QUEENS BOROUGH BOARD TO HEAR FROM NEW NYPD QUEENS SOUTH COMMANDER; VOTE ON SMOKE-FREE APARTMENTS RESOLUTION

Monday, June 6 at 5:30 PM

(June 4, 2022 at 8:30am)

QUEENS, NY –The Queens Borough Board, chaired by Borough President Donovan Richards Jr., will hold a virtual meeting on Monday, June 6, 2022, at 5:30 PM.

The meeting will include a presentation from Deputy Chief Kevin A. Williams, the newly appointed Commanding Officer for NYPD’s Patrol Borough Queens South. In this position, Chief Williams oversees the 100th, 101st, 102nd, 103rd, 105th, 106th, 107th and 113th Precincts in southern Queens.

Chief Williams will discuss the overall safety plans for Patrol Borough Queens South, emphasizing the NYPD’s summer deployments and its plans to protect quality-of-life.

The meeting will also include a Borough Board vote on a proposed non-binding resolution that calls for the landlords of existing and new apartment residential units to transition to a smoke-free apartment policy.

This meeting will be conducted virtually with Borough Board members participating via videoconference. The meeting will also be live-streamed to the public on the Borough President’s website at www.queensbp.org.

WHAT:        Queens Borough Board to Hear from New NYPD Queens South Commander; Vote on Smoke-Free Apartments Resolution

WHERE:       Public live stream at www.queensbp.org

WHEN:         Monday, June 6, 2022 at 5:30 PM

WHO:           DONOVAN RICHARDS JR., Queens Borough President

Miembros de la Junta Municipal de Queens

DEPUTY CHIEF KEVIN A. WILLIAMS, Commanding Officer, NYPD Patrol Borough Queens South

PHIL KONIGSBERG, Founder, Bayside Smokefree Housing Alliance

EILEEN MILLER, Adult Nurse Practitioner, Bayside Smokefree Housing Alliance

LAWRENCE SAUNDERS, Queens Community Engagement Manager, NYC Smoke-Free (a program of Public Health Solutions)

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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