already cut off. So 18. So we're going to ask for feedback this evening and I'm going to take any feedback. 22. >> I know. >> She's finished.
Looks like This was the first week. That's one of those things. Yeah, absolutely. Please stand for the pledge of >> allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it
stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Can >> I just ask for a moment of silence for the best in the form of Thank you. I hereby announce that this meeting is being held in accordance with chapter
231 of the open public meeting act. Proper notice of meeting dates has been given to the Morris newsby the Morris County Daily Record and posted on the bulletin board in Bur Hall. Roll call, please. >> Mrs. President, Christy,
>> present. here. >> Uh, any comments regarding the minutes of the meeting of March 22nd, 2026 thing is I have no comments. is going to have a motion to approve the minutes.
>> So move second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I >> I open the uh comments from the public section of the meeting. If you have any comments, please uh come forward and
have a seat and uh state your uh comments. You can if you would baseball last year. It's been improved in that small field. Uh There were thoughts about willow trees last year. I think I was going to
come to you guys about trees last year. Um, but we tre this year when we walk with South B. I'm no expert, but somebody said they
don't look like the best and they're not careful. So, uh, if you said, "Hey, you know, they throw a lot of shade so the field doesn't dry out. Uh, why don't we replace
that idea?" So I think um John could do it but I immediately called and say can I have your approval to replace these two or three I didn't think it was a big
deal I already attorney so we have them um if it's too controversial to remove those trees. Uh we put them somewhere else in the park or you just not
bad. >> No. So, so two things. So, John spoke I've spoken with John about this. So, we've been all over this since he brought this up. So, what he's going to do is he is going to trim them back a little bit. So, we're not going to remove those two specific trees.
>> We will trim them back. If you do want to plant the the willows in the location that you seem to think that they'll drain up some water around there, I have no issue with that. >> Okay. So, not directly behind,
which is that's the main issue. >> That's okay. >> That's the reason why they said, "Hey, this could really suck up." That was the idea. >> I know tree, but that was why I thought, "Let's replace those trees that sit with
that, you know, he Um anywhere happens people put clay okay and all of a sudden plate is lower than the surrounding. So
John has gone over there and p will be above that water will run. You shouldn't have any problems. >> I thought he did a great job. >> Yeah. So, in my understanding, what they were going to do is kind of pitch it the opposite way because it looked like it
was kind of pitched in. >> Yeah. So, it was braided out. So, it looks like you pitched it out. So, if there's still an issue, you know, post the next handful of rains with the new pitch, I'm more than happy to work with you and we could we can work something
out and see where we could put those. today. >> As we stand, we see how it performs. You know, maybe it's not as last year for it. >> No, I completely understand. I don't want to cause any issues with the field.
for a long time. >> No, I completely understood. So, >> where are the where are the willow trees? Are they in your backyard in pots or they're not they're not going to die in the meantime? >> No, he's all right. So, we're good. >> Willow trees. All right. So, we can hold
>> Yeah. Did they do any of the field last years? >> Last year last year was field four and then I slowly >> sounds like that might be the best case
scenario. New addition. >> No, I completely understand. You know, we just they're I understand with the shading issue there. He's going to trim them down. They'll they'll look fine. Not throw as much shade. Right. Exactly. There. And then hopefully with that pitch based on how he communicated to
me. Hopefully it'll be fine. If not, we'll be more than happy to revisit that. >> My daughters are playing softball. So, thanks for your work, too. >> T-ball and farm or whatever new for us this year. So,
>> thank you very much for all your time. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Any other comments from the public? Seeing there are none, I close uh this portion of the meeting.
Uh moving forward towards the uh budget. Uh not heard. I believe we're still in good shape with uh the town is still working through kind of the the budget process voted on the last.
