myself that I'm here remember Gordon I did speak to him and he said he didn't know if he' make the meeting okay remember Gord here member [Music] Kars member Kim here member Lutz or ultimate
Lutz I think he's away yes he's in New Zealand andate Armstrong here okay that being said we have a quum and the notice requirements of the open public meeting law for this meeting have been satisfied a copy of the annual notice was sent to the Asbury Park Press
on the coaster hosted in town hall and filed in the office of the Township Clerk on June 28th 2024 this meeting will be recorded and available on Ocean T's YouTube channel so let's just start with the minutes we have minutes from February
6th meeting last month's meeting um anyone everyone had a chance toie minutes moment it says I was absent wait what pres I had such a problem with my
computer today it was not fixing the corrections that I need man I was here but I was AB you were here you were here I participation the meeting the minutes accepted as
present as correctly oh yes as correctly as amend it so far okay so u m has move that we accept the minutes as correct as correct any second to that I'll second It
Go favor of approving the minutes okay good to go okay so um so we have a guest I think here tonight who had their hand
raised you said yes so uh would you like since we have a a guest would you like to announce yourself or just hi yeah sure I'm Maryann Ellis I live on Garbin Avenue
and um I know you have uh questions at the end of the meeting uh would it be possible to just make a comment now uh yeah I mean it's up to you what was your last name Ellis I okay and yes feel free what can we do
for you today oh the reason um I popped in tonight um I've been going to the library and I believe that the trees that um line the driveway where the new traffic light is um were planted by the
developer there are like um some conifers small trees okay uh they are still in a burlap wrap and now the wind is blowing them over the roots are the W the roots are
wrapped in burlap the trees are going to die one of them is completely knocked over and uh today several were knocked over in the wind but they need to be replanted with the burlap off okay it's not we'll try and get that uh that look
back the uh usually a tree the burlap is fully in the ground except for maybe the very surface of it I don't think they I don't think they were buried in the ground to tell you the truth because there's that's what I'm saying so were barely planted which I'm not sure how they ever
got yeah right so so we'll but thank you for having us that and um and we'll pass that information back they're right near the traffic light uh yes when you come in on um is it Logan Road right yeah if you go straight
through across um deal Road right on the right hand side there you'll see the this is the driveway to the library it's the driveway to the development it's actually okay I think it's the Thor you go through the light
and then you can turn to the right to go to the library and correct you got it but but they're right near there where they actually you across their Road okay very good okay thank you for letting us I'll say this I I've driven there several times and let's just say
that when we compare my powers of observation with yours um bet her eyes are better well it's been you know it's been getting worse with this wind it's pretty visible it's pretty obvious but I I had noticed that like about a week or so ago
that the burlap was exposed on one of the trees was I guess the mulch blew off I don't think they're in the ground I think they just piled Mulch on top of them yeah yeah that's not yeah they're going to die they're going to die okay well yeah means that
we probably have to check all the trees they planted all over the site course why would those be the thanks for letting us know Mar really appreciate all right thank you so feel free if you like game if you she
left she I guess she's not as game she's not as game guess she's not as game as we are makeing not of that in the minutes we're gamer than our guest okay well that's good she that was good she didn't know where to go and she came here and that was a good thing okay so um so wait
did here Bill okay so first thing usually is Bill's uh Bill can't make it but he did send some notes okay okay so J JP you remember he told us that they're pruning etc etc and they're
basically on schedule but the windstorms I don't know what wind told about except it seems like I live on a train by a train tracks yeah put slightly behind so the next circuit they'll start on is deal Road Kanas March 15th overall
quality of the work he says is acceptable to good so I could that's not uh it's that's acceptable but uh I think the early stuff You' see he said was you know better than that so we'll see how that goes as things but the fact that
he's checking up on there that's a good two removal permits okay there's been a steady increase in the number of new applications mostly single family residences the construction permits are also increasing with the majority of those being swimming pools which better
known as the sun for swimming pools is the forestation okay how to Bas well that that that would be a shame okay disease insects and P not not change major construction change there's
