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Trustees support traffic study for numbered streets
BACK TO SCHOOL
BY RIKKI MASSAND
Patrick Burns, a first grader at Hemlock School is greeted by Garden City Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kusum Sinha on the first day of school.
GC Board of Education approves personnel changes as school begins BY RIKKI MASSAND On Monday August 20 the Garden City Board of Education held a special meeting in which several personnel decisions were confirmed just before the start of the school year. A few budget transfers for the district related to additional class sections at Stratford and Stewart School that have been added for the school year
were also approved, noted to be funding “for teachers and teaching materials.” School Board President William C. Holub asked Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kusum Sinha for details on the personnel moves the board was set to vote on Monday evening. “With several of the teacher and teacher aide appointments, and a few resignations,
they are related to our classrooms and we must have these items approved as staff start the school year this week,” she said. The Garden City school board trustees unanimously approved the following staff moves: Dayna Defliese is the new head soccer coach for Garden City Middle School girls in grades 7 and 8. See page 16
At its August 19 meeting, the Garden City Board of Trustees authorized a $32,500 a traffic calming study for Garden City’s Central section numbered streets. Village Administrator Ralph V. Suozzi reported on the proposal and other traffic mitigation planning initiatives, which are related to the recent contractual agreement with consultants Creighton Manning Engineering, LLP. Prior to the start of summer, Creighton Manning performed its ‘Road Diet’ traffic study for Cathedral Avenue, but unlike the numbered streets in the village’s Central section, Cathedral Avenue is a Nassau County-owned road. The numbered streets are all owned and maintained by the Village of Garden City. The Board of Trustees approved a budgetary transfer of $32,500 to the village’s “Engineering - Contractual Services” account from the village Contingent account, “to fund a Neighborhood Traffic Calming Study.” Creighton Manning, branch manager Frank A. Filiciotto presented results of the initial Cathedral Avenue Road Diet study at the Village Board’s July 15 meeting. This study was authorized in January, as the January 22, 2021 Mayor’s Column in the The Garden City News noted “the board of trustees has engaged the professional services of Creighton Manning Engineering, LLP to prepare a $47,800 traffic calming study of Cathedral Avenue, as requested by the Traffic Commission.” In August, Suozzi explained the genesis of doing safety studies on Garden City traffic. “The Numbered Streets’ traffic calming study was voted on (moved for board consideration) by the Village’s Traffic Commission November 19, 2020. But when that initial proposal for the study was presented, it was only to take place for the streets between Hilton Avenue and Cathedral Avenue. I have worked to expand that range to be from Franklin Avenue to Rockaway Avenue and asked Creighton Manning to include those areas in the study proposal. Dealing with the full width of the area also includes the 7th Street business district -- the price was $32,500. After our July Board meeting GCPD Commissioner Kenneth Jackson reviewed the Cathedral Avenue study in great detail and put together some responses, comments and observations that he wanted consultants at Creighton Manning to read and consider -- those updates have See page 44
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