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DESCRIPTION:From Budget Cuts to the People’s Budget\nTues, April 26, 6:30-9pm\nCentro 
 del Pueblo Auditorium, 474 Valencia St., Second Floor, San Francisco, CA 
 94103\n(wheelchair accessible, donations for space accepted)\n\nJoin the 
 Center for Political Education, PODER, JASEcon, San Francisco Community 
 Land Trust and Shareable.net for a discussion of Participatory Budgeting 
 and how it could be applied in San Francisco with Josh Lerner and Alderman 
 Joe Moore. \n\nParticipatory budgeting is a democratic process in which 
 community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. 
 Hundreds of municipalities all over the world have used this process to 
 open up decision-making on municipal budgets to community stakeholders. It 
 is an important tool to create more participation in proposal development, 
 transparency of budget allocation, and to get resources to communities 
 whose voices often go unheard and that are significantly under-served by 
 budgets, especially in times of budget cuts. Together we can make better 
 decisions.\n\nIn 2009, Alderman Joe Moore, a member of Chicago's City 
 Council representing the 49th Ward (a district that speaks 80 different 
 languages), launched the first participatory budgeting process in the US, 
 inviting residents of his ward to directly decide how to spend his $1.3 
 million discretionary budget.  The initiative was a resounding success that 
 engaged over 50 civic, religious and community organizations in the 
 development of budget proposals, which culminated in a ward-wide election 
 in April, 2010, where over 1,600 49th Ward residents voted on 
 infrastructure spending priorities for 2010.  \n\nAlderman Joe Moore is a 
 member of Chicago 's City Council. Since 1991 he has represented the city's 
 49th Ward, which includes the Rogers Park neighborhood. Moore has been 
 named the "Most Valuable Local Official" in the country by The Nation 
 magazine, in recognition for his successful sponsorship of a resolution 
 against the war in Iraq , measures requiring living wages for employees of 
 big box retail stores, and environmental restrictions on Chicago 's 
 coal-fired power plants. Starting in 2009, he launched the first 
 participatory budgeting process in the US, inviting residents of his ward 
 to directly decide how to spend his $1.3 million discretionary 
 budget.\n\nJosh Lerner is Co-Director of The Participatory Budgeting 
 Project, a non-profit organization that works with elected officials, 
 public agencies, and community organizations to open up public budgets to 
 public participation. He served as a lead adviser to Alderman Moore for 
 participatory budgeting in Chicago's 49th Ward, and he has also researched 
 and worked with participatory budgeting processes in Canada, Argentina, 
 Brazil, Guatemala, Spain, and the UK. Lerner is a PhD candidate in Politics 
 at the New School for Social Research and has taught at Fordham University, 
 The New School, and the Brooklyn Center for the Urban 
 Environment.\n\nContact mira (at) sfbace.org for more info.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/06/18676539.php
SUMMARY:From Budget Cuts to the People’s Budget: Participatory Budgeting in SF
LOCATION:Centro del Pueblo Auditorium, 474 Valencia St., Second Floor, San 
 Francisco, CA 9410
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/06/18676539.php
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