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NEXT MEETING
WEDNESDAY
DECEMBER 18, 2019
6PM
HOPE GARDENS
MULTI-SERVICE
CENTER
195 LINDEN STREET
(CORNER WILSON AVENUE)
BROOKLYN, NY 11221
COMMUNITY BOARD 4
1420 BUSHWICK AVENUE, SUITE 370
BROOKLYN, NY 11207
WWW.NYC.GOV/BROOKLYNCB4
ROBERTO CAMACHO CELESTINA LEON
Chairperson P: (718) 628-8400
District Manager
E: BK04@CB.NYC.GOV
Regular Board Meeting
Wednesday, December 18th, 2019 • 6:00 PM
Hope Gardens Multi-Service Center
195 Linden Street (Corner Wilson Avenue)
Brooklyn, New York 11221
COMMUNITY BOARD 4
1420 Bushwick Avenue, Suite 370
Public Hearing Item(s)
Brooklyn, NY 11207
www.nyc.gov/brooklyncb4 1. Drew Vanderburg, Project Manager, RiseBoro Community Partnership – Presenting on the Old
P: (718) 628-8400 Stanley Affordable Homeownership – 641 Chauncey site ULURP. RiseBoro is developing a 5-building
E: bk04@cb.nyc.gov scattered-site affordable homeownership project and one site requires ULURP because it is city-owned
Staff: land.
District Manager:
Celestina Leon
Principal Administrative Associate: Regular Board Meeting
Sharon Fludd
Community Associates: 1. FIRST ROLL CALL
Willie Morales
2. ACCEPTANCE OF THE AGENDA Please join us for our
–– 3. ACCEPTANCE OF PREVIOUS MEETING
ROBERTO CAMACHO
Chairperson
MINUTES
4. CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT:
Annual Holiday
CELESTINA LEON MR. ROBERT CAMACHO
Gathering
District Manager • INTRODUCTION OF ELECTED OFFICIALS
after the Regular Meeting.
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(REPRESENTATIVES)
• INTRODUCTION OF AGENCY
OFFICERS (2019-2020)
REPRESENTATIVES
COMMUNITY BOARD 4
JOSHUA BROWN • 83RD PRECINCT COMMANDING
1st Vice Chairperson
OFFICER—D. I. DANIEL DOOLEY
welcomes back
ANNE GUINEY 5. DISTRICT MANAGER’S REPORT: WNET LIVESTREAMING.
2nd Vice Chairperson
MS. CELESTE LEÓN
ACIRE POLIGHT
6. COMMITTEE REPORTS:
Recording Secretary
• Permits & Licenses – MELISSA CARRERA
ELISEO RUIZ To view the livestream, go to
• Housing & Land Use – MARTHA BROWN
Financial Secretary www.youtube.com
• Health, Human Service,
GARDEA CAPHART and search for
Senior Citizen & Veterans – LUISA JOSE
Treasurer ‘Brooklyn Community Board 4.
• Environmental, Protection, Transportation &
ELVENA DAVIS
Correspondence
Secretary
Sanitation – RAUL RUBIO
COMMUNITY BOARD 4
7. RECOMMENDATIONS
UPCOMING MEETING
ODOLPH WRIGHT 8. OLD BUSINESS
Parliamentarian
9. NEW BUSINESS
–– 10. ANNOUNCEMENTS (1.5 MINUTES)
REGULAR MONTHLY 11. SECOND ROLL CALL
MEETING 12. ADJOURNMENT
Wednesday, Dec. 18th, 2019
WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 15th,
Special thanks to the
Cover Photo: William Ulmer Brewery
Audrey Johnson Learning
Center.
Newsletter Design & Print:
shavedheadmedia.com
We apologize for the inaccurate listing
in the November Newsletter.
2020
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Community Meetings Community Notices
BUSHWICK COMMUNITY CHURCHES UNITED
PARTNERSHIP FOR FAIR HOUSING,
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 INC. (CUFFH)
10am – 12pm Access Services at Our Weekly
NYCHA Hope Gardens Community Center Workshops
422 Central Avenue WEDNESDAYS 12:00pm - 5:00pm
(Between Palmetto & Woodbine Streets) Office of Council Member
Antonio Reynoso
83RD PRECINCT 244 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
CLERGY COUNCIL BREAKFAST THURSDAYS 11:00am - 5:00pm
CELEBRATION St. Martin’s Church
Wednesday, December 18, 2019 1288 Hancock Street, Brooklyn, NY 11221
10am CUFFH offers year-round affordable
83rd Precinct housing workshops where community
484 Knickerbocker Avenue members receive an introduction to our
(Corner Bleecker Street) work and get training and assistance
Muster Room to navigate New York City’s affordable
Brooklyn, NY 11237 housing lottery application process.
