 All right. Sorry, they, um, it asked me for a one time ID number, which is never done before. So I had to go through the whole process of getting the idea. I'll let everybody in here. No excuses, Alan. I'm so proud of myself that I can actually schedule a webinar for a tree here and log into it after I schedule it. So apparently not. Hello, rain. Hello, Adrian. Click Julian's culture again. Yeah, Julian. You can talk if you want, if you're on mute. I've also promoted you to other ego. Okay. He's coming in. All right. You started the recording on. We have started the recording of the meeting. Yes. Okay. Uh, Bennett, you're going to take notes. Yep. Great. All right. Welcome everybody. Can someone watch for a new participants? Or else someone else share the screen and I'll watch a new participants. Julian, can you do that? Right. Yeah. What do you have the agenda? Yes, I do. Yeah. While he's doing that, I'll take hours. So Sarah. Bennett. I'm going to combine. I missed the last meeting. So I took out combined and I will say that that was. Combined seven hours. Okay. Adrian, you weren't here for those. Britt. I think I also missed the beginning of the last meeting. So. I would say. Five. Four. Four with the planting. Well, plus these two meetings are included. These two. Okay. So then. Three for the planting. Two for these. One for the last. So six. Is it. It's like, is it on West street? Yeah. Yep. Six. Ellen. Uh, three. Okay. Julian. Did we give our talk since the last meeting? Yeah. I can't remember. I believe we did. If not, then probably more like. 15. Yeah. And I think so. I probably have about the same 15. So did you get the agenda to share? I am trying. The document. Is loading. And. Yeah. Come up. I share the screen. You keep an eye on the participants. Okay. Click on participants, then click on attendees. If there's anybody and then vote them to panelists. Yep. Okay, good. So I'll share the screen. I can find. Oh, I can't do that. Hold on. Not so simple. I've got it here though. Yes. Good. Just adjust this so I can see everybody better. Okay. That's the wrong one. Okay. I'm sharing the wrong thing. One more try. Agenda. No, this is still the minutes. One more try again. Okay. Last try. Hey, how's that? Okay. So no. Adrian, you're sort of public and part of the committee. Do you have any comments? You have to unmute. Nothing at the moment. Okay. Feel free to speak up if you have something to say, of course. Thank you. We just did the tree herring. And we approve the removal of the tree on. West street. And. Any changes to the October minutes. Or can we just approve them? Thumbs up if you like the October minutes. Yeah, I, I put in the changes requested. But you should have. You know what they are, Henry. Are you the one who submit. Are you the one who submits them to the town? Yeah. Okay. So do I have, where are the change? You sent me the changes. Where is it on drive? No. It was just one change. I think Julian had. Yeah, I think I have that. Yeah. That's it. That was reflected in there, I believe. Okay. Good. All right. So minutes are approved. Yes. Yeah. Shake your heads or something. Yeah. Good. Okay. Chair's report. One thing I just want to remind Julian to bring the lawn signs for the planting Saturday. We're going to start by north pleasant streets. Quiet. You're muted. I was thinking we could just because all the, the first couple of trees. Well, I won't make any difference. Yeah. Let's start on North. Because that's the uses for people to find. And then we just work our way down. If I need to turn the truck around and get to the other side of the street with the hose and stuff. So we're going to end up planting two trees on Lincoln. The last two trees. Okay. Yes, I guess so it was since the last meeting. Julian and I, and a woman from the North Hampton tree committee spoke to the. Western mass. Mass tree wardens and forest association. And small group, but they were very supportive. And they were very supportive. And they were very supportive. And a lot of people were interested in. Contacting their congress people and. And, you know, letting them know about the four issues, which were this chapter 87 update. The complete street law, the solar farm, citing law and the funding for trees, which is house bill nine oh five. And Mindy Dom is a big supporter of all of them. I saw her. I saw her. I saw her. I saw her. I saw her. I saw her. And so we had a nice talk about trees there. And then I gave a talk on. Just how complex trees are for the. Unitarian church in Greenfield. And that went well. It was a small crowd, but went well. So that's that. Alan 20 strong street. Someone had written us about. Trees. Did you reach out to them? Yes. I met with them. Two weeks ago. They're concerned about the big sugar maple trees that are. Dying and going to fall in their house at the moment. And we discussed. Replanting once we take care