>> Okay. I don't I haven't heard anything regarding any change to our proposed budget. So I believe we should be fine then. And moving forward to to communications, I have uh two things. So, one um was
sent a copy of this by the the burough clerk and then parent just gave me another copy. Um a forester from the uh utility I I'm assuming it's from JCPNL um First Energy. So, they're doing some
tree work for the Morris and Essex line. Uh so, this is not tree work within the burrow. This is tree trimming specifically along the train tracks. >> You just want to let us know that it's not it's not going to affect any
>> No, it's not going to affect any public trees. We just want if anybody happened to see it and was wondering what was going on to your attention. Then uh other things obviously between our past meeting and and this meeting we
had some storms uh come through the area some rain and wind. Uh we had two issues in the burrow. One on uh Granis Avenue. Uh a large tree did uh take down some power wires. Uh that was not a town
tree. That was the resident's uh tree. Uh just a thank you to the road department for helping JCPNL with that cleanup. Uh second area where we did have uh an issue with uh a town tree was on the uh lot on Silvin across from the
former Idol Wild Pool property. Um there was a tree on the rightway uh that did impact the homeowner fence in two spots. Uh that has been taken care of and cleaned up by the road department. Uh the other two trees that were approved
at last month's meeting have been taken care of at Greenwood. So just a continued thank you to our marsh plans. That's all that I have from communications. our forester actually uh just uh just so that everyone's aware
obviously he's not here this evening but our uh C council liazison Salortes has uh stepped down from the uh burough council or forester uh was traveling and uh was uh stuck with travel. So he was not able
to make it this evening. So I will be taking you through the foresters report. Memo number 2608 uh 52 Birch Drive. Resident reported a large limb from a town tree had fallen parallel to her driveway.
Um, this would be, this is a 12 to 24 foot tree that has some dead wood in it, uh, that needs to be pruned. Uh, 5. Before I read the next memo, just one thing, if you don't mind, moving forward, um, with like this memo's got
three specific different asks on it. Can we do a memo for each specific thing just moving forward? >> Thank you. Uh memo 2906, Commissioner Dressler reported the following. Uh one uh at one tree at 8
Overlook Drive uh needs to be pruned and a birch tree across the street needs to be pruned. Uh two stumps on Central Avenue on each side of Bridge should be removed. And then number three, three trees to be
pruned in the community garden. So the tree at 8 um overlook, uh Mr. Dubie recommended that we put it on the worksheet and see how that tree does during the growth season and then we could revisit it.
The birch tree that's at 7 overlook that was in question or excuse me beach tree is 12 is uh 24 to 36 and needs to be pruned that is 620. The two stumps on central A, these were
trees that were removed uh last year by the commission. Uh one stump at 24 to 36, 396 and one stump 36 plus uh 560. And the three trees in the community
garden. This was brought to us by the garden committee. Uh they have had issues in the past with some branches coming down and breaking the fence and causing issues there. So with our partnership with the garden committee, we'd like to take care of this for them. It's pruning of three trees uh 24 to 36
at 620 each. This total memo is 3456. >> Did you have a chance to go back out there to look at the other two trees that I had seen?
He didn't. It's fine. But I just wanted to ask if Dave could look at them if he's going up there. >> Sure, we can take a look at >> I don't know if anyone else saw, but there's two uh large trees in the oak trees on either side of the path that goes into the woods and they have like
really large makers. The tree is not in the best shape and the top snapped off. And uh I mean, you know, I I don't want to spend a lot of money pruning trees in the woods, but these are right over the entrance to the walking path. They're very if they fell on someone.
>> So, I just think they should look after >> an allergic reaction to go to >> Yeah. >> You know, you know the wooden path that has the woods to the left? >> Yeah. Yeah. There's there's a there's two trees and actually both of them have
huge very large portion of the snapped off. Okay, >> at least look, that's what it looked like to me because I was trying to figure out which trees these were and I saw those two and I thought, "Oh, that's too
>> honestly after that I wouldn't go back either." >> Yes. >> Uh 20 memo 2610. Uh this is uh what was just discussed in the meeting uh the public comment section uh regarding
literally with the two evergreen trees um that were dead and should be removed. Uh so we've decided EPW is just going to kind of trim those trees up, make them look a little better. I think that would be in fine shape. 2612
um 75 Silven Drive. U I this was discussed at the March meeting. Um this tree looks like it has uh some damage from a snow plow. This will be a worksheet item. We'll just continue to monitor this tree how it kind of progresses throughout the year.
