.
5:05:01
But different boards may have different needs or different ways in which to allocate those needs.
5:05:08
I, for example, would relish the opportunity to hire someone who knows what they're doing with audio visual equipment, but that may not be everybody's need.
5:05:16
So a collective amount that could be spent in a free form way so that we're not limited by the OMB, make it up as you go limitations on how we can transfer money within our own budget, that would be enormously helpful so that each board can decide for itself in consultation with its leadership and with the community we serve as to what is important for us, that would be, I think, a real way to advance this need.
Louis Molina
5:05:45
Thank you.
Gale A. Brewer
5:05:45
So not encumbered by OTPS versus PS, etcetera.
Mark Diller
5:05:49
Exactly right.
Gale A. Brewer
5:05:50
Alright.
5:05:50
Let me see what we can do.
5:05:51
I appreciate that.
5:05:52
It's good to have a number.
5:05:53
I'm gonna go with the 200,000 and see what we can do.
5:05:56
Thank you.