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Structure and relationship of the proposed citizens' assembly to community boards
1:45:31
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Commissioner Shams DaBaron asks if the proposed citizens' assembly is similar to community boards.
Annie Levers clarifies that it would be a temporary body, existing outside of community boards.
However, the plans developed by the assembly would be sent to community boards for comment before going to the City Council for a vote.
Shams DaBaron
1:45:31
Does does that sort of like is that similar to the process with community boards and stuff like that, or is this
Dr. Lisette Nieves
1:45:41
different?
1:45:42
Outside of that.
Annie Levers
1:45:43
Outside would it it would exist outside of it.
1:45:46
It would be a temporary body.
1:45:47
It would be convened within, you know, a hundred days of the mayor declaring the emergency.
1:45:52
And within six months of being convened, it would deliver these plans.
1:45:57
The plans would then go to community boards, which are obviously critical and have a lot of input and context for comment, and it would the whole plan would go to the council for a vote, but it would exist outside of community boards.