been no progress changing the removal fee from 350 to 750 a tree in land you he's says he's pushing for it he tells me they going to do it I think we should as a Shater commission agree to send a send a letter
to council saying that it's been years and this has been you know for every 100 trees that don't get put in we lose $40,000 from the shade tree that they don't have that $400 change in it $400 change in a for tree
so every tree that they give is 350 we at 750 100 of them is 40,000 yeah but you're talking about permits right no this is replac no this is not permits this is no this is the land use ordinance this is the commercial side of it
didn't fall as it you Rumble through it oh no because we have 750 and the homeowner ordance already so so that I think is owners the home okay it's supposed to place a tree that's unfortunate you know now if it's
a dead tree for the dead tree okay that doesn't apply oh so then I just wait for the the tree to fall down before we had a cut right that's or it just has to look like it's about to fall down I'm sure you can get away with it I don't know I have to talk to the
guy down the street arrange something so that crazy guy I know you mean so what what are you supposed to put I know I because I know talk with Council folks they want you know our
tree plan basically say this is what you need to do and if we put it in the tree plan then that's and they approve tree plan goes through everybody looking at and saying yeah this makes sense which the one the
comprehensive information in the management with these kind of things I'm talking about here di in it used to be it used to be no it used to be by such a big
n no no no no the replacement tree oh no the oh the replacement tree is I'm not talking about what they are this replacement trees are well when are you coming up with your number you should be talking a certain diamet no no no no the $350 tree if they cut
one down okay big tree could be tree they give us 350 tree yes they could replant replanted trees is about a $4 tree but I'm saying it's just the fee of cutting it down because they're not going to replant it's going from 350 to 750 if they're not they're not that's only replant the 350 is only if you're
not going to replant right but what diameter you asking them to well it was used to be a 4 in with two two and I don't know if that's I think it was two and a half now right no I'm not sure what I don't know that they changed the whole so you're talking about the
commercial commercial okay all right so cool so the 350 is for the they're going to cut down if they don't want to replant and they don't want to replant so putting a 10,00 60,000 foot Warehouse in
building and whatever trees are there your your goal is not to generate more money is maybe to them oh yeah that was always the idea was this this was supposed to be a big enough penalty but you no one's going to put you can't put in a 200 two inch tree for
$350 right yeah sure you can't right maybe you probably can't even get a one inch Tre plan for $50 who knows okay but the point is it's you know so the idea is it's originally the the real truth the 750 is also
low but we couldn't get a, right then yeah but on the other side of the fence if you go too high you're going to get kick back through the warriors on from the dooright back we just have to show we just have to show what their going rate
is for 4 in tree no I understand that so so yeah so yeah look at it all I'm saying is it's you know that's the bottom line is this has been I've been talking about this from ages
we've lost about dra a letter put it up to 750 and let's put it together let's make it happen let's stop talking let do it who's volunteering to drift this I think you understand the issue well I'm happy I explain the issue they already
know about it they're just not doing it we just want to encourage their expedition to get this okay you can tell him a good without getting would be it would be our council rep if
we had one we do we do have Council where is he he's on vacation who who is that Jeffrey Weinstein Jeffy wion so that's who said he couldn't make it yes
right okay well that's good then I'm going to respond to his message yes that said he couldn't make it I okay if I didn't delete it already I have it still okay so that's good I'll explain to him I can explain what the issue is
okay Moos mosha is here yes I see hi mosha mosha good evening wa minute you're muted yes I'm trying to unmute him good evening all hi in your absence we we've accepted the
minutes of last month's meeting we changed one thing so that Gan wasn't both here and not here and we have a caller we have a call in Split unidentified no what is
they don't have to announce themselves no okay saying just asking if they want to say anything read okay so that's it for Colonial Terrace he had his list nothing's happening there but I think the the first steps are going to be for
thec and treated is there anything in the pike or we don't know no this that's supposed it's on the list for the public works moving forward it's moving forward
well well it's moving forward in that if anything happens it would be in the future well there's a plan it's in the pike but is no but is it is being discussed is a and they agree that the work has to be done this PL this winter has not been a good time for going
