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How do we get residents more engaged in the issues that affect their communities? How do we flip the typical model of residents as passive consumers of community services and give rise to active civic participation rooted in a vision of social transformation? Municipalities have tools to promote civic participation, civic engagement, participatory democracy, and social development. We have collective city-wide cleanups, public consultations, question periods reserved for residents during council meetings, and participatory budgeting