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Organizers press council to fund participatory budgeting, crisis‑response team and meet‑and‑confer policy
Summary
Members of the Raleigh People's Budget Assembly and allied groups asked council to expand participatory budgeting, create a community crisis‑response team separate from police, institute meet‑and‑confer with city workers, and boost affordable housing funding.
Representatives of the Raleigh People's Budget Assembly, Refund Raleigh and allied groups urged the council to adopt a set of budget and governance changes that organizers said would shift resources toward community control and away from traditional policing budgets.
“Let 2025 be the year Raleigh residents have real power over our money,” Nikquay Williams of Refund Raleigh told the…
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