Despite drafting and approving an ambitious new Master Plan and Zoning Code for the Village of Roslyn, the Board of Trustees is still working to update the municipal code, described by Mayor Janet Galante as "antiquated" and in need of improvement.

Currently, the village does not have an adequate code necessary for future cooperation with the Nassau County legislation, BOT members claimed at the March 2 meeting. Members added, without being specific, that the village is "not in compliance of [the] things to do in maintaining a code."

The compliance process was started, but not completed, under the previous administration of former mayor Joel Pasnik. However, by July of this year, the BOT hopes to complete a preliminary draft.

Public hearings will be held in October and November to help determine the final shape of the code. The draft, BOT members said, would be in compliance with statues under the BOT's stewardship. The cost of the draft was estimated to be $38,500.

Deputy Mayor Nolan Myerson noted that Roslyn is one of the few villages on Long Island currently without a code book. As a result, the village has been "skirting" important financial issues with the New York State Comptroller offices. Mayor Galante and Deputy Mayor Myerson agreed a code update was something that needed to be taken care of.

However, Trustee Marshall Bernstein took issue with the projected cost of the code draft. He first claimed that there is a difference between producing a code book and simply redrafting village laws. He praised the master plan and new zoning code process as an example of the latter.

While recodification and redrafting of village statutes is necessary, Trustee Bernstein noted that both the village and the county are entering a period of austerity concerning budgetary matters.

With the legal fees that are sure to be incurred through a new code book, he predicted the $38,500 number would come closer to $50,000. "[This is] money we cannot now afford to pay," Trustee Bernstein said.

He also claimed a new draft might result in a tax increase for village residents. With Nassau County now "in deep trouble" with taxation, any new tax increases for village residents should be avoided, Trustee Bernstein added.

In other news, a resolution is near between Carriage Works Towing, 20 Skillman Street and the village. Carriage Works, according to its lawyer H.F. Damm, hopes to negotiate a lease with owners of an adjacent property to allow some parking of Carriage Works vehicles there.

Mr. Damm told the BOT that Carriage Works plans to remove vehicles from Skillman that are currently in the process of being repaired. Carriage Works owns five fire trucks. Jill Brown, whose husband operates Carriage Works, said the company was thinking of selling all five of them.

The problem started when village residents complained to the mayor's office that Carriage Works was storing wrecked cars on Skillman. The BOT then offered a resolution that would prohibit "stopping, standing, or parking of trucks or other commercial vehicles" on both the north and south side of Skillman. Both sides in the dispute have been in negotiations since then in order to seek a resolution independent of any village action.