Community Board Meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 7 pm

Community Board 9 (which would be ours) is having its first public meeting since the summer break next week. At the meeting, the Board will entertain community member ideas for what it should be spending money on in 2010. Want more trees in PLG? Day care slots? Open spaces? Better commercial strips? If so, now's your chance to speak up. Call the Community Board at 718-778-9279 before noon on Tuesday and ask to speak about your suggested budget item at the meeting.

PLG Public Works, a group we founded to promote traffic calming in the neighborhood, will be there to pitch our pet project: a study to improve the Ocean & Parkside intersection at Prospect Park. I'd also personally love to see something happen with the plaza outside the Parkside subway station: some trees, a few benches with awnings, perhaps — you know, something more than a concrete wasteland.

Also on the agenda for Tuesday: "Mr. Scott Codey, Director of Advocacy at the Citizens Committee for New York City will advise on the fall New Yorkers for Better Neighborhoods grant applications and the launch of their annual neighborhood survey." You can find more info about the grants here.

Hope to see some of you there:

Tuesday, 9/23, 7 pm
Middle School 61
400 Empire Blvd (between Nostrand and New York)
Brooklyn, NY 11225