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Participatory Budgeting > PB Cycles > PB Cycle 12

PB Cycle 12

Voting

The 20 projects on this year's PB12 ballot are listed below! Click on each project title to learn more about each project. Projects are categorized by the volunteer committee that developed them. The PB12 vote will be open from March 5-15, 2026.

 

 

PB12 Ballot Projects

Community Resources
  1. Support Spaces for Artists ($120,000)
  2. Transportation Assistance Services ($50,000)
  3. Cold and Wet Weather Kits ($60,000)
  4. My Future, My Vote ($5,000)
  5. Supporting Continuous Access to School Supplies ($12,000)
Environment
  1. Residential Rat Control ($110,000)
  2. Planters for Sidewalk Trees ($75,000)
  3. Outdoor Tools for Loan ($15,000)
  4. Rain and Pollinator Gardens ($100,000)
  5. Improve Riverside Press Park Community Garden ($275,000)
Facilities, Parks, & Recreation
  1. Pool Dryers and Equipment ($20,000)
  2. Outdoor Exercise Equipment ($150,000)
  3. Basketball Court Upgrades ($250,000)
  4. Winter Indoor Recreational Open Hours ($30,000)
  5. Dog Park Improvements ($100,000)
Transportation, Streets, & Sidewalks
  1. Concrete Barriers for Bike Lanes ($150,000)
  2. Bike Counters ($209,000)
  3. Free Bikes for Low-Income Residents ($150,000)
  4. Fixing Sidewalks, Saving Trees ($100,000)
  5. More Complete Streets ($200,000)

Proposal Development

Starting on September 30, 2025, and through the first week of February 2026, nearly 80 volunteer Cambridge residents of all ages, and across the whole city, will be working in four committees to research, assess, and develop the submitted ideas to create the final proposals for the March 2026 PB ballot.

 

Follow along with the PB12 Proposal Development process through the PB Newsletter! 

 

To learn more about the work of the PB Delegate role and the PB12 Proposal Development process, read the PB12 Delegate Guide.

Idea Collection

Idea Collection for the twelfth cycle of Participatory Budgeting in Cambridge began in September 2025, and ended on October 12, 2025. During the idea collection stage, over 1,100 ideas were submitted by community members via community events, classroom and neighborhood idea collection workshops, email, mail, over the phone, and the online idea collection map! To read all of the ideas that were submitted in the twelfth cycle, view the map below:

 

 

 

To be eligible for PB funding, projects must:

  • Benefit the public.
  • Be either a capital project on city-owned property OR an operating project with a fixed duration of up to three years
  • Consistent with existing City policies
  • Implemented with the City of Cambridge
  • Implemented after July 1, 2026 (the start of the next fiscal year)

If you have any questions about the PB process in Cambridge, please email pb@cambridgema.gov.

Sign up for PB email updates here!

 

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