Ditmas Park and Flatbush: Here's Another Chance to Weigh in on Your Top Neighborhood Priorities

DITMAS PARK and FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — Community Board 14, which represents both Ditmas Park and Flatbush, is in the process of setting its list of this year's budget priorities and top community needs — and on Thursday, residents will have another chance to weigh in.

Each year, the board sends its priorities list to the City Council, with the goal of having them addressed in the budget process. (The document that will be submitted this year is to be factored into the city's 2018 budget, which will be finalized in the summer of 2017.)

To craft its list, CB14 considers many of the issues constituents have raised over the previous 12 months, district manager Shawn Campbell told Patch.

The board also takes a look at the previous year's priorities, she said, and assesses which ones have, and which have not, been taken care of. (You can conveniently peruse that list here, complete with notes on whether relevant action was taken.)

CB14 solicited public feedback on the priorities list during a hearing this past summer, and it will host a second hearing on Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. at Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood.

But locals have another chance before then to get up to speed and offer commentary on the process. On Thursday, Sep. 29, CB14 will host a joint meeting of its executive and budget committees to discuss the priorities list. The meeting is public, and anyone in attendance will have a chance to share brief thoughts on the community and budget issues they believe are deserving of focus.

The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at the CB14 office, located at 810 E. 16th St.

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