Community Board 6 Residents: Do You Agree With These Budget Priorities?

BROOKLYN, NY — What do you think are the most pressing priorities for your neighborhood?

Community Board 6 represents Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Gowanus, Red Hook and Park Slope. (Side note: here's Patch's interview with CB6 district manager Craig Hammerman.)

Each year, the community board submits a list of budget priorities to the City Council, with the goal of informing the coming year's budget negotiations. (This year's list will be considered next year, as the city sets its 2018 budget.)

The priorities list is informed by conversations the board has had with residents throughout the year, as well as an evaluation of which previous community priorities have, and which have not, been addressed.

CB6's general board will vote on this year's list of budget priorities (for the 2018 budget) at its general meeting on Oct. 13. The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the John Jay Educational Campus, located at 237 7th Ave. The meeting is open to the public, and will include a period set aside for public comment.

Embedded below is the draft list of budget priorities CB6 will be voting on (the top item is the recommissioning of Cobble Hill's former Fire Company 204, which was decommissioned in 2003):

CB6 - Budget Priorities - FY 2018 by JVS Patch on Scribd

And if you're curious, you can compare it to the budget priorities voted on in 2015 (which were designed to impact the 2017 budget). Here they are:

Top image courtesy of Keith Cooper/Flickr