Vote Today for Sunnyside in the District 7 Participatory Budgeting Cycle – Voting closes tomorrow 6/15

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Voting ends just before midnight tomorrow so please vote NOW for Sunnyside Project in the District 7 Participatory Budgeting cycle!!! This is our chance to secure funding for critical neighborhood projects, but we need a massive neighborhood-wide turnout to guarantee success.

Featured Sunnyside Ballot Items

  • Ballot Item 1: Planter Garden at the Detroit Steps Plaza – Transforming the Detroit Steps Plaza into a more vibrant, green, and welcoming community gathering point with robust permanent planter installations.
  • Ballot Item 4: Traffic Calming around Sunnyside Elementary – Protecting our neighborhood’s children and families by implementing essential traffic-calming safety infrastructure immediately surrounding our local elementary school.
  • Ballot Item 6: Havelock Bridge Mural Landscape Upgrade – Beautifying our public pathways by combining public art with refreshed, climate-resilient landscaping elements around the Havelock Bridge area.
  • Ballot Item 8: Safe Pedestrian Path at Congo-Circular Pedestrian Island – Enhancing pedestrian visibility and safety at critical intersections by engineering a dedicated, secure pedestrian pathway around the Congo-Circular island.
  • Ballot Item 12: Storage Container for Emergency Supplies – Bolstering our neighborhood’s disaster readiness and localized resiliency by securing a weatherproof, accessible storage unit for community emergency supplies.

How to Cast Your Vote

Just go to the Participatory Budgeting website and cast your vote there. It’s quick and easy!

Please share this post, forward our flyers, and spread the word to your immediate neighbors, friends, and family within District 7. Let’s work together to hit that 400-vote minimum threshold and bring these vital infrastructure upgrades straight to Sunnyside!

Key Voting Rules & Info:

  • Who Can Vote: Any resident over the age of 16 living within District 7 is fully eligible to participate.
  • Flexibility: You are not limited to just one selection—each voter can vote for multiple projects on the ballot!
  • The Funding Threshold: The 11 projects across the district that receive the most votes above a mandatory 400-vote threshold will be funded and built. Every single vote matters to push our local proposals over the line!
  • Deadline: All ballots must be cast by June 15!

Questions or want to get involved? Reach out to the SNA Board anytime at board@sunnysideassociation.org.

Your Voice, Your Choice: Vote Sunnyside in the District 7 Participatory Budgeting Cycle!

Click here to download the flyer

Voting is officially open for the District 7 Participatory Budgeting cycle, giving every one of us a direct say in how public funds are invested in our community infrastructure, street safety, and shared public spaces. This is our chance to secure funding for critical neighborhood projects, but we need a massive neighborhood-wide turnout to guarantee success.

Key Voting Rules & Info:

  • Who Can Vote: Any resident over the age of 16 living within District 7 is fully eligible to participate.
  • Flexibility: You are not limited to just one selection—each voter can vote for multiple projects on the ballot!
  • The Funding Threshold: The 11 projects across the district that receive the most votes above a mandatory 400-vote threshold will be funded and built. Every single vote matters to push our local proposals over the line!
  • Deadline: All ballots must be cast by June 15!

Featured Sunnyside Ballot Items

We have an incredible lineup of localized proposals designed to enhance neighborhood safety, accessibility, climate resilience, and community beautification. Be sure to look for and support these specific items on your ballot:

  • Ballot Item 1: Planter Garden at the Detroit Steps Plaza Transforming the Detroit Steps Plaza into a more vibrant, green, and welcoming community gathering point with robust permanent planter installations.
  • Ballot Item 4: Traffic Calming around Sunnyside Elementary Protecting our neighborhood’s children and families by implementing essential traffic-calming safety infrastructure immediately surrounding our local elementary school.
  • Ballot Item 6: Havelock Bridge Mural Landscape Upgrade Beautifying our public pathways by combining public art with refreshed, climate-resilient landscaping elements around the Havelock Bridge area.
  • Ballot Item 8: Safe Pedestrian Path at Congo-Circular Pedestrian Island Enhancing pedestrian visibility and safety at critical intersections by engineering a dedicated, secure pedestrian pathway around the Congo-Circular island.
  • Ballot Item 12: Storage Container for Emergency Supplies Bolstering our neighborhood’s disaster readiness and localized resiliency by securing a weatherproof, accessible storage unit for community emergency supplies.

How to Cast Your Vote

Just go to the Participatory Budgeting website and cast your vote there. It’s quick and easy!

Please share this post, forward our flyers, and spread the word to your immediate neighbors, friends, and family within District 7. Let’s work together to hit that 400-vote minimum threshold and bring these vital infrastructure upgrades straight to Sunnyside!

Questions or want to get involved? Reach out to the SNA Board anytime at board@sunnysideassociation.org.

