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#participatorybudgeting

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NYC Glue

@lzg This is a fabulous idea for #ParticipatoryBudgeting #PB. In NYC, a PB idea has to be a capital budget item and cost over $20,000. A capital budget item must last 5 years. Somehow laptops are pitched as lasting 5 years but also require laptop carts. For 100K you supply bikes to every kid in the school and they last way longer than 5 years and be handed down.

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NYC Glue

NYC Participatory Voting for Improvement Projects

How would you spend $1 million in your neighborhood?

The better question is how would you allocate $1million between city agencies? And the big question is and will not be answered: What happens if we don't vote for fixing potholes on Broadway? Does DOT just do that as part of its regular street milling schedule?

#participatoryBudgeting
#PBNYC
#PB

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Ozzie D, NP-hard :bikepump: :vegan:

Last night my middle schooler and I attended the PB10 (participatory budgeting) results party at #CambridgeMA City Hall. It's hard to imagine a more fun, feel-good municipal budget event! Results are now up at pb.cambridgema.gov , but here are the eight projects (out of 20 candidates), funded to a total of over US$2M, in order of most to least votes:

  • Free Menstrual Care and Infant Hygiene Products ($85,000)
  • Additional Supplies for Unhoused Residents ($50,000)
  • Expanding Space for Street Trees ($100,000)
  • Improve Safety for Pedestrians ($400,000)
  • Smart Traps for Rat Reduction ($360,000)
    • Smart Recycling and Trash Compactors ($120,000)
  • Shaded Seats on Hot Streets ($450,000)
  • Public Toilet for Park Upgrade ($500,000)

Voter tallies were substantially higher than in last PB cycle, which I reckon is mainly due to setting up polling stations at every middle school in the city (any resident who's in 6th grade, or at least 12 years old, is eligible to vote).

The party featured pizza and salad from All Star Pizza Bar, and dessert from Insomnia Cookies (with #vegan and GF options from both)!

A city counselor and I even spent a few minutes practicing some of the dance moves for the community theater show we're both in this weekend (familyopera.org).

A+, would vote again.

Photo of Cambridge city employees and volunteers presenting the winning project proposals in the PB10 Participatory Budgeting cycle. A projected slide behind them reads "And the Funding Goes to..."
Photo of Cambridge City Manager introducing the participatory budgeting results at City Hall, in front of a slide with a bar chart representing increasing voter participation over the last 10 years.
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Caitlin Waddick

Is anyone at in ? The in-person speaker schedule looked great. I wasn’t as inspired by the virtual conference program, but I’ll take another look: it starts tomorrow. More are considering “non-reformist reforms”, such as and and even —gasp! — . Cheers to the and all the ways we can do and and .

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decidim

Good morning!
We've been chosen as 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲/𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 🏆

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#ParticipatoryDemocracy #ParticipatoryBudgeting, #CitizensAssemblies #Floss

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Sheila R Foster

Lerner points to other cities like Paris, where participatory budgeting has radically shifted its budget priorities: “New York’s program is really the exception, not the norm, from an international perspective and I think it’s holding possibilities back.”

nextcity.org/urbanist-news/how

nextcity.orgHow New York Is Giving Residents A Voice In The City BudgetThe model can transform how mainstream funding is allocated, in a time when residents are “hungry to have more of a meaningful say on issues that affect their lives,” one advocate says.
#participatorybudgeting#urban#Placegovernance
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Amber Styles

I printed out this snippet of Ariel Aberg-Riger's budget explainer when I started as an analyst [bloomberg.com/news/articles/20].

Today it's got me thinking about creative ways to grow the accessibility & engagement of our budget story.

I’m inspired by Kenneth Mejia's LA campaign graphics, the #SolidarityBudget in Seattle, and Mural Arts Philadelphia's “A People’s Budget” project.

What #ParticipatoryBudgeting examples should I read up on? Particularly interested in #PublicAdmin implementations.

Photo of a hand holding a piece of paper. The page has part of an Ariel Aberg-Riger comic, that says: “If our budgets were truly made for us—clear, engaging stories about how a city plans to spend our money—what would they look like? A truly accessible budget: 1. Tells you what the budget process is, who’s in charge, and when and how you can participate. 2. Explains how it works (the different funds, the revenue sources for each fund). 3. Decodes jargon (or ditches it completely). 4. Lays out a summary vision that communicates goals, vision, and rationale. 5. Visualizes spending by departments and services proportional to the overall budget. 6. Lets you see how spending has changed over time."
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Wojciech Ufel

I'm already enjoying Mastodon as an interesting space for social science academic debates. But how good is it for dissemination? I have seen several @politicaltheory @politicalscience researchers with interest in #deliberation and #participatory #democracy. Would you be interested in a comprehensive case-study-based review of #ParticipatoryBudgeting in #Poland, one of the countries with the largest number of #PB in the World? tinyurl.com/msf4daba

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kdnyhan

Calling #NewYork folks! It's #ParticipatoryBudgeting time in #NYC, and there's a submission about setting up programs in public #libraries to lend CO2 monitors.
Everyone should be able to measure and improve their #IndoorAirQuality, and libraries are great venues because they already support #HealthLiteracy #LibraryOfThings #CitizenScience.
Please add a supportive comment to this proposal ASAP (deadline is unclear but maybe Thursday): ideas.pbnyc.org/place/664422
#COVIDisAirborne

ideas.pbnyc.orgto establish a CO2 Monitor lending program through the public libraryassess how well ventilated the places they frequent are. We know indoor air quality is improved with good ventilation, but we can't tell if a space is well ventilated just by looking at it. With carbon dioxide (CO2) monitors, you can better understand how much of the air you're breathing in was exhaled by other people. Most people don't own CO2 monitors & don't know how to interpret CO2 readings. Libraries can solve both problems by offering patrons CO2 monitors & curated information packets. If our public libraries established a lending library program for CO2 monitors, as has now been done in a growing number of regions across North America, New Yorkers could bring a CO2 monitor to their homes, local supermarket, worksite & more, empowering New Yorkers to better understand the quality of the indoor air we breathe & mitigate the risks of airborne transmission of pathogens like SARS-CoV-2 (virus that causes COVID-19), high levels of CO2, & other pollutants that may be in indoor air.
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Josef Davies-Coates

RT @Rships_Project@twitter.com

We can build a more through stronger citizen-state relationships, taking inspiration from like @everyone_org@twitter.com , such as @PB_NYC@twitter.com and participatory forums like @involveUK@twitter.com 's .

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Rships_Project/sta

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