By ARIEL PACHECO
Photo by Ariel Pacheco
District 14 City Council Member Pierina Sanchez announced a million-dollar investment in various quality-of-life improvements going to schools, libraries, and senior centers in the district on June 20. The funding came by way of New York City Council’s participatory budgeting (PB) process which, according to New York City Council, is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget.
According to the council, the concept originated in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1989. Today, there are more than 3,000…
