Kimberly Rash
19:08 - 19:32
“we now standardized our solicitation selection records and agreement put into place agreement templates and pre-execution review. So now any disbursement of funds out of either CDBG, HOME, or ESG goes through Title VII, so a competitive process, whether that's an RFP, an RFP, an ITB, anything that is allowed in Title VII.”
- Speaker
- Kimberly Rash
- Timestamp
- 19:08 – 19:32
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 27, 2026
From the transcript
So the agreement controls did not consistently cover the full lifecycle from solicitation to renewal to closeout. The templates and files did not always establish that federal, municipal, and program requirements were met. Expiration dates and required contract actions were not reliably elevated for management's attention. And so we now standardized our solicitation selection records and agreement put into place agreement templates and pre-execution review. So now any disbursement of funds out of either CDBG, HOME, or ESG goes through Title VII, so a competitive process, whether that's an RFP, an RFP, an ITB, anything that is allowed in Title VII.
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