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Vol. 99, No.16
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Committee finds ‘shocking’ conditions inside St. Paul’s
HOOPS FOR HOPE
BY MEG MORGAN NORRIS Members of the Mayor’s committee on St. Paul’s recently toured the inside of the main building to see first-hand the conditions inside. Mayor Cosmo Veneziale, who is an architect, was accompanied by Giuseppe Giovaniello, Superintendent of the Garden City Building Department; Matthew Pearn, Assistant Chief of the Garden City Fire Department; William Sollin, member of the St. Paul’s Design and Engineering subcommittee; and William Alisse, an architect and charman of the Design and Engineering subcommittee. The group found that the exterior of the building are intact and appear sound. However the interior of the building has suffered extensive water damage from the leaking roof. “The state of the interior of St. Paul’s is shocking and requires immediate attention. The level of water penetration damage is exten-
Hoops for Hope will be returning to the Garden City High School gym on Wednesday, March 9th when the GC High School and Middle School Challenger basketball team will face Lynbrook. See page 54 for information.
Cherry Valley residents retain legal counsel against co-op board BY GARY SIMEONE It is the usual custom for a board of directors at a co-op unit to hold an annual shareholder meeting and elections. According to one resident of the Cherry Valley Co-op community, their board has not held a shareholder’s meeting in the last two years and did not plan on having one this year.
Peter Alizio, a longtime resident at Cherry Valley, said that the board’s decision to not hold an annual meeting/election deprives shareholders of a fair electoral process. “Many of us shareholders feel that the current board is using (Covid-19) as an excuse to not have a meeting or elections for the board of direc-
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Water expert urges conservation of supply BY RIKKI MASSAND
tors,” said Alizio, a tax attorney in Manhattan. “At this time all the elected directors terms have long expired, but these directors continue to run the board because their successors are unable to be elected.” He added that, “I believe the decision to not have our annual meeting and elections
Garden City’s Environmental Advisory Board (EAB) hosted a discussion on Long Island’s water quality and state of Long Island’s aquifers on Wednesday, February 16 at the Garden City Senior Center and over Zoom. Updates concerning the water quality and supply on Long Island were provided by guest speaker Sarah Meyland, JD, an associate professor in the New York Institute of Technology and director for Center for Water Resources Management at NYIT. Meyland is also a leader with the advocacy group Water for Long Island, and she is a member of the New York State Drinking Water Quality Council. She is also an ex-officio member of the Long Island Commission for Aquifer Protection (LICAP).
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It’s full STEAM ahead at the Library PAGE 32 GCHS Trojans move on to Elite 8 PAGE 58