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Residents to vote on fate of St. Paul’s on October 21st BY RIKKI MASSAND After a contentious debate at its August 17 meeting the Garden City Board of Trustees voted to hold a community vote on October 21st on the fate of the St. Paul’s main building. The vote will not be legally binding on the board, but will ascertain the residents’ views. Voting will take place from 7 am to 9 pm at the St. Paul’s Fieldhouse and will include all registered voters in the village. (The deadline to register is October 11th.) Absentee ballots will be available. The decision to choose October 21st
Matt McCoy, 19, asked guests to bring backpacks rather than gifts to his birthday party earlier this month. With the support of family, friends, neighbors on Tullamore Rd., Camp ANCHOR friends, Plainedge HS friends, and GCHS Best Buddies friends, Matt received over 40 backpacks filled with school supplies that he donated to The INN. Many thanks to all!
New Village Clerk named BY RIKKI MASSAND The Village of Garden City performed an extensive search to replace longtime Village Clerk Karen Altman, following
the announcement of her upcoming retirement a few months ago. At the Village Board of Trustees’ meeting held last Thursday night, a new clerk was approved
with her compensation rate of $66 hourly, beginning as a consultant to assist in the Clerk’s Office effective from August 17 through December See page 48
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as the date for the vote was debated, with several members of the board advocating later dates. In the end, five members (Mayor Mary Carter Flanagan and Trustees Bruce Chester, Charles Kelly, Lawrence Marciano and Michael Sullivan) voted in favor of October 21st. Trustees Ed Finneran, Michele Beach Harrington and Bruce Torino voted against it. For most of the meeting, the three trustees and several residents who felt a later date for the vote would be better presented their concerns, including the See page 39
Tennis facilities on schedule for repairs, upgrades BY RIKKI MASSAND On Thursday August 17 the Village Board of Trustees approved two “sole source declarations” and related contracts for the Recreation Department to proceed with upgrades to a few village facilities. Through a vote on approving agenda items, the Board declared Green Arc Lighting of New York City as the sole source for Green Arc Eclipse replacement LED lighting fixtures inside the tennis bubble facility.
In his meeting report, Superintendent of Recreation and Parks Paul Blake told the Village Board the fixtures being ordered from Green Arc are designed specifically as a retrofit for the existing Green Arc fixtures in the indoor tennis building, and at this point there are no alternatives on the market, with the engineering array of the lighting being “proprietary technology specific to Green Arc.” The LED plates the company will See page 48
Cathedral hosts day campers PAGE 8 New tree needed for memorial PAGE 9