Voting on Community Projects Takes Place This Week
Participatory budgeting, in which local residents decide how to spend $1 million in government funds in their neighborhoods, kicked off Tuesday, with constituents of Councilmen David Greenfield and Brad Lander invited to vote for the projects they would like to see become a reality.
The winning project in each neighborhood will be funded and implemented starting this summer.
Projects in Greenfield’s district include pedestrian countdown signals at various busy intersections, security cameras at vulnerable locations as determined through consultation with the NYPD, and the resurfacing of several roads.
One of the projects on the ballot in Lander’s district is altering traffic flow and other improvements along Ocean Parkway near Yeshivah Torah Temimah to ensure that vehicles can pass easily through the area without posing a threat to pedestrians — among them, hundreds of students.
Participating in the vote can make a difference even if a proposal does not win. While the 2012 proposal to repave 50th Street did not win, elected officials were able to use the proposal and the wide local support it received to get the city to undertake this maintenance itself.
This article appeared in print on page D16 of edition of Hamodia.
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