{"id":30536,"date":"2023-11-15T14:57:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T14:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=30536"},"modified":"2023-11-15T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T16:43:07","slug":"acmw-copo-hold-awareness-seminar-on-nycs-annual-budget-its-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/30536","title":{"rendered":"ACMW, COPO hold awareness seminar on NYC\u2019s annual budget, its allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York: The American Council of Minority Women (ACMW) in collaboration with the Council of People’s Organization (COPO) organized an awareness seminar on New York\u2019s budgetary allocations, and development spending in the city. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A large number of community members participated in a session titled: “The People’s Money” and Idea Generation related to budgeting and spending by the Civic Engagement Commission, a sub-department of New York City.<\/p>\n

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The participants were informed that they must present their proposals and suggestions to the government in budgeting.<\/p>\n

On this occasion, the chairperson of the American Council of\u00a0 Minority Women, Baza Ruhi, said that the city government has every community and their areas in the budget. A portion of the development projects is allocated for them, but for this, it is important that the people inform the government about their priority areas where development work is needed.<\/p>\n

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On this occasion, COPO director Hasan Raza said that the city government wants to spend more of the budget on the welfare of the citizens, and has given many important suggestions from the community that should be presented to the city government for budgeting.<\/p>\n

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The participants of the seminar were given a presentation based on the preparation of the budget and the COPO representative told in English that out of the annual budget of $1.3 trillion\u00a0 of the United States, only $ 107 billion are allocated for New York City.<\/p>\n

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ACMW member Mehwish Khan translated the presentation in Urdu so that the community members could easily understand.<\/p>\n

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ACMW Secretary Ahmed and others also participated in the awareness session. At the end the participants were also given gifts through a lucky draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York: The American Council of Minority Women (ACMW) in collaboration with the Council of People’s Organization (COPO) organized an awareness seminar on New York\u2019s budgetary allocations, and development spending in the city. \u00a0 A large number of community members participated in a session titled: “The People’s Money” and Idea Generation related to budgeting and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,32,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-pakistan","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30549,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30536\/revisions\/30549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}