out you know so we'll see so all right so that's it for the uh for that okay so the next is the planning committee sure um okay yes yes so a
couple things um one the PSA is moving forward and it's going to be edited up by our volunteer editor Sarah Galloway in the middle of this month we are hoping to do a releasee of the PSA with the students saying you know support treats we're working with the shade Tre commission and putting out a survey we
hope to do it around Earth day and time it around Earth day and have the survey go out then too so I'm going to coordinate with Tracy um about website see if we can get it on the newsletter every place we can get in the ability of people to respond to the survey click on
the survey so we can hear from as many people in town so so it'll go out it won't be ready before Earth maybe what if it went out and the rean stes came back by because that's like six weeks from now it's April 25th or something it's
really would be tight to do that I mean we okay I'm just asking as soon as it's ready to go out I also we want to coordinate it with meeting with Council um just yeah with we'll see I mean it'll be in April like birthday is like a
whole month of April whenever it works for all these different meetings the last Friday of the approves Earth is the 22 the 22nd and and arbit day is the 25 but organizations tend to celebrate Earth Day all throughout the month of April
so we can say this Earth Day you know it doesn't I'm just trying I don't know the date yet because it'll depend on when when I can have it in hand when I can get the meeting with the council when you know right okay things are sounds good to me so that's the plan for that
Julia's been exploring the $5,000 that you hand out to get yeah I've looked at the things Council I see this resolution that Council passed okay so I'll talk to Julia and we can coordinate
getting it on to the U great the sage site I got I'll link on it again and see what they great great great I think it's an easy peasy one frankly and then uh I've been as Norman and I had a
meeting with Julia and Dave TR actually she'll probably be here at the next meeting Julia will be at the next she will be I'll bring that up because you know Ed is now going to be made planning chair of planning so he's going to be stepping
down as chair UC so we'll see who chair so um and then uh I have been as I said researching all different certified ARS who can write plans so I contacted old
rers and the head of the guy fars Guy Brian at the D and I got a whole list of names I made a whole bunch of phone calls including bill um Bill b the guy he will not do o how well because he's retiring and
doing less and he only wants to do small little town se he also gave me names too and I was able to V names with him so I got you know I got so we gots grou um and there's one other
person I'd like to aort a proposal from could be more money though and probably out of price range but there oh name is there are getting proposals from L store and TCH um
cinsky which is Sterling Consultants consulty um and then person Paul gotten back to me but when somebody doesn't get back to you yeah it's like not a good
sign just you know but but he's but they're all top knot be so that's where I am with that I don't anything else I was looking at my own
Tri so I found something the last plan was a little weird in that that put out because it said it was a plan for 2014 to 2019 but it was a 2014 plan but it really should have said 2014 2018 yeah that's Prett five years okay
plus the year the first year of the plan is included in the plans which is 2025 we're going to have a 2025 plan course of the way they sidestepped with Co and not being sure what they wanted the pl to look like and all that sort of stuff
so we kept just getting extended okay um and I found the previous plan that we had done okay the previous plan is called the second plan did you send that to me I was planning on sending to
everybody okay plan on plan it this everybody that but that's called the second plan okay so I wanted call the state and ask if there's actually a copy of what theoretically was our first plan since we have submitted plan that was
accepted by the state because there's a letter on it you know that was called our second plan you know so be nice at least for historical purposes and it's also good for whoever does this want to see or right whatever but those are all kind of
things because and then we've got the document that we got from which I actually messed up with okay was called a configuration uh an a community forestry plan and I Chang it to cfmp in the
title okay but then I it's not really so I'm we're probably going to undo that before we give it to someone just the title page no no it got changed in about six or seven places in the P well you want help that it's easy to do that we we had to
change it there was one place where we didn't change you know but everywhere else we would just change it to community forestry PL instead of management so if you've got as long as you've got um acrobat where you can edit so everywhere it says Community