Memo 2613 69 Lemore Drive. president stated that she is on the corner of Lemore and Sun Valley. There is a town tree. There is a tree on town property on the Sun Valley side that is uprooted and needs to be
removed. Uh it's a smaller tree uh that needs to just be kind of pruned. Uh that needs to be removed. Road department will take care of this and we'll address this stuff at a later date. Last memo, 2614,
uh 8 Valley Stream Drive. Uh resident, uh I'm assuming called into the town, uh to the zoning officer is concerned that a tree that is leaning towards this house that's on the public land right there at the end of the culde-sac. So, both head of the road department and our
zoning official took a look at this tree. Um the tree does need to be removed. It is a 24 to 36 removal 845 uh no stump. Then there were two more uh items from
the worksheet that I'd like to talk about. This was from last meeting 2607. Uh this was Commissioner Mley reported that there is a large tree at 29 Silven Drive that needs to be re removed. Tree had a lot of deadwood in it. The tree is
24 to 36. Um our forester has recommended that the tree be removed. So one tree removal at 24 to 36 is 845. Uh the stump is actually 36 plus due to a large flare in it. And that's 560.
Correct. That was from memo uh 2607405. >> Then the last item uh from the worksheet to address uh 2604. Uh this was the stump at 45 styles. It's a 12 to 24 in stump removal 275.
We had conversations about trying to understand if it was on the rightway or not. The stump is on the right of way. So marked that removal. Uh so total uh to be approved for this evening for the work for this month 64.81. Do I have a
motion to approve this? Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Can I just ask you
have lot that's across from the pool. Discussion about that have a discussion about that. >> So Dave was away after the the work was uh done. So him and I will be addressing that um shortly and then in April we'll
be addressing that big budget purchase. sort of consideration discussion about that >> because there's
a property. There's a lot of that go in there. Well, but we're not accounting for that in our normal budgeting because it hasn't been maintained for a long time because there's a lot of very large trees. So, I think we need to have a discussion
with a new set discussion about that. >> Yeah, Mr. Mayor. >> So, that was already discussed, Rob. And um I do have >> Yeah. No, I I I think I spoke before.
>> There are funds that that I put in there and bought that property already. So that >> Perfect. Thanks so much. >> I just got to I'll just get you what we need to still do and then we'll we'll get that over to you. >> Perfect. Okay. Even better then.
>> Okay. Uh moving forward to old business. Who wants to go first? >> Whoever wants to go first. You go first. >> I don't have a big update on my grant. Um I'm still uh trying. We haven't, you know, Sal's been sick so I haven't had on. My dad has been very very helpful
and I've approached him a few times. Um so I started to do some of the work and then I realized that we really need to figure out how we're going to pay um the money that we do have to pay up front because as I said to Mike, it would be 25,000 we paid up front. get 20,000 of
that back and pay 5,000 the way the way I currently have a budget. But before I introduce that plan to you all, I want to make sure you understand what the council expects from us in terms of our budget and back
and talk to the about this figure. In the meantime, I'll keep on working on application material. So hopefully once we get the budgeting piece figured out, then we'll be good to go. >> 5,000 is an occupation or
>> 5,000 is for the um well so they'll give you $20,000, right? But because you have to have a match a matching portion like if you if you take below 20,000, you're still going to you're going to get less. See what I mean?
So um the $5,000 would be for I mean how you want to cut it out, I don't know, but it would be 200 trees in the bar inventory and fiveyear plan for the tree plant. So if you budget it out over five years about $1,000
>> and I mean we can discuss all of that and how much we want to put towards it and what we want to budget, how much volunteer time we want to do. I was trying to minimize the cost and maximize what you got and that's what I was going to present and then if you want to adjust it from there we can have that discussion commission.
>> Perfect. >> Thank you for looking into that. >> Okay. So um before I go into the uh trees for schools grant program I just wanted to remind everybody that the living J Porter community tree project award will be coming up and the deadline
is in August. We've applied for it before. We haven't gotten it, but um just uh no action now. It's just FYI, we can probably talk about it next month if we want to pursue it. It's a very simple grant. We wrote it ourselves. Steve
looked over it. So, just something to think about for next month as we we talk about whether or not we want to move forward with that one. The second one is what I gave everybody a handout last month. It's called the Trees for Schools grant program. So, just to remind everybody, the goal is to support tree
planting, care, and maintenance on public school properties, and to help schools expand the tree canopy, provide educational opportunities, and improve envir environmental quality. Uh, the grants uh awards range from$10,000 to $250,000.
