who is a new member of community worth seven we're here to talk to you about some of the interesting facts and concerns for our community roberta tell us what's special what is so special our community board seven area we're very blessed in our community with some wonderful parks we have central park yes we can which we love and we have riverside park when there's a concern about the park they come to community board to talk to us about it community board twelve but we're really lucky to have these fabulous fabulous parks you mentioned when there's something going on there come to community or some such as want to go to the parks department the parks committee i mean if they have an issue that they want to for example when they wanted to do some work at belvedere council they have to come to the community board to get her mission there we doing the laskar swimming pool at the north end so they came to all the community boards that border along the central park to get input from from our community boards riverside park will come to us with they want to fix the cherry wanker they want to add a new program some of the other places we have course lincoln center which is a gem when they build the the rose building which is where the ballet school and some of the other arts they had to come to for the so i wasn't on the board then but it was it was a very interesting process we also have the american museum of natural history which is magnificent also has beautiful parkland and the lander when the museum is actually parkland and run by the marks department and so they recently came before me board seven to get approval to build their new building the new guilders center which is going to be a state of the art  science center for researchers for people like you and me for children who are scholars we also have the new york historical society which contains a whole bunch of historical artifacts family has exhibits constantly changing exhibits about new york and about what's happening in new york and then we have the children's museum which is just been phenomenal place for young children and their families and they're going to be moving to ninety six building that was the church at the corner of ninety six and central park west because they fix exceeded their their headquarters the time warner center which she is part of our district and part of several other community boards columbus circle which is very exciting we have john j college we have for them college we have the new york institute of technology and then we have a lot of nonprofit organizations we have a lighthouse bill for the blind which jam that most people don't know about where they locate they're located at sixty four street in just off of west endowment and they provide services for the blind obviously they have classes and programs they also provide health services and i care and i classes for people who live in the community oh yeah that's a something we should learn more about we have west side federation for senior housing which builds affordable housing which is now doing this new complex a one hundred eighty story for valley lodge an affordable senior housing and we have got a riverside oh yeah which has twenty different centers across the upper west side they do programs for children they do preschool they do it after school they have this fabulous program options where they help children get through the college application process and they help them while they're doing the prom you know getting them ready for college and then they stay with them while they're in college so that they finish because sometimes children get into college and if they don't answers they don't always succeed so they want these children to succeed so that's very exciting and they have a fabulous tutoring program and then they have supportive housing they have senior centers you know about the senior center because some of our board meetings have been in their space they're really very exciting programs that we don't know enough about you know my hope in the future programs we can invite some of these organizations to come in and  an in depth discussion with a little with who they are and what they're doing sure so tell us about the police precinct involvement with the police have been wonderful we have two precincts the twenty fourth which is eighty six street north hundred tenth street and then we have the twentieth which is eighty six south to fifty ninth street and you know captain mallett from the twentieth has been coming to our values and he's been is the a b and c sectors and so they they please their sector so for the twenty if it would be fifty fifty nine to seventy street seventy to seventy nine seventy nine eighty six street and a community member meets with the b and c o's once a month the n c o is also meet with the local institutions with the local schools and they get to know the stores in the buildings the neighborhoods and any problems  so you know if there's a homeless situation in one corner the officers will get to know that those homeless people if there's some rough stuff outside when you know one area that they will know the people who will know how the house them they'll know what's going on if there's a shelter they'll work with the people in the shelter so they get to know them very the songs like years ago when i was growing up on the upper west side of the police officer was in the community the twentieth have beers last year and to have beers recently they actually invited community members and they had really nice food and cold drinks simply created just all the officers that they were really it's just a fabulous program and the police officers come when we have community advisory groups meetings they will come to the meetings they will come somebody from the two for the two of come to the transportation committee meetings and talk about statistics that where there have been traffic injuries or fatalities in the community and work with the transportation committee and department of transportation to figure out their intersections that really special so that's been really great and we've really enjoyed working with the twenty fourth precinct and they will be  a blast on our on our website is holding a day on the thirty first i think from noon to later in the day to help children they're going to provide them with back to school supplies with backpacks and with haircuts and with some fund activity so that's going to be very exciting and you can go to the precincts website to get further information so that we always have this type of relationship with the precincts we've always known the four at the twenty four started last january and the twentieth just started i think in july so it's we were the last few precincts to get this but it's really been a good it's really been great because the officers are really paying attention and they are they have the resources in the past the officers were assigned anywhere in the precinct so one day they could have been in a car patrolling the northern  next day they could have been somewhere else doing something else now if it's their sector that's where they are and they're allowed to have time when they don't have their radio on so if they're talking to community residents about a problem or about the situation they're there so for example a sixty six street the sixty fifth street where there's going to be a huge new building and there's construction and we had the construction site group meeting monday afternoon and the captain came because his and ceo's were off that day they were getting this dedication i mean that with phenomenal because he knows it's going to be a major issue because they're going to you know it's a they're they're cross town twenty four captain lynch has been very very good about attending meetings him being a presence we like working with our police tell us about the demographics and community board seven i think the second largest aging in place  city two thousand we have thirteen percent of our population are seniors and twenty sixteen we are at twenty one point nine