The mayor announced that Gardner was awarded a $30,927.50 municipal road-safety grant from the state Department of Transportation. City officials said the funds will buy two flashing speed signs (one to be installed on Nichols Street near Holy Family Academy), helmets for giveaway at community events, support bicycle-safety classes and fund additional road-safety improvements.

The mayor credited Lieutenant Chazowski and Officer Spain of the community policing division for preparing the grant application and said the grant supports pre-prom assemblies, LS Safety Day and other local safety programs. The mayor said the Nichols Street sign will fill the city’s last school-zone gap where a flashing speed sign was not yet installed.

No formal Council action or vote was recorded in the update; the mayor presented the award as an operational grant win and described planned uses for the funding.