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Around Amherst: Citizen involvement in town budget likely to be put off — COVID

Around Amherst: Citizen involvement in town budget likely to be put off  COVID Staff Writer By SCOTT MERZBACH AMHERST An initiative embedded in the Amherst charter to involve residents in town government by offering them a chance to propose various programs and projects annually is unlikely to get off the ground this year. A commission preparing a final report for June 1 recently informed Town Manager Paul Bockelman that the COVID-19 pandemic makes such a venture known as participatory budgeting  challenging to launch. The charter requires that a commission propose “a measure to adopt participatory budgeting or other similar method of resident participation in the budgeting process of Amherst.”

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