Council Member Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) has asked the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) to ensure that the waiver for US service members and veterans, which exists since it was implemented at the insistence of former New York City Council Minority Leader Vincent Ignizio several years ago, be appropriately conveyed to potential applicants and visible on the website application pages for both the FDNY and the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS).
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Council Member Joseph C. Borelli (R-South Shore) is partnering with the New York City Department of Veterans’ Services (DVS) to offer dedicated office hours this Wednesday, March 29, from 2pm to 5pm in honor of Vietnam Veterans Day. The satellite office hours at Borelli’s office will allow the Council Member’s constituents to access DVS services without needing to travel to the DVS office in St.
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Council Member Joseph C. Borelli (R-South Shore) is hosting a free rabies vaccination event for dogs and cats next Saturday, March 25th at Blue Heron Park Nature Center (222 Poillon Ave SI, NY 10312) from 10AM-2PM. Borelli’s office is partnering with the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene and the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals to offer this service.
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Council Member Joseph C. Borelli wants you to know that getting a preventative health screening can save your life, and that is why he is partnering with HeartScan Services to offer no-cost thyroid cancer screenings to members of the community, especially active and retired emergency responders.
According to the National Cancer Institute, there were an estimated 637,115 people living with thyroid cancer in the United States in 2013, and recent clinical findings show thyroid cancer as the fastest increasing cancer in the United States.
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Council Member Joseph Borelli (R – South Shore) and Minority Leader Steve Matteo are asking Mayor de Blasio to consider the effects on Class 1 property owners of the proposed $93 million program (tenant right to counsel amendment) to assist tenants with legal representation in housing court.
The Council Members believe that the tenant right to counsel amendment will have an adverse impact on smaller, multi-family properties which often serve as a vehicle to home ownership for first-time buyers in an expensive market like New York City.
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Council Member Joseph Borelli (R – South Shore) and Council Minority Leader Steven Matteo are asking the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC DPR) to re-evaluate the recent exclusion of mountain biking trails from the design of Fresh Kills Park.
The original drafts of the Fresh Kills Park master plan that were released to the public by NYC DPR in the spring of 2006 had included miles of trails specifically designated as mountain bikeways at the request of local community members and bicycling organizations.
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Council Member Joseph C. Borelli (R-South Shore) has signed onto a letter written by Council Member Margaret Chin, Chair of the New York City Council’s Committee on Aging, which urges Governor Cuomo to restore the proposed change to the way the state allocates federal Title XX funding, which appears in his executive budget proposal for fiscal year 2018 and would cut $17 million from the Department for the Aging’s (DFTA) budget.
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Council Member Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) is asking the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) to designate a week of significantly increased enforcement of littering and illegal dumping along the Arthur Kill Road commercial and industrial corridor between Veterans Road West and Huguenot Avenue, as this is a chronically problematic area for detritus that has been illegally disposed of.
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Council Member Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore), and Council Minority Leader Steven Matteo are introducing a resolution calling on Mayor DeBlasio and the New York City Department of Transportation to name one of the new, Ollis-class ferry boats in honor of Detective Russel Timoshenko, a Staten Islander and a member of the New York Police Department who was killed in the line of duty.
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Council Member Joseph C. Borelli (R – South Shore) is announcing the start of construction to widen Amboy Road between Huguenot and Kingdom Avenues. The $3 million project is currently in the first phase of construction and is slated to be completed by the New York City Department of Design and Construction (NYC DDC) in November of 2017.
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