Management forestry Community forestry management plan just change it to I'm goingon to go I'm going to go look through it again I'll look through just change it to what should be called yeah I I'll I'll I'll get back to you that and then we can change it for the final okay because they they want to
see that of course as you see I can't just go back to what they submitted because in their submission they had a place where the two page 15s of something okay so they corrected that and then and then we edited a little bit yeah we can we can clean it up to the final but the person who sees it is just
going to need to see it for their purposes of writing the plan and that's that used to be almost an entire plan so it's really understandable why you would think oh that's the community farest time because the new plan guidelines are so different but but it also didn't have stuff that talked about the town how big
is the plan how many roads mil roads we have all that sort of stuff that that didn't that stuff didn't get incorporated into the thing it doesn't have canopy so we basically found out talking to all the experts we don't have to have a treat canopy done they can use GIS to do a current city of the Town GIS
has got so much better now and they can all access that they're all expert at that and um they they're you know they're really thrilled we have a partial inventory we're in good shape so far as that go so that's great and then um today a lot of the new plan has to do
with Outreach work so we've been meeting with doing the survey is a great way to show that we're getting Community input and the thrilled that we're doing that uh we've got um uh we're meeting with Garden Club met with Sierra just for feedback and you know just I've been
recording what they say it's pretty General stuff but um and also meeting with um uh deal like watered Association and the whale pump meeting with them as well um faith has sort of been an honorary advisory member of the planning committee kind of in and out but just
getting everybody's input so we can like say these are the groups we've spoken with and you know and then we're trying to get still trying to get input from the groups and the overing communities by the apartments they do have Community Gardens that the Garden Club um has put
in there so trying to see if there's anyone there they work with but on the survey hopefully we'll get some input from people in those areas because um part of the survey is the math where they you know put the number where they're from It lines up pretty well with you tell where folks are by what
number they put in so that'll be helpful so we're in good shape to you know have somebody come in I was concerned maybe we needed more um but sounds like a good we're in good shape a lot we're in good shape yeah actually I was told by one guy that we are understand the process and are much farther ahead than most
towns they talk to get this that made me really good I was so worried remember most there's probably more than half of the towns in the state never had anything or they just don't a lot of them just get guys who come in and just check the box and just like use like a
boiler thing and just put put your name there and put fill in the info we want to really look at everything and we're also I'm going to be meeting with to with Tim as the new executive director of the sore Authority about flooding and areas that he thinks
are flooding because he's really involved and interested in GRE infrastructure um talk with him as well so okay in your perfect world where should trees be and what would be helpful so that we can because the requirements for the plan are
that so that's the last piece that's one of our biggest problems that's a big problem with everyone these days in New Jersey it's the big we always said why did climate change work say California's burning Alaska's melting New Jersey's FL and it's like that's
what's happening so yeah we got on on fire building FL fles even if you don't do the SL plane until recently I mean you held the water and Let It Go but there was a lot
more water that went down the creek than it did when the trees were there yeah one of the Sierra clubs um things they want to do is that section of um green blue Acres down you know right behind s sech Authority that section where the where the senior citizen has used to be
and they take it down because they flooded now it's preserved blue Acres Land one of the things they want to do is just move some of the trees around and we're g to have uh brought this to the environmental commission you guys and uh Julia wanted to talk to engineer
about it but just moves they don't even want to have to buy a Tre there are a lot of nice trees there that are small trees that you just sort of move some of them around and you don't cut everything down to the ground every year which is what they tend to do um you could actually make a small little Forest
there that is managed that actually can absorb water better and be a nice little area for example it's easy enough if you're going to reforest just get you get spend Len you know a few dollars on a tree just if you can protect it from
the deer with wire there are some great big trees soon enough yeah and there are some nice trees there are great there are a lot of trees I actually walked in Boots around I was out in my H Boots looking uh and it was you know clearing up some garbage redoing a little diso there
