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District 51

Joseph C. Borelli

Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights, New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis, Freshkills Park (North), Oakwood-Richmondtown, Great Kills-Eltingville, Arden Heights-Rossville, Annadale-Huguenot-Prince's Bay-Woodrow, Tottenville-Charleston, Freshkills Park (South), Great Kills Park

Council Member Joseph C. Borelli (R – South Shore) is drafting and advocating for legislation that would require New York City’s public television station, channel 25 on most provider networks, to air the full debates in addition to whichever commercial television station is sponsoring them.

This initiative was prompted by the limited distribution of the mayoral debate on 10/10/17 which aired on Spectrum News, a privately owned television station with a notoriously high subscription cost and limited distribution throughout New York City.

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“I’ve just been told that the de Blasio Statue Commission is meeting in secret and without any press or public oversight. It’s absurd to think that a man who lived 500 years ago during the Spanish Inquisition is now on secret trial, probably in the basement of some municipal building, without any representation. This would be a lot funnier if it weren’t true,”

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In a letter to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Council Member Joseph C. Borelli (R – South Shore), Congress Member Dan Donovan (R – SI, Brooklyn), Minority Leader Steven Matteo (R – Mid Island), Borough President James Oddo (R – Staten Island), and Assembly Member Ron Castorina (R – South Shore) expressed their concern about the behavior of officials in the town of Perth Amboy, NJ regarding the exclusion of New York State motorists from local roads during peak traffic.

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Council Member Joseph C. Borelli (R-South Shore) has announced the allocation of over $2.5 million in funding for Staten Island schools through his office. The funds will go toward a number of new projects and upgrades for a majority of the elementary and intermediate schools in the Council Member’s district.

The enhancements will include technology upgrades in PS 4, PS 5, PS 6, PS 8, PS 55, PS 58, PS 62, PS 69, and IS 24, and IS 34, playground equipment at PS 3, a new schoolyard at PS 32, security cameras at PS 56, a gymnasium at PS 53, a new perimeter fence at IS 7, and electrical upgrades at PS 1, PS 36, IS 72 and Tottenville High School, which will allow the school buildings to accommodate climate control systems and newer technology.

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Council Member Joseph Borelli (R – South Shore) is demanding that the New York City Department of Transportation not issue a single additional residential sidewalk summons for a hairline crack until the sidewalks at Huguenot Avenue, Veterans Road East and Arthur Kill Road are repaired.

The Huguenot Avenue, Veterans Road East and Arthur Kill Road corridor serves as a de-facto park &

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Council Member Joseph Borelli (R – South Shore) penned a letter to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio today, following up on a request he made earlier this year for a study on the long-term and potentially life threatening health effects associated with the operation of the Fresh Kills Landfill for several decades on Staten Island.

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Council Member Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) is calling on Mayor de Blasio and Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito of the New York City Council to reconsider their proposal to remove the Christopher Columbus statue, a cherished symbol of Italian-American heritage and contributions to the United states. Further, Borelli is requesting that they release to the public the criteria being used to evaluate which statues should be removed and which should be allowed to remain in our city.

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Council Member Joseph C. Borelli (R-South Shore), Borough President James Oddo, and NYC Department of Transportation Borough Commissioner Tom Cocola are announcing a new flashing yellow amber warning signal which will be installed on Annadale Road in the heart of the town this fall. Last March, Council Member Borelli and Borough President Oddo brought Borough Commissioner Cocola on a tour of the area to make suggestions about how to better protect pedestrians and preserve the general walkability of the heart of Annadale town.

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Council Member Joseph Borelli (R – South Shore) is calling on the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) and the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) to extend the life of the list of individuals who are waiting to enter the next class of the FDNY academy. Currently, in an effort to break test score ties, list numbers are assigned based on an individual’s written exam score and the fifth number of their social security number.

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District Office

2955 Veterans Road West, Suite 2
Staten Island, NY 10309
(718) 984-5151 phone
(718) 948-1592 fax

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250 Broadway, 1551
New York, NY 10007
(212) 788-6989 phone 1
(212)-788-7159 phone 2
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