Participatory Budgeting Cleveland

After a failed citywide ballot initiative in 2023, the organizing group People's Budget Cleveland is bringing back the idea of participatory budgeting, this time focusing on one city neighborhood, with private seed money.

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The bill would legally guarantee that local city councils can keep control over their budgets. It's understood as a move to preempt Cleveland's November ballot measure that would create participatory budgeting in the city.

PB CLE says Cleveland City Council was unwilling to reach a compromise on the proposed participatory budgeting charter amendment.

Clevelanders will decide in November whether residents will be able to directly propose and vote on how a portion of the city’s budget is spent through a process called participatory budgeting.

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The group helped frame Mayor Justin Bibb's proposal to city council for a participatory budgeting pilot program.

A grassroots organization is working to get community input be the driving force behind how American Rescue Plan Act dollars are spent.

Participatory Budgeting Cleveland, or PB CLE, wants the public to come up with ideas — and ultimately vote — on ways to spend almost $31 million from the city’s American Rescue Plan coronavirus relief allocation.