 Okay, am I a co-host Alan? Yes. Okay. And does somebody else want to also be co-host so they can post the. The agenda and stuff, or I could do that, but then someone else has to watch the participants. I could do that if you wanted. I honestly don't know how to use that function and zoom, but. I can do it. Henry, I know how to do it. Okay, so I'll promote Sarah. I can do that. No, I can't do that. Alan, you might have to do that. Okay. What am I doing? Make Sarah also a co-host. Thank you, Alan. You're welcome. I'm going to hide the list of attendees. You're going to do that. And I will bring up the agenda. Before I do that, can someone, we need someone to take minutes. Now that Gordon is leaving the committee on, if you all saw his email. I didn't see his email. What's that? I did see his email and I'm sad to see that email. And I'm happy to take notes. Okay. So you'll take notes. I will get the agenda up. There it is. Can everyone see that? Yes. I can do both of the things at once. All right. So we're ready. We can start the meeting now. Alan, is it being recorded already? It is recording. Okay. So any announcements or public comments? I saw a meg gauge was on the list of people coming in. Is she here? Yes. You should be able to speak. Hi, everybody. I don't think I should be a panelist, but I have a quick comment. I've always admired the beautiful Sycamore in front of the. Historic society on the corner of North prospect and amity right next to the library. And I'm curious what precautions are being taken to protect it during the library renovations. You don't have to, I know you don't answer the questions, but I wanted to just put it out because it's one of the most spectacular trees downtown in my opinion. So that's my comment. Thank you, Meg. We encourage everyone to be panelists so we can see their faces. And we are happy to answer that question. Yeah, I'm happy to answer that question if you wanted to. Thanks, Alan. So we are working with the Ames history museum. We get a grant from the department of conservation recreation. And it's called a heritage tree grant to do a significant amount of work pruning, cabling, lightning protection and some deep root fertilization of the tree. Great. And during that period of time, I've been talking with members of the Ames history museum. But, you know, they need to make sure they need to be talking with Jones and making sure that the project is not going to interfere with the root zone of that tree. So I think it's really important to make sure that it's not going to interfere with the root zone of the tree. Or if it is that it has to be. There has to be some protection put there for the trees. No damage is done to it. Great. I'm so reassured. And, you know, our old trees like that are part of our history. Well, we all want to protect historic buildings, but it's really important to protect. A beautiful tree like that. So thank you. I'm going to. Exit. I love those signs you put all over town around trees. They're sort of educational. They're really fantastic. Good. Thank you. Meg, before you go, we are planning to also plant a second. Sycamore on the other side of the entrance to the strong. Good. Because they used to do. Yeah. Oh. Great. Yeah. So thank you for all you do. It's really important. It's not a glamorous committee, but it's important one. So thank you. Bye everybody. Okay. Hearings we did. So approval of the main minutes. Did everyone have a chance to look at them and approve them? Any changes or comments on the main minutes? They looked good to me. Okay. No. If you support approving them, raise your hand. Okay. That's approved. I'll take volunteer hours as soon as I find my pen. Okay. Bennett. Four and a half. We only do whole hours. So five. You know, yeah, great. Julian. Five for me as well. Okay. Adrian, you're next on the list. My list. Two. Okay. And Sarah. Okay. Great. Those three between the site visit and today. Okay. Three with the planting. What's, uh, no. Okay. All right. Okay. Ellen. Five. And I've probably put in. Julian said five. That includes the, um, the dinner and. Driving to the dinner and everything. Julian. Yeah. Well, not driving, but to the dinner. We talked business during that too. Sure. Okay. Call it, call it seven, I guess. If you want to count all that stuff. Okay. And I'm probably at 12. Okay. I don't know what to do with that. All right. Good. Reports, the chairs report. We got a check for $500 from. Hampshire village condominiums. Oh, nice. The check is made out to Amherst public shade tree committee care of me. Okay. So what should I do about that, Ellen? Well, you can send it back to him and ask him to do what I told him to do, which was to make it out to the 10 of Amherst and notes, put public shade tree fund. I have no idea. Why they made it out to you. That's all. Well, it says