Dear John

School isn’t the only thing back in session this September -- Participatory Budgeting (PB) cycle 9 is underway and ideas are already flowing in!

Are you a fan of the Park Slope Library reading garden? Bus countdown clocks? Supporting Spanish-speaking teens to become educators? These are all ideas that your neighbors proposed and won funding for through PB.

Through PB, you have an opportunity to decide how to spend your tax dollars to improve our community. We need your ideas & your help to make our community more vibrant, more inclusive, more green, more imaginative, more generous, more fun.

Here’s how you can submit ideas, learn more, and get involved in the PBNYC process:

1. Come to a Neighborhood Assembly - Two Opportunities

Come out to a PB neighborhood assembly and bring your friends! You’ll learn more about the participatory budgeting process, brainstorm ideas with your neighbors, and submit ideas for this year’s ballot.

KENSINGTON
Monday, September 23, 2019
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
P.S. 230
1 Albemarle Road

PARK SLOPE
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Park Slope Library
431 6th Avenue

If you plan to come to an event please let us know on the Facebook [[link removed]] event page, and invite your friends and neighbors too!

2. Submit your idea online [[link removed]] .

Dozens of ideas have already come in -- check them out and rate your favorites here [[link removed]] .

3. Pop-up idea collection

We’ll be hosting a handful of idea collection pop-ups at various locations around the district throughout the next month, and will be collecting ideas in Bangla, Spanish, and Arabic. Look for us and keep an eye on the Facebook event [[link removed]] for a heads up about pop up events!

If you have an event coming up where you’d like to host a PB idea collection pop-up, please send an email to Shahana Hanif at [email protected] [[email protected]] .

Participatory budgeting is grassroots democracy in action. From brainstorming ideas to researching costs to working with City agencies to deciding what’s on the ballot, community residents take shared leadership that leads to brilliant results. This process cannot work without your help.

If you’d like to volunteer as a budget delegate, a group facilitator, to help spread the word, or to get out the vote for this PBNYC cycle, please let us know here [[link removed]] .

Can’t wait to see what this cycle brings!

Brad

P.S. If you don't live in District 39, visit the City Council's Participatory Budgeting portal to submit ideas for other districts here [[link removed]] .

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Council Member Brad Lander
456 5th Avenue
Third Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States

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