Peoples Budget Texas

Peoples Budget Texas, a participatory budgeting process, is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend public budget.

Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. PB gives ordinary people real decision-making power over real money. The process was first developed in Brazil in 1989, and there are now over 1,500 participatory budgets around the world, most at the municipal level.