Title:
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Measure U Community Advisory Committee Recommendations to Implement Participatory Budgeting and Conduct an Annual Public Opinion Poll
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File ID: 2020-01000
Location
Location: Citywide
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Recommendation:
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Receive, review, discuss, and provide direction to the City Manager regarding recommendations of the Measure U Community Advisory Committee.
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Contact: Michael Jasso, Assistant City Manager, (916) 808-5704; Ash Roughani, Development Project Manager, (916) 808-7751, Office of Innovation and Economic Development
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Presenter: Members of the Measure U Community Advisory Committee
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-July 27 Recommendations to Implement Participatory Budgeting
3-August 28 Recommendations to Conduct an Annual Public Opinion Poll
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The Mayor and City Council established the Measure U Community Advisory Committee ("Committee") in 2018 to ensure that the expenditures of City resources reflect Council and Community priorities (Resolution 2018-0393).
At its July 20, 2020 meeting, the Committee approved a series of recommendations related to Measure U expenditures. The scope of this report concerns two sets of recommendations approved at that meeting regarding: 1) the implementation of participatory budgeting, and 2) the administration of an annual public opinion poll to identify resident priorities for Measure U spending. The recommendations are provided in more detail below.
Participatory Budgeting
The Committee's recommendations to implement participatory budgeting are as follows:
1. Re-allocate $15 million dollars in this budget year previously allocated to the Police Department, Fire Department, and Other CIPs, MYOPs & Debt Service line items in the Approved Fiscal Year 2020/21 Measure U Budget to let residents determine how to spend this portion of Measure U tax revenue ("Participatory Budgeting");
2. Commit to increasing this investment annuall...
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