Brooklyn leads the way in participatory budgeting
Brooklyn is a trailblazer when it comes to the city’s participatory budgeting process, according to Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.
On Tuesday, Mark-Viverito and Adams revealed that more than 26,000 residents cast ballots at locations across the borough during the 2015-2016 participatory budgeting (PB) process, voting on which capital budget items they would like to see get city funding.
PB is a process by which everyday citizens get to decide how taxpayer dollars are spent on projects in their communities.