{"id":192,"date":"2022-10-05T09:56:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T13:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/committees\/health-environment-social-services\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T13:49:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:49:55","slug":"health-environment-social-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/all-committees\/health-environment-social-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Health, Environment &amp; Social Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Health, Environment &amp; Social Services (HESS) Committee advocates for the physical, mental, and environmental health of District residents, including social services for persons with disabilities, unhoused persons, and senior citizens; sanitation and refuse collection; sewer maintenance and repair; pollution and toxic waste; and serves as first review for all <a href=\"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/applicants\/state-liquor-licenses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Liquor Authority (SLA)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/applicants\/state-cannabis-licenses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Office of Cannabis Management (OCM)<\/a> applications in the District.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This Committee typically meets at 6pm on the 1st Tuesday of every month<\/strong>, except during the Citywide summer recess months of July and August. All interested neighbors are encouraged to attend and participate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/about\/newsletter\/\">Subscribe to the District newsletter<\/a> for first notice of meetings, and confirm all dates, times, locations, and agendas on the District\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/calendar\/\">live calendar<\/a>. Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiny.cc\/bk02public\">BKCD2 Public Drive<\/a> to review the archive of previous meeting materials.<\/p>\n<h2>2026 Committee Members<\/h2>\n<p><b>Chairperson:<\/b> Brandon Smith<br \/>\n<b>Vice-Chair:<\/b> Nicole McKnight<br \/>\n<b>Secretary:<\/b>\u00a0Jack Adam<br \/>\nEmily Anadu<br \/>\nAlvin Browne<br \/>\nMonique Cumberbatch<br \/>\nKyiesha Kelly<br \/>\nJeffrey Ryan<br \/>\nJessica Thurston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"card-text\">The Health, Environment &amp; Social Services (HESS) Committee advocates for the physical, mental, and environmental health of District residents, including social services for persons with disabilities, unhoused persons, and senior<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-auto\"><a class=\"btn btn-secondary mt-auto\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/all-committees\/health-environment-social-services\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}