Residents receive expert, step-by-step
COMMUNITY EDUCATION COUNCIL advice on what to expect through the
(CEC) 32 MEETING application process, including a review
Thursday, December 19, 2019 of the application and other required
Calendar Meeting at 6:30pm documents; information on financial
Business Meeting at 7:00pm empowerment and managing credit
P.S./I.S. 384 and debt portfolios; and additional
242 Cooper Street (between Wilson & support through the selection and
Knickerbocker Avenues), Brooklyn, NY interview process. In addition to larger
11207 workshops, CUFFH also provides One-
on-One Application Assistance including
Community Notices information and training on the necessary
interview skills and financial literacy
needed to obtain an affordable housing
AUDREY JOHNSON unit.*
LEARNING CENTER In addition to Affordable Housing
LIFE – Audrey assistance, CUFFH offers a wide range
Johnson Learning Center of referrals for additional services such as
Early Learn and Head Start credit repair, tenants’ rights, legal support,
Julie Dent, Executive Site Director immigrant rights, ELA, job training,
FREE Department of Education domestic abuse assistance, and more.
3K and Pre K for All Programs
272 Moffat Street, Brooklyn, NY 11207 NATIONAL GRID
718-574-0130 National Grid to
Early Learn Headstart program Lift Natural Gas
Providing High Quality Childcare for Moratorium Immediately for
Children 2.6 through 4 Years Old to the Customers in Brooklyn, Queens and
Bushwick and Surrounding Communities Long Island
for over 40 Years Brooklyn/Hicksville, N.Y. – National Grid
Reasons to Send Your Child to LIFE – today announced that it has reached
Audrey Johnson Learning Center: an agreement with the State of New
• Licensed by the Department of Mental York to immediately resume connecting
Health and Hygiene natural gas service to customers in
• State Certified Teachers Brooklyn, Queens and on Long Island
• Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum for approximately the next two years.
• Fun, Hands on Learning Experiences National Grid will therefore proceed to
• Weekly Dance Classes connect those customer applications
• Delicious CACFP Nutrionally Balanced put on hold due to the moratorium and
Meals Prepared on Site start processing all new applications.
• Parent Workshops In addition, National Grid will offer $7
• Bilingual Staff million in customer assistance to address
• Computer Classes and so much more. hardships as a result of the moratorium.
Please contact Ms. Ceri or Ms. Crew for For months, National Grid has been
more information. working to identify new, innovative and
www.nyc.gov/brooklyncb4 December Newsletter • COMMUNITY BOARD 4 | 3
Community Notices unprecedented solutions to safely and Bronx, Westchester County, and parts of reliably serve customers this winter and Queens. next and has agreed to a plan with the Customers can save money on heating by State that includes: using these tips: • Significantly enhanced demand • Swap out window shades seasonally. response; Light-colored window coverings reflect the • Energy efficiency programs to reduce the sun’s energy, while darker ones absorb it demand for natural gas at peak times; and release heat. • And increasing reliance on portable • Purchase an ENERGY STAR® compressed natural gas. thermostat and get up to $135 back when National Grid has also agreed to $8 million you enroll it at home. for new energy efficiency, gas conservation • Keep ducts and vents clean. Regularly measures designed to relieve stress on the cleaned heating systems will run more system and reduce peak-day gas usage efficiently and last longer. during this two-year period. • Maintain your heating system to ensure To accelerate ongoing efforts to scale your home is heated efficiently this winter. affordable renewable energy technologies Get up to $100 rebate for a boiler or to meet the State’s long-term energy furnace tune-up. supply needs, National Grid will invest • Explore our network of participating $20 million in clean energy projects and contractors to get a quality installation businesses in New York. of your new energy efficient heating or Within three months, the company will cooling equipment. present options to meet New York’s long- • Learn how to can use gas more term supply needs to the communities it efficiently and other clean heating serves. National Grid has committed to alternatives. present the findings of its analysis through Con Edison is a subsidiary of Consolidated a series of public meetings in Brooklyn, Edison, Inc. [NYSE: ED], one of the nation’s Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties, largest investor-owned energy companies, designed to facilitate a dialogue with with approximately $12 billion in annual customers, residents, advocates, business revenues and $56 billion in assets. The leaders and local elected officials. The utility delivers electricity, natural gas and company will partner with local elected steam to 3.5 million customers in New York officials to facilitate these forums to ensure City and Westchester County, N.Y. For maximum transparency so