6 JANUARY 23, 2020 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
CB 5 votes to spend $25K on ‘Respect Campaign’
BY MAX PARROTT
MPARROTT@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
Community Board 5 voted at its Jan. 9 meeting
to devote over $25,125 of discretionary
spending on a “respect program,” which
will hire a preferably bilingual temporary
administrative assistant, whose job will be “to
convince people to be more civil.”
The project, spearheaded by CB5 District
Manager Gary Giordano, will take up the lion’s
share of the additional $42,500 of funding that
the city gave each community board in their 2020
budgets.
Giordano, who in years past had dedicated
extra discretionary spending to an anti-graffiti
program, came up with the idea for an initiative
that aims to promote respect in all shapes and
varieties, including peacefulness, respect for the
environment and the desire to learn.
Despite the broad definitions of the program,
Giordano specifically referenced forms of domestic
abuse and misbehavior that target women
in outlining the project at the board meeting.
“I’m very concerned with too much lack of respect.
And I think we have a specific problem in
our precinct, related to the number of calls that
police officers have to respond to related to the
potential for domestic violence,” said Giordano.
The materials Giordano wrote to describe the
program reference a grizzly crime story about a
“man who sawed off his girlfriend’s arm crazily”
and a story about a Bronx stabbing to illustrate a
tide of “disrespectful and violent behavior.” The
CB5 District Manager Gary Giordano Photo: Max Parrott/QNS
examples also span more moderate quality-of-life
offenses like vehicular speeding, illegal dumping
and blaring music “littered with cursing and
disrespect, especially against women.”
To fight this grim portrait of contemporary
Ridgewood life, Giordano said that he envisions
the project as creating materials that encourage
“what we can all agree is good, responsible
behavior,” then distributing them among all
other community boards in Queens, and possibly
throughout the entire city.
After Giordano finished presenting the program
at the meeting, the board voted to approve
it.
The other proposed expenditures involve buying
a new photocopier and office security system,
which total $11,000.
“So now the question becomes can we do it and
how can we do it. It was much easier removing
graffiti,” said Giordano.
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