CITY COUNCIL APPROVES LA'S FIRST PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING PLAN $8.5 million to go to nine LA neighborhoods - Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a plan from the Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department (LA Civil Rights) to roll out the city’s first participatory budgeting pilot program. The Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgement of Institutional Racism, or LA REPAIR, will give nine communities impacted by high rates of poverty, COVID-19, pollution and other factors the decision-making power to allocate more than $8.5 million in city funds. 

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