maybe it could be a nice little project for the town this is what a you know healthy blue Acres preserve site looks like so the town used to own the the property that went all the way over to um revelt
but they sold it going on with that all good okay let's next item well the trees for Clon Terrace I mean we we've still got to uh do some decision making once we do the getting rid of the Dead stuff then what are we going to plant we going plant
some corns on cherries that match what's there now and then they want to put ever some form of Evergreens closer to the Asbury you know a list yeah just saying but we have to we if we're going to be doing that in
the spring potentially now's the time we have to GNA have to start getting a together and get bids out who who's funding this us well it's probably going to come out of the Sha tree fund right okay but it be our project that land is actually the Township's land right you
know even though it's in colonial terrorist right and that'll be a nice little first you know it's a nice project and it's one the community is engaged in and it's one that they'll help make sure that these treats are healthy we'll get people showing up and telling us if they're not it's there'll
be eyeballs on it it's a good spot no sidewalks no wires okay next is the well we sort of jumped over to the management plan so we sort of put that a little bit together okay so then we've got the three giveaways okay so last year we gave away
we there was a program that lasted for 10 years and we only hooked up one in about fifth or six sixth year or so that was uned by the orate foundation you and uh most of the trees came from the New Jersey
state forestry Nursery okay and it went on for 10 years and we got a bunch of trees out of that that was a to towns people wasn't technically towns people anyone in in New Jersey was entitled the trees
from that project people from a couple other towns showed up so anyway so last year we we got about 500 trees I said let's get 500 trees about a 100 of them were sweet gums and another black black so we
didn't give those out Lots in the town well they're elath is the magic word sopath that means that the trees give off of substance juglone is what it's called I think that inhibits the growth
of other plants ah me grass for example doesn't have a problem with it there other plants that have less of a problem with it but it's not a good thing no plus know the sweet gums is our most popular tree at least in the survey yeah that and the word popular means only
population population okay if it wasn't for those balls that would probably be the the most beautiful and best planted tree in the entire nation it goes where it's hot it goes where it's dry it goes where it's wet it goes you know dry it's unbelievable tree but
think takes itself out of the running with itut down so there this is hor okay so uh so anyway so we give we got we're going to get maybe about 300 trees okay which is what we gave out last year and even then
we didn't really give more away okay and I was I actually spoke today with Dian surmont and when she took some extra ones and managed to advertise that people had them and people eventually came and got some from her and everything else you know because depending when we do it she's going to
be gone for the month of April which would include uh AR day which was a good week maybe to get it to schools and everything that week and we might still do that the ones we give well I didn't mention third race the ones we give let's just talk about the sound street
so that's the um we did it at Jo Playa Park okay and we did it independent of greenfest because greenfest was going to be later and I think it's still plan to be later okay so but the week either the week of
Earth Day or bir day the Sunday after that let's say probably be Improvement so that's what over is the 25th Arbor Day is the 25th right just the only reason I know it's um so you be after Arbor Day that so that's Sunday
because because um um Easter Easter's already 20th so the week before that Easter and it's both regular Easter and Orthodox Easter and Passover it's in the middle of Passover all of that's over with come
that week so the next weekend would be a potential good weekend 27 yeah going to talk to the Garden Club people Mond day about and they they been very good about people volunteering about trees and everything plus if people from the you
know shade Tre and environmental commission do some also it works out pretty good okay we all do the schools no the schools well here's the thing the schools technically we're going to do the schools too but and we'll talk about that but the schools traditionally always there's actually an environmental
commission thing okay but it doesn't credit that it turns out last year we got the free trees the trees we would have ordered for the third graders uh for for until last two years last year and it's not going to be this year they
were giving away trees for third grade okay so You' got trees for third grest for free also but that didn't happen so last year and the nursery didn't have enough trees because they were having issues the state forry Indy didn't have enough trees to to give us
