2018 Community Board Profiles
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2018 Community Board Profiles Members and Demographics Report Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams 1 Table of Contents Filling vacancies and ensuring inclusion 3 Community Board 1 5 Community Board 2 10 Community Board 3 14 Community Board 4 19 Community Board 5 23 Community Board 6 28 Community Board 7 32 Community Board 8 37 Community Board 9 41 Community Board 10 45 Community Board 11 49 Community Board 12 53 Community Board 13 57 Community Board 14 62 Community Board 15 66 Community Board 16 71 Community Board 17 75 Community Board 18 79 2 Filling vacancies and ensuring inclusion When the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President (the Office) has a vacancy on any one of Brooklyn’s 18 community boards, it is brought to the attention of the Brooklyn borough president. The appointed liaison of those boards reviews the applications of those who were not appointed during the general process and selects an individual based upon how often they attend the meetings, their community involvement, and their career background. Other selection criteria may include factors that would increase the diversity of representation on the board, including age, gender identity, geographic location, and race/ethnicity. If the council member has a vacancy on the board, it is brought to the attention of the Brooklyn borough president’s board liaison and/or community board office, and the Office reaches out to the council member's office to inform them that there is a vacancy. The council member will provide their recommendations to the Office to determine who would be the best candidate. The council member and Brooklyn borough president, or deputy Brooklyn borough president, will discuss the potential candidate(s), after which time they decide together who would fill that vacancy on the board. Residents who live, own a business, have an interest, or work in the community are invited to submit applications to become a member of the board. All applications are formally reviewed in the beginning of the year, and those who apply for reappointment are considered based on their activity on the board and in the community, as well as their attendance record. The application is available online on a rolling basis to encourage a diverse, robust pool of submissions year-round. Removal of community board members is predicated on the rules and bylaws of each respective board. Every board stipulated, if their member has excessive, unexcused absences, then that member will be voted off the board. The board’s chair or manager will notify the Office and will send the member a written notification to advice of the removal. The Office strives to appoint an equal number of men and women to the board, and for those individuals to reflect the demographics of the greater community board district with regard to their age, disability status, ethnicity, gender identity, geographic residence, language, race, and sexual orientation. Based upon the applications received, the Office relies upon the abilities of the Brooklyn borough president’s board liaison and council members to recommend individuals who can represent and speak to the concerns and needs of where they live and are from within the district because they have a concentrated perspective of their own district. Disclosing one’s demographics on the applications is optional. It was mandated that the Brooklyn borough president’s board liaisons make public announcements at every meeting between September 2018 and February 2019 to encourage people to fill out an application to be considered for the board. The Office also sent out a press release to newspaper publications to inform the community that they can apply to their local community board; the announcement was also e-blasted to the Office’s mailing database, was printed in the Brooklyn borough president’s “One Brooklyn” newspaper, and stays on the Office’s website. In addition to online applications, paper applications are also accepted. Some applicants expressed hardship with regard to utilizing computers, and the Office wanted all who wished to apply to have equal access to 3 the application process. The deadline for application submission was February 15, 2019. Once all the applications were submitted, the review process began, at which time the Brooklyn borough president’s board liaisons were provided with all of their board’s applications to review. The first to be reviewed were those applying for reappointment; they were considered based on their attendance record and their involvement in the community board. Poor attendance was grounds for an applicant to not be reappointed. If there were vacancies or anticipated vacancies, as a result of individuals whose term was due to expire, new applicants would be considered to fill those seats. In addition to the liaison’s review, the deputy Brooklyn borough president reviews all of the applications received. Based upon the aforementioned criteria, the deputy Brooklyn borough president will select