This Week in Chelsea, the CB4 Edition: February 8-14, 2021

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Online applications can be accessed at manhattanbp.nyc.gov/cbapplication.

COMMUNITY BOARD APPLICATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED  THROUGH FEBRUARY 22  | Manhattan’s 12 community boards are local organizations each composed of 50 volunteer members serving staggered two-year terms. Notes Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer (who is responsible for appointing new community board members), community boards are “tasked with being the independent and representative voices of their communities—the most grass-roots form of local government. The boards are pivotal in shaping their communities and work to enhance and preserve the character of the city’s many unique neighborhoods.”

Online applications can be accessed at manhattanbp.nyc.gov/cbapplication. A complete application must be submitted online or postmarked by no later than 5pm on Mon., Feb. 22nd. Physical applications (downloadable here as a PDF) may be mailed, but online submissions are strongly preferred. “The online application must be completed in one session,” notes BP Brewer’s office, adding, “It is recommended you copy and paste your essay responses from a separate document into the corresponding fields in the application. Be mindful of word limits. Failure to meet the word count requirements will result in an error message when attempting to submit this application. Additionally, please have your resume or short bio prepared to upload and attach as part of this online application.”

Applicants who have successfully submitted all required materials will receive confirmation via an automated email receipt from “Office of Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer,” no-reply@wufoo.com. Check your Spam folder for this email and contact the office if you do not receive your receipt. Following the submission deadline and an internal review process, my staff will contact you regarding next steps, which may include an interview. After applications have been reviewed and interviews are completed, appointments will be announced in late spring.

Hudson Guild Theatre Company Seeks Talent for New Online Showcase | Live performances are on hold until their theatre can safely reopen–but that hasn’t stopped Hudson Guild from nurturing new talent. Set to broadcast monthly through June, Talent Jam! is a new virtual showcase presented on the Guild’s YouTube channel. Each episode will feature 2-3 short performances. People of all ages and levels of experience are encouraged to submit MP4 files for consideration. All forms of expression are welcome, including music, dance, monologues, and stand-up comedy. Only one rule: That thing you do must be no longer than 5 minutes. Send your MP4 file to jfurlong@hudsonguild.org any time between now and May 1. Need technical help? Send an email to Jim Furlong (see address in previous sentence), with a description of your act and what sort of assistance you need. Or, call Furlong at 212-760-9837. For more information, visit www.hudsonguilod.org.

Update on Last Week’s “THIS WEEK IN CHELSEA” | See What Amount of the Below Feb. 3 Listing Actually Came to Pass

When You View the Archived Version of CB4’s Feb. 3 Full Board Meeting via Their YouTube Channel

Click Here to Access the Meeting

Image via the CB4 website

Wed., Feb.3, 6:30pm: Manhattan Community Board 4 (CB4) Full Board Meeting | New year, same routine–albeit a relatively recent one:  Until the pandemic era of 2o2o took hold, CB4 meetings were brick and mortar affairs, with no digital footprint, let alone a live video recording immediately archived to be viewed at will, via MCB4’s YouTube channel. As 2021 begins, MCB4 finds more members of the public accessing their work than ever before, via Zoom. So it goes on Feb. 3, as the full board convenes to vote on matters brought to them by various committees who held their own monthly meetings in the weeks prior. To view the letters scheduled to be voted on, click here and see the complete packet. Before that, however, Public Hearings are scheduled, including CB4’s Response to the Fiscal Year 2022 Preliminary Budget. Following that, members of the public are encouraged to voice their concerns, via the Public Session. MCB4 First Vice Chair Jeffrey LeFrancois lets no moss grow on the proceedings, timing each speaker’s slot at two minutes, and chiming in with a practiced timbre that warns speakers they have 15 second to wrap things up. You have until 6:45pm on Jan. 6 (the day of the meeting) to register for the Public Session. Click here to do so. But what good is signing up if you can’t get to the meeting? In order to do so (you know where this is going by now), click here.  To visit the MCB4 website, click here.

–Compiled by Scott Stiffler

 

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