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QUESTION
What are the obstacles in forming a business improvement district (BID) and what resources are available to overcome them?
0:17:29
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Deputy Commissioner Calvin T. Brown discusses the challenge of attaining broad support for business improvement district (BID) formation and the educational resources provided to address this.
- A major obstacle is gaining broad-based support from the community.
- Education is provided to help stakeholders understand what a BID is, its functions, and the formation process.
- Resources include clear communication of process, timeline, budget, and requirements.
- The Department of Small Business Services supports steering committees with these resources.
Oswald Feliz
0:17:29
What are obstacles and what are resources that you provide so they could overcome those obstacles?
0:17:33
Post.
Calvin T. Brown
0:17:34
Some of the obstacles is getting that that broad based support.
0:17:38
Everyone is not a stand a bit, but part of that is providing their education.
0:17:42
So my team provides a lot of resources to those steering committees to make sure that they're communicating properly what a bit is, what the what a bit does, what is entailed in the bid process so that it's clear to those stakeholders what that process looks like, timeline, budget, resources, and all those things that are required.
0:18:07
Okay.