of the trees that are. Declining. Okay. Um, There's also, um, Yeah, I want to encourage everyone to reach out to. Um, Mindy Dom and Joe Cumberford about the statewide issues. Um, I'll send you, this is, uh, What we passed out at the thing. It'll be backwards to you guys, I guess. Um, but I'll send, uh, I'll send this to everyone. And then if you contact Congress people, let other people in the state know to contact their Congress people. I think we need to get some push to get these to happen. If they're going to happen. I think we need to get a little bit more into it. I think we need to get some push to get some push to get. To get some push to get. To have Julie and speak and. Share what we're trying to work on. Um, the only other thing I have is that, um, There'll be a, um, Tree Warden of the year. Um, A competition or they want us to nominate people. So we could nominate Alan. He's been the tree warden before. And he doesn't want us to nominate him again. No, you can't actually, you can only get nominated once. Okay, that's too bad. I was seeing it on the website and was like, Oh, perfect. There's a lot of really good free wardens out there doing really good work that need to get recognized. So yeah, if you know one of them or some of you live in another community who thinks they're free wardens good. Let them know the nominee. Good. That's all I have. Julian, do you want to go next as the vice chair? Yeah, thank you, Henry. So I was also going to cover the dinner that we had. I appreciate you for covering that as well as the possibility of the tree warden of the year. And then the other things is. Thank you, Bennett for getting our newsletter out. I saw that that looked good. And I was also able to log into the Google Drive and the Gmail and all the public shade tree accounts with the help of Shoshona. So I will now be in those and responding as necessary on a regular basis probably two or three times a day. I, after getting a few questions explained to my English class, what is happening with the merry maple and where that is going. I've got a few questions Alan about when or what might be in term celebration this fall. But other than that, just explain what happened there. I attended a Northampton forestry commission meeting. And they would be interested in holding a joint meeting or form at some time together. And I just told them that I'd be happy to reach out to them and talk with them about it after talking with you guys. But Rich said they would email us. I also learned interestingly the city of Holyoke is giving is pushing for a $30,000 line item for tree planting there. So I'm learning more about that scene maybe we can tie our actions. See how that goes. We've also fielded a few residents who have emailed or called me being upset that the college is taking so many trees down on their land. And I just advise them of the same thing as with a few other issues which is a significant tree ordinance is really the only way to go here. Hadley Street committee is planting new trees in honor of four residents which is pretty interesting and worth pointing out. And the other thing I noted is when holding trees for an unrelated organization outside the Munson library, a resident approached me and said, Thank you for telling us to cut down that tree on the North Common, or on the South Common there so that was good to see all done cleaned up as well. So that is my report. Thank you. I'll ask a question. If the significant tree ordinance were to pass and be implemented would it pertain to Amherst College or they like their own entity believe it pertains it would pertain to any private property in the town but that would be something to probably draft in the process Alan could answer this better than I could. I'll just add that the trees that they have been cutting down to live across the street from their recent, you know, chainsaw massacre. And I don't think I'm not sure any of them would qualify technically as significant trees. But when you're when you start talking about like the last bunch, it was not I counted nine trees of various various sizes and ages that they took down for drainage problem you know related to drainage issues and flooding issues which is absolutely no sense. I'm not sure that in this case a significant tree ordinance, even if it were to apply to private land including a campus would actually be able to prevent them from taking down what might be deemed insignificant trees. So. Try to answer that question I mean I think it all depends on where or how the ordinance is written. If we want to call an ordinance or is it is it a, you know, part of the planning kind of documents we have zoning board appeals or whatever that's out there. You know, the private colleges are, you know, subject to the same rules and regulations in their designs. And their designs as the, you know, average landowner in town is you mass