Day: March 22, 2017

Carlos Menchaca, Education, Local Issues - Red Hook

Middle schoolers are participatory budgeters this year, by Kimberly Gail Price

Participatory Budgeting is a community wide process that allows constituents to suggest, develop and vote on discretionary funds. For the fourth year in a row council member Carlos Menchaca has allocated $2 million for projects in his district, which includes Red Hook, Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace. Since September, volunteers have been designing and budgeting community ideas. And the time […]