that a strategy financial, operations and customer service can be formulated that reflects the public’s information, visit conEd.com. For energy input. efficiency information, visit coned.com/ Natural Gas Heating Bills Expected energyefficiency. Also, visit us on Twitter To Be Lower This Winter and Facebook. Sign Up for Energy Savings Incentives & Lower Your Carbon Footprint CENSUS 2020 The energy company estimates residential The 2020 Census is heating bills will be about 6.9 percent lower around the corner — and it this winter. will shape New York City’s future for years The average residential gas-heating bill to come. from November 2019 through March 2020 Once every ten years, the United States will be about $255 per month, according Census takes a count of every person to the company’s projections, down from in the United States. The taking of the $274 last year. That estimate is based on census is mandated by the United States average monthly usage of 100 therms and Constitution and has occurred every 10 assumes normal winter weather. years since 1790. While heating costs are expected to be But the census is so much more than lower, New Yorkers are encouraged to sign just a count. Census information is used up for one of Con Edison’s energy-saving to determine New York City’s fair share programs and follow some easy tips to of $650 billion in federal funds for public save energy and money. education, public housing, infrastructure, Natural gas supplies are expected to and more — as well as the number of remain tight. A reduction in capacity on seats we have in Congress. an interstate pipeline will further constrain Because so much is at stake, it’s critical supply. Con Edison, however, has secured that New Yorkers stand up and be counted adequate natural gas supplies for its 1.1 in the 2020 Census. million gas customers, approximately In the 2010 Census, the city’s self- 370,000 of whom use gas to heat their response rate was less than 62%, homes or businesses in Manhattan, the compared to the national average of 76%. 4 | COMMUNITY BOARD 4 • December Newsletter www.nyc.gov/brooklyncb4
Community Notices Agency Notices
We need every New Yorker to get involved to to family members to better understand NEW YORK CITY
ensure that their community is counted next the person in treatment and to help family DEPARTMENT OF
year. members see how they fit into the recovery TRANSPORTATION
For more information visit nyc.gov/ process. Speed Hump Request on Moffat
census2020. Appointments are available! Street from Knickerbocker Avenue to
For more information or to refer a client Wilson Avenue-Brooklyn
NEW DIRECTIONS CLINIC please call 718-398-0800 or contact: DOT-339354-J1F5
New Directions Outpatient Alcohol Betsy Zapata, Intake Coordinator, at Regarding installation of a speed reducer on
and Substance Abuse Treatment BZapata@NewDirectionsClinic.com or Moffat Street from Knickerbocker Avenue to
Program Carol Morrison LCSW, CASAC, Director, at Wilson Avenue.
Expanding Services to include our CMorrison@NewDirectionsClinic.com The New York City Department of
Healthy Families/ Healthy Children Licensed by New York State Office of Transportation conducted an investigation to
Program Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services determine the feasibility and need of installing
This unique family-focused program offers 500 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217. a speed reducer at this location. Factors
the opportunity for each family member— such as a physical inventory of the street and
including the children to receive counseling Agency Notices travel speed were taken into consideration
and/or Art Therapy by a licensed clinician. in making our determination. Based upon
Our Healthy Families/Healthy Children our evaluation of the data collected we have
Program provides opportunities for all family NYPD HELP concluded that this is a good candidate
members to approach their strengths and NEW YORK location for the installation of a speed
challenges together and to move toward PRESBYTERIAN reducer. We will forward this location to our
wellness and healing. In a structured, Free, confidential and independent city-wide speed reducer crew so that it can
safe environment everyone can obtain mental health care is now available to all be added to their list of pending installations
the support they need to process their members of the NYPD for Brooklyn.
feelings and emotions around the alcohol CALL 646-697-2020 Information on the Department’s use of
or substance use disorder in the family. We 24 HOURS A DAY speed reducers and other traffic calming
know from research and experience, that 365 DAYS A YEAR measures is available on the DOT web
parental substance abuse and dependence You are not alone. site at http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/
have a negative impact on the physical and You have a place to turn. pedestrians/traffic-calming.shtml.
emotional well-being of children. It leaves The safety of our residents is of primary
children at increased risk for abuse and NYC DEPT concern to the Department.
