Hometown Summit 2017

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a different way to manage public money, and to engage people in government. It is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budge, enabling taxpayers to work with government to make the budget decisions that affect their lives. Having started in Brazil over 30 years ago, PB has been making a major impact in the US since 2009 with over $170 million dollars allocated in cities all over the country.   

For this session, Maria Hadden and Matthew Slaats will talk about the impact that PB is making nationally and what it takes to bring the process to your local community.