Following an online petition signed by more than 2,000 people, and acting on the advice of police, town officials said this week that they’re looking to install cameras to record motor vehicles entering and exiting Waveny Park.
Parks and Public Works officials said during a subcommittee meeting Tuesday that the cost of installation might be around $25,000, for which they would likely request a special appropriation. The main purpose of the cameras will be to “show visibility of activity coming in and out of our parks,” Parks and Recreation Commission Chairman Rona Siegel said during a meeting of the appointed body’s Camera Subcommittee. The two-person subcommittee, which also includes Parks Commissioner Matt Konspore, discussed potential locations for the cameras, focusing on the three entrances to the park—one on South Avenue and two on Lapham Road, including near the Waveny Pool. “It would just be an extension of cameras at the entrances – not throughout the park,” Siegel said during the meeting, held at Town Hall. Those in attendance included Siegel and Konspore as well as Recreation Director Steve Benko, Public Works Director Tiger Mann and Parks Superintendent John Howe.
On May 31st, join fellow New Canaanites at Waveny House for a “Night at the Beach.” The 4th New Canaan Benefit for Nazareth Housing supports Nazareth Housing’s homelessness prevention work and will celebrate the teen volunteers that dedicate their time serving the families at Nazareth’s Thorpe Shelter. With live music by the Short Bus Band, dining by Rosie’s, and plenty of silent auction items up from grabs, this event is guaranteed to be the can’t-miss event of the spring! This will be the 4th benefit held in New Canaan to raise funds to support the work of Nazareth Housing and their services in the Bronx. WHERE
Waveny House
677 South Ave
New Canaan, CT 06840
WHEN
May 31, 2019
6:30PM-11:00PM
HONORING
Teen Volunteers for their service and dedication to Thorpe Shelter
BENEFIT COMMITTEE
Cally Adl
Nicole Ahrens
Bethamy Aronow
Colleen Bailey
Stefania Bopp
Kristin Desautelle
Neely Leslie
Mary Lydon
Alexa McCloughan
Mariella Montoni
Leigh Murray
Kerry O’Dea
Rebecca Paniwozik
Judi Panzano
Marybeth Pickering
Luba Radoslavova
Maria Schmitz
Holly Slattery
Helen Sparks
Kate Van Dussen
Suzanne Wilson
Ann Wronski
ABOUT NAZARETH HOUSING
Nazareth Housing is a community-based nonprofit dedicated to the promotion of housing stability and economic mobility of low-income families and individuals of New York City through the provision of: homelessness prevention services, emergency family shelter, supportive housing, and urgent needs assistance.
New Canaan’s highest elected official said Tuesday that he would like to appoint a new committee of architects to set a strategy for capital improvements at Waveny House. A project to introduce air-conditioning at Waveny, for example, and overhaul its HVAC system, would cost $2.5 million, according to First Selectman Kevin Moynihan. “Do we want to do that?” Moynihan said during a regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen, held at Town Hall. “We would look to this committee to recommend what would be the strategy. So we would not be planning to do an $8 million or $10 million or $12 million renovation of Waveny House.
Town officials last week approved a $26,000 contract with a Bridgeport-based environmental company to clean out an oil tank at Waveny House and replace its service lines. The lines right now are taking in water and that’s causing the burner to blow out so that town workers have to restart it, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. “We need new service lines installed,” Mann told the Board of Selectmen at its regular meeting, held Aug. 21 at Town Hall. “They are putting in a new fill tank on top.”
First Selectman Kevin Moynihan and Selectmen Kit Devereaux and Nick Williams voted in favor of a $26,311 contract with CTR Industries.
After months of planning and “yard work,” a newly designed formal garden at Waveny House is in place and residents say they’re enjoying it. Those visiting the town park can now use additional benches as they walk through new plantings, boxwoods and shrubbery along the northern wall of the “parterre garden,” just east of the balcony behind the mansion. “Sitting on the back patio of Waveny and looking down at the parterre, you are transported to England or France,” said New Canaan Garden Club First Vice President Manda Riggs. New Canaan resident Cassidy Little visited the garden on a recent afternoon and is looking to use it as a backdrop for a photography project. “I’m very familiar with Waveny, I run through its trails almost every day in the fall,” she said.