The Vallejo City Council appointed Vallejo residents to seats on two of the city’s commissions and committees. Ann Adams, Tanya Hall, and Brendan Riley were introduced as appointments to the ...

The winners of last week’s vote for Participatory Budgeting for District 33 are in! Coming in first was a proposal for district-wide tree planting, an initiative that will receive $100,000. $200,000 ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu used nearly a third of the city’s $2.2 million participatory budget to beef up protections for illegal immigrants. A city councilor meanwhile is calling on the mayor to ...

Downtown skate park renovations, public restrooms, and neighborhood murals are among the latest projects getting funding from ...

Gordon E. Berry (Geb) wants to install a slackline and traveling rings in McCarren Park. Matthew W. would like to see a public toilet on Pacific Street between 3rd and 4th avenues so people will stop ...

Americans don’t often have a direct say in how their tax dollars get spent. Those decisions are generally left to elected officials. So, some places have engaged in something called “participatory ...

When the Department of Education failed to fix four rusty, JFK-era sinks in P.S. 282’s kindergarten classrooms, Park Slope voters stepped in. When the Department of Transportation failed to set aside ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — At Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, the projects for the fourth and what could be the final round of Participatory Budgeting were announced, with voting to begin on ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — This year marks the third year for Participatory Budgeting in the Spa City, and this year more projects than ever before were submitted. At the Dec. 3 City Council meeting, ...

City Council’s participatory budgeting program is gearing up for its sixth season, with 10 Brooklyn districts participating this year. (Participating districts are ...

Both Councilman Brad Lander and Shehab Chowdhury, one of the volunteer facilitators, tried to put it politely, but arts-related projects haven’t fared well in the participatory budgeting process in ...