Bronx Community Board 11 leadership committee adopts minutes policy to use YouTube recordings, reviews calendar and flags attendance issues

At the recorded leadership committee meeting Richard Reynoso, vice chair of Bronx Community Board 11, told members the group had reviewed open meetings rules and agreed to count the board’s YouTube recordings as the official minutes for committee meetings and to pursue AI-based transcription to produce a written record.

Reynoso referenced the open meetings discussion in the context of bylaws review and said the board would present the approach to the full board on Thursday. The committee also reviewed updates to the full board agenda and discussed three motions that would be added to bylaws, economic development and health and social services items for the upcoming full board session.

Members raised attendance concerns, noting an absence of representation from Parks and Transportation for much of the year and asking that attendance be tracked in the annual report. Housing issues were discussed at length: committee members listed multiple addresses (2560 Boston Road, Foster Road, 2910 Wallace Avenue) where tenants remain in shelters while repairs are pending and asked staff to follow up with elected officials and management companies and to invite tenant advocates to the full board session.

The committee also reviewed the calendar for December and January, debated vendor options and city-vendor requirements for an annual holiday party, and proposed minor calendar changes including moving some committee meeting dates. After completing the gallery session with no additional online speakers, the chair called for a motion to adjourn; members verbally agreed and the meeting adjourned at 07:42 p.m.

The committee recorded procedural directions and planned follow-ups but took no ordinance-level votes during the session; the only formal recorded action in the transcript was the verbal motion to adjourn.