How would you spend $1M? Your elected wants to know

Area council members take different approaches to participatory budgeting

By ETHAN STARK-MILLER
Posted 2/10/22

It’s $1 million. That’s 100 million pennies. If you were to turn all of that money into dollar bills and stuff all of it into a cash bag, it would weigh 22 pounds. Each year, city council members have a chance to ask their communities how they would spend $1 million. But how they do it might be a little more interesting than some of the plans themselves.

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