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Cathedral Nursery School parents seek lease extension
THE BEST DAY OF THE YEAR
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
As the buses brought everyone home Wednesday morning with their traditional horn blowing, the children of Garden City welcomed summer vacation. It seemed everyone converged on the GC Pool to enjoy their day. Splashes, chair forts, games and lots of swimming made for a fantastic day. Photo by Regina Moran
Water treatment funds approved BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
At the Board of Trustees’ meeting on Thursday June 20, a pilot program, 30-day phase of 1,4 dioxane removal for Village Water Wells No. 10 and 11 was approved with a $200,000 sum allocated as a capital project (for the current fiscal year 20192020). Superintendent of Public
Works Joseph DiFrancisco commented on a Board agenda item engaging the services of longtime consultants to the village H2M Architects and Engineers of Melville. H2M is tasked with engineering services related to the construction, testing, and summary conclusions of pilot testing with a new wellhead treatment system for 1,4 dioxane
removal at Garden City’s Clinton Road Plant. The project cost is estimated at $194,000. In addition to H2M the Water Department will work with the Department of Health on this project. “Over the past few years I have spoken about and I’m sure everybody has read about issues with emerging contaminants in See page 49
Over 100 residents attended the Village Board of Trustees’ meeting on Thursday, June 20, seeking an extension for Cathedral Nursery School to continue to use the cottages behind St. Paul’s . On July 25, 2018, at a packed public meeting the Board approved a two-year lease agreement for the school valid through June 2020. At the time the Board said plans for the St. Paul’s project and potential new facility space would have direct impacts, including the likely demolition of the cottages. The school has operated on the grounds of St. Paul’s, a designated parkland area, for 17 years with renewals granted annually by the Village of Garden City every year up until the last two-year lease formalized 11 months ago. Several dozen parents and grandparents were alerted to attend the Board of Trustees’ meeting last week through Facebook and online channels, including mass emails from organizers. Bob DeBenedetto moved into Garden City to raise his family in August of 1992, within the same year St. Paul’s closed as a school and came under the ownership of the Village of Garden City. He raised his two kids here, from the time daughter Erica was a fifth grader and his son Mark was a 2nd grader. They each went on to graduate from Garden City High School (Erica in 2000 and Mark in 2003) and now DeBenedetto is concerned over his grandson’s enrollment in the Cathedral Nursery School program, after his daughter and son-in-law Rob Balkema moved to town recently with their three-year-old son Jack. As he sat in the audience on June 20, DeBenedetto told The Garden City News he is most concerned that there are too many nursery schools in the vicinity of Garden City already at or encroaching upon capacity for enrollment, leaving a chance of three to five year olds not being able to attend. The Village Board’s last approved the agreement with Cathedral Nursery School was formalized at its meeting on July 25, 2018. The Village’s license agreement with the Nursery School will run out on June 30, 2020. It states that the Nursery agrees to “not to seek any further extensions or any new or similar license for the current site or any other Village-owned facilities.” At the Board’s meeting June 20 several residents asked questions about this restriction, if the lease can be extended until approxSee page 49
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