What Is Participatory Budgeting?

What is Participatory Budgeting?

• Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a way to manage public money, and to engage people in government and their communities.

How does it work?

• PB is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. This is done through voting. It enables taxpayers to work with the government to make the budget decisions that affect their lives and communities.

Our Projects

•McGolrick Park sidewalk repaving (Parks Dept)

•Location(s): McGolrick Park: between Nassau Ave & Driggs Ave, Russell & Monitor St.

•Brief Project Description: Repave walkways within park as not covered under existing plans

•Benefit: Provides a safe surface for kids to place and is accessible to wheelchair bound residence.

•Taaffe Park: Community Seating Area (Parks Dept)

•Location(s): 390 Park Ave, Bedford-Stuyvesant

•Brief Project Description: Create a seating area

•Benefit: Create a moment of peace for area residents by renovating the seating area where all local residents can meet under the park’s historic Oak trees and plan their community’s future together.

• Independence Towers Pedestrian Safety Improvement (DOT)

•Location(s): The intersection of Bedford Avenue and Wilson St in South Williamsburg, adjacent to both the NYCHA Independence Towers and PS 16.

•Brief Project Description: Install a full or partial curb extension on the northern corners at the intersection of Bedford Avenue andWilson Street, for improved pedestrian passage between the Independence Towers and PS 16. The proposal also requests a lighting survey to be conducted at this intersection and along Wilson St.

•Benefit: Implementing general traffic and lighting safety enhancements will improve the community and potentiallyreduce injuries and / or crime. It is also aligned with Vision Zero. In addition, this section of District 33 is one of the highest needed areas for PB attention and support of this project reflects the District’scommitment to Independence Towers and the broader members of the community.

•Street / Safety Improvements Near BQE (DOT)

•Location(s): Rodney St and Meeker Avenue intersection in Williamsburg.

•Brief Project Description: Installation of curb extensions or other pedestrian safety infrastructure beneath the BQE and acrossRodney St. Lighting and other infrastructure tools at the discretion of the DOT.

•Benefit: Implementing general traffic and lighting safety enhancements will improve the community and potentiallyreduce injuries and / or crime. It is also aligned with Vision Zero. In addition, this section of District 33 isone of the highest needed areas for PB attention and support of this project reflects the District’scommitment to Independence Towers and the broader members of the community.

•Real Time Bus Signage, B44 (DOT)

•Location(s): The 15 B44 bus stops along Bedford and Lee/Nostrand Avenues, between Broadway and DeKalb Avenues within District 33 in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

•Brief Project Description: Implement Real-time passenger information signs along the B44 bus route with initial focus with stops closest to Independence Towers.

•Benefit: District 33 will continue to digitize its transportation infrastructure and improve the way the community interacts and exchanges information with the MTA.