Participatory budgeting gives Sunset Park and Red Hook residents a voice
Council District 38 has $2 million to spend and Councilmember Carlos Menchaca wants your help in deciding what to spend it on.
This is because the popular democratic process called participatory budgeting (PBNYC) is back and coming for the first time to Sunset Park, Red Hook, South Park Slope, Greenwood Heights, and the Bay Ridge Towers.
It was a packed house on Thursday, February 20, inside Sunset Park environmental nonprofit UPROSE’s community room, where dozens of residents, business owners, students, community leaders and the curious gathered to hear Menchaca, his staff and PBNYC volunteers explain how they could make their own voices heard while improving their communities.