VOTING STARTS FRIDAY MAY 31 TO SELECT PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING PROJECTS

Voting starts on Friday May 31 for District 7 residents age 16 and older for the 15 Participatory Budgeting Projects selected as finalists, including one supported by SNA for benches at the MUNI bus stop at the northwest corner of Monterey and Gennessee (in front of Won Kok Restaurant). 

Although there is no limit to the number of projects that residents can support, only projects that receive a minimum of 400 votes will get funding, so it’s important for as many of Sunnyside’s residents to vote as possible.

Access to the online voting portal is available here, with voting open on Friday May 31: 

https://sites.google.com/view/d7participatorybudgeting/vote?authuser=0

This year, 15 projects have been selected by local organizations. The projects intend to improve safety, beautification and resilience of our neighborhoods. The proposals this year are:

1. Maintenance of Westwood Park Pillars 

Area: Westwood Park

Category: Neighborhood Beautification 

2. Benches at bus stop at intersection at Monterey & Gennessee

Area: Sunnyside

Category: Children & Seniors, Vision Zero & Pedestrian Safety, Neighborhood Beautification

3Parklet Planting Beds in Inner Sunset

Area: Inner Sunset

Category: Public Safety & Resilience, Children & Seniors, Neighborhood Beautification

4. Traffic Calming on Yerba Buena

Area: Monterey Heights

Category: Vision Zero & Pedestrian Safety

5. Series of murals in West Portal

Area: West Portal Neighborhood

Category: Neighborhood Beautification

6. Traffic calming at Ulloa St, Laguna Honda, and Rockaway

Area: Forest Hills Extension

Category: Public Safety & Resilience, Children & Seniors, Vision Zero & Pedestrian Safety

7. Public parklet on Slow Hearst 

  Area: Sunnyside

Category: Children & Seniors, Vision Zero & Pedestrian Safety, Neighborhood Beautification

8. Traffic calming on Monterey

Area: Monterey Heights

Category: Public Safety & Resilience, Children & Seniors, Vision Zero & Pedestrian Safety

9. Median planting on Marietta Drive

Area: Miraloma

Category: Public Safety & Resilience, Children & Seniors, Vision Zero & Pedestrian Safety, Neighborhood Beautification

10. Picnic tables at Commodore Sloat Elementary

Area: Balboa Terrace, Ingleside Terrace, and Lakeside (northern end)

Category: Children & Seniors, Neighborhood Beautification

11. Playground improvements and seating at Sunnyside Elementary

Area: Sunnyside

Category: Public Safety & Resilience, Children & Seniors

12.  Digital literacy courses for children and seniors 

Area: Balboa Terrace

                Category: Public Safety & Resilience, Children & Seniors

13. Repair fence at Edgehill Way 

Area: Edgehill (Forest Hill Extension)

Category: Public Safety & Resilience, Neighborhood Beautification

14. New playground at Jefferson Elementary 

Area: Middle Sunset District

Category: Children & Seniors, Neighborhood Beautification

15. Renovation of Marview Way Trail 

Area: Midtown Terrace, City, Tourists

Category: Public Safety & Resilience, Children & Seniors, Vision Zero & Pedestrian Safety, Neighborhood Beautification

  • Check out this website for more information on the proposals and to cast your vote starting on May 31, 2024.

Monday Nov 5: SNA Quarterly Meeting

You are invited: the quarterly meeting of the Sunnyside Neighborhood Association is next Monday. Open to all residents. Agenda below.  Monday Nov 5, 2018, 7-8:30 pm, at St Finn Barr auditorium, 415 Edna Street (Hearst Ave).

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The speakers and subjects will include:

  • Phillip Pierce, SFMTA liaison – bring your street and transit questions.
  • Participatory Budgeting: new Sunnyside projects – bring your ideas
  • Update on the Balboa Reservoir Project from the BR Committee
  • News about upcoming Holiday Party – musicians needed!
  • Other items and the usual raffle

Time to join or renew your membership? You can pay dues at the meeting, or click ‘Donate’ button below.

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Monday Aug 6: SNA Quarterly Meeting

You are invited: the quarterly meeting of the Sunnyside Neighborhood Association is next Monday. Open to all residents. Agenda below.  Monday August 6th, 2018, 7-8:30 pm. This meeting held St Finn Barr auditorium, 415 Edna Street (Hearst Ave).

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The speakers and subjects will include:

  • Exciting news about the Sunnyside senior exercise program in the works
  • New programming at the Sunnyside Playground Clubhouse
  • Time for open community discussion on your concerns
  • Update on the Balboa Reservoir Project from our BR Committee
  • Update on SFMTA upgrades with our 2017 Participatory Budgeting grant
  • Meet Lenette Thompson, School Board candidate
  • The usual raffle

Time to join or renew your membership? You can pay dues at the meeting, or click ‘Donate’ button below.

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