After review of the Participatory Budgeting committee, led by Brennen and made up of Vice Chair Jeff Altamari and members Tim Holmes, Eric Morser, Grady Aronstamm, Amy Bloom and Amy Durland, 11 ...

We know not everyone has the financial resources to choose ethically produced goods or more sustainable options. We have to ...

Of the 11 projects submitted, following the City Council’s approval, six will be financed budgeting, utilizing $99,658 of the $100,000 allotted to the Participatory Budgeting program. The ...

SOMERVILLE — The city has launched its second cycle of "participatory budgeting," a program that sets aside $1 million in the city budget for residents to propose and vote on hand-picked projects.

As an outspoken abolitionist of policing and prisons, Abdullah has championed defunding the police using a concrete, practical, and deeply democratic method of participatory budgeting, in which city ...

In 1989, the city of Porto Alegre, one of the most populous in Southern Brazil, engaged its citizens in a remarkable experiment in civic engagement called “participatory budgeting.” ...

Taken together, they offer hints of what a democracy can look like that better serves and more meaningfully engages the vast ...

Unlike previous years, choices in the participatory budgeting process are not ranked. Rather, votes for each individual project will be tallied and the winners presented by the end of the month.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Saratoga Springs City Council on Tuesday night narrowly approved funding for six projects through the participatory budgeting process. The projects were awarded a total of ...

Residents of La Campaneta have demanded that the Department of Citizen Participation acts swiftly in carrying out an audit of ...