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Committee forwards $414,000 District 7 participatory-budget appropriation to full board
Summary
The Budget and Finance Committee voted 3-0 to send an ordinance to the full Board of Supervisors that would appropriate $400,000 from a District 7 participatory budget account and about $14,000 from Public Works to fund eight community projects in District 7.
The Budget and Finance Committee on Sept. 10 forwarded to the full Board of Supervisors an ordinance to appropriate $414,000 for eight District 7 neighborhood projects selected through Supervisor Mirna Melgar’s participatory budgeting program.
The ordinance would allocate $400,000 from a District 7 participatory-budget account and roughly $14,000 from the Department of Public Works for projects including median improvements on Monterey Heights, new curb ramps in Westwood Park, sidewalk repair in Ingleside Terraces, Westwood Park pillars, playground and blacktop updates at Westportal Elementary School, a mural and signage updates at Commodore Sloat Elementary, a Monterey Boulevard mural via the Arts Commission, art pop-ups on Ocean Avenue through the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, and daylighting and bollards in Sunnyside through the Municipal Transportation Agency for fiscal year 2025–2026.
Emma Hair, legislative aide to Supervisor Mirna Melgar, said the participatory budgeting process solicited proposals from District 7 residents, was vetted by a community review committee and resulted in a public vote in which “more than a thousand District 7 residents” participated. Hair said the chosen proposals “are the ones that were mentioned, by the clerk and are listed in the legislation.”
Nick Menard of the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s office told the committee the appropriation includes $400,000 from the District 7 account and $14,000 from DPW and recommended approval of the ordinance.
There were no public speakers on the item. Vice Chair Matt Dorsey moved to forward the ordinance with a positive recommendation; the committee voted 3–0 (Dorsey, Cheyenne Chen and Chair Connie Chan voting aye).
If approved by the full board, the ordinance would be expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors’ Sept. 16 agenda unless otherwise stated by the clerk.
The committee record shows the item was presented by staff and advanced without amendments; funding sources and project lists are included in the legislation and BLA report.
