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Tree Committee Meeting, Minutes of December 13, 2018, Room 125 Hadley Building Attending: Nancy Sofen, Jill Hai, Jim Wood, Pat Moyer, Gerry Paul, Gloria Bloom, Anne Senning. Absent: Chris Filadoro 1. Jill Hai said that the Tree Manual is now available in most of the offices in the Town Hall building. 2. Dave Pinsonneault joined us to provide information on current plans of the DPW regarding trees. A planting list should be available by Monday. Ash tree update: 30 were removed, ones in relatively good health will be injected and pruned; some locations are not suitable for replanting. They are currently monitoring about 375 ash trees. Dave agreed that a "score card" with statistics concerning EAB activity would be provided by Chris. The maximum number of trees planted will be 70 per season. They aim for a 90% plus survival rate. The tree warden has many responsibilities, and hazard mitigation is the number one priority. In response to a question by Jim Wood, Dave agreed that the number two priority should be tree planting. The tree inventory should be available in the next few weeks. The town has about 12,000 street trees. Only one tree will be removed for the Center Track project. 3. November minutes were accepted with administrative changes. 4. We agreed to follow up with Jordon McCarron of the conservation stewards, to see if there was a way for the tree committee to work with them. 5. Discussed place holder warrant article for town meeting; we agreed that there would be no articles submitted. 6. John and Anne continue work on the tree manual, along with Bruce Walker illustrator. 7. Nancy and Pat will try to meet with Chris on best practices before next meeting. 8. Jill indicated that Dave Pinsonneault and Jim Malloy are working on getting tree inventory info (trees planted, locations, species etc) available in a form for town and tree committee use.