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Promoting Participatory Budgeting in the City of Hartford

Hartford Residents have Decided!!
The 2025 Winning Hartford Decide$ Projects are:

Submit your 2026 Project Ideas NOW!

The City of Hartford has allocated

$100,000

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2025 WINNING PROJECTS

1st Place / 1er Lugar:
$65,000

Sidewalk Repairs in various Hartford Neighborhoods​​​​


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Reparación de Aceras en varios Vecindarios de Hartford

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2nd Place / 2do Lugar:
$35,000

Pick & Grow: 13 Community Fruit Trees for three Parks: Keney (5), Goodwin (4), and Pope (4)
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Recoger y Cultivar: 13 Árboles  Frutales Comunitarios para tres Parques: Keney (5), Goodwin (4) y Pope (4)

Sponsors

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What kinds of project ideas can be funded?

To be eligible for consideration, the idea and the subsequent project must meet ALL of the following criteria:

  1. It will construct, expand, modify, rehabilitate, or purchase equipment for a City-owned space or place.

  2. It will benefit the residents of Hartford.

  3. It will have a useful life of at least 5 years.

  4. It will address a community need or problem.

  5. It is a new project and not part of any City project already in development.

  6. It can be implemented by the City of Hartford.

  7. It is estimated to cost between $25,000 and $95,000

Eligible Project Examples:

  • Creating a community garden on City-owned land
  • Installing new playground equipment
  • Renovating a portion of a park
  • Adding art gallery space to a library
  • Building a baseball field on school grounds

Ineligible Project Examples:

  • Paying for the salary of a public employee or a contract with a non-profit to provide services.
  • Repairing a privately owned building.
  • Helping an organization renovate space that it rents from a private landlord.
  • Helping a religious institution repair its sanctuary.
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