 Hello. Sorry for the delay. Hello. Sarah. So I'm going to add you to. Okay. Henry. All right. Alan, if you can door Sarah, whoever it's host, make me co-host. I'll keep an eye on the participant. Already did. Okay. Everybody's in. Okay. Good. Okay. I got a text from Bennett that said he's not able to make it tonight. And I, so I think the only person we're waiting on is Shoshana. Oh, but she might not have been able to make it tonight either. I believe she sent me an email earlier in the week. I'll just. Check. She said she couldn't make the planting. I didn't think she couldn't make the meeting either. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Shoshana can't make it. So, where we're all here. Right. So we'll go ahead and get started officially. Gordon, are you able to take notes tonight? Great. Thank you. And I can. Share my screen. Great. Can everyone see my screen? We'll go ahead and get started. I'll just have everybody introduce themselves quickly. I'm Sarah. I'm the chair of the committee. But I guess my announcement is I'm going to step down as chair. So I'm the chair of the committee for tonight. Yeah. So I'm going to. I'm the chair of the committee for tonight. I'm the chair of my last meeting, but then we just have them. Everyone else go around and introduce themselves briefly. On my list, Alan. I see you next. Hi, I'm Alan. I'm free warden. It's out of Amherst. Gordon, you're next on. My list. Sorry. Hi, I'm Gordon. I'm a Gordon Greenham. Committee member. Yeah. I'm Henry lapping. Committee member once again. But I'm interested in learning more. I'm an Amherst resident and a professor of environmental conservation at UMass. Great. We're happy to have you. Happy to be here. Thank you. Ellen. I'm Ellen Kiter and I am a member of the tree committee. Julian. Hi there. My name is Julian Hines and I am the treasurer for the tree committee. And Adrian. I am not a committee member, but I'm an Amherst resident and dedicated to trees and the shade committee. Thank you everyone. Thanks for being here. Thanks for rescheduling from our usual time, which is last week. And Henry, are you keeping an eye on if anyone else joins the waiting room? Yes, I'll do that. Thank you. So if anyone else comes, we'll just have them introduce as they enter the meeting. All right. So next up on the agenda, we have announcements and public comments. So if anyone has anything they'd like to say or bring to the attention of the committee, please feel free. But this is also very relaxed. So feel free to interject at any time. If something comes up. Anyone have anything pressing to bring to our attention. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We'll move on to hearings then. These were canceled in May, but they're going to be rescheduled for June. Are those still on Alan? Are we still moving forward with those for June? We're trying to, yes. Okay. So we can go ahead and schedule a new. Time that will work for everyone. As long as we can have a quorum. We have a new meeting. So we do have a meeting. So that will be the next. We should be all set. So our June meeting. Would be Tuesday the 14th. Just get my calendar. Typically we schedule. The tree hearings to be before directly before the. So, that would those would happen on the 14th so we would need our site visit to happen before the 14th of June. In the past we've used stuck with Tuesday evenings since that seems to work for people generally so would five or 530 on June 7 work for site visits. That works for me I think 530 is beneficial Shana so. Is that you Gordon. Great. Does that does 530 on June 7 work for either of you guys. That works for me. Thank you. Great. All right, so then we'll have enough for a quorum so we'll schedule the site visits for 530. And this is Tuesday, June 7. And we can be in touch as those things develop. They've been pushed back twice now so we'll just make sure that everybody is aware that they're actually going to happen we'll just be in touch. Alan with with you and the the clients the Prior to those meetings. Very good. Great. All right. She give us the addresses again. So, lyceum lyceum project. That's how you pronounce it on. It was college on South Pleasant Street. Which is my core mile. Not even a quarter mile south of the intersection with route nine. South Pleasant. I don't have the address, unfortunately in front of me so. The other one is on the colonel towards covers several addresses so it's towards North Pleasant Street men. Ask a question about process here. Yes, okay, so I live on the backside of this lyceum project of Amherst College so I know right where that is. Is the idea here that the, that there are trees that these projects are seeking to cut down and the Shaitree committee has to come and evaluate that and vote to approve or not approve, or base in a nutshell, is that. Yeah, Alan feel free to jump in. We just went through this with some site visits. I'm going to go now so we, the Shaitree committee will host a site visit, and we go and evaluate the trees, and then at the tree warden holds the tree hearing, which is open to public comment. So the tree, tree committee will listen to public comment and then make a recommendation, but the decision is ultimately of the tree warden so the tree committee is just offering recommendation based on the site visit and the public comment. But then the decision is up to the tree warden. If there is contention, if someone disagrees with the tree warden's decision then it goes to town manager. So, so the committee isn't the decision making body but we do make a recommendation. Thank you for clarifying that. Thanks. Yes. Of course. When we start at the lyceum and then do McClellan have it quarter six or six whatever. I think that would be a good way to approach it, starting at the lyceum. Okay. Okay. All right. Next, we're going to move on to approval of the April minutes and volunteer hours. Any comments on the April minutes. They look good to me. approval. Second. And then volunteer hours. Henry for me it's 10. Gordon. Six for me. Julian. Seven. And Ellen. Eight. I think I have about 20. This month. Adrian. Oh, too. Okay. And Britt, do you, this meeting, did you do anything else? So this meeting