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Midterm Memo Assignment: Atlanta Participatory Budgeting
TO: Recreation Department City Government
FROM: Joseph M.
DATE: 15/06/2022
SUBJECT: Participatory Budgeting
Participatory budgeting is a system where the public is involved in decision-making on how public money is utilized (Williams et al. 2019). The local citizens are usually allocated the monitoring and scrutiny roles following budget allocation.
How participatory budgeting works
In participatory budgeting, the local officials present the budget to the public with various particular allocations to the local investments. After that, the citizens can discuss and agree on the priority projects to be sorted and funded first. After that, the local population takes responsibility for implementing and monitoring the activities endorsed during public participation. One of the benefits of this approach is that citizens can contribute even through text messages on mobile phones (Williams et al. 2019). Public members also get an opportunity to prioritize projects they consider an urgent need to them. Also, the public gets a chance to implement and monitor the local projects to ensure that quality standards are achieved according to their expectations. Nevertheless, one of the challenges of participatory budgeting is that the process consumes a lot of time (Aziz & Shah, 2021). This is because the budget preparation usually begins from the departmental level to the top; hence, a lot of consultation derails the process.
Participatory Budgeting in Atlanta
The city of Atlanta in 2020 for the very first time initiated participatory budgeting for the first time. Residents of Downtown Atlanta were...…Budgeting to the Current Scenario
Considering the current scenario where the projected grant for improving the wellness and wellbeing of the community members by the city government has been cut to $100,000 from $150,000, participatory budgeting can be very instrumental in evaluating the most critical activities that are a priority to the community members. This will ensure that the available resources are only spent on such projects that are considered of urgent need and high value to the community. Furthermore, participatory budgeting will enable the stakeholders to evaluate the proposed projects on their technical and financial viability. Nonetheless, participatory budgeting may be faced equity challenges in allocating and prioritizing tasks. For instance, because the decision is based majorly on the number of votes cast against…
References
Aziz, H., & Shah, N. (2021). Participatory budgeting: Models and approaches. In Pathways Between Social Science and Computational Social Science (pp. 215-236). Springer, Cham.
Jabola-Carolus, I., Elliott-Negri, L., Jasper, J. M., Mahlbacher, J., Weisskircher, M., & Zhelnina, A. (2020). Strategic interaction sequences: The institutionalization of participatory budgeting in New York City. Social Movement Studies, 19(5-6), 640-656.
Williams, E., St Denny, E., & Bristow, D. (2019). Participatory budgeting: An evidence review. n/a.
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