LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY FOR THE 2016–2017 MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS No 27 1 The Assembly met at 10 a.m., pursuant to adjournment. The Speaker (Ms Burch) took the Chair and asked Members to stand in silence and pray or reflect on their responsibilities to the people of the . 2 LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO MEMBER Mr Wall leave of absence be granted to Mrs Dunne for 23 and 24 August 2017 for personal reasons. Question—put and passed. 3 Ms Le Couteur, pursuant to notice, moved—That this Assembly: notes that successful participatory budgeting exercises have been established nationally and internationally, providing a wealth of well-studied and effective processes for the ACT to draw upon, including: in 2014, the City of Melbourne used participatory budgeting to create its first ever 10-Year Financial Plan, worth $5 billion; in 2013-14, the City of Greater Geraldton conducted a successful Community Summit to prioritise 99 non-mandatory services worth over $8.5 million within budget constraints of $6 million; and since 1989, citizens of Porto Alegre in Brazil have decided how to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on capital projects through participatory budgeting, establishing a model process which has spread over two hundred Brazilian cities; acknowledges that: the ACT’s $5.5 billion annual budget is unique within Australia, and unusual internationally, in combining both and state government service delivery functions;
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY FOR THE 2016–2017 MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS No 27 1 The Assembly met at 10 a.m., pursuant to adjournment. The Speaker (Ms Burch) took the Chair and asked Members to stand in silence and pray or reflect on their responsibilities to the people of the . 2 LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO MEMBER Mr Wall leave of absence be granted to Mrs Dunne for 23 and 24 August 2017 for personal reasons. Question—put and passed. 3 Ms Le Couteur, pursuant to notice, moved—That this Assembly: notes that successful participatory budgeting exercises have been established nationally and internationally, providing a wealth of well-studied and effective processes for the ACT to draw upon, including: in 2014, the City of Melbourne used participatory budgeting to create its first ever 10-Year Financial Plan, worth $5 billion; in 2013-14, the City of Greater Geraldton conducted a successful Community Summit to prioritise 99 non-mandatory services worth over $8.5 million within budget constraints of $6 million; and since 1989, citizens of Porto Alegre in Brazil have decided how to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on capital projects through participatory budgeting, establishing a model process which has spread over two hundred Brazilian cities; acknowledges that: the ACT’s $5.5 billion annual budget is unique within Australia, and unusual internationally, in combining both and state government service delivery functions;
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