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The People’s Budget: What’s Got Your Vote?

People interacting with the Richmond People’s Budget booth at a baseball stadium, collecting flyers and engaging with volunteers.
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Volunteers engage with visitors at a Richmond Flying Squirrels baseball game, promoting the Richmond People’s Budget initiative. Fans stop by the booth to learn about local budgeting and civic participation.

It's time to decide the People’s Budget of Richmond!

Richmond's government has set aside $3M of YOUR money – and now YOU get to decide what to do with it. This participatory budget program has reached the voting stage, and now anyone who lives, works, or goes to school in the city -- age 14 and up! -- can vote on projects in their council district.

Rich sits down with City Council staffer Leidiana Delgado to find out how the process got this far. Then he talks to two "budget delegates" – regular folks who volunteered to review all the ideas so that the whole city could vote on the best ones possible.

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