Community Board 10’s Meetings is Still on Zoom
Community Board 10 is not doing live meetings, like other districts are. They did in the Fall, but now they are back to Zoom meetings.
While committee meetings can easily be done on Zoom because they are small, general meetings that the public can participate in, should be live, especially in a NORD Community, like ours.
In the Fall, we saw many residents show up for the live Community Board 10 Meeting asking for help because their basements were flooding and Councilman Brannan and Senator Gounardes failed to help them! Many of the people were seniors!
Yet, CB10 voted to continue to have meetings on Zoom!? That’s strange, as most of CB 10 members were present for the Fall meeting when so many residents asked for their help.
Volunteers on CB 10 may need to be at home because they are high risk. Paid employees of Community Board 10 should have a live meeting for residents, who need to address issues because politicians here are not good.
Many seniors in our community don’t use the computers or have access to Zoom. People can’t even hear what problems their neighbors were having.
During the pandemic’s Zoom meetings, CB 10 approved projects that had lobbyists behind them including: the new school on 5th Avenue (Same seller as Nathans) (See here / and here), the loading zones (see here), and they discussed the car-sharing program (see here). No one identified the lobbyists behind the issues.
*Both Brannan and Gounardes were lobbied for the red light cameras.*
NYS Lobbyist Database – Who is lobbying Andrew Gounardes?
NYC Lobbyist Database – search for who Councilman Brannan or Antonio Reynoso (Borough President) were lobbied.
Hugs,
marlene
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