CB2 leaders upset with delay
Civic honchos criticize city for timing of House of D community guidelines
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BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Civic honchos chastised the
city for delaying the release
of community guidelines for
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s borough
jails plan.
The Mayor’s Offi ce of
Criminal Justice should have
sooner released a document
of so-called “Guidelines and
Principals” that local community
leaders and stakeholders
— known as the Neighborhood
Advisory Committee
(NAC) — formulated on Hizzoner’s
borough jail plan.
Bureaucrats should have
released the document, which
contains recommendations
for the city’s plans as well as
broader demands for criminal
justice reform and investment
in the community,
either ahead of Community
Board 2’s public hearing on
April 11 or by the time its land
use committee met on April
17 to issue their recommendation,
according to the board’s
leader.
“Our feeling was and still
remains that City Hall should
have distributed the guidelines
and principles at the
public hearing held on April
11, or if it could not, certainly
by the committee meeting,”
said district manager Robert
Perris.
The committee included
elected offi cials, the board’s
leadership, business improvement
groups, civic associations,
residents, and criminal
justice reform organizations.
They met six times between
October 2018 and
March of this year and crafted
their suggestions for the new
jail between Smith Street and
Boerum Place, which recommended
taking into account
current and future criminal
justice reforms, reducing the
building’s size, its incarcerated
population, and making
more investments in the
neighborhood.
The group edited the recommendations
at its last meeting
on March 22, but the mayor’s
offi ce didn’t distribute the
report back to the board offi ce
for consideration until May 3,
weeks after that body’s public
hearing and its land use committee
recommendation vote
and only fi ve days ahead of the
boards fi nal poll at its general
meeting.
A spokeswoman for the
mayor’s criminal justice offi
ce told this paper that the release
of the document was delayed
because NAC members
requested more time to make
edits.
“At the request of NAC
members, we extended the
timeline for fi nalizing the
document to allow additional
time for NAC members to provide
edits,” said Alacia Lauer
in an emailed statement.
Lauer noted that the materials
from the meetings of all
four borough committees are
now available online, but did
not clarify for this reporter by
press time when the Brooklyn
documents were uploaded to
the site.
Those edits should have
been made in the three
weeks leading up to the only
official public hearing the
board would host, according
to Perris.
“Even if there were additional
edits to be made, those
could have and should have
been done in the three weeks
before the April 11 public
hearing,” he said.
The leader and the board’s
chairman Lenny Singletary
decided not to provide the document
— which the former described
as “promotional” of
LATE RELEASE: Community Board 2 leaders criticized the city for delaying
the release of so-called “Guidelines and Principles” for the House of
D expansion, sourced from civic honchos and business advocates among
others in the months leading up to the board’s public hearing and recommendation
vote. Photo by Kevin Duggan
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