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CDN-NDG Participatory Budgets

Last updated April 15, 2024
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Do you have an idea for how to improve your neighbourhood? The Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Participatory Budget was created to collect ideas from residents and implement them as projects. Find out how you can participate.

The borough launched its first Participatory Budget in 2023 in an effort to meet the needs of residents and take a novel approach to listening to their suggestions. As part of this exercise, in-person workshops are held to work on, improve and refine the ideas submitted by residents with the objective of transforming them into projects.  

The projects are then analyzed by internal teams to determine their feasibility. At the end of this process, the projects still in contention are presented to residents, who are asked to select the projects to implement via a popular vote.  

The projects that garner the most votes are then completed by the borough within two years.

Participatory Budget CDN-NDG 2024

Between March 12 and the end of October, residents will have multiple opportunities to take part in the second edition of the Participatory Budget. Whether to submit an idea or work on those submitted by others, your expertise as a resident is required. 

Steps involved in participation 

  1. Submit your idea – until April 14

Submit your idea for improving the quality of life in your neighbourhood via the Internet or by going in person to one of our facilities. 

2-Collaborate on ideas - May 

Participate in in-person workshops aimed at transforming ideas into projects through discussions with various teams at the borough.

3-What do you think? – July and August 

Once the ideas become projects and are reviewed to determine their feasibility, residents are invited to comment on or improve the projects still in contention.

4-Vote! – October  

It’s up to residents to select the projects they wish to see completed in their neighbourhood! Vote online or in-person at one of our facilities.  

To participate: Please go to the project page at Making Montreal.

The first edition of the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Participatory Budget ran from March until November 2023. Residents were invited to submit ideas under the following theme: The quality of life of families. 

With a budget of $500,000, the inaugural edition culminated in 152 ideas being collected from residents. The ideas were then transformed into 53 projects, out of which 15 finalists were submitted to the popular vote. 

The result, based on the 1,600 votes cast, led to the following 5 projects being selected for completion by the borough:  

  1. Secure our bike paths – $30,000 
  2. Secure specific pedestrian walkways - $40,000  
  3. Collective urban agriculture – $200,000 
  4. Community fridges – $45,000 

  5. Accessible public washrooms – $150,000 

In the coming  months, residents can track the progress of these projects here. For more on the first edition of the Participatory Budget, please visit Making Montreal.

Ville de Montréal Participatory Budget 

In conjunction with the borough’s Participatory Budget, the Ville de Montréal is conducting its own participatory budget exercise across the island of Montréal’s 19 boroughs. You can also take part in this budget by submitting ideas for improving CDN-NDG. 

To participate in the 2024 edition, please visit Making Montreal.

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