neglect, as well as academic, social and OF SANITATION
emotional problems. The Healthy Families/ Standardizing Fines for NYC THE
Healthy Children Program is designed to Street Cleaning Parking Violations ADMINISTRATION FOR
work with the family as a whole to clinically The City’s proposed Alternate Side Parking CHILDREN’S SERVICES
address these issues. fine change was published November 29, Keeping Children Safe
Healthy Families/Healthy Children 2019. Currently, Alternate Side Parking Child Safety & Risk Guide
Programming include: penalties are $65 in Manhattan below 96th All children deserve to live without the fear of
• Mother/Child Groups for those with children Street and $45 elsewhere. The new rule will abuse and neglect. If you suspect that a child
ages 5-8 or 9-13 are available either with our make Alternate Side Parking fines uniform is being abused or neglected, make that call.
counselors and/or with our Art Therapist. across the entire city at $65. This change Report Child Abuse & Neglect
(Saturday groups available!) will increase the effectiveness of the City’s If a child is in immediate danger, call 911.
• Individual Therapy and/or Art Therapy for Alternate Side Parking regulations and help If you suspect child abuse or neglect:
children and youth offer a space for those keep New York City healthy, safe and clean. Call the NY State Central Register (SCR)
5-21 years of age in the substance abusers The Department of Finance has scheduled Child Abuse & Maltreatment Hotline 24/7
life to have their own therapist. a public hearing for January 3, 2020, and • General Public: 1(800) 342-3720
• Adolescent Groups created for individuals all comments should be submitted to the • Mandated Reporters: 1(800) 635-1522
12-18 years of age who are abusing alcohol Department of Finance by that date. You • Deaf/Hard of Hearing: 1(800) 638-5163
and/or substances. can read the proposed rules at: [http://rules. • You can also call 311 in NYC.
• Individual Therapy for the significant other cityofnewyork.us/content/standardizing- Feeling overwhelmed? - Get Help
provides support for the partner who is fines-street-cleaning-parking-violations] Throughout the City, resources are available
encouraged to focus on his or her needs If you have any questions, please reach out to provide support services to overwhelmed
rather than on the substance abuser’s at the contact information below: parents. Parenting is tough, but it should not
behavior. Nicholas Circharo be tough on children.
• Family Therapy provides a supportive Assistant Director Information regarding services and
structure for family members to work at Bureau of Community Affairs assistance for parents is available by calling
understanding the past and preparing for the NYC Department of Sanitation 311 and asking for Parenting Support.
recovery process. 646-885-4503 / nyc.gov/sanitation Help in Your Neighborhood
• Parenting and/or Couples Therapy (if safe ncircharo@dsny.nyc.gov • Is your teen acting out? Contact the ACS
and appropriate) is available to help adults Family Assessment Project (FAP) in your
make the changes they need to support their borough for help.
recovery. • For help finding services, including
• Psycho-educational Groups are available parenting help, contact the ACS Community
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Agency Notices
Partnerships group. complaint online, and they will the animal thoroughly for a tag rescue groups in your area. The
• For help finding preventive direct your grievance to the or-tattoo. You can bring an animal website will post ads for your lost
services, call the ACS Parent appropriate agency. to most shelters and veterinary pet.
Help Line (OPTA) at (212) 676- hospitals to scan the animal for a • Keep searching for at least a
7667. ANIMAL CARE microchip. few months. People sometimes
Get Involved & CONTROL If you find a pet (with or without find a pet and keep it for a while
We encourage you to get Lost and Found Pets identification), you also can file a before taking it to a shelter or
involved in the lives of children How can you make it easier to report online or bring the animal abandoning it on the street where
in your communities by tutoring, find your lost pet? to a shelter. they found it. Lost pets have
mentoring, coaching, or Make sure your pets are wearing If You Lost Your Pet been reunited with their families
volunteering. For opportunities to a valid license at all times (dogs Your pet may have been brought after long periods of time – don’t
volunteer, visit NYC Service. only) and identification or a to an Animal Care & Control give up.
Adult Protective Services microchip. (ACC) shelter. You can file a lost Other Tips
To report abuse and neglect of All dogs in New York City must be pet report, and you should check Make sure:
an adult 18 years old and older, licensed ACC’s website daily for new lost • Your dog has a current license
call the New York State Adult • If your dog is not currently and stray arrivals. If you see an tag attached to its collar or halter.
