The District
Manager of the Community Board chairs the District Service
Cabinet(DSC), whose
members include representatives of the agencies that deliver local services to
the Community District. Services that are subject to coterminality
(Charter Section 2704) should be represented on the Cabinet. Coterminality
requires that the boundaries of certain agencies’ local service districts
coincide with the boundaries of the Community Districts. Some services must be
coterminous with individual Community Districts, while others may be coterminous
with aggregates of Community Districts. The head of each agency subject to
coterminality must appoint a local service chief to each service district.
The local service
chief should have authority over the agency’s personnel, programs and facilities
within the district. The granting of authority to local service chiefs is
a Charter mandate often referred to as management decentralization. In general,
the local service chief should be a member of the District Service Cabinet. For
some services, however, this has been unfeasible, either because the local
service chief has too many districts to cover or because the agency delivers
diverse services that would not be effectively represented by the local service
chief. The chart below shows the local service chiefs and District Service
Cabinet representatives of the services subject to
coterminality.