Tag: participatory budgeting

Council member Mark Levine announced the winners of participatory budgeting in his council district, which includes a section of the Upper West Side, mostly

Local residents can propose capital projects this month as part of the City Council's participatory budgeting program. The program allows

The West Side Campaign Against Hunger will get $250,000 to pay for a mobile food pantry after receiving the most votes in Council member Helen Rosenthal's participatory budgeting contest. In all, four projects out

Starting this week, locals can vote on which suggested neighborhood projects should get a piece of the $1 million allocated to each council district for a program called "Participatory Budgeting."

Upper West Side city council members are drumming up ideas for how to spend $1 million in each of their districts on capital projects.

City Council members on the Upper West Side are holding meetings to discuss and vote on how to spend $1 million in the community. It's a good way to talk

March 26, 2012 Weather: Sunny and Windy, High of 54 Degrees.

Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito, who represents the Northern part of the Upper West Side, is trying a novel approach to budgeting: she wants to know the community's ideas for how to spend more than $1 million in capital funding. And she's actually going to let you vote on the ideas. It's ...