Citizen Budget - Pre-Results
Take Action: Complete the Citizen Budget survey
Attend Event: Come to our March 19 Citizen Budget forum
Donate: Help us reach more people by making a contribution
Volunteer: Lend a couple of hours to survey in your neighbourhood
Each year, the City of Vancouver goes through a public consultation process on the annual budget.
During the 2007 budget consultation process, a number of citizens, business owners and community groups raised concerns about the poor participation in the annual budgetting process. Only 242 people - less than 0.04 per cent of Vancouver's population - completed the annual City Choices budget survey published in local newspapers or made available in public buildings.
UBC's Political Science Dept. has developed four backgrounder papers on the city budget to provide citizens with more information on the key budget issues facing city council in 2008:
Take Action: For the 2008 budget, Think City has taken the City Choices survey and expanded the questionnaire to provide citizens with a wider range of choices, and an opportunity to comment on issues the city hasn't addressed in its survey. Please take two minutes to complete the Citizen Budget survey. We will gather and share your city priorities with Vancouver's mayor and councillors at the upcoming April 9 public budget hearing.
Volunteer: You can also volunteer to survey residents for a couple of hours in your neighbourhood, help tabulate completed Citizen Budget questionnaires, or distribute Citizen Budget literature at your workplace or organization.
Attend Event: Think City and the University of British Columbia 's Political Science Dept. invite you to discuss and deliberate the 2008 city budget on the evening of March 19. Space is limited so please register to reserve your seat.