Be Our Guest: The Incoming City Administration Should Expand Participatory Budgeting

submitted by Debbie Tiamfook

The Peninsula Library branch in Far Rockaway is one of the facilities that received funding in 2012 through the city's participatory budgeting process

nydailynews.com - by Ritchie Torres and Alexa Kasdan - December 8, 2013

Last month, New York City voters selected a new mayor and 21 new members of the City Council and, in January, a new City Council speaker will be selected, ushering in a progressive makeover to City Hall.

As part of this shift, 21 New York City Council members have committed to partake in Participatory Budgeting (PB) in 2014, allowing their constituents to directly decide how to spend millions of public dollars. This will more than double the size of the current PB process, which is now in its third year with nine council members allocating a collective $10 million.

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CLICK HERE - Participatory Budgeting in NYC

CLICK HERE - A People's Budget:  A Research and Evaluation (128 page .PDF file)

CLICK HERE - Urban Justice Center - Community Development