Mayor Eduardo recently sent out a helpful memo in which he articulated how our city’s budget process will be guided by the city’s strategic goals. They plan to garner community input, so we thought we might start that conversation in a Roundtable. The main budget categories include:
- Improving housing, especially for low-income and the unhoused
- Economic development—increasing revenue and advancing existing businesses
- Social elements
- Public safety enhancements
- Our city’s infrastructure
- The shoreline and ecological sustainability
We want to dream up ideas in our small group setting so people can begin thinking about how to help our city best use our valuable resources. This will help us prepare ourselves for the larger public forums that will start in April. You may have a pet project in mind—just know that it needs to fit in the above categories.