As we gear up for the voting phase of our Your Voice, Your Choice program, we wanted to take a moment to highlight what we’ve accomplished so far. In February, we were able to gather nearly 900 project ideas for improving parks and streets from all over the city. This… [ Keep reading ]
Throughout the month of March, 267 participants from across the city gathered to evaluate and discuss the nearly 900 project ideas submitted by community members through our Your Voice, Your Choice: Parks & Streets program. Each project idea was reviewed and scored twice during the meetings hosted in each council… [ Keep reading ]
Last month, we had nearly 900 ideas submitted for small-scale improvements to Seattle’s parks and streets through our Your Voice, Your Choice program. Right now, community volunteers in each City Council District are reviewing and assessing eligible projects based on need, impact, and equity. You are invited to be part… [ Keep reading ]
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Idea Collection phase of our Your Voice, Your Choice: Parks and Streets program. The response was amazing! We received nearly 900 project ideas from all over the city! You can check out all of the different ideas on our interactive map. Now… [ Keep reading ]
Your Voice, Your Choice: Help Decide How to Spend $2 Million of the City’s Budget Last year, Seattle youth helped successfully launch the City of Seattle’s first participatory budgeting process, in which more than 3,000 young people throughout the City decided how to spend $700,000 of the City’s budget! It… [ Keep reading ]
Another Youth Voice, Youth Choice project is on its way! As you may have read in our recent update, we are ready to release a Request for Proposals (RFP) for our Job Readiness Workshops for Homeless Youth Project. This project, specified as ‘a term-limited expansion of existing services for youth… [ Keep reading ]
Last May, more than 3,000 Seattle youth voted to determine projects that they believed should be funded with $700,000 from the City budget. That was May and here we are in November, so some of you might be wondering…what’s going on with all of these projects? Are they happening yet?… [ Keep reading ]
You asked for it, youth of Seattle! And, now, with unprecedented ‘City’ speed, we just rolled out the first of many Youth Voice, Youth Choice projects. To refresh your memory, Safe Routes to Schools was one of the projects that you prioritized via Youth Voice, Youth Choice with YOUR VOTE… [ Keep reading ]
Mayor Ed Murray has announced the project winners of Youth Voice, Youth Choice, the City’s new Participatory Budgeting (PB) initiative in which youth decide how to spend $700,000 of the City’s budget. More than 3,000 youth ages 11-25 voted on 19 project proposals in May. The seven winning projects are:… [ Keep reading ]
Do you want a say in how to spend $700,000 of Seattle’s City budget? If you’re between the ages of 11 – 25 and live, work, or go to school in Seattle, YOU CAN! Youth can cast votes for their favorite project ideas during our Youth Voice, Youth Choice Vote… [ Keep reading ]
