Community Planning Board 8 Monthly Meeting On Roosevelt Island Wednesday April 18, Come Learn What The Community Planning Board Does - CPB 8 Roosevelt Island Cornell Task Force Meeting Postponed Until May

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Community Planning Board (CPB) 8 will be holding its Full Board Meeting here at Roosevelt Island on April 18. I asked Roosevelt Island resident and CPB 8 member Jeff Escobar:

I understand Community Planning Board 8 will be holding it's April meeting on Roosevelt Island this Wednesday. As Roosevelt Island residents on the CPB do you wish to make any comment or statement that I can post on Roosevelt Islander Online.

Also, I thought the Cornell project would be a subject of the meeting but I do not see it listed on the Agenda. Any idea why not?

Mr. Escobar replied:

The meeting on Weds. is the monthly Full Board meeting where we will be attending to and voting on the various resolutions that the subcommittees have asked for adoption; as well as voting on our stance on the proposed New York Dream Act. This is not the Roosevelt Island task force meeting.

The Roosevelt Island task force meeting re Cornell has been scheduled for early May. If you go to the website www.cb8m.org, you will be able to find both the schedules and agendas for these meetings.

I would note that the Weds. meeting apparently been moved from the Chapel to The Child School/Legacy High School Auditorium at 6:30 pm.

I would strongly encourage all of our fellow Roosevelt Island Citizens to come and attend the Full Board meeting tomorrow to understand what Community Board 8 does, what we vote on and the role the Boards have in City governance. To review the agenda and see what will be voted on, they are encouraged to go to www.cb8m.org. We will also be voting on a historic act that the Manhattan Borough President's office and local electeds are looking to sponsor, which is to enact the failed DREAM Act, but on a Statewide level (versus the struck down Federal level). If they wish to address the Board, voice concerns and/or to simply speak to the greater community, they are urged to do so and to ask to be recognized during the General Community time of the meeting. 

Mr. Escobar is also a member of the Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA).

Below is the Agenda for April 18 CPB 8 Full Board Meeting at Roosevelt Island:

Meeting Date:
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 6:30pm
Meeting Location:
Child School/Legacy High School, Roosevelt Island
566 Main Street, Gymnasium
New York, NY

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. 67-12-BZ, 1442 First Avenue, Block 1469, Lot 46, Second Avenue Deli- Application pursuant to Section 72-21, ZR for a zoning variance to permit the extension of an existing eating and drinking establishment in Use Group 6 on the first floor of the premises to the second floor in a building occupied on the third and fourth floors by residential uses and for the construction of a convenience stair between the first and second floors.
Adoption of the Agenda
Adoption of the Minutes
Manhattan Borough President’s Report
Elected Official’s Reports
Chair’s Report – Nick Viest
District Manager’s Report-Latha Thompson
Committee Reports and Action Items:
Street Life Committee-Domenico Minerva and Cos Spagnoletti, Co-Chairs
Transportation Committee-A. Scott Falk and Chuck Warren, Co-Chairs
Parks Committee-Margaret Price and Barbara Rudder, Co-Chairs
Street Fair Committee-Barbara Chocky and Hedi White, Co-Chairs
Landmarks Committee-David Helpern and David Liston, Co-Chairs
Old Business
New Business-Manhattan Borough Board Resolution in support of passage of the New York State Dream Act and Dream Fund

Nicholas Viest, Chair

More on the NY State Dream Act here.