Community Planning Board 8 Meeting on Roosevelt Island Wednesday April 13
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Roosevelt Island is represented by Community Planning Board 8 (CPB 8). A Full CPB 8 Board Meeting will be held on Roosevelt Island this Wednesday, April 13. Below is the Agenda.
Land Use-Full Board MeetingMore on Community Planning Board 8 from earlier posts.
Meeting Date:
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 6:30pm
Meeting Location:
Chapel of the Good Shepherd, Roosevelt Island
545 Main Street
New York, NY
1. Public Session – Those who wish to speak during the Public Session must register to do so by 6:45 pm
• Public Hearing: BSA Calendar No. 307-81-BZ; 50 East 69th Street –An application has been filed with the Board of Standards and Appeals for an Extension of the term of a previously approved and extended variance, pursuant to Section 72-21 of the Zoning Resolution, which permitted, in an R8B district, in a five story and penthouse building, medical office use on all floors except the owner’s residential penthouse. The building has been continuously occupied since 1981 by the Center for Specialty Care which has its plastic surgery practice in the building.
2. Adoption of the Agenda
3. Adoption of the February Land Use-Full Board Minutes
4. Manhattan Borough President’s Report
5. Elected Official’s Reports
6. Chair’s Report – Jackie Ludorf
7. Committee Reports and Action Items:
• Rules and Bylaws Committee-Helene Simon and Hedi White, Co-Chairs
• Street Life Committee-Cos Spagnoletti and Nick Viest, Co-Chairs
• Transportation Committee-Jonathan Horn and Charles Warren, Co-Chairs
• Parks Committee-Margaret Price and Barbara Rudder, Co-Chairs
• Landmarks Committee-David Liston and Jane Parshall, Co-Chairs
• Youth and Education Committee-Jim Clynes and Judith Schneider, Co-Chairs
• Budget Committee-Roy Carlin and Barbara Chocky, Co-Chairs
8. Old Business
9. New Business
There is also a Roosevelt Island committee of CPB 8.
2 comments :
Why doesn't the RIRA become a sub-committee of CB8? Do we really need our own association whose interests overlap most of an existing community board?
There is a Roosevelt Island committee of CB8 which meets as needed.
Communities can also have local civic associations, neighborhood and community associations; these organizations work to assist community members, provide programs, information on getting access to various programs that may be available to assist elderly, may sponsor bazaars and street fairs.
A community association would never work to have a service like policing reduced or removed from the community. Community associations always work to safeguard the delivery of City services such as police and fire dept protection.
I cannot imagine a community association - which would be composed of civic-minded people - requesting less police or fire protection.
Yet there may be some who would want less police, that is, those whose interests contrast with those of the community. They may not wish to be caught doing something they should not be doing, and so for them, the less police the better.
These are not the people that typically will serve on a community organization since no-one would knowingly either appoint or elect a community organization representative whose "interests" diverge so completely from those of most community members. In other words, such a person does not represent the interests of the community, so would not, could not, become a community representative.
The weakness of RIRA is that almost anyone can get into RIRA - that is, be elected a RIRA representative. Thus, a RIRA rep, if they do not have the interests of the community in mind, can then invoke their status as a community organization representative to create situations that are contrary to the interests of the community.
The chairperson of the RIRA Public Safety Committee (PSC), Erin Feely-Nahen, and PSC member Romano Reid, placed phone calls based on hearsay demanding the removal of the only NYPD police officer posted to RI. The loss of the NYPD presence, or any lessening of public safety coverage, could only be to the advantage of an individual who may not wish to have a police presence on RI - it is not in the interests of the community.
Whether or not the phone calls led indirectly to the decision of the NYPD to no longer post an officer on RI is in my opinion secondary to the act of placing the hearsay phone calls, as doing such a thing does not represent the community's ethical standards.
The President of RIRA, Mr. Katz, has decided to let the entire matter fade into oblivion, as he put it at the RIRA general meeting, to "move on" as if it never happened. Since Katz is in control of RIRA, RIRA has now approved (1) the hearsay phone calls and (2) the lessening of police coverage.
RIRA at this time cannot be said to represent the ethical standards or interests of the community.
I strongly recommend community members to reach out to Ms. Torres and the CB to complain about the RIRA and demand that funding and community organization recognition be removed from RIRA.
Tomorrow, there is a CB meeting that will meet at the Community Center - the Church - at 6:30pm. This is a good opportunity for islanders to voice their disapproval of RIRA and request the RIRA organization be shut down.
At the CB meeting, they can find out about the CB's activities and how it represents and furthers the interests of the community.
There is no reason the CB cannot take over the role of the RIRA - especially now with RIRA under bankrupt leadership.
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