What is a Participatory Budget

The Participatory Budget (PB) is a process whereby residents of a locality are given the power to decide on the use of part of a public budget, by gathering to discuss, create and select projects aimed at improving their quality of life.

For its second Participatory Budget, Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce invites residents and business owners to draw on their expertise to co-create and choose projects for improving well-being in the borough’s neighbourhoods.

The chosen projects will be implemented within 2 years of the popular vote held in October 2024.

The third edition of the Participatory Budget will take place in 2025. The borough intends to make the Participatory Budget – an innovative public participation process – a highly anticipated and galvanizing annual initiative for all people who live or have a shop in the borough.

You can consult this page to find out about the projects that came out of the previous edition in 2023.