counts. So I'll give you two for that. Okay. Okay. And I'll check with. Ben and Shoshana. Good. And I'll also post the minutes from. We approve the April minutes. Right. Henry. Next up we have committee reports. So I'll start. This will be my last chair report. Thank you. It's been great. Thank you. I go back to work from my maternity leave in next month. So it's just going to be too many. Lucense for me to keep track of everything with that transition. But I'm going to stay on the committee. So. Just not going to be acting as chair. The Arbor Day event was great. It was great. It was great. It was great. It was great. It was great. It was great because they were really eye catching. It was excellent to have them up around our booth. And then we use them for the planting on Saturday. So those are great. Great idea. Thank you so much. But I thought the event was great. I'd love to hear. Other people's. If I have to go suddenly for baby, please excuse me. I'd love to hear everyone else's experiences. I'm not sure if we had enough of the, the day that we were tabling, but I thought we had pretty good turnout. We definitely had some really nice conversations with different people. We ended up having Catherine come to our Saturday planting who we saw at the event. So that was great. We got people added to our. Email list. Giving out the trees. It was really fun this year to have two different varieties. I think we had a lot of great conversations with different people. I think we had a lot of great conversations with different people. I think we were able to reach more people. I know people are always a little. Sometimes skeptical of bringing home a tree. That's one day going to be a very large tree. And this way we were able to tailor a little bit more to specific sites. And I thought that was a nice touch. And I, the collaboration that we had with the historical society, able to get that big tree cookie from the bride tree. That was really cool. So I thought our booth looked really good this year. And I'd love to hear more from. You know, any other comments. Comment about the Arbor Day Tabling. I visited. I thought it was great. It prompted me to come to this meeting, which is something I've been thinking about for a long time. So I thought it was great. Thank you, Brett. Great to have you. It worked. The outreach and, you know, that's the event that we have the most public outreach and awareness at that Arbor Day Tabling event. And I think it was great. I think it was great. But. Yeah, there were, we're actually reaching people. Excellent. At our. Planting this last Saturday. Rambling road and country corners. It was so hot. Even though we plant in the morning, it was already getting very, very warm. So I'd like to really think. Alan Gordon, Henry and Julian for coming out. Despite the heat. And we had a couple. We had Catherine who we. Got in touch with at the Arbor Day event came and Sue was there. So that was great to have some volunteers. And then also Larry who is lives in that neighborhood. I think he's associated with the. The HOA. I don't know the official, his official title, but he's associated with the HOA. In that neighborhood. And he was out and was a very appreciative of the work we were doing and planted a couple of trees with us. So that was really nice to be in touch with people in that community. And then. I think that's about it for me for chair notes, everything else I have to touch on it's going to come up as we get to presentations and discussions. So. Henry. Oh, I also wanted to say the tree tour was great. Thank you. Thanks to Henry and Ellen for putting that together and Henry for leading it. That was a, it was a really fun event that we had on Mother's Day. I did mention to Ellen while we were there that I, I'd like to work with you guys to make some signs to put on those trees, which I think will help when it's a self-guided tour. Just have a visual cue for people to know which tree it is exactly. And we can put some of those. You know, some of those, some of those, some of those anecdotes and like tidbits, Ellen, you did a lot of research and Henry, you had a lot of kind of funny anecdotes or. Just great little stories that go with each tree and different specific trees and tree species. So we can work together to make some signs up to. Help with a self-guided version of that tour. And yeah, that was a great event. So. I'm going to go over to you if you have anything to add for a report. Well, just in terms of the tree tour. We'll talk about that later. But yeah, there's a lot of people who didn't come. Like if contact to me and saying, when are you doing it again? I'm not going to rush to do it again, but maybe in the fall would be a nice time to do it again. Yeah. And then on the through our email, we're getting, we're hearing from a few different people. Not a lot this month, but Alan. Barbara Pearson, 11 page street. Did you see. She had contacted us. Yes. Those are the other varieties. I think so. Yeah. So did you reach out to her? Do I need to do that again? No, I. I talked to her. Okay. And then David bossy on 20 strong street. Yeah. Had a tree that was going to, you talked to him about possibly removing. 20 strong. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. That's the. We just planted a tree there. He's concerned about some of the other trees. That were dying. Okay. Yeah, I did. You spoke. Okay. Good. Henry, I'm sorry. What was that name again? David BOSSE. I don't know that that needs, I guess it's good to have it in the minutes. Yeah. But Barbara Pearson was the other one. And a pair. Yeah. And that's about it. Yeah. When we talk about the plantings, I had some things to think about too. So to say. Oh, so we should actually probably the next step is to choose the next chair. Yeah. Is it, does anyone. Want to be the next chair? Any volunteers. I wouldn't do it if no one else is interested or would rather have the position. I can do it, but if other people want to do it, then. I'm open to it being someone else. Yeah. I'm sorry. Gordon's not here. Sorry. Oh, my mind. I heard Bennett. I'm so sorry. Yeah, I don't have an interest in doing it, but certainly support you, Henry, if you want