| Pot Name | Size | Source | Restrictions | Configuration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | $1,000,000 per annual cycle | Public (tax-funded) | Can be used for capital, City-owned property only, Minimum project cost $25k, Minimum lifespan 5 years | Single pot |
One million dollars of the City of Boston's capital budget, written in for fiscal year 2014 with the spending to be decided through the process, and still $1 million on the 2023-24 and 2024-25 ballots. Because it is capital money it can only fund physical infrastructure or technology on City-owned property costing at least $25,000 and lasting at least five years; after-school programmes and staff are ineligible. That restriction is the pot's defining fact: in 2014 about 19.7 percent of ideas were ineligible and 27.9 percent maybe eligible, in 2016 only 24 percent of 718 ideas were likely eligible, and the concerns youth named most (violence, mental health, programming) were largely unreachable with capital money. Grillos (2014) suggested enlarging the pot, adding programmatic money from donors, or splitting it by theme or neighbourhood; the later ballots show it stayed a single citywide capital pot. In 2014 the seven winners cost just under $1 million, leaving about $85,000 for overruns; by 2024-25 a single project took the whole pot.
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