Brooklyn, NY – Councilman Simcha Felder and his colleagues in the New York City Council worked with the Bloomberg Administration to restore cuts to the operating budgets of the City�s fifty-nine Community Boards.�The Community Boards had been budgeted for a 5% cut before executive budget hearings of the Council�s Committee on Governmental Operations, which Felder chairs and which has oversight of the City�s Community Boards.

�It was a tough budget this year, and all city agencies had to find places to cut back,� Felder said. �But to ask Community Boards to cut $10,000 from their budgets when they haven�t seen an increase in twenty years would kill the Boards without substantively improving the City�s overall.�

At the last Brooklyn Community Board 12 general meeting before the summer, Council Member Felder joined the Board in presenting Special Operations Lieutenant Jimmy Selleck (pictured w/ Chair Alan Dubrow, District Manager Wolf Sender and Felder) with a plaque in appreciation of the 66th Precinct�s work during the Pesach holiday.� Felder and CB12 also welcomed new appointees to the Board, including Mark Katz, David Greenfield, and Jacob Daskal (pictured w/ Sender, Felder, Vice Chair Motty Katz, and Dubrow).