to, but maybe I wonder if we can talk it. Talk about it next time when Shoshona and Bennett are available or. I don't know. Is there an official process? For that. Do we vote or does it work? Yeah. We vote to. See. Among the folks who would be interested. I presume. I'd be happy with moving it to when. Gordon. To when Bennett and Shoshona are available. I'd be happy to decide now. Whatever works for you guys. Henry, if you want to do it. More. Than willing. You were an amazing chair last time. If you want me to do it. I'm. Would be honored to as well. Um, why don't I. I'll do it, I guess. And then if you guys want me and. Julian, we should talk and we can start. Getting you ready to become the chair sort of thing. Okay. Sure. That works for me. Can I just. Can I just pipe in. Here on something. Yeah. I think it would be a, it's a good idea. I think to wait to have a, you know, Whole committee is such as such a small committee. I don't know if. If Bennett or Shoshana are interested or not. And. But also give. Some time for Julian, maybe to talk to Sarah and Henry. You know, one-to-one and kind of get an idea of. You know, the. The amount of work involved. Also. Just to make sure that it wouldn't interfere with your school. Absolutely. To fear with what? Schoolwork. He's still in schools. That comes first. I think that sounds good. I did reach out to. Bennett and Shoshana and let them know that I'm going to be stepping down. I know Shoshana is chair of the art commission. And Bennett is very busy. So I don't think either of them are interested in the position. But it would certainly be nice to have them as. Part of the process and able to cast their vote officially. So we can wait to have an official chair election. I think that sounds good. I did reach out to Bennett and Shoshana and let them know that I'm going to be stepping down. I think that would be nice to have them as chair of the art commission. I think that would be nice to have them as chair of the art commission. Chair election. At our June meeting. But Henry, we can. We can have June be a transition handoff month. And Julie, and you can be a part of that and get involved. And. So Henry, I can let you. Officially pull the agenda together. And all of that, but I'm happy to help out. And Julie, and we can just include you in that process. I think that would be nice to have them as chair of the art commission. I will say it is more work than it might seem like. It's been a balancing act. There are, you know, being on the committee. Is. The number of deadlines each month and things that you have to stay on top of is a lot more for the chair, even though it's just kind of like regular housekeeping stuff. I've found that it's just tricky for me. To be on the committee. I think it's a great opportunity. To be on top of all of the different deadlines and things that need to be done every month for the committee to run. So. So having a transit or transitional handoff period. Would be fine. And we can do an official vote in June. Sounds good. So I'll organize the meeting and. And then whoever gets elected will then chair the meeting. Great. Before we go on, Britt, did you fill out the form to join our committee? I have not yet filled out the form. But I plan to. And I don't think it would make sense for me to throw myself in for, for chair. If I, I think I need to learn, learn the ropes and get, get some sense of how things function. So. And right now we do have a full committee. So you'd have to wait till the next opening, which would probably happen in a reasonable amount of time. And, but like Adrian, lots of people have come to. Become and we consider everybody part of the meeting. Everyone can speak. So, you know, the only difference is you can't actually vote on things. Yeah. Make sense. Yeah. I just have a lot. I've lived here for two years and I have a lot of concerns about the way. That trees seem to, I live next to this Amherst college project. And there, there are a lot of trees going down on a regular basis. So, so that I would check things out. Yeah. And the site visit, although the, you know, the, the site visit and the tree hearing are all open. To, to community members. So you're, you're welcome to, to come. If you have any other concerned citizens, if you have neighbors who are also interested, please feel free to let them know about our, the dates and times and it's all open to the public. Great. I will do that. Okay. I think that's it for chair reports. So we can move on to the tree warden report. All right. Hi everybody. I don't have a lot to report on. I mean, we've already discussed the tree hearings coming up. We're going to be discussing grants and things like that. There's some good movement on that as far as training opportunities, things like that. So I'll skip that. Second Saturday planting went well. It was 18 trees and we got about 12 of them in. It was pretty good for a small turnout. Everybody worked really hard and efficiently. And we seem to get it done nicely and everything looks like it's partly planted at the right depths. And we went back on Monday and we stake some of the trees that were a little, you know, not firm in their planting holes. The people came out and were very happy that we participated. And we were able to do that. And we were able to do that. We were able to do that on their street. The second Saturday tree planting. So. That'll be a beautiful. Beautiful row of trees come. 15 years or so. We. Alan, did you pick up the signs? I did not. No. You want me to. I thought you would, but I'm. Can somebody go pick up the signs who lives in South Amherst. Okay. Okay. Great. Yeah. There's some at the beginning of country corners, a little bit up country corners then around in front of rambling. There's one. You got it. Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. So we need to gear up for the next round of second Saturday plantings. So I have a couple of thoughts on that. Okay. So I'm going to start with the inventory. The grant we have for the tree maturing town. But for June. We. Could do. Graph park mill lane. Possibly. It might be ready for planting at that point. But I'm not sure yet. The project. Sidewalk project on the lane has to be done. By the, before the end of June. So. