Friday, October 6, 2017
Vol. 94, No. 3
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After accidents, Cathedral Ave. to get new traffic signal BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
School district begins superintendent search BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
An executive search for the next “CEO of the school district” is well underway, with Garden City Public Schools taking on professional help to evaluate candidates. The first presentation on the search, a look at Garden City Schools’ “Leadership Profile,” takes place at the Wednesday, October 11 work session in the high school library, and a report from consultants will be subsequently posted on the district’s website. In August the Garden City Board of Education approved a $32,280 contract with consulting firm Hazard, Young, Attea
and Associates (HYA) to conduct a national talent search to fill the position. Before candidates are selected for interviews, HYA had face-to-face discussions about the district and its unique qualities with the faculty and members of the community in the last two weeks of September. HYA Consultant Debbie Raizes was a board of education member in Scarsdale for six years and a board trustee of Leslie University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She’s been a search consultant for the past two decades. Her partner from HYA, Dr. Robert J. Roelle has 20 years’ experience as a superintendent of schools in Ossining, Westchester County.
At the school board’s August meeting, Board President Angela Heineman commented that Raizes will be the lead consultant, having led superintendent searches on Long Island, upstate, and in New England. “She’s conducted approximately 90 searches, mostly in high-performing Westchester, Long Island and Fairfield County, Connecticut districts,” Heineman said. 0 Conducting a search for a new Garden City leader starts with knowing the people in the district. As the first of the school system’s strengths, the students of Garden City Schools, whom the next superintendent will See page 51
Last month Trustee Mark Hyer, chairman of the village’s Traffic Commission, brought on a round of applause inside Village Hall’s meeting room with a stunning announcement – a traffic signal residents of Garden City’s central section and from all over the village have advocated for along an increasingly perilous county road. Nassau County informed the village on September 21, prior to the village traffic commission meeting, Cathedral Avenue will have a new signal installed in the coming months. “I am sure a bunch of people in this room will be happy to know that the county has gotten back to us and officially told us that we are going to get a light at Cathedral and Third Street, so that’s been approved by Nassau County and it has to go to their vendor. It’s done. Hopefully it will be fast for them install it soon and I am happy we got it done; it was quite a process. We’ve had a lot of verbal communication and they said they are going to do it. We finally have written communication from them that it’s going to be done,” Trustee Hyer said, to his fellow Commission members and an intrigued but thankful audience. One resident in the audience wanted to know how fast and the Commission was pressed for answers. Trustee Robert Bolebruch explained that Hyer, Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson and the village administrator’s staff have been in touch with county officials for many months on the Cathedral Avenue need. “Trustee Hyer has been working on this and he’s been on the phone, sending emails, he has done everything – believe me when I tell you working with the county you will never get people to react as fast. The situation was not arguable with the county although in different aspects it can get frustrating,” Bolebruch said. Hyer was modest and he thanked Jackson and village staff for working on it too,” Hyer said. CPOA traffic safety liaison Pat DiMattia told Hyer, Bolebruch and all the Commission the CPOA appreciates their dedication to the cause. “You know we have been pushing for this and the broader issue is that Garden City has a number of other intersections that need to be addressed by the county. On behalf of the CPOA we thank you,” she said. Nine days earlier at the CPOA’s September 12 meeting, village Deputy Mayor Theresa Trouvé See page 51
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