Participatory budgeting

Participatory budgeting - REIA

Section 1: Background

Does this impact one of the City's Goal Areas

Policy Goals

Operational Goals

Public Safety	Yes
Housing	Yes
Economic Development	Yes
Public Services	Yes
Environmental Justice	Yes
Built Environment & Transportation	Yes
Public Health	Yes
Arts & Culture	Yes

Workforce	No
Spending	Yes
Data	No
Community Engagement	Yes

Describe the impact on selected goal areas.

Participatory budgeting increases community engagement on spending. It gives residents new opportunities and methods to have direct democratic participation in how spending relates to policy goals.

Who participated in completing this analysis?

Council staff, with reference to materials by the Participatory Budgeting Project.

Section 2: Data

LIST THE SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIES THAT WILL BE IMPACTED AND THE RACIAL DEMOGRAPHICS OF CONSTITUENTS IN THOSE AREAS:

Participatory budgeting impacts all residents. It has the potential to increase civic participation by marginalized residents such as residents of color, renters, students, and low income residents.

What does available data tell you about how constituents from BIPOC communities currently relate to the desired outcome as compared to white constituents?

No data is available about how BIPOC communities in Minneapolis relate to participatory budgeting as compared to white constituents.

What data is unavailable or missing? How can you obtain additional data?

Legislative Department staff could research relevant data as part of the research outlined in the motion if they deem it relevant.

Section 3: Community Engagement

Using the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) Public Participation Spectrum, which participation strategy(s) was used when engaging those who would be most impacted?

Inform	Yes
Consult	Yes
Involve	Yes
Collaborate	Yes
Empower	Yes

Describe the Engagement and what have you learned?

This motion aims to obtain more information about the basics of participatory budgeting and how it could be implemented into the Minneapolis budget process. The goal of participatory budgeting is to fully empower residents to be part of making decisions about municipal spending.

Section 4: Analysis

How does the outcome for this ordinance, amendment, or policy help the city achieve Racial Equity?

Participatory budgeting has the potential to open new avenues for civic participation that can increase involvement and empowerment of marginalized residents or residents have not historically engaged with city government.

Section 5: Evaluation

How will impacts be measured? What are the success indicators and process benchmarks?

Any implementation of participatory budgeting would include a system to measure and report on the impacts.

How will those who are impacted be informed of progress over time?

Any implementation of participatory budgeting would include a system to measure and report on the impacts.

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