Coney Island Councilman Treyger to Chair New Resiliency Committee, Serve on 5 Others

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Coney Island Councilman Treyger to Chair New Resiliency Committee, Serve on 5 Others

January 23, 2014 by Tricia

Newly Elected City Councilman Mark Treyger at Coney Island Alliance Meeting. November 15, 2013. Photo © Tricia Vita

On Wednesday, City Council committee assignments were given out and Councilman Mark Treyger, who represents Coney Island, Gravesend and Bensonhurst, was selected as Chairman of the new Committee on Resiliency and Recovery. In December, the newly elected councilman, together with Councilman Carlos Menchaca, whose neighborhood of Red Hook was also devastated by the storm, called for the creation of a committee dedicated to the oversight of Sandy recovery efforts.

Treyger was also selected to be a member of five other committees whose issues are crucial to Coney Island: Land Use, Parks & Recreation, Education, Aging, and Plannings, Dispositions and Concessions.

“I am honored to have been selected to chair this new and vital committee and I take this post very seriously” said Councilman Mark Treyger. “This new committee will create a mechanism for greater oversight of Sandy recovery efforts in our city and ensure that allocated funds are spent on rebuilding impacted communities, strengthening our infrastructure to build up our resiliency, and preparing our coastal communities for future storms. The city’s recovery efforts thus far have simply not been fast enough.”

Last June, the City released “A Stronger, More Resilient New York,” a comprehensive plan for rebuilding the communities impacted by Sandy and increasing the resilience of infrastructure and buildings citywide.