Seattle Schools Community Forum

What an incredible month!  Thanks everyone who has been coming out to our assemblies, helping us to get the word out about Youth Voice, Youth Choice and submitting ideas online.  We have gotten tons of ideas of potential projects to improve our community. These ideas are the foundation for what will end up on the ballot in May and we want to continue to collect ideas until our deadline this week. This Friday, February 26 th , is the last day to submit funding ideas to be considered for this process .  Project ideas need to benefit the public and be between $25,000 and $300,000. There are many ways to submit ideas which include attending our last public assembly tomorrow , hosting your own private assembly in your class or organization, submitting your idea(s) online or posting your idea using social media.  Below are more details on exactly how to attend, host and submit ideas.

From the City of Seattle via Catherine Weatbrook who sits on the steering committee for Youth Voice, Youth Choice. What would youth 11-25 do with $700,000 of the City's budget?  Youth Voice, Youth Choice is a new Participatory Budgeting (PB) Initiative from the City of Seattle. PB is a democratic process where community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget that focuses on engaging people who have not historically been involved in government, budget processes, or represent underserved communities. A new project from the City of Seattle called Youth Voice, Youth Choice, empowers youth ages 11 to 25 to share their ideas at one of six upcoming idea assemblies. From those assemblies, project delegates will be selected from the youth in attendance, and those youth all be coached into creating a high level project descriptions. City-wide, those project ideas will be voted on by the youth in our city. The top vote-getters w...