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. It has to happen very quickly. There's definitely some trees that we can actually plant in the park as well as along the ball field section of mill lane. Where there's no. Construction happening. Another area that needs trees desperately. Two more dying sugar maple trees just came down. And then we have a lot of wood. Orchard street. I think it is. Next to Woodside. So Woodside and. Orchard street or in desperate need. You're not. We did. Woodside was actually one of the first plantings we did in town. On a volunteer basis. You know. 10 years ago, I think. And. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. To see all those big sugar maples go. Look. I live on Woodside. So I know the whole neighborhood would support. Having, having, and, you know, Orchard as well. Would definitely support. That happening. So. That's good to hear. So that's, that's an option. So Woodside. Orchard or graph mill lane. So we usually do a work day when it gets too hot. And we have training opportunities as part of this grant for the tree inventory. To learn, to have someone come and actually train us. Train volunteers and train some of my staff. To actually collect the tree data correctly. For the tree inventory. If. You know, we want to. Try to squeeze in. A training day. And then in. July actually do a work day, collecting tree data. Spread out around different roads and do it. I'm looking for some input from the committee and how you feel about participating in that. Or. Would work for the committee. I would participate in that. So. I'm glad to hear what the grant came through. I didn't realize. Okay. Yeah. Both of our grants were approved. Excellent. I think a training day would be great. And I would certainly like to participate in that and then do. Data gathering. I think. Incorporating that into the July or August work day. Which we usually, you know, we often use for pruning and mulching and watering. But I would certainly be open to. Considering how hot it is. We might not want to give up some of that tree maintenance for our trees. But I would certainly be open to, to doing a substitution for one of the months or just doing an additional work day. To, to gather some of that information. So I think that's a great idea. And I, it'd be awesome. I think for the Chatery committee to participate and get some of those volunteer hours in for the grant match. I think it'd be good to put that out to. I think it'd be good to have a mailing list to maybe get volunteers, not just members of the committee for that. Yeah. So, um, I need to coordinate with the person who's going to do the training. And. What, um, what does the committee feel would be a. You know, a good day or a good time. A good day. Would it be another kind of. Saturday or an evening training. Classroom. Are we talking about July or. Sooner. You tell me what would work. Training would probably be a bit of a hybrid. It'd probably be some short classroom training, possibly. And then going out and actually practicing collecting tree. So you're looking at, um, things that you look at are like, you know, how to measure the tree crown spread. Tree height. How to identify. Decay cavities and trees and percent of life versus dead crown and things like that. Leaf condition. Um, Do you have a sense of how many hours. This would be. Or is there a place we would meet for the classroom and then. Field. This, or is that still to be determined? Still to be determined, but I would imagine it would be. Uh, probably. You know, at one of the meeting rooms, we have a random town somewhere. And we'd probably go out to one of our parks or something, maybe Kendrick. And practice. Uh, Probably. Four hours, something like that. I was wondering if we should shoot for the morning or the afternoon. So that the outdoor part is that a cooler part of the day. But I guess if we're just. If we're not digging holes, it's the temperature. It's a critical. And you're under the shade of the trees too. Yeah. Um, if it's going to be four hours, I think a weekend. Um, That would certainly work better for me, but I think for a lot of. Work regular working hours. Um, evenings. It would just be getting quite late by the time we'd be finished with that. We're going to do it all in one day and not, you know. Two evenings. Um, So Saturday. Saturday morning. Saturday sounds best. Although I, in June, I have no free Saturdays. I don't have, I think I have one in July. I don't have one. I don't have one. I don't have one. Um, Okay. Well, I can, I can get some more details and some ideas of what they've done in the past with other groups. For training and see if it can be broken up into a smaller. Training, maybe, maybe. An online training. Then a. Outdoor training. Um, Do Sundays work also. Um, That's an option for me as well. If that's, um, available for other people. Works for me. You too. Yeah, uh, weekends are really my only free time, but it depends what weekend it is. So. Summer gets busy. To, to that comment, Ellen, which is a great point. Um, I think we can kind of plan around it a little bit. Um, And putting it maybe towards the end of June so that we can put out in our June newsletter and at our meeting. Advertise for other volunteers to attend. Um, See. It's like the last weekend in June is the 25th and 26th. 26 works for me. So that's what you're talking about? To attend and at least say June 26th. Yeah. Or the, the weekend before that also. Is also an option. I'm thinking the weekend after that is the 4th of July weekend. And that's probably going to be busy for a lot of folks. Previous Sunday, the 19th is father's day. Just so you're aware. Well, thank you. It's also Juneteenth. Then so yeah. All right, so the 26 works works for me. Alan, we can see if that works for the, the trainer. So it's good. And I'll just add if, if you know, you end up with lots of volunteers from your listserv. I don't think it would be out of the question to. Yeah. I'm going to ask for a classroom at UMass. It's a public institution and I can easily reserve that if you have a ton of people in the town spaces don't accommodate that. That could