PB News
Aug 17, 2022 - PB Committee approves Steering Committee!
Aug 4, 2022 - PB Kickoff town hall
July 22, 2022 - Applications open for PB Steering Committee!
June 27, 2022 - City council approves PB Evanston to provide technical assistance and allocates resources for PB Manager, PB Coordinator, and implementation.
Feb 2022 - PB committee begins meeting
2021 - the Evanston city council approved $3.5m of ARPA COVID-19 recovery funds to implement a PB process in Evanston and created the PB Committee with council members Reid (chair), Burns, Nieuwsma, and Mayor Biss.
Plan for Steering Committee
PB Committee decides on the steering committee structure, outreach, and responsibilities.
Council approves technical assistants
Council approves technical assistance contract, PB staff positions, and implementation budget.
PB Committee discusses steering committee with PB Evanston
PB Committee talks steering committee with PB Evanston team
PB Committee talks to PB Evanston team
PB Committee talks implementation with PB Evanston team
PB Committee discusses RFP bids
PB Committee votes to open direct negotiations for technical support.
Policy development social
The policy development team celebrating a successful first year!
Popup Idea Collection @ EPL
Testing out the popup idea collection deep canvassing script @epl and giving out free donuts.
Popup Idea Collection @ Robert Crown
Testing out popup idea collection & deep canvassing @robert crown and giving out free donuts.
PB Committee talks to Aldr. Hadden
The PB Committee meets with Alderman Hadden of Chicago’s 49th Ward to discuss Participatory Budgeting.
Evanston Now reports on our presentation
Evanston Now covered our presentation on DeliberationWorks to the PB Committee: NU group offers ‘participatory budgeting’ help.
PB Committee discusses DeliberationWorks
We presented to Evanston’s PB Committee about how DeliberationWorks can improve Evanston’s PB Process.
PB Committee talks to PB Chicago
The PB committee talks to Thea Crumb from PB Chicago in its inaugural meeting.
Voting Caucus Pilot
New facilitation and scribing techniques allow group to choose top proposals from a list of 10 with high degree of consensus in an hour.
