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Ithaca commission details participatory budgeting rules, youth track and Earth Day outreach
Summary
City staff and commissioners discussed forming internal and community working groups to run a participatory budgeting pilot that would reserve 10% of the capital budget for public voting, a small youth allocation, and public outreach at an April 19 Earth Day event on the Ithaca Commons.
Rebecca, a staff member for the city program supporting the Ithaca Green New Deal, told the commission on March 10 that Justice 50 commits the city to reserving 10% of the capital budget for participatory budgeting and described how staff plan to set up the process.
Rebecca said the city’s capital budget “is around $5,000,000. So 10% of that is 500,000,” and said staff will form two working groups: an internal group of city staff to set legal guardrails and implementation procedures, and a community working group made up of neighborhood and organizational “network nodes” who would both help design the process and encourage voting.
The staff working group will determine what the New York State Constitution and other legal limits allow the city to fund through participatory budgeting and will clarify who is responsible for…
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