§ 10-159 Safe streets, safe city advisory board.
AC § 10-159
(a)There is hereby established a safe streets, safe city advisory board. The safe streets, safe city advisory board shall consist of the deputy mayor for public safety, the police commissioner, one person appointed by the speaker of the city council, one additional person appointed by the mayor, one person appointed by the governor, one person appointed by the temporary president of the state senate, one person appointed by the minority leader of the senate, one person appointed by the speaker of the state assembly and one person appointed by the minority leader of the assembly.
(b)The safe streets, safe city advisory board shall meet at least four times a year, including on the first Thursday in August, November, February and May. The advisory board may establish its own rules and procedures with respect to the conduct of its meetings and other affairs not inconsistent with law.
(c)Membership on the safe streets, safe city advisory board shall not constitute the holding of a public office, and members of the advisory board shall not be required to take and file oaths of office before serving on the advisory board.
(d)No member of the safe streets, safe city advisory board shall be disqualified from holding any public office or employment, nor shall a member forfeit any office or employment by reason of appointment as a member hereunder.
(e)The director of the office of management and budget, in consultation with the police commissioner and heads of appropriate agencies of the city, shall make an annual report to the mayor within thirty days of the release of the preliminary budget in nineteen hundred ninety-two, nineteen hundred ninety-three, nineteen hundred ninety-four, nineteen hundred ninety-five, nineteen hundred ninety-six and nineteen hundred ninety-seven regarding implementation of the safe streets, safe city program. The mayor shall promptly forward a copy of such report to the safe streets, safe city advisory board, the governor, the temporary president of the state senate, the minority leader of the state senate, the speaker of the state assembly, the minority leader of the state assembly and the speaker of the city council. The director of the office of management and budget shall notify the safe streets, safe city advisory board of any proposed budget modification to the safe streets, safe city program at the same time such proposed budget modification is submitted to the city council for approval in the form of an updated supporting schedule to such proposed budget. Such notification shall contain a detailed description of the proposed modification and the impact thereof upon the safe streets, safe city program.
(f)The safe streets, safe city advisory board shall report on August first, nineteen hundred ninety-one, and on October first of every year thereafter, through nineteen hundred ninety-six, on the implementation of the safe streets, safe city program within the city, with particular emphasis on the city's current efforts with respect to the city's criminal justice system, as well as the other agencies which are to receive enhanced funding under the safe streets, safe city program. Any additional written comments submitted by individual members of the advisory board regarding the city's implementation of the program shall be attached to and incorporated within the advisory board report as an addendum thereto. All comments and observations included in the report by the safe streets, safe city advisory board shall be responded to by the mayor.
(g)The advisory board may request and shall receive from any department, division, board, bureau, commission, borough president, agency or public authority of the city of New York, such assistance, information, and data as will enable the advisory board properly to carry out its functions.
