Dear friends,
I wasn’t going to post today, but I got an extraordinary email this morning from a volunteer at Council Member Shahana Hanif's office. Hanif represents New York City Council District 39.
I live in a neighboring district; apparently, however, there are many active wiffijistas (readers of this newsletter, the wiffij) who live in Hanif’s district.
As a respected organization in our community, we'd like to invite you to nominate up to four individuals for our upcoming Civic Assembly (CA). The assembly plays a crucial role in deciding which community projects and capital improvements will be developed for the Participatory Budgeting (PB) ballot this year, making them eligible for more than $1.5M in government funding.
The three Civic Assembly meetings are currently scheduled for late November and early December. Your nominations will help us ensure that we have a representative sample of voices across our community to appropriately deliberate on the potential ideas.
Please nominate individuals from your organization using the following form. All nominations are due by Friday, November 10th.
Thank you for your contributions to the community and for your nominations.
I am enormously proud of you for your contributions to the community (and I’m grateful for the recognition of my side-gig). We are now “a respected organization.”
Please let me know if you live in District 39 and would accept a nomination to Council Member Hanif’s Civic Assembly.
with love,
L