QUEENS BOROUGH BOARD TO BE BRIEFED ON EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS; IMPROVING RESILIENCY
Monday, January 8 at 5:30 PM
(January 5, 2024 at 3:30pm)
QUEENS, NY – The Queens Borough Board, chaired by Borough President Donovan Richards Jr., will hold an in-person meeting on Monday, January 8, 2024 at 5:30 PM.
The meeting will include an update from NYC Emergency Management (NYCEM) on the city’s work to prepare for emergencies and its efforts to encourage New Yorkers to be prepared for winter weather and other potential emergency situations.
The meeting will also include a presentation from the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (HCR) about its Resilient Retrofits program, which offers grants and low-interest loans to qualifying single-family homeowners to finance projects that will help protect their homes from flooding. The program also offers certain homeowners financial assistance to help pay for energy efficiency upgrades.
This meeting will be conducted in-person in the Borough President’s second-floor conference room at Queens Borough Hall, located at 120-55 Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens. The meeting will also be live-streamed to the public on the Borough President’s website at www.queensbp.org and on the Borough President’s YouTube page.
WHAT: Queens Borough Board to Be Briefed on Emergency Preparedness; Improving Resiliency
WHERE: Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Boulevard, Kew Gardens
Public live stream at www.queensbp.org
WHEN: Monday, January 8, 2024 at 5:30 PM
WHO: DONOVAN RICHARDS JR., Queens Borough President
Miembros de la Junta Municipal de Queens
ZACHARY ISCOL, Commissioner, NYCEM
ANIQA NAWABI, Director of Special Initiatives, HCR
Acerca de la Junta Municipal
La Junta del Distrito está presidida por el Presidente del Distrito, de acuerdo con la Carta de la Ciudad de Nueva York, y está compuesta por los miembros del Consejo Municipal del distrito y el presidente de cada Junta Comunitaria del distrito. La Junta se centra en cuestiones relacionadas con el uso del suelo, el desarrollo, la política pública, el presupuesto y otros asuntos importantes con posibles implicaciones para todo el distrito. La Junta escucha las presentaciones de los funcionarios de la ciudad y de otras personas y, como parte del proceso de revisión del uso del suelo, a veces se le pide que vote sobre cuestiones de uso del suelo que afectan a más de un distrito de la Junta Comunitaria.
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