might have a different standing, but I'm not sure I'd have to look into that, but it all depends on how it's implemented. Whether it's a standalone ordinance by law or whether it's part of the kind of project review that goes through the planning department. I would add on that that I don't think all of these removals are related to specific projects. You know, when they cut down this last bunch of them across the street from my house, we looked on their, their project website and ended up calling because there was no active project and it had nothing to do with a project it had to do with. Again, with, you know, supposedly with flooding issues and moisture issues and in a house next to the trees and so I would say you know when we are drafting this let's keep that in mind it is not just project related. There should be a mechanism in place to, to take that into account. Good point. All right, Alan, your report. I just want to thank the committee for participating. Henry and Julian in the western mass tree wardens dinner meeting. We did get a lot of good feedback from the surveys we put out. And I think people really did enjoy your presentation and gave a lot of those folks who aren't necessarily few words, but work in the tree care industry, an idea of what was going on behind the scenes that they don't see in probably their community back home possibly so. Thank you for taking your time to come out and speak there. Hopefully you enjoyed it. The projects they're starting to put together projects for next spring and planning and it looks like there's a lot of, you know, as you saw in the paper probably some grants town as we see to do road and sidewalk improvements so there's going to be a new round of complete street sort of concepts coming down. They're all going to have significant tree impact when they're done, and we'll work to minimize that impact, but we're going to have a busy spring probably of tree hearings to make all those things happen. Let's see what else. I think I really have any other projects for this winter. Coming up so first tree rule goes, we're just in a maintenance phase trying to take down the restries and prune them and you're trying to get the last few trees in with your help. Next Saturday looks like it's going to rain. So, I don't know if you want to look at that or do we just want to work in the rain cold rain. We want to work in the rain but we don't want to, you know, all dive pneumonia so I just remember one time that we canceled a tree planting and North Hampton went ahead and did a tree planting on that day and yeah, we can't let that happen again. So, if we redo an abbreviated tree planting or something, you know, just try not maybe do all of them at once or just get some of them in and just see how it goes. I mean it's supposed to be raining, you know, obviously earlier in the morning and then lessening as the day goes on and probably by around noon, not raining at all. So, we'll see. It's too early to really come. Yeah, exactly. For the tree ward report Henry I did get your tree city. You're saying first for stab at that document so I didn't get a chance to review it yet, but we will do that soon as I start the application process. So, for the tree city USA program every year I submit a summary of what the committee's done for the year. I could maybe take the time now and read my list. If that would work for you if I can find it. I'll share that instead of the agenda. I'm one thing about Saturday, the Saturday I'm flying to Argentina. So I'm Lee I'll be with you from nine to 10 but then I have to go. Yeah. Let me stop share and reshare. There it is. Hold on one second. All right. Okay, everyone see that. Yes. So Alan usually fills in the number of trees we've planted. I'll add up all the hours that we've been collecting for the year and I'll put that in. Um, yeah, so same list from last year but then I updated it and changed a few things. So one question is number six. Did we actually write any articles and let us to the editor in 2022. Yes. We did me a copy of that. Sure. And did anybody else write any letters or articles. No. There's lots of articles about some of our meetings, but I don't know if that counts. Yeah, there were a handful at least. How would I put that in this contributed to public dialogue on. Public trees. Through active media coverage or something. Or active media engagement. Good. Anything else I can add. They like photos. Yeah. I'm trying to get photos. I might have sent you a few but I'm trying to get more from Shoshana. And if anyone else has photos of any of our tree plantings that'd be great. Send them to me. I'll send them along with Alan with this. Okay. So I will stop this year and go back to the agenda. Okay, so. Town tree and very. I guess town tree inventory is up next. Any news. No news. I've been talking with it department. About giving me a spreadsheet of everything