Um, in the second round of these grants, uh, Madison, Rand, and Randolph both received substantial grants. The uh funds cover all the planning, site, grab, tree, purchase, everything. Uh the good news about this one is that no
applicant match is required. So there's no there's no matching. Uh it's a cost reimbursement award, meaning expenses are documented and submitted according to the milestones and then reimbursement is approved. So the idea was
the one caveat on all of this was that the grant can only be submitted by an eligible educational institution. So the idea was that we would partner with um uh Mark Bear the superintendent and
develop a project proposal jointly and then work on that together. So the idea was hopefully um you guys took a look at it and the idea this time was to say hey we think we should try for it. Now the interesting thing is usually each year
it's around uh the middle of May for submission for the following year. It has not come up yet. So I don't know if they're behind. I'm not maybe the website just isn't updated. But we agree that this is something we want to investigate further. I'll go and call
them. they have an email and a phone number to call and just see what's going on with the grant to make sure it's still uh it's still funded. I think the first the first round the grant was 4.55 million and this is a statewide grant
and the second round uh 4.5 million was awarded so pretty substantial >> no because I didn't want to invest any time if we didn't think it we should go move forward with it >> we needed to decide as a committee if we wanted to move forward with this first
>> and you know for all I know they might have it on their radar already. I don't know because we haven't had any of the conversations yet. >> You might be able to see too sometimes you can look up online say >> not for not for this just for the first
and second round. >> There's nothing in the news saying that. Has all the money been spent >> for the first round and the second round? Yes. This would be the third round. >> Originally the grant was assuming it's the state, right? >> Correct. So they gave a total of 4.5
million. >> Correct. >> So you just have to count millions to the whole state. >> Correct. >> So my question is that four and a half million gone. >> My understanding is qualify. >> So then we have to look and see
if you can't get >> Yeah. say the state has allocated x amount of dollars for this grant program. >> No, every year looks like it's every year. I think she said it's a new >> Yeah. So every year it looks like every
year it gets designated and awarded. So there's no information that says how much was awarded for the third how much was designated for round three. >> So someone has to allocate the money from the state. >> Yeah, that's what I mean. No one has there's nothing saying what what money
has been allocated for round three. So I don't know because there's just nothing on the website. I don't know if it's because it was held up for budget conversations at the state level. Don't know. >> Yeah. Don't know yet. But if we agree to move forward, I'll go ahead and make the
phone calls to the state or and email to the state and just find out where maybe it's just >> I mean, I think it's a great idea. The devil's in details will have to look at the plan and whatever, but I'm all for getting money for trees
for everyone else. I don't know if there's without having the application or something. >> And again, if the superintendent doesn't want to do it, then it's, you know, instead, but that's a conversation
to have with them. >> I think if we do most of the work, the superintendent, >> I would think so. It's in our wheelhouse. So, I think, >> yeah, there, you know, there's an educational component obviously. So there's some people resources on their side of things that would need to be
considered. >> Yeah, I'm going to call the I would like to call the state first, get an answer from them to make sure it's still viable and from that point I'm happy to reach out to them to see because it also, you know, the board it
>> we'll have to figure it out. >> I just want to just take a voice. Is everyone in favor of her moving forward to at least into this further and connect with the school and see if we can't try to at least get something out of this. >> Yes. >> Yes. Okay.
>> You have the commission's approval, so please move forward. Thank you very much for the the work on this. >> Might as well give it a try. >> Exactly. >> Okay. Moving forward to uh new business.
Our uh first item on new business is a spring tree planting. Uh Karen was able to get out a um a list of the trees. Uh we have a propose proposal here for 21 trees to be planted
as part of our first round of planting this year. This does include our planting for the Arbor Day program for the school. Uh which is a Dawn Redwood tree. Uh in the past we've done saplings. We've tried different things.