Amherst public shade tree committee care of me. So. What does the pay to say. Amherst public shade tree committee. So we can't cash that there's no way to cash it. I mean, I can catch it. It needs to be made. You could. Yes. And then you could make a donation to the town of Amherst. Color change refund. That's up to you. No, I'd rather they do it directly, but do you have a phone number or something to reach them? What's on the check. It comes through a check, a writing company in Nebraska. To space property management in West Springfield mass. Yeah, so that's okay. I see what they're saying. So it's the property management company that cut the check. That manages the property there. So you would need to reach back. You need to reach out to them. They will connect you up with the property manager of. The property manager. And then you could talk to them about getting it done. Correctly. Unless you, you know, I don't recommend it, but if you, if you. You know, Cashed it. You know, made the donation to the town, but I'd keep it above board and just send it back and say, yeah, I will try to get another check. I also want to get an address to send them a thank you note. Thank you. Thank you very much. For the notes purposes. Tell me that's Hampshire village. What was the name of the group? Condominium. That's, we planted a long. You know, country corn is road and. Whatever the other road was. Rambling. Rambling. I guess it was a thank you for that from someone there. That's great. Other things on my thing. I have a question. I have a request to address the Amorous Bulletin. Introducing the Amherst climate climate alliance. Written by Darcy Dumont. It quotes Julian from our committee. And among their requests to the town. They said, did fund this. Shade tree committee's line item for trees. So I thought that was encouraging that they took that up. But it also brought up the idea that we should be. different groups. So does any of us want to join the Amherst Climate Alliance or go to one of their meetings? I've already been going to their meetings, I've so far attended five, and at their last meeting when we vote the letter for the bullet tonight suggested that they include that for the $40,000 line item before the budget was finally passed, not expecting it would do anything just to get a little press. But I can consider myself a formal liaison instead of just a concerned citizen going to those meetings. Great, that's great. So thank them for including us. Yeah. Let us know what else we can do to help them and vice versa. Most certainly. Great. Let's see what else I can tell you. When our plantings are, I don't think anyone's attended yet, but I've been letting them know. Okay. There's something that I read somewhere, I forget where now, called the state green communities grants. And I was wondering, is Amherst a green community? Yes. So we might be eligible for grants that would go toward, it goes to an all green infrastructure, but trees might be a part of that. Again, it's writing a grant and it's connecting with environmental justice areas of town and things like that. So something we should have maybe on the front burner, but certainly on the back burner. Anybody have thoughts about that? I think I need to know more about the type of grant. Sounds great. Do you want to do some research into that? It was in the Citizen Forest and newsletter that just came out. So do you have that link? I do. I'm thinking that. So yes. Okay, that's good. And in that connection, Julian and I attended the western mass version of the Massachusetts Tree Wardens and Forests Association. Thursday, it was good meeting. There are a couple of people there from Stockbridge. And I thought we should really have some sort of ongoing connection with the Stockbridge School and with the UMass Arborculture Program. So I don't know how to do that. Go ahead. I think the Arborculture Program is actually not in Stockbridge. I think it's in my department, which is Environmental Conservation, which is in the sciences. So I could certainly think about how to reach out to some of those folks and get them engaged in whatever way the committee thinks is appropriate. Yeah, at times we've had people from there join our meetings, get a little more involved to come to our planting. So if we could advertise our plantings with them, if we can find out about other educational or speakers that can come speak to us, I think that'd be a great resource for us. The college also does a great lecture series in the fall and spring, I think. And you can hear the most recent research that's going on regarding a lot of issues that the committee is involved with and concerned about. So it would be nice to hook up with their calendar, sort of, if they've got a billboard they post stuff on. Yeah, I can try to be a source of cross fertilization