percent that's a big group of seniors now we do have some aging in place programs the aging in place is funded program where they provide services to that it's called in new york it's a naturally occurring retirement community and if you meet certain requirements are able to get funding so for example i live in lincoln towers and we have an orc several other buildings have no works but some places don't because they don't have they don't meet their requirements so they don't have enough sr so what are the requirements specifically when we get to that committee what we plan to do is have each committee come in and talk about at length about their committee know an older person might you know if there's a big storm or there is a problem might not be able to get out i where it is in some of these new york's the group is in place so there's already you know a way to know that medium household income has been increasing by a large percentage per year which means that it's becoming less affordable for for people who median income has not increased because landlords are able to charge more money because you know somebody has more money they can pay more so one of the things we really have to work out it's to make sure that we have affordable housing and that's one of the things that the house and committee is going to be working on this year we also noticed households with children were at thirteen point nine percent twenty sixteen they were eighteen point nine percent and twenty ten but in two thousand they were down to fourteen in them down tick so we don't know what that means but our schools we still have some overcrowded schools in the community that's something that's something that we should start looking towards if we have three business improvement district oh it's also about that plus the broadway most of them so the association it doesn't get money from the buildings the community it goes from seventy second street all the way up past to board nine and we're twelve and they raise all their money independently and they take care of all the plants and the sidewalks and the benches on the and so they do a lot of independen fundraising and then we have the columbus amsterdam which goes from one hundred sixty to one hundred ten street and they raise their money through commercial property and local businesses and they some fabulous programming bloomingdale neighborhood association and they do fam it back they'll have two days in september bloomingdale family days all right i've seen and they have a website so i would recommend going to the and they take care of that whole corridor and i don't know if you've seen the beautiful benches in the little sidewalk area between seventy six and seventy seven street by the school they paid for that they  was just thinking that the museum has been able to decrease its rap population because they do do they have extermination and they do extermination but if people leave their garbage around their rats yes yes yes i learned something about rats but maybe up rats need just two answers of water and food to survive so that little potato chip that do it or that those little bits of square bid also takes care of the broadway mall between seventy second and fifty ninth street and they have you know you'll see they are there they have sanitation people out they also patrol the streets to is you know with the trees or the sidewalk trees are so important for our community oh yeah sure in a beautiful i've just never thought about it and taken for granted they help prevent global warming because they modify the temperature in the air and they're good for mental health told us about the many committees ok so we have our forward meeting once a month and then each month each committee meets and some comm two people jerry cordova and michelle parker and they they often have a big agenda because the liquor license is all sidewalk cafes and all street where their problems with their business has to post that they're going to come before the committee the consumer issue and then when they're there they have to talk about their problems within the community and you know if you live looks at housing issues including affordable housing this year they're having a big initiative on affordable housing which includes every type of fordable housing too numerous to even get into land  before parks if a small park by one of the schools needs an upgrade or need something they would come for mr parks committee environment of course would be you know when they were changing from the buildings who are there is a sustainability issue that we now have i think for new members on the parks committee three of whom are knowledge about sustainability which is really exciting preservation is gabby pay yours and again the bike lanes the traffic safety parking spaces people are insane about parking  we're trying to get mark levine to fund funded so that they could build all kinds of wonderful facilities in the basement we just are you sure are now communication has been linda alexander and so were body and our new member as new members have joined it and they have been doing communication outreach the media social media we need some new co chairs for matt so if board members are interested we book to get them involved one of the things we're mandated to do with the district made statement i recommend people reading it that really tells you everything you need to know about the district and we also have to look at the budget and advise we work with the agents of different city agencies and we give advice about budget priorities for our  community so if we need a new fire truck or if we need something we need something in the park or we need extra personnel this goes into our district needs statement this goes into our bu dget for capital and for expense so we work closely with the city council members and also the agencies the office of  innocent and she has participated and we've been very active with worked on and we've had five forums four nights a residence and our next one is going to be september thirtieth session that's go helped it'll be helped they'll be some lawyers there to help people understand how they can keep their space and also be in conjunction with me or nine it will be yes yes but it will be  and that is we have a week and a half or two weeks to respond to that so our committee is going to work a little tough we're going to be working really hard on that and that is to before the end of august and then there will be something on the ballot come november and then the city council has a church which will start in september that's going to be very exciting because we'll have a larger task force on that and will have time to really so it's made up usually of somebody from c b s seven committee with seven somebody from the elected office of the police if we need be any of the city agencies and members of the ceramic community so it could be about  a specific building that's problematic because it's a shelter that's having problems or it could be a construction committee where we have a street we have a all of this the members all volunteers we get so we give up our time and we have a lot of fun doing it we can be learning and we learn something every day i mean since i've been chair there has a minute that i haven't learned something that question i have to ask you how long you've been chair i've been chair for just under three years fantastic and i'm planning to run for a third term well i hope you do thank you i like to thank you for sitting down with me and you know i'm sure the audience is also happy to hear of all this information so that anyone in our community can come to a community board meeting and the community word meeting any committee meeting we're always welcome you're always we love to have you we'd like your input  sometimes we don't let you talk as long as you want but you know we try and be available and our meetings are the first tuesday of every month at six thirty pm somewhere in the community now that the community board and all of our committee meetings are at the