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Ithaca participatory-budget pilot at Earth Day favors guaranteed income; City Hall courtyard slated for redesign
Summary
Commission members reported high public interest in a participatory-budgeting pilot at the Earth Day festival, where a paper-and-digital vote favored a guaranteed-income pilot. The commission is using a $50,000 capital allocation to pilot a City Hall courtyard redesign and to introduce participatory budgeting tools to the public.
Commission members reported that a participatory-budgeting pilot presented at Ithaca’s Earth Day festival drew strong public engagement and that the top vote-getter in the paper ballot exercise was a guaranteed-income proposal.
Rebecca, staff member, said the festival table “showcased a lot of the new branding of the Ithaca Green New Deal, and introduced participatory budgeting as a concept and the voting platform to the public,” and that the physical paper vote resulted in a clear winner: “the project that won won by a long shot by more than double any other project. And that was guaranteed income.”
Why this matters: the pilot is intended both to test public outreach and to introduce residents to the participatory-budgeting platform before a broader rollout. The commission is pairing the pilot with a limited City Hall…
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