From Maggie Tobin, one of the co-founders of KARMABrooklyn, a member of Community Board 12, Dahill Neighborhood Association, and West Kensington Action Group, and now a Budget Delegate from Kensington for City Council District 39's experiment in Participatory Budgeting:
If you live in the 39th District , PLEASE go to Brad Lander's blog and suggest how you would like to see a million dollars spent! DEMOCRACY WORKS WHEN YOU WORK IT!!!best, Maggie
Maggie included a link to her report on the first meeting of the budget delegates on the Streets & Sidewalks Committee, "Participatory Budgeting delegate committees get to work," part of which says
"In Kensington, we do not have a park or community center to call our own. We are a very diverse and somewhat segregated population in desperate need of a place to gather and have the opportunity to interact with one another. I would love to see a few small plazas (rather grandiose word for a smattering of benches) in the vicinity of Church Avenue. Two places in particular would be in front of Walgreens, the other would be an addition to our little green triangle at 35th and Church. Our main shopping area is in need of a complete makeover but any little help could get the ball rolling in the right direction."
Suggestions from other delegates are enumerated in her report. This could be the start of something good!
