About this website:

Participatory Budgeting is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. It’s a tool to empower everyone to make decisions about how funds should be spent in our communities.

Participatory Budgeting involves a series of steps:

1) Community members brainstorm and submit ideas about how to spend the money

2) A smaller group of community members develop ideas into project proposals

3) The community gets to vote on which projects to fund

4) Projects selected get carried out in the community