that we mentored this summer. And they haven't gotten that tree yet. No word about getting us trained to help with it. No, no, I'm going to, I need to assess. How much money I've already spent. With the intern I had this summer. And then figure out how we're going to. You know, go forward, how much time I need to spend with volunteers and how much time I need to spend with. Sort of paid, paid person during either training or, or inventory work themselves. It's a 50 50 match reimbursable match. Okay, social media update. Shoshana is not here, but Julian. Yeah, so we have about 87. We have about 88 followers now. I have. Posted on the story, but not the regular page. For the meetings and for the. Planting's I normally post on the story the day before and then on the. Thing the day after sometimes I can't miss that last time, but most times I do that. And then I also log into the Gmail. And the Google drive and docs and all that type of stuff. So I can manage any social media presence there as well. Oh, sorry. I was just going to suggest, you know, I don't know how often. The committee has a presence like at the farmer's market, for example, I know on Arbor Day last year or this year. Everyone was there. But, but perhaps having some type of. Prompt next time we have a public presence of, of trying to get people to engage with the social media, like, you know, what's your favorite tree or something like that. And they join, but then also share. So just maybe thinking creatively around that. In advance of our next public engagement opportunity. I think that's a great idea. We normally do those about once a year on Arbor Day. So that's a great idea. And for next year, I'll make something like that. We could do a QR code, maybe. Yeah. And can you try to meet with Shoshana? And like this time I posted on Facebook that the meeting was happening. The tree herring, but I want you guys to be doing that. And she's kind of busy. So. If you just check with her, maybe you take over that for a while. Yeah, I posted on Instagram. She's not giving me the login information. So I'll call her tonight. And if not possibly see her at the library. Great. Thank you. Okay. Town tree tour, Ellen. No update. Will you have time anytime? I mean, I'm gone this month, but next month, maybe we can. Yeah. Okay. Let's really try to plan that for December. A lot of things that we want to do when we're not doing, and I want to figure out how to get those going some. Okay. Good. Second Saturday plantings were set for Saturday, unless it rains next year. We should be thinking about locations and what we want to do. Both for tree work days and for planting days. Does anybody have anything to say about that? No. Okay. The history museum. The Amherst history museum. Anything new there? No new. No movement on that grant yet. What, what is the old. On that. On the new. I'm sorry. What, what is. I don't know anything about this. So the Amherst history museum has something to do with. Want something to do with trees or. Yes. So. Amherst history museum reached out to me. And I'm glad to be here. Over a year ago. To help with. Kind of. Caring for their very large sycamore. That's in front of the museum. And. We've ended up. Deciding to do a. Grant. Here's tree grant through DCR. We did get the grant. And. Now I need to do a lot of stuff to make the grant. And we talked about us doing. Work with them doing some publicity work around that tree and. Maybe planting the new tree and doing some of the. Mulching and stuff like that too. Yeah. Got it. I guess that started before your time. Yeah, I just, I didn't, I didn't know what it was referring to. So I appreciate that background. Anything new on the North common and Mary maple. Tom manager did agree to have it removed. We're in the process now. We've, we've selected a contract to do the removal. And the removal is probably going to happen. In the next week or so. So when they sent out last week, the. Flyer for the holiday festivities that includes an event. They're referring by name to the lighting of the Mary maple. They're referring to. The backup, the original Mary maple them. Correct. Yeah. The smaller. Smaller. The mini. So that they're like, hoping nobody's going to notice this. Just. Yeah. What's missing here. We could call it the happy maple. Yeah. I was, I was just confused when I saw that flyer. And it said the tree was going to be lit. I thought this doesn't. Connect with what we've been told about the removal. Yeah, they had the, um, The bid pays for a contractor to light the tree each year. So they were out there lighting the smaller tree. Last week. Okay. Got it. And do we want. I mean, if it's happening next week, I know we had talked about trying like various things around that. I mean, What, um, We're proposing to do is, um, Save a lot of the tree. Um, probably chip the brush. But we're going to take the tree and