Dear Neighbors & Friends,

Thank you for visiting the website of Brooklyn’s 41st City Council District. It is my greatest honor to represent the people of Bedford Stuyvesant, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, East Flatbush and Crown Heights in the City Council.

My responsibilities are to be your dedicated advocate in city government and to fight daily to bring information and resources to our communities. I hope you will use this site as a resource for important information on our city budget and services, policies and legislative issues that affect you.

I am committed to remaining an accountable and accessible grassroots leader. That means I need to hear your comments and suggestions!

E-mail my office using the Contact link on this website or call or stop by the district office for assistance. The monthly advisory board meetings, described on the Upcoming Events page, are a chance for us to communicate about important issues face-to-face. By staying in touch and working together, we will make a positive difference in our neighborhoods and our city!

Very truly yours,

Darlene Mealy

Every year, the City of New York sells its rights to collect certain debts for unpaid property taxes, water charges and HPD repairs. This annual event is called the lien sale, scheduled this year for May 17th.

Act now to protect your property rights by entering into a payment plan or applying for an exemption available to senior citizens, disabled New Yorkers, members of the military and veterans.

Get more information and forms online. You may also attend a lien sale outreach event:

Wednesday, April 4th
Brooklyn Borough Hall
209 Joralemon Street (in the Rotunda)
4-7 PM

Thursday, May 3rd
District Office of Council Member Mealy
1757 Union Street, 2nd Floor
b/w Utica & Rochester
Thursday, May 3rd
4-7 PM

Entered City Council: 01/01/2006
Current Term Expires: 12/31/2013

Represents: Parts of Bedford Stuyvesant, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, East Flatbush and Crown Heights

Committees: Contracts, Chair; Finance; Transportation; Youth Services

Council Member Mealy hosts an advisory board meeting each month. This public event gives residents of the 41st District an opportunity to receive important information and to share their thoughts and concerns with Council Member Mealy. Please join us!

Saturday, April 7, 2012
10 AM - 12 Noon
Tilden Senior Center
630 Mother Gaston Blvd., b/w Livonia & Dumont Aves.
Brooklyn, NY 11213
Agenda: This will be a combined meeting, co-hosted by State Senator John Sampson. Come learn and contribute!

"Escape the Lien Sale" outreach events have been planned to help you get your property of the 2012 lien sale list. Come apply for an exemption, set up a no down payment plan or pay down your debt!

Wednesday, April 4th
Brooklyn Borough Hall
209 Joralemon Street (in the Rotunda)
4-7 PM

Thursday, May 3rd
District Office of Council Member Mealy
1757 Union Street, 2nd Floor
b/w Utica & Rochester
Thursday, May 3rd
4-7 PM

February 2012

THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
OFFICE OF COUNCIL MEMBER DARLENE MEALY

1757 Union St., 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11213
(718) 953.3097
 
Media Release
**For Immediate Release**

City Council Passes Critical Legislation to Limit Contract Overruns Out of Contracts Committee Chaired by Council Member Darlene Mealy

On the day the city learned that it will be recover $500M of the money paid on the fraudulent City Time contract, the City Council has passed legislation that will help prevent such scandals in the future.

Intro 707-A requires the mayor to provide City Council with quarterly reports detailing significant increases in the initially contracted cost of large contracts for capital projects. Speaker Quinn pledged today that these reports will be made available to the public via the Council’s website.

This legislation was first passed out of the Contracts Committee, chaired by Council Member Darlene Mealy. “Under my leadership, the Contracts Committee has passed multiple pieces of legislation intended to shine more light on the city’s contracting practices,” said Council Member Mealy. “Intro 707-A will give members of the Council and the public the information we need to ensure that the costs of future contracts will not grow unmonitored and unchecked. I’m proud to be a sponsor of this bill and to lead the Contracts Committee that has produced it.”

Contact: Dynishal P. Gross
PH: 212.788.7387

Council Member Darlene Mealy was born in Detroit and raised in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. She attended public schools throughout her life and graduated from George Wingate High School. Following high school, Council Member Mealy attended BMCC. She also entered the workforce and spent seventeen years as an employee of the New York City Transit Authority. During this time, Council Member Mealy was a member of D.C. 37 . Her union activities inspired Council Member Mealy to pursue coursework in Labor & Women’s Studies offered by Cornell University.

Throughout her life, Council Member Mealy has been a dedicated, grassroots, community leader. Her early civic activities ranged from starting a community garden to coaching neighborhood youth in a community basketball league and serving as president of a large multi-block association.

Council Member Mealy was first elected to the City Council in 2006 and was re-elected in 2010. She currently chairs the Contracts Committee, where she has ensured the passage of legislation crafted to increase the transparency and efficiency of the city’s contracting process.

Council Member Mealy views her service in City Council as a natural continuation of her grassroots community work. She is proud to be the elected representative of the residents of Brooklyn’s 41st District and to advocate for the needs of the entire borough as Co-Chair of the Brooklyn Delegation.

Council Member Mealy is an active participant in the Council’s Black, Latino and Asian Caucus and in the Women’s Caucus.

On Wednesday, March 14, members of the City Council's Women's Caucus welcomed girls from around the city to serve as Council Member for a Day. Council Member Mealy hosted Assatta Cradle-Morgan, an 8th grader at P.S./I.S. 327. Assatta attended committee hearings, a special lunch, a press conference and the full meeting of the Council. Council Member Mealy and Assatta are pictured here at the front of the City Hall chambers and participating in that day's Stated Meeting.

On Saturday, February 25, 2012, Council Member Mealy and the Brooklyn branch of the NAACP co-sponsored a Citizen Application Assistance Event at P.S. 398, the Walter Weaver School in East New York, Brooklyn. The staff of CUNY Citizenship Now helped approximately 150 people apply for green cards and citizenship that day! Here, Council Member Mealy is pictured with Allan Wernick, Director CUNY Citizenship Now and Kymete Gashi, Special Projects Coordinator CUNY Citizenship Now.

On Friday, February 24th, Council Member Mealy represented the Brooklyn Delegation in presenting a check for $3.5M check to Kings County Hospital Center. This hospital will use these funds to purchase a new linear acceperator to provide radiation thereapy to hundreds of patients at the KCHC Cancer Care Center. Council Members Mealy (second from left) and Eugene (center) are pictured here with KCHC Medical Director Abha Agrawal, KCHC Senior Associate Director of Radiation Oncology Varina Deonarinesingh, KCHC Chief of Service of Radiation Oncology Dr. Emmanuel Nwokedi, Senior Vice President of North/Central Brooklyn Health Care Network George Proctor, and KCHC Acting Executive Director Roslyn Weinstein.

On February 15th, Council Member Mealy served as keynote speaker for Local 375's Black History Month Program. Pictured here following that event are Local 375's Legislative Chair Jessica Dewberry, State Committeeman/District Leader 56th AD Robert E.Cornegy Jr., Local 375 President Behrouz Fathi, Council Member Mealy and Local 375 Chapter President and Delegate Naze Andreville.