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Councilmember Charles Barron - $2.5 million for Linden Community Center and a dozen other items

As part of the city’s $47 billion budget, individual City Council members lobby for money for specific projects in their district, often called “member items.” For more about the budget and member items, read Bringing Budget Dollars Back to the Neighborhood.

The following is a list of local budget items provided by Charles Barron, City Council member for East New York and Brownsville.

$2.5 million for the Linden Community Center, which costs

$12.5 million and is being jointly paid for by the New York Housing Authority, to go towards a state-of-the-art theater to be attached to the sports complex.

$1 million to Venable Park

$140,000 to discretionary fund to community organizations, including:

$43,000 to East New York Kids Power (a youth program
encompassing athletics and academics)

$6,500 to Latin Souls Little League

$6,000 to the Randy Evans Scholarship Fund

HIV / AIDS programs

Tenant associations

Community Events

Senior Programs

Brownsville Recreational Center

Creative Dance Movement

Vulcan Society (Black firefighters association, have a community thing where they teach drumming to children)

East New York Diagnostic Center (dealing with, among other things, asthma)



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THE OFFICIAL WORD
FOR DISTRICT 42

Councilmember Charles Barron - $2.5 million for Linden Community Center and a dozen other items
(Jul 02, 2004)

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