put it in a. Temporary storage area. Outside where we can then give people. Who want to. Uh, you know, Use whoever requested already to utilize some of the word to make. You know, furniture or bowls or art. Or who just want a part of the tree. So we'll be able to kind of control. Um, control the. Dissemination of the tree. To people who want it. I have a question. Um, Will there be a public announcement about the timing of taking the tree down so that those people who might want to. Witness that public event could be there. I can ask if they're going to do that. I don't. I control the actual. Um, Scheduling of it. Um, Not the publicity of it. So I can ask. I talked to you about the publicity. In the town manager's office. Yeah, that would be the town manager's office. Yeah. Well, we can also take on the publicity and also the publicity about that the word is available. So if you can, um, Pass the date, as soon as you know it, Alan, I'm probably pass it to Julian because I'll be away. And then you can post on social media and. Um, Maybe then it can write something, uh, An extra newsletter or something about it. Okay. Yeah, I think it would be a mistake not to let people know in advance. Um, You know, and I think, I think a lot of people are not fully aware that it's happening. Um, or when it's happening, of course. So. I think maybe trying to publicize that, you know, That would be a bad idea. And then actually somebody, a former student of mine actually lives in Brattleboro sent me, um, an article from the Brattleboro paper about a silver maple. Um, That had historic significance in the town that had to be taken down this fall. And they wrote an obituary for the tree and then held, um, Um, Before it was taken down. Um, And I thought that was a nice, a nice idea. So I don't know if there's a way to put something like that together. I'd be happy to. To do that. Um, or take a leading role in that, but. That was in Brattleboro. It was in Brattleboro. I had, I can share the article. Um, Um, I think it's a piece of paper of this year. Um, Silver maple obituary. Uh, with a celebration of life. So. Please do share that and maybe benefit. That could go in the newsletter piece about that. Yeah, I'll share it. Great. I want, um, Just a question about the maple. I'm, I am. I am. I'm a little surprised that it's coming down so quickly. Is there a, um, I'm halfway thinking about my 10 year old daughter. Like how to explain to her, but it's a good way to explain it. I think if I could explain it to her, I could explain it to anybody. There. Um, we need in terms of timing. This is something that needs to happen. Um, but you know, it needs to happen before winter. It needs to happen before snowfall. I mean, is there. Is it just like we've been. Um, you know, We, for safety reasons, I want to get it done. Like what is the. Um, you know, like. What, what kind of, it was just like the timing of the, the, the company that takes trees down. Like what's, what are the, some of the circumstances. About timing. Yeah. Again, I. You know, I, there's safety issue is. You know. Small concern. Um, but it's, I don't think it's. Not my driving factor. Um, you know, the agenda and timelines for this is not being set by me and it's being set by. Um, The project on the common and. I see. The views of the views of other. Um, of the time manager. Um, and. Folks who want to see the project move forward. So. Right. Um, that was, that's a big thing that I forgot to mention in my long list of possibilities. Um, because yeah, I mean, obviously I voted to, to remove the tree. So, um, but I've, I've been thinking it would be nice to have like a final Mary maple lighting. But, um, But probably not at the expense of that project. So thank you. Thanks. Anything else about the mayor maple. Um, I think it would be nice to have the mayor maple. With the North common. Okay. Town budget line item. Can I have one other thing to say, but I'm sorry, I want to go back. I also think that in terms of publicity, it would make sense for. Once we have, and I can do this once we have the date. Um, I mean, I think that like. I think we should probably reach out to Scott at the Gazette. Like, I'm not just. I want to avoid that moment where I drive by and I'm like, holy crap, the tree is gone. I want to at least prepare for it. And I think other people want to do that as well. Um, and the best, like we can sit out in the newsletter and we certainly will. Um, as a special thing, but you know, the newsletter's got 200 subscribers. I think probably the most effective way to get at the people who care about it. I mean, in our social media channels too, but probably as a Gazette article, it doesn't not as a big. You know, like. We don't decide how that gets handled, but it's probably a small thing that says it's happening. Um, I just feel like so, so as soon as we have that with your permission, I'll reach out to Scott at the Gazette and try to. Have that. If everyone agrees. