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Council Member Feliz proposes temporary SBS positions to assist with BID formation
0:47:43
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Council Member Oswald Feliz addresses the challenges of forming Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in certain communities. He proposes an idea to create temporary part-time SBS positions specifically tasked with helping organize communities for BID formation.
- Feliz acknowledges the difficulties in contacting multiple landlords and getting them to participate in BID formation.
- He suggests that temporary SBS positions could help overcome challenges such as lack of resources and language barriers in some communities.
- The proposal aims to provide targeted assistance to complete the processes needed to form a BID, with the hope of eventually transitioning to permanent BIDs.
Oswald Feliz
0:47:43
Thank you, Council member, Batcher, for raising a very important topic that, yeah, we need to have a lot of conversations about.
0:47:51
I'll pass it on to our majority whip of Selena Brooks Powers, but briefly just wanted to throw out an idea before we fully move on from the issue related to bids.
0:48:01
Very aware of the challenges that our communities face.
0:48:03
I think when trying to form a bit, including the challenges that you mentioned getting in touch with the landlord, but still having someone not only landlord, but landlords.
0:48:12
Right?
0:48:13
You have a lot of landlords that you need to get to the table.
0:48:16
It'll be really interesting, and this is an idea that I haven't fully thought through, but just an idea.
0:48:21
It'll be interesting if we can create temporary part time SPS physicians to and specifically give them the role of helping organize that specific community.
0:48:33
And temporary only because the hope is that in the future, it'll the idea would be turned into a reality.
0:48:39
You'll go a bit, and eventually, it'll be permanent.
0:48:42
That'll be very interesting.
0:48:43
Again, considering that some communities don't have resources, some of them have other challenges, language barrier, and etcetera.
0:48:51
It'll be interesting if we could create part time positions, specifically in certain regions to help complete all the processes that are needed to form it.
0:49:00
Yep.