Brooklyn Home Rule Coalition Initiative to Amend the NYC Charter by N.Y. Municipal Home Rule Law § 37

I, the undersigned, do hereby state that I am a resident of and a registered and qualified voter in the Borough of Brooklyn within the city of New York, that my present place of residence is truly stated opposite my signature hereto as it appears in my voter registration, and that I do hereby sign this Petition, as set forth below, to enable the contents of this Petition to be submitted to the electors of the city of New York at a general election of  8 November 2011.

In witness where, I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year placed opposite my signature.


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                             Petition to amend the City Charter of the city of New York NYCC, and create the Home Rule Commission            

 

1.        Create and Fund the Home RuleCommission composed of the controller of the city of New York, the mayor, the city council speaker, several borough presidents and 64 private citizens of Brooklyn, three (3) duly elected from within each existing Brooklyn Community Board, with each paid at a minimum wage per diem starting Monday 9 January 2012 for every meeting to transform the terms and conditions of the NYCC into a new Charter to renew home rule municipal status for Brooklyn wholly within the existing County of Kings to continue in condominium with NYC; and for the Home Rule Commission to present to the eligible voters of the city of New York the New Charter transformation plan no later than four months before the general election of twenty thirteen. 

 

2.        Amend NYCC Section 2 the Boroughs to read: The boroughs of the city are continued as existing at the time of the adoption of this charter with the exception of Brooklyn with its own mayor, comptroller, and community board elected officials with New York State Municipal Home Rule Law by advice and consent in condominium with this charter.

 

3.        Amend NYCC Section 50 to read: a. There shall be a districting commission consisting of fifteen members appointed as provided in this section with the exception of Brooklyn that shall perform districting wholly within as further provided.

 

4.        Amend NYCC Section 2601 Definitions Clause 10. to read: "Elected official" means a person holding office as mayor, comptroller, public advocate, borough president or member of the council, and or member of the respective Brooklyn Community Board.

 

5.        Amend NYCC Section 2700 Declaration of intent to read:. It is the intent of this chapter to encourage and facilitate coterminous community districts and service districts to be used for the planning of community life within the city, the participation of citizens in city government within their communities, and the efficient and effective organization of agencies that deliver municipal services in local communities and boroughs with the exception of Brooklyn that shall have a popularly elected representation one representative per 5000 inhabitants within a district modified with the census enumeration every ten years in each Brooklyn Community Board whose officials will form the Brooklyn city Council.

 

6.        Amend NYCC Section 2701 Community districts Community districts to read:. a. Each community district shall: (1) Lie within the boundaries of a single borough, except as provided in subdivisions d, e and f of this section, and coincide with historic, geographic and identifiable communities from which the city has developed;

 

7.        Add NYCC Section 2701 (f) to read:  f.  (1) Brooklyn Home rule provides for bottom-up elected representation in each Brooklyn Community Board District (CBD) composed of  no less than three representatives each elected from a compact coterminous sub-district of 5000 inhabitants wholly within; (2) that each representative shall be elected for a one year term  by eligible voters of each respective district, and when elected to be reimbursed in a per diem basis at minimum wage including reasonable expense; (3) that the respective CBD representatives shall elect by 2/3 vote a Chairperson for each CBD; and (4) the respective Chairperson shall possess the warrants and or CBD Members’ proxy on all matters presented by the respective CBD to the Brooklyn Mayor at the Brooklyn Council composed of eighteen CBD Chairpersons.  

 

Complete ONE of the following:  STATEMENT OF WITNESS

 

I, (name of witness) _______________________________ state: I am a duly qualified voter of the City of New York and I am also duly qualified to sign the Petition.  I now reside in New York City at (residence address) _________________________________ _________________________.  The individual whose name is subscribed to this Petition sheet containing 1 signature, subscribed the same in my presence on the date above indicated and identified himself/herself to be the individual who signed this sheet.

I understand that this statement will be accepted for all purposes as the equivalent of an affidavit and, if it contains a material false statement, shall subject me to the same penalties as if I had been duly sworn.

 

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        Date                                                                                                   Signature of Witness

 

WITNESS IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION:  The following information for the witness named above must be completed prior to filing with the board of elections in order for this petition sheet to be valid.

County in New York City:  ____________ _____________________

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(2) NOTARY PUBLIC OR COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS

On the date above indicated before me personally came the NYC voter whose signature appears on this Petition sheet containing 1 signature who signed same in my presence and who being by me duly sworn, said that the foregoing statement made and subscribed by him/her, was true.

 

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