The winners of last week’s vote for Participatory Budgeting for District 33 are in! Coming in first was a proposal for district-wide tree planting, an initiative that will receive $100,000. $200,000 ...
The Forum for Real Economic Emancipation, or FREE, will hold a public event to discuss participatory budgeting on Sunday, ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — This year marks the third year for Participatory Budgeting in the Spa City, and this year more projects than ever before were submitted. At the Dec. 3 City Council meeting, ...
In Saratoga Springs, $50,000 of city money has been set aside this year for a process known as participatory budgeting. The program allows residents to pick which projects proposed by fellow citizens ...
Boston residents have less than a week left to suggest ideas on how some of the city’s money gets spent. The new practice, called “participatory budgeting,” shifts a modicum of control from the long ...
Cambridge, Mass., has launched a new digital map that the public can use to track progress on community improvement projects. The tool is aimed at deepening transparency within Cambridge's ...
Both Councilman Brad Lander and Shehab Chowdhury, one of the volunteer facilitators, tried to put it politely, but arts-related projects haven’t fared well in the participatory budgeting process in ...
Six community items share a $2 million pool of funding in Boston’s upcoming budget thanks to the city’s inaugural participatory budgeting cycle. The items, selected by city residents from a menu of ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — In its most recent cycle, more than 1,000 residents, roughly 4.7% of the Spa City population, voted for Participatory Budgeting projects — throwing their support behind a ...