BRONX TIMES: Walker-Santiago re-elected as CB 7 chair

Community Board 7 chairwoman Adaline Walker-Santiago will serve in the position for another term.

Walker-Santiago was re-elected at the Tuesday, June 20 full board meeting.

She first joined the board in 2010 and was first elected chair in 2013, and said she was proud of what the board had accomplished.

“I’m very proud of my board, they are the best,” she said. “There are very dedicated, strong, professional people on this board, and I’m looking forward to the fact that we are going to have a large number of new members coming in September.”

Walker-Santiago cited the recent groundbreaking for the renovation of Whelan Park near the Mosholu Library, the creation of a CB 7 veterans committee that holds an annual jobs fair at the Bronx Library Center and a Women’s Empowerment Conference they organized at Lehman College that she hopes will become an annual event among recent accomplishments.

The board was also credited with lobbying for the reopening the North Central Bronx Hospital’s labor and delivery unit with help from city council members, she said.......

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