Sentences with phrase «participatory budget process»

This project is possible through support from Supervisor Yee's Participatory Budget Process, the Ocean Avenue Association, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and SF Municipal Transportation Authority.

In an effort to identify a formal process to engage students in LCFF, CFJ student leaders and staff held a community townhall, titled My Voice Matters, to demonstrate the Participatory Budget Process (PBP) with students, parents, and district officials.

For ESHSD to adopt the Participatory Budget Process for the school year 2014 - 2015 at the district level, and set aside a budget to engage the school community in identifying needs for high need students and developing projects to address these necessities.

The participatory budget process can also be way to solve the long - time criticism of the council's discretionary funding practice, which has been susceptible to corruption.

Council Member Eric Ulrich said, «I want to thank everyone that contributed to the participatory budget process this year.

Earlier this year, Rodriguez took part in the participatory budget process, in which community members can vote on how $ 1 million in capital funding is spent in the district.

Councilwoman Debi Rose brought the participatory budget process to Staten Island for the first time.

PARK SLOPE, NY — A fitness playground for seniors at Prospect Park and a women's self - defense workshops were funded by Councilman Brad Lander's under this year's participatory budgeting process.

Residents who took part in Buffalo's first ever Participatory Budgeting Process say the effort was worth it.

«The New York City Council is proud to lead the largest participatory budgeting process in North America, a truly grassroots and democratic tool that engages New Yorkers and invests in our communities.

The winners of District 10's participatory budgeting process for 2015 have been announced.

«It's a pleasure to join the Participatory Budgeting process and I look forward to this community journey.»

«I am pleased that so many of my colleagues in the City Council have embraced the participatory budgeting process, as it allows residents to play an active role in their government.»

For the 2014 - 2015 cycle, the following Council Members are conducting a participatory budgeting process in their districts:

«After last year's incredibly successful Participatory Budgeting process in the 38th District, with the highest number of participants in the City, it is my pleasure to re-launch this program for the coming budget cycle!»

«I am pleased to join my Council colleagues and have always planned on carrying out an effective and well organized participatory budgeting process that engages a wide range of residents of my district,» said Council Member Paul Vallone.

The inaugural session for the 2014 participatory budgeting process took place at the St. Luke Resource Center, at 133 - 24 233rd St. in Rosedale.

«The level of engagement and enthusiasm in this year's Participatory Budgeting process was unprecedented and deeply democratic,» said Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

Council Members & Communities Announce Results of Second Participatory Budgeting Process Monday April 22, 2013 at 02:13 pm

NEW YORK, NY (03/28/2012)(readMedia)-- This weekend, the first cycle of the innovative Participatory Budgeting process will come to an end.

The projects are two of six in District 8 that will share $ 1.8 million as part of the city's participatory budgeting process.

«The participatory budgeting process generated a lot of interest and successfully engaged thousands of New Yorkers in deciding how to allocate their own tax dollars,» said David Nocenti, Executive Director of Union Settlement Association in East Harlem.

New York's participatory budgeting process is now the largest in the country with $ 10 million in public funds being voted on.

VISUALS: Pictures of Project Sites to Receive Funding; Images of Neighborhood Assemblies Conducted Throughout Participatory Budgeting Process.

School technology and community safety were among the items that topped the list of winning projects in this year's participatory budgeting process for City Council District 23.

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For example, the Commission could help facilitate local deliberative bodies or citizen assemblies, support local authorities conduct effective participatory budgeting exercises, and experiment with new means for the public to engage in political decision - making processes in more direct and sustained ways.

While Councilman Andy Cohen has been the only member in the Bronx to begin the process of participatory budgeting in his district, Councilman Ritchie Torres has already come out and expressed a commitment to start the process with his constituents in the coming months, as one can see in the video below from a Bronx Park East Community Association meeting Thursday night.

Council Member Jumaane D. Williams, already setting his sights on next year's PB process, said, «Participatory budgeting is an exciting tool of empowerment for the East Flatbush community.

«After talking to thousands of participants of Participatory Budgeting, our data shows that the process engages people who are disenchanted with politics and traditionally excluded from civic affairs.

I thank everyone who took part in this year's process and helped make Participatory Budgeting a success.»

Participatory Budgeting is a grassroots process through which community residents vote to directly allocate at least $ 1 million in capital funding per district toward proposals developed by the community to meet local needs.

«Participatory budgeting is an incredible opportunity to engage and empower people of all backgrounds in a Democratic process to collectively decide how we can spend $ 1 million to fund capital projects that will strengthen our community.

«Our research on Participatory Budgeting in New York City has shown that with targeted outreach, dedicated resources and a commitment to inclusivity, the PB process can and does engage diverse New Yorkers, many of whom are disenfranchised or marginalized from traditional political processes.

«The expansion of participatory budgeting (PB) to 22 council districts, and the institutionalization of the process in the City Council as a new way to govern, is truly exciting and a tribute to the success of the early cycles,» said Sondra Youdelman, Executive Director, Community Voices Heard.

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget.

«It's also through processes like participatory budgeting that we deepen the engagement of residents in our districts and cultivate effective civic leaders.»

«Participatory Budgeting is an inclusive process that engages people from all walks of life to become involved in decisions that impact their neighborhoods.

«Participatory Budgeting brought a large cross-section of District 7 residents into the governing process.

CVH has worked with a range of partners, including Council Members Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn), Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan), Eric Ulrich (R - Queens) and Jumaane D. Williams (D - Brooklyn), as well as The Participatory Budgeting Project, and many other city - wide and local partners to facilitate a new process for city determines how the city identifies and prioritizes discretionary budgeting dBudgeting Project, and many other city - wide and local partners to facilitate a new process for city determines how the city identifies and prioritizes discretionary budgeting dbudgeting decisions.

«Already, the success of participatory budgeting in New York City is inspiring similar processes elsewhere, in cites such as Chicago and Vallejo, California.

This process, called Participatory Budgeting, allowed residents in four city council districts to directly decide how to spend millions of their own tax dollars.

«Through participatory budgeting, my constituents were able to make real decisions about how their tax dollars were being spent, and I look forward to improving upon the process during the second year,» said Councilmember Eric Ulrich.

On Saturday, Theatre for an Oppressed NYC hosts three workshops starting at 11 a.m., including «legislative theatre» on how to participate in the legislative process; «participatory budgeting,» where participants can learn to get involved in spending public money in their neighborhoods; and «Take Action: from Ideas to Public Policy,» learn how ideas become law in NYC, and how to can help the policy ideas become law.

Participatory budgeting engages a diverse range of New Yorkers - particularly those that are underrepresented in traditional political processes.

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a new process for capital budgeting in which voters in participating districts directly decide how to spend millions of their own tax dollars, a first in New York City and only the second such initiative in the United States.

While Councilman Andy Cohen has been the only member in the Bronx to begin the process of participatory budgeting in his district, Councilman Ritchie Torres has already come out and expressed a commitment to start the process with his constituents -LSB-...]

And, though no official report on the efficacy of PB over its first three years in New York has yet been offered, the Urban Justice Center and the Participatory Budgeting Project, the not - for - profit organization that helps facilitate the PB process, released a report on year two of PB in New York that evaluated engagement and impact.

The federal budget process is meant to be a participatory process carried out by Congress that reflects the priorities of the American people.

I keep coming back to New York's participatory budgeting idea, involving parents at a school designated in need of support to engage in the process that delineates where a portion of support funds will go.