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CPOA discusses St. Paul’s survey, ‘backwards’ process
ANOTHER PLAYOFF WIN
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
The Garden City High School Boys Lacrosse team beat Carey HS in its first playoff game and advanced to the Nassau County B seminfinal match at Hofstra, where it was to take on Southside HS. See pages 52-53
At its meeting on Thursday May 9, the Village Board of Trustees approved summer nights of celebration and community-building on downtown 7th Street in the heart of the village. First, the Board approved a resolution for the Belmont Festival to be held Friday June 7 from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m, with a rain date of a week later on Friday June 14.
The summer schedule of Friday Night Promenades, featuring live entertainment, balloon and face paint artists and consecutive weeks of themed festivities on 7th Street, was also approved at the May 9 trustees’ meeting. The weekly Friday Promenades will commence one week after the Belmont Festival, with 7th Street closed to vehicular traffic between Franklin Avenue and Hilton Avenue from 5:45 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. each Friday
230 responses received
night. The season will last for all of summer, 14 consecutive Friday evenings ending on September 13. On June 7 for the Belmont, the village will close Seventh Street prior to 6:00 p.m. to allow time for the Festival set up. The Garden City Belmont Festival Committee is contributing $5,000 to the village to offset expenses incurred for the Belmont. Dennis Donnelly, executive
“We received over 230 survey responses and we didn’t give people a long time to respond, just within a couple of weeks. Most of the comments came from people between 40 and 60 years old (54% of respondents). Most people use the outdoor fields at St. Paul’s, and over 80% of people in the village are familiar with the proposal for the Centre at St. Paul’s detailed in The Garden City News and from the village’s July 2018 presentations at the Garden City Casino -- between 72 and 73% of respondents do not support that plan. Some people really put a lot of thought into their survey comments and I think these need to be read and people should be heard by SFA and people making the decisions,” Fasano said. She added that there were several survey respondents who wrote in “that the survey should have included potential costs of the project, and that demolition of the existing historic structure should be included as an option on surveys.” Two questions receiving overwhelming response to potential uses of the St. Paul’s campus were “should
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Fun Fridays on 7th Street: Belmont Festival, Promenades approved BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
At its Tuesday May 14 meeting inside the Garden City Senior Center on Golf Club Lane, the Central Property Owners’ Association discussed the results of its POA survey on future uses and recreational functions of the Centre at the St. Paul’s. Earlier this year the Western Property Owners’ Association was the first among the four village POA’s to conduct a residents’ survey, aimed at assisting data collection for village consultants SFA (Sports Facility Advisory). CPOA members noted that the largest property owners’ association in the village, the East, had yet to conduct its survey for residents. CPOA director Evelyn Fasano credited one of this year’s CPOA Garden City High School senior ambassadors, Gabby Bevil, with compiling data and producing a report from the recent survey the organization distributed about the St. Paul’s concept.
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