Brooklyn, NY – Councilman Simcha Felder and his colleagues in the New York City Council worked with the Bloomberg Administration to restore cuts to the operating budgets of the City’s fifty-nine Community Boards. The Community Boards had been budgeted for a 5% cut before executive budget hearings of the Council’s Committee on Governmental Operations, which Felder chairs and which has oversight of the City’s Community Boards.

“It was a tough budget this year, and all city agencies had to find places to cut back,” Felder said. “But to ask Community Boards to cut $10,000 from their budgets when they haven’t seen an increase in twenty years would kill the Boards without substantively improving the City’s overall.”

At the last Brooklyn Community Board 12 general meeting before the summer, Council Member Felder joined the Board in presenting Special Operations Lieutenant Jimmy Selleck (pictured w/ Chair Alan Dubrow, District Manager Wolf Sender and Felder) with a plaque in appreciation of the 66th Precinct’s work during the Pesach holiday.  Felder and CB12 also welcomed new appointees to the Board, including Mark Katz, David Greenfield, and Jacob Daskal (pictured w/ Sender, Felder, Vice Chair Motty Katz, and Dubrow).