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Village seeks state aid for lead line replacements
VBS CARNIVAL SMILES
BY RIKKI MASSAND
The Garden City Community Church held its first annual Vacation Bible School Carnival Bash on July 31st. See page 24.
GC resident receives FDNY citation for rescuing woman BY GARY SIMEONE Matt O’Grady, a Garden City resident and FDNY Lieutenant, received a Certificate of Merit Service Rating Class B citation from the New York City Fire Department for his 2025 rescue of a woman from a house fire. He and his team of FDNY
firefighters rescued the woman last April from a house fire in Hollis Queens, helping the woman to safety and transporting her to Nassau University Medical Center in critical condition. “We found her unconscious on the second floor of the home and the paramedics were able
to revive her and transport her to NUMC,” said O’Grady, a twenty-one year veteran and twelve year lieutenant of the FDNY. “I was honestly shocked at the time because I didn’t think she was alive but I was able to safely remove her from the burning structure.” See page 22
At a special meeting held on Wednesday night, July 22, the Garden City Village Board of Trustees approved a resolution authorizing submission of a New York State Water Infrastructure Improvement Act (WIIA) grant application to support the village’s ongoing Lead Service Line Replacement Project. If the application is successful, the resolution approved two weeks ago commits the Village of Garden City to funding all project costs not covered by the grant, including the estimated local share. The project is estimated to cost $11,745,000, with Garden City’s local share totaling 30% — or $3,523,500 — plus any costs exceeding the current project estimate. Village Superintendent of Water & Sewer Stanley Carey detailed the process Garden City is undertaking to apply for the 70/30 state grant. He said the village faced a tight timeline to obtain the governing body approvals required before the July 24 application deadline. “Consultants realized that the deadline was by July 24th – the approvals were needed for the applications to go out. The resolutions are related to the
Lead Service Line Replacement Project, and for the WIIA grant the Board is asked to approve the 70/30 split with New York State per the grant….We are not asking for any bond resolutions and we’re not saying the village is going to spend the money. It is a formality of applying for the grant, to say we will do this if we receive it. I compare it to applying for a mortgage, where you do the mortgage commitment statement first. If after time we are lucky enough to get the WIIA grant, and the Board wants to go through with it then we can. Or, if something comes up and we don’t want to borrow the money, then we (the Board) can deny the grant. But to put us in any position this action is needed,” he said. In addition to the funding resolution, the July 22 special meeting agenda included a resolution declaring the Lead Service Line Replacement Project a Type II Action under SEQRA (State Environmental Quality Review Act). The designation, approved by the trustees, means no further environmental review will be required. The agenda stated, “based on the recommendation of H2M Architects + Engineers, the project consists of the replaceSee page 22
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