The Garden City Board of Trustees will be conducting additional work sessions to review the proposed 2007/2008 operating/capital budgets Saturday, March 3, at 8:30 a.m. and Thursday, March 8 at 7 p.m. The March 3 and 8 sessions are scheduled to be held in the board room at village hall. I encourage residents to periodically utilize the village's website for information regarding the village's operations, as well as items of seasonal and special interest. The address is www.gardencityny.net.

Residents are again reminded of the "Yield for Pedestrian in Crosswalk" signs at the three mid-block crosswalks on Seventh Street between Franklin and Hilton Avenues.

State Vehicle and Traffic Law states that motorists must yield to pedestrians who are crossing a roadway within the striped crosswalks. A motorist seeing a pedestrian entering the crosswalk must stop and permit the pedestrian to cross the street. Cars approaching the stopped vehicle from the rear are not permitted to pass.

The Garden City Police Department has been instructed to vigorously enforce these regulations and your cooperation when driving on Seventh Street will help to make these crosswalks safer for pedestrians.

A word of caution, however, to the pedestrian -- do not place undue reliance on the signs or the crosswalks, even though the law requires vehicles to yield the right-of-way -- they may not do so!