Notes From The CB14 Monthly Meeting

Nora Whelan -

Community Board 14 held its monthly meeting Monday night at PS 249. The next monthly meeting will be Monday, November 9 at 7:30pm at Edward R Murrow High School (E 17th Street between Avenues L and M), and the public is welcome to attend. Here’s what happened this month:

  • This month’s 70th Precinct Community Council meeting will not be at UCP as usual, but instead at Saint Paul’s Church (157 Saint Pauls Place between Saint Pauls Court and Church Avenue) on Wednesday, October 30 at 7:30pm.
  • District Manager Shawn Campbell wants to make sure street cleaners are able to do their jobs, which means moving your car off designated blocks for the full 90 minutes stated on signs instead of moving it back after the sweeper passes. She says sweepers often need to return to blocks a second time to get them completely clean, and moving cars before the stated time is up is making it difficult for them to do so.
  • In the same vein, make sure to bag up your leaves! They can go out with the regular refuse, and if you have lawn service taking care of your yard, they should be bagging leaves correctly, too.
  • The Community Board has posted their FY2015 Capital and Expense Budget Recommendations, to be finalized before submission on October 25. The list includes 18th Avenue, Junction, and Church Avenue subway station renovations, RFP for a new arts center on E 15th Street, a Coney Island Avenue reconstruction, water fountains on Ocean Parkway, the addition of a running track to the Parade Ground, RFP for a new senior center, a new school at the north end of the district, improvements to the 70th Precinct station house (while scouting for a new location altogether) plus more funding for increased personnel in the 70th Precinct, wi-fi hotspot installation and solar recharging stations around the district, more funding for “stump removal, street tree replacement and planting,” more funding for security cameras around the district, possible cultural event expansion and seven-day service at district libraries, and more funding for tree pruning.