A theoretical good — giving citizens more of a say in how public money is spent in their neighborhoods — runs into some practical challenges in a participatory budgeting initiative that Clevelanders ...

Once you hack away the fear-mongering, though, Harsh’s opposition boils down to two key points: Participatory budgeting, he argues, is ineffective and expensive.

Equity is at the heart of participatory budgeting. Key goals of Marin’s PB process are to transform the relationship that people have with government, increase civic trust and engage more people ...

Mayor Justin Bibb favors participatory budgeting and even sent an aide to testify against such a ban. But Bibb won’t be fighting the law in court because the city doesn’t have standing to do ...

About $3 million remains unspent in the participatory budget fund. City Council voted in January for the money to be ...

That’s the promise of participatory budgeting (PB), and a local effort to have it become an official part of the city of Portland’s budget process launched on Thursday. The Community Budgeting for All ...

Of the 11 projects submitted, following the City Council’s approval, six will be financed budgeting, utilizing $99,658 of the $100,000 allotted to the Participatory Budgeting program.