Now's your chance to spend the city of Richmond's money

Hollie Russon Gilman was quoted in Axios Richmond on participatory budgeting.

State of play: The process, called participatory budgeting and dubbed "the people's budget," can be traced back to a successful experiment in Brazil in 1989. It started gaining traction in U.S. cities in 2019, Hollie Russon Gilman reported for Axios.

That's also when Richmond first started working on the initiative, before pushing it to the backburner during the pandemic.