Community Board 6 conducts business through its ten committees. Each committee meets once a month and provides a report at the Full Board monthly meeting; at which time the Full Board takes up the matters and resolutions generated by the committees.

Committee Overview:

Budget & Governmental Affairs
This committee sets Board's budget priorities, drafts the Board's District Needs Statement, coordinates and attends agency consultations, and reviews and responds to the Mayor's Preliminary and Executive Budgets. The committee also acts as liaison between the Board and governmental entities.

Business Affairs and Street Activities
This committee reviews applications for the various types of liquor licenses offered through the State Liquor Authority, including requests for transfers and alterations. The committee also ensures that these establishments operate according to what was represented to the Board and the community. Additionally, the committee reviews applications for enclosed and unenclosed sidewalk cafes, and Street Activity permits for street fairs and block parties. The committee also helps mediate community concerns with businesses.
Liquor License Map
Liqour License Questionaire
Street Activity Application

Housing and Homeless Services
This committee deals with the provision of services and other matters related to housing and the homeless. With respect to housing, the committee monitors and reviews the services provided by the Department of Housing, Preservation and Development and monitors and formulates various resolutions on affordable housing, rent control and rent stabilization, federal Section 8 vouchers, the Senior Citizen Rent Increase Exemption law and Mitchell-Lama housing. With respect to the homeless, the committee monitors the services provided by the Department of Homeless Services and meets with other private and public providers of services for the homeless including the Coalition for the Homeless, the East Side Alliance, the Grand Central BID, the 30th Street Men's Shelter, and Urban Pathways."

Health, Senior and Disability Issues
The committee deals with a wide range of issues relating to health, disability, and senior affairs. The committee works with the hospitals in our district and monitors the programs they provide, as well the district's substance abuse clinics, ambulatory care clinics, and similar such providers. It also monitors the provision of specialized services to senior citizens, children, the physically challenged, and the mentally ill and other disadvantaged groups. It consults with the Chair of the Board on appointments to the Bellevue and Beth Israel Community Advisory Boards. It reviews any application that comes before the Board from entities making application to the Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS).

Land Use
The Land Use Committee's mandate is to review and submit recommendations both proactively and reactively on land use and zoning matters. Pursuant in part to the requirements of the City's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), this committee reviews matters such as the designation of zoning districts; the adoption of special permits; the City's acquisitions of real property and the placement of municipal facilities; the plotting of streets, avenues or other public places; changes in the City map; and the development or improvement of property.

The committee reviews any application for a change in or variance from a Zoning Resolution and recommendations adopted by the full Board are considered by the City's Board of Standard and Appeals, the City Planning Commission and the City Council in the final determination of such applications. The committee is also responsible for initiating plans for growth within the district through the preparation of a 197-a Plan, such as the one that led to the development of Stuyvesant Cove Park on the East River. The committee also consults with private developers on major building projects.

Currently, the Land Use Committee has two standing sub-committees: a 197-a Plan Sub-Committee and a Con Edison Sub-Committee. The 197-a Plan Sub-Committee was formed to prepare a comprehensive 197-a Plan for development from East 14th Street to East 59th Street and from 100 feet west of Second Avenue to the East River, including the Con Edison waterfront site, the United Nations site and the East River Science Park site; to view 197-a Plan . The Con Edison Sub-Committee's mandate is to work with and monitor East River Realty Co., the developers of the Con Edison waterfront sites, and to make recommendations to the Land Use committee and Community Board on the formal response to the ULURP certified application.

Parks, Landmarks and Cultural Affairs
This committee serves as the community's advocate in the preservation of our parks, playgrounds and other open spaces. It works with the Department of Parks to support opportunities for new open spaces and recreational facilities; to monitor and make recommendations regarding the expenditure of park and open space dollars; and to monitor proposed uses and permits within our parks. With respect to landmarks, the committee works with the Landmarks Preservation Commission to preserve our existing historic districts and makes recommendations on any proposed changes to landmark buildings. It also makes recommendations on new buildings and neighborhoods to be designated as City landmarks.  With respect to cultural affairs, the committee assesses applications for cultural funding and serves as the district's liaison to the public library system and the Department of Cultural Affairs.
Map
Historic Map

Public Safety, Environment and Human Rights
This committee deals with a range of issues that affects public safety, from crime prevention to safe building construction to emergency preparedness. The committee monitors the operations of and provision of services by the Police Department, the Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, as well as the Department of Buildings in its capacity as enforcer of building codes. On the environment, the committee works with the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Sanitation; on human rights, the committee monitors all issues of discrimination such as proper enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Transportation
This committee is involved with issues relating to how people move around our district. Be it on land, on water or through the air, by foot, bicycle, bus, subway, car, ferry or helicopter, the committee's goal is to make all such movement safe and convenient. For example, working with the Department of Transportation, the committee evaluates how well traffic lights, turning lanes or parking signage decrease congestion and noise and promote safer streets and sidewalks. The committee also works on issues relating to the portion of the FDR Drive within our district, including the retention of the outer bridge reliever detour in the East River for conversion to pedestrian and bicycle use as part of the effort to develop a continuous waterfront esplanade around Manhattan. Additionally, the committee monitors progress of the Second Avenue Subway construction project and is among the leaders in the effort to establish Bus Rapid Transit service for First and Second Avenues.

Waterfront
This committee advocates for public access to the Board's waterfront and works with the appropriate agencies and other entities to ensure that the waterfront is being up-kept. The committee reviews and makes recommendations on any proposals set forth in this regard.

Youth and Education
This committee's mandate is to monitor and explore issues affecting young people to the age of 21. The committee works with the Department of Education on issues ranging from early childhood education to school safety and school nutrition to the status of teacher contracts.  It also monitors and reviews services provided outside the schools, such as summer youth employment programs, Out-of-School-Time (OST) initiatives and workforce preparation sponsored by the Department of Youth and Community Development. The committee also monitors CUNY and other higher education providers.