applicants who she feels meet the minimum threshold. The Brooklyn borough president’s board liaisons fill out a worksheet that indicates whose term is due to expire and who is up for reappointment, as well as which seats may be vacant, if applicable. Those recommendations are made based on the aforementioned criteria. The liaison will meet with the deputy Brooklyn borough president to review and discuss the recommendations. Once they have met to discuss and agree upon the most formidable candidates, council members are then provided with all of the applications that correspond to their district for review with a copy of the aforementioned worksheet for them to use in order to submit their recommendations. Council members are invited to meet with the deputy Brooklyn borough president to share their recommendations and to discuss prospective board members. The council members are provided one month to submit their recommendations to the Office. After the recommendations from the council members and the Office are received, the Brooklyn borough president and deputy Brooklyn borough president will review the community board worksheets, and have a discussion based upon the meeting held between the deputy Brooklyn borough president, council members, and the Office’s liaison, with the Brooklyn borough president to make the final determination as to who will or will not be appointed to the community boards. New applicants appointed to the board are reviewed based upon how often they attend Community Board meetings, their vested interest in serving on the board, their community involvement, and their career background. Other criteria include factors that would increase the diversity of representation on the board, such as their age, gender identity, race/ethnicity, and geographic location in the district. 4 Community Board 1 435 Graham Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11211 (718) 389-0009 Leadership District Manager: Gerald A. Esposito Ms. Dealice Fuller - Executive Chairwoman Mr. Simon Weiser - Executive 1st Vice Chair/Transportation Committee Co-Chair Ms. Del Teague - Executive 2nd Vice Chair/Land Use, ULURP, & Landmarks Chair/Capital Budget Committee Co-Chair Mr. Stephen Weidberg - Executive 3rd Vice Chair/Capital Budget and Veteran Affairs Committee Chair Ms. Sonia Iglesias - Executive Recording Secretary Ms. Maria Viera - Executive Financial Secretary/Land Use, ULURP, & Landmarks Co-Chair Mr. Philip Caponegro - Executive Member-At-Large/Parks & Waterfront Committee Chair Ms. Toby Moskovits - Economic Development Committee Chair/ Education & Youth Co-Chair Mr. Bogdan Bachorowski - Review Committee Co-Chair Ms. Gina Argento - Economic Development Committee Chair Rabbi David Niederman - Attendance and Housing & Public Housing Committee Chair Dr. Louis Barricelli - Veteran Affairs Committee Co-Chair Ms. Trina Mckeever - Environmental Protection Committee Co-Chair/Parks & Waterfront Committee Co-Chair/Landmarks Subcommittee Chair Mrs. Theresa Cianciotta - Women's Issues Committee Co-Chair Mr. T. Willis Elkins - Environmental Protection Committee Chair 5 Mr. Thomas Burrows - Public Safety & Human Services and SLA Review Committee Chair Ms. Gina Barros - Landmarks Subcommittee Co-Chair Ms. Janice Peterson - Women's Issues Committee Chair Mr. Eric Bruzaitis - Transportation Committee Chair Mr. Martin Needelman - By Laws, Attendance Procedures (Parliamentary), Service Delivery Committee Chair 6 CB 1 Full Board Membership Board Member Nominated By Length of Service* Exp. Year Ms. Toby Moskovits BP Eric Adams 2017-2019 2021 Mr. Bogdan Bachorowski BP Eric Adams 2015-2019 2021 Mr. James Stuart BP Eric Adams 2017-2019 2021 Ms. Julia Amanda Foster BP Eric Adams 2017-2019 2021 Mr. Joel Gross BP Eric Adams 2017-2019 2021 Ms. Bozena Kaminski BP Eric Adams 2017-2019 2021 Mr. Yoel Landau BP Eric Adams 2017-2019 2021 Mr. Philip Caponegro BP Eric Adams 2015-2019 2021 Ms. Gina Argento BP Eric Adams 2015-2019 2021 Mr. Yoel Low BP Eric Adams 2019-2021 2021 Ms. Lisa Bamonte BP Eric Adams 2015-2019 2021 Ms. Dealice Fuller BP Eric Adams 2015-2019 2021 Mr. Michael Chirichella BP Eric Adams 2015-2019 2021 Mr. Aaron McCann BP Eric Adams 2016-2018 2018 Mr. Vincent Gangone BP Eric Adams 2014-2016 2016 Mr. Stephen Weidberg BP Eric Adams 2014-2016 2018 Ms. Del Teague BP Eric Adams 2014-2016 2018 Rabbi David Niederman BP Eric Adams 2014-2016 2018 Mr. Joshua Cohen BP Eric Adams 2014-2016 2018 Mr. Moishe Indig BP Eric Adams 2014-2016 2018 Mr. Giorgio Mayer BP Eric Adams 2014-2016 2018 Mr. Tommy Torres BP Eric Adams 2014-2016 2018 Mr. Isaac Sofer BP Eric Adams 2014-2016 2018 Dr. Louis Barricelli BP Eric Adams 2018-2020 2020 Ms. Emily Gallagher BP Eric Adams 2018-2020 2020 Ms. Maria Viera Stephen Levin (33) 2017-2019 2021 Ms. Trina Mckeever Stephen Levin (33) 2015-2019 2020 Mr. Simon Neustein Stephen Levin (33) 2015-2017 2019 7 Mr. Samuel Franczoz Stephen Levin (33) 2015-2017 2019 Mr. Simon Weiser Stephen Levin (33) 2015-2019 2019 Mr. Arthur Dybanowski Stephen Levin (33) 2017-2019 2019 Rabbi Abraham Perlstein Stephen Levin (33) 2015-2017 2019 Ms.