No, they didn't actually write a budget in any meaningful sense. They sent out polls on social media [1] and asked respondents to rank four categories they invented, three of which are unfocused concepts about what a civic government might do:
1. Universal Aid and Crisis Management
2. The Built Environment
3. Reimagined Community Safety
…and one category which covers an actual budget item:
4. Law Enforcement
I should add that in order to take this survey, you had to decide to click through a web page that says "We demand that the Mayor and City Council prioritize care NOT cops", which... may have skewed the results somewhat.
Then they used those ranking to arbitrarily move numbers around. They decided to skip over some important things like, I don't know, having a fire department, or how they're going to pay for the pensions of those thousands of now-unemployed police officers.
1. Universal Aid and Crisis Management
2. The Built Environment
3. Reimagined Community Safety
…and one category which covers an actual budget item:
4. Law Enforcement
I should add that in order to take this survey, you had to decide to click through a web page that says "We demand that the Mayor and City Council prioritize care NOT cops", which... may have skewed the results somewhat.
Then they used those ranking to arbitrarily move numbers around. They decided to skip over some important things like, I don't know, having a fire department, or how they're going to pay for the pensions of those thousands of now-unemployed police officers.
[1] https://peoplesbudgetla.com/survey/