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. And I agree, Bennett. And I think having even, you know, for us to select a time and say, you know, if people want to come and gather, and this is kind of what it sounds like is happening in Brownboro, you know, gather below its branches one last time or have, have. You know, uh, even a tape, you know, some papers set up at the picnic table where, where kids can do a drying or, or something like that. Um, you know, before it's, before it's taken down. I think that would be, I think that would be nice. You know, I'm also thinking about my kids who are going to be crying when they see this. So, um, I think that would be nice. Okay. Thanks for lingering on that for, for us. Sure. Anything else on Mary Maple North Common. Okay. Town budget line item. Thank you, Julie, and for the information about Holyoke. Yeah, sure. Um, I know we talked with. Here we have one attendee. I'm going to promote them to panelist. Can I promote them to panelist? We have one attendee. Vanna all Jamal. Oh. So what, what are our next steps on this? Yeah. So the town budget line item. Thank you. Um, we have the Holyoke had a $30,000 line item. I, that they're advocating for. I'm not sure. I don't think they've gotten it yet. I don't think they've gotten it yet. I know, uh, alcohol was speaking about their budget at the tree wardens conference. I spoke with a few folks who described their experience with advocating for a larger tree budget. Um, and then, uh, The other thing is I had a tent, a former town counselor reach out to me, suggesting the possibility. Um, Is the possibility of having. A resident capital requests. I know resident capital requests are currently open and it might be possible to go that route. Maybe not. What do you think? I don't know what one of those is. So a resident capital request is a request that any resident can make to, uh, be submitted to the capital budget. Um, I don't know if that doesn't mean it would happen, but it means the town council and the department heads would look it over. That would be a one time thing. I mean, it's not a bad idea. We could probably do that, but. I'd really like to see it as a line item budget. So every year we get funding. I. I would tend to agree, Henry. Um, but I just thought it was a. Idea they mentioned to me and. I think we could submit it year after year each year, but then it would be subject to scrutiny each year. So. Well, let's do it for this year. Yeah. Could I submit that? Is the committee okay with that? Yeah, it might be good if you send something to us and we just review it and then you send it in. Okay. Sounds good. I'll. Seven of us all. One that might be a little better. Should I just type it up and send it to you guys? Yeah, start with that. Unless someone wants to. Sounds good. Should we. Thank you, Julian. Should we also. Have we had any, we haven't had a formal conversation with any counselors about this, right? I'm wondering if we should, you know, for example. You know, Dorothy Pam was at our. At the visit for the Mary Maple and was talking about, you know, how, and it's been actually pretty active on a number of tree projects this year. And has said, you know, has. I don't remember exactly what she said, but something about the importance of trees and the importance of budget for trees. And that's wonder, like, is it appropriate for us to invite a counselor to this meeting? Yes. To talk about like, I mean, that's who that's the person I would start with. Only for those reasons. Just to kind of, because what we've done has been pretty hands off. We've written a letter to the editor. You know, and I'm sure they read that, but that's not a full court press. So maybe. So anyway, that's my idea. And let's invite Dorothy Pam to our next meeting. Or the next meeting she can join. And. And. Talk about this as a possibility. It's something we really indicate that we are. Not just being passive about this reactive and serious about it. And we'll do whatever we need to do. Yeah, these are public meetings and. I think inviting. You know, people on the town council inviting. Paul Bachman inviting Guilford mooring, whoever. All it's all good. So I would love to, yeah, if you want to reach out to Dorothy Pam, people know other. Town councils would be good to reach out to them. Yeah. So for any meeting really next meeting as soon as soon as sooner. I'll, I'll reach out to Dorothy. Great. Thank you. Anything else. I have the treasure report. Oh, I missed that. Sorry. That's okay. The balance is 16,094 dollars and 79 cents. Okay. So that reflects three deductions. Two sizable ones to sugarloaf gardens and Amherst nursery and one for payroll. Can you read just for the notes. Can you read me that 16,000? What. 16,094. And 79 cents. Thank you. What was the other one? You said