definitely work. So. Thank you. Is that it for the tree warden report, Alan? Yes. Okay. Then we will go to the treasurer report. Yeah, thank you. So. There was two transactions this month. We have a current balance of 23,000 $175 and 52 cents. And that is subtracting $3,000 for Alan's trees. For the monthly tree planting budget, the project is initiated as well as $112 for pamphlets. To hand out at the Arbor Day event. And I believe we still have some left. Any question? Sounds good. Thank you, Julian. Next we are into our presentations and discussion section. First up, we have the town sidewalk projects. We have the city sidewalk improvement projects. The town is doing. The season. Alan, do you have updates on. On those. The. So they have pretty much finished the Amity street sidewalk project. We've got some new opportunities. Not the sidewalks done to plant trees there as well. On Amity street. Then they're moving over to some sidewalk projects. And then they're moving over to Mill Lane. And then they're moving across over from. East side of triangles. East side of. This pleasant street by where the old part two cheese was over to Kenneth Park. So they're putting in a crossing there. And then they're jumping over to Mill Lane to start. The Mill Lane project. Again, there are no true removals taking place on either those two projects. And then they're moving over to Mill Lane. And then they're moving over to Mill Lane. And then they're moving over to Mill Lane. And then they're moving over to Gav, which is probably where they'll go next is. We have to complete the removals of two trees there. Being held up by Verizon because they have a. Utility to pull guide to one of the trees we're trying to take down. I've been having difficult time contacting their people. So. I think that's it. I think that's it. I think that's it. I think that's it. I think that's it. They're still working through that. But it looks like it's going to happen, but not happen this year for the. Making North Pleasant Street one way. From McClellan. To North. Pleasant. To triangle street. And then installing new back in parking. And sidewalk along Kenneth Park. I don't know. I didn't get all that, but I, I, I got that the, it sounds like Amity street and Kellogg Avenue are the ones that involve trees. So. Well, Amity street didn't involve. Removing of any live trees. We took down. Planting. Dead crap. But for planting. Amity street is a good opportunity. I've been waiting to plant some trees there. I've been waiting to plant some trees there. Until they finish the sidewalk project. So they're done. But the other ones aren't. Aren't going to affect trees. Correct. Okay. Thanks. Well, sorry. That's the big one. McClellan street. It has McClellan street is going to this couple. Dine trees act take down. And then there's those four pine trees. That seemed like everybody in the neighborhood wants taken down. They're going to be. They've lifted up a sidewalk pretty severely in that area. And they're just outgrowing their location in the grass belt. So. And they're also self-destructing. As they. As they grow there. So. Those are the ones that I'm holding the tree hearing for. Next up, we have the social media update. Shashana is out. So we'll wait to hear on how Facebook is going. So let's go to Gailen. Do you want to speak to Instagram? Of course. So. Our Instagram page is going well. I think we got five more followers recently and. Hosted stuff about the town tree tour. As well as a reminder about our most recent. Planting on country corners. One thing I was thinking about is possibly. So, hopefully inform any neighbors who may be using those social media platforms or anybody who's interested that they can attend so I guess, I might try that for our next tree hearing, but other than that, that is our social media update. Next up we have the town tree tour. So, Henry I'll turn it over to you and Ellen if you have anything you want to add. I think it went great. So, happy to hear more. Yeah, I was just totally thrilled that we had 43 people I never expected that. And we had the town manager and his partner were there and it's really good for him to see a crowd of people who are interested in trees and to hear the work we've done. You know, he's a, he supports us but not strongly, I don't think and I brought up the line item line budget line item for trees. With a reference I wasn't attacking him and he took it humorously, which is good, referring to the former town manager who had put a lot of money into trees. But he saw a lot of interest in trees and then you know it was good it was a really good thing for us. Ellen do you want to add anything right now and then I want to talk about future steps. Yeah, no, I was really pleased with the turnout. I asked a couple people how they heard about it. A lot of them said through the bulletin the Amherst bulletin so that's something to remember. You know if we want to do some press releases in the future if we have another tour or any event, and social media also so just good to know where where people hear of these things. I thought it went really well. It took it was about an hour and 15 minutes, you know, lots of engaged people and questions. So yeah, I don't really have any critical feedback, I guess. Henry, can I just add here that I received a letter today from Susan Cummings from Greenleaves Drive made a donation to the committee. After attending the tree tour. So she enjoyed it. Oh that's so great. Hey, does that straight need trees I haven't been over there recently. Really. Yeah, okay. What was her name Cummings. Cummings. So, Julian, you should send out a thank you card do you have the cards. I do not have the cards. Okay, so if we get together I think I have some and maybe Sarah has more I don't know. Sarah is still there. I'm here I've just got a baby. Okay, so I guess I can send it out. I think Shana is the one who has them. Okay, I will reach out to her and maybe she can do it or she can give them to me so I can do it. Yeah, and you can get the address and. Everything from Alan. Great. So the next steps are. So it just brought up like the publicity that got in the bulletin happened because I've thought to do