Fund transfers authorized for tree removals, employee training

From page 1 and Training and $2,573 comes from Administration - Travel and Training. The cost is for bucket truck and CPR/ AED training for permanent, full-time Recreation and Parks employees.

“This has been requested by the employees and bucket truck employees must be trained for work involving hedge trimming and bulb changing. The CPR/AED was recommended by our Human Resources and it makes a lot of sense,” Blake said.

He spoke about change orders for the HVAC project taking place at the Garden City Senior Center, as submitted by contractor Energy Mechanical, Inc. of Central Islip.

Change order #1 costs $10,560, for removal, testing, rerouting and reconnecting of Freon Lines. Change order #2 for $4,800 is for “repairs to hot water heater, repiping of flue pipe and vent, install drain system, replace expansion tank, relief valve and setting up the system properly.” Change order #3 at $8,400 covers repiping of condensate for four gas furnaces in the attic, as well as running a new supply line from the attic to basement, and installation of four condensate neutralizer kits.

Superintendent Blake shared, “these issues were discovered after the new units were in place and they could not crank the system up. It was not related to the burst pipe. It was just an old sys- tem that wore out – funds are available for the change orders, within the HVAC account we have, since we allocated American Rescue Plan funds to the project.”

With Board authorization for awards of bids moved with the consent calendar on April 3, bids for Horticulture and Athletic Field Products – only for items to be ordered on an “as-needed basis” – were approved for Site One Landscape Supply of Bethpage, The Garden Department at Site One based in Coram, and the Long Island Cauliflower Association of Riverhead for an approximate cost of $28,000. The products include mulch, fertilizer, grass seeds and the drying agent used for Little

League fields when it rains. Funds for the three bids come from the operating budget and each was awarded to the overall low bidder.

The Board also approved the low bid on sodium hypochlorite (liquid chlorine) to be used at the Garden City Pool from vendor Tortorella Auto Chem LLC, for product on an as-needed basis, with a unit cost per gallon of $2.80. With this funding, $1,000 will come from the current fiscal year budget and $34,100 will be from the 2023-2024 budget.

In other village news, Superintendent of Building Giuseppe Giovanniello explained that the Building Department had a very active March 2023, with

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