Ballot initiative campaign launched to give residents control over how Cleveland spends 2% of its budget
People’s Budget Cleveland last Friday officially began collecting signatures to get a ballot initiative before voters in November that would install a charter amendment to give residents a say in how up to $14 million of the city's annual budget would be spent.
PB Cle will need about 6,000 valid signatures from registered Cleveland voters for the ballot initiative to appear in November’s election, and its goal is to collect 15,000 signatures by July 4. To accomplish this, volunteers and paid workers will collect signatures in different neighborhoods around Cleveland and at events like Pride.
“I think that it would create a better community, people will be able to work together and also will help city council as well because you just can’t have the same people working in the same arenas, you need to have a lot more people with other ideas,” said community organizer Delores Gray. “Everybody should have a chance to make a difference in their neighborhood.”
At the time, Council President Blaine Griffin expressed concern over how the proposed $5 million would be spread equitably across the city, resulting in “more affluent, more populated, more middle-class neighborhoods” receiving more of the funding. Council member Kris Harsh also raised concerns about the pilot program in City Council in January.
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