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How Would You Spend $700,000 to Improve Cambridge?

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PB Bilingual Books

The City of Cambridge recently kicked off Cambridge's third Participatory Budgeting cycle, so put on your thinking caps and tell us how you would spend $700,000 on one-time capital projects to improve the community! We are collecting ideas from June 1 through July 31, 2016.

Winning projects from past PB cycles include a public toilet in Central Square, bike repair stations, a freezer van for prepared food rescue, water bottle fill stations, bilingual books for children learning English, and many others. What will win this year? You decide!

Read the guidelines and get your ideas on the map!

Check out some of the upcoming idea collection events or contact Michelle Monsegur in the Budget Office at pb@cambridgema.gov or 617-349-3266 to submit ideas.

For more information about the PB process or visit pb.cambridgema.gov.

Participatory Budgeting Map

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