Joe Moore - 49th Ward Alderman
Sick of old-style Chicago politics? In a truly innovative experiment in direct democracy, transparency, and economic reform, Alderman Joe Moore is asking you, the residents of the 49th Ward, to participate for the second year in the 49th Ward’s Participatory Budgeting process.
Last year, over 100 volunteers worked to develop 36 projects. Of these 14 were selected in a vote by over 1600 members of the community to receive a total of $1.3 million in funding – the entire capital infrastructure budget from the wards’ Menu Fund.
The 49th Ward is the first political jurisdiction in the nation to implement a participatory budgeting process, and Alderman Moore has made it a permanent fixture in the Ward.
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