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PB Conference 2012 – Program

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Conference Program
FRIDAY, March 30th

SATURDAY, March 31st

FRIDAY MARCH 30th

All Friday session are at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. The daytime sessions are at the Engineering Building (200 Willoughby Ave.), and the 6:00pm plenary is in the auditorium of Higgins Hall (61 St. James Place)
Please arrive at 9:00am for registration and breakfast.
 
MORNING PLENARY (10:00 – 11:30am)
Participatory Budgeting Around the World (Room 307)
In this session, international experts on participatory budgeting will discuss the history and current state of PB around the world, to put the North American experiences in context.
Moderator: Maria Hadden, The Participatory Budgeting Project
 - Cézar Busatto, Local Governance Secretary, City of Porto Alegre
 - Yves Cabannes, University College London
 - Giovanni Allegretti, University of Coimbra, Portugal
 - Jez Hall, The PB Unit, UK
 - Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Brown University and The Participatory Budgeting Project
 
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CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1 (11:45am – 1:15pm)
PB in City Districts (Room 107)
The vast majority of PB processes around the world take place for city budgets. In the US and Canada, however, PB has more often developed at the district level, for municipal funds within particular city districts, wards, or boroughs. This session will present the experiences of district PB processes in Montreal, Chicago, and New York City, and discuss the challenges and opportunities of starting PB at this level.
Moderator: Meg Wade, Former participant of PB in Chicago’s 49th Ward (PB49)
 - Luc Rabouin, Montreal Urban Ecology Centre
 - Cecilia Salinas, Staff Coordinator for Chicago’s PB49
 - Maria Hadden, Chicago’s PB49 Leadership Committee & The Participatory Budgeting Project
 - Donata Secondo, The Participatory Budgeting Project
 - Helen Rosenthal, PBNYC 8th District Committee Member & Manhattan Community Board 7 Member
 
Arts, Culture & Media (Room 109)
The Arts & Democracy Project will lead a session that focuses on incorporating arts, culture, and media into participatory budgeting within the broader framework of creative democratic participation. The discussion-based session will provide an opportunity for people to share experiences and resources and build an understanding about arts and culture as part of PB. The session will start with short presentations and a participatory exercise to get the conversation moving about how theater, media, visual arts, and culture more broadly defined facilitate community decision-making. This includes the role of arts and culture not only as a means of communication, but also as inclusive and participatory processes.
 - Caron Atlas, Arts & Democracy Project
 - George Emilio Sanchez, College of Staten Island
 - Christine Gaspar, Center for Urban Pedagogy
 - David Michael Perez, FEAST (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics)
 
Organizing for PB (Room 307)
The Right to the City Alliance and member group Community Voices Heard (CVH) will co-host a panel and round table discussion with organizations from around the country and around the world to discuss the organizing work and opportunities tied to the participatory budgeting process. The discussion will center around the following topics:
• Why participatory budgeting? – Examining the many benefits of moving a PB process in our communities.
• Organizing to get PB in our cities – What does it take? A reflection on the NY experience.
• Organizing for participation in the PB process – Successes and challenges
• PB as a base building tool/opportunity – How can community organizations build the base of their organizations through the PB process? Reflections on experiences in the room and a share of potential strategies.
 - Rachel Laforest, The Right to the City Alliance
 - Carmen Piñeiro, Community Voices Heard
 - Lorraine Knox, Community Voices Heard
 - Audrey Berlowitz, Greensboro PB Project
 - Alexandria Jones, Fund for Democratic Communities
 - Aron Goldman, The Springfield Institute
 - Keith Twitchell, Committee for a Better New Orleans
 
Methods in PB Research (Room 111)
This panel will discuss the experience of the PBNYC research effort, led by a Research Board of over 25 academics. This review of the NYC research process will allow participants to see one way academics have attempted to document and evaluate the PB process in North America. Particularly, the panel will review the PBNYC research process, including research goals and questions, the research instruments, implementation of the research plan, and data collection methods. They will discuss lessons learned and invite participants to share their own experiences with PB research.
Moderator: Alexa Kasdan, Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center
 - Celina Su, Brooklyn College
 - Vincent Villano, Community Voices Heard
 - Allison Hurlbut, Columbia University
 - Lindsay Cattell, Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center
 