between what's going on at UMass in ECO and with the tree programs and with the committee. Thank you. That's great. Thanks. And Bennett, if there's stuff that they have going on, you could publicize that in the newsletter. Yeah, good. All right. Are you on our newsletter list before we go any further? I think so. Okay, good. Yeah, Britt's on our list. Yeah. Great. And Britt has applied to be on the committee. And we have an opening right now. I did not talk to Paul. I will do that though. Thank you. Paul, welcome in the town manager. I think that's about all that I have. Anyone have something to add? I do. I got a call from Jeff Hayes in Paley Village Place who was looking to have a tree planted. I guess he moved here right before the pandemic, but he applied to have a tree planted at his house. I told him that the committee is no longer doing that, that request a tree program, but Paley Village Place might be a location that we could look into for doing a Saturday planting. And it's just a note that if we don't do the website updates, maybe just to make sure that there's no mention of the requested tree program so that we don't keep getting people who are confused about whether or not that's still available. So Paley Village Place as a location to look into for tree plantings requested by Jeff Hayes. Is those public streets there? I don't know. That's a great question. Helen, I'm looking it up. Okay. It's not a public straight. It's a private road, I believe. I just went on Google Maps. One other thing is when we update the town website, we can also update masks that request that everyone still wear a mask outdoors. We can update that to that it's folks personal choice, which I believe is in accordance with the town at this point. Doesn't mention masks on our side of things. Does it? It does not. So we can't update the rest of the town website, only the public shade tree committee page. No, it's on the public shade tree committee page. Serious? Yeah. Okay. Vendor, you want to take care of that or should I? I can take that. Considering how difficult it's been to get me to make any updates to the website, I'm amazed that anything happened to it at all. I'll take care of that. Okay. Yeah, it says second Saturday, 2022. Bring your friends a shovel if you have one. Please wear a mask. Look for the yellow truck. Okay. Thank you. Good. No problem. Yeah. A lot of things slip by when you look at it. Yeah. Yeah, no worries. I have been awfully busy with finals and then I'm in the same boat. So. Okay. Next is the, is that all you have, Sarah? Oh, yes, that's it. Okay. So Alan tree wardens report. I'm going to be sharing with the committee. Amherst had a solar assessment done of various properties around town. And they list a number of properties parking lots for parking canopies and buildings for, for solar to go on. And they also have a kind of, you know, viability based on no tree removal and, and then viability of the project based on tree removal and they identify trees that we need to remove to round these properties. So I thought it'd be good to share with the committee. So I'll be sending that out for you to review. Again, this is just, it's just the beginning to say, look, this is, you know, we have got all these town properties. Where can we put solar? And what do we need to do to get the solar there? And it doesn't mean they're going to do all of them or any of them. It just means that this was an assessment. And this is where they have opportunities to put solar. The sustainability festival has been reactivated for 2023. So the committee might want to think about wanting to have a booth there or not having a booth there. I don't have any other details other than, you know, they're going to begin planning for 2023 spring to FF sustainability festival again. I think that's it. We don't have a lot. We've been very busy with cemeteries and other events and hanging banners, moving planters for the big downtown town, got a park grant or not a park grant, but a grant to put in outdoor dining areas and participating, providing logistics for that and moving planters. So we've been tied up with that. We'll be finishing that up this next week, hopefully. So I think that's about it. Oh, I did go to the Tree City USA award ceremony. So I have a lovely picture of me holding the Tree City USA flag. And we should put together a press release for that, which I can send to Henry, so you can put it on the community rep page. Because you're a big part of that, making that happen. So 35 years. That's it. Okay. Nobody from the committee went with you to that? No. Okay. All right. Treasurer's report, Julian. Yeah, so I don't believe the balance has changed. We have $23,475.25. So yeah, that is as of what the town court told me yesterday. Okay. So next item is a new chair of the committee. And as a side