payroll. Yep. Okay. So that was $363 payroll expense. There were no more details than that. I think that's a mistake. I'm going to check on that. There shouldn't be any payroll coming on. Yeah. Okay. Well, there. So Alan, there was another one in July. That was also about $300 that was also listed as a payroll expense. So if there's something that's been coming out incorrectly, it might have been going on for a while. So that was July. July and October. That's what I'm seeing. Yes. I don't have like a print out, right? So everything I'm getting is like second hand over the phone. So if you, if you're actually able to see the account balances, there may be others. I just have two that I've noted so far. Okay. I'll go back to check. We used to have like 26, 27,000 dollars in it. And I know we agreed to fund some of the new plantings, but that seems awful low. So in 2021, we had about $23,000. Then I have notes from January through April. Then I handed it over. I don't have those notes in my little spreadsheet here. I have some of those and we consistently hovered between 23 and 24,000. But Henry is right. It did go up. Once to 26,000 at one point. So we did $10,000 ago. We agreed. Yeah. Like a couple of plantings maybe. So in, so last month, October, we were 18,950. And this month we're down to 16,000. October is probably also reflective of September, which I didn't get for that month. Is it possible to, and I could do that either. I could do this too. To go to the clerk's office and ask for a record of like the past two years. I can go. So the only, the only people that should be drawing on that is, is me. I should be the one requesting. Money be withdrawn from that. I should be able to get a list of all the money you know about it. So the only time I draw money on it is fourth trees. We're planting. So I can go back and pull all of the. You know, account information that's been charged to that. I should be able to get a list of. Everything that's been. Charged to that. Tree fund account. So the, the, the, the, the amount of the trees that went in on the last planting. And some of them were, had price tags of, you know, 300 dollars. I know there's some discount, right? That's, that's over $3,000 right there. So. For one planting. I thought we had a maximum of 3,000 or something like that. For each planting. So. And I don't think we've done every month like that. Does anyone remember what the. I also think that it was either 2000 or 3000. The notes that I have go back to late July. So I don't have a balance, but. In July, there was some money coming out and a donation. And then a little over 2000 taken in August for a planting. September. It looks like the deductions were closer to 700. Not seeing a big ticket tree planting for September, but it might have just not fallen in the day when I called. I think September was a work day month instead of a planting month. Right. We had a few work. I think we had three work day instead of planting months. Right. So there should be three months without any expenditures. Yeah. I think that's a good idea. Yeah. So we took August off too. Yeah. Yeah, so that means the latest number I have is from October and then I have November and those numbers seem to be lining up with the expenses coming out, but I just don't know how we got to 8,000. 9 or 18,000. 950. For October. From. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. There might have been some bills that hadn't been paid or something like that. I'm not sure. And then they paid them all at once, but it's still, it doesn't seem. I'll get an account. Accounting of. You know, every expense that's been charged to that account. Great. Thanks, Alan. And if you, I don't know if you're able to share that, I don't know if you're able to share that. I don't know if you're able to share that. I don't know if you're able to share that. I don't know if you're able to share that. Committee to have as a treasurer spreadsheet that I could. Share or pass on to the next treasurer. To have for records. Okay. That's great. Thank you. All right. Anything more on this. Treasurer's report. No. That's the most lively treasurer's report discussion we've had since I've been on the committee. Congratulations, everyone. Thank you. Thank you. No, that, that's everything. Thank you. Okay. Old ongoing items connections with Stockbridge school. I have emails out as of recently. To Dan Cooley, who is the associate director of Stockbridge. And a plant pathologist. And I'm going to go over that. I'm going to go over that for, for extra information. And to Christina. Byzantium. I don't know how to pronounce her last name. Who runs the. Urban forestry and tree program, which is not part of Stockbridge, but part of the department of environmental conservation. So I just, you know, I kind of know both of them in passing very informally and said, you know, I'm going to go over