Friday, October 19, 2018
Vol. 95, No.5
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Fall Festival PAGES 18-19 n Best Band PAGE 50
St. Paul's plan to receive more study by Board
HOMECOMING SATURDAY
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
GCHS’s Homecoming football game vs. Valley Stream will be played on Saturday, October 20th at 2 p.m. at Garden City High School. The Homecoming Parade at 12 noon precedes the game and features dozens of school groups, teams, and alums marching along on Seventh Street. Go Trojans!
Library gets $50K in state aid
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
At its monthly meeting on Monday October 15, the Garden City Public Library Board of Trustees honored New York State Senator Kemp Hannon for his contribution of securing $50,000 in “Bullet Aid” funding for the library for the state’s current fiscal year. Last November GCPL received $30,000 in funding as part of the 2017-18 New York State Budget. The “Bullet Aid” funding program was specified for targeted aid to entities via education funding.
Eleven months ago, then-Library Director Lisa Paulo said the Library usually received anywhere between $15,000 and $50,000 in recent (state budget) years. This week Marianne Malagon, who was hired as the library director over the summer, spoke about continuing the goals in both atmospheric/settings and program initiatives for GCPL. “The bullet aid was needed help and the increase in our state construction aid was also a big improvement in the last year’s budget. We will be advocating for construction funding again; hopefully we’ll be
able to do some bigger projects and pursue the future opportunities we have available to us. If Sen. Hannon can give us any direction in applying for that I will be happy to do it,” she explained to the GCPL Board and a few members of the public present. The main Garden City library building dates to 1973 and some areas will need infrastructure items going forward. Malagon referenced the GCPL space study undertaken in the past few years and the partial See page 45
The fate of the iconic St. Paul’s school could take shape in the coming days as the Garden City Board of Trustees will be considering whether to move forward with plans for the “Centre at St. Paul’s,” featuring a hockey rink with unconventional spectator space; a 100-yard indoor synthetic turf playing field and the host venue for dance classes, yoga, swimming and a smorgasbord of other recreational activities. On Thursday night, October 18, the Board of Trustees was expected to hold a work session to discuss retaining a third-party, The Sports Facilities Advisory Company, “to assist with gathering public input, preparing use and programming information and financial projections, potential retention of architects and structural engineers and construction management professionals as well as other matters related to continued development of the previously announced related St. Paul’s Concept Plan for creating a cultural and recreational based facility at the former St. Paul’s School.” The CEO of The Sports Facilities Advisory Company, Dev Pathik, presented his firm’s operations and management experience to the Board on Thursday, September 20. The discussion on retaining the firm, absent of public comments because it was designated during a work session, was originally going to happen at the Board’s last meeting on October 4. But that night, rounds of public comments and a presentation on the expected work schedule for the initial stages of the 9.8-mile LIRR Third Track project went past 11 p.m. so the Board rescheduled the work session. Another item placed on the Board’s agenda for Thursday October 18 was “consideration of retention of Real Estate/Zoning Counsel to advise the village on matters related to Zoning and Tax of Not-For Profit Real Estate Uses.” In the meantime the two village trustees of Garden City’s Eastern section, Trustees Mark Hyer and John See page 43
GCHS Trojans pancake Calhoun Colts 38-7 PAGE 68 Girls Varsity Soccer looks to playoffs PAGE 62