Campbell CB14 Brooklyn on budget and 501

Hello, Shawn Elise Campbell, District Manager, Brooklyn Community Board 14.

I would just reiterate what my colleagues and their chairs have said today, and I would just reiterate the four previous times I've come to testify before this body.

And in fact, to save money, I found some hard copies the last time I testified, so I've just updated the date and resubmitted that testimony.

One thing that has changed since submitting that testimony back in March is that I had at that time two community coordinators plus myself.

I now have one because we are at the point in our budgets at CB14 where we will not be able to offer, well, now that there's a staffing change, this has changed, but we were not able to offer a merit increase to anybody, not even a percentage.

We...

So I have a staffer who left for a job where salary increases are on her horizon again.

I did want to speak to the question about how much, because the idea of at least $50,000 for a baseline budget increase, that figure derived from the idea that we wanted

an annual budget increase to be tied to something so that we didn't have to come begging annually since it doesn't clearly work out for us very often.

And the $50,000 was pegged to the borough president's budget increases over the years and or a full complement of staff.

That's what would have made us whole a couple of years ago when we came up with that number.

So that number would have to increase, and then I would encourage the council to consider pegging a baseline budget increase for community boards to a formula or to another pegged budget increase for...

Future ability to plan and continue to serve our communities.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

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