Your Voice, Your Choice is a process by which Seattle residents decide how to spend a portion of the City’s budget. This year’s initiative will focus on Parks and Streets.
This means that locals will help to decide how to spend $2,000,000 of the City budget on small-scale improvements to streets and parks in local neighborhoods.
Small-scale improvements can include:
- Any physical project up to $90,000
- Street projects might include traffic calming (traffic circles, median islands, speed feedback signs, etc.) or short segments of sidewalk construction (less than 100 feet, or one third of a block)
- Parks projects might include accessibility improvements, trail/path maintenance and upgrades, park benches or tables, natural area renovations, minor playground improvements
The four key steps to this participatory budgeting process will include:
- Idea Collection (February 2017)
- Project Development (March – April 2017)
- Voting (June 2017)
- Fund & Implement (2018)
Do you have a fantastic idea for a project in Ballard? Click here to submit your thoughts.
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