HomeMy WebLinkAbout2018-12-13-TREE-min 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.
9. Agenda item for next meeting: status of setback tree program.
10. Gloria will discuss content, status, availability, and usability of tree inventory
with town information officer —who starts in January.
11. Nancy suggested the tree committee should have an official submission to the
Comprehensive Plan. Suggestions were made on possible submissions:
preserving tree canopy, easily accessible info on trees, more trees on setbacks,
species not to plant.
12. Jill said there is a group forming to update the special permit residential
development bylaw. They have an outside consultant and hope to have something
for fall TM.
Meeting adjourned at 9:30