something about it a week before. I think we really need an organized, maybe we need a publicist on the committee or someone who's going to, and I have a list of places like I contacted Scott Meersbach from the bulletin and Gazette, and also Phyllis, his other name, who does the little column in the bulletin every week around town, and it's usually, you know, someone's traveling and this happened and the flowers are blooming, but she'll post events in the town too, so I sent that to her and she published, publicized it as well. So remembering to do that for all our events, not just this, the plantings, et cetera, even for meetings, be really good to get more of that out. So I've been compiling a list of publicity places and we need someone to take that on at some point. Yeah, and then signs for the trees would be great, so yeah. Yeah, great. I would love to do that. I have a template that we can start from, and I think that'd be a great addition to the self-guided for sure. You're thinking the same signs we've put up before? Something similar. I think making them a bit different so that's clear. It's for the tree tour and able to have some different facts in there about each specific tree or the tree species would be cool, but it's definitely a good launching point. And I'm definitely thinking similar, you know, graphic and size and material. A couple of the trees are on Amherst College property and on private property. And a couple, yeah, Dickinson Museum. So I don't know that we have permission or we'll get permission to put signs on those, just something to think about. Do you want to ask Amherst College about that, since a lot of the trees are on there? I know. I mean, they already have them tagged with their numbers. I think I'd need to see what the signs look like. You know, they're going to they'll either shoot me down or say, you know, they want to see a sample of what the what this looks like. And again, I don't know that the private tree private owners are going to want to advertise that there's a really great tree we're seeing, even though that you know, you don't have to go on to their property to see it. But you might have to walk on their property to read a sign. Sorry, what was this location? Oh, there just there's a couple of trees on the the tree tour that Henry developed. There's a couple of trees that are on private property on Amherst College property. So I could just I think there might be an issue with putting signs up. You might suggest doing the signs in a similar format to how they mark their historic homes that are owned by the college, right? If that seems to be a format that they're comfortable with, you know, I in in my neighborhood, lots of the homes have those markers out at the edge of the property and I don't know, just a suggestion. Yeah, I'd have to I'd have to take a look at that. But that certainly makes a lot of sense. Can you, Britt, can you take a picture of one of those and send it to? Sure, send it to me and I'll send it out to the committee. Yep, I can do that when I walk my dogs later. Great. So that's all for this for now. But at some point, Ellen, you and I should get together and. So I figure out I think it's going to be a ton of work to get the brochure. I would, you know, figure it out, but that's good work. So yeah, next up, we have second Saturday plantings. The past planting at Rambly Road and Country Corners went really well, despite the heat. And Alan, are you just going to let us know about location for the next planting in June? Or is that something you want feedback on or that the committee can decide or help with in any way? Yeah, so we are June, second week, third week, June, May, right now. So it's fast approaching. I guess we should probably make a decision now. Yeah. I really need to grind the stumps on which side. The tree on the orchard that we're waiting to take down to finish. There's a squirrel's nest in it, so we're waiting for the squirrels to get big enough so we can relocate them. So. Yeah, let's do graph. We'll do graph park in the milling in June, right? Okay. All right. Next up, we have the Town Tree Inventory, which we've touched on a little bit for the training day. We did get that grant. We did get that grant. And the. So I think it was pretty unanimous that the committee was interested in being part of the training and very active in that part of the grant and data collection, but we're also going to need to be a part of the management plan. So I think that's a good opportunity for the committee to weigh in with a town-wide management plan for the inventory and our town trees. I would just suggest, I'm probably speaking too much, not having been on these meetings before, but I have students who are working with the town of Northampton on their tree inventories and they're using iTree as kind of a crowdsourced database. And I know that's how they do the tree inventory in New York City as well. And my students who are doing this work, graduate students, suggest that it's a great resource to have and easy to maintain. So I would just put that out there as an option. And I could engage with them more to ask questions if that would be helpful. Great, are they working for the town or are they doing this as part of a project? Yeah, so I have one student who is working for the town of Northampton as well. It's actually, I think it's unpaid, but it is part of what we call their practicum experience for their masters in sustainability science. And so they are essentially updating the town's tree inventory in specific areas using iTree. And I know they went through some training, but it's a method that I guess they have adopted because other large cities are trying to use that and finding success. And because it's digitized and so people can access that information online. Like UMass has something similar where you can log on and see every tree that's been put into the system and click on it and learn about it. So it fosters more public engagement with questions about trees. That's good to know. The first round of inventory we did back in 2010, we did it through a consultant and they use their software, Davy Resource Group, but it was all formatted in the iTree format. So