trees if we so I found the nursery you found them down in South Jersey we in South Jersey called JG Acro or something like that and I ordered trees okay then I'm ping up my forry man my forry report ngf report and I'm trying to figure how much
Mone we spend on those trees you know and uh talk to Ricky gy says well he has going paying for any trees so I finally tracked the guy down and it turns out we didn't pay for the trees okay I got the trees the guy um said he didn't want to just put the town into his whole
bookkeeping system and everything El and he sort of donated the truth would he do it again and he he probably would do it again but I'd rather not do that I can avoid it and this year the state Nursery the trees are comparable in cost and you
know um and we the state Nursery so they U so the seeding catalog that they have so this year these are the things that they they they they've got in their
cat Okay they've got Bayberry and Beach Plum SM shrubby type things they've got Four Oaks Chestnut Oak northern red oak which pointed to Bill Rooks is having major issues disease wise
okay well more something coming new I forget what he calls it it's new it's a disease not just then it's pins and White Oaks okay I mean those are the Oaks then they have
pmen flowering dogwood and black willow salex ner which I'm not sure what a black world really is but it's apparently a tree necessar weaping no but I'm not familiar with I'm not familiar with that
tree I'm sure it is it's a native tree I'm just saying and then Pines they had shortleaf Pine Virginia pine Pitch Pine and l l which's the main thing and and the
think needles on it I think I'm not sure but anyway the point is we can pick and the seedings are either the first three groups I gave you were $1 60 each you got to get they were 25 bundles okay on each bundle and the Pines are the
quarter and they come in BND but they're going to be much shorter than the other se but um but the idea is we would pick something like if you got say 50 of a tree and we got six different trees or eight trees different kind of trees that
would add up to two three 300 trees say those kind that that what we could order from them and it would cost us let's say it was 300 trees and and it's change piece you're
looking the reason I'm saying that is I want to pass I want to move to spend some money for those trees here because if we're going to give them away in April the end of April want got to get going want to order them ahead of
time you know so that we've got then we get them when we get them okay and which ones we're going to get okay so if you're going to get 300 trees at A180 a dollar 60 a piece right that's
$480 so I would suggest I I would move that we authorize to spend up to $500 to get the TRU let me make sure this no so make a check you don't have to
yeah I would say let's it's easier to have the number I would say let's go with a number like 600 just in case something else is going on and this is strictly for the tree giveaway not counting the third graders okay all right so we remove that Jean it's your
big day I'll second 6 Steve on trees to give away to the township of B residents and Jean Armstrong seconded it and all in favor favor actually it's
call oh it's right it's okay so Colton I goad i i arong i motion you still here y about I'll do I I moot
out of sight out of mine all right here we go I'm out of my mind just don't go wild getting a lot of trees definitely going to do it so this okay so we'll we'll discuss now think
about it everyone you go to you put in New Jersey State Forest Nursery and you look at the order form and think about it you know Jane and she was especially you know and we'll come up with uh if we got um 50 50 of six different trees
that's the 300 okay but we could get 25 you bundles of 25 so doesn't can't get some more you know I mean dogwoods are going we used to say what do we got you know dog Woods are always the phun trees always were the Fon that went first whenever we had any kind of do we want
dog encourage planning of larger trees that are grow and be like Legacy trees yeah but then again a lot of people have properties that can't and some people take more we let them take more than right right well that's because we have nothing to do with our
time that other program you're supposed to put them in just one of five and Bing Bang Boom you know but we never did that but anyway we got the idea though okay so that's where that would um I have one suggest when we do the trees and we bundle the trees we're going to have um
a QR code for the survey and we could make up little um I can have little um tags made up uh and we could put them on the trees so anybody gets a tree we could it could be you know I would just give them a piece of paper with
inform the trees but I'm saying if you as long as you got don't it to the whole bunch of flers what are we doing the whole business you know yeah but we previously always made a label that the Garden Club attached to the
trees yeah but that got that that got convers to yeah kind of I I I'll just have little I'll just have little cars printed up with a QR code and a little piece of paper with a QR code so people can just you know hand it to them and say please take the survey use the QR
