School technology project heads budget wish list in 38th Council District
Councilmember Carlos Menchaca asked constituents in his Sunset Park-Red Hood district to name the project they most wanted to see get funding in the new city budget and the answer he got could be summed up in three words: technology for schools.
An ambitious $965,000 proposal to upgrade technology in a handful of schools in the 38th Council District – P.S. 1, Middle School 88, P.S. 676, P.S. 105, P.S. 310, P.S. 69 and New Voices Middle School – won the day in the 2015 participatory budgeting process in the district, coming out on top of a list of projects Menchaca asked residents to vote on. The school technology project received 3,273 votes.
The voting took place April 11-17. Menchaca announced the winning projects at PS 503/P.S. 506 at 330 59th St. on May 7.