A few months ago the city told community boards that they were going to be looking at budget cuts of $5,000 for the next fiscal year, a fate that CBs across the city were a little less than thrilled to hear about. As it turns out, though, the Bloomberg administration is now looking to slash the budgets of New York’s 59 community boards even more as part of the larger citywide belt-tightening. Next year’s budget, as currently planned, will involve every community board losing 8 percent, or $16,000, from their $200,000 budgets. While $16,000 doesn’t seem like a huge amount of money, it is for most community boards, which have to pay for all staff members and office operating costs from the $200K they receive every year. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer is opposing the cuts, and CB6 District Manager Craig Hammerman spoke out against them at this week’s general board meeting, noting that in the 16 years he’s served on CB6, they’ve never received a budget increase. It gets to a point where you cut to the bone,” he said. “The city can’t have it both ways. They didn’t share anything with us in the good times but now they expect us to give up in lean times.”