Sentences with phrase «community board members»

While community board members are not paid by the city, district managers and assistance district managers are paid for their work.

«I want to thank all of our newly appointed community board members of volunteering their valuable time to help serve their communities and ensure that our city government serves their communities effectively,» Borough President Katz said.

She served as Community Board Member at Peabody Charter School from 2007 to 2013 and Chair of the Board from 2012 to 2013.

Mr. Diaz discussed a vision for his borough presidency, job creation, the water filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park, housing, the selection of community board members, the BOEDC and economic development, the Kingsbridge Armory, and more.

The Working Families Party announced today its support for community board member Diana Richardson in the four - way contest for a vacant Brooklyn Assembly seat — a race that, thanks to a bizarre paperwork snafu, has no Democratic candidate.

At 5 p.m., NYC Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer attends Queens Borough President Melinda Katz's new Community Board member swearing - in ceremony, New York Hall of Science, 47 - 01 111th St., Queens.

All four of the Democrats running would continue and build on Stringer's exemplary system of screening, appointing and training community board members — which has pretty much ended the cronyism and conflict of -LSB-...]

I am a 35 - year resident of Washington Heights, a longtime Community Board member, and on the Board of my Democratic Club, my synagogue, and several arts organizations, though I speak not for them today, only for myself.

The other primary candidates were police accountability activist Bob Gangi, entrepreneur Mike Tolkin and Brooklyn community board member Richard Bashner.

She scored a close win against community board member Richard David and attorney Hettie Powell.

Residents and elected officials have tried several times to bring a public indoor pool in the borough, including a failed 2008 push from community board members to add an Olympic - sized pool inside the Greenbelt National Recreation Center.

The WFP is backing community board member Diana Richardson, who is gaining support in the race.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the dire need for more schools Downtown, as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

The coalition, which consists of women's rights advocates, East Harlem Community Board members, medical students and city officials, rallied in front of the statue on October 19 to ask the city's recently formed Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments and Markers to tear down the statue, located on Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street.

She said the issue with the number of Latinos on the board and Lawson's failure to be reappointed show that the process of selecting community board members is too focused on politics and not the best interests of the community.

20 CCD Councilman Peter Koo is challenged by Community Board member Alison Tan, the wife of Assemblyman Ron Kim.

This workshop is meant to fill in the gap by providing community board members with an understanding of the responsibilities of each level of government, including the role of community boards.»

On Friday, March 24, the federal investigators interviewed the mayor regarding his relationship with Moishe Indig, a Williamsburg community board member and leader of the Aroni Satmar Hasidic sect, according to The New York Times.

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz will swear in 54 newly appointed community board members during a ceremony to be held tomorrow (Thursday, June 12th), at 6 p.m. in the New York Hall of Science located at 47 - 01 111th Street in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

At a March hearing the Deputy Brooklyn Borough President had grilled the city for a «lack of analysis» in the proposed rezoning and community board member Thomas Burrows called it a «14 - block experiment.»

Local community board member Charles Cooper has also professed his hope to succeed Dickens, and he enjoys some backing from clergy.

Community Board member Helen Rosenthal gathered more than 1,300 signatures asking Extell to build a six section K - 8 school on the site.

«Serving on a community board is an important way for citizens to get involved with their local government and I take my job of appointing community board members very seriously,» Oddo said in a release.

During the nearly four - hour discussion on the project, community board members struggled with the question of how much they should ask for from Extell.

Photo caption: Fishers Island Community Board member Dicky Riegel speaks before the Southold Town Board at last Wednesday's annual board meeting on Fishers Island.

New community board members including the owner of a popular Chinese restaurant and an opponent of OWS.

He wants to see an overhaul of the vetting process for choosing Community Board members that are appointed by the City Council Member and the Borough President, a process he feels is corrupt.

Bailey is running against reverends Que English and Edward Mulraine, doctor and community board member Alvin Ponder, and after - school training advocate Pamela Hamilton - Johnson, who earned the backing of the Daily News partially because «Bailey declined to name a single matter on which he differs from his mentor.»

She stayed to discuss issues with the public and Community Board member after the meeting ended.

Bronx community board members rallied outside the Bronx County Courthouse yesterday, to protest the proposed cuts to community board budgets.

Community board member Val Jones wanted to know what is taking the developers so long, and speculated that concerns expressed by residents at a series of public meetings held last year were being disregarded.

-- Angry Community Board members want a better proposal for the new building slated for the former Peter Stuyvesant Post Office on 14th Street.

Velázquez Blasts Opponent Gjonaj for Housing Lawsuit Election Ploy Community Board member and Democratic Council candidate warns of efforts by Bronx Assemblyman to cloud troubling real estate ties with pandering supportive housing lawsuit THE BRONX, N.Y. — Mark Gjonaj's housing -LSB-...]

Marlow is a leader of a group of like - minded community board members who have been meeting privately in recent months to discuss their dissatisfaction with the leadership of CB3.

For City Council candidates currently working for New York City — including incumbent Council members and even community board members — the CFB blackout period began June 15, roughly three months before the September 12 primary.

Residents and community board members said the community would be overburdened with trash, as the proposed site sits a few blocks from another sanitation facility on 131st Street and Park Avenue that houses dump trucks from Central Harlem.

«Ed will go down in history as one of the best and most important community board members in the city,» said Stringer, who also declared this past Wednesday to be «Ed Kirkland Appreciation Day.»

All Queens Community Board members are appointed by Borough President Katz, pursuant to the City Charter, with half of her appointees nominated by the City Councilmembers representing their respective Community Board Districts.

She's being challenged by Victor Jordan, a UFT and community board member who received 6 percent of the vote in the four - way race in the district in 2014.

The borough president appoints community board members, issues advisory opinions on land - use projects and has a sizable staff.

All four of the Democrats running would continue and build on Stringer's exemplary system of screening, appointing and training community board members — which has pretty much ended the cronyism and conflict of interest problems of the past.

Linda Alexander, an Upper West Side public relations executive, longtime community board member and Stringer supporter who's co-hosting a fund - raiser for him in October, said the process has paid off.

Bashner, 57, a Brooklyn Community Board member, has tried to cast de Blasio as beholden to donors to his campaign.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the need for more schools Downtown as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

HARLEM — As the New York City Housing Authority looks to partner with private real estate companies to develop space in its complexes, East Harlem community board members are working to make sure the community gets a say.

In addition to the swearing - in of the new members, 265 current community board members will be sworn in to new two - year terms during tomorrow's ceremony.