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LUNCH DISCUSSIONS (1:15-2:30pm)
We invite conference participants to participate in informal discussions over lunch, in the following groups:
 - Government Officials & Staff (Room 107)
Facilitator: Joe Moore, Chicago Alderman, 49th Ward
Also participating: NYC Council Members Brad Lander, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Eric Ulrich & Jumaane Williams
 - Researchers (Room 11)
Facilitator: Alexa Kasdan, The Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center
 - Community Groups (Room 307)
Facilitator: Rachel Laforest, The Right to the City Alliance
 - Public Housing Organizers (Room 305)
Facilitators: Ayse Yonder, Pratt Institute & Joanna Duarte Laudon, The Participatory Budgeting Project
 
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CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2 (2:30 – 4:00pm)
PB in Public Housing (Room 305)
This session will bring together tenants and staff of Toronto Community Housing, where tenants have used PB to allocate up to $9 million annually since 2001, with organizers working to launch PB in public housing authorities in New York City and elsewhere. Staff and tenants from Toronto Community Housing will share their experience and reflect on lessons learned, and staff and members of Community Voices Heard will discuss the organizing efforts underway in New York.
Moderator: Joanna Duarte Laudon, The Participatory Budgeting Project
 - Augustre Munro, tenant, Toronto Community Housing
 - Bernadette Thomas, tenant, Toronto Community Housing
 - Julet Allen, Community Housing Manager, Toronto Community Housing
 - Simone Samuel, tenant, Toronto Community Housing
 - Kemi Jacobs, Community Housing Director, Toronto Community Housing
 - Kflu Kflu, Community Voices Heard
 - Gloria Wilson, Community Voices Heard
 
e-PB: Online Participation (Room 111)
Participatory budgeting initiatives facilitated by information and communication technologies (ICT) have multiplied in recent years, both in developed and developing countries. The evidence suggests that the use of ICT may have a significant impact on PB initiatives (e.g. transparency, participation), drawing increasing interest of practitioners and researchers. Tailored to a broad audience and drawing lessons from real-world experiences, this session will address practical issues related to the use of technology in PB processes, including online deliberation, social media, and mobile phones, amongst others.
Moderator: Giovanni Allegretti, University of Coimbra, Portugal
 - Dan Latorre, Project for Public Spaces
 - Tiago Peixoto, The World Bank
 - Tim Bonnemann, Intellitics, Inc.
 - Paolo Spada (Harvard Ash Center) and Mark Klein (MIT)
 - Bianca Suassuna, Gol Mobile
 
How to Decide: Voting and Decision-Making (Room 307)
In this session, presenters will reflect on new tools for decision-making in PB, on how green criteria can support long-term sustainability, and on PB’s connections to electoral politics.
Moderator: Pam Jennings, The Participatory Budgeting Project
 - Aron Goldman, The Springfield Institute – “Occupy the Vote”
 - Mark Latham, Votermedia – “Voter Media as Participatory Budgeting”
 - Robert R Tupelo-Schneck, Accurate Democracy- “Fair-Share Spending: Proposing a New Voting Method for Participatory Budgeting”
 - Tom Cohen, University College London – “The Inclusion of Climate Change Impacts in Participatory Budgeting Decisions”
 
International Experiences (Room 107)
Though PB is relatively new in the US and Canada, it is widespread in most regions of the world. In this session, practitioners and scholars of PB in other countries share their knowledge, and discuss how their lessons learned might inform PB practice in the US and Canada.
Moderator: Mike Menser, The Participatory Budgeting Project & Brooklyn College
 - Cézar Busatto, Local Governance Secretary, City of Porto Alegre
 - J. Ricardo Tranjan, University of Waterloo, Canada – “Before Porto Alegre: Forgotten Lessons of Participatory Democracy in Brazil”
 - Janette Hartz-Karp, Curtin University Sustainabilty Policy (CUSP) Institute – “Participatory Budgeting – a Process of Developing a Deliberative Community and Collaborative Governance: Greater Geraldton, regional Western Australia”
 - Gabriel Hetland, University of California Berkeley – “A Different Way to Occupy City Hall: Participatory Budgeting from Venezuela and Bolivia to Oakland, California”
 
