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Meetings
Tuesday,
May 17, 2005 Minutes
Attendees:
Brenda Cagle, Catherine Dickert, Evelyn Krueger Open the
Meeting
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meeting was called to order at 7:20 p.m. by Brenda. |
Minutes of Last Meeting
| The minutes from the April meeting were
not reviewed. |
Old Business:
| The week before the meeting, Catherine
and Brenda drove around and checked to see which trees still needed
gators. |
| The spring planting was held on
Saturday, April 30th.
Everyone met at the village building, and
David brought the water truck from the village garage. All volunteers
enjoyed lunch at the Elmendorf Inn after the planting. Sandwiches and
drinks were donated by Tiberio's IGA. The 4-H
group helped by mulching the trees on Sunday, May 1st.
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| Evelyn sent thank you notes to all
those who helped by donating time and/or materials for our Arbor Day
tree planting. She also sent letters to the Poughkeepsie Journal,
the Gazette Advertiser, and the Kingston Freeman naming those who
donated to our Arbor Day activities and thanked those individuals
or businesses for their help. We discussed the team approach that
we used this Arbor Day, and agreed that it worked well. |
New Business:
| Evelyn brought up the question of how
to deal with homeowners who incorrectly prune street trees on their
property. We decided that this issue needs further discussion.
We also discussed ways that we night improve our communications with
village employees and homeowners regarding the pruning and removal of
trees. We hope to better understand the village policies regarding
pruning and removing trees so that we can give consistent answers to
questions posed to us by village residents. |
| The National Arbor Day Foundation
named the Village of Red Hook a Tree City USA again this year and
conferred upon us a Growth Award for the third year in a row. The
Village Green will present this award to the Village Board at the June
meeting. |
| We received a letter from a resident
of the village who is interested in having a new street tree planted on
her property. We discussed ways in which we could identify
homeowners in the village who would like new trees ahead of our twice
yearly plantings. |
| We scheduled the first of several
watering days for the summer. We plan to water trees with gators
several times this simmer, especially those at rental properties and
businesses where they do not appear to get enough water. |
| Evelyn discussed the Village Green
finances. We have raised $765.00 in total through our Bakeless
Bake Sale this year. We have $4,049.95 in the Village Green
Development Fund. We will receive $6,000 into our Village Green
General Fund on June 1, 2005. |
Motion to Close Meeting
| The meeting was adjourned at 8:10 p.m. |
Next Meeting
| Our next meeting will be held on Jun
21, 2005, at 7:00 p.m. This will be a working meeting during which
we will prune street trees. We will meet at the village building
and then break into teams to prune the 11 trees that were planted in
2003. We will also prune a few additional trees that need pruning
to improve growth. We will issue press releases for this meeting
and invite interested citizens to join us for our Solstice Pruning. |
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