The sapling thing kind of was a huge blunder last year. So we're I think moving forward to spare everyone with the stress of the saplings, especially parent. I think we're just gonna move forward every year just plant a tree for the
school. Uh so that's part of this uh list. Any comments? >> That's how it used to be. >> Candy the tree and I believe Mr. Corct. Yeah, they gave up first place, but it'll be three years
hopefully. So, any comments on on the on the uh the list? >> Well, you know, I have a comment. >> Go ahead. I I know it's okay. Go ahead. So, um first of all, thank you for doing all this work. Appreciate it. Um I was
have to say I was a little bit disappointed to see that we're we're planting nine ornamental trees. I thought that we were going to try and focus more on shade trees instead of mountain trees um so I guess I would
just like to uh request that Mike has written this plan that we're going to review that maybe we think about uh the planning guidelines in there and what our procedure should be for that in terms of that you know I understand that
we have in the past said we cut a tree down we want to replace tree there and I agree with that. I think it's important but I think the the kind of tree is also important. So um if we cut down a large say oak tree in front of someone's house and then they want to replace a small
ornamental trees I think it'd be worth a while to see if we can maintain another planting list but there might be other locations where we can plant a large shade tree. So I would like the commission to consider this. I've said it a number of times. I'm not saying we can't ever plant any more metal trees
but Given the number of trees that we've lost, they didn't plant for a while. We've been doing better on that. Um, but the character of the borrow is going to change if we have ornamental trees on our streets instead of these large trees that I understand in some places there's
curb issues, wire issues, things like this. Of course, I understand that. But I think that we should first make sure we exhausted the sites for large trees before we start moving to smaller trees. That's my personal opinion. Other people may disagree. That's fine. But I just wanted to say that I don't mean to put
down the work you're doing. I really do appreciate it. I appreciate that it's all newly listed here. It's great. I think we should maintain this list going forward that you guys have started so that we can >> do everything. You know, I think we really need to exactly keep
us I don't have anything against cherry trees, but I but but it's not about the canon. It's not personal. >> It's not just not personal. I didn't say you asked me about across from my house.
>> Okay. But what I'm saying is we've lost canopy in the borrow. We cutting down a lot of large trees. You've agreed with me on this issue. >> I agree. And and this is is trying to do this. They spend all their money all their
money on on getting rid of all the dead ash or trees and and so here we are. Um let me just go over it's 52 road two. Well that's because they're under the wires. You're not going to put a an oak
tree under the wires and have chopped the hell out of it. Same thing with 32 Headley. Same thing. Okay. Um the one at 48 Lake View, the resident requested that and they have some
gorgeous gigantic oak trees on their property. U 45 Styles Avenue. The guy just had the tree just came down. uh and he didn't want any tree so I had to kind of talk a
little bit and he for so that basically is is we have those not that we don't want we have over
there we have trees we have spruce away really placing a whole bunch of trees that died. >> I was happy to see that >> and and there's going to be still more to plant. We haven't done this or is not going to complete that project.
>> I needed zero extra >> and the same thing across from 911 memorial. You saw there's about four or five streets there, but that project didn't get completed either. Supposed to
continue against the railroad service. So, we just finally picked up those new scenes. >> I know. But Frank, you've seen the movie Groundhog Day, right? >> I feel like that a little bit because did we not talk? >> It was your idea. Last meeting. You said
we're going to drive around. We're all going to find places for large trees. You It was your idea >> and then I walk in and then there's a list. So, this is why like, you know, I'm sorry to seem frustrated, but it's like we agree on something and then I come to the next meeting and it's
completely different. So, What means consistency between meetings when we have a discussion and we agree on something it then needs to follow through on in the next meeting. I agree with you. But I went to the residents that we had trees came down. That's the
priority to trees. And this is what I said. It's under same. If we say something in one, we should follow through the next. But Rob, I think I I agree. We all have the right
tree, right location philosophy. But when I looked at this and compared this to the policy, I think 10 of the 21 trees are on the larger size tree list. >> They are >> right. So I think >> there's actually I counted I counted 10 as well.
>> Yeah. Okay. So I I think it is diversified yet your point where you know >> maybe we want more but I don't think this was just a small tree list. >> Well I didn't say a small tree. I said half of the about half the trees we plant are trees and we haven't even
taken the time to identify locations where we might be able to plant other trees. I've been asking for that since January of last year. I just really wish we could do it. If I need to do it by myself and go around and do it but like It should be all of our credit, right? We're the shade tree community. I don't
mean to be technical, but I don't think these are actually shade trees. They're ornamental trees. It's like a different It's different. So, here's what I'm saying. You guys did the work on this. It's fine. going forward, can you please have some sort of procedure that we put in Mike's
manual that you're starting to write here or whatever our manual we're starting to write that thinks about not just a tree fell down here this year so we're going to replant it but thinks about the broader character of the burrow and the canopy of the borrow and what we can do because there's other
places maybe where we could have put larger trees and part of this is if we're not keeping the records and we don't have good records and we're not So, it's all of a piece. >> Listen, I I completely understand with you. We could put that into the working
document. >> Uh like it's been mentioned, we've been just trying to replace where it was kind of lost in the in that specific situation. But >> I say for anyone watching, like what I do is I I got I turn on Styles and I walk down Styles and I picture if Styles
had all those trees cut down that on its sides and they're all replaced with ornamental trees, the photo would have a completely different character. a completely different field. So I think it's important that part of our job is to maintain the character of the borrow and to do that we need to figure out do
the work figure out where we can plant large trees but we don't want to tell residents they have to have a large tree in their property that's a decision the commission is made so therefore we need to do the work to figure out where we can feel about this >> one person.
