The City Council established PB (4 to 3), appoints the Steering Committee, approves the rulebook and considers funding each year; two councilmembers sit as liaisons (Marti Brown, who introduced PB, and Stephanie Gomes in Cycle 1; Brown left office in January 2014). The Steering Committee is the standing body: 20 civic organizations in Cycle 1 (all 20 applicants were appointed, 80 were invited), 21 seats including up to 7 at-large from Cycle 2, one Housing and Redevelopment Commission seat from Cycle 3, up to 17 seats in Cycle 4 and up to 11 in Cycles 5 and 6, with two-cycle terms, attendance rules, a Form 700 conflict-of-interest filing from Cycle 4 and a duty to staff a third of events. Its members range from the NAACP and Filipino community groups to chambers of commerce, homeowners associations and GVRD; the school district was absent from the first committee. The Participatory Budgeting Project designed and ran Cycle 1 under contract and coached the City through Cycles 2 and 3; Chapin worried about brain drain when it left, and the City answered by hiring three limited-term PB staff in 2013. Implementing partners are the other half of the roster: City departments took most dollars (streets in every cycle), GVRD and VCUSD implemented parks, school and youth projects with required in-kind contributions, and prequalified nonprofits ran services under reimbursement-based grant agreements. Stanford built the digital ballot and online voting at no cost. Budget delegates and volunteer facilitators are the cast of each cycle rather than partners and are read under Activities.