Participatory Budgeting Committee

Participatory Budget Committee Meeting July 7, 2022 Minutes In attendance Mary Estelle Ryckman (Chair), Norah Brennan (Vice Chair), Jeff Altamari, Jonathan Jeerapaet, Tim Holmes, Hal Rose Not attending JoAnne Kiernan, Douglas Gerhardt, and Devin Del Pos. Other attendees Heather Crocker (Deputy Commissioner of Finance), Tony Izzo (City Attorney) Approval of minutes • Minutes for the June 16th and June 30th, 2022, meetings were approved by unanimous consent. • The committee unanimously agreed that minutes will only be emailed around for review by members. Hard copies will no longer be given out at meetings. Administrative matters • JoAnne has given word that she steps down immediately from the PBC due to other commitments Discussion about applying the metrics and evaluating projects • The committee discussed the specific criteria in the metrics and how they might be applied in practice. • The committee discussed leveraging city departments as a knowledge base. • The committee discussed each of the specific projects received to date, including how they might be scored using the metrics. • The chair asked for volunteers to be project leads. Norah and Mary will be project lead on specific projects. • It was noted that another project was received which brings the total to six. Outreach • The committee discussed current and future outreach activities. Open issues and next steps • The committee discussed that the next steps are: o Approving a timeline for the rest of 2022 and for 2023 to be discussed at a later meeting o Establishing a voting process. Norah volunteered to be point on this effort, with Jeff helping. Next meeting • It was decided that PBC meetings will now be on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Mondays of each month going forward. The next meeting will be on July 18th at 5:30pm.