File #: T2025-3330    Version: * Name: Requiring community boards to email a monthly newsletter and videoconference their meetings and hearings.
Type: Introduction Status: Introduced
Committee: Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation
On agenda: 6/11/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring community boards to email a monthly newsletter and videoconference their meetings and hearings
Sponsors: Lincoln Restler
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would require community boards to provide a monthly email newsletter with a description of each upcoming meeting and hearing, and to videoconference their meetings and hearings in real-time.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No., 2. Int. No.

Int. No.

 

By Council Member Restler

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring community boards to email a monthly newsletter and videoconference their meetings and hearings

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Paragraph 22 of subdivision d of section 2800 of the New York city charter, as amended by a vote of the electors on November 6, 2018, is amended to read as follows:

(22) With assistance and support from the department of information technology and telecommunications, maintain a website that provides adequate public notice of upcoming meetings, minutes from past meetings for the past twelve months, and contact information for the board. The website shall also provide an option for the public to sign up for monthly email notice of upcoming meetings and hearings, and such email notice shall include a description of the topic of each upcoming meeting and hearing.

§ 2. Subdivision h of section 2800 of the New York city charter, as amended by local law number 63 for the year 1996, is amended to read as follows:

h.   Except during the months of July and August, each community board shall meet at least once each month within the community district and conduct at least one public hearing each month. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a community board shall be required to meet for purposes of reviewing the scope or design of a capital project located within such community board's district when such scope or design is presented to the community board. Such review shall be completed within thirty days after receipt of such scope or design. Each board shall give adequate public notice of its meetings and hearings. Each board shall, in real-time, videoconference any meeting or hearing for which a quorum of the full board would be required pursuant to section 2801 and shall make [such] its meetings and hearings available for broadcasting and cablecasting. At each public meeting, the board shall set aside time to hear from the public. The borough president shall provide each board with a meeting place if requested by the board.

§ 3.  This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

 

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