 the board's meeting to order. We have a good roll call. All the person in the back is here. All the person in the cells are here. All the person in the room. All the person in the rest here. All the person in the room is no longer on the table. We'll start out with the Pudgilleges. Pudgilleges is the one of the United States of America and the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God. The end of the world. The end of the world. It's just you. You know where you want to. Otherwise, we can find David. I haven't met you yet. My name is Tim. I'm the City Forester. Thank you, EW. Michael, most facilities in the traffic superintendent? Yeah. I don't know. Everyone just. Okay. Joe Colste is our new superintendent of the streets of sanitation. He took over from Jason. Okay. April. April. April. April. April is the left. Just, Joel is actually a returning Joe was actually the superintendent. This is 2.0. before Jason. So Joel left. He had an opportunity to go to the Milwaukee area where he worked prior to this a little bit as well in the village of Sherwood. But prior to that, he worked here for about three, three years in the city with us as our superintendent. He left and when he left, Jason came on. Now Jason, they kind of, what they were doing is they were doing the reverse commute. Joel's always lived in Sheboyga, but he commuted to Milwaukee for work. Jason lived in Milwaukee and commuted up. Well, now they figured out with the gas prices. So it's really good to have Joel back because he has history. He's got the knowledge of staff and welcome to our team. So thank you. Say to me back. But then we'll introduce ourselves a little bit. Who worked here? I'm Pete Becker. I'm all from district six and the chair of the committee. I'm Alder Ross. I'm district committee and vice chair. I am Alderperson Amanda Salazar, district three. Alderma June, I am in tenth district. I'm Alderperson Angela Raimi and I'm district five. All righty. Then we'll start with approval of minutes from our next 20 centered. I move. Second. Oh, sorry. Made and seconded. One discussion on those minutes. All is in favor. Any opposed? Chair votes aye. Those are approved. I move for discussion number six, resolution 62-223, September 6th, 2022 resolution authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute agreements with those. Piptals, nursery incorporated and chest bridge nursery incorporated for the purchase of 720 street trees. Tim, this is yours. Yep. So we put it out for bid. We want 720 trees delivered in the spring of 2023. We're going to plant approximately 320 of those right away and 400 of those are going to be placed in our gravel bed, which is in the directly north of this building. And those will be planted in the fall of 2023. So we pay for one delivery and are they all coming once? And then we have the trees and we plant them all season. And the two different nurseries kind of were bidding against each other and we wanted certain species and they wanted on a certain size. So we don't want to plant anything too small and we want to plant certain species because they allow for different growth patterns. So the way it worked out was roughly about half and half. I mean, one is like 28,000, one is 32,000 from each and it's just the way it fell with as far as what they bid and the species, some of them had alternates, species which maybe weren't as desirable or some of the alternates might have been a size smaller, which weren't desirable. So I picked the best ones that would meet our needs the best and in that also the cheapest across the line. So that's what we ended up with. A couple of quick questions. Is that a maximum that you could put in that bed? The gravel bed will hold more, but we have 350 in there now this season. And we're going to be planting those this fall. And I think that's going to be a lot for us to be able to handle. Now we're going to up it. We're going to go to 400 next year. So I'm confident we're going to get it done, but I don't, I want to be confident doing even more than that just yet until we get a feel for the 350. We'll get a three feel for the 400. It will hold I think up to 550 and maybe potentially even more if we, there's a, there's a route through the middle where you can drive through and potentially you could close that up and only get from one way and fit more trees. But it's not something I really want to do unless down the road it serves a purpose. And then my question is, are the trees are so native to our area or are we just getting trees that are specific for the growth of the space that you need them at? Some of the trees are native, some are not. It's hard to plant all native trees when you're dealing with an urban environment. So most of these trees are, they're all, they all grow in zone five or in zone five in Sheboygan. So they're coming from New York or zone five area and they're planting them here, but they're, they're not all native. No, it's not, it's not something I like percentage wise. What do you think it is? I would say it's roughly half maybe. You know, some of these are varieties where, you know, you got a sugar maple that's native, but then if you have a variety of sugar maple, is it technically native? You kind of, it gets kind of weird going down that route. But if you count those varieties, I would, I would estimate about half. Okay, great. And some of the reasons to also be able to measure for pot resistance and stuff like that too. Yeah, urban tolerance, you got resistance for bugs, disease, and just diversity in general. We don't want to plant all maples because we have so many of them. We don't want to plant too many, we don't want to plant many more lindens because we have too many of them. So we want to diversify with other stuff. And, and a lot of these places where trees are being replaced, it's a small parkway, like five feet or less sidewalks have been lifted many times. So we're, we're putting a lot of trees that don't get as big as the previous trees. They might only get 30, 40 feet tall, but that's going to allow that sidewalk not to lift so much. So more of the right tree in the right spot. Joe? I think you did, Chairman. Okay, now the reason why we're going to New York to get trees to plant in Wisconsin, there was nobody in Wisconsin we could get these trees from? There was one or two vendors that bid on the, on the bids for, for our RFP, but they were more expensive. They, that the two nurseries in, in New York are very competitively priced. They, they're huge. Okay. And they, they deliver, these are bear root trees. So they, they come with no dirt or soil with them, no container. They're just the bear root. So only certain nurseries do that. Many nurseries in the state do it like potted or bald and burlap, but only a few do bear root. So there's a couple in the state that, that did put bids out for us, but they're, they're not large enough to be able to give us what we wanted. Like Bailey's, they offered a lot of things, but they were all one inch instead of one and a half inch. Obviously they were cheaper, but we don't want to plant one inch trees on the street. And leaves inspired was another one. They have inch and a half trees. They have two inch trees, but they're a smaller nursery. So they couldn't give us the quantity that we wanted. You know, I wanted 50 scarlet oaks. They only could give us, you know, 15. And then they were giving us substitutes. And all these are guaranteed? There's, we're not paying for a guarantee extra. The, the trees are guaranteed to get here alive. And we've ordered from Shictles in the past and we have very good success, very, very few that haven't done well. I mean, in the past, like this year, we had delivered from Shictles. There was three that were damaged on shipment and they, they gave us a credit back for those. They, they gave us our money back for the damaged ones. So if they show up damaged, we get, we don't have to pay for them. As far as a guarantee that they're going to survive, we're not paying for that. They're not offering that, but we're getting them at such a nice rate that it wouldn't make sense in my opinion to, to go to a nursery that would allow us to do that because we'd be paying so much more. So we're not the only, we're not the only community in Wisconsin that uses these people. No, most communities do. We're seeing Cedarburg, same, a few of those just, I know they were on the same shipment of the truck that this year that came in. A lot of Milwaukee buys the trees from them. A lot of people do. I know, uh, Stephen's point gets theirs from that too. It's pretty, uh, pretty well known. Thank you. Any other questions? Hey, anyone want to entertain a motion? I will. I'll second. I'll second it. Any other discussion? All in favor? Aye. Chair votes aye. That is approved. Uh, so you're going to be a big exhaust of the agenda. Next meeting date is September 27, 2022. I will not be here. So Zach, you are in charge. And I will then entertain a motion. Second. Motion is second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? We are adjourned.