code take the survey uh it's important help us plan yeah what we can still try and do the same with the labels but it I won't bother pain all right so that okay so that's sort of done with with that aspect of it now now the other trees so
the same seedlings okay this so the same kind of ceiling this is the that's the giveaway program now you're talking about the now the third now the third graders okay it's going to be the same kind of trees okay now this other Nursery the Penning we'll
see he's got a much wider SWAT of trees okay he's this other guy is growing all kinds of things okay go to just I guess it's pronounced a or AC
it's a e r b o o n you know a or something like that or JG or something like that it's um I still might talk to them now this then they have Tu Lings again okay if he has tube Lings that would probably be the best thing for the third
gr well the tool blings are good the to blings though are um more money okay two are s in boxes of 30 and so they're like like over three depending you're getting they're like 250 a tree but they're two
Ls correct right so that might be a good thing for them I got a message from um Pat Sullivan saying how many students about 300 or just under 300 students in the third grade we give some to search
day to SCH we gave them to Hillel in the past but the communication with her is she thinks she's not sure how many actually ever got planted etc etc ET you know but who knows so she said maybe they'll just get a some number and do something at the school and plant them
back with the properly or something like that so so that would make them similar to the other schools okay so we probably would get say 300 and I have to count the exact number few extra for the you for the school system say 300 the school
system give or take and the other ones we usually gave them 10 to 15 so you know we usually get say 350 would be a good total total whereas when we get so so I'm going to try and get the U
the environmental commission put up for this the for the TU is you don't have to do any real amount of Labor by the time you get them done well one other thing that's happening now one other thing that's happening making in and uh it's
got some kind of program maker day make maker day right that that she's saying maybe they would want 25 or something and I'm not sure whether that's I forget when when when is that I think it's
March yeah see so that might have to be that might just be a separate buy something uh independently will worry about you know uh that is to talk again because the all these other ones the ideal day to actually do something with the trees
in the school is literally be maybe a couple of days before she's a little she's a little early but the way the weather is looking if you look at the forecast out for the next month it's really ugly well
it's warm it's warm supposed to be raining yeah but rain so anyway so the things so the things that we've got that they're that they have in Tu blings are lenic white seeders okay
which are price here and ever actually take it pretty swampy it wasn't red chest white yellow would but look there so yellow
that's okay and I have a yellow one that's only one I kept from one of the giveaways it's about this big I couple yeah I read an article 40 years ago
more might have been a magazine at the New rectan Garden in the when they had actually had a magazine good things I ft High it didn't it had flowers the first year and then it didn't then the season like the well just let it let it
do its thing just it's gonna have to it's growing but it's just like gota it's take a couple years for it to really Thrive it you dragged me halfway across the country you expect me to perform every year yeah okay give me some time okay and has
10s they got deles fore Invaders so all right so so to blings is a good idea too for the school school children well do you need us to move on the you're trying to get the environmental
commission they should do it maybe we should if they don't May let's see so let's say if we were have at 250 a three it's Tre more so you're going to be somewhere around thousand
mil I was I was actually talking about Megan 25 trees there's money involved there he wants to vote on that that one that there's money [Music]
a little space in the other I mean we'll have a few extra trees on on the other side won't be the order time won't because soon soon so yeah I'm make sure I'd have to I'm going to talk and she's done so much I can get
da get Dave just do you know if it comes to that you know what I'm saying so don't we have to so this the two things is there a whole separation right so for now le we we did
that okay cool right we're good okay so anyone have anything else to say well hi Jack I see Jack's he jack hi Jack see the top of your head it's okay
um all right you're very low Jack now the only thing I keep talking about treee keeper you know that everyone everyone should at least verify that they can get in treekeeper and uh and then I didn't see that I been I haven't
been in there for a while myself so you haven't been in there either no and I was searching through my computer I did find the link so let's see if I can figure my way through well did did you mean from from the treekeeper program gave you a thing with a temporary password that's what it's
