The Issues

Re-Invest In Our Communities

Remove barriers for working families, low-income families and elderly residents to access resources
Increased funding for home repairs
Create more public spaces and gathering opportunities to build community among residents
Make neighborhoods walkable with all the essential goods and services in the neighborhood
Improve infrastructure like water, electricity, the internet, etc.
Increase internet & smartphone access for all residents
Additional funding for community-based programs that target equipping youth with trade and life skills.
Raise incomes of working families

Re-imagine our Criminal Justice System

Increase access to trauma services
Provide nonviolent conflict resolution training to residents & police
Show young people we care for them through mentoring
For those at-risk and those who have already got in some trouble
One-stop-shop for those reentering society that connects them community-based organizations and government agencies to;
Police reform

Rebuild
the Table

All are directly involved in all important decisions
Residents help shape the budget by giving input on priorities and values
Proponent and opponent witness slips
Making data more available and useful
Interactive public meetings and town halls that allow community members to provide input as decisions are made

Rejuvenate the Economy

Community Wealth Fund Dividend (Direct Cash Payments to Residents)
Investing in small businesses
Investing in businesses that bring wealth to Peoria not extract it
Invest in education & training
Access to free training and education for entrepreneurs
City Business Incubator Program (removing barriers to access to funding)
Provide infrastructure for small businesses

Rebuilding the Table

We will rebuild the table by sharing power through participatory democracy.

Rebuilding the Table looks like:

- All are directly involved in all important decisions
- Residents help shape the budget by giving input on priorities and values
- Proponent and opponent witness slips
- Making data more available and useful
- Interactive public meetings and town halls that allow community members to provide input as decisions are made

Reinvesting in our Communities

We will create a unity of purpose within Peoria by growing local businesses sparking regional investments while uniting residents with the business and philanthropic sectors under a shared sense of destiny.

Reinvesting in our Communities looks like:

- Remove barriers for working families, low-income families and elderly residents to access resources
- Increased funding for home repairs
- Create more public spaces and gathering opportunities to build community among residents
- Make neighborhoods walkable with all the essential goods and services in the neighborhood
- Improve infrastructure like water, electricity, the internet, etc.
- Increase internet & smartphone access for all residents
- Additional funding for community-based programs that target equipping youth with trade and life skills.
- Raise incomes of working families

Rejuvenating the Economy

We will rejuvenate the economy by centering our focus and appreciation on small and startup businesses in Peoria and investing directly in our residents to provide them with higher incomes allowing them to participate more fully in the local economy.

Rejuvenating the Economy looks like:

- Community Wealth Fund Dividend (Direct Cash Payments to Residents)
- Investing in small businesses
- Investing in businesses that bring wealth to Peoria not extract it
- Invest in education & training
- Access to free training and education for entrepreneurs
- City Business Incubator Program (removing barriers to access to funding)
- Provide infrastructure for small businesses

Reimagining Public Safety

Our system is the result of the dozens of choices we’ve made — choices that together stack the deck against the poor and the disadvantaged.

Reimagining Public Safety looks like:

- Increase access to trauma services
- Provide nonviolent conflict resolution training to residents & police
- Show young people we care for them through mentoring
- For those at-risk and those who have already got in some trouble
  - Offer incentive as opposed to punishment
  - Offer an alternative lifestyle
  - Offer a stipend while receiving job training and services
  - Training courses for skilled trades that earn good incomes
- One-stop-shop for those reentering society that connects them community-based organizations and government agencies to;
  - Find a place to live,
  - Kick a drug habit,
  - Obtain legal advice,
  - Remove your visible tattoos,
  - Arrange for transportation,
  - Figure out health care,
  - Stay out of trouble,
  - Find a job,
  - Find housing
- Police reform
  - Incentives for police to live within the city limits
  - Restorative justice
  - Anti-racism training for police
  - Community oversight with Community representation
  - Remove barriers to reporting police misconduct

Re-Invest In Our Communities

Re-Invest In Our Communities

Re-imagine our Criminal Justice System

Re-imagine our Criminal Justice System

Rebuild the Table

Rebuild the Table

Rejuvenate the Economy

Rejuvenate the Economy

Rebuilding the Table

Reinvesting in our Communities

Rejuvenating the Economy

Reimagining Public Safety

Rebuild
the Table

Rebuild
the Table