Tree Advisory Board - Regular Meeting

Take it away, Claudia. Alright.

Today is January 14, and I am calling the tree advisory board meeting to order.

So

roll call.

We should have waited for her.

Yeah. She can.

He texted Jason, but clearly that didn't matter. Sorry. I

That's what you thought.

You can.

It takes roll call. You

can actually does it where they go around, and they just say that they're here. They state their names so it's on the record. Yeah. We have Patty O'Donnell here. Amy De Meyer here.

Nathan Brownian, here.

Who's Ann Valier, here.

You can see me right for the record.

Oh, Brian O'Connor, here.

Councilwoman Bramley Bear, here.

Michelle Crawford, deputy town clerk, here.

And me, Claudia Smelco, vice vice chair.

Sorry for the minutes. What time did we start our meeting tonight?

06:32. Verifying that we have enough people for a quorum case that we have a quorum.

I think I have

think so. Mhmm. I actually have four. Okay. Mhmm. So we're Is it four total or four in addition? Like, just four of your board. So you have since you have

a full board, your quorum is four. Okay. Yeah. And then you can move on to the next one item. So you're gonna need the approval of your agenda. Okay. Do have any no changes? No? Did

you guys get a chance to look at the agenda? It was kind of a beefy one. Nope. No. Or I looked at it,

and I approved it. Okay. So all those in favor? Yeah. You just say all those in favor.

All those in favor. Uh-huh.

Opposed? That's it. You can move on to your next item.

Alright. So next item is Michelle. She's

You wanna get approval of your meeting minutes. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Yeah.

So you wanna go to approval meeting minutes? Okay. So do I have a motion to approve the the December meeting once?

Actually, no. Is it November? Oh, no. It should be December. December. Makes corrections. Approve the agenda. Sorry about that. I was here. Yeah. Motion to approve.

Sorry. Extra pens laying around. Mine must be in the car.

Well, thank you. You're welcome.

Bacon, food.

Yep. Okay.

Okay. Second.

Yeah. Second. Alright. I'm still focusing on where we were.

And then just all in favor. All in favor. Aye.

Any lower? Alright. So as long

as you don't have any opposed, you motion carries, and you can move on to

the next one. Okay. And next, now it's Michelle Crawford. She has a question.

Open for public comment.

Oh, okay. Because we don't have any, don't think.

No public.

Then you can just close it. Then you can just you have to open it and then close it.

Okay. So open and close.

No. It's okay. We're just I I feel like I can do it in my sleep because of all

the meetings we do every day.

So Yeah. This is how you learn how to do it. It's absolutely Okay. So now we move on to Now you can move on to me. General business.

So we have Michelle Crawford. She's going to be presenting something called an agenda support packet.

So let's see if we can get this done. Hi, everybody. I'm Michelle Crawford, deputy town clerk, and I'm here to talk a little bit about agenda packets. So starting in 2026, we are asking all boards, advisory boards to prepare packets so that we have all of your information in the agenda available to the public and for the record, that we keep from Tom Clerk's office. So all of your agendas and minutes go into Laserfiche, and we keep those on record forever.

And so anybody from the public can go in and access them and take a look at them at any time even after the meeting is over. Obviously, each month when your agendas are posted, they can see them on the website, and, they can view the minutes, after they're posted as well. But, you know, sometimes people go back to old planning commission meetings. They'll go back to old town council meetings, and they'll wanna look at items and information in those packets. Currently, what we do right now for advisory boards is we just put out an agenda.

You don't have any live links in your agenda, and so we we attach things after the fact in your minutes. But what we'd like to do is include any information that you're presenting or if you have an outside presenter coming in to present, we wanna make sure that that information is available to the public in the agenda prior to your meeting. So if you've ever looked at a town council packet, it's quite lengthy. Sometimes, you know, it can be over I think this past year, we hit one that was over a thousand pages because we had an item that was over 900 pages. Yeah.

So, the way that it works is we have a software called Grandkiss, and the town clerk's office along with your staff liaison will go in, and we will add agenda memos to your agenda. Basically, the memo outlines what it is that we're talking about in your meeting. So this week, your agenda has a highlighted if you look at it, it has a highlighted item that says HPAB sample packet from 2025. In the far left, it says 2026 dash 57. That's actually the agenda item number.

