Hey everyone!
For the past three weeks, the Racial Solidarity Committee worked on outreach for the Participatory Budgeting Pilot Program in the City of Sacramento. We have focused on cooperation with local groups along with door-to-door canvassing in Meadowview.
Each weekend of canvassing has been more successful than the last, but we are still hurting for canvassers.
The Participatory Budgeting Pilot Program has two desired outcomes.
- The primary goal is to collect ideas from the community on how to spend the allotted cash ($500,000), while ensuring that folk from the community are present to vote and oversee the implementation of the project ideas.
- The secondary goal, and long term project that will go beyond the project deadline, is a revitalization of participatory democracy in our community.
We need as many folk as possible to pitch in for this effort. We will be canvassing every Saturday from 10AM-12PM in Meadowview, and will be meeting at Susan B. Anthony elementary school prior to heading out. This is a vital mission that will benefit our community, our county and our organization, and we need as many people as possible to contribute to the effort. Sign up and show up!
Hope to see you out there,
Thomas Gonzales
RSC co-chair
