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HONORING THE FALLEN
Garden City High School Juniors and BSA Troop 45 Scouts Michael Bereswill, left and his brother, Joseph, spent part of their Memorial Day 2019 weekend honoring our country’s fallen heroes by placing flags on many of the nearly 45,000 veterans’ gravesites at Long Island (Pinelawn) National Cemetery in Farmingdale.
At its Thursday, May 23 meeting the Garden City Board of Trustees approved $25,000 for a professional services contract with H2M Architects & Engineers of Melville for GIS (Geographic Information System) support services related to the conversion of the village’s Department of Public
Works’ comprehensive IT system. In January the Board approved a contract with vendor Tyler Technologies, Inc. of Yarmouth, Maine, for $350,000. Joseph DiFrancisco, superintendent of the Department of Public Works (DPW) said the service contract was for systemwide conversion and review. “We need support from our GIS consultants at H2M
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to help us with the conversion to the new system -- the new IT system for Public Works will link to the GIS system. This allocates funds to have them assist with the conversion,” he said. A $33,782 purchase of software and licensing for the GIS system through vendor Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
At its May 23 meeting the Village Board of Trustees heard an update on the village’s contracted ambulance service from provider NYU-Winthrop University Hospital as Director of External Affairs Justin Burke addressed the Board. The village’s service agreement with NYU-Winthrop officially commenced on January 7, and Burke’s comments with ambulance data points collected after five and a half months were welcomed by trustees and about a dozen village residents in attendance at the meeting. He announced that the period of recorded data was from January 7 through May 17 this year. “Up to May 17 there were a total of 658 calls for ambulance service. They resulted in a total of 523 transports of patients to area hospitals, not just locally to NYU-Winthrop. The highest percentage of calls -- 71 percent -- were medical calls including chief complaints of chest pain, shortness of breath, sickness or fainting as the three main points. Secondary calls were trauma calls and the top trauma complaints were motor vehicle collisions and falls,” Burke said. He introduced an ambulance team of two sitting in the back of the Board’s meeting room at Village Hall, a secondary response crew on-duty in Garden City as they had parked the new NYU-Winthrop ambulance right outside the building. Burke invited the trustees, staff and residents in attendance to take a look at and inside the ambulance on their way downstairs and outside after the meeting concluded. “They are here but you actually still have ambulance coverage during this meeting….We want to be as seamless in the community as possible, These folks in the room are team members in uniform. We want to be a part of the community just like residents, so when you see them you can say ‘hi’ and you will see their name and NYU-Winthrop on the left side of their chests. We will be there whenever you need us,” Burke said to the trustees. He commented that the Village of Garden City and NYUWinthrop ambulance service has formed a great partnership in the first half of 2019. “We are very happy with the way things are rolling and we only hope that the community is as happy as we are,” Burke said. Garden City Mayor Theresa A. Trouvé told Burke she and
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