to that, I've been really wanting us to have a committee secretary. Not only takes the minutes, but post the minutes and does a bunch of other tasks that I've come up with a list for a while ago. So let's start with talking about a new chair for the committee. Julian said he was interested. I'm willing to do it. Happy to do it. But do we have any other nominations? Anyone else want to nominate themselves or someone else? I have a team, an ultimate, a middle school, ultimate team out my window that you don't want to hear. But I said that's a good candidate pool. So someone want to speak to this. I'll speak. Although I missed the last meeting, I had understood that those were both possibilities. I'm only conflicted because Henry, you've done this for so long. And of course, you're not now the current chair, but prior to Sarah, you were a chair for a long time. And I think there's a lot of value that you bring to this endeavor and a lot of institutional knowledge and an understanding of all the people and all the different stakeholders in town. And I think that's incredibly valuable. Which isn't to say that Julian has been a stalwart member of this committee for several years now, kind of in tandem with me. And I think also quite impressive. So in this case, I tend to kind of side with experience. And I think that's a great asset. But I also understand that part of the reason that we have, you know, I know that the town manager is interested in kind of turn limits and things like that and keeping committees fresh. And so in that spirit, you know, Julian is certainly fits the bill for that. So those are my kind of considerations coming into this vote. And again, I apologize that I wasn't around for the last meeting, but I thought about this quite a bit. So thank you. Anyone else? No, thank you. I completely agree with what Bennett was saying. And I think that the knowledge Henry has passed on to me over the years and the information he has about both trees and town government and the passion that he brings to the table on these type of issues. I've found very impressive. Thank you. So what do we do? We vote at this point? Well, Henry, can I make a comment? Yes. I wonder instead of going for secretary, if you just had a vice president that would take on those duties and be trained. So the committee would then develop a process for moving people from being just a standing committee member to being a vice president to being, sorry, vice chair, president. And, you know, there's kind of be a training period there where you intentionally train the next person. And so it's not something that just kind of sneaks up on you and suddenly you need to have a new chair. Right. Yeah, absolutely. And I know some organizations use a co-chair model. I'm not sure how that scene in town and town committees. I saw it done with one town committee before. I'm not sure if it's an idea worth exploring or not. Well, since part of this is discussing me, I'd like someone else actually to make a motion. Yeah, same here. I don't want to make a motion. I'll make a motion. I nominate Henry as our new chair and Julian as our vice chair. Second. All in favor. We only have two people voting that I see. I think Ellen got frozen. Yeah, Ellen's there. Okay, three. So, I guess three to nothing, two abstentions work. So we can both, you and I can both, Julian, both vote yes also. Yeah. Yep, I vote yes to that. All right. So I will be the chair again and I've already started training Julian, but I want you to consider yourself the vice chair and we'll work together on this. Wonderful. Thank you, everybody. Okay. Thank you both of you for taking on those roles. Yeah, absolutely. I'm giving you a clap. That's great. I'm very happy with that. Thank you. Good. Good suggestion, Ellen. So then who's going to do all these secretarial jobs? Julian. Or Bennett can take on more, but he seems to be swamped though. I don't want to do that. Yeah, I kid once my finals are up, I can start working to do a little bit more of the secretary type stuff. I also want to discuss who is going to fill the treasurer position now. Right. Good point. I forgot about that. So we need a new treasurer. It's a fairly minor job. Brett, I think you have to be a committee member too. Get me on the committee and I'll volunteer myself all day long. Yeah, I can explain what it is. It's basically just checking with the town offices and then signing off on the spending forms. Sure. Ellen O'Sara or Bennett? I can do it. Sarah, okay. I'm an art person, but numbers. Great. All right, so Sarah is the treasurer. Is that what I heard? Yeah. Yeah. Until Brett is a member and then I'll pass it to her. So yeah, I'll, I can do that for the next meeting. Or Adrian, sorry. You could also possibly be a committee member. I don't know if you've applied formally or not. You did