Charlottesville residents call for additions to City’s budget at community forum
By Katja Cresanti | March 29, 2018This year, $100,000 in the City Council strategic initiatives fund will be used to finance a pilot initiative in participatory budgeting.




!["The hunch that they [officers] are going off of is skin color," Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker said. "We need to have a conversation about what that means in Charlottesville … it's happening for the same reasons that it's always happened — because of of racism.” ](https://snworksceo.imgix.net/cav/0ac17071-329d-4e70-810f-28f452c84d90.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=1000&ar=4%3A3&fit=crop&crop=faces&facepad=3&auto=format)












