{"id":4332,"date":"2022-09-19T18:59:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T18:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yeson1boston.com\/staging\/?page_id=4332"},"modified":"2023-01-23T16:59:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T16:59:56","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/betterbudgetalliance.org\/fa\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW WE GOT HERE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Quick History of Participatory Budgeting in Boston<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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2022<\/div>

Designing the PB process and writing a municipal ordinance.<\/span><\/p>

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2021<\/div>
Councilor Edwards files Charter Amendment. Voters come out in masses to vote in an overwhelming majority YES on question 1. Ballot initiative passes! <\/span>\n\n\"image<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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2021<\/div>

Grassroots community organizers, researchers, and political leaders form a study group to research various ways of reforming Boston\u2019s City Charter. The group begins drafting\u00a0<\/span>a report<\/span>, \u201cRewrite the Rules: Democratizing City Charters in Boston and Beyond\u201d on their findings and recommendations (forthcoming).<\/span><\/p>

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2020<\/div>
#BlackLivesMatter uprisings create mass demand to #Defund, but also to reinvest through participatory budgeting.\u00a0 <\/span>\n\n\"photo<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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2016<\/div>
Ujima Project Project launched, practicing PB of a community investment fund.<\/span>\n\n\"Ujima<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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2014 - Now<\/div>
YLC continues as a program of the Dept. of Youth Engagement and Employment, with leadership from the Mayor\u2019s Youth Council.<\/span>\n\n\"Youth<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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2013 - 2014<\/div>

\u201cYouth Lead the Change\u201d was established, with technical\u00a0 assistance from Participatory Budgeting Project and Center for Economic Democracy, with a steering committee co-chairs by the City School and Boston Student Advisory Council.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2013<\/div>

Mayor Menino, as one of his parting acts as outgoing mayor, allocated $1 million of Boston\u2019s capital budget to a participatory budgeting process for youth. <\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2013<\/div>

City Councilor Tito Jackson held the first public hearing on PB in the City Council. <\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2010<\/div>
Right to the City Boston adopted PB as part of its policy platform.<\/span>\n\n\"Right<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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2010<\/div>
Boston Workers Alliance launched the \u201cDistrict Dollars\u201d campaign to promote PB in Boston. Inspired by the yearly struggle to increase youth jobs funding, BWA members sought strategies that enable our communities to better control the budget.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\n\n\"logo<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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