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| Country | United States | |
| City | New York City | |
| Name | Participatory Budgeting | |
| Date | 2011 | |
| Description of the project | “Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. The process began in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1989. Today, there are more than 3,000 participatory budgeting processes around the world, most at the municipal level.
In 2011, four New York City Council Members – Brad Lander, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Eric Ulrich, and Jumaane D. Williams – launched a PB process to allow residents in their district to allocate part of their capital discretionary funds. Over the years, the process has grown to include a majority of Council Members, giving communities real decision-making over more than $35 million in taxpayer money on an annual basis. In 2019, 33 Council Members participated in PBNYC, asking residents how to spend at least $35 million in capital funding. Following a series of phases to produce a community ballot, projects that receive the most votes during a nine-day Vote Week are adopted in the City’s fiscal year budget.”https://council.nyc.gov/pb/ |
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| Urban Co-Governance | Moderate | |
| Enabling State | Strong | |
| Pooling | Strong | |
| Experimentalism | Strong | |
| Tech Justice | Moderate | |
| Project Website | https://council.nyc.gov/pb/ | |
| References, sources, contact person(s) | Institutional website, and Interview to a representative of the Participatory Budgeting Project.
Contact : correspondence@council.nyc.gov |
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