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Some Assembly Required:
Participatory Budgeting in Canada
and Abroad
Janette Loveys of the City of Guelph, Derek Ballantyne of Toronto Housing Corporation and Daniel Schugurensky of the University of Toronto.
When: THURSDAY, APRIL 29TH, 7:00-9:00PM
Where: METRO HALL, 55 JOHN STREET, COUNCIL CHAMBERS (at King and John Streets)
ALL ARE WELCOME. ADMISSION IS FREE.
Mayor David Miller has publicly committed to developing a participatory budget process for the city of Toronto. What makes a budgeting process participatory? We'll hear from three people who have extensive experience with working participatory budgeting models in Toronto, Guelph, and Porto Alegre. What we can learn from them? What will it take for Toronto's process to be truly participatory?
Janette Loveys works for the City of Guelph, and has worked with its Neighbourhood Support Coalition in a participatory budgeting process. Derek Ballantyne is CEO of Toronto Housing Corporation, which manages social housing where a quarter million Torontonians live. They have conducted a residents' participatory process to allocate $18 million in capital expenditure. Daniel Schugurensky teaches at U of T and specializes in transformative learning. He has extensive personal knowledge of the participatory budgeting process in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Some Assembly Required:
Participatory Budgeting in Canada
and Abroad
Janette Loveys of the City of Guelph, Derek Ballantyne of Toronto Housing Corporation and Daniel Schugurensky of the University of Toronto.
When: THURSDAY, APRIL 29TH, 7:00-9:00PM
Where: METRO HALL, 55 JOHN STREET, COUNCIL CHAMBERS (at King and John Streets)
ALL ARE WELCOME. ADMISSION IS FREE.
Mayor David Miller has publicly committed to developing a participatory budget process for the city of Toronto. What makes a budgeting process participatory? We'll hear from three people who have extensive experience with working participatory budgeting models in Toronto, Guelph, and Porto Alegre. What we can learn from them? What will it take for Toronto's process to be truly participatory?
Janette Loveys works for the City of Guelph, and has worked with its Neighbourhood Support Coalition in a participatory budgeting process. Derek Ballantyne is CEO of Toronto Housing Corporation, which manages social housing where a quarter million Torontonians live. They have conducted a residents' participatory process to allocate $18 million in capital expenditure. Daniel Schugurensky teaches at U of T and specializes in transformative learning. He has extensive personal knowledge of the participatory budgeting process in Porto Alegre, Brazil.