pbnyc - Bklyner (Page 3)

Nonsponsored

BP Adams Allocates Additional $100K For The 38th Council District’s Participatory Budgeting Pot

Image via Councilmember Carlos Menchaca’s office.Good news for participatory budgeting (PBNYC) fans: an extra $100,000 is coming our way for Fiscal Year 2017, thanks to a pledge by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. The money is actually one-tenth of Adams’ total pledge of $1 million for all

pbnyc

Only A Few Days Left To Suggest Project Ideas For $1M In Participatory Budgeting Funds

There’s less than four days left (through Monday, November 16) to submit an idea on the participatory budgeting (PBNYC) map for Fort Greene-Clinton Hill [http://ideas.pbnyc.org/place/389129]. The map is the second stage of brainstorming for how to spend $1 million in discretionary funds from Councilmember

35th Council District

Fort Greene Residents Want Better Lighting In NYCHA Houses, School Upgrades, And More From Participatory Budgeting

Photo by Fort Greene Focus.The 35th Council District has $1 million to spend on capital improvement projects and residents have A LOT of ideas for what those projects should be. For the 35 or so Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Prospect Heights residents who came out to the brainstorming

40th Council District

Listen Up, Councilman Eugene! Neighbors Call On Lawmaker To Change Stance On Participatory Budgeting

Neighbors are now joining forces to call on Councilman Mathieu Eugene to become involved in participatory budgeting.A group of neighbors have a message for Councilman Mathieu Eugene [http://council.nyc.gov/d40/html/members/home.shtml]: it’s time to change your stance on participatory budgeting [http://pbnyc.org/

Kensington Triangle Park

Kensington Ballot Proposal Roundup in Participatory Budgeting Election

This week, the ballot box for this year’s Participatory Budgeting [/tag/participatory-budgeting] proposals is open to all residents of City Council District 39, 16 years of age or older. Voters may elect five proposals, and it just so happens that Kensington has five of them on the ballot. While

pbnyc

A Look at the Participatory Budgeting Expo

If you didn’t get a chance to make it there, here are a few images of the action at Thursday night’s Participatory Budgeting Expo held at the Park Slope Library, 431 6th Avenue. Michelle Proffit, a Kensington resident, listens to an expo attendee while representing Proposition “I”: Groundswell

budget

Greenfield Kicks Off Participatory Budgeting Initiative With Charter Members Meeting

We’ve been covering this subject for a while now. For more, click here [/local-pol-commends-revolutionary-participatory-budgeting-process/]. The following is a press release from the office of City Councilman David Greenfield: Brooklyn – Councilman David G. Greenfield was joined by approximately 75 community residents and by representatives from the Participatory Budgeting Project and