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Vol. 100, No. 24

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Trustees question costs of engineering consultants

A JOYOUS GOAL

BY RIKKI MASSAND

over seven years since the departure of Frank Koch in 2015. Prior to starting the job within the Garden City executive staff, Carey had served as a senior Water Plant consultant for H2M and previously as superintendent of the Massapequa Water District between 2010 and 2021

The Board of Trustees’ meeting held at Village Hall on Thursday June 1 presented a number of contractual approvals for board action. Members of the board scrutinized the costs associated with the water system and related contracts with its water system and engineering consultants, Melville-based H2M Architects + Engineers. The highest-price contract for their current scope of work in the Village of Garden with approvals voted on by the governing body on June 1 includes $189,700 for the firm’s professional services related to Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) and Corrosion Control Treatment Sampling. The action is required twice a year, by the Nassau County Health Department and the New York State Department of Health. The highest percentage of that contractual workload will include LCR compliance sampling and development of a report, with an estimated cost of $68,000. Village sampling “by request” will cost $49,500, while Corrosion control treatment monitoring sampling is expected to cost $32,000 and biweekly entry point sampling will cost $20,800. Trustee Charles Kelly led the questioning of the high number of H2M contracts and expense accounts with the village, asking if there was a “never-ending” cycle with hiring of the firm according to the work they have performed for the village in the past. “There’s hundreds of thousands of dollars on tonight’s agenda (in multiple projects/items) for H2M. Is this a result of things that were bid out or are they a result of the continuation of services that we have historically retained H2M for?” Kelly asked. Village Superintendent of Public Works John Borroni confirmed it was the latter that brought forth more allocations of village funding to H2M. During his updates on June 1 Borroni noted the agenda item requesting ratification of a $77,500 expense item for H2M, specifically for the Old Country Road municipal water tank project to cover the firm’s additional expenses incurred. “Additional construction-related services were needed due to various delays by the tank contractor,” Borroni said. Another item on the Board’s recent agenda was the engagement of H2M to provide professional engineering services related to the design and construction of the permanent orthophosphate treatment systems at various municipal well sites – for a cost of $59,800.

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Members of the Garden City High School Girls Soccer Team celebrate a goal during a playoff game for the Nassau County championship. The girls ended the season in second place with a 13-3-2 record. Photo by Ed Rotondo

EAB reviews report with new water superintendent BY RIKKI MASSAND Garden City’s new Water & Sewer Department Superintendent Stanley Carey joined Mayor Mary Carter Flanagan, Trustee Michele Harrington and members of the Environmental Advisory Board (EAB) at their June 14 meeting to discuss water conservation, treatments for

emerging contaminants and the annual Village of Garden City Water Quality Report, which was mailed to local residences in May. Superintendent Carey, who has over 30 years of water operations experience, began leading Water Department this spring. The Village did not employ a water department head for

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