Minutes of Last Meeting

Greens Committee (Brenda):

• Old Business:
  • The tree planting was held on October 30th.  About 30 people attended the planting and the dedication service.  We planted 6 park trees and 4 street trees.
  • Pruning and tree removal has begun on village trees.
  • We had trouble finding places for our last batch of street trees. We need to improve communication with home owners in order to increase the likelihood that they will accept the trees.
• New Business:
  • We started thinking about how to carry out our yearly tree inventory.  We plant to re-inventory 1/5 of our trees each year.  We need to schedule training with a forester to learn how to perform the inventory.  This inventory assesses the condition of trees.  We also keep other tree data in an Excel spreadsheet.  We brainstormed on how to get more volunteers to help us with the inventory.  Possible volunteers include boy scouts, Bard students, and vo-tech students.

Communications Committee:

• No report was made.

Fundraising Committee:

• Old Business:
• None.
• New Business:
  • We brainstormed new ways to raise funds.  Some ideas include using Agway to test soil for residents and a bakeless bake sale.  Both ideas could be advertised in the water bill.

Additional Business

• We decided against planning a potluck dinner before the end of the year due to members' scheduling conflicts.
• There are still some trees in the village that have bricks around their bases and the bricks need to be removed.  We will plan to do this in the spring.
• Catherine will take Mark Merrit's place as an officer in 2005.

Motion to Close Meeting

• The meeting was adjourned at 6:45 p.m.

Next Meeting

• No meeting will be held in December.  Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 18th, at 7:00 p.m. in the village hall.