The District Manager of the Community Board chairs the District Service Cabinet(DSC), whose members include representatives of the agencies that deliver local services to the Community District.  Services that are subject to coterminality (Charter Section 2704) should be represented on the Cabinet.  Coterminality requires that the boundaries of certain agencies’ local service districts coincide with the boundaries of the Community Districts. Some services must be coterminous with individual Community Districts, while others may be coterminous with aggregates of Community Districts.  The head of each agency subject to coterminality must appoint a local service chief to each service district.

The local service chief should have authority over the agency’s personnel, programs and facilities within the district.  The granting of authority to local service chiefs is a Charter mandate often referred to as management decentralization. In general, the local service chief should be a member of the District Service Cabinet. For some services, however, this has been unfeasible, either because the local service chief has too many districts to cover or because the agency delivers diverse services that would not be effectively represented by the local service chief. The chart below shows the local service chiefs and District Service Cabinet representatives of the services subject to coterminality.