Friday, January 27, 2017
Vol. 93, No.21
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ALUMNI TAKE THE COURT
School hears about returns on 2009 Energy Investment Bond BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
Mike Smith of Con Edison Solutions attended the Tuesday, January 24 school board meeting at Garden City High School to present findings of energy savings achieved through the implementation of the 2009 School Investment Bond and Energy Performance Contract. Over two years ago in December of 2014, Smith had presented a final overview of project completion with a total of $36.5 million invested in physical plant of the Garden City Public Schools district. Now the return on investment was highlighted as he returned to the village and
addressed the school board. “The intent was that the savings of this project would pay for all the measures that were implemented over a period of 15 years. The project involved building management and control systems on HVAC equipment in all schools and district buildings, comprehensive lighting retrofitting in the district (6,000 fixtures). We replaced boilers at a number of schools – all except for Stewart and Stratford. We did a number of smaller measures and PV installations at the high school and middle school, as well as variable drives and motors,” Smith said. See page 20
Police arrest man for lewdness
This past Saturday over 40 former GCHS basketball players and coaches gathered to put together a great show of sportsmanship and courage by playing in the rescheduled alumni game. See pages 48-49.
More parent inquiries on December Stratford incident, follow-up protocol BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
Following last month’s school board meeting at which many parents questioned the board about an alleged incident with a teacher, attendees at the board’s work session on Tuesday, January 24th had more questions on the district’s investigation. The incident took place at Stratford School, where a third grade teacher was removed from the classroom after supposedly behaving inappropriately. With a dozen residents on hand, the school board work session reached public comments around 10:20 pm Tuesday and that prompted
another round of inquiries into “the Stratford situation.” However district officials declined to comment on the specifics of the situation. Michael Santopietro of Amherst Street a father of four children that attend Garden City Public Schools, including a third grader at Stratford Elementary, began to speak about security concerns. “When the community gathered on Friday, December 2 there was a lot of concern over culture aspects at Stratford School. I feel that there was an issue within the school from the administration that was not described by the principal,” he said. See page 33
Hamilton Pl. As the The Garden City Police arrested a victim approached Hempstead man on the vehicle he Thursday, January was exposed and 19th for allegedly appeared to be videxposing himself to eoing the encounwomen on several ter. occasions over the On October past few months. 16 at 5:00 pm According to McDermott allegeddetectives, between ly approached a September 25, 2016 female, 44, in a and January 5, parking lot on 9th 2017, Cameron L. Street. He asked McDermott, 31, Cameron L. McDermott her a question at exposed himself to females in which time the victim said she realized he was exposing himself. Garden City at several locations. On November 23 at 5:00 pm he Police say that on September 25 at 10:30 pm he approached a female, allegedly parked next to a female 21, in a parking lot at Adelphi. victim, 53, in Parking Field 7N. He allegedly exposed himself and, He asked the victim a question at after asking her a question, urinat- which time the victim realized he had no pants on. ed on her leg. A half hour later, police say On September 30 at 9:00 pm police say he called a 20 year McDermott approached a woman, old woman over to his car on See page 33
State education officials visit GC public schools PAGES 36-37 GCHS wrestling team named conference champions PAGE 47