I want to post to signal that I have similar concerns that others have expressed regarding budget. I believe in funding people for work, but I think we also need to be prudent. The $ cost of this for 1 year is very expensive, and breaking down the costs there seem to be budgeting for repeating hourly costs for things that don’t seem to need to be worked on so frequently (UI/UX come to mind, as well as paying someone to manage a small team like this - is it really reasonable to expect a these roles to be working 100 hours a month for 12 months straight?).
The cost seems like an amount that you would expect this to be each persons full time, solo-income job and I don’t think the scope justifies that type of time commitment across a team of this size.
The duplicate work issue factors in here as well. In a vacuum, if we have multiple sites to reference it’s not a big deal… but the budget then becomes even more important to focus on. As now we’re getting into how much we are valuing having multiple sites for similar info. If there wasn’t a source already available the larger cost may be more justified, but as it stands this is a big cost for this type of project.
Its unfortunately retroactive grants aren’t more popular, because this seems like a good usecase for one to be honest.