not. Okay. Are you happy being an associate member and not official member? Actually, I am. I love this committee and you're a great bunch of people and I'm crazy about the trees, but I don't want to take on a formal commitment. Okay. We're good. We like having you here at the meetings and participating in our stuff. So that's good. All right. Next is social media update. Shoshana is not here. Julian, do you have anything? Is Julian still here? Nope. Sorry. I was just grabbing my cat. Do you have anything to add about social media? Mr. Vice-Chair? Just that we have had the, the, what we have done with the social media is to advertise our plantings and I've started also advertising our hearings, which is a change we made recently and I posted a photo of the Girl Scout troop at our planting in Roth Park, which was exciting. I would just, yeah, when I went, so I went to look for, after the meeting last month, when you mentioned there was an Instagram account, I went to look for it and there were actually two different accounts that showed up for the Amherst public shade tree committee and it was a little bit tricky to figure out which was the active account and which one was not. And so if there's a way to, I don't know who has ownership over whatever account was used in the past, but to delete that. Yes. So I have ownership over the current account and Shoshana has ownership over the previous account, but I, before making a new account, tried to log into the previous account with Shoshana and Shoshana does not know the password or username for that account. So we have been unable to delete it unless me or her is able to figure that out. But yeah, you acknowledge that it certainly is confusing, especially with folks often following both pages at once. Okay. Just wanted to mention that. Thanks. That'd be good if Shoshana can figure that out and you can get that done. Yeah. Okay. Town tree tour next step. I've done nothing since we did the actual tour, Ellen, of you. No. All right. Probably I'm not going to get to anything till August to September. So the next step is to come up with the brochure and then add on the extensions and things like that. And then we can maybe pick a date and do a, maybe we'll do a fall tour again, a fall live tour. Other ideas about it? Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry, you didn't come in clear. Ellen. Sorry, my Wi-Fi is really, um, I was just asking, would we repeat the same tour or plan a new one? No, I think repeat the same tour, but showing the fall things about these trees. I don't think I want to start a whole new tour. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Good. Britt, you were going to look up signage at Amherst College. Yes. Actually, I took some pictures and I guess I've forgotten to send them, but actually, so I was looking up the signage that has been used for the historic homes in the area, because we had talked about how many of the historic trees are in Amherst College property, and they might not be open to particular kinds of signage on their trees. And so I had suggested kind of reproducing what they've used for these historic homes for these heritage trees. Um, so I do have some pictures that I can email to the committee, but I think they were actually produced by the town, um, which is a good thing. So there's, there's, you know, a format that's been used and there are these metal mounted placards outside of homes that are probably probably 10 inches by six inches or so. Um, they're very nice. I don't know how expensive they are. Um, and we probably wouldn't need to include quite as much information as is on these placards for homes, but I can send an email with a, an example of one that I took a picture of nearby. Great. All right. So why don't you send that out? Ellen, I guess the next step really is designing how we're going to put this into a brochure. Do you have time to work on that or get started on that? Ellen? Sorry, my wife, I went out. Yeah. I'll see if I can get on my phone. It just, I'm running out of battery. Okay. All right. Let's move on then. Anyways, if she comes back, we'll do that. Second Saturday tree plantings, um, probably won't plant in July, but do we have a place we could do a workday? Yeah. Um, we're, I have to look that up and get back to you. Um, I had an idea for that, and I forgot where it was. Last month, uh, the Woodside Orchard area was discussed, but obviously I am biased on that one. We've got a lot of stump writing to do on Woodside. Um, I was trying to think of one of the areas that we planted last year that needed it. And I'm just drawing it blank at the moment for like mulching and stuff. Did we discuss last year Fisher or Pine Street? Not that I know of. Okay. Um, what about over the trees in front of rolling green? Are those rolling green trees or are