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CONCURRENT SESSIONS 3 (4:15pm – 5:45pm)
PB in Community Organizations (Room 107)
PB isn’t just for city budgets! In this session, representatives of three community organizations will discuss the PB models their groups have used to allocate funds. These lesser-known cases serve as points of contrast to more traditional models–and broaden our understanding of what it means to do PB.
Moderator: Josh Lerner, The Participatory Budgeting Project
 - Kelly Guthrie and Michele Altermann, Guelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition
 - David Michael Perez, FEAST (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics)
 - Thea Tupelo-Schneck, Twin Oaks Community
 
PB, Racial Inequality and Local Development (Room 111)
This session will focus on the ways in which participatory budgeting can contribute to the creation of inclusive and sustainable local economic development. After discussing coop history in urban black America and the Cleveland model, panelists will reflect on the experience and future potential of PB in Flatbush–a largely black community participating in PBNYC. Finally, panelists will discuss PB’s connection to the current movement for public banking in the United States, as another route to more sustainable communities.
 - Mike Menser, The Participatory Budgeting Project & Brooklyn College
 - Jessica Gordon Nembhard, John Jay College
 - Kenneth Edusei, Brooklyn College
 - Ruth Caplan, Alliance for Democracy
 
Scaling up PB: State and Regional Experiences (Room 307)
There are few experiences of Participatory Budgeting above the municipal level. PB in the Brazilian state Rio Grande do Sul (1998-2001) showed the difficulties of reproducing at a larger institutional level a model which took shape in local institutions. But in the last 5 years, several Provinces and Regions in Europe have supported PB through legislative measures or funding specific “calls for projects” to support municipal PB experiments. Some of them did not limit themselves to promotion within municipal governments, but also tried to apply PB principles to their own programs. Recently, the new governments of Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul and Cearà in Brazil experimented with PB principles in the construction of Multi-year Plans – the base-documents for budgeting during the 4-year political mandate. Their experiences raised a debate and reflection on how to expand citizen involvement in public policy making at a larger level through building “Systems of Participation”, without forgetting basic principles of PB. Recently, the Brazilian Presidency even opened a special office for connecting such experiences of participation. This session will discuss the lessons of PB experiments beyond the municipal level.
Moderator: Maria Hadden, The Participatory Budgeting Project
 - Giovanni Allegretti, University of Coimbra, Portugal: “Supramunicipal participatory experiences in Italy and Spain: What added value to the growth of PBs?”
 - Tiago Peixoto, IUE/The World Bank: “The experience in South ivu Province, Congo: how a provincial level can foster a better implementation of local PBs”
 - Tarson Núñez, International Relations Coordinator, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil: “Reframing PB at the State Level through opening the Multi-Year Plan to participation”
 - Pedro Pontual, Director of Participation, Presidency of Brazilian Republic: “Framing a National System of Participation in Brazil to complement and integrate local participatory experiments”
 
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EVENING PLENARY (6:00 – 7:30pm)
The Promise and Limitations of PB (Higgins Hall Auditorium)
At the Higgins Hall auditorium – 61 St. James Place.
Participatory budgeting takes place within a much broader web of neighborhood and municipal-level decision-making processes about such things as land use, private and public investments, governance, and agenda-setting. In this roundtable discussion, panelists representing five of the first PB experiences in the US and Canada provide their perspective on how PB fits into the larger puzzle of how decisions are made, including how PB can best connect with other local decision-making structures, as well as how PB fits into broader participatory planning efforts.
Moderator: Eve Baron, Pratt Center
 - Kelly Guthrie, Community Engagement Coordinator, City of Guelph (Ontario)
 - Kemi Jacobs, Community Housing Director, Toronto Community Housing
 - Brad Lander, New York City Council Member, 39th District
 - Joe Moore, Chicago Alderman, 49th Ward
 - Luc Rabouin, Executive Director, Montreal Urban Ecology Centre
 
SATURDAY MARCH 31st
SITE VISITS TO OBSERVE PBNYC VOTING (10:00am – 12:00pm)
Guided site visits to voting locations in the districts involved in Participatory Budgeting in New York City, to see PB in action. At each site you will learn about the PB experience and the projects on the ballot from participants themselves. Please see the Locations webpagefor information about meet-up locations and travel directions.
 
