The paper presents and analyzes the initiatives choice process relative to local public good production in a context of decentralization and local governance in Cotonou (Benin) town. The question is to identify the main factors which characterize the collective production choice process since the decentralization accession in 2003. Do those factors lead to a best participation of local actors to the choices relative to the collective goods production? To reply to this question, a data collection on the process relative to collective equipments’ building in Cotonou area on the period from 2003 to 2017 is organized. The results of empirical works identify mainly the local actors’ concertation and consensus respectively as procedure and way of collective preferences revelation. The decision process is controlled by politic leaders. That politic leaders ‘control can be explained through the “public choice”. This process analysis reveals the major place of local governance in collective preferences revelation.