Turnout held where other US processes fell: 3,917 voters in Cycle 1 (3.4 percent of population, 6 percent of adults, against 1.3 percent in Chicago and 1.9 percent in New York), 3,750 in Cycle 2, 3,098 in Cycle 3, 4,216 in Cycle 4 and a peak of 5,205 in Cycle 5; the City counted over 5,000 residents engaged in Cycle 1 and over 15,000 across three cycles. The vote favored citywide, broad-benefit projects: 12 projects for $3.28 million in Cycle 1 (streets $550,000, lighting, parks at 13 sites, STEAM labs, scholarships, community gardens, small business grants, spay and neuter, senior center, Boys and Girls Club gym, 150 cameras), 8 for $2.44 million in Cycle 2 (led by Help the Homeless and $1 million of repaving), 5 for $1 million in Cycle 3 (two youth programs, a waterfront park, iPads for after-school programs, school roads), 4 in Cycle 4 (streets, 9-1-1 dispatch equipment, parks, pet neutering), all 10 ballot proposals in Cycle 5 with the last partially funded, and 9 of 12 in Cycle 6 (police radios $270,000, bike and street safety $300,000, seven services from foster youth to Meals on Wheels). Streets won every cycle, and by Cycle 5 Public Works credited PB money for a 10-point rise in pavement condition and a regional award. Participants' own gains were measured in Cycle 1: delegates knew more people afterwards, were likelier to volunteer and answered civic questions better, and 86 percent of voters and 93 percent of delegates wanted PB to continue. The costs showed in delivery: with thin vetting in Cycle 1 some projects took a year to contract, five were incomplete two years later, scholarships, business grants and the spay clinic had to be redesigned as open application and voucher schemes to avoid gifting public funds, and the top Cycle 2 project, Help the Homeless, had spent nothing 18 months after approval because its partner lacked capacity and half the budget assumed county money that never came. Trust effects are the least measured: the City's reports and ballots assert restored pride and a new forum for productive exchange, Chapin's interviewees felt the public was more receptive, and the Cycle 2 vetting episode shows how quickly that goodwill could turn.