Friday, January 26, 2018
Vol. 94, No.19
FOUNDED 1923
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A new record
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LOCALLY OWNED AND EDITED
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College concerns PAGE 47
CPOA runoff: Super challenges Trouvé
EN GARDE
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
Garden City High School's Men's Varsity Fencing team is playoff bound and will be fencing in the quarter finals next week. See pages 58-59
New contract in place for GCTA BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
A new six-year contract agreement is in place to bridge the rift between the school district teachers’ union and administration, the subject of school board public discussions throughout November and December 2017. At the Tuesday, January 23 Board of Education meeting, Interim Superintendent of Schools Dr. Alan Groveman announced “highlights” of a new memorandum of agreement (MOA) between Garden City’s teachers’ union and the district before the board approved it as part of its meeting agenda. “This is a six-year agreement that is extremely effective for the district as it allows us to project out our costs without wondering what they are going to be. Our ‘labor peace’ is nice, not to infer teachers have ever not been professional, but it is nice to have a settled contract for that length
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of time so nobody has angst over it...Raises for teachers have been controlled despite of raising private sector economic growth; the average increase over the six years is 0.83% per annum. The district obtains additional professional development hours...the vesting of health insurance retirement benefits moving from a 10-year period to 15 years will also the district funds,” he said. In June 2022 the school district will offer retirement incentive funds. “We’ve projected that as being the most cost effective to us, in terms of reducing salaries in a future year where we are going to need to do that and helping with the district’s budget at that time,” Dr. Groveman said. Also Garden City Schools will modify maximum allowed leave time for teachers due to deaths in their family from three days to five days, but it will require the See page 45
The Central Property Owners’ Association will hold a special runoff election for one of its two position of village trustee on Tuesday, January 30, from 5 to 9 p.m. inside the Golf CLub Lane Senior Center. Steven Super, an attorney and director of the CPOA, has issued a challenge to the incumbent, four-year village trustee and current Deputy Mayor Theresa Trouvé. Both candidates were interviewed by The Garden City News this week. Deputy Mayor Trouvé told the News she has been campaigning in the Central section and talking to residents about why she is seeking another term. In 2017-2018 she’s served as the Board of Trustees’ designated Police Commissioner, swearing in new officers of the GCPD, and a continuing as a member of the village Traffic Commission. For three years she was the Commissioner of Planning and Building, a role stemming from positions of liaison to the Architectural Design Review Board, liaison to the Planning Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals. Once Trustee John Delany joined the Board of Trustees, he and Trouvé rotated responsibilities with each municipal board to attend the various meetings. On her very first day as a trustee in April 2014, she was assigned eight Board roles including work as liaison to the Garden City Historical Society and as chairwoman of the village Environmental Advisory Board. Trouvé is the mother of four grown children, all of whom graduated from the Garden City school
system. Six of her thirteen grandchildren currently attend the Garden City schools, including Hope Kelly, who will graduate with the GCHS Class of 2018. What initially brought Trouvé to Garden City five decades ago was raising her family in a great community with excellent schools, and she has more than established family roots and generations here. “I have always loved the village, I admire it and I think it’s one of the finest in the country. When I look at our children and grandchildren here, it’s remarkable. All I wanted to do when I was married and had children was get them into the Garden City Schools. All of my children went through the school system and did very well,” she said in an interview on January 23. In 2015 Trouvé received the Woman of Distinction Award by New York State Assemblyman Ed Ra for commitment to one’s community, joining Christine Mullaney, former EPOA president, and Garden City Schools PTA President Michelle Kaiserman as recipients. The deputy mayor holds a Phd. in comparative literature from New York University, an M.A. with Distinction and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Educational Administration from Hofstra University, and her bachelor’s degree from Saint John’s University with honors in French. Trouvé is retired from a career in education which she began as a French language teacher.. Many of her years in education were spent in administration on district and building levels, including the roles of disSee page 14
Letter carrier, girlfriend arrested for credit card mail theft PAGE 3 GCAA Challenger Basketball season off to a great start PAGE 62