CB6 Budget: The Big 10
Last night Community Board 6 voted to adopt a long list of budget requests for Fiscal Year 2009. What follows are the board’s top 10 capital budget requests, which are supposed to signal to the mayor’s office and city agencies the projects the board considers most in need of funding: 1. Reconstruction of Court St….
Last night Community Board 6 voted to adopt a long list of budget requests for Fiscal Year 2009. What follows are the board’s top 10 capital budget requests, which are supposed to signal to the mayor’s office and city agencies the projects the board considers most in need of funding:
1. Reconstruction of Court St. (Atlantic to Hamilton)
2. Subway Station Rehab at Smith/9th Street
3. Relocation and Construction of 78th Precinct House
4. Repair 9th St. Flooding (2nd Ave to Gowanus Canal)
5. Construction of Conover Street Extension (Pioneer to Hamilton)
6. Installation of Security Camera Systems in All Public Housing
7. Creation of a Red Hook Workforce Development Center
8. Construction of Affordable Senior Housing in Carroll Gardens
9. Study and Remediation of BQE Trench (Fix the Ditch)
10. Construction of a Fire Boat Facility at Pier 11, Atlantic Basin
Think they’ve got their priorities in order?
I would bet dollars to doughnuts that CB6 held a public hearing on its FY09 budget priorities well before it voted last night to adopt them. To comment after the fact is, well, kind of pointless. You’ll get another chance to provide input next September, when the community board undertakes the exercise again for FY10.
Wasn’t Court Street just repaved last year? Definitely within the past 2 years. It took several weeks if not months, and many side streets were also done.
Rehab of Smith & 9th will accompany the massive Culver Viaduct rehabilition project set to begin next year and last until 2012.
I’d like to see #4 and #9 emphasized.
Gary
Does anyone know what the plan is for Court St? Does this me re-paving or more?
Thanks
What about open space? (e.g. the greenway, the glass lot on Columbia Street, the Mother Cabrini Annex, Under the Track Park, Thomas Greene Park JJ Byrne etc)
Because many CB members reside in Park Slope, park issues are not considered important. However, there’s a serious dearth of open space those of us living in CD 6 between the water and Fourth Avenue.
repairing the 9 street station is crucial. Wasn’t IKEA suppose to provide funds for the renovation as a condition to having a shuttle? Anyone heard about this
These seem like well thought out infrastructure items. I wish more community boards thought like this, with specific projects in mind, rather than blanket requests like: more trees, more cops (even though we certainly need these things too)
What is the Red Hook Workforce Development Center and why do we need one?
What’s so bad about Court Street that it is Number One? I agree that the Smith/9th station is desperately in need of help.