{"id":65,"date":"2017-03-28T16:51:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/?p=65"},"modified":"2018-02-21T18:17:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T18:17:42","slug":"participatory-budgeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/2017\/03\/28\/participatory-budgeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Participatory Budgeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>What is Participatory Budgeting?<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pb\/\">Participatory Budgeting<\/a> is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. It\u2019s grassroots democracy at its best. It helps make budget decisions clear and accessible. It gives real power to people who have never before been involved in the political process. And it results in better budget decisions\u2014because who better knows the needs of our community than the people who live there?<\/p>\n<h4>New Participatory Budgeting Outreach Strategies<\/h4>\n<p>The big day is finally here and we are approaching <a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pb\/vote\/\">Participatory Budgeting Vote Week<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, we are seeking to reachout to residents in new ways &#8211; through texting and expansion of our languages online and in person. <\/p>\n<p>To find your closest vote site, you can text &#8220;PBNYC&#8221; to <a href=\"tel:+1-212-676-8384\">212-676-8384<\/a> us &#038; we&#8217;ll help you vote &#038; find your #PBNYC vote site.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On the go &amp; on your phone? Text us &amp; we&#39;ll help you vote &amp; find your <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PBNYC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PBNYC<\/a> vote site! Text &quot;PBNYC&quot; to 212-676-8384! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ebDthFHLRK\">pic.twitter.com\/ebDthFHLRK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NYC Council (@NYCCouncil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCCouncil\/status\/846751494443585536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We are also expanding languages for information sharing to include Chinese, Russian, and Hebrew. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"zh\" dir=\"ltr\">\u8bf7\u5c06\u77ed\u4fe1\u201cPBNYC\u201d\u53d1\u9001\u81f3 212-676-8384\uff0c\u5373\u53ef\u6ce8\u518c\u5e76\u83b7\u5f97\u6709\u5173 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PBNYC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PBNYC<\/a> \u6295\u7968\u8868\u51b3\u7684\u4e3e\u884c\u65f6\u95f4\u548c\u5730\u70b9\u4e4b\u63d0\u793a\u4fe1\u606f\u3002\u6807\u51c6\u77ed\u4fe1\u8d44\u8d39\u9002\u7528\u3002 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rB4FtPvN3h\">pic.twitter.com\/rB4FtPvN3h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NYC Council (@NYCCouncil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCCouncil\/status\/846786724760047616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"ru\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0412\u0430\u0448\u0438 \u0434\u0435\u043d\u044c\u0433\u0438. \u0412\u0430\u0448 \u0440\u0430\u0439\u043e\u043d. \u0412\u0430\u0448\u0435 \u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435. \u0412\u044b \u0440\u0435\u0448\u0430\u0435\u0442\u0435, \u0447\u0442\u043e \u0434\u0435\u043b\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0441 1 \u041c\u0418\u041b\u041b\u0418\u041e\u041d\u041e\u041c \u0414\u041e\u041b\u041b\u0410\u0420\u041e\u0412 \u043d\u0430 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PB_NYC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PB_NYC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U6KqcM1iVa\">https:\/\/t.co\/U6KqcM1iVa<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PBNYC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PBNYC<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NYC Council (@NYCCouncil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCCouncil\/status\/847148351216926738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"iw\" dir=\"rtl\">\u05d0\u05f2\u05e2\u05e8 \u05d2\u05e2\u05dc\u05d8. \u05d0\u05f2\u05e2\u05e8 \u05d2\u05e2\u05d2\u05e0\u05d8.  \u05d0\u05f2\u05e2\u05e8 \u05d1\u05d0\u05e9\u05dc\u05d5\u05e1.  \u05d0\u05d9\u05e8 \u05f0\u05e2\u05dc\u05d8 \u05d0\u05f1\u05e1 \u05f0\u05d0\u05e1 \u05d0\u05d9\u05e8 \u05d8\u05d5\u05d4\u05d8 \u05de\u05d9\u05d8 $1 \u05de\u05d9\u05dc\u05d9\u05d0\u05df \u05d3\u05d5\u05e8\u05da <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PB_NYC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PB_NYC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U6KqcMiTMI\">https:\/\/t.co\/U6KqcMiTMI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PBNYC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PBNYC<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NYC Council (@NYCCouncil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCCouncil\/status\/847450846199599104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Participatory Budgeting?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pb\/\">Participatory Budgeting<\/a> is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. It\u2019s grassroots democracy at its best. It helps make budget decisions clear and accessible. It gives real power to people who have never before been involved in the political process. And it results in better budget decisions\u2014because who better knows the needs of our community than the people who live there?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/2017\/03\/28\/participatory-budgeting\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demystify-government","category-participatory-budgeting","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}