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Fiber optic upgrade brings cable workers to back yards
‘SOUPER BOWL’ SCORES
BY RIKKI MASSAND
Senior Girl Scout Troop 1322 hosted the 2nd annual “Souper Bowl” on Saturday, February 11 to collect food for the Mary Brennan INN. Above, Troop 1322 volunteers: Daniela Fabrizi, Grace Dennis, Madeline Mitchell, Ella Pocock, Simone Outstatcher, Juliana Mitchell, Ava Sethi, Sofia Sanita, Grace Power, Maddie O’Brien. Missing from photo: Keira Regan.
Budget session focuses on administrators, capital projects BY KASSARA MCELROY
The second of a series of Board of Education budget discussions took place this week, focused on anticipated administrative and capital costs for the 2023/24 school year. As a refresher, the proposed budget for the 2023/24 school year totals $130,282,491. That’s a budget-to-budget increase of 4.58%, or $5,703,042, which
falls within the allowable tax cap levy of 2.32%. In May, this budget along with the election of a new Garden City Board of Education trustee will be on the ballot for voters. A bulk of that budget, about 75% or $97,962,256, is related to program or instructional expenses, which the next two board meetings will cover. The rest is made up of capital (~13%
The Village of Garden City has requested that Cablevision/ Altice USA to offer better communication with residents as their workers arrive in neighborhoods and backyards to implement network upgrades. The Altice USA company is doing a regional upgrade program on their existing coaxial cables to fiber optic cables throughout the northeast. Garden City Village Administrator Ralph V. Suozzi said the upgrade will provide more opportunities for Altice USA to meet the high consumer demand for streaming services. “The upgrade work is being done in the rights-of-way the utilities companies hold. In the village this includes atop the telephone poles in residential backyards. Since it is fiber optic it is light on materials and I am told there is no radiation emitted from that,” he See page 43
EAB hears about clean energy grants BY RIKKI MASSAND
or $17,497,537) and administrative costs (~11% or $14,822,698). Different codes come into play with this portion of the budget. These relate to the District’s various departments, including its BOE (workshops, election expenses, etc.), central administration (salaries, supplies, travel, etc.), business admin (salary, benefits, work-
The Village of Garden City’s new Superintendent of Public Works John Borroni, P.E., delivered an update to the Environmental Advisory Board about steps the Village is taking to secure clean energy grants from New York State. At the meeting on Wednesday, February 15th, Borroni discussed NYSERDA – the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority which provides financial assistance to municipalities to increase energy efficiency, use renewable energy, and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. NYSERDA has a points-based grants program through which communities receive points for completing “high-impact actions.”
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