A City Operated With Its Residents, Not Just For Them.
Residents should do more than report problems and wait. This framework gives the community a defined role in identifying priorities, shaping eligible investments, monitoring execution, and verifying whether government actually delivered.
From participation to shared accountability
The legal authority of elected government remains intact. The change is that resident input becomes structured, visible and traceable—from neighborhood priorities through execution and public verification.
One coherent operating framework
Existing Addison 2030 initiatives are organized under eight resident outcomes so the site does not become a collection of disconnected programs.
Government Residents Can See & Shape
CivicView360, public dashboards, OPRA-ready records, resident verification, People’s Assembly, and People’s Budget.
Clean, Safe & Functional Neighborhoods
Sanitation, dumping, lighting, streets, code enforcement, safe blocks, and measurable service guarantees.
Housing Stability & Homeownership
Homeless-to-housed coordination, renter protection, homeowner stabilization, vacant-property activation, and ownership pathways.
Explore →Youth, Education & Opportunity
Learn, Earn, Build, Create and Lead pathways for young residents.
Explore →Health & Human Stability
A navigation and referral-to-connection system spanning health access, addiction, mental health, food, seniors and crisis support.
Explore →Community Wealth & Local Business
Local business growth, corridor councils, procurement pathways, local hiring, entrepreneurship and industrial development.
Mobility & Public Space
Parking, transit access, traffic safety, pedestrians, ADA, loading zones, parks and commercial access.
Explore →Fair Development & Fiscal Strength
Performance-based incentives, ratables, collections, contract performance, revenue growth and ordinance modernization.
What should Paterson prioritize?
Rank the three outcomes you believe deserve the greatest citywide attention. This is anonymous community input—not a government election or binding municipal vote.
Each ward sets its own annual priorities
Instead of assigning priorities from the top down, each ward can rank neighborhood conditions. City government then answers each top priority with a commitment, modification, legal constraint, funding status, responsible department and deadline.
Residents help shape eligible neighborhood investment
Under applicable law and formal appropriation, a defined pool of eligible capital, grant, CDBG or discretionary resources can move through a transparent process: resident idea → feasibility review → public proposal → resident preference vote → appropriation → implementation tracking.
Government says completed. Residents verify the result.
Department closure rates and resident-confirmed resolution rates should be reported separately. Closing a ticket is not the same thing as fixing the problem.