Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn is calling for the participatory budget to be slashed, saying that 11-year-old children shouldn’t be dictating how millions of taxpayer dollars are spent each year in ...

Boston will provide grant funding for immigrants’ legal defense as part of its second-ever round of participatory budgeting projects. The Office of Participatory Budgeting, which allows residents to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Downtown skate park renovations, public restrooms, and neighborhood murals are among the latest projects getting funding from Durham’s democratic budgeting program.

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 ...

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 ...

A study of the participatory budgeting process that took place in Brooklyn’s District 39 this year revealed that it attracts traditionally disengaged or disadvantaged citizens, reported DNAinfo.

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

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. — 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, ...