Participatory budgeting event
In 2006, Salford City Council made a decision to devolve decision making for the allocation of £100,000 of highways funding (Block 3 Transport capital - ‘Other Minor Works’) to each of the eight community committees in the city.
In May 2007 a Participatory Budgeting pilot was held in the Claremont / Weaste area of the city to decide how to spend the money for that area. The participatory budgeting event aimed to increase the number of local residents directly involved in the allocation of a devolved highways budget. The process aimed to identify schemes which are important to local people and which meet the criteria for the specific budget. It then aimed to let local residents prioritise those schemes directly through an open scoring process. Those priorities would then direct expenditure of the funds.
Potential schemes for funding are generated through various means: via local councillors; by email shots; through attendance at residents’, etc group meetings; through direct approaches from residents.
Potential schemes are then briefly assessed by a highways engineer, who provides a comment on viability of the scheme, a rough scheme design and an estimated cost.
Viable schemes costing £100,000 or less are then presented in large print format, with photograph at PB events.
This page was last updated on 4 October 2009
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