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Supervisors hear District 3 participatory budgeting pilot and Vallejo's citywide model
Summary
A hearing on participatory budgeting highlighted District 3's short pilot (nearly 500 voters) and Vallejo's larger citywide experiment (nearly 4,000 voters); presenters urged deeper outreach, explicit equity criteria and modest staffing/funding to scale PB citywide.
The Budget & Finance Committee held a wide-ranging hearing on participatory budgeting (PB), a process giving residents direct say over local discretionary spending. Supervisor David Chu (President Chu) summarized District 3's pilot, which used a $100,000 discretionary pot and engaged residents through community sessions, delegate work and a neighborhood vote that produced 14 ballot ideas and about 500 voters.
"Participatory budgeting ... is a civic engagement process that gives residents the power to set budget priorities and to directly make decisions on the types of local neighborhood projects the government should fund," Supervisor Chu explained in his presentation to the committee.
Ginny Brown of the Participatory Budgeting…
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