those? Yeah. Okay. So they're on their property. They're maintaining them now. They're doing a pretty good job. Good. There are other trees along North Pleasant Street, though, that, uh, including by the, um, the habitat homes and all the way up into North Amherst Village. Oh, that's wonderful. Thank you. Good. It's, um, the, the North Pleasant, East Pleasant Street trees, um, by the water towers. Oh, East. Yeah. Yeah. They could be grass weeded out and mulched. Um, so the landscape, the ground street doesn't kill them with lawnmowers and string trimbers. Um, yeah, why don't we do those trees? Yeah. That's like 20 trees. Okay. Okay. So we'll do that for January, July. Yeah. Sorry. January will, uh, we'll help you with snow removal. Thanks. Okay. Um, we probably won't do an August one, September. We, we had some planting, uh, place in mind for September. I forget where that was. Anybody remember? I think it was, we were talking about trying to do, um, which side add in the fall, I think. For planting? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I have a friend who lives over there. He said a lot of the trees in that area have had to come down recently, so that planting would be beneficial. Yep. All right. So July, I look forward to, I look forward to a work day after a recent planting experience. I don't want to plant a tree ever again. I don't think it's very difficult. We'll find the most, the most gravel we can somewhere. That's impressive. I still don't know why that gravel was there. That's weird. Well, I wasn't there, but the picture was fantastic. And, uh, I got a nice note from the woman who organized the Girl Scout thing and really appreciated us. And, uh, I think it was great for them, great for us. And, uh, yeah. Kids really enjoyed it, which was great to see. Yeah. So that'll be the replacement for Julian on the tree committee, one of those Girl Scouts. All right. Let's good start on that. Found tree inventory in the grant. We had talked about a possible, uh, volunteer tree tour, um, tree inventory, um, training. We'd even picked a tentative date in June. I don't know what happened with that though. Yeah. I just got swamped. I got buried. Um, I have not been able to put any time into the tree inventory or the heritage tree grant. Um, after this week, after Juneteenth is over, I have, uh, I'm going to force myself to kick into the inventory drive and start doing that. So I have to arrange for the person who's going to do the training to come and, um, get at least our staff out there starting the inventory and then arrange for the, the training session, um, for the volunteers. Okay. We'll keep us posted on that and, uh, yeah. If we have some choices, we can put it out to the committee and see how many people can make any particular date. So yeah. Anything else on tree, town tree inventory? I'll just say, Alan, if you need help with that, um, I know Gordon and I helped write the grant and I'm interested in getting the, the town tree inventory together. Um, now that I'm not the chair, um, I'm going to, I'm going to need to reacclimate to going back to work. Um, but I'm hoping that I can pick up the significant tree ordinance again. And I think having the town tree inventory updated will be kind of an important part of that. Um, so if you need help with, with any of the tree inventory stuff, um, just let me know. I'm happy to, to jump in a little. Great. Thank you. And what I can do is I can CC you in my email communication with, um, the trainer. So, um, you can, you know, participate in the planning stage and information gathering and stuff like that. Sure. And I, yeah, great. And then I can disseminate to committee members and stuff as well. So it's a little less, uh, organization burden on your part. Um, that'd be great. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you. All right. The history museum, the grant and fundraising, uh, just beginning to start some conversation there. Um, and I'll have to report back to you hopefully with a lot more information. Um, in July. Okay. And Sarah, um, you were going to, um, reach out to someone or somebody, I forget who let me see. I know Shoshona already has a connection with someone at the history museum. I don't know if anyone else does. Also, um, I'm a historical society and their museum. