Summary
The City Manager’s Office of the City of Charlottesville is soliciting proposals for a consultant to provide administrative and consulting services to plan and execute an approximately $100,000 Participatory Budgeting program. The consultant will design and run outreach and recruitment, program structure, tech and digital engagement tools, facilitate community events and public voting, establish an Advisory Committee, and evaluate the process while producing deliverables such as a Program Guide, timeline, and engagement plan. A non-mandatory pre-proposal conference is scheduled for July 22, 2026 (Teams) and proposals are due July 31, 2026 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time; the solicitation is a Request for Proposal (procurement), not a grant.