What happened to the Environmental Advisory Board established by the Village of Garden City in 1992? I went to village hall on its scheduled Wednesday night in September meeting, and the building was closed. I had wanted to greet Trustee Brudie, chairman of the board since April 2006, and discuss a grant application I was preparing to the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation on behalf of the Garden City Bird Sanctuary, Inc.

I appeared at village hall during the Oct. 4 trustees meeting and stated my disappointment that not only had there been no September GCEAB meeting, but my contacts with the representatives indicated that they had not met in well over a year, and at least one representative had submitted a written resignation over a year earlier, but never even received a letter acknowledging that he was no longer serving. Mr. Brudie seemed to indicate he did not know either how or who was supposed to schedule meetings.

The EAB matter was reported in the local papers, and I again appeared at the village trustees meeting Oct. 19 to seek a required resolution from the trustees in order that our application as a nonprofit organization would qualify. The resolution was passed by the trustees 8-0 but when I tried to attend the scheduled October GCEAB meeting, I received a last minute e-mail that it had not been scheduled. Why? If you have no concerns regarding environmental issues, fine, formally disband the GCEAB as unneeded, but stop publishing it in the Village of Garden City's Annual Report. If it is a board the village trustees would like to see active and productive, make more than a token effort to get it functional.

Rob Alvey