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Community Board 2 is getting some praise for giving them up.
I don't imagine Community Board 3, the is the East Village, Lower East Side and the Bowery will be doing so, do you?
Please calculate how much that is worth to a person to have a free parking placard in dollar bills.
I never thought about that but that is like getting paid in gold because parking is so scare.
Hmmmm.
When I went to my first community board meeting it was the most unfriendly welcome, actually all of them were pretty unfriendly like it was a closed club. I asked David McWater about why they were so unfriendly and he said they just have to get to know me. Yeah right!
I won't attend any more meeting and here is why. The last was when the very pretty Christine Shakespeare of NYU-dom reprimanded Andrew Berman for singling out poor NYU from all other not for profit institutions and I did respond "Because you are the only not for profit institution to build a river of mega dorms down Third Avenue. David McWater who owns many bars and no one on the community board and community board SLA 3 consider this a conflict of interest and manger let me know that what I said, when I said it was unacceptable. Thanks for protecting NYU's interest. Could you imagine me living next to St. Ann's being so outraged by the stupidity or her question that I respond with an answer that she should know especially with the salary they are paying her.
By the way, pretty Christine liked my ideas about community outreach resource centers and how I wanted the people in the projects included in this outreach, etc. and to date....nothing and that was before NYU set a world record building St. Ann's mega dorm.
I don't want to run for a community board position but if I did I would make sure everyone in the community knew who I am and that I want to hear them and represent the community if it means setting up an office on a park bench in a park or by a subway. I could not live with myself representing a community that does not know I represent them.
Community boards need way better community outreach, accountability and if need be turn it into a democracy where people vote and no placards especially until the community can say, yes we know what is a community board, who represents us and when the meet and that the community's voices are heard and the board shows documentation of how they have responded.
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CB 3 cannot give up something they have never had. CB 3 has never applied for parking placards. I am sure this is public information and you can check this.
I have no idea how to check up on CB3 but if you can and find out and post it that would be great.
I do not feel that have done enough to represent the community and I sure don't want them to have placards.
Thank you.
By the way, David McWater was the nicest of the group and he never once mentioned to me he owned all those bars.
I am in the minutes talking about too many dorms and too many bars and at that point he or the manager should have said that for the record David McWater owns bars and they did not.
CB3 did not update their notice of meetings on the side of the phone booth across the street from where 2nd Avenue Deli used to be for months.
Complaints were made and there notices where never updated.
In these dire times when evictions rise as do sky piercing mega dorms, condos and hotels that community needs to know there is a community board, when the meetings are and many still don't know.
We did not vote for these people and we don't know anything about them.
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