Carol Cohen: Yes, so you can propose anything you like. We gave you our ideas. You can propose what you like. Please justify it and demonstrate in your justification how in the best interest of the it’s beneficiaries and that in Social best interest, so basically you need to provide it’s Security’s narrative that justifies why proposing a different service area. you’re (Deb Kopak): Okay. So when I am looking at the RFT on page 22 and it says specifically in the second paragraph applicants may include additional areas, we can also propose a reduced area. I just wanted to clarify that. Carol Cohen: Yes, correct. a good point. correct. correct. that’s That’s That’s That’s (Deb Kopak): Okay, okay. terrific. That’s Carol Cohen: Yes, your comment about major metropolitan is when we spent a lot of time doing these analyses, using the current population data, we made every effort to distribute major metropolitan areas so that certain grantees would not have a situation where they were serving multiple major metropolitan areas, so an attempt was made to just level the playing field so to speak, but that mean you propose something different. doesn’t couldn’t (Deb Kopak): Correct. Okay. That has answered my question. Thank you very much. Carol Cohen: very welcome. You’re Operator: And we move to our next question. (Harriet Van Whitman): Hi, calling - this is Harriet Van Whitman from been looking at I’m Delaware. I’ve the RFA and I have been looking at on page 28, a - the different - in section part 3 and the there’s project narrative and it lists different parts of the project narrative and how many pages to they’re
Carol Cohen: Yes, so you can propose anything you like. We gave you our ideas. You can propose what you like. Please justify it and demonstrate in your justification how it’s in the best interest of the beneficiaries and that it’s in Social Security’s best interest, so basically you need to provide narrative that justifies why you’re proposing a different service area. (Deb Kopak): Okay. So when I am looking at the RFT on page 22 and it says specifically in the second paragraph applicants may include additional areas, we can also propose a reduced area. I just wanted to clarify that. Carol Cohen: Yes, that’s correct. That’s a good point. That’s correct. That’s correct. (Deb Kopak): Okay, okay. That’s terrific. Carol Cohen: Yes, your comment about major metropolitan is when we spent a lot of time doing these analyses, using the current population data, we made every effort to distribute major metropolitan areas so that certain grantees would not have a situation where they were serving multiple major metropolitan areas, so an attempt was made to just level the playing field so to speak, but that doesn’t mean you couldn’t propose something different. (Deb Kopak): Correct. Okay. That has answered my question. Thank you very much. Carol Cohen: You’re very welcome. Operator: And we move to our next question. (Harriet Van Whitman): Hi, I’m calling - this is Harriet Van Whitman from Delaware. I’ve been looking at the RFA and I have been looking at on page 28, there’s a - the different - in section part 3 and the project narrative and it lists different parts of the project narrative and how many pages they’re to
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