Measure to let Milwaukee residents decide how to spend $600,000 of city budget advances, heads to full council

The Milwaukee advocacy group African American Roundtable has long pushed for the city’s government to adopt participatory budgeting — allowing residents to decide how to spend part of a budget.

It moved closer to that goal Monday.

The Common Council’s Finance and Personnel Committee unanimously backed legislation that includes money for participatory budgeting. The full council is expected to take up the measure Wednesday…

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