I don't want to continue the last Mr. stated over the years residents have approached him about planting trees. Mr. Dler asked that Mr. Mcccleair had the names of the residents the tree planting
committee would like their names. Mr. Mcccleair stated he does have the names happy to give them to you. I I will be happy to give them to you again, Frank. But I have to say something. I I just want to say something, Frank. Sometimes you want
someone's name. Like I'll say, "What resident?" You say, "Give me their name." That makes people uncomfortable. I have to say like, so I'm not always willing to give someone's name out in public like that. I'm happy to do it in private, but your sort of approach is like, I want someone's name out front or
whatever. I'm not h I'm not The resident didn't give me the okay to put their name out here in this meeting. So, I'm not going to do that without talking. I need to go and talk to them and say, "Hey, you said this or whatever." >> Karen,
>> all right. I don't know what else I can say. I've said it enough time. >> Can I say something? >> Yes, go ahead, please. >> Okay. So, we discussed the tree planting. So, can I ask you to do a purchase order?
>> Yes. Motion to approve. >> A motion to approve. Okay. And it would be the same thing as correct. >> I don't have to apparently have to write. >> Oh, so
but I do a list here and it will be price and also guarantee. >> Correct. >> Okay. Can I have the motion? I move that this motion to a second. >> Second.
>> Okay. I'll do Mrs. Gardy. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Mr. Lombardi. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mir. >> Yes. With the understanding that we're going to change our planning policy going forward. >> And Mrs. Stef.
>> Yes. >> Okay. Okay, moving forward to the next item on new business, the review of the plans talk article. A copy of this was given to everyone last week. Uh this is just an article uh
that we would like to put into planes talk. Uh the submission for the next issue is the 18th of April. So this needs to be discussed this evening. Any comments from the commission? Do you want to just go around? Sure.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. Go ahead. >> So, I thought it was really well, right? I thought I covered all the points. There's two things that I thought of. One is to add in the street shade uh tree
USA city. You know what I meant? >> Exactly. I'm looking at my notes. >> I'm adding in Tree City USA. There's a sentence that I've added in here. Our spices proudly held the designation for and that I highlight
highlighting our commitment to maintaining an uh our healthy community for us. We thought it also made sense for this year to list what we've done. And then the only other comment I had was that I changed the tone to be more
conversational in tone. And those were my only recommendations. I thought it would work really nice in talk. I gave uh I gave Michael a copy of my uh my comments
the gist of my comments now. >> Sure, that's fine. >> I think my I think Yeah, I appreciate you doing the work. I think it's great that we're doing this. My um comment is I just think rearrange through Marian that maybe a little more conversational considering the model.
>> Yeah. And also um you know condensing just a little bit because I think one of the things last takes a while to read and I get it's just a >> Sure. Send send me uh whatever. Yeah. Sounds great.
>> Uh, so it needs to be submitted by the 18th. >> So by Friday. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Um, >> exactly. >> Yeah. And I I will pretty this up a
little bit too. I'll put a picture of some of the plantings in the burrow. So they will be just prettied up. >> And who is this gonna be from? >> From the shape commission. >> Yeah. I'm not signed to just from the total commission. >> No, just a tree.
>> Just some trees. >> Just some trees. Um, just so that we're clear, we do need to obviously vote on this. I know we do need to make some changes to this, but just because from the time crunch to get this out, my real hope for this is
people read this and we get a hopefully not too many for Karen sake, but a good amount of residents interested in uh in trees to be put onto the plane list. >> I will correction and those put in the
Second roll do >> okay? >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> And Mrs. >> Thank you. Uh moving forward. Uh so
review of the working document. This is just pass number one. This isn't uh anything that's going to be uh voted on this evening. Uh this could be discussed in further detail next meeting after there's comments from everyone. Uh but
this is the now first draft of our working kind of tree policy for the shade tree that outlines uh what the shade tree is or scope and authority definitions pruning standards tree removals how we prioritize and then
planting. So if anyone had like I said we're not voting on this this evening. This is just kind of an open dialogue discussion. If anyone has any comments that they would like to to make in this,
um, more than happy to discuss. I'll be honest, like I told you in the meeting, we got it on Friday. It's because of the holiday. I haven't had a chance to carefully review it. I did definitely read it over and I appreciate you taking the first pass. I have I have to look at it time and look at it more carefully. Obviously, it's
>> a weekend. Oh yeah, >> that's not a that's not a problem at all. >> Any thoughts? >> Uh just two >> sorry two things I I thought of. One is these are just general under the sculp
and authority >> y >> section. Um I'm just >> recommending a little more detail around authority around which group does what. I have some comments in here. Sure.
