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Neighborhood districts report rising attendance, broadened projects; staff to add tradition to handbook
Summary
Provo’s neighborhood district program reported rising attendance and a year of service projects; staff will add a long-standing practice — that planning-commission appointees step down as neighborhood chairs — to the program handbook rather than changing city code.
Rachel Green, Provo’s community relations coordinator, told the City Council that attendance at neighborhood district meetings has climbed from the twenties in the program’s early years to an average of about 80 people this year.
The increase accompanies a large array of volunteer projects and local matching-grant work, Green said. District 1 reported more than 700 service hours for pruning, park cleanups and other work; districts used matching grants to buy traffic-calming signs, benches and other neighborhood infrastructure. Green said districts rolled over previously unspent service hours (about 300 hours) and roughly $1,000 in unused grant funds; some districts combined that rollover with current-year budgets to create larger funds — one district now has about $11,000 available (about $7,500 for the current year…
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