Friday, April 19, 2019
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BY RIKKI N. MASSAND At her first meeting as mayor on April 8th, Theresa Trouvé presided over the adoption of the Village of Garden City’s $65.8 million municipal budget for the upcoming fiscal year. In the past four years the village budget has increased an average of $1.23 million each year. In the last three years, the Board-adopted general fund operating budget has increased from $59 million (for 2017-2018) to $61 million a year ago and $65 million this year. For budget year 2017-2018 the budget reflected a 2.12 percent increase over 2016-2017, mainly due to an $800,000 increase in the cash contribution to fund capital projects. Increases in allocations for capital projects are lockstep with recent municipal budget formulas, ensuring that Garden City “continues rehabilitating or replacing assets well beyond their useful lives,” according to the village. The Board unanimously approved the municipal budget. As outgoing chairman of the Village Board’s finance committee, Trustee Stephen Makrinos has spent many hours reviewing line items and evaluating expenditures and projects contained in the municipal budget for fiscal year 2019-2020 (startSee page 29
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Village parks camera systems to be upgraded BY RIKKI MASSAND
James Cassaro enjoys his first baseball parade at the Garden City Little League (GCAA) parade last week.
Video camera surveillance will be boosted at all Village of Garden City parks and recreational facilities as the weather warms up this year. At its April 8 meeting the Garden City Board of Trustees approved a $67,400 contract for vendor Intelli-Tec Security Services of Syosset. Kevin Ocker, department head for Recreation and Parks, explained the vision of Community Park’s camera system upgrade, referred to as the Recreation Security Infrastructure Project. In an unanticipated move from one month ago, this project is being moved up from its capital budget allocation in fiscal year 2020-2021 (to start over 13 months from now) and allocated to the current fiscal year. “Due to the condition of cameras and wiring at Community Park, both at the pool, tennis and clubhouse area, in consultation with the police department and under the GCPD security infrastructure project we are requesting the Board’s consideration to fast forward that area of our park system. We would be able to get that work done and have cameras up and running. In order to fix the equipment we have there it would cost about $20,000 so it wouldn’t be a good investment -- we are requesting to do it right, in the way it was projected for a future capital project,” Ocker said. According to Village Administrator Ralph V. Suozzi the existing camera system at Community Park is made up of four disparate systems. “In our contemplated plan for 2020-2021, which includes Community Park and the village’s entire park system, it would be creating a centralized camera system which police headquarters has access to together with all the others we are installing. Instead of the $20,000 to fix the Park’s and Pool’s existing system we are asking for more funds because in 2020-’21 it would cost another $8,000 to $10,000 in labor to go back and open that up with addressing the cables. This also See page 29
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