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Trustee questions mayor on new St. Paul’s Comm BY RIKKI MASSAND At the January 18th Board of Trustees’ meeting, Garden City Mayor Mary Carter Flanagan presented an update on the budding collaboration of the newly-appointed Mayor’s Advisory Committee on St. Paul’s. However one of the members of the Board questioned whether the public would be able to attend the committee’s meetings. The new committee replaces a 39-member St. Paul’s committee which served from 2021 through early 2023. The mayor announced, “The committee has been working at a fast pace and will provide regular updates at our Board of Trustees’ meetings and on the St. Paul’s page of the village website.” The new committee consists of five Garden City residents: Bill Cavan, John Cantwell, Soraya Zarghami Gage, Jim Apostolides and Walter Beal, a CNY Construction executive and project manager. See page 46
Where will you be on Wednesday, February 28th? Come to Hoops for Hope, and watch the Challengers play at Garden City High School. See page 18. Photo by Ed Rotondo
Traffic Comm to study closing some roads to truck traffic
BY RIKKI MASSAND At its January 18 meeting, the Village of Garden City Traffic Commission unanimously approved the development of a traffic study on potentially closing some north/south roads to truck traffic. The village is now seeking proposals from con-
sultants to perform the study. The study would include a measure of the current truck volumes on the major north/ south routes through Garden City: Franklin Avenue, Nassau Boulevard, Clinton Road and Washington Avenue to Eleventh Street to Cherry Valley Avenue. The object of this study is
defined to identify the issues that closing these roads to truck traffic might address; the current issues faced by the village and public on roadways and any unintended consequences of closures. The evaluation of the five major routes also seeks a solution “that will divert truck traffic See page 46
Village scores Aaa bond rating from Moodys BY RIKKI MASSAND The Village of Garden City has been issued the prestigious Aaa bond rating, which is the highest possible bond rating and reserved for municipal entities with the highest levels of creditworthiness, Village Treasurer Irene Woo reported during the January 18th meeting of the Board of Trustees. Treasurer Woo, herself a Garden City resident, provided the Board of Trustees with details of a conference call she had in the second week of January with Moody’s. The conversation covered multiple village finance topics including debt, the local economy, the municipality’s capital needs and budgeting, fund balance and more. “Once again Moody’s has assigned a Triple A (Aaa) bond rating with a stable outlook to the village. Their report states the village’s financial position is ‘healthy with ample reserves and liquidity. The See page 47
‘Will Sing for Food’ concert February 4th PAGE 8 BoT approves more funds for H2O system PAGE 24