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Council member inquires about most helpful SBS grant
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Council Member Oswald Feliz asks Darry Saldana from the Bronx Chamber of Commerce about the most helpful SBS grant they've dealt with. Saldana identifies Avenue NYC and the Neighborhood Development Grant Initiative (NDGI) as particularly helpful programs.
- Avenue NYC and NDGI were highlighted as beneficial grants
- These grants allowed assistance to corridors without BIDs
- The Small Business Network grant was also mentioned as helpful
Oswald Feliz
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Thank you.
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Thank you for your testimony.
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Quick question.
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Great work, by the way.
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Bronx Chamber of Commerce does yeah.
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Really good work in The Bronx, supporting our bids, small businesses, and everyone.
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What has been the most helpful Citi SBS grant that you've dealt with?
Darry Saldana
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I'm sorry.
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Could you repeat that again?
Oswald Feliz
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Yeah.
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What has been the most helpful SBS grant that you and your team have dealt with?
Darry Saldana
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Well, outside of the small business network grant, I would say Avenue NYC is a good one and used to be the neighborhood initiative grant initiative, the NDGIs, in which we was able to go into corridors that are not funded directly through bids or, you know, get the assistance that they needed.
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We was able to assist them, you know, directly without having a bid to help them out.
Oswald Feliz
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Okay.
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Cool.
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much for joining and for your testimony.
Darry Saldana
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Thank you for having us.