BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
Queens Borough President
Donovan Richards is currently
accepting online applications
from qualified and civicminded
individuals who are
interested in serving on their
local community board.
The community board
plays an important advisory
role in considering land use
and zoning matters in their
respective districts under the
city’s Uniform Land Use Review
Procedure.
The 2022 community board
application, like the previous
year’s groundbreaking iteration,
can be filled out online,
ensuring prospective applicants
can complete the process
quickly and easily, and again
allowing for a more diverse
applicant pool and safer application
process in light of the
ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
This year’s online application
again requires neither
notarization nor in-person delivery
to the Queens borough
president’s office.
“Government is more accountable
when it works in
close collaboration with the
communities it is sworn to
serve, and it is most effective
when the full demographic
spectrum of each and every
neighborhood is justly represented,”
Richards said. “I
look forward to continuing
the great strides we made
last year in ensuring our 14
Queens community boards
truly look and feel like the
neighborhoods they represent,
and I encourage anyone with
an interest in community
service to apply.”
The community board application
is available online
at queensbp.org/communityboards.
The deadline to submit
the electronic application
is Wednesday, Feb. 16.
This deadline applies to
both new applicants and existing
community board members
seeking an additional
term. For the upcoming round
of appointments, the two-year
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Prior to Richards assuming
office in December 2020, significant
demographic inequalities
existed within each of the 14
community boards in Queens.
The borough president worked
to correct that underrepresentation,
beginning with the 2021
application process.
Of his 110 first-time appointees,
62.4% were women — a
19.1-point increase from the
prior rate of female community
board membership — while
74.3% of first-time appointees
were 45 years old or younger
and 43.1% were no older than
35. Compared to 2020 board
membership, the 2021 appointee
class also had greater
percentages of those who selfidentify
as Latinx/Hispanic
(24.8%), African American/
Black (24.8%), immigrant
(17.4%), South Asian (14.7%),
East Asian/Pacific Islander
(11%) and LGBTQIA+ (8.3%).
In total, the revamped
application process led to a
diverse pool of over 900 applicants,
including more than
700 people who were not existing
members of a community
board, a near-threefold increase
from 2020.
There are 59 community
boards citywide, including
14 in Queens, and each hold
monthly full membership
meetings. The boards also
hold hearings and issue recommendations
about the city
budget, municipal service
delivery and numerous other
matters that impact their
communities.
All Queens community
board members are appointed
by the Queens borough president,
pursuant to the City
Charter, with half of the appointments
nominated by the
City Council members representing
their respective community
districts. Each board
has up to 50 unsalaried members,
with each member serving
a two-year term.
All community board
members who wish to continue
serving on a board are
required to reapply at the conclusion
of their two-year term
and are subject to review and
reconsideration.
Online applications for Queens
community boards now open
Applications for Queens community boards are now open, Queens
Borough President Donovan Richards announced on Jan. 6, 2022.
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