>> Um and then the other one is something for us to think about um a prioritiz prioritization system where I thought we could do priority one to four and then fold in the homeowner and
DPW requests into it. So I can send you my comments on that to see if that makes sense. Okay. >> I thought maybe it's like a matrix that might be easier easy to understand like if someone's like, "Hey, how does this work?"
>> So, I just add a little more detail in there. The rest are just um other minor things on it. Those are the two two things that I thought might help, but >> this was a big undertaking. So, I appreciate you doing this. >> It's a lot to think about.
>> Yeah. And I put something at the end uh under like kind of like how we're doing the planting. Obviously, this is something we could kind of work through. And what what I did right at the end, and this is after this is kind of put to bed, uh we'll work through a full tree
uh tree guide. Pretty much doing a full list of the types of trees that we would like to to plant based on sizes, locations, and things that'll be attached into this uh after this is done. And then that will be worked on. >> There's a lot of those. Not saying we
can alter, but there's a lot of >> Oh, no. I've seen happy. One thing I just I didn't see in here, Mike, and I was curious is so I like that you had the removal criteria for trees, but there did I miss that there's
something um that matches that for pruning because I think pruning has been one of the things that you've you had some those are the standards, right? But we don't have a >> it's it's kind of the same. I think so as a comment we could add we could
change how that's kind of worded. It needs to be, you know, one of those things I've been trying to say is that especially for I think that we need to clarify what's priority, >> you know, priority grooming for us and what is not priority in terms of managing our budget.
>> Okay. Um, so I'd like to us to have a so I can work on that too, but I think we need to have this is, you know, factors that affect community, but compared to the if you look at the removal criteria, I guess also it's
they're not really order by order, right? >> No, it's just a general guidance maybe >> want to remove. So the prior list is really the order of
the work was like a workflow order. >> But so we still don't really have anything that's like how do we decide if we have only have whatever $3,000, you know, should, for example, we're we're um dealing with stumps. Should we wait until the end of the year to deal with
stumps instead of doing it during the year because we might not have money left? Yeah, we might want to see what I mean like this this kind of stuff in terms of maintaining our budget over the course of the year. >> I think that would be something really valuable to get out of this. >> Okay,
>> so that's my kind of global comment. Okay, >> perfect. >> All right, we'll continue to discuss that uh next month. Uh any other topics in new business?
I see there are none. I um >> Oh yes, Arbor Day. What >> time we doing? >> Okay. Oh, like they used to. >> Okay, that's so nice.
>> You see a lot of friends. You mean like next adjacent to Mrs. Goldman was the music teacher and the DPW used to bring the piano down and she would play piano,
>> right? >> But I just remember when we break >> Great. Thank you for that update. Karen will send out the once we align on the time and everything. I believe last year it was 10 a.m. but we'll get that
information after the commission >> ordered because I didn't know that the two flags are coming. We can always save one for next year. Okay. I think it's nice to put one here or a piece
and I ordered the band as you went to the brow on both sides and also I needed more. >> Okay. What kind of shoes? >> It's on the
>> exact So I should tell uh circle to do that have that tree available sooner. >> Speaking of servo, sorry, I got I got another comment. So, we went over and we did the we did with the tree. Something we're
definitely planning to do. So, can we can we talk to the servo people about making sure that they plant them at the proper depth? I'm happy to go if you want me to go. If you guys can't be there and I can be there, I'm happy to go. Um, but I think that at least some
of the ones they did last year. I mean, there was one that I showed was like mounded up around like 9 in. So, it's box. So, I think they should better. >> No, completely.
>> Completely understood. Yeah, we took a look at that. Um, we'll have that conversation with them and I'm going to have Dave take a look as well. >> So, having to go and shovel it. >> Oh, I'm sure isn't a huge job for them,
but they should pay someone to do it. >> Okay, great. I a motion to adjourn the meeting. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> thank you
Peter.