Local grassroots organization People's Budget Cleveland submitted 10,582 signatures to Cleveland city hall on July 10 hoping to get its people's budget charter amendment on the Nov. ballot.
CLEVELAND — The local grassroots organization People's Budget Cleveland submitted 10,582 signatures to the clerk of Cleveland city council on July 10, hoping to get its People's Budget charter amendment on the November ballot.
Evan O’Reilly with People’s Budget Clevelandtold News 5 the signatures were collected in six weeks, with 5,907 of them needing to be validated by the clerk of the city council by July 20. O'Reilly said the steering committee, made up of 10 Cleveland residents, would take input from residents throughout the city on how the funding should be used.
“Two of three Cleveland residents don’t vote, and we think that we need to be creating new tools to get people involved and allowing them to make decisions that impact their lives," Martin said. “Why do we spend all this money to subsidize stadiums when we don’t see any improvement in the community? The safest communities are the ones with the most resources.”
“I’m very concerned with this idea; I’m going to have to urge the public to vote no on this," Griffin said. “This could be 120 police officers that we could fund; this is more money than we have budgeted for the entire city for street repair; this could possibly mean that we could have to lay off workers and reduce some city services.”
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