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I'm hesitant about taking on too much. Um, and, uh, I think it'd be good to use whatever existing contact we have. I know we've already been in touch with at least somebody from the historical commission. So, um, I think that would probably be the best way to start this collaboration. Can you check in with Shoshona about that? And, um, Yeah. Yeah, I can. And also she was going to, um, do more photography of North Hampton Road. And I don't know what's happened with that. Okay. Yeah. I'll get in touch with her. Okay. Because she's been missing a bunch of meetings and things. So I don't want to, I don't want to lose her in the committee, but I don't want to push her if she's too busy. So we, um, the conversations I just started having with Amherst History Museum is that they do a history bytes program and, um, we're going to try to coordinate, uh, having the guest lecture come and do the history bytes, um, on trees, uh, significant trees. All right. Connections with Stockbridge School. We talked about already. Britt's going to be the liaison there. Uh, we'll go to number seven, old and ongoing items. Anything new on Kendrick Park and North Pleasant Street? Nothing new, right? How about on the North Common and Mary Maple? Nothing new there either. Oh, what, what is the status of that, you know? Status is it keeps getting pushed back. Any kind of decision being made, sounds like now the project may not start to encroach me on this, but what I'm hearing is that may not start till next spring. Can I ask just since I, I wasn't around for this part of the meeting last month and I am newer to Amherst, um, what, what has the committee's position been on this proposal to remove the Mary Maple? We haven't taken a position. I think in general, um, I mean, Alan has talked about that the tree is unhealthy. It's lost its central leader and would probably die during construction. So I think we've been going along with that. Looking at it, walking through the Common the other day, it has a very full canopy, even though it has some missing gaps in the back there. But, uh, so. Yeah. And so the project is a parking lot expansion? Is that correct? No, it's actually removing the parking lot at the top of the Common, near the, um, on Main Street and extending it, but just improving the grade and rebuilding a lot of, uh, stuff. So that was going to change mostly the change in grade and things like that. Okay. Yeah. I mean, um, I mean, my assessment is that, you know, if we want to preserve large trees that are going to live, they have a good long life ahead of them. The tree to lose there is the Mary Maple because it does not have a long life ahead of it. So you got a very short life expectancy. Um, and by removing that tree, we spare essentially all the other trees being removed. So we're having damage. So the proposal would not remove all of any of the other significant trees in, on that quadrant there? Correct. There's, um, two other Noray maples that are small and not doing well that would be removed as well. Um, but all the big Linden trees, the big beach trees, um, those would all stay. Um, we'd still maintain a nice tree canopy around there. Yeah. I have more questions, but I don't want to take over the whole, the whole meeting. So okay. Go ahead. I was just going to ask what, I mean, what is the, what do you see as the remaining life expectancy of, of that tree? That is a great question. So, I mean, it's, it's beginning to become unstable. So the central leader to the tree, um, if you go over there and look and stand in the parking lot, that's going to be removed and look back at the Mary Maple, um, you'll see the crown is, um, the central leader has lost probably 50% of its live crown. So that main trunk portion that is cabled to two other big leaders on the tree, um, is dying. Um, the rest of the tree actually is relatively healthy still, but the main leader is, is, is not. And it's got, um, the beginning of some pretty significant decay in the main stem of that leader. Um, so this mushroom is growing on it. Um, uh, so once that main leader is gone, it would take a pretty radical pruning to make the other, which branches, which are the other big large leaders of the tree, um, stable, you would have to reduce their size significantly so they wouldn't fail. Um, and there's no will to do that or no budget to do that or. It, it signals the rapid demise of the tree. Once the main leader goes and once you have to remove so much healthy leaf surface because the trees can't sustain itself with too heavy, too tip heavy, um, you're cutting out a large portion of the photosynthesizing material that provides, you know, all the, the energy for the tree to survive. So, um, that begins a decline spiral of not enough leaf surface to sustain the mass. So you have root dieback and you have more branch dieback. All right, um, North Hampton Road, anything new on that? Nothing new? The library trees, I, it's just something I am not getting to. So somebody else wants to take that on, contacting the library, going to some of the meetings of the construction of the library and seeing about what trees are going to be affected and, um, I just am not getting to it. Doesn't seem to be a lot of movement on that construction project, so I'm not sure when that's going to start. I've not heard anything