• 12/7/22 RVAPB Steering Commission

    12/7/22 RVAPB Steering Commission

    Agenda Goals Review Picking up on our last meeting, the Commission continued to review and explore goals from other PB efforts around the country. These are helping to guide the language and frames for the goals that they are developing for the RVAPB rulebook. This week we specifically focused on sustainability, community building/human centered approach,…

  • 11/16/22 Steering Commission Mtg

    11/16/22 Steering Commission Mtg

    The RVA PB Commission meeting on November 16th focused on continued refinement of the rulebook outline and working through how they would develop content for the rulebook. Rulebook Outline They started by reviewing the outline from the previous meeting and continuing to refine what will be important. Broader questions arose as to the core audience…

  • 11/2/22 Steering Commission Mtg

    11/2/22 Steering Commission Mtg

    Building on the previous meeting, which focused on going deep into the core questions that guide a PB process, this week the RVAPB Commission center its attention on exploring the rulebooks that have guided other PB initiatives around the country. Rulebooks are the first step in creating a PB process. A group of community members…

  • 10/19/22 Steering Commission Mtg

    10/19/22 Steering Commission Mtg

    For this meeting, we will be joined by the Participatory Budgeting Project to participate in a PB101 training and continue to delve into questions that will help to design a process for Richmond.

  • 10/5/22 Steering Commission Mtg

    10/5/22 Steering Commission Mtg

    For the second RVAPB Steering Commission Meeting our focus was to continue to work through our logistics and spend some time learning how participatory budgeting efforts started in Durham, NC. In general we began by confirming dates, time, place, and communications. The commission will be meeting on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month…

  • 9/22/22 Steering Commission Mtg

    9/22/22 Steering Commission Mtg

    The first meeting of the Richmond Participatory Budgeting Steering Commission took place on Thursday September 22, 2022. This brought together the commission, City Council members, City staff, and community partners to start the process of designing a participatory budgeting process for Richmond.

  • What is Participatory Budgeting?

    What is Participatory Budgeting?

    So, you’ve heard that the City of Richmond is starting a participatory budgeting process and you are a little curious.

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