Protective Services at 1-844- licensed, see how you can license animal that fits the description of • Your pet always wears
697-3505. Learn more about your dog. your lost pet, you must visit the their collar or halter and that
NYC services for adults who • If you already have a licensed identified shelter to reclaim your identification tags are securely
are physically and/or mentally dog, make sure your contact pet. attached.
impaired and need help to live information is up to date. You may not recognize your • Identification tags have current
safely in their homes. If You Find a Lost Pet pet from the pictures and information.
For more information visit, nyc. If an animal is acting in a descriptions posted online. • If your pet has a microchip,
gov/acs. threatening or dangerous Consider visiting a few shelters keep your personal information
manner, protect yourself and call to see for yourself if your pet is up to date with the company that
THE 911 immediately. Do not try to there. Find out shelter hours and services the microchip.
DEPARTMENT handle or physically restrain an locations.
OF aggressive or fearful dog or cat. If • Look for your pet right away. U.S. POSTAL
ENVIRONMENTAL an animal appears sick or injured, Check everywhere, especially SERVICE
PROTECTION call 311. Do not try to make places that your pet has been Postal
Noise Code physical contact. before (for example, parks and Inspectors Offer Six Tips
The New York City Noise Code If you find a dog that has a New neighbors’ yards/bushes). Search to Keep Holiday Packages
balances the important reputation York City dog license tag, use your neighborhood during the Secure
of New York as a vibrant, world- the NYC Dog eLocator to help day AND at night. WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S.
class city that never sleeps, with reunite them with the owner. • Put signs around your Postal Inspection Service, the
the needs of those who live in, Enter the 7-digit number on the neighborhood, in local stores federal law enforcement arm of
work in, and visit the city. In 2007 dog license tag, your name, email (especially pet stores and grocery the U.S. Postal Service (USPS),
the City updated the Noise Code or telephone number. stores), and in veterinarians’ is working around the clock to
for the first time in 30 years to An email will be sent to the dog’s offices (where allowed) for a keep the more than 15 billion mail
reflect the changing landscape registered owner asking them to 3-mile radius. Your signs should pieces expected to be mailed this
and advances in acoustic contact you. An email is also sent be large enough to be read from holiday season safe. Package
technology. to the NYC Department of Health, 10 feet away. senders and recipients can help,
The Department of Environmental which will try to contact the • Tell your neighbors (including too! The Inspection Service
Protection (DEP) and the Police owner by telephone or mail. all neighborhood children), your advises everyone mailing gifts
Department (NYPD) share If the animal has identification, postal carrier and sanitation this season to be aware and alert,
the duties of enforcing the you can also contact the owner workers that your pet is missing. and follow the six tips below:
Noise Code. To report a noise directly. Identification comes in • Visit Petfinder.com to check 1. Don’t leave delivered mail and
complaint, call 311 or file a many forms, so please check listings of local shelters and packages unattended. Just as
6 | COMMUNITY BOARD 4 • December Newsletter www.nyc.gov/brooklyncb4
Agency Notices wallets and purses shouldn’t receiving customer can provide Inspection Service at 877-876- NEW, RENEWAL, OTHER be left on the front seat of an delivery instructions online and 2455. If you feel that you are a AND SIDEWALK CAFÉ unlocked car unattended, mail authorize the carrier to leave it in victim of a crime involving the LIQUOR LICENSE and packages shouldn’t be left a specified location. Visit www. mail, you may submit an online APPLICATION(S) REQUEST: uncollected in mailboxes or on usps.com, enter the tracking complaint by visiting www.USPIS. NEW: front porches for any length of number and select Delivery gov and selecting Report at the • Farewell LLC – 143 Troutman time. Instructions. top of the page. Street – Full Liquor License 2. Going out of town? Hold mail 5. Secure the shipment using 5 Ways to Protect Mail & • Yong Chen Or A Corp To Be at the local post office. Instead USPS Special Services. Packages Formed – 201 Wyckoff Avenue – of risking leaving a package Signature Confirmation helps Don’t leave packages unattended Wine, Beer & Cider unattended for an extended ensure the package is placed for any length of time. • K. Buenaflor Dillon On Behalf Of period of time, customers in the right hands by requiring a Won’t be home? Entity To Be Determined – 445- planning on being away from