29th Ward
29th Ward seeks residents’ ideas on what to fund in neighborhood
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Saturday is the deadline for residents to submit their ideas about which projects they want to be considered for funding through participatory budgeting.
Ald. Chris Taliaferro
29th Ward residents choose community projects to be funded in 2018
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About 390 residents cast votes last month to decide how to spend Ald. Chris Taliaferro’s $1 million menu money. Sixty-five percent will go to street and alley resurfacing, while $312,500 will be spent on four community projects.
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29th Ward residents, cast your votes now for 2018 community projects
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Voting runs through Nov. 20th on five neighborhood projects on the list to be funded out of Ald. Chris Taliaferro’s $1.3 million “menu money” budget. This is the second year those living in the ward have been able to take part in “participatory budgeting.”
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29th Ward residents offer ideas on neighborhood projects to be funded
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Ald. Chris Taliaferro is collecting ideas about how to spend $500,000 of $1.3 million allocated to the ward in “menu money.”
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West Side schools to get money for capital projects
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The funding will pay for play lots, air conditioning and other improvements.
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Tribune continues its focus on Austin with story about pastor
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City, state and federal agencies have spent millions of dollars on projects in which West Side minister John Abercrombie played a leading role, yet the results have been mixed, the paper reports.
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West Side aldermen mum about their menu money
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An analysis of how Austin’s council members distributed their funds last year shows some went unused.
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Most TIF money since 2000 went to companies, nonprofits in the heart of Chicago
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Tax increment financing of private-sector projects bypassed parts of the West and South Sides, though some funding was approved for Austin.