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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In a letter addressed to the City University of New York (CUNY) Board of Trustees Council Member Joseph C. Borelli (R-South Shore) is asking for their assistance in transforming CUNY schools across the city into open-access centers of development for New Yorkers of all backgrounds through the implementation of a policy of barrier-free access to mental health courses for any veteran of the United Stated military, regardless of their education level or financial capacity.
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In a letter written to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Council Member Joseph C. Borelli (R – South Shore) and Minority Leader Steven Matteo (R – Mid Island) addressed three major concerns they and their constituents have regarding the overall fairness of property tax assessments on Class One properties throughout the city. This letter is the result of months of extensive research by the council members, which had uncovered gross inequities in the assessment of properties in borough to borough comparisons, which is an effect of the city inaccurately assessing Class One properties for decades by using a formula based on statistical data, instead of an actual in-person assessment by a qualified assessor, as mandated by state law.
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