The New York City Council - File #: Int 0460-2018

• File #: Int 0460-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Establishing term limits for community board members.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Committee
• File created: 2/14/2018
• In control: Committee on Governmental Operations
• On agenda: 2/14/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to establishing term limits for community board members
• Sponsors: Daniel Dromm , Ben Kallos, Robert F. Holden

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/14/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
2/14/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 460

By Council Members Dromm, Kallos and Holden

Title
A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to establishing term limits for community board members
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision a of section 2800 of chapter 70 of the New York city charter is amended to read as follows:
a. For each community district created pursuant to chapter sixty-nine there shall be a community board which shall consist of (1) not more than fifty persons appointed by the borough president for staggered terms of two years, at least one-half of whom shall be appointed from nominees of the council members elected from council districts which include any part of the community district, and (2) all such council members as non-voting members. No community board member first appointed to a term commencing on or after April 1, 2020 shall serve more than six consecutive terms as a voting member of a particular community board. The number of members appointed on the nomination of each such council member shall be proportional to the share of the district population represented by such council member. The city planning commission, after each council redistricting pursuant to chapter two-A, and after each community redistricting pursuant to section twenty-seven hundred two, shall determine the proportion of the community district's population represented by each council member. Copies of such determinations shall be filed with the appropriate borough president, community board, and council member. One-half of the members appointed to any community board shall serve for a term of two years beginning on the first day of April in each odd-numbered year in which they take office and one half of the members appointed to any community board shall serve for a term of two years beginning on the first day of April in each even-numbered year in which they take office. Members shall serve until their successors are appointed but n...