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Borough President Adams in October launched the #MakeBrooklyn-
Count campaign to ensure an accurate count during the 2020 Census.
Borough President’s Offi ce / Erica Sherman
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to rename the Brooklyn Municipal
Building located on Joralemon Street
in Downtown Brooklyn in her honor.
He sent a public letter addressed to
Mayor Bill de Blasio requesting the
name change, which was signed by
community leaders, civic organizations,
and advocacy groups.
Supporters can join the campaign
by signing a petition to Mayor de Blasio
at Change.org/RBG. To date, the
petition has garnered more than 40,000
signatures.
OCTOBER
Borough President Adams and Farmshelf
Co-Founder and CEO Andrew
Shearer joined Brooklyn Democracy
Academy administrators, teachers, and
students, to announce a groundbreaking
agreement for the purchase and installation
of indoor hydroponic farm
units to be used to grow leafy greens
and herbs in a compact and sustainable
environment within the school.
The project, made possible by a
$20,000 allocation in discretionary
funding by Borough President Adams,
will include integrating these units
into a comprehensive hydroponics
curriculum for students to learn how
to grow and distribute produce, write
code, create applications, and build
and maintain the vegetation units.
The food grown will be distributed
to senior centers, New York City Housing
Authority residents, and other community
based organizations for local
families in need — a fi rst-of-its-kind approach
in a city-run public school.
Borough President Adams also
joined innovative technology leaders
and New York City Housing Authority
residents outside the Walt Whitman
Houses in Fort Greene to call on NYCHA
to immediately issue a request
for proposals to deploy a real-time
tracking system of its own.
Such a system should be able to accurately
and effi ciently track all building
repairs across all developments,
monitor and evaluate NYCHA funding
to ensure the housing agency’s
spending is appropriate to tenant and
facility needs, hold workers and supervisors
accountable to ensuring maintenance
complaints and requests are
handled accordingly, prioritize tenant
needs, as well as provide transparency
for residents in the form of real-time,
digitized data that can be easily accessed
and tracked.
Borough President Adams also
joined the Brooklyn Community
Foundation and representatives from
community organizations to launch
the #MakeBrooklynCount campaign,
which will work to ensure an accurate
and fair demographic and population
count during the 2020 Census.
The effort will be headed by the
Brooklyn Complete Count Committee
— a consortium of organizations including
academic institutions and community
groups targeting traditionally
under-counted communities such as
the elderly, low-income, undocumented,
and young individuals, as well as those
whose fi rst language is not English.
It will work to ensure these communities
are properly counted so that the
city receives adequate federal funding
for community development, health
care, housing, infrastructure, and
transportation to meet the needs of all
of the borough’s residents.
Read more about one of the #Make-
BrooklynCount campaign partners on
page 14.
Borough President Adams and
Farmshelf Co-Founder and CEO Andrew
Shearer joined Brooklyn Democracy
Academy administrators,
teachers, and students, on Wednesday,
October 17th at Brooklyn Democracy
Academy in Brownsville to announce
a groundbreaking agreement between
his administration and Brooklyn Democracy
Academy’s urban farm in
Brownsville for the purchase and installation
of indoor hydroponic farm
units to be used to grow leafy greens
and herbs in a compact and sustainable
environment within the school.
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