Responses provided by Shannon Mattingly, Director of Planning & Amanda Hernandez, Assistant Director of Planning:
The new CRF/General Fund program could require as a condition of accepting the funding that the customers, employees and owners must follow CDC guidelines.
A new CRF/General Fund program would be a completely separate program with its own contracts and procedures. “Existing framework” means that the Chamber now has experience implementing similar grant procedures, and has the processes in place to review applications for program eligibility, create grant program documentation, and issue payments.
The Chamber is not receiving a fee for the CDBG-CV program. For that program, the Chamber is only allowed to receive reimbursement for the hourly costs of staff to run the CDBG-CV program, tracked on timesheets. Staff is recommending the same reimbursement structure for the CRF/General fund program. (So far the Chamber has not requested reimbursement of staff costs, but they are allowed to do so.)