Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn urged for the 'tone deaf' plan to be reconsidered Tuesday.
A Boston city councilor on Tuesday denounced a budgeting process in which residents at least 11 years old can vote on how to spend some public funds .
Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn, District 2, urged Renato Castelo, director of the Office of Participatory Budgeting, to show Boston is “serious” about fiscal responsibility by reconsidering the process, which also allows 11-year-olds to submit and vote on projects addressing local needs. Flynn pointed to tax increases as an example of issues the children would be unable to appropriately address.
“It’s just wonderful to see kids and youth being engaged in some of these decisions,” Castelo said. "Their process, I think, is between 12- and 22-year-olds, so we were trying to take that same reference.”
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