Participatory budgeting starts today, and Brooklyn is a trailblazer
The fifth annual Participatory Budgeting (PB) Week has kicked off, and this year Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is expanding the funds going into the process.
Adams has pledged to allocate $1 million in 2017 capital funding to be apportioned equally to winning projects from the votes conducted by Brooklyn councilmembers.
In participatory budgeting, residents directly decide how to spend part of the city’s budget to improve their neighborhoods. This year, twenty-eight councilmembers are participating, ten in Brooklyn.