QUEENS BOROUGH BOARD TO HEAR PRESENTATION ON YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; VOTE ON SMOKE-FREE APARTMENTS RESOLUTION
Monday, May 9 at 5:30 PM
(May 6, 2022 at 11:20am)
QUEENS, NY –The Queens Borough Board, chaired by Borough President Donovan Richards Jr., will hold a virtual meeting on Monday, May 9, 2022, at 5:30 PM.
The meeting will include a presentation from the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) that will highlight the importance of the City’s Neighborhood Advisory Boards, which help DYCD allocate about $30 million in federal Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) funding to fight the effects of poverty through social service programs.
The presentation will also touch on DYCD’s upcoming 2022 Community Needs Assessment, which will ask New Yorkers from every corner of the City about any service gaps they experience in their communities.
The meeting will also include a Borough Board vote on a proposed 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 DYCD; Vote on Smoke-Free Apartments Resolution
WHERE: Public live stream at www.queensbp.org
WHEN: Monday, May 9, 2022 at 5:30 PM
WHO: DONOVAN RICHARDS JR., Queens Borough President
Miembros de la Junta Municipal de Queens
CANDICE JULIEN, Strategic Outreach Director, DYCD
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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