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Concerns over speeders relayed to BOT, 2nd traffic study requested
SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
BY RIKKI MASSAND
The Mineola - Garden City Rotary Club recently presented two scholarships to local high school seniors. Above, scholarship committee members Althea Robinson and Diane Marmann (Club president) with Keara Mulrooney (Mineola High School Scholarship winner), and Matthew Hughes (Garden City High School scholarship winner), along with Joanne Meyer-Jendras, Scholarship Committee chair. See page 38.
Sidewalks vs. Trees: discussion continues BY RIKKI MASSAND
The conversations about village-owned trees and residents’ responsibilities for the sidewalk repairs (often damaged by trees), continued with some clarifications at the Board of Trustees’ June 17 meeting. Village Trustee John Delany said there’s an aggressive village paving program ahead for the rest of 2021, and into the next fiscal year. He is hoping village staff from the Department of Public Works
can be informed about a hot topic and sense of responsibility the municipality has to not unnecessarily burden residents/businesses with village-owned trees impacting their sidewalks. “I know we’re into the local paving schedule and Trustee Mary Carter Flanagan has said this might call the village for their sidewalks to be replaced….Since we are into the roadwork schedule and our next Board meeting is not until July 15, I thought we were in agreement that when there is
paving being done and as part of that paving there’s sidewalk repairs, I would suggest our staff be told that if a village tree caused a sidewalk to have to be replaced, we could agree about the village tree portion of sidewalks being repaired,” he said. Trustee Delany noted that the repair is usually relegated to one or two ‘squares’ of the concrete sidewalks. Mayor Cosmo Veneziale said he discussed the details of sidewalk repairs with See page 36
During the Garden City Board of Trustees’ meeting held Thursday, June 17, Garden City Central section resident Jillienne Jordan addressed the board via Zoom and said that as a new resident in the village with young children, she’s frightened by the traffic situation and alarming rates of speed in particular on Nassau County roads such as Cathedral Avenue. Concerns about the north-south thoroughfare in the Central section have persisted for years, but the voices speaking before elected village officials -- whether at Traffic Commission or Board of Trustees’ meetings -- have changed and only increased. In recent months Jordan approached fellow Central section resident, Trustee Louis Minuto, also a parent of young kids living in the neighborhood who has served as chair of the village’s Traffic Commission. “I am concerned about speeding and traffic in our neighborhood; I have two little children and I am very concerned that someone will get hurt on our block. I see cars doing 60 MPH on 3rd Street…I understand the village was to consider a traffic calming study, but this was taken off the trustees’ agenda. I am wondering what we can do to bring that item back to the Board’s agenda? I am seeking ways to address this issue for our community because I fear just going on a walk here someone will get hurt, if not die, because of the frequency of speeders,” Jordan told the trustees. She also mentioned some speed mitigation ideas the Traffic Commission discussed at its May meeting, from speed humps to the longtime debate over cameras on local streets. Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi explained the two distinct traffic study plans that are proposed in Garden City, starting with the current ‘Road Diet’ traffic calming study for Cathedral Avenue, a Nassau County owned road, which should be completed by consulting engineering firm Creighton Manning by the end of July. “Because of the Covid pandemic they had to recalibrate the traffic conditions and numbers reflected on the models. Pandemic-time numbers are different from historic numbers. They (Creighton Manning) have been working with Nassau County to make sure the data they pour into the model are accurate. They are recalibrating before the end of this school year (late June) to get the data in and will be going back to the County either June 24 or 25, and the goal at this point is to bring that study to a conclusion and to get Nassau County to say it is okay to add the modifications of a Road Diet to See page 36
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