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Home My WebLink About01-04-2006MINUTES ]anuary 4, 2006 2:00 p.m. PRAB Conference Room I. Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 2:00 p.m. by chairman Todd Myers. Those Board members present in addition to Mr. Myers Trish Borden, Lonnie Sundahl, and Len Elliott. Garna Jones were absent, and she had called to say that she was resigning because of health problems. I. Minutes of the October meeting were accepted as presented. II. Correspondence/Public Input There was no correspondence or public input. Mr. Scamporlina reminded the members that, through the Neighborhood Grant program, Bill Mandeville had built in some money for trees in the budget. This is an opportunity for some demonstration neighborhood plantings. We discussed the possibility of mentioning the grant process in the brochure and using the utility stuffers to let people know of the program. III. Old Business There was no old business IV. New Business A. East Main Street Tree Inventory Staff (Kirk Hadley and Dan Scamporlina) did the inventory of the street trees in the East Main area. We now have the count and condition of the trees present. Some of the neighborhoods exhibit a group planting effort and have the same species of trees in front of their homes. B. Recommended Tree List The Engineering Department has come up with a list of appropriate street trees to recommend to homeowners. By choosing good species and size for an area, as we saw in Sumner, the trees are healthier and look better; and diversifying the species lowers the probability of loss from disease. The members discussed putting this species list on the website where homeowners could access it. C. Tree City USA Recertification The recertification application for Tree City USA was shared with the Board members. Next month we will discuss what we would like to see happen during the year and strategize about getting information out to encourage neighborhoods to plan and plant street trees in their areas. It was also suggested that we have staff meet with the Planning Department Director to ask for a liaison from that department to meet with this Board. V. Adjournment .~tj$URN * MC}RE THAN YC3U tMAGTNED The meeting adjourned at 3:00 p.m.