Broward County is inviting public enter on its Deprived Enterprise Enterprise (DBE) triennial goal-setting course of for airport and transit initiatives slated to obtain federal funding. The web DBE Public Remark Survey is now formally open and can stay accessible by means of Friday, July 18, 2025.
This course of primarily helps make sure that small and deprived companies get a good probability to work on necessary airport and transit initiatives funded by the federal authorities.
The survey goals to collect suggestions from enterprise house owners—whether or not DBE-certified or not—together with business teams, contractors, suppliers, consultants, and different stakeholders with curiosity in federally funded aviation and transit initiatives.
The remark interval follows two public stakeholder conferences hosted by the Workplace of Financial and Small Enterprise Growth (OESBD). Recordings of these periods can be found on-line, and contributors are inspired to assessment them earlier than responding.
The U.S. Division of Transportation mandates that every one recipients of federal grants beneath the DBE Program submit their participation targets for assessment each three years. Broward County’s new DBE targets will apply to contracts issued between October 1, 2025, and September 30, 2028.
“Our goal-setting course of entails a number of stakeholder conferences and a public remark interval offering the most effective alternative for OESBD to judge the effectiveness of those applications as we proceed our mission to create alternatives for small companies,” mentioned OESBD Director Sandy-Michael E. McDonald. “I encourage enterprise house owners to take part by taking the survey and offering suggestions, and likewise by studying extra about how you can do enterprise with Broward County.”
The proposed DBE targets and their methodologies can be found for public assessment on the OESBD workplace positioned at 115 S. Andrews Avenue, Room A-680, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301, from Monday by means of Friday, 8:30 a.m. to five:00 p.m., for a 30-day interval beginning at this time.
Public feedback will be submitted in individual or emailed to Donna-Ann Knapp, Small Enterprise Growth Supervisor, at [email protected].
To take the survey or study extra, go to the OESBD webpage.
