What We Have Been Up To
November 2023: UNM students and staff provide a presentation to the community about various approaches to implementing PB in ABQ. With collaboration from the People’s Budget, and a need for change stemming from the BLM movement, community members took on the process
February 2024: District 6 Councilor Nichole Roger’s dedicated all $1.5 million of her Council Set-Aside funds to implement Participatory Budgeting in District 6 of Albuquerque.
June-October 2024: Councilor Rogers’ Office in tandem with Participatory Budgeting ABQ (“PBABQ”) co-design a PB pilot program for District 6 of ABQ. Community members living, working, and/or studying in the district collaborated on a PB process fit for the District to collect project ideas from the wider community.
- October-December 2024: A total of 243 project ideas were submitted by our community through the efforts of our team conducting workshops, tabling at community events, talking to our neighbors, large neighborhood assemblies, and other various idea collection methods!
- January 2025: In a community project refinement event, over 30 community members came together to produce “project idea clusters” consolidating the 243 projects submitted the months prior.
- January-February 2025: Community members worked closely with city officials and PBABQ team members on “Project Development Teams” working to put a price tag and a plan to the projects submitted. Nine teams were created supporting the 9 projects put on the voting ballot for the community to vote on.
- March – April 2025: Voting! Community members voted on the fully developed projects created by their community, for their community.
- The winning projects of 2025:
- San Mateo and Kathryn Grower’s Market
- One-Stop Respite Station
- Portland Loo
- 5 Blocks for Life (funded with other city bonds)
- To learn More about the projects from 2025, please click here
February 2026: The second year of PB has begun!
We are currently in the middle of a second PB process in D6 and it’s not too late to participate! Submit a project by May 31st, or be ready to VOTE on this year’s projects beginning in July 2026