supposed to do give you a password they watch at some point in time because I got the link book keeper it's magic magic yeah yeah but anyway so you get you you're supposed to theoretically get
a link with a password of some kind that email no what I'm saying is I didn't send that email I I went into the system and so it to send the following people so everyone that I sent put in there which
I'm but you seem to remember seeing something not I'll see I'm put I'm G to put a note in to make sure what I did want to mess with it in any way but I like looking at it I can probably get I can probably get the thing to do it
again software packages that I've taught and dealt with over the years I like to be able to look at it can you see what they're saying do you see what they're saying about the individual trees pick a random tree pick a random
pick a random tree got so I'm picking a tree it'll tell you like Tree Side say sweet gum it'll say how many they are where it is say anything about on
Street it it will it won't tell me on this level right you have to go in I guess it doesn't it tells me um D I don't know what dbh stands for dbh is diameter
is 15 about so it doesn't tell me um it tells me what eco tree benefits are of the tree it tells me how much runoff and rainfall it's done that
prevents the air pollution removal it's very cool it tells me tells me all the tells me all the things you want the public to sort of see about a tree like how important it is and it is um but it uh it doesn't tell me in this layer the
state of the tree is should be all that information that you're talking about and that other information should be accessible I think but it may be a
separate page so speak permission to get this level I mean but she has she has permission to get but honestly I care less for me about knowing being able to go in and look at the specific you state of a tree I care
more about knowing that the people who need to do that to actually take care of the tree can do it I'm just making sure that right it's out there that that the folks that are supposed to be looking at it and going and removing the tree are doing it because I'm
I'm that's that's no I understand understand so anything else oh I just want to know that I'm I'm going to be away I'm going away the I won't miss our next meeting or anything but I'm going to be away the 17th to
25th of March and I'm going to be away the like 15th 2 of April Charlie's entering dog service competition Florida so so I will be available by phone in April but I I'm going to try to
have everything done that I need to have done so ail meeting you the April meeting I will be here theil and I will and everything will hopefully be lined up to go and hit before I leave or in place to go so I
don't have to physically do there just I'll try to you know not put a monkey wrench in being so before we we go mosha Jack you guys have anything to say or add or wanted anything I'm
okay I just wanted to know when the tree giveaway is scheduled for well theoretically it will be the the 27th of April if it goes going to right
after there there's Easter Sunday you know and Passover it's going on on the 20th right then AR day itself is the 25th Friday so theoretically the one where we give way to the township which we uh we also authorized if you weren't
on already we authorized up to $600 potentially or I think it should be just under 500 to get 300 trees uh for the giveway which we'll try we plan to order them from State
forestry nursery and um if you go on look that up and you can see what the U the list of trees that are available is you know try pick something I'm talk to Bly Brooks a little bit and try and come up with the mix that hopefully will'll keep
everybody at and will it take place in joa park I can't say for sure yet but I I've got to talk to the recreation people but I don't see why I would now you see there's greenfest um when last talken about
greenfest at the environmental commission which they'll probably BR talk about it again it's going to be later than that you know and it was nice when we com combined it with them but so it's possible it could be after that but then it's after Arbor Day however the
Arbor Day one is really the most meaningful for the tree giveaway to the schools which is kind of a whole separate issue anyway so if anything it it might be whenever greenfest is but they went all the trees picked up by
April 30th at the nursery you know and then you got to stick them in a refrigerator we've been using the refrigerator in the senior center in the past right so it would be more convenient to do it on the 27th that would be kind of convenient
but if then again if the town's going to have greenfest the very next week and everything else having it at the same time makes it easier to give away the trees probably there's a bunch of people around and so on so
around that period of time you're going to be going we're going to be in Europe from the 24th to the 7th okay cleverly scheduled by Jean by Steve you know I'll be around okay all right so that's that's
where we stand on that so we're at a time uh any final thoughts or comments from anybody think you okay anyone want to make certain kind of motion I'll
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