a. There shall be in each borough a board to be known as the borough board which shall consist of the borough president and the district council members from such borough, and the chairperson of each community board in the borough. The borough president shall be the chairperson of such board, which shall hold public hearings at stated intervals in the borough and report to the council, the mayor and the city planning commission on borough programs and proposed borough capital projects. The borough president, the council members from the borough and the chairperson of the community boards in the borough shall be voting members of the borough board but a member from a community board shall vote only on issues that directly affect the community district represented by such member. The borough board shall employ technical and clerical assistance within appropriations for such purposes, and the borough president shall provide necessary additional staff assistance.
b. Each borough board shall:
(1) Cooperate with community boards and city agencies with respect to matters relating to the welfare of the borough and its residents;
(2) In its discretion hold or conduct public or private hearings;
(3) Adopt by-laws and meet at least once a month but no formal action of the board shall be taken except at a meeting open to the public;
(4) Assist agencies that deliver services within the borough in the preparation of service statements for the borough and review such statements;
(5) Prepare comprehensive and special purpose plans for the physical growth, improvement and development of the borough;
(6) Review and make recommendations with respect to applications and proposals of public agencies and private entities for the use, development, or improvement of land located in more than one district;
(7) Mediate disputes and conflicts among two or more community districts in the borough;
(8) Submit a comprehensive statement of the expense and capital budget priorities and needs of the borough;
(9) Evaluate the progress of capital developments within the borough and the quality and quantity of services provided by agencies within the borough;
(10) Give notice of all its public meetings and hearings, and make such meetings and hearings available for broadcasting and cablecasting;
(11) Keep a public record of its activities and transactions, including minutes of meetings, majority and minority reports, by-laws, and all documents which the board is required by law to review; such documents shall, in accordance with law, be made available to elected officials upon request and for reasonable public inspection; and
(12) Otherwise consider the needs of the borough.
c. A majority of the members of any borough board entitled to vote on a matter before such board shall constitute a quorum of such board for action on such board.
d. Whenever any act is authorized to be done or any determination or decision made by any borough board, the act, determination or decision of the majority of the members present entitled to vote during the presence of a quorum, shall be held to be the act, determination or decision of such board.
e. Any borough board may adopt rules permitting a member to designate a representative to exercise all the power of such member as a member of the borough board. Such a representative shall be considered a member of the board for the purpose of determining a quorum of the borough board.