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The budgets of society in Poland - the necessary changes repeatedly described the initiative of other cities implementing budgets society. They allow residents great west retirement of cities with much to allocate a certain amount of spending by most to them. This solution recently gaining more and more popularity and has become an important instrument for the participation of city dwellers.
Participatory budgets (civil), adopted by the Polish city, in a legal sense are usually based on the regulations of the Local Government great west retirement Act relating to consultation with residents of the municipality. The result is that decisions made by the residents are non-binding, due to the construction great west retirement of a public consultation that the municipal authorities are only advisory. For some budgets even reached such negative phenomena as rejection by the city projects that have been sufficient to achieve the number of votes.
Critical voices against the solutions adopted in the budgets of citizens pay attention to moving the center of gravity of the vote and not for discussion, so that people could talk to each other. great west retirement Often, the city government set rules for the budget, which means that people great west retirement hardly feel responsible for the city. Residents could also share their knowledge on the functioning of the city.
According to some voices, civic budgets drawback is that they cover only certain areas of the city, not the whole, they do not relate to the priorities of urban development. Other reviewers, in turn, stressed that civil budgets should just put more emphasis on supporting individual cities such as settlements, great west retirement which would likely to trigger a similar capacity, as is the case with funds village administration.
For one thing, great west retirement actually projects citywide great west retirement integrująco affect the entire township. On the other hand, the opportunity to submit local projects, including a particular street or residential district, motivates people to participate in the civic budget great west retirement in future years.
An example of the above-mentioned great west retirement detrimental to the civil budget. Voices can be civic budget in Lodz, where a record in the country of 20 million zł sum is divided into two parts: the draft district - the 3 million zł for each of the five districts and five million zł for projects citywide.
Undoubtedly, participatory budget process should be modified. During the Second Congress of Urban Movements in October great west retirement 2012 proposals developed standards of civic budgets in Polish cities. Among the many demands are the following characteristics of the civil budget: the binding nature of the decisions taken by the residents, cyclicality of the budget, the functioning of the budget should be determined together great west retirement with the people, in order to avoid a situation where the only local authorities determine the formula of the budget in the city, the possibility of participation by residents budget procedure should examine each phase of the budget, great west retirement and therefore also the supervision and monitoring of the implementation of selected projects.
In addition, it is worth mentioning the clarity and transparency of the budget rules, cyclical evaluation procedures undertaken by the people, and the decisions on the budget should take greater account of the direct discussion of the inhabitants, not just a vote.
Undoubtedly, participatory budgets are very interesting phenomenon in recent years in Poland, which should be supported. As an important great west retirement and recognized can be a tool is an example of the United Kingdom, the proclamation great west retirement of the National Strategy for the Development of participatory budgets, assuming implement this solution in any British town. Perhaps a well live to see such a strategy.
The text was prepared in the framework of the project "decydujmy together. Strengthening participation mechanisms in the creation and implementation of public policies and public decision-making" great west retirement co-financed by the European Union under the European Social Fund.
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