Roslyn Estates officials on Monday said they are planning to have a series of village beautification projects completed by mid May.
Clare Peters, the chair of the village’s beautification committee, said she anticipates cleaning and planting work around Roslyn Estates to be finished by mid April and then the placement of boulders and erection of new signage to take place closer to the end of spring.
Peters presented the board with a bid from the Regency Sign Company of Deer Park for $1,500 per sign for five, 30-inch by 45-inch vinyl signs, or $1,200 per sign if the board opts for a simpler design and color.
“It’s about as naturalistic as you can have and still be of synthetic material,” Peters said.
The board on Feb. 10 allocated up to $5,000 to the beautification committee for start of various projects throughout the village.
Funding, trustees said at the time, would likely continue into the next fiscal year as necessary.
Other projects, like plantings and the placement of boulders throughout the village, would be monitored as the air stripper project proposed for the Roslyn Water District’s closed well at Diana’s Trail develops, officials said.
Peters said signs are planned for village entrances at Diana’s Trail, The Spur, The Fenway, Warner Avenue and within the village at The Intervale.
But trustees and residents in attendance said the village’s current signage in place should be re-evaluated before even more are put up.
“I’d definitely like a free-standing sign to give it more definition, but I don’t want a third pole of signage,” Roslyn Estates Mayor Jeff Schwartzberg said. “The last thing we want to do is add signage.”
Trustee Eyal Isaac suggested replacing existing signage with the proposed signs, which Peters said would be “very rural and low-key” and based on similar signs in Locust Valley.
But Schwartzberg said before the board approves new signs, Peters should create a mock sign based on Regency’s designs and specifications to determine whether they are large enough for their proposed locations.
In other developments:
•The board renewed its garbage contract with Meadow Carting for the 2014-15 fiscal year, a $127,950 expenditure.
It is the final year of the village’s three-year agreement.
•The board rejected a resident’s suggestion to flip the village’s garbage schedule in the next year so that residents whose garbage is picked up on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays is collected up on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Though the resident said his neighbors would benefit from the convenience of having garbage collected on alternating days, as well as avoiding national holidays in which no garbage is picked up, trustees said the change would not be necessary.
“I think the risk of confusion outweighs the potential benefits,” Schwartzberg said.
•Schwartzberg announced that Jeffrey Weinberg, the acting village justice since 1991, has tendered his resignation effective after the village’s April 8 court date.
The acting village justice fills in for the village justice if the village justice is unable to attend court.
Trustees said they plan to present Weinberg with a proclamation for his service to the village.
