Participatory Budgeting Vallejo

Read for this piece: Brandon Kent Chapin's master's thesis From the Ashes of Bankruptcy: An Assessment of the Collaborative Nature of the City of Vallejo's Participatory Budgeting Process (CSU Sacramento, Spring 2013, written before the first vote from the Cycle 1 rulebook, working-group observation and interviews with City Manager Daniel Keen, Councilmember Marti Brown, PBP coordinator Ginny Browne and Steering Committee chair Joey Lake); the six PB Vallejo rulebooks, Cycle 1 (2012-2013, PB Vallejo Steering Committee with the Participatory Budgeting Project, September 2012), Cycle 2 (2013-2014, revised July 2013, edited by City Council January 14, 2014), Cycle 3 (2015-2016, approved January 13, 2015), Cycle 4 (2016-2017), Cycle 5 (2017-2018) and Cycle 6 (2018-2019, approved November 27, 2018), all by the Steering Committee with City of Vallejo staff; the City of Vallejo Summary Reports for Cycle 1 (Office of the City Manager, February 2014), Cycle 2 (May 2016) and Cycle 3 (May 2016), and the Projects and Vote Results sheets for Cycles 1 to 5 (the Cycle 5 sheet is catalogued as voting project posters but is the official vote count); the Steering Committee minutes of December 16, 2014, December 15, 2015 and June 16, 2016; the City Council resolutions approving projects for Cycle 5 (Resolution 18-062, as an adopted CIP page) and Cycle 6 (Resolution 19-051, as adopted FY 2019-20 budget pages); the ballots for Cycles 1 to 5 and the Cycle 5 sample ballot in English and Spanish; the non-profit prequalification guidelines; and about sixty project sheets (funded project sheets for Cycles 1 to 4 and ballot proposals for Cycles 5, 6 and 8), all City of Vallejo Participatory Budgeting documents. Several Cycle 1 project files (Council resolutions and posters) and the appendices of the later reports extracted as graphics only.