Friday, February 4, 2022
Vol. 99, No.13
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Board approves additional Library improvements
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Runner in Red PAGE 36
CONFERENCE LEADERS
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Board to consider leaf blower ban, landscaper licenses BY RIKKI MASSAND
BY RIKKI MASSAND At its January 13th meeting the Garden City Board of Trustees approved a $275,000 increase to the budget for the Garden City Public Library Children’s Room Rehabilitation project. The budget for the project is now estimated at $1,120,000. The move was made in order to incorporate additional design changes for the the Children’s Room, located on GCPL’s first floor. But in creating a larger scope of work, several more components of the building are set to be addressed once the Children’s Room project bids are received by the Village. The proposal weighed by the Board of Trustees called for repackaging the bid to include the change orders’ specifications and then the total pricing can soon be secured. Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi explained, “both the library and the village have suggested alternatives that will help transform the Children’s Reading area into a much better project than that which is currently designed. Some of the alternates came at the request of the Library, and some from the Village. Based on the processes for H2M creating the bid package late last year,
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Garden City High School’s Girls Varsity Basketball team defeated Roslyn 68-31, bringing its record to 7-1 in conference play. The team is now in first place in Nassau Conference A-2.
Photo by Ed Rotondo
Garden City’s Village Board of Trustees held a special meeting on Tuesday, February 1, to consider a seasonal ban on the use of gasoline-powered leaf blowers, as well as regulations on the use of chemicals and pesticides on lawns. Village Trustee Mary Carter Flanagan has been a catalyst for discussions and information-gathering by the the all-volunteer Environmental Advisory Board, known as the ‘EAB.’ Carter Flanagan that with a series of meetings the EAB hosted on the topic of gasoline-powered leaf blowers last fall, the village received significant community input, in addition to comments received by email and letters. The Village Board will consider the gas leaf blowers’ seasonal ban and a landscaper business licensing program during its meeting on Thursday February 3 with possible public hearings to follow on Tuesday, February 15th. If the action items on the February 3rd agenda are approved — introductions of two new Local Laws, and setting the date for the two public hearings — the Board will formally consider a first Local Law to license and regulate landscaping businesses that operate within Garden City. The local law aimed at the seasonal ban of gasoline-powered leaf blowers, would amend Article V of Chapter 152 of the Village Code concerning Use of Certain Devices in Landscaping.” In December, the Environmental Advisory Board moved forward with approval, 5 votes to 2, of proposing this seasonal ban for the summer months, from the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend (the last Saturday in May) up until Labor Day (the first Monday of September). Trustee Carter Flanagan announced that there’s a movement where seasonal bans have been established in communities across the tri state area as well as in other parts of the nation restricting the use of gasoline-powered blowers, therefore “the village is not trailblazing here by regulating gas-powered leaf blowers.” She stated that the two-stroke, gasoline powered leaf blowers are a “unique polluter” so action by Garden City is warranted. As the questions on the seasonal ban time period came up, Trustee Carter Flangan noted that summers are when gasoSee page 54
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