our inventory is 10, 12 years old now. And we're going to update this inventory plus hopefully add some new streets. But we're going to try to do it with our own, with our own staff and volunteers. Yeah, that's great. Good to know. Brett, if you want to give our email to your students or see if that's something they're interested in, I think just have it, you know, if they're interested in speaking to our committee or telling us about their experience or anything like that, I think it'd be great to hear from them about their, their doing exactly what we're going to be doing our training for. It would be great to hear from them and things they've learned that sort of thing as part of our training for us kind of going out and doing the same thing. So that would be a great resource if they have time and interest. Yeah, I'd be happy to put that out there and see if they might be able to just give us kind of their take on things and any lessons learned. But on that note, I have to duck out. I didn't know that this went for two hours and my partner is out of town and I only have a babysitter until 630. So I need to run, but I will attend for the full session next time I promise and thanks everyone. So thanks. Thanks for coming. All right. Next up, we have the history museum. So we also have that grant. Which involves fundraising, public outreach and public education. I was talking with Alan about this last week. I think putting together a subcommittee of people from the history museum and from the tree committee to kind of help assist them with the fund raising and public outreach and education. So I think that's a great point. The tree tour was a great collaboration. And I think that. You know, got a lot of awareness. Henry, your point you're making earlier about using different media opportunities for reaching out to the public is a great point here. And so I think a subcommittee. I think we need to really help move this grant along and kind of check off all the boxes of everything that we need to do for, for our requirements for fulfilling the grant. Specifically, I know she's Shawna has connections there and she's not at this meeting, but I would. Can reach out to her and see if her connection. Point person at the museum. I don't know if she's interested in being on a subcommittee, but we just want to make sure that we're facilitating and moving along all of our responsibilities for, for that grant. I'm very interested in helping out with that project as well. Henry had sent me the grant materials. So I've read through them, but yeah, I'm, I'm sort of one thing that I'm curious to know what our timeline is and. You know, anxious to get started on it before. You know, the tree. Just all those suckers at the bottom drive me crazy. So I'm just curious when, when things can get started and obviously with the thunderstorms we started having last night. Would love to get some lightning protection and all those other things. And so the, the deadline would be a year. So we have a year from the time of award. So. And there's supposed to award the grant in late winter, early spring, and they didn't award it to late spring. So we've missed the opportunity to do some of the work that it was kind of spring related work. So we'll be doing that type of work probably in the spring of the year. I have to get new bids to do to perform some of the work that we need to have done my contractor. So I have to put that work together and get that out there. I did hear from the history museum. They are working on lecture series. They do want to have a guest speaker. So I'm going to go ahead and do some of the work. So I'm going to do some of the work that I need to do. Common talk. So. Kind of in the beginning phases of. Planning that and picking a time possibly in the fall again. Instead of doing it in the spring as we had proposed. So. It's starting to come together. I need to get through. Full opening season. And a couple of other things. And. History. Fall would be a good time to plant the bride new bride tree also. Yeah. Obviously we want to do a lot of this when there's a lot of people around in the summertime. There tends to be fewer people around. Okay. Like I said, I'm happy to help with that. And I know some people on the board at the museum. So I can also be a contact. So I'm happy to help with that. Thank you. Thank you. Let me create. Thank you. Just let me know when to start. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Ellen. That's great. Next up, we have the tree city USA awards ceremony. Yeah. You have that date and info. It's a. June 8th. In the act in mass. And it's a. Sort of outdoor event. I think it's in a tent. Some kind of canopy. And. I have reserved two spaces, one for myself and one for somebody else. Tell manager has not gotten back to me whether he wanted to attend. There might be room for three for two other people. Depending upon how many other people reserve. For the event. Other communities. So I can let you know more, but if there's. You know, if someone from the committee is interested in attending. They usually have a good speaker of some, of somebody there and. Get a good lunch and you get your picture taken receiving an award. And I think it's really good for our committee to be represented. I was at one of them some years ago, a few years ago. So if anyone can come. If anyone can go that day, it'd be great. I think it starts at nine. AM. That is before I have to go back to work. So I, I could possibly go. I will have a baby with me. Okay. But, but I, I'm available on that day. So I'll. Plug Sarah in if no one else is interested. This is anybody who. Would be a standby who want to go if we have a third. Potential person. Okay. Sounds good. All right. Thanks, Alan. And a new chair. We're going to table for next month to do the official vote for that. So. We will just do a quick run through of old ongoing items. Things to just kind of keep. An eye on and not to lose sight of. So if any, if you have updates, anyone on any of these things, as I go through, please feel free to just speak up. Kendrick Park, North Pleasant street road redesign. That's going to be for next year, I believe. I watched the presentation at