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EAB looks at village recycling program
PROJECT BASED LEARNING
BY RIKKI MASSAND
The village’s Environmental Advisory Board (EAB) held its monthly meeting in Village Hall and via Zoom on Wednesday, July 19 and discussed the challenges the village faces in its recycling program. The Board also considered themes and informational displays for its table at the Friday Night Promenades along 7th Street. It also discussed how the lead water pipelines inventory of the village can be showcased during the later part of August, as families return to Garden City after the summer break.
A better recycling campaign
Stratford School students enjoyed a Project-based Learning experience in their fourth grade classes. Students designed and researched museum-type projects on their selected topics. See page 41
Crosswalk project proposed for 7th Street BY RIKKI MASSAND As the village and the Traffic Commission have been looking at ways to increase pedestrian safety through traffic engineering and slowing traffic on local roads, officials have been particularly concerned with safety at a crosswalk in the heart of Garden City. The Seventh Street crosswalk in front of Dunkin Donuts and TCBY has been of particular concern due to the many seniors and families with young children who walk in that area. The Board of Trustees’ agenda for its July 20 meet-
ing included the creation of a new capital project under the Department of Public Works, titled “Seventh Street Crosswalk Improvements.“ The proposal came before the board complete with the authorization of the project requested, as well as the transfer of municipal budget funds of $276,945 to finance it and the award of a contract on the bid. Board authorization was requested to transfer $276,945.50 into a new capital project account, moving that sum from the Business District Paving project to fund the Seventh Street
Crosswalk Improvements. The trustees were to decide on the project’s authorization, funding from the transfer and the award of the crosswalk project bid to low bidder J. Anthony Enterprises, Inc. of Hauppauge at Thursday’s meeting.
Extra federal funds for project
The Board of Trustees was also preparing to reverse part of the money allocated from the federal American Rescue Plan funding for the Senior Center HVAC project at the meeting, with an agenda item for its Thursday July 20 meeting to See page 37
The recyling conversation at the meeting centered on signage and labeling of receptacles at the Village Yard. Alison Parks, a new member of the EAB, explained that the work session would help present more recycling campaign ideas and initiatives to complement a pamphlet recently produced by the Garden City Department of Public Works. Parks offered an outline on how the EAB and Village Board of Trustees can educate residents about recycling and improve the process. “One of the things we think is a problem is that at the Village Yard the signage is out of date. We can use and should be using the Yard as an educational experience for residents, so those who are going to the dump can be properly informed as to what things go where,” she said. A review of the Village Yard’s bottles and cans bins, for example, led the EAB to conclude that there must be a lot of confusion about what things go into bottles and cans. Parks proposed adding a bin or a designated area labeled “Non Recyclable.” The unofficial area for non-recyclable items has become the center area of the Yard. “Right now it is kind of a free-for-all. This has led to more confusion plus several residents have complained that sharp objects and sometimes nails are in the middle of the Yard; what I think might work is keeping the area clean. If it is not a bottle or a can, we need to identify it as Plastics 1 and 2 or cans,” she See page 43
Bobby Menges Memorial Blood Drive PAGE 12 GC student collects items for veterans PAGE 16