Vital grass roots input, neighborhood passion organized and focused through community boards
Borough President’s office inducted 179 new members in ceremony, swearing in a total of 497
BOROUGH HALL — They put the community into community board, and on the evening of Thursday, May 4, Brooklyn’s newest community board members were sworn in at Borough Hall and virtually, via Zoom, by the borough’s Deputy Borough President Kim Council.
Standing at the front of Borough Hall’s ceremonial courtroom, Council emphasized the important role that community board members play as conduits between the people who live in Brooklyn and city government.
“Bridging the gap between people and government is a huge responsibility,” Council stressed. “When we work together, we can always honor the things that bind us together, our love of Brooklyn.” Serving on a community board, she added, is “the most grassroots, most real version of democracy out on our streets.”