Meetings - Red Hook Village Green Committee

Meetings

Tuesday, March 16, 2004 Meeting Minutes

Attendees: David Seymour, Christina Staubi, Evelyn Krueger, Franceska Urbin, Mark Meritt, Brenda Cagle

Open the Meeting

Mark Meritt opened the meeting at 7:05 p.m.

Minutes of Last Meeting

The minutes from the February 16, 2004, meeting were accepted with no changes required.

Greens Committee (Brenda Cagle):

	Franceska Urbin wrote a letter to the legislature regarding our concern that money set aside in the governor's budget for community forestry grants is available only to communities that have a population greater than 65,000 people. She distributed copies for review. Please get back to Franceska if you have any comments or suggestions.
	Brenda contacted the nursery used by Cornell University regarding the possibility of ordering bareroot trees.

	Need to place our order by the end of March.
	Order will be shipped the third week in April to Albany to avoid extra freight.
	A 1-3/4 inch caliper bareroot tree costs about $69.00
	May plant 13-15 new trees to backfill those that were cut down in the fall and those that have died.
	Must plant the trees within 2-3 days of receiving them.
	Extra cost to consider is the mulch.
	Need to follow up with the nursery to see if they have a guarantee for these trees.

Need to ensure that the stumps are removed before the spring planting, as we will be planting some trees at these sites. David Seymour will follow up with this and get closure.

Lou Sebesta will be here on Friday to look at the remaining trees that need attention in the village.

Integral submitted a bid for work re requested in Memorial Park and Abraham's Park. A decision was made to go ahead with the work.

	$350 to rotate and transplant a tree on the southeast side of Memorial Park that is bent over Route 9. A suggestion was made to have Lou look at the tree on Friday and recommend whether it is worth it to invest this cost, or if we should just let NYS cut it down.
	$900 to have about 9 trees pruned in Memorial Park.
	$490 to have some trees trimmed in Abraham's Park.

	There is an error in the About Town listing again. Mark worked with them to ensure that it is correct for the summer edition.
	Richard Wambach explained to Mark that he cannot give us the password to the website to do our own updates because the password is for the entire village website. David will ask the Village Board to approve giving Mark the password.
	We have about 17 positive RSVPs so far for the kickoff meeting. The RSVP deadline will be extended one week due to the small numbers. Evelyn Krueger will e-mail the kickoff press release to the Bard community to drum up interest.
	We began planning our Arbor Day celebration. Evelyn agreed to work with Chris to plan the event. The following suggestions were made:

	Get members from the Communications Committee to help with the planning.
	Dedicate the commemorative trees during the event.
	Hold a poster contest.
	Get the "Who Cares" kids to involved with the event.
	Investigate planting on Linden Ave. a small tree farm that will be maintained by the middle school children.