signature at the time of delivery. Use the Hold for Pickup option at 447 Troutman Street – Full Liquor home for a few days are For the most valuable packages, USPS.com License encouraged to take advantage customers can opt for Registered Leaving town? • Troutman Venturers, LLC – 412 of the USPS Hold Mail service Mail service. A Registered Mail Use the USPS Hold Mail services Troutman Street – Full Liquor located on USPS.com. Letters piece receives special handling at USPS.com License and packages will be held from the time it’s mailed until it’s Customize delivery by using RENEWAL: securely at the local post office delivered, documenting the chain USPS.com and your tracking • Bklyn House Hotel Inc. – 9 until the customer returns. of custody. number. Beaver Street – Wine, Beer & 3. Plan ahead. Ship using Hold 6. Monitor your front door. If you Use USPS special services Cider for Pickup. When shipping have a home security camera like Signature Confirmation or • The Starliner – 1446 Myrtle packages, customers can choose system and/or doorbell camera, Registered Mail. Avenue – Full Liquor License the Hold for Pickup option, and ensure it captures and saves • Mama Bella Restaurant LLC – the recipients can collect the activity at your front door and DEMOLITION NOTICE/ 876 Flushing Avenue AKA 457 packages at their local post mailbox. If you catch any mail VACATE ORDER(S): Bushwick Avenue – Full Liquor office. For customers receiving thieves in the act, save the DEMOLITION NOTICES License packages, they can redirect video and alert your local Postal • 148 Bleecker Street – Block • Union Pizza Works – 423 incoming packages to their local Inspectors. 3306, Lot 18 Troutman Street – Full Liquor Post Office by selecting Hold Additionally, if you notice an • 1465 Myrtle Avenue – Block License for Pickup using USPS Package unfamiliar vehicle following a 3309, Lot 7 • Gualacena Bar & Restaurant Intercept on USPS.com. USPS truck or unknown persons • 704 Hart Street – Block 3234, Inc. – 178 Wyckoff Avenue – 4. Customize the delivery. If loitering around mailboxes, Lot 21 Wine, Beer & Cider the package doesn’t fit in the report the activity to your local • 702 Hart Street – Block 3234, mailbox and the customer police department immediately, Lot 20 won’t be home to receive it, the and then call the U.S. Postal www.nyc.gov/brooklyncb4 December Newsletter • COMMUNITY BOARD 4 | 7
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11207
1420 Bushwick Ave. Room 370
Community Board 4
Citizens Committee for New York City has
opened the application process for its Neighborhood
Grants program, which provides funding of up to
$3,000 and project planning support for neighborhood
improvement initiatives.
Become a Through our Neighborhood Grants program, Citizens
Committee for New York City awards grants of up
Community Board to $3,000 for community and school improvement
projects carried out by unstaffed resident-led groups
Member Today!
to address issues they identify as important to them.
From West Farms in the Bronx to East Elmhurst in
Queens, the groups we support work on projects as
Community Board Applications are varied as community gardening, visual and performing
now available for the 2019-2021 Term arts, nutrition awareness, composting, beautification,
tenant and immigrant organizing, public school
recycling drives, physical fitness, public safety, and
For Community Board Membership Questions?
more!
Applications and Deadlines, please Contact Katie Grassle at
visit http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/ (212) 822-9567 or For more information visit
community-board-membership- grants@citizensnyc.org. www.citizensnyc.org/grants/neighborhood-grants.
application/.
1420 Bushwick Avenue, Suite 370, Brooklyn, NY 11207 P: (718) 628-8400 • F: (718) 628-8619
www.nyc.gov/bkcb4 E: bk04@cb.nyc.gov
Arts/Culture/Technology Health & Human Service/Senior Citizens/Veterans
Meets: Second Monday of the month 6pm Meets: First Monday of the month 6pm
Civic/Public Safety/Religious Housing and Land Use
*TBD, contact the board’s office Meets: Last Tuesday of the month 6pm
District Office Parks and Recreation
Meets: Last Thursday of the month 6pm Meets: Second Thursday of the month 6pm
Economic Development Permits and Licenses
Meets: Second Wednesday of the month 6pm Meets: Fourth Thursday of the month
Environmental Protection/Transportation/Sanitation Youth and Education
*TBD, contact the board’s office Meets: Third or Fourth Monday of the month 6pm
Committees are comprised of mostly board members, as well as, other community representatives. They meet on a monthly-basis or as necessary.
Non-board members interested in joining a committee, can contact the District Office at (718) 628-8400 or bk04@cb.nyc.gov for more information.
The term of appointment is for a year effective September 1st.
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