So when we go into Granicus, we'll open up a new agenda item. That agenda item will then ask for what board it's going to or council commission, and then we select it so that you're identified as the tree board. And then we'll select the date, and it will be attached to that agenda. So when we generate the agenda, all of those agenda items get pulled into it, and they become active links when we publish your agenda. And so if you went online and clicked on the link for, the HPAB, item, you're gonna see the HPAB packet from, I think, it's October 2025 that we prepared for them.

And I just put it in there as a sample so that you could see what they did. HCAB actually did four of them last year because they had rather large presentations, and they wanted it on the record rather than just in the minutes. In addition to that, we're gonna add your minutes. So for each month, what we're gonna do is I'm gonna send you a new, your email will come out as a friendly reminder. I'll send it a whole week in advance, and I will ask you to send me your minutes that you're looking to have approved.

And I'll attach them with an agenda memo. And then I attach it as an attachment. And then when you go in and you click that link for the agenda for your meeting for that month, there's gonna be a live link for the minutes, and you'll click it, and you could read the minutes from the meeting prior. And then that way, if you have any changes, you can bring them to Claudia to your chair and say, oh, actually, you know what? I saw a, a typo or, actually, we didn't discuss that part because we ran out of time, so we need to take that up minutes.

And you'll have them available to you. And so if you make any changes to the minutes, you can send them to me the next day, and then I'll upload the minutes that you approved in the meeting. So they're basically just draft minutes, and that's what they're gonna say on them. So I wanted you to see what we see in the clerk's office. So this is your, meeting, and I don't know if I can do if this will not work.

In, Granicus, this is what it looks like. Your advisory board's up here in very small print. Tree advisory board, there's the date for your meeting. It says right there that it's final. So once it gets published online and it becomes a link online, it's in final and it is locked. So we'd have to unlock it. All agendas have to be published. It's in our code that we have to publish within twenty four hours of the meeting, so we can't make any changes. You can make it obviously here when you go to approve the agenda. If you wanna make a change to the agenda, you can do it, but you'd have to do it in the meeting.

Counsel will sometimes do that, but we cannot make any changes twenty four hours any later than that. So it has to be finalized. We usually get your agendas finalized days before, so it's not really an issue. But with the agenda packet, it may take a little bit more time. So that's why we're gonna give it a whole week.

So this is what your agenda looks like standard for all advisory boards, call to order, your roll call, and, verification of a quorum, your approval of your agenda, approval of previous meeting minutes. And right now, in that one, in that item right there, meeting minutes, you'll see right now we just have this, approve 11/12/2025 meeting minutes. It should have said December, so that's on me. And now what's gonna happen is instead of it just being a line, I'm actually going to add an agenda right here in files. I'm gonna actually add a line that will include the agenda memo, and the agenda memo will include the information about what's being attached.

So for example, down here in general business, here's your item. So if I open this up, and this was a big packet for that I used as a sample. But this is what we call the agenda memo, and we're able to open this up. It's actually a Word document, but in this window right here, it's locked. And so all of this information is preset, the, bolded information, subject, department, presenter, and so forth.

I have to go in and fill all that in or your staff liaison will. And so, we fill out all this information. It's standard information that we have for all boards and for town council, URA, and planning commission. And it just includes how this affects policy issues, if there's a staff recommendation. You all don't make decisions like the council does, quasi judicial boards. But for you know, in this case, staff recommendation, it's just prepare the advisory board packet. It was just a sample so you could see it, for the advisory board meetings so you know how we'll do this in the future. And then we put some just summary key points. This was all I just wrote this up. It's very quick.

This agenda memo takes about ten minutes. And for the, minutes, it's gonna take me about two minutes because it's gonna be the same thing every time for every advisory board. You're approving the minutes, so it's gonna be short and sweet. Yeah. It's a little different when you have somebody who's coming in to do a presentation for you. So we'd need to get their presentation so we can attach it, and we just need a general overview from them about what they're presenting so we could break it out into the agenda memo. The agenda memo then allows us to attach items. So in the attachments, there it is. It's the HPAB sample packet, and that's a document. It's a PDF.

