Vancouver City Council |
MOTION ON NOTICE
Submitted by Councillor Louis for consideration at the Regular Council meeting on November 18, 2003.
1. City Support for University of British Columbia's Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) project on Participatory Budgeting
MOVED BY: Councillor Louis
SECONDED BY: Councillor Roberts
WHEREAS the City of Vancouver has for many years engaged in various forms of community consultation in the development of community plans and capital and operating budgets;
AND WHEREAS participatory budgeting, an innovative model which expands democratic decision-making at the local level, has been spreading rapidly over the past decade in a large number of cities in South America and other parts of the world;
AND WHEREAS there is strong interest at the City, among the community organizations which engage in the public consultations on the budget and academics in considering the applicability of a participatory model for our budgeting processes and decision-making;
AND WHEREAS the University of British Columbia is submitting a letter of intent to the Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada on participatory budgeting and has invited the City of Vancouver to be a community partner;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED should UBC's CURA research proposal on participatory budgeting be successful, the City of Vancouver accept the invitation to collaborate as a community partner.
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