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Minutes, February 9, 2006 Lexington Tree Committee Lexington, MA Present: John Frey, Chairman; Jim Jones; Karen Longeteig; Anne Senning; Gerry Paul, Nell Walker, David Pinsonneault, Tree Warden, ex-officio. th 1. Scribe and Minutes: Karen Longeteig was appointed scribe. The minutes of December 8, th 2005 were approved as presented by John. The minutes of January 12, 2006, were approved as corrected (typographical errors were questions marks, to be replaced by quotation marks, and “J. Paul” corrected to “G. Paul”). The scribe for January 12th, Jim J., will arrange for a corrected copy to be in the hands of the Chairman. 2. Report under the Tree By-Law: David Pinsonneault, Tree Warden. To date, 432 sites have been visited, of which 296 are now closed. Total of 495 trees approved for removal, of which 231 actually removed. A total of 1153 trees are required to be replanted, of which 501 have actually been planted. Other tree division activity: Since January 1, 2006, the division has taken down 11 trees and th pruned 8. The Tree City USA application is complete. This will be the 17 year for Tree City USA designation, possibly not consecutive as the town lapsed at one point when there was massive personnel turnover. David has spoken to the Town of South Hadley which is offering some free trees, and will get 6 to 12 Swamp White and Pin Oaks of about 1” plus in DBH. Lexington must dig and burlap them. Karen asked for “several” for the high school’s landscaping project. The Mass Tree Wardens Association has River Birch seedlings. The Lexington Field & Garden Club will buy 100 of them to give out at Arbor Day, plus 500 free spruce seedlings to give to kindergartners. The Town’s budget is quite lean already, according to Dave P. There is $5000 for trees, as last year. Any additional funding for trees will have to come in an override. Dave was pessimistic about our desired $25,000. We will talk to Jeanne Krieger about strategy, but all committee members felt we should press for more funds. 3. Report on videotaping the lecture series: The editing session is scheduled for this afternoon at the LCTV office. We will try to get an electronic banner running across the bottom of the screen. It was mentioned that we should obtain at some future point a large cloth banner to hang behind the speaker, etc. 4. Planning and Education Grant Progress: Dave P needs a report of volunteer hours spent regarding grant activities, from October 5, 2005, in order to comply with the grant terms. Mailer: Dave has processed payment to the mailing company, Eagle. There were 5 minor nd corrections made on the 2 proof, per Anne, who did a thorough job of proofreading. We will get 1 more paper copy before the final, which will be proofread only for these 5 errors plus inadvertent printer errors. Lecture Series: To pay the speakers, Dave needs an invoice from the speaker with the name, address, and Tax ID number. The Town takes 2 to 3 weeks to pay. Nell will call Peter del Tredici’s office to get his tax ID number, which was missing from the invoice. th Next lecture is February 15 by Peter Alden. Tree Management Manuals: Dave P will drop off a nd box of them for sale. Logistics: Our primo logician, Gerry, cannot make it to the 2 lecture for