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Board approves changes to firehouse project
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Trustee Torino: Building has good bones BY RIKKI MASSAND
Girl Scout Troop 1480 finished its first year with a field trip to the Garden City Police Department. Officer Hennessy gave the girls a tour, taught them about safety, and even let them in his police car! The girls earned the magenta petal, respect authority. It was a great year for the girls.
Water tower placed in service BY RIKKI MASSAND At the Board of Trustees July 21 meeting Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi said the new Village of Garden City water tank is now in operation, as it had been filled in the early part of this summer. Three of the nine village wells had been operating so that created a
delay in supplying enough water to fill the tank sooner. That situation, combined with the hot summer days, led the village to needing to fill up the new tank while maintaining municipal water supply and enough for fire safety coverage. Ultimately the village engaged in a process of filling up the tank nearly three
times, because there were two water samples – for bacteria and organic compounds – requested by the Nassau County Department of Health. The delays at labs where the water samples are tested on Long Island created another setback of a few weeks. Suozzi reported that one of the samSee page 30
At its July 21st meeting, the Garden City Board of Trustees approved a change order for $130,038 for the renovations and construction at Fire Station No. 2, located at the intersection of Stewart Avenue and Edgemere Road. Several village professionals including Superintendent of Building Giuseppe Giovanniello reviewed aspects of the project, which has a controversial past as the prior village board considered replacing the building. Giovanniello noted the originally allocated project amount of $1.25 million with Cameron Engineering of Woodbury, which performed a professional engineering study and assessment, receiving $116,000 and PAR Environmental Corp. receiving $255,500. The contractors working on the project, including Seaborn and Ahearn Holtzman, received a $377,068 contract which included a contingency amount of $100,000 for electrical work. The board approved the change order, in the amount of $130,038, requested by Ahearn Holtzman, Inc. The amount includes $5,000 allowance for exterior light fix-
ture replacement parts. “For the current project to date, $642,268 was used not including this change order. Once we include the change order of $130,038 the total amount for the project allocated would be $772,306. This would result in a total savings of $477,694 of the total project budget,” Giovanniello said. The building superintendent reviewed the change orders and told the contractor to present a final change order, which would include all items noted on a recent walkthrough. Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi, Village Superintendent of Public Works Anthony DeRosa, and consultants from Cameron Engineering joined the contractors and Giovanniello on the walkthrough. The change order of $130,038 included facade tiebacks with the steel angles that will hold back a second layer of brick on the building, behind the facade. This was included for aesthetics and involves laminating from the back of the facade. Work to properly anchor the metal/steel staircase that goes to the second floor is also covered See page 50
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