Popular Community Programming Fund featured in It's Your City

Published November 5 2025

Bellevue's new Community Programming Fund, which has supported almost 40 events this year, including a book giveaway at Downtown Park, a night market in BelRed and participatory dancing on the City Hall Plaza, makes the front page in this quarter's edition of It's Your City.

Launched to bring residents, workers and visitors together in public spaces, particularly along the Grand Connection corridor, the CPF provided grants of up to $15,000. The program will likely return next year, with emphasis on series-based programming and activities with World Cup themes.

Also covered in It's Your City:

• Guidance regarding e-bikes and e-scooters: In the brave new world of micromobility, it feels like you can go anywhere fast on electric scooters and bikes, but sometimes you shouldn't.
• Civic Innovation Challenge partners picked: We've selected Certivo, Legislaide, Juganu and FindIt. They will collaborate with the city on AI solutions to municipal challenges.
• New speed safety cameras coming: Input is invited concerning 37 proposed locations for additional speed cameras, which the City Council will consider this winter. The cameras are expected to reduce high-end speeding associated with serious crashes on Bellevue streets.

For this issue's Council Corner column, Deputy Mayor Mo Malakoutian steps away from city policy to suggest daily choices that can improve our mental and physical health, reminding us along the way just how great Bellevue's parks, trails, farmers markets and community centers are for healthy living.

It's Your City, the resident newsletter, goes to all residential and business addresses in Bellevue three times a year. The next issue of It's Your City will come out in early spring. If you have questions or comments, please contact Claude Iosso, the editor, at [email protected].