Sentences with phrase «participatory budgeting initiative»

In 2011 City Council Member Brad Lander invited his constituents to take part in a participatory budgeting initiative in which citizens first identify community needs and then vote on which projects to fund, with $ 1 million set aside for the winning proposals.

He served two years on the District Committee for Councilmember Brad Lander's participatory budgeting initiative.

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Implemented this year in 24 of the City Council's 51 districts, the participatory budgeting program sees council members devote $ 1 million or more in capital funding toward the community initiative.

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.

As Schott has expanded its grantmaking and advocacy across the country, from ballot initiatives in Mississippi to participatory budgeting in California, Schott has begun to leverage its research capacity to focus attention not just on the struggles children face but also on proactive policy solutions.