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<br />Minutes October 14, 2004
<br />Lexington Town Tree Committee
<br />Lexington, MA
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<br />Present: John Frey, Chairman, Jim Jones, Karen Longeteig, Susan Solomon, Anne Senning, Scribe, David
<br />Pinnsoneault, Superintendent Public Grounds. Absent: Nell Walker, Jim Wood, Jeanne Krieger, Selectmen Liaison
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<br />Minutes of 9/9/04 meeting accepted.
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<br />Minutes of 9/16/04 meeting will be emailed or sent to all committee members. They had been sent to John but his
<br />e-mail was down.
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<br />Report by John Frey from Board of Selectmen Committee Chair Meeting 10/13/04. Open Meeting Laws: Meeting
<br />announcements should be posted in advance. Emails should be used for information only. Working sessions should
<br />be less than a quorum (4). Records should be brief, but include all actions. Use of town counsel is discouraged;
<br />committees should work through their committee liaisons. Warrant articles are due by December 31, 2004, but
<br />should be submitted as early as possible.
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<br />Report from David Pinnsoneault, Superintendent of Public Grounds
<br />Since October 1, 2001 there have been 216 calls. 141 were resolved, i.e. either no trees were effected or they met
<br />the requirements of the by law. 316 trees were approved for removal. 724 trees required to be replanted.
<br />In the Forestry Division, since January 1, 2004, 98 trees were removed, 100 trees were pruned, 17 trees were
<br />planted, 3 trees were treated.
<br />Email from Greg Shenstone was discussed. D Pinnsoneault will follow up on this matter.
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<br />Report by John Frey on Meeting with Dawn McKenna, John Frey and Jim Wood. Suggestion was made that
<br />funding for the initial phase of the Tree Inventory come from the Town DPW and MIS budgets as it primarily
<br />comes under those areas.
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<br />Report by Anne Senning on the 9/23/04 meeting at Tufts with Denise Castronovo and Sherri Brokopp of the
<br />Community Forest Partnership, Jim Jones, John Frey, Karen Longeteig and Anne Senning of the Lexington Tree
<br />Committee. Reviewed levels of ESRI software, transfer of files from CAD to GIS, and the continuing CFP /
<br />Lexington Partnership.
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<br />Report by Karen Longeteig on Tree Identification Training Sessions 9/29/04, 10/5/04. Two sessions were held in
<br />which participants identified specimens of branches with leaves with the help of several books and human
<br />resources. Training session for measuring took place 10/11/04 with Jesse from CFP. Second scheduled 10/14/04
<br />with Sherri from CFP.
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<br />Report by Anne Senning on 10/05/04 meeting, Kathy Miller, Matt Perry, New England ESRI representatives,
<br />Connie Rawson, David Bordenca, Jan Comey, MIS department, David Pinnsoneault, DPW, Peter Karalexis,
<br />Engineering department, John Frey, Susan Solomon, Anne Senning, Tree Committee, Sherri Brokopp, Community
<br />Forest Partnership. Issues: Tree inventory project, license cost and CFP grant, Lexington AutoCAD layers,
<br />projected completion 3/2005, conversion to GIS, level of ESRI software needed for Lexington, cost, timing of
<br />installation, integration with existing software.
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<br />Discussion of supplies for four Inventory kits instead of two since a paper survey will be done for the pilot project
<br />this fall.
<br />Memorial Tree Brochure. Report by Karen Longeteig that brochure is on hold until Jeanne Krieger’s report about
<br />funding mechanism for the Selectmen’s Tree Gift.
<br />Committee voted to send two Tree Manuals to Newburyport Tree Committee.
<br />Next meeting November 18, 2004 (postponed from our expected date of November 11 because of the holiday on
<br />that day.)
<br />Submitted by Anne Senning
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