This amount is peanuts compared to the operating budget of the city I live in…
Realistically? I was pleasantly surprised by someone trying to make little tree pit gardens on the street where I live. $10,000 might be enough to make some of those on a few residential streets and kickstart a local initiative for the community to keep maintaining them. There may be some leftover money for acquiring a few communal trash bins to help with trash issues around the neighborhood as well
fill in some fuckin potholes
Can’t fence in my backyard for 10k. And it’s not big. But giving it to the food banks would be my plan.
See if I can bribe enough local officials to pass an amendment making bike lanes mandatory on all new road construction projects. Sadly, even at the local level I don’t think $10,000 would be enough.
Donate it to the library or a local food bank. Simple community building.
keep it.
Pay 0.000001% of debt.
Cant really do much. Besides create jobs but for that 10k is also too little
For that kind of money you’re really only talking about minor maintenance or beautification projects. Maybe funding the cleanup of a local area or two. Fresh coat of paint on a couple buildings. Maybe a mural. We’re talking small scale here. Which of course isn’t nothing. Small steps are what lead to bigger steps.
So personally I would probably spend it on a local park near me that needs heavy updating. Maybe redo the walking trail and if there’s enough money left over plant some more trees.
Trees.
$100 grocery gift cards for the most struggling.
bike lanes and concrete instead of ugly asphalt and pedestrian crossing signals
With 10K? Are you going to do five feet of lane?
Doesn’t have to be protected we barely have any pedestrian crossing signals, and non-protected is better than none if drivers can avoid hitting pedestrians without pedestrian crossing signals they can probably avoid hitting bikes too
That’s vastly insufficient even to begin planning any significant improvement, so… spend it on local businesses, I suppose. 🤷♂️
In a similar vein, fund a few events for local groups for the less well-to-do to go see a local band. Just get the money in circulation in a way that keeps it local, and does some good (for myself or others) without consuming too many natural respurces.
Set up a stand and give away as much ice cream as I can get for 10K
That money would be gone for all the bureaucracy around whatever you’re planning.
