Civic Budget training meetings

Between June 19th and 21st, 2023, training meetings regarding the Civic Budget (Budżet Obywatelski) were organized in most educational institutions in Ostrowiec. These meetings aimed to present the functionalities of the website www.boos.um.ostrowiec.pl, which is used for submitting proposals and voting for projects to be included in the Ostrowiec participatory budget.

The trainings were conducted to highlight two important new features that have been added to the Civic Budget: the option of online voting and the opportunity for minors to fully participate in the program with the consent of their parents or legal guardians.

Each meeting featured a presentation showing examples of civic budget implementations and step-by-step instructions on how to set up an account on the website and how to later submit the application itself.

Co-determination of public funds is an important part of acquiring civic competence among local communities. The locally implemented civic budget project is part of a larger campaign to bring residents closer to local government issues. To this end, the resident portal www.portal.um.ostrowiec.plhas been launched, which also includes other functionalities such as a consultation section for submissions/interventions to City Hall, the Youth City Council, among others.

The trainings were initiated with a meeting with trios from school councils along with their supervisors, which was conducted by Deputy Mayor Dominik Smolinski, and were carried out at the schools by Deputy Head of the Planning and Development Department Tomasz Gebka and Planning and Development Department Inspector Adrian Murdza.