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Lexington Tree Committee Town of Lexington, Massachusetts 201 Bedford Street, Samuel Hadley Public Services Building, Room 125 Minutes, Meeting of January 6, 2011 Attendees: John Frey (Chairman), Gerry Paul, Anne Senning, Jim Wood, and Jewel Kuljian. David Pinsonneault (Tree Warden) also attended. Absent: Karen Longeteig, Nell Walker, Deb Mauger (Selectman’s liaison). Gerry Paul took his turn as scribe. Minutes of the December 9th meeting were approved as amended. Tree Warden's agenda items: David Pinsonneault removal activity a) Tree under the Bylaw since 10-01-01: 739 sites/626 closed; 2249 trees to be planted/1477 planted; 932 trees to be removed/751 removed. Fees levied for removal of trees, and collected under regulation of 8-4-08, are $31,260 (from 3126 DBH inches of trees removed). DCR Grant b) application: no word yet whether granted or not. Inventory c) i) Transfer of tree data The inventory will reflect the transfer of 48 trees from Tree Nursery to landscape in Town of Lexington (schools, parks, roadside) in spring 2010. Anne worked with Dave & Judy Seppala to develop a system to track trees data as trees are moved to retain characteristics including at least a species, a unique nursery ID #, planting date and harvest date and location. Anne described the process of list and locating trees on maps. The next step will be for Anne to enter the trees on the computer using the maps that Joel has filled out and the list of trees that Anne has which show which trees have been planted in those locations. It was agreed to keep all data on trees in the nursery which have been moved to the landscape. ii) Editing recent collection of data in tree database. Data collected in field is done quickly on the handheld computer. It does not match uniquely the overall dataset. The editing gets done on the laptop computer, where all the new pieces of data are made to match the overall database. Anne edited the data for consistency. For example Senning was spelled in the field with a capital ‘s’. Anne changed it to a lower case ‘s’ in the database to match all the other fields which are lower case.