• The state of the city’s finances
• Power of the audit – recent audit reports
• Challenges
• Current events, Occupy Wall St

Pizza, soda, and light snacks will be served.

Discussion to follow.

At out last meeting, many people spoke out against hydrofracking. New York State is putting in place new hydrofracking regulations and the strength of these regulations will determine if New York will feel the same toxic effects that have become endemic in parts of the country where fracking is now commonplace. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation, the body that will be issuing the new regulations, has several ways that you can make your voice heard to help stop this problem before it can affect our state’s groundwater:

1) The New York DEC is taking written testimony from the public via the internet here.

2) There will be two public hearings here in Manhattan. Both are being held on Wednesday, November 30th, at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center at 199 Chambers Street. The afternoon session runs from 1 PM to 4 PM and the evening session runs from 6 PM to 9 PM.

3) You can mail comments and testimony directly to the DEC at this address:
Attn: dSGEIS Comments
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
625 Broadway
Albany, NY 12233-6510

This Wednesday, the Lexington Democratic Club is hosting a forum on redistricting, and they’ve invited everyone from the LHDC to come. They have some interesting panelists lined up, and the details are below.

Panelists:
Bill Samuels (Chairman, New Roosevelt Initiative)
Susan Lerner (Executive Director, Common Cause New York)
Jeff Wice (Counsel, National Democratic Redistricting Project)

Lenox Hill Democratic Club and East Side Democratic Club
Joint Meeting
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
7 PM
Brown Gardens Community Room
225 East 93rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Ave)

On Thursday, October 13th, 2011, at 7 PM, The Lenox Hill Democratic Club and the East Side Democratic Club will be holding a joint meeting where Assemblyman Micah Kellner will be giving an update on whats happening in Albany and what he will be working on during the next legislative session. Later on, the clubs’ District Leaders will recap the events of the County Leader election, Judicial Convention, and County Committee meeting.