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CB 18 Unanimously Approves Its New Budget It was standing room only at Community Board 18's October 18th meeting in King's Plaza Community Room. Scores of attendees came to hear Chairman Saul Needle discuss the Capital and Expense Budget submissions for Fiscal Year 2008. In past meetings, Needle asked local residents as well as civic and block associations to submit ideas and requests they wished to be considered in the board's budget submission. The board unanimously voted to approve the 2008 Fiscal Year Budget at the meeting. Some of the budget proposals were discussed included reconstruction of East 108th Street and the improvement of Rockaway Parkway. The board also announced replacement of the current Mill Basin drawbridge, which is scheduled to start in 2011 and will take at least four years. The replacement will be an overpass that is higher and wider than the current bridge. The next item discussed was the deplorable conditions at Canarsie Pier. District Manager Dorothy Turano explained that only the circle area of the pier is maintained by the city while the pier is under jurisdiction of the National Park Service. Michael Bolus, a representative from U.S. Congressman Edolphus Town's office, said that he has contacted the National Park Service and indicated that they promised a cleanup of the pier would begin within the next few months. State Senator Carl Kruger spoke about his concern over the increase in crime at the Plumb Beach parking area off the Belt Parkway. Kruger recommended both covert and overt surveillance of the area and implementation of a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Kruger said the Police Department patrols the area and barricades the area at curfew time, but he added, the temporary barrier is repeatedly removed. He insists that additional police power is needed. In other business, Turano announced that a public hearing is scheduled for November 2 at the Hebrew Educational Society to garner more community support to stop the overdevelopment of the Canarsie area. Turano said increased development is also creating a strain on local schools and stretching the capacity of such local services as police, sanitation and fire. "The infrastructure cannot handle the overdevelopment," she said.
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