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Lexington Tree Committee Minutes
July14, 2011
A regularly scheduled meeting of the Lexington Tree Committee was held
on June 14, 2011, 7:30-10:00 a.m. at the Samuel Hadley Public Services
Building, Room 125. Present were: John Frey (chair), Jewel Kuljian, Gerry
Paul, James Wood, Anne Senning, Nell Walker and Chris Filadoro (Supt.
Public Grounds). Absent were: Karen Longeteig, David Pinsonneault (Tree
Warden) and Deb Mauger (Selectmen liaison)
The meeting acted on the following items:
1
. Gerry Paul was appointed as scribe, and the minutes of June 9 meeting
were approved.
2. a.Tree Warden David Pinsonneault’s report
(Outgoing): (to be
provided)
b.
Anne reported that 37 trees were out-planted in the spring as follows:
2011 SPRING PLANTINGS, Totals by Source
Tree nursery 29
Donation 6
Construction salvage 2
TOTAL 37
LEX. DPW TREE PLANTING, SPRING 2011, Totals by Location
School trees 2
Street trees 14
Setback (front yard)trees 10
TOTAL 37
c
. We had a long discussion on tree planting. The following from Anne's
spreadsheet are the number of trees which should be planted in the fall to
meet our goal of planting all trees which will have been in the nursery for
greater than two years:
Planted in Nursery 2007 32
Planted in Nursery 2008 95
127
20 of these trees could be planted as part of Setback Planting Program,
leaving 107 for which planting locations must be identified. Allowing for
the fact that Dig Safe may find some of the sites not usable, we need to
identify about140 potential sites. It was agreed that we should all planting
locations identified and ready for Dig Safe approval by Sept. 1.
A fall back position would be to plant the 2007, 2008, and 2009 trees (which
are suitable for planting ) in the next 3 planting seasons: fall 2011, spring
2012 and fall 2012. We would then have 176 trees to plant in three
plantings of about 60 each.
A follow up meeting to come to closure on this is planned for Wed. July 20
at 7:30 am in the DPW building. If additional funds are are required, the
Tree Committee is prepared to support this with Town Management.
d
. Jim will set up meeting at the Nursery with Chris (and other interested
members) to discuss Nursery related issues (irrigation, etc).
e
. The DPW tree crew feels strongly that using perforated plastic
watering tubes is not necessary and detrimental. The Tree Committee
agreed that since the DPW crew has taken ownership of the issue and is
strongly committed to appropriate watering, we will defer to their judgment.
Anne will update the watering list and email it to Committee.
f
. Jewel gave a detailed update on the process she is putting into place for
the program. To date there are 19 requests from home owners. We all
agreed the program has gotten off to a good start.
Next regular meeting: August 11, 2011,
7:30 a.m. at Samuel Hadley
Public Services Building, Room 125.