Rennes relaunches its participatory budget with 3.5 million euros to spend

Rennes city hall, pictured here on March 12, 2020. -

An envelope of 3.5 million euros to spend to beautify the city.

For the fifth year in a row, the city of Rennes will hand over the keys of part of its budget (5%) to its inhabitants.

They will have until November 30 to submit projects they want to see happen in their neighborhood.

Let's go for the 5th Rennes edition of the #budgetparticipatif

A vos projets!

All residents (adults or not) have until November 30 to submit their ideas on the @fabcitoyenne website

More info on #iciRennes

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- metropolerennes (@metropolerennes) November 4, 2020

Last year, for season 4 of the participatory budget, 445 projects were proposed on the Fabrique Citoyenne platform.

After the examination of the files by the services of the city, 202 projects had been submitted to the vote and 41 had been retained.

A participatory budget for schoolchildren next year

The formula remains the same this year with a maximum amount of 250,000 euros allocated per project.

After the ideas submission phase, open to all, the files will be studied in order to verify their cost and feasibility.

Then comes the voting phase to decide between the selected projects which will take place from April 2 to 18, 2021.

From next year, schoolchildren will also have their own participatory budget.

This was one of Mayor Nathalie Appéré's campaign promises.

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