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Tools for Participatory Democracy: Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership - Participatory Budgeting Project

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Two-minute public comment periods. Closed-door decisions. Community input workshops where your only way to participate is via sticky note suggestions on a draft plan. Community board recommendations that go ignored by public decision-makers. If you’ve ever tried to engage in public decisions made in your community, I’d guess that at least one of these experiences is all too familiar to you. If you’re like me, you may wrestle with questions like: Why didn’t I hear about this sooner? If this plan is about my neighborhood and my people, why am I not at the table, being asked to design it from Day 1? And why are special interests getting a greater say on this project than the people in our community who are directly impacted? Often, community engagement approaches leave a bad taste in participants’ mouths, and at worst actively marginalize, ignore and harm key groups in the community, such as our BIPOC neighbors, low-income residents, non-English speakers, youth, and undocumented folks. At

Tools for Participatory Democracy: Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership - Participatory Budgeting Project Skip to content Tools for Participatory Democracy: Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership Two-minute public comment periods. Closed-door decisions. Community input workshops where your only way to participate is via sticky note suggestions on a draft plan. Community board recommendations that go ignored by public decision-makers. If you’ve ever tried to engage in public decisions made in your community, I’d guess that at least one of these experiences is all too familiar to

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