Ad-Hoc Committees and Task Forces

Ad-Hoc Committees are committees of CB8 that meet as needed and have a mission specific to a particular project and initiative.

A Task Force is a sub committee of a standing committee that focuses on a particular topic area or specific item. Some committees and task forces listed here have been disbanded or absorbed by other committees, while others have ended after the mission of that group was achieved.

• Environment and Sanitation Committee
• Voting Reform Task Force - Anthony Cohn and Shari Weiner
• Census Task Force - Loraine Brown
• Charter Revision Task Force - Alida Camp and Billy Freeland
• 197-A Queensboro Bridge Area Committee - M. Barry Schneider
• Waterfront Committee
• Second Avenue Subway Task Force
• Public Safety Committee
• James Cagney Place Task Force – Rita Popper
• Coler Community Advisory Board (Roosevelt Island) – Lynne Strong-Shinozaki
• Cornell Tech Task Force
• Cornell Tech Construction and Community Task Force - Sharon Pope-Marshall
• CUNY-MSK Task Force - Nicholas D. Viest
• East Midtown Partnership BID - P. Gayle Baron and Will Sanchez
• Hunter College Neighborhood Advisory Committee
• Madison Avenue BID - P. Gayle Baron and Christina Davis
• Metropolitan Hospital Center Advisory Board - Barbara Rudder
• New York-Presbyterian Hospital Community Advisory Board - M. Barry Schneider
• Second Avenue Business Association - Rita Popper
• The Borough President’s Borough Board - Russell Squire
• The Borough President’s Task Force on Education - Edward Hartzog