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

Members of the QUEENS BOROUGH BOARD

SARITA SUBRAMANIAN, Senior Research and Strategy Officer, IBO

MALEK AL-SHAMMARY, Press Secretary, IBO

VANESSA RAMOS, Managing Director of Education and Compliance, NYCCHR

About the Borough Board

The Borough Board is chaired by the Borough President under the New York City Charter and comprised of the borough’s City Council members and the chairperson of each Community Board in the borough.  The Board focuses on issues dealing with land use, development, public policy, budget, and other important matters with potential borough-wide implications. The Board hears presentations from City officials and others and, as part of the land use review process, is sometimes called upon to vote on land use questions that impact more than one Community Board District.

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