Toulouse. The town hall tweaks its participatory budget
The Parc de la Mounède, south-west of Toulouse, will still not benefit from a health course, as 80 citizens wanted. The 76 residents of the Saint-Cyprien district will also not see trees replacing parking spaces in the Saint-Cyprien district, despite the approval of 76 people.
These two projects were proposed to the vote within the framework of the first participative budget organized by the town hall of Toulouse. Tested in 2019 in priority neighborhoods, this local democracy tool was extended this year to the entire municipality. 200 projects were in the running (10 per district). In total, 4,532 Toulouse residents voted for their favorite proposals. Envelope at stake: 8 million euros, or 1% of the municipality’s total budget.
The regulation produced by the town hall stipulated that the 20 districts benefited from a maximum of 300,000 euros each, to implement at least two projects per zone. The rest of the budget, ie at least two million euros, should make it possible to apply the ideas not retained at first, but particularly popular on the scale of the city. A way to reward the mobilization of the inhabitants.
An unfair classification
At the beginning of December, the municipality presented the 83 winners with brass bands and trumpets. However, when reading the results, some inconsistencies appear. Some selected projects received far fewer votes than others, which were shelved.
For example, the development of Place Henri Russel, in district 5.3 (Saint-Michel – Le Busca – Empalot – Saint-Agne), won 98 votes, but was not adopted, unlike the . . .