Deadline Approaching For Queens Community Board Applications

QUEENS, NY — Civic-minded individuals have one more day to apply to serve on one of Queens' 14 community boards.

Prospective members and current members have until midnight Friday to apply to represent the neighborhoods where they live or work as a member of their local community board.

This year's community board application is completely online. In the past, applications had to be signed and notarized, then submitted in-person at Queens Borough Hall.

Members are unpaid and may serve up to four consecutive, two-year terms.

Community boards play an important advisory role when it comes to local land use and zoning proposals and other hyperlocal issues, such as restaurant liquor licenses, and put together lists of the district's most pressing budgetary needs each fiscal year.

They also hold hearings on concerns specific to their district.

Newly-selected community board members will assume the role starting April 1.