That's vastly insufficient even to begin planning any significant improvement, so... spend it on local businesses, I suppose. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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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.
My town has $20 million of debt in our education department alone that we didn't know about until this year after a board of education administration change ๐ญ so I think 10,000 might not make too much of a difference to them. That being said I'd probably donate to a local foodbank
Pay 0.000001% of debt.
Move out
That money would be gone for all the bureaucracy around whatever you're planning.
Buy everyone tickets for our local independent cinema, and feed some unhoused souls.
Pocket it. Won't make it any better to live in, but neither will a pitiful investment that's enough to host one event that's forgotten in a few days
IDK how much one of those billboards with the rotating ad strips that come together to make up and ad would cost to rent out ad space on, but maybe advertising positive affirmations would probably be the best I can do with that amount. At least from what comes to mind right away. I live close enough to one at a busy intersection that I could watch people and see how they react to them.
As much as I hate ads and billboards, I will admit they can be effective considering I always watched that specific billboard growing up whenever I passed by it.
Trees.
Id contact those people who make those speed panels. If you don't know what that is, its a panel showing your speed, in green up to 30, then red, then like "Warning" if faster. People are supposed to be sensitivised to the fact they are driving over the speed limit.
I'd pay them to add a flash that triggers every time someone goes over 35. Just a flash, like the real radars have.
$100 grocery gift cards for the most struggling.
Spend 500 on a magician tutor(teacher? Master? Sensei?) and another 500 on advertising for a new show at the local park on Thursday October 30th where I will spontaneously burst into oodles of various coins and bills in the middle of a word in the beginning half of my initial hype speech.
keep it.
Free, while supplies last.
Give 10 people $1000 Or Could give 100 people 100$ too.
Leave. Fuck this city. That 10 grand would be better put to use relocating me to somewhere better.
Why are country bumpkins always so greedy and socially inept?
I wouldnโt know. Iโve never met any.
Build a mini prison.