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BID formation grant selection criteria and borough distribution
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Commissioner Gross explains the selection criteria for BID formation grants and provides a breakdown of BIDs across New York City boroughs.
- Selection criteria include proposal strength, pragmatic scope, budget, organizational capacity, and likelihood of success
- Applicants must have a steering committee and completed neighborhood survey to be eligible
- Current BID distribution across boroughs:
- Bronx: 12 established BIDs
- Brooklyn: 23 established BIDs
- Manhattan: 26 established BIDs
- Queens: 11 established BIDs
- Staten Island: 4 established BIDs
- The next BID to go through the legislative process is East Harlem, supported by Uptown Grand Central
Oswald Feliz
1:08:59
Thank you.
1:09:01
What selection criteria does SBS have for bid formation grants?
1:09:05
What are factors that SBS considers?
Dynishal Gross
1:09:07
So it is a competitive process, we're looking for applications that are you know clear and we consider a variety of factors.
1:09:17
They include the strength of the proposals, want to see that there's a pragmatic scope for the time period that it will take to get to bid formation and the budget amount for the formation period.
1:09:30
We want to understand that there's that they have a need for these resources based on the their budget and staff capacity, organizational capacity.
1:09:42
We want to work with steering committees that are really driven to move this process forward and have a strong likelihood of success.
1:09:51
That it's helpful if they've already had a history of compliance and successfully manning managing grants, but we you know we do as much as we can also outside of the groups that we award to support groups that have fledgling you know kind of desires to begin a bid formation effort by sharing our guide, connecting with them with our staff, and supporting them in those early stages.
1:10:19
Also another important eligibility criteria is that they they have to have a steering committee and need to have completed a neighborhood survey to be eligible for the grant.
Oswald Feliz
1:10:31
Thank you for the information and also for making that a priority I know that's been a big priority for all of us.
1:10:36
Yes.
1:10:37
City government.
1:10:39
So we have 66 bids in the state of New York.
1:10:41
Seventy six.
1:10:42
Right.
1:10:42
76.
1:10:43
Sorry.
1:10:43
Yeah.
1:10:43
76 bids.
1:10:44
How many do we have in each borough?
1:10:46
Could you give us a breakdown?
1:10:48
And also how many are at the formation stages?
Dynishal Gross
1:10:52
Just a moment.
1:10:52
I'll pull that up for you.
Oswald Feliz
1:11:09
Yeah.
1:11:09
So breakdown by borough and also how many in the formation stages.
Sharon Brown
1:11:13
Just a minute.
Dynishal Gross
1:11:21
Council member, I'm not seeing the borough breakdown of bids here, but I'll make sure we share it before the hearing has concluded.
1:11:30
We do have bids across all five boroughs and I'll give you the breakdown if you'll just allow me to circle back to that.
1:11:37
Yep.
Oswald Feliz
1:11:42
And I guess well all of you get that information.
1:11:48
How long can it take to form a bid?
1:11:51
And also where the ones that are in for the formation process, where in the process are they?
1:11:57
They in the beginning stages, final stages?
Dynishal Gross
1:12:02
So it really depends on the on the neighborhood group, the steering committee.
1:12:10
Some bid formation processes wax and wane over time and may extend over some years where we have organized steering committees with resources to invest, strong consultants in some instances.
1:12:26
They may move the process in you know two years or less And the current bid breakdown cheerfully is we currently have 12 established bids in The Bronx, we have 23 established bids in Brooklyn, 20 6 in Manhattan, Eleven in Queens, and four bids in Staten Island.
1:12:49
And the next bid to go through the bid formation effort to go through the legislative process as I've mentioned a couple of times is East Harlem which is supported by Uptown Grand Central through the formation process.
1:13:06
Alright.
1:13:07
Now moving on to local law 156.