The People's Money (2023-2024)
Decide how to spend part of the city budget!
- In which borough should your idea take place?
- Brooklyn
- Do you have a specific neighborhood(s) in mind?
- Which audience(s) does your idea help? Select as many as apply.
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Parentstax payers
- Describe the challenge you want to address:
- Roksana is 34 years old. She lives in New York, she has 3 children. Because she is a citizen she pays taxes, and every day when she goes outside she ses a huge amount of garbage on the street, rats, cockroaches. Her children ask why their city is so dirty. She doesnt understand why her taxes are not used to solve this problem
- Describe your idea and approach to address the challenge:
- 1. Reduce product use among manufacturers. 2. Public awareness campaign to explain that throwing rubbish on the street is bad for everyone. 3. Inform people to close trash bins when they are placed on the street since any gust of wind blows garbage along the street 4. Introduce fines for people who throw garbage on the street 5. hold clean days when the entire block volunteers to clean 6. Public notices on the street to stop throwing garbage on the street 7. Hold competitions for cleanest stret wining street gets a block party every month 8. Hold lessons in schools and kindergarten to explain to children that the environment in which to explain to children that the environment in which they live depends on them, too
- Write the zipcode that best represents your New York City community:
- 11218
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