NYC City Council Hearing on Resiliency: Build It Back Oversight Committee Meeting (2016-09-22)

NYC City Council Hearing on Resiliency: Build It Back Oversight Committee Meeting

Please be advised that the Committee on Recovery and Resiliency will hold a hearing on Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 1:00 P.M. in the Committee Room, City Hall, New York, NY regarding the above-referred topic.

You are hereby invited to attend this hearing and testify therein. Please feel free to bring with you such members of your staff you deem appropriate to the subject matter.

If you plan to participate, it would be greatly appreciated if you could bring twenty (20) copies double-sided of your written testimony to the hearing.

Tidal Exchanges Jamaica Bay: Crossroads of Resilience Bike Tour

Join us for the second Tidal Exchanges biking tour, hosted by the NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program and the Science and Resiliency Institute @Jamaica Bay! We will focus on the unique challenges of and solutions for an area in which rich habitat and communities lie adjacent to each other in an area vulnerable to sea level rise and coastal storms.

Draft bike tour agenda and map

2:00 Welcome/intro – Kate Boicourt (NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program); Jessica Fain (Science & Resiliency Institute @Jamaica Bay);

2:20 Spring Creek South – Joanna Field (NYS Department of Environmental Conservation), Lisa Baron (US Army Corps of Engineers)

3:00 West Pond – Susan Elbin (NYC Audubon)

4:00 Sunset Cove Park – Don Riepe (American Littoral Society), Marit Larson (NYC Parks), Dan Mundy Sr. (Jamaica Bay EcoWatchers); Mary Kimball (NYC Dept. of City Planning)

4:30 Sewage treatment in Jamaica Bay – Matt Malina (NYC H2O)

5:00 Brant Point wave attenuator pilot – Michael Spina (Biohabitats), John McLaughlin (NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection)

5:30 Adjourn to Rockaway Brewing Co.

Note: The ride is rated moderate, approximately nine miles from start to finish. Adaptations may be made for those requiring transit, but will require an abbreviated number of stops. Contact Kate Boicourt at kate@hudsonriver.org.

Community Emergency Planning Seasonal Meeting: Winter Weather

NYC Citizen Corps and the Shorefront YM-YWHA invite community and nonprofit leaders to learn how New York City plans for seasonal weather. Learn how to better connect to NYC/Community information and preparedness resources in your community and get 2017 snow removal updates.

Community Emergency Planning Workshop: Winter Weather

NYC Citizen Corps invites community and nonprofit leaders to learn how New York City plans for winter weather and what you can do to connect people to information and preparedness resources in your community. Reasonable accommodation or other auxiliary aids and/or services will be provided upon request.

Southern Brooklyn Coastal Storm Community Emergency Planning Workshop

NYC Citizen Corps and the Brooklyn Long-Term Recovery Group invite southern Brooklyn community and nonprofit leaders to learn how New York City plans for coastal storms and what you can do to connect people to information and preparedness resources in your community. There will also be a brief BLTRG General Assembly. Reasonable accommodation or other auxiliary aids and/or services will be provided upon request.

Coastal Storm Community Emergency Planning Workshop

Register here for a Coastal Storm Community Emergency Planning Workshop. In honor of National Preparedness Month, NYC Citizen Corps invites community and nonprofit leaders to learn how New York City plans for coastal storms and what you can do to connect people to information and preparedness resources to reduce the potential adverse effects of coastal storm hazards, such as flooding and power loss, in your community.
Reasonable accommodation or other auxiliary aids and/or services will be provided upon request.

8/2 @ 11:00 am – Rockaway WF1 (57-17 Rockaway Beach Blvd. Arverne, NY 11692)

8/3 @ 11:00 am – Urban Upbound Jobs Plus (4-25 Astoria Blvd. Astoria, NY 11102)

8/4 @ 6:00 pm – Smith House TA Room (15 St. James Pl. New York, NY 10038)

8/9 @ 2:00 pm – REES Office (787 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11238)

8/11 @ 1:00 pm – Coney Island Library (1901 Mermaid Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11224)