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Board to vote on changing law firms, award of bids
A WINNING STREAK
BY RIKKI MASSAND
Garden City’s ‘A’ Swim Team has had a strong start to its 2022 season, winning its first three meets. That brought its winning streak to 30 meets since 2014. See page 46.
Village considers stop sign placement BY RIKKI MASSAND The Village of Garden City Traffic Commission will next convene on Thursday night, September 15. But concerns over cars speeding in Garden City will not be taking a summer break. Last month Village Trustee Charles Kelly, chair of the Traffic Commission, announced that items are being considered for traffic calming measures, as well as plans to review several active requests that arrived at the
Commission. In June the Traffic Commission considered a petition for eastbound/westbound stop signs to be added to the East intersection of Mulberry Avenue at Maxwell Road – creating an all-way stop intersection. At present, the intersection just has north and south side stop signs. Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson said on Thursday, May 26 a speed survey was taken of the intersection – with 299 vehicles present, between 7
a.m. and 7 p.m. with roughly 25 per hour. The average vehicle speed was 24 miles per hour. The 85th percentile speed was just 27 miles per hour. The GCPD reviewed five years of accident data, and there were almost no accidents between 2017 and May 23, 2022, except one that happened in 2021. Commissioner Jackson said his department also considered accident data for Mulberry Avenue and See page 44
The midsummer Village Board of Trustees meeting could leave Garden City with a changing of the guard for its official legal counsel. At its July 21st meeting, the Board was to consider replacing former mayor Peter Bee’s law firm, Bee, Ready, Fishbein, Hatter & Donovan with the previous village attorneys: Cullen & Dykman, LLP, as municipal counsel. Gary Fishberg, a partner at Cullen & Dykman, was expected to be named as Village Counsel. Fishberg said he first began working on village matters alongside Loring Hubbell
in 1971 when Fishberg first joined Cullen & Dykman. He served as Village Counsel from 1976 through 2014. The July 21 agenda stated several key legal firm appointments that were up for board votes: a period of enacting the change for village counsel, between this week (the week of Monday, July 18) and the next Village of Garden City reorganization meeting, which is set for April 3, 2023. According to the Board’s agenda, if approved as the Village’s municipal attorneys, Cullen & Dykman was to be paid a retainer of $24,575 per month for up to 1,000 hours of See page 44
Time running out to qualify for amnesty The Village of Garden City’s amnesty period for legalizing home improvements that were performed without permits will be expiring on July 30th. After that date, homeowners will be charged a legalization fee of three times the regular permit fee in order to legalize work previously done. In February 2022, the Board
of Trustees authorized a an amnesty period to allow homeowners to apply to legalize work without paying the extra fee. According to the Village, residents can start the permit paperwork at the Village Building Department by July 30th and then gather necessary documents needed in order to qualify for the amnesty.
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