Participatory Budgeting is Coming to NYC – Find Out What it Means

New York City is about to experience a new kind of democracy.

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Participatory Budgeting for New York City

New York City is about to experience a new kind of democracy. Over the next several months, we will undertake an exciting initiative to put budgeting decisions directly in the hands of the people those decisions will impact most – the residents of our districts. Participatory budgeting is grassroots democracy at its best.

via Pbnyc

Article FROM the NYTIMES:

4 on N.Y. City Council Will Let Public Decide Some Spending

Four City Council members, intrigued by experiments begun in Brazil to let ordinary citizens determine how government uses tax dollars, say they plan to allow their constituents to decide how $4 million is spent next year.

via Nytimes

Rebecca Willis

“When politics becomes really dysfunctional, the temptation is to just be quite a cynical realist and say, That’s just how the world is now. But the more I think about it, the more I think that when you’re confronted with these problems, you actually need to double down on the idealism.”

1 Comment

  1. I’d love to see this for DC’s budget, and for the Federal budget too. Imagine: public agencies justifying their funding, competing for your tax revenues. The tricky bit is that many agencies provide services that are difficult to value: environmental, police, the legislature, etc.

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