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Council selects East Central as preferred focus for participatory budgeting effort
Summary
After competing amendments from Council members Dixit and Wilkerson, the council adopted language preferring East Central for an initial participatory budgeting focus rather than Hilliard; councilors cited environmental justice, prior commitments and capacity as factors.
The Spokane City Council voted to identify East Central as the preferred focus area for a community participatory budgeting pilot after a lengthy debate that acknowledged the competing needs of Hilliard and East Central neighborhoods.
Council member Dixit presented the case for Hilliard, citing historic harms from freeway construction, railroad impacts and economic distress; Dixit said Commerce and a community advisory committee had…
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