{"id":6,"date":"2019-11-25T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb17\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2022-09-07T12:31:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T16:31:02","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb17\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About CB17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Boards are local representative bodies in the City of New York. There are 59 Community Boards created by a City Charter amendment in 1975. Each borough is divided geographically, and Brooklyn has 18 Community Boards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Board 17 is a unique community due to its size, location, population, and community needs. Community Board 17 has a host of public facilities, public spaces, businesses, service providers, and other amenities not found in many other communities located throughout the metropolitan area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Board 17, like all of the community boards within NYC, plays a very important advisory role in dealing with land use and zoning matters, the City budget, municipal service delivery, and many other matters relating to the communities\u2019 welfare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Board is comprised of 50 unsalaried members, appointed by the Borough President in consultation with the New York City Council members who represent part of the Board district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Any person with a residence, business, professional, or other significant interest in a Community District in a given area is eligible for appointment to the Community Board serving that area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Board 17 consists of a full-time District Manager with three staff members that receive and work to resolve residents\u2019 service delivery problems.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"card-text\">Community Boards are local representative bodies in the City of New York. There are 59 Community Boards created by a City Charter amendment in 1975. Each borough is divided geographically,<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-auto\"><a class=\"btn btn-secondary mt-auto\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb17\/about\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}