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LUNCH BREAK & RETURN TRAVEL FROM VOTING SITES (12:00 – 2:30pm)
Expect a travel time of roughly one hour from the two Brooklyn districts to East Harlem, where the remaining conference activities are taking place.
 
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PBNYC BRIEFING (2:30 – 4:00pm, Room 115AB)
At the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, 2180 3rd Avenue, room 115AB, at E119th st., in Manhattan.
After observing PBNYC voting events, conference participants and other observers will learn how the full PBNYC process worked during this public briefing. Participants at each level of engagement–from Council Members to Budget Delegates–will describe the different stages of the PB process and how people participated.
 - NYC Decides – Video on PBNYC
 - NYC Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito
 - Josh Lerner, The Participatory Budgeting Project
 - Vincent Villano, Community Voices Heard
 - Alexa Kasdan, The Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center & PBNYC Steering Committee member
 - Jackie Vimo, The New York Immigration Coalition & PBNYC Steering Committee member
 - Cynthia Doty, PBNYC 8th District Committee
 - Esther Devore, PBNYC 8th District budget delegate
 
OBSERVE PBNYC VOTING (2:30-4:00pm)
You may observe one voting location in the morning and the PBNYC Briefing in the afternoon, or one voting location in the morning and another (on your own) in the afternoon. The East Harlem voting location (SCAN LaGuardia, 307 E. 116th St.) is particularly convenient for the afternoon, since it is a few blocks from the other conference activities at the Silberman School of Social Work. Space will be limited at the Briefing, so if you enjoy seeing PB in action, check out voting in two districts – the experiences and communities are quite different!
 
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CONCURRENT SESSIONS 4 (4:15 – 5:45pm)
At the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, 2180 3rd Avenue, at E119th st., in Manhattan.
Budgeting for Democracy (Room 201)
What does participatory budgeting mean for the future of democracy? PB is part of a broader constellation of local democratic practices that are spreading across North America and the world. In this session, leading thinkers and actors will discuss broader movements to deepen democracy and open up budgeting, and what they can teach us about PB.
Moderator: Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Brown University and The Participatory Budgeting Project
 - Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin Madison “Participatory Budgeting as a Real Utopia”
 - Sandy Heierbacher, National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation, “Matching the Process to the Problem”
 - Michael Lipsky, Demos – “The movement for transparency and accountability in budgeting”
 
When Youth Have a Say: PB with Young People (Room 115AB)
This session will focus on how including youth and children in Participatory Budgeting can introduce new ways of looking at civic culture and the sustainability of PB. The experiences of PB in Barra Mansa, Recife and Fortaleza, Brazil, since 1997 are proof that children and youth can contribute new, innovative ideas to PB. European Youth PB experiences are usually more focused on the school environment, which can be affected by the inertia of bureaucratic formal institutions. Cases like Seville demonstrated how coordination between young people, their families and school staff can help to extend results and gain space in decision-making at the city level. The panel will start by presenting some cases of PBs which worked specifically on youth involvement in different countries, and end with a discussion of an initial youth PB process in Chicago and lessons for the future development of Northern American PBs.
Moderator: Yves Cabannes, University College London
 - Jez Hall, PB Unit, UK
 - Giovanni Allegretti, University of Coimbra, Portugal
 - Lena Langlet, Municipality Association of Sweden
 - Jim Ginderske, Chicago’s PB49 Leadership Committee
 
