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Meetings
Tuesday,
February 15, 2005 Minutes
Attendees:
Catherine Dickert, David Seymour, Evelyn Kruger, Mark Meritt, Jan Schiff
Open the
Meeting
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meeting was called to order at 7:08 p.m. by David Seymour. |
Minutes of Last Meeting
| The minutes from the November and
January meeting were not reviewed. |
Old Business:
| We discussed the Quality Communities
Program grant and decided that the scope of work for projects described
in the Request for Applications was broader than the tree maintenance,
which we would like to fund. Evelyn mentioned that she is on the
DEC list for grant opportunities. We decided to look for
opportunities for funding that would fit better with our maintenance
needs. Mark suggested we think about putting a proposal together
next year for the Quality Communities Program if there is another
Request for Applications. Next Year's proposal could include plans
for improving the grounds outside the Red Hook village building and the
parking lot across Pine Street. |
| Linda, Evelyn, Brenda, and Catherine
met on January 30th to search for places where new street trees can be
planted this planting season. We identified 15 properties where
new trees could be planted. Two of these properties had hazard
trees removed recently and homeowners would be offered replacement
trees. We wrote letters to these homeowners and sent them with
stamped envelopes asking that the homeowners indicate whether or not
they are interested in having a new street tree planted on their
property this year. We have received 3 letters in response to this
mailing as of February 15th. All three indicated homeowner
interest in new trees, but 2 homeowners wanted to know where these trees
would be planted first. We have had 2 letters returned for
incorrect address. Catherine will work on finding the correct
mailing addresses for these homeowners. We decided that we would
plant the trees along Firehouse Lane and consider planting more than one
street tree per property if we don't get many responses from our
mailing. |
Financial Update:
| There is $3919.90 in the Village's
Village Green fund. |
| There is $6642.62 in our personal
Village Green fund. |
| We decided that the names of these two
separate funds were easily confused, thus our personal Village Green
fund will now be referred to as the Village Green Development Fund.
Mark suggested using the term "development" because this fund contains
the money that we raise through activities such as the Bakeless Bake
Sale. We use this money to augment our funding from the Village of
Red Hook. |
New Business:
| Village Green Board Members are
planning to meet early in March. We will strategize our spring
planting at this meeting and announce a planting date at the next
regular meeting. |
| David pitched the idea of another pot
luck at which volunteers could exchange ideas and express their
interests in various activities of the Village Green. |
| Evelyn reminded us that Arbor Day is
approaching and we need to plan our activities. Specifically, we
need to advertise our Arbor Day plans in local newspapers. |
Motion to Close Meeting
| The meeting was adjourned at 7:51 p.m. |
Next Meeting
| Our next meeting will be held on
Tuesday, March 15th, at 7:00 p.m. in the village hall. |
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