Gothamist 16-Year-Olds May Be Allowed To Serve As Community Board Members by John Surico
16-Year-Olds May Be Allowed To Serve As Community Board Members
Last week, a bill was introduced to the New York City Council that would lower the required minimum age for Community Board members from 18 to 16.
By doing so, the bill's creator, the newly elected Councilman Ben Kallos, hopes to offset the low percentage of Millennials involved with their Community Boards: in Manhattan, only 6 percent of this year's applicants were between the ages of 18 and 24. Kallos believes it'll be a real-life civics lesson, providing exciting insight to unexciting meetings.