No government promised to honor this vote, and Providence Business News notes it ran without city or state elected officials having a say. The mandate rested on two things. First, the state executive: EOHHS's 2020 HSTP investment strategy committed Medicaid money to PB, and EOHHS and RIDOH contracted the Health Equity Zone to run it, with the state vetting ideas for eligibility before the ballot. Second, the convener's own commitment: ONE Neighborhood Builders, through the resident Steering Committee's rulebook, promised that the community's choices would be funded and that residents would shape implementation. In practice the vote bound the convener: all eight winners were funded at their ballot amounts, seven were delivered by October 2025, the eighth (bus stops) was due by the end of 2025 and Ocean State Media reports it built. What residents decided was the choice of projects and implementers within a health theme set by the funder; the City, whose parks and permits the capital projects depended on, had no formal obligation. The third row is the mandate that was hoped for and never came: the Implementation Committee wanted City Council discretionary funds for a future PB, and the Council President told a meeting she now had a road map for it; ONE|NB laid off the team the next day. The mandate therefore ended with the cycle, and the convener has since left the HEZ partnership.