Brewer questions CEC on training participation and term limit knowledge loss

My other question is,

Are you finding that there's a good, you gave some good numbers in terms of those who are participating in your trainings.

Do you find that, like, do you find that all the community boards are getting trained?

Is it some that do more than others?

How do you feel about the trainings?

Like, is it across the board that people participate?

Are they all Zoom?

Are they in person?

Just give me a better sense of the trainings.

The trainings are all virtual, and I think that the attendance really varies by topic and by board as well.

I mean, I think we are seeing that over time there are board members who are coming to multiple trainings, so interested in different topics, and I'll let Benjamin add to this as well.

We do provide some in-person, like tonight I'm going to the bar.

President of the Bronx.

We're doing in-person de-escalation training.

And we used to do the parliamentary procedure in person before that was handed off.

I think we have a dedicated...

Followers.

I don't think every DM does share the information.

We do share it with whatever board members directly that allow us to use their emails when they sign up.

But I don't think every board, and we do keep track of every board that attends.

So we would like more, obviously.

Okay.

And then this issue of term limits.

So obviously a board member can come back after a year if they so choose or if they get reappointed.

That's the other issue.

I don't know that that's going to happen much, to be honest with you.

But my question is this notion that you can share data or share not just data but information, particularly on land use.

I think it's a bit false because it just doesn't work like that.

You've got to be in the room when the developer's there to negotiate, as I have done 215 times on terms of ULERPs.

Nobody else has done that.

And so you have to have somebody there to say, you know, this AMI is no good or whatever.

So what plans do you really have to try to share the data or share the expertise that is going to be lost with this stupid charter revision that I hate?

Term limits for community boards I hate.

I think that, again, sort of working off the peer learning, I mean, that's one direct.

in-person conversations, but we really want to support what the borough presidents and the boards themselves want to do.

So we'll be working on that over the next several months.

Okay, so you don't know yet what the process will be for doing that?

Not the exact process, no.

Okay.

All right.

I don't have any other questions, so thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.