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Council Member Brewer inquires about BID funding impact
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Council Member Gale A. Brewer congratulates the BID steering committee and asks how the new funding will improve their existing work, particularly in areas of sanitation and public safety. Carrie King responds by explaining the benefits of regular and reliable BID funding.
- BID funding will allow for doubling the size of the street cleaning team
- The funding will enable cleaning of additional blocks beyond just 125th Street
- BID funding is more reliable and available before expenses occur, unlike grant-based funding
Gale A. Brewer
0:16:33
First of all, congratulations, particularly to Carrie, but to everybody.
0:16:36
My question is, knowing the area well, how will specifically because you worked really hard sanitation, already on public safety, already with the five methadone treatment that don't necessarily support what you're doing.
0:16:50
So how will this funding be able to, improve all the amazing work that you've done so far?
Carrie King
0:16:58
It's a great question.
0:16:59
I think, first of all, it will be a lot more funding and then it's also more reliable because currently we're just we're grant writing, we're asking our council members for support, but this bid funding comes in regularly and it comes in before you need to spend it, which is different than council funding.
0:17:17
And our goal is really to hit the ground running, doubling the size of our street cleaning team.
0:17:22
And we have more blocks we can cover, which also means currently we're just cleaning January but now we're gonna do January, '1 '20 sixth, '1 '20 seventh, '1 '20 eighth which will help a lot of the inputs that are creating the mess on January.