the town council meeting. Thank you, Julian. Next up the North Common Mary Maple. Alan, do we have an updated timeline for that? It seems like it's continuing to get pushed back. I don't have an official. Update or, you know, official word, but. I don't have an official update. Or, you know, official word, but it seems like it might not happen until next spring. Possibly. Okay. We've, we've talked. A bit about the Mary Maple and what the tree committee might be interested in doing. And I, the general consensus that I've been hearing through those conversations is that instead of taking an official position, the tree committee is more interested in. Facilitating discussions around the Mary Maple. So it looks like if that's not happening until next spring, we have some time to figure out what we want to do. But I do think. Addressing it. Or a little bit earlier, you know, not right before the tree comes down. We'll just give people a little bit of time to. Talk about it, come to terms. I know there's going to be a lot of pushback against removing that tree. A lot of people are going to want to do everything possible to save the tree for as long as possible. So that's something to just keep in mind. We don't have to have those discussions, but if you, everyone wants to kind of mull it over. We are going to, it's going to come to terms. So we should, you know, kind of be prepared for that and figure out what we want to do and say about it. Anybody have anything pressing they want to, to say about that now or just food for thought for later. Okay. Next up the North Hampton road. I'm sure everyone's aware of all the construction that's going on. So that's, you know, a project to just kind of keep up with. I know Shoshana took some pictures. It might be a good idea to take some pictures of the process. To include in our. Case study. So let's just an ongoing case study that we'll be putting together. Library trees. I don't know any update. Henry. Yes. Do you want to check in with Shoshana about the. North Hampton road. Yeah, I can see. She's able to take other photos. Yeah. And I might be able to. If she's not. So yeah, I can do that. Library trees. Yeah. I've just sort of dropped the ball and I have not been able to get to any of the meetings or even find out what's happening with that, but I will put it back on my list to do. Thanks, Henry. New members. We have a full committee. So I don't think we're. Actively looking for new members, but it was great to have Brett and have. You know, more interest in people who are interested in joining the committee, even if they want to act as a volunteer before they're officially elected. And we met quite a few people at the. Arbor Day event who seemed interested in getting involved. So I think that was, that's great. Complete streets. State level initiatives that's still ongoing. That might be a project that I pick up when I have, when I'm no longer chair and I'm just working on an individual project. That's something that I'm interested in. Yeah. Alan. Alan, you had mentioned. A gathering of tree wardens is something where I could talk or someone from our committee could talk about. The statewide initiatives. Yeah. So. I'm part of the Western mass chapter of the mass tree wardens and foresters association. And it's open to, you know, private tree care companies, tree wardens, tree committees, general public, anybody interested in trees. And. Since I'm part of the group that helps design the schedule. And, and speak to speakers. We could definitely come up with one idea that he and I were bouncing around was having. I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. So the sessions be a combined tree committee. You know, two or three tree committees from. Western mass. Talking about their. Their programs and their needs. Concerns. Do you have dates? The June. What the June. Date is all set. Speakers are set. September. And that would be September. The main presentation that evening is going to be. From the department of labor safety. Talking about. Safety in the workforce. So. The first presentation of the evening is a half an hour. The second presentation after dinner is an hour. So. Potentially can fit in there. So. So. So. Okay. That five 30 in the evening. At the blue bonnet diner. Oh, right. Julie went to the last one. I am hoping to come to this one as well. Yeah, I would love to speak at it or Julian. You could speak at it. Sure. Yeah. I'm also happy to. Help put stuff together. So, I hope that you can help me. And I would like to bring up the next item. And I'm excited just in putting together a presentation for someone else to. To speak. Next up is the significant tree ordinance. This hasn't moved forward at all, but the next steps are going to be. Getting involved with other town groups. So that there's. You know, I have a, I have a comment on this. I would like to see a couple of other people. Okay. So I'm going to start. Um, town budget. The town budgets, when published the, uh, Shaitree committee. Um, and well, Alan and his department did not get a line item for tree plantings this year. So that's something to keep in mind for next year that we do. budget. Hopefully with a little bit more time, we're able to garner a little bit more awareness about this and get some more support for that. And then the website is still to be updated. In terms of the line item budget, the gazette did, or the bulletin did publish our letter that Bennett wrote. All right. Are there any other committee comments before we wrap up? Good meeting. I just want to thank Sarah for all our hard work. And I understand why you need to step down. Thank you for all your hard work. Thank you. It's been great. And I'm happy to stay to be able to stay on the committee. And a little bit sad that I'm not able to continue. But as you can all hear. There's just other things in the background. All right. Well, then. We can adjourn. Thank you everyone. And I, I believe our. Our next. Planting is before our next meeting. So I'll be seeing you all at our site visits. And our planting before the next meeting. Thank you, sir. I can't make the next plan. But I will be at the meeting. Have a good night. Hey everybody. Hey everybody.