How Should Redwood City Spend $1M?

REDWOOD CITY, CA — Redwood City community members are invited to submit ideas on how the city will spend $1 million.

The city is participating for the first time in The People’s Budget, a budgetary process in which community members directly decide how the city spends parts of its public budget to support, grow or improve the Redwood City and North Fair Oaks.

Over 7,000 cities around the world have participated in a similar process. Examples of how other cities spent their money include building a community garden or playground, beautifying the neighborhood, providing laptops for students and making road improvements.

Anyone is invited to provide input, whether or not they live in Redwood City, through Feb. 19 Community members will then vote on all eligible projects using a ranked-choice voting system.

The winning projects will be announced in June, and the city will move forward with implementing them.

Eligible projects must be a one-time purchase or cost, serve a broad public use or purpose and be possible to implement within the 2022-23 fiscal year.

Click here for more information on The People’s Budget and here for the form to submit ideas.