about start dates. No, but we should, I think we should be finding out what the proposals are and if there's any way we can save any of the trees back there. There's a design committee meeting this Thursday at 10 on Zoom and I'm going to try to go, um, so I can represent the tree committee and bring up trees and see if they can point me in the right direction if there's someone else to be talking to. So I'll make an attempt, but it's sometimes tricky for me to be on Zoom meetings during the day. So, but I will try. Okay. And, um, yeah, let it be known that we've heard from people who are concerned about losing those trees. So I will. Okay. Thank you. All right. New members. There's nobody else in the pipeline besides Britt at this moment, and I will contact Paul. Definitely do that this week. Thanks. Okay. Complete streets. Okay. Julian. To that, um, has the Shade Tree Committee has the, excuse me, Town Council confirmed the reappointment of myself and Bennett or not? I haven't heard anything about that, Alan. I know they had a meeting last night. That's why I asked. I've not heard anything. Thank you. I'll check with Paul at the same time. Okay. Where are we? A complete street statewide state level initiatives. There's nothing really happening. I'm hoping that in September I can speak at the Mass Tree Wardens Dinner and try to get other Town Tree Wardens and Tree Committees to support doing some statewide efforts. All right. Significant Tree Ordinance. You mentioned it earlier, Sarah. Anything new or anything more to say? Nothing new. I'm not going to make any promises for July because I'm going to need a period to transition back to the workplace, but I'm hoping to revive that as my personal project and move that forward. Okay. And Town Budget Line Item. There's no movement that I don't think from the Town Council, but I think we do some more writing and more, you know, op-ed letters or just letters to the editor I think are really useful to try to get that moving. So I encourage you all to write to the letters to the editor of the Gazette in the bulletin. So I have one in the bag that you've seen and I don't know if it should come from one of us from the entire committee. I don't know that it really matters, honestly. Do you want me to just send it in? I'll just send it in. Like I just answered my own question. I'll just send it in. Yeah. I think you can send it in for the committee. We've approved it, right? Where we've seen it. It seemed, I would say it's not formal approval, but it's been circulated and everybody said, great job. So I'll take another look at it if there's anything that jumps out as being possibly contentious. I'll flag it, but otherwise I'll just send it in. Then it hangs up on behalf of the Amherst Publish A3 committee. Okay. That sounds good. Yeah. I would move to formally approve Bennett's letter. It looks great to me. Okay. Can I vote for that? Great. Yeah, I can vote for that. Yep. Okay. Well, you'll find, just as an aside, I write professionally and I write this stuff and generally somebody else takes it and does something with it. So I always reach the moment where we're just, somebody should do something with it and I just expect somebody else to do it. So I'll do it. It's great. It's a good feeling. And I encourage you write more and either for yourself or for the committee. I'll just write a bunch. I'm not doing that lately. Well, I was ready to write a letter about the Mary Maple and I had been to the library to research it because my kids were crying when they found out it was going to be taken down, but obviously more, I said I got to get, I need to get more information on this first. So, but yes, this is a good idea just generally to advocate for trees. But writing a letter as to what's happening with it and why it might have to come down would be a useful thing to do. I think the more times we get in the newspaper and on, you know, through other media is really important. I've also written that. I've written that too, Brett. I'll share it with you. I have, like, it's another one. Yeah, great. Okay, good. All right. Website update. There's nothing new on that, I assume. Yes, that's exactly right. I'm sorry. And I will adjust the thing about masks and look at the requested tree thing. All right. Any other committee comments? It's a shorter meeting tonight, but we also had the hour of the tree herring. So, it's a long meeting. Any other comments? No other topics reasonably anticipated by the chair? Well, the vice chair, do you have any topics not anticipated? All right, so I think we adjourn. And if you can get the minutes to me and Julie in as soon as possible, that'd be great. All right. Thanks, everyone. Good meeting and my herrings went well. And we'll see you in on. Thanks, everybody. Great. Have a great night. Bye-bye. Thank you. Bye-bye.