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Council member acknowledges community board challenges and outlines future plans
5:01:00
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Council Member Lincoln Restler expresses gratitude for the community board representatives' service and acknowledges their ongoing advocacy efforts. He recognizes the challenges they face due to limited resources and outdated policies.
- Highlights the difficulty of managing multiple responsibilities with a small staff
- Mentions the added complexity of hybrid meetings and increased responsibilities
- Commits to holding a hearing on community boards later in the year
- Reveals plans for a legislative package in collaboration with Borough President Ray Nosso
Lincoln Restler
5:01:00
Well, just wanna thank you each for your service and your advocacy and I know that you all have been organizing together for some time to try to build awareness around both the lack of funding, but also I think some real outdated policies in our city charter that need to be revisited to ensure that community boards are resourced appropriately and properly supported to be able to do your jobs.
5:01:28
It's very challenging to have a staff of two or three people and be responsible for half a dozen meetings or more every single month, 50 different community members, and getting the word out to 150,000 people is a lot going on.
5:01:41
And as you take on hybrid functions and there are additional responsibilities that we put at your doorstep, it's important that you're all properly supported.
5:01:49
So it is on our agenda to have a proper hearing on community boards later this year.
5:01:55
We're working on a legislative package most closely with Borough President Ray Nosso to have ready for the time of that hearing.
5:02:04
We'll give you all as much notice as we can so that we can prepare accordingly, but we're committed to doing that this calendar year, while for at least some months longer I chair government ops.