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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), the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the New York City Department of Transportation are announcing the commencement of work on the Bridge Street cross-through turn in Richmond Valley.

This project will create a new small street and turning opportunity under the Outerbridge Crossing, just prior to the Arthur Kill Road and North and South Bridge Street intersections, to ease traffic and create efficiencies in anticipation of higher volumes of traffic in the area.

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Council Member Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) and local business owners are welcoming back Staten Island shoppers to their home community where they can find retail and big box stores, open spaces, recreational activities, and great dining options without paying tolls or navigating jug handles; Staten Island even had its own pumpkin patch this season!

Some of the many upcoming events in our community for children and families include autumnal and Christmas festivals at Mount Loretto in Pleasant Plains, the Grand Illumination and Colonial Christmas at the Conference House in Tottenville, and the annual Annadale Christmas tree lighting.

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Council Member Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore), in partnership with IlluminArt Productions and the Staten Island Mental Health Society (SIMHS), is hosting an anti-bullying workshop for parents at I.S. 24 in Great Kills.

IlluminArt is going to be putting on a production aimed at broadening the perspectives of audience members and providing examples to analyze and navigate as a group during the subsequent Q&A panel.

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Council Member Joseph Borelli (R – South Shore) has been working with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC DPR) over the last several months to provide safer, easier access to the Owl Hollow soccer fields on the south shore of Staten Island. Constituents have contacted Borelli’s office in significant numbers to express their concern regarding the park’s accessibility.

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Council Member Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) and Council Minority Leader Steven Matteo (R-Mid Island) are calling for a public hearing of the Council’s Health Committee to investigate the protocols that are currently in place with regard to water quality testing, and the actions taken by the NYC Department of Education to inappropriately influence the results of the testing.

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Today, Council Member Joseph C. Borelli announced the schedule of the annual Movies in the Park festival, which screens popular children’s movies at local parks. This will be the twelfth annual Movies in the Park hosted on the South Shore.

The screening schedule for Movies in the Park 2016 is as follows:

Show dates are subject to change due to weather, and individuals can stay updated about this by following Council Member Borelli on Facebook.

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Council Member Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) and Assembly Member Ron Castorina Jr. have announced the allocation of $50,000 to Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve in Charleston. The funds will be used to update the Park’s signage system in an effort to be more user-friendly, accessible, and clear, which Clay Pit Park is trying to accommodate.

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Council Member Joseph Borelli and Minority Leader Steven Matteo are today responding to the Independent Budget Office’s (IBO) report on Class 1 property tax equity, as a result of a request by the council members to look into a potential disparity. The Council Members disagree with the IBO on the following points:

  1. The IBO did not look at time adjusted sales and weighted averages for FY 16, and focused exclusively on calendar year 2015.

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The Department of Finance (NYC DOF) will be reminding homeowners who receive the Senior Citizen Homeowner’s Exemption (SCHE) or Disabled Homeowner’s Exemption (DHE) to renew their property tax exemptions before the deadline on March 15, 2017. The reductions received by eligible applicants range from 5% to 50% of the homeowner’s total assessed property value, representing substantial savings to senior and disabled homeowners.

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Council Member Joseph C. Borelli (R-South Shore) has announced the allocation of $2.25 million in funding for Staten Island middle schools through his office. The funds will go toward a number of new projects and upgrades for all public middle schools in the Council Member’s district.

The enhancements will include electrical system upgrades in I.S. 75 and I.S.

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2955 Veterans Road West, Suite 2
Staten Island, NY 10309
(718) 984-5151 phone
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250 Broadway, 1551
New York, NY 10007
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