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Environmental Board meeting to discuss lead in drinking water
COVID FIGHTERS
BY RIKKI MASSAND
Recently, Garden City staff and GC PTA and SEPTA parents bundled up to help distribute Covid-19 test kits to the parents of students in the district. Pick up sites at the Middle School and Administration Building were set up as parents arrived to pick up the test kits. Each student received one box which included two tests. Photo and caption by Regina Moran
Mayor defends removal of POA information from website BY RIKKI MASSAND
Last Thursday night Garden City Mayor Cosmo Veneziale announced he’s submitted a request for proposals (RFP) to be issued for a vendor to revamp the Village of Garden City’s website. According to the mayor, the village’s current website is “difficult to navigate, and frankly antiquated.”
During the January 13th meeting Trustee John Delany asked for an explanation of why links to the four Garden City Property Owners’ Associations were removed from the site several weeks ago. The links had been on the left side of the home page of the village’s municipal website, www.gardencityny. net. Mayor Veneziale said,
Following recent actions by the Board of Trustees to investigate lead contamination in drinking water, Village Trustee Mary Carter Flanagan, chair of Garden City’s volunteer Environmental Advisory Board (EAB), has noted the special meeting topic for next week’s meeting of the EAB: “As part of its mission to educate the community on environmental issues, the EAB has changed the topic of its upcoming meeting next Wednesday, January 26, 2022., from ‘Energy Efficiency’ to ‘Lead in Drinking Water.’ A recent case of elevated lead levels in our community highlighted the importance of Community Education on this topic. The session will include general information on how lead gets into drinking water and health effects of being exposed to lead in drinking water. The EAB will share with residents information on how to find out if they have lead in their drinking water, and important steps residents can take to reduce their exposure,” Trustee Carter Flanagan said. Last week the Garden City Village Board of Trustees approved an See page 35
Federal funds to be used on pool renovation work
“The POA’s section/link was removed as it misrepresented its role as the ‘only mechanism’ by which residents are to be considered as a village trustee or as a member of the village’s boards and commissions….Recently I spoke at a meeting of the village’s Governance Committee where I discussed the undue political influence some community groups I have had in
The Village will be able to accelerate the replacement of the liner of the main pool at the Garden City Pool because of funding received from the federal government under the American Rescue Plan Act. At the January 13th Board of Trustees’ meeting the board approved replacing the vinyl liner this year. The replacement had originally been scheduled for 2023-24. In addition, the capital project amount has been increased from the first estimate of $175,000 to $250,000. Village Treasurer Irene Woo said the village was slated to receive roughly $2.2 million in total, or $102 per village resident, with a five-year period to utilize the ARP funding. One ARP payment, half of the total allocated to the Village of Garden City, was received by the village during
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BY RIKKI MASSAND
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