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RECEIVED 022 27 Apir, Ipium TOWN CLERK Minutes LEXINGTON MA Lexington Tree Committee 3.10.22 1. Present: Nancy Sofen, Marty Kvaal, Mark Sandeen (Select Board liaison), Marc Valenti (DPW), Gloria Bloom, Pat Moyer(minutes), Dan Miller(guest), Rick Reibstein, Charlie Wyman (both of Lex. Living Landscapes, Mark Connor, James Wood, and Barbara Tarrh (guest) 2.The Minutes of February 10 were read and approved. 3. Marc Valenti updated on DPW projects of interest. The University of Vt. Tree canopy survey is still pending, awaiting most recent Lidar data. The street and other town owned tree inventory done by Arbor-Pro may be available next week. Spring planting will be carried out by Matt Foti's company. The committee reminded Marc of our preference for trees which will become large shade trees. Marc answered that suggestions for sites and species always welcome. We inquired about the state of the requests by homeowners for setback trees. Marc was not sure of the answer. Marc was needed after this for another meeting. 4. A meeting between Mark C, Gerry, Nancy, and the town IT director went well. We need passwords to get into ViewPoint Cloud. 5.Discovery Day will occur over Memorial Day weekend, May 28, 2022, 10-3 pm, town center. We will have a table; DPW will fund the$140 that it will cost for us to be there. 6. We have received an invite from the Garden Club for one or more of us to discuss with them what we do, in March 2023. We are glad to accommodate; specific plans as the date approaches. 7. We will have a Tree Committee opening with the departure of Marty. We discussed enlarging the committee, adding associate members,the former of which requires Select Board approval;tabled for now. We unanimously nominated Barbara Tarrh with hopes that the Select Board will approve her nomination. Gerry Paul will reach out to Shannon Murtagh who has attended meetings, expressed interest, and also stated she would be willing to be an associate member should that category be activated. 8. Lex. Conservation Commission has been working with Eversource on a mitigation plan for the deforested area near Bowman school discussed in prior meetings, and the tree removal having been performed last summer (2021).Those on the committee aware of the plan mourn the loss of canopy, but feel it is a good plan and that we should lay the matter to rest for now 9. We distilled 8 areas for action now/near future; and committed to 5. Initiatives for Discovery Day 5/28/22 10-3 and beyond Dan Miller Nancy Sofen and Gerry Paul will work on creating 1-2 brochures on the many values of mature trees, and, perhaps the property value of mature trees. Will postpone a brochure on the setback program until we can get it to work.