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HONORING COACH SMITH
BY RIKKI MASSAND
The Garden City baseball community honored former coach Richie Smith for his long service at a ceremony on April 9th. As part of the ceremony, Coach Smith’s number “8” jersey was retired and a sign honoring him was placed on the right field fence. See pages 60-61. Photo by Ed Rotondo
After a lengthy discussion at the Garden City Board of Trustees’ meeting held on Monday April 4, the board voted unanimously to establish $1,000 a month fee for the Chamber of Commerce to continue using the historic Long Island Motor Parkway Toll Lodge building at 230 7th Street. The Chamber’s fees had been drastically reduced during the Covid–19 pandemic to $100 per month from a few hundred dollars paid monthly before then. Dennis Donnelly, executive director of the Garden City Chamber of Commerce, addressed the Village Board on April 4 and noted that the Chamber incurs costs for maintenance of the historic building and “has all of the bills” a regular business establishment would have such as utilities and other expenses. The Garden City Chamber of Commerce is an IRS-designated 501(c)6 not-for-profit organization. The organization is audited by a CPA firm annually and files taxes each year. See page 42
Village compiling inventory Budget comes in under tax cap of lead water service lines BY KASSARA MCELROY
At the Garden City Board of Education meeting on April 11th, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kusum Sinha detailed the proposed budget for the 2022/23 school year, which will be on the ballot for voters to approve in the upcoming May 17th election. Next year’s proposed budget is $124,579,449, or a budget to budget increase of 1.80% or $2,197,962. The maximum
allowable tax levy is 2.29%, and the proposal falls below that at a projected 1.25%. That means the district is not asking for as much taxpayer money as it is able to. A majority of the proposed budget (75.65%) is dedicated to program expenditures, followed by capital (12.84%) and administrative (11.51%) costs. The top five components of the budget include personnel services, equipment, contrac-
tual, supplies and materials, and tuition. There is a net proposed staffing change of +7.3 full time employees total, across all buildings and departments. The Superintendent highlighted several achievements built into the proposed budget. It complies with the tax levy cap, and therefore requires only a simple majority for passage. It expands instructional
At the Garden City Board of Trustees’ meeting held Monday night April 4, Administrator Ralph V. Suozzi discussed plans for an inventory of lead water service lines to residences, as well as the permit fees the Village charges for homeowners who choose to replace the pipes. The issue remains most prominent in the village’s east and the Mott section in particular, as the homes there were mostly built in the years before the end of World War II (1945). Some Garden City homes facing the most concern with lead lines date to approximately 1931-1932.
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BY RIKKI MASSAND
Volunteer Center holds prom boutique PAGE 30 Easter church services schedule PAGES 28-29