Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. announced on Tuesday that he is again accepting applications from qualified and civic-minded individuals interested in serving on their local community board.
As with the Borough President’s prior two iterations, the 2023 community board application can be filled out online, ensuring prospective applicants can complete the process quickly and easily, allowing for a more diverse applicant pool. The application requires neither notarization nor in-person delivery to the Queens Borough President’s Office.
The application is available online at queensbp.org/communityboards, and the deadline to submit the form is Thursday, Feb. 16. This deadline applies to both new applicants and existing community board members seeking an additional term. For the upcoming round of appointments, the two-year term of service will begin on Saturday, April 1, 2023.
Over the course of his administration, Borough President Richards has worked diligently to grow interest in community board membership and address numerous demographic inequities around age, gender, background and more that have existed for years across Queens’ 14 community boards.
Combining the 2021 and 2022 community board processes, the Queens Borough President’s Office received 1,825 applications to serve on a community board, with both years shattering the pre-Richards single-year record for applications. The larger and more diverse applicant pools led to community board classes that were younger, more female and had greater percentages of members who identified as Latinx/Hispanic, African American, immigrant, South Asian, East Asian/Pacific Islander and LGBTQIA+, among other characteristics.
“Queens has never been closer to community board representation that is truly reflective of our borough’s vast diversity than it is today,” Richards said back in April 2021.
There are 59 community boards citywide, including 14 in Queens, and each hold monthly full membership meetings. The boards play an important advisory role in considering land use and zoning matters in their respective districts under the City’s Uniformed Land Use Review Procedure, in addition to holding hearings and issuing recommendations about the City budget, municipal service delivery and numerous other matters that impact their communities.
All Queens community board members are appointed by the Queens Borough President, pursuant to the City Charter, with half of the appointments nominated by the City Councilmembers representing their respective Community Districts. Each board has up to 50 unsalaried members, with each member serving a two-year term.
11 comments:
Q-Anon creeps need not apply.
"The larger and more diverse applicant pools led to community board classes that were younger, more female"
In other words, a disaster in the making.
Until they give the community board some "Teeth" they will continue to be nothing more than a monthly meeting of nosey, know-it -all blow hards who rat on their neighbors...
"address numerous demographic inequities around age, gender, background"
Translation: Seat Woke educated lowlifes, criminals, bums, hip hoppers to make decisions for the working class and every dam thing else to erase what was once the greatest city on the planet and turn it into welfare state of mostly black & 3rd world mess.
I been keeping score since spring and find 9 out od 10 wanted slashers, mugging, beating, robbery suspect, gun crime is flashed on TV its a black person, usually under age 30.
Thats fact!!!
Mayor Adams, DA Bragg and dumbass governor are perfect examples of pondering to Black Lives Matter and ANIFTA and that's exactly what you can expect when you seat woke wookies.
Donovan Richards will be no different.
Its interesting, since election of that Adams my Puerto Ricans friends now agree with me and say, Oh boy were you right and more !!! It seems many agree but are afraid to say anything for fear of being called "Racist" and having their homes and cars vandalized.
Several of them fought in Vietnam, gulf war and have family's, own homes, they finally finished paying for. They are mad as hell about working all their lives only to retire in a pile of shit, crime and having woke bullshit forced down their grandchildren throats in school. In one case a grandchild told his teacher his grandfathers was a racist, had guns and this parent got a "knocking at the door".
Whats this, schools teachers now giving kids orders to be spy's as homework and college credits? What about science, math, writing computer code or teaching something useful so they can sustain themselves a adults?
Simple 2 digit addition, subtraction and multiplication is passing for junior high school math finals?
What the f_ck!!!
People really need to understand, these democrats really want communism, its happening in near every aspect an very real. These bastards want to undo (and erase) everything people died in wars to prevent or stop.
Seating Woke's and keeping the public stupid is the vehicle to get it done.
-Ned
www.nra.org
Good to see democracy at work here in Queens. Those TrumpTurds in DC should take note.
“My name is Joe Biden and I forgot this message”
Queens is transforming into a 3rd world oasis for bike Nazis, criminals and illegals.
@ned
First you complain about educated people. Then you complain about lack of education in public schools?
Make up your mind.
As for your story about Junior Hs math. That’s all it is. A story, AKA, a lie. Ask any parent of middle school kids here in NY. The math being thought is a lot more advanced than your feeble brain could handle. Now, if you are talking about middle schools in Red States, then you may be correct.
My name is Kevin McCarthy and I made up this message.
Donnie has more than a few somethings in common with the do-nothing Swagger mayor.
What we used to call a jive turkey back in the good old 79s
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