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BY RIKKI MASSAND
The Garden City High School Field Hockey team captured its 10th straight Nassau County championship on Monday, October 31st. The girls headed to the Long Island Championship on November 3rd.
Village approves funding to rent Adelphi pool, plant trees & flowers At the Garden City Village Board of Trustees meeting held at Village Hall on Thursday, October 27, the Board of Trustees approved funding for several items for the Recreation and Parks Department. Commissioner of Recreation and Parks Paul Blake discussed the proposed
agreement between Adelphi University and the Village of Garden City Recreation Department, for the department’s “Learn to Swim Program”. The Village will pay $1,200 for the university’s staffing at the Adelphi Pool during the three-month indoor swim instruction program, which will start on December 3, 2022 and concluding on February 25,
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2023 (with a make-up date of March 4, 2023). Blake announced that approximately 150 children participate in the program each year and the Rec. Department anticipates that as many as 175 may sign up for the upcoming swim lessons. “Adelphi has been very generous with us and there’s normally the $4,000 rental fee See page 46
At its meeting on October 27th, the Garden City Board of Trustees reached an impasse on hiring a construction cost estimator for the St. Paul’s Main Building. The village is evaluating the 143 year-old building’s future, and a 37 member committee appointed by the mayor has been examining different scenarios for possible reuse. The agenda for the Board of Trustees meeting included an item to authorize $69,000 to hire a consultant, Westerman Construction, Co., Inc., to provide cost estimates for possible renovations for the St. Paul’s main building. The company would have investigated “Alteration and Renovation (Adaptive Reuse or Facadism) Versus Demolition” of the building. Village Administrator Ralph
Suozzi discussed the recent Request For Proposals (RFP) process the village used to solicit the bids for the cost estimator services. The village had issued RFPs several months ago, but the new round of RFPs included environmental remediation work that might be needed. Mayor Cosmo Veneziale responded to a public comment by George Salem, who asked how costs could be determined before the village comes to a conclusion on “what it’s ultimately doing” with the historic property. Salem felt it would be premature to have a professional estimate work that has not been decided upon by the village. He discussed the comments of Thornton Tomasetti engineers about the environmental impact study which would need to occur before any further stages – which See page 40
Veterans Day commemoration William Bradford Turner Post No. 265, American Legion, will conduct a Veterans Day Ceremony on Veterans Day, Friday, November 11, at 10:45 a.m. in the area surrounding the Veterans Memorial at the Library on Seventh Street. The American Legion
Auxiliary, William Bradford Turner Post, Unit No. 265, will distribute poppies on Veterans Day, Friday, November 11, at the Village Memorial Plaza on Seventh Street one hour before and one hour after the 11:00 a.m. service that will be held at that location.
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