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The City Charter calls for the creation of a District Service Cabinet in each community district. (See City Charter language, here.)
Responsibilities
The District Service Cabinet is to:
- Coordinate service functions and programs of the agencies that deliver services in the community district;
- Consider interagency problems and impediments to the effective and economic delivery of services in the district;
- Plan and recommend joint programs to meet the needs and priorities of the district and its residents;
- Consult with community district residents and their representatives about local service problems and activities; and
- Keep a public record of its activities and transactions, including minutes of its meetings.
Membership & Meetings
Monthly Cabinet meetings provide the opportunity for local service delivery chiefs to share information about district issues and for the Community Board's District Manager to address service delivery issues.
The Cabinet’s members include:
- District manager
- Chairperson of the community board or his or her representative
- All agency officials with line authority for the district
- The district’s city council members
- Representative of the department of city planning
The District Manager chairs the Cabinet meetings and may invite those deemed appropriate to them.
Coterminality
The City Charter requires the formation of community districts to facilitate planning of community life, citizen participation in city government, and the efficient and effective organization of agencies that deliver city services. To ease service delivery coordination and the planning process, the Charter required that “coterminous” service districts be created using the borders of community districts. And that agency heads appoint a responsible line official - with some authority over agency personnel, programs, and facilities within the district - to serve in the District Service Cabinet.
Police precincts provide a good example of coterminality, with most having a border that matches the Community Board's. But some community districts have more than one precinct and a few precincts cover broader areas.
Some agencies have complete, one-to-one, coterminality with community districts, while others are coterminous with aggregates of community districts, or by borough. The following lists Cabinet agencies of each type.
Those with one-to-one coterminality:
- Police Department - Precinct Commander
- Department of Sanitation - District Superintendent
- Department of Parks and Recreation, Bureau of Maintenance & Operation - Principal Parks Supervisor
- Bureau of Recreation Assistant - Supervisor for Recreation
- Human Resources Administration
- Department of Youth Services - Youth Coordinator
Those with aggregate coterminality:
- Department of Transportation
- Department of Environmental Protection
- Department of Health
- Department of Housing
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