PB in the US (Room 218)
As PB begins to spread in the United States, researchers are documenting and reflecting upon the initial processes. This session will present academic research on PB processes in Chicago and New York.
Moderator: Lacey Tauber, Pratt Institute
 - Paolo Spada and Hollie Russon-Gilman, Harvard University Ash Center, “PBNYC Design in Comparative Perspective”
 - Nancy Baez, Marymount Manhattan College, “Initiation of PBNYC”
 - Gena Miller, University of Illinois Chicago, “Civic Capacity Building Model in Chicago’s 49th Ward”
 - José W. Melendez, University of Illinois Chicago, “Participatory Budgeting: Learning Civic Capacities through Democratic Activity”
 
PB in Canada (Room 217)
This session will present the work of researchers and practitioners engaged in the Canadian PB processes. Panelists will present their work and discuss commonalities and differences between the cases.
Moderator: Daniel Schugurensky, Arizona State University & The Participatory Budgeting Project
 - Daniel Schugurensky, Arizona State University, “Participatory Budgeting in Canada: The Story so Far”
 - Caroline Patsias, University of Montreal, “Participatory Democracy, Decentralization and Local Governance: The Montreal Participatory Budget”
 - Behrang Foroughi, St. Francis Xavier University, “Beyond Budgets: Policing Efficiency or Politicizing Partnerships at Toronto Community Housing”
 
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CLOSING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
Building a People’s Budget – From NYC to the World (6:00 – 7:30pm)
At the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, 2180 3rd Avenue, at E119th st., in Manhattan.
To bring the conference full circle, key participants of PB in NYC will reflect on their experiences and suggest lessons for the practice of PB and the future of democracy.
 
Roundtable 1 (Room 201, Auditorium)
Moderator: Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin Madison
 - Melissa Mark-Viverito, New York City Council Member, 8th District
 - Josh Lerner, The Participatory Budgeting Project
 - Zoilo Torres, Fifth Avenue Committee, PBNYC Steering Committee Member & 39th District Committee Member
 - Dolores Orr, Chair of Community Board 14 in Queens & PBNYC 32nd District Delegate Committee Facilitator
 - Joan Bakiriddin, PBNYC 45th District Committee Member
Ann Bragg, PBNYC 8th District Budget Delegate
 
Roundtable 2 (Room 115AB)
Moderator: Yves Cabbanes, University College London
 - Jumaane Williams, New York City Council Member, 45th District
 - Sondra Youdelman, Community Voices Heard
 - Rachel Laforest, The Right to the City Alliance & PBNYC Steering Committee Member
 - Patricia Jerido, Open Society Foundations & PBNYC 39th District Budget Delegate
 - Karen Sloan-Payne, Community Board 14, Rockaway Taskforce & PBNYC Steering Committee Member & 32nd District Committee Member
 - Mel Wymore, PBNYC Steering Committee Member & 8th District Committee Member
 
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CLOSING CELEBRATION (7:30pm)
At the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, 2180 3rd Avenue, at E119th st., in Manhattan.
Celebrate the final vote of PBNYC and the close of the conference, alongside PBNYC participants. District 8 plans to announce its final voting results live at the closing celebration.
 
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SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR EARLY ARRIVALS AND LATE DEPARTURES
PB Conference participants who will be arriving in New York on Thursday, March 29th or leaving Sunday, April 1st, may be interested in observing PBNYC voting events at the following locations. Visit pbnyc.org for full details:
Thursday, March 29
 - District 32
Location: PS 114 
134-01 Cronston Ave., Belle Harbor
4pm-8pm
 - District 32
Location: Peninsula Library
92-25 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Rockaway Beach
4pm-8pm
 - District 32
Location: Seaside Library
116-15 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Rockaway Park
4pm-8pm
 
Sunday, April 1
 - District 39
Location: Beth Jacob Day Care Center
1363 46th Street
10:00am – 5:00pm
 - District 39
Location: Old Stone House
336 3rd Street
10:00am – 5:00pm
 - District 39
Location: Carroll Park
Carroll Street between Court and Smith
10:00am – 5:00pm
 - District 45
Location: Young Israel of Avenue K
2818 Avenue K
Brooklyn, NY 11210
3 pm to 6 pm