QUEENS BOROUGH BOARD TO HEAR FROM INDEPENDENT BUDGET OFFICE; HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

(April 5, 2024 at 9:30am)

QUEENS, NY – The Queens Borough Board, chaired by Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr., will meet on Monday, April 8, at 5:30 p.m.

The meeting will feature a presentation from the New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO), a publicly funded agency that provides nonpartisan information about New York City’s budget and its economy. The presentation will include an overview of the IBO’s analysis of the Mayor’s Fiscal Year 2025 Preliminary Budget.

The meeting will also include a presentation from the New York City Commission on Human Rights (NYCCHR) that will discuss the protections against discrimination that exist under the New York City Human Rights Law.

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 Hear from Independent Budget Office; Human Rights Commission

WHERE:       Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens

Public live stream at www.queensbp.org

WHEN:         Monday, April 8, 2024 at 5:30 PM

WHO:            DONOVAN RICHARDS JR., Queens Borough President

Miembros de la Junta Municipal de Queens

SARITA SUBRAMANIAN, Senior Research and Strategy Officer, IBO

MALEK AL-SHAMMARY, Press Secretary, IBO

VANESSA RAMOS, Managing Director of Education and Compliance, NYCCHR

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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