that for a little bit. I'm going to go over the other items. And then I'm going to go over the initial opportunities for us to, you know, put our heads together or work together on anything. So I will report back when I hear back from them. And feel free to invite any of them to our meetings. Great. Okay. I think Christina has come to one of our meetings before. No. No updates. And Shashana is not here. So we don't know photos is still happening. Library trees. Sarah. No update. I haven't heard of anything happening with that either. Website update Bennett. No update. I haven't touched it or thought about it in months. This winter is, I feel like this is the groundhog day. This winter will probably be the time I get to it. I hope that it is. Okay. Complete streets statewide initiatives. We've talked about it. I will send this statewide issue piece that I wrote up to everyone. And hopefully you'll contact more people to get that word out. Significant tree ordinance, anything new there. Except the need is getting stronger. I'm not sure if you're all aware of that. I just got reached out and I sent her an email with kind of a summary of where we are now. And we can. Get in touch for moving forward. But we're kind of at the. Stage of getting good precedence. To make sure that we have a, you know, a good case for what we're proposing and to make sure that we're kind of. In line with what other communities have been doing kind of. We're trying to get ourselves what, what other communities have done and what things we could. Borrow that might be appropriate for Amherst. So that we have a good. Robust working document. So. Brett, we can get in touch sometime. My schedule is hectic, but very flexible. So. I'm sure we can figure something out and then we can move forward from there. Sounds good. And last is the solar bylaw group. Is there anything new, Julian? Nope. Nope. All right. Any other comments? I think this is a good meeting. We're moving ahead with some things. I will. I will, for the committee comments, I would just like to put out a plea for every time somebody sees a, an interesting tree article. I think I should send that to Bennett for the newsletter. Because it always. It's always fun to put it in there. This month was pretty cool. I thought, but that was the last minute. So. There's an article today in the cover of the New York time science section about. It's about the trees, all their roots, creating the. World wood web. Wait. I'm forgetting it at the moment. Do you almost say the world wood web? Yeah, that's what they're calling it. The wood world web is what they call it. But it's in the New York times today. Okay. That's what I'm talking about. Thank you. About all how trees are talking to each other. Are they talking to each other through their roots? It's like the debate over the Michael risel communication and resource sharing. I did not read the article. Yeah. I didn't read it either, but it, I need to read it. But that's how it was posed to me is that it's like the, the scientific debate over whether or not the trees are actually communicating and sharing resources through their Michael risel connections. You know, with their roots. So. I thought you were talking about someone named Michael risel. And I was like. Right. Like with like fungal certain types. No, I get it. Yes. But I didn't get it at first. Thank you. All right. Okay. Anything else? I don't have any of the topics that I haven't. Put in. Yeah, I have one. So this occurred to me the other day. Sorry, there's a lot of chaos happening in the background. I teach a class in the spring, which is an environmental education class. It's mixed undergrads and grad students. And in the past, I have tried to have. You know, I think that's where in the students are engaged in the community in some way. And it occurred to me that there could be. An opportunity for us to do something around trees and raising public awareness or some type of collaboration with the town around like the value of trees in our community. So I would just put that out there if people. You know, I think we're a group of 25 or 30 UMass grads and undergrads to contribute to something around trees in our community. I would be very open to. Thinking about making that a central point for the class. That's a great idea. Yeah. All right. Anything else? All right. Well, thank you all. You know, we're moving ahead. We just got to, we're all, we just got to move on. We just got to move on. We just got to move on. So it's hard to keep things going, but I appreciate us getting together and really trying to get stuff happening. So thank you. And I just emailed the. Capital request. One. Folks. Great. All right. Thank you, everybody. We'll see you all Saturday morning. Unless. If the weather is so bad, we cancel, but let's plan that we're going to do it. Sounds good. All right. Thanks, everybody. Thank you. Bye.