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Yesterday morning several hundred community board members from around the city gathered on the steps of City Hall to protest proposed budget cuts that would shave an average of $20,000 from each of the city’s 59 community boards (18 in Brooklyn); the protesters were joined by four borough presidents as well as mayoral hopeful William Thompson. Councilwoman Letitia James said that Council budget negotiators have “laid a line in the sand that you will not touch the budgets of the community [boards].” Lots of photos from the event in this Flickr set.
Borough Leaders Rip Citywide CB Budget Cuts [NY Daily News]


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  1. while 311 is good for somethings it has become more and more bureaucratic.They now have the longest info tape I have heard in a long time. Remember its a mayoral agency.
    As for people staying on the Board a long time. many have institutional memory that makes a big difference when things come up over and over again. With term limits that memory no longer resides in the City Council members offices(where it rare that aides in one office remain in to another office holder). The agencies staffs stay forever and don’t pass along these memories easily.
    Most Community boards do have people who have obtained expertise in these areas some of them by being frogs….like in Congress sometimes they turn in to princes or princess or somethings they are just frogs….