FYI:
At my request, the Chair of Community Board 7/ Manhattan, Sheldon Fine, allowed for the following Resolution to be introduced as New Business. After discussion, the enclosed resolution was adopted by the Full Board of Community Board 7 on February 6, 2006.
Luis O. Reyes
Co-Chair, Youth, Education and Libraries Committee
RESOLUTION
Date: February 6, 2007
Re: Randall’s Island
Full Board Vote: 24 In favor 1 Against 0 Abstentions 0 Present
Be it Resolved THAT Community Board 7/ Manhattan supports the President's Council of Community School District 3’s resolution that strongly urges the City's Franchise and Concession Review Committee to delay any implementation of a plan to allocate usage of newly-constructed or renovated playing fields on Randall's Island to public or private schools until a survey can be done of demand for these fields from all of the City's schools. This survey of demand should be predicated on the offering, by the City, of an expanded free yellow bus service and/or free or reduced-fare mass transportation service to the Island, so that public schools may express interest in use of the fields based on a reasonable expectation that they could get their students to the fields. Allocation of access ought then to be made giving every school, public or private, an equal opportunity for use of the fields they request at the times they request it.
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