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Board hires firm to stabilize St. Paul’s
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BY RIKKI N. MASSAND New Garden City Mayor Theresa Trouvé took her oath of office on Monday, April 8th during the Village of Garden City’s organizational meeting, in front of a large group of friends and family. The annual meeting contained a couple of very pleasant surprises for both local ancillary Boards and organizations of Garden City as well as the general public. Among her first moves as mayor, Trouvé announced a resolution for dual designation of official newspapers of the Village of Garden City, both The Garden City News and Garden City Life. This motion was approved by a unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees on April 8, along with several other Board appointments, legal, consulting and village committee designations common for the annual local government reorganization. Trouvé told the capacity audience at Village Hall Monday night that she feels fulfilled by the work involved volunteering on the Board of Trustees. “You can rest assured that I hold fast today to the goals I presented to the community when I was first appointed to this Board (in 2014) to keep our tax burden in check
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The Garden City High School Boys Lacrosse team rolled on to a 6-0 record with another three wins this week, against South Side, Calhoun and LaSalle Academy. The next home game will be on April 17th at 4:30 against national power St. Ignatius of San Francisco, CA.
After the reorganization portion of the Board of Trustees meeting on Monday night, Manhattan-based CNY Group was approved to be the village’s construction management consultant for planning and stabilization work on the historic St. Paul’s main building. The Board voted unanimously on this item, along with ten other items on its April 8 agenda. The selection and official approval of CNY Group comes two and a half months after a Board held a work session and interviewed three leading New York area construction companies, including CNY. The trustees’ considered the proposals and qualifications of the firms in January and the approval of CNY this week took place but did not comment on its selection during this week’s meeting. At the Board’s last meeting on Thursday March 28, funding to hire a construction manager was set up with $250,000 approved by another unanimous vote of the trustees (reported in the News on April 5). At the March 28 meeting Trustee John Delany explained the allocation of funds: “These ($250,000 for a C.M.) go toward the planning and stabilization stage ONLY. Engineers have said that one of the things the village has to do is taking a look at the St. Paul’s structure itself to see whether it could or couldn’t possibly support what we are thinking about planning to do. If it can’t we need to know what the cost is and how we can move forward, and if we would be adding to the cost — maybe we could have a high enough that we can’t move forward at all.” CNY Group has made news headlines for its recent work on large-scale New York City projects including The Edition, a new luxury hotel in Times Square with an outdoor terrace and restaurant 701West; a 52-unit high-rise, 110 University Place (21 East 12th Street) in Greenwich Village, and 20 Times Square, a 42-story luxury mixed-use project housed in a hotel, retail, and entertainment tower at 47th Street and Seventh Avenue. A historic site is also in the current project See page 47
GC for a Cure race/walk raises $20,000 for charity PAGES 50-51 Middle School presents “Aladdin, Jr.” PAGES 52-53