It says it right down here. And this becomes a live link so that when somebody goes into the agenda online, and you'll see it on the agenda paper that you have tonight, it's actually highlighted in blue. That means it's a live link. So when they click on it, it'll open up, and this is gonna take a few minutes. And it would be the presentation the person's giving.

It'll be the minutes that you're approving. And so this will now be officially attached to your agenda. And when we upload it into Laserfiche, the packet is just your agenda, the memo, the presentation attached to it, the memo for the next item, the whatever presentation or documents are attached to it, and it becomes one whole document. So when it's in Laserfiche, it's no live links. It's just the agenda will be in there and then the agenda packet.

So this is what I put in here as a sample. So here was HPAB's agenda. Oh, this one was for July. So here's their sample. Oh, it's frozen.

Is it frozen? Oh, it's

not showing. This happened last night with you were sharing. It's this happened with Ostab, and I couldn't figure out your screen sharing. Wonder if I can you know what I'm gonna do? Let's try this. Let's see if we can try a different Okay. So

Mom, can we

try stopping and resharing the Yeah. Whole screen rather than the application? Yeah. I'm gonna try that. It's gonna make me log back in. That's okay. I'll see. This is what we had. We had a little problem with it last night. Same.

Yeah. It might require you to. But while I'm doing this, let me know if you have any questions while I'm bringing it back up so far. And, basically, this is just a process for us to keep better records on all of the advisory boards. And for right now, if it's just the minutes that you have for the meeting, that's really simple. But if you have a presentation or if you want something in the record, we'll need to do we'll need to do an agenda item, and then it'll become a package. So let me see if I can

do it.

Okay. So this is HPABS, and they're I don't know if this is gonna freeze it or no. It's gonna load. Okay. So this is theirs from July. So there's their agenda. Once we publish the packet, it starts with the agenda, and you can see there's just a little it's a beefy agenda for July. And then, right after it, we start with the here's their first the here's one of they actually, I think, had two items that two agenda items that week or month. Sorry. So here's the first one.

Harry, their staff liaison, filled this out. He put this all together. See how quick and easy. His wasn't nearly as long as mine. And then the item follows right after.

And then here's the next one that he did. And this was the presenter was Lara Thomas, and, Harry filled this one out as well. And then her presentation came right after it. So once we published it as a packet, it basically takes all of the items, and it merges all of it together, and you can run through the entire packet all in one. And then the agenda online, it'll say, tree board, agenda, agenda packet, and then we'll upload the minutes after you approve them. And so it's a just a great way of keeping track.

So who generates the packet? Is it the staff liaison?

Well, actually, no. The clerk's office does it. So Harry went in, and he he would put in the agenda items, and then I pull them into the agenda.

Okay.

And then the clerk's office always publishes the agenda and the agenda packet. So it's a two part process when we when we publish it just like we did.

So, basically, the advisory board would send all of the information that they have to their staff liaison. Their staff liaison would take that Correct. And work with the clerk's office. Okay.

Yep.

Okay.

And I'll reach out with Tom, because I don't even I'm not sure it how often Tom gets into Granicus. And if he needs assistance, we'll continue to help him to get it up to date. But yes. So anything you send him, just cc the clerk's office, and, we'll make sure that we get it in there. I'm stop sharing for now.

And then, we'll make sure to get it in there and get it published. And, again, you know, because this was asked by Ostab last night again. He said, now if I have changes, how, you know, how much time do you need? And they're on Mondays, so I always say, we've you know, we're out on 05:00 on Friday. So please don't send any changes afternoon on Friday.

So because there's on Monday, and we can't make any changes on Monday. So given that you're on Wednesdays, I'd say, you know, please don't get us anything later than, I would say, like, twelve noon on on the Monday before your Wednesday meeting just so we can get the changes made. And so the hope is that we will have packets for you, and people can go back and look and take a look at what you did in your presentations. We'll just keep better track of it. Because it it's getting it we've noticed that, like, sometimes we get presentations.

We'll add them to the minutes. We wanna make sure they're getting on to the right minutes, but they should really be the crack the packet so people know that it happened in that meeting and they have those materials to report to. So it's, it'll be a learning curve for liaisons, but most of them have worked in Granicus. They do agenda memos all the time for town council, and so they're very used to it. Tom, I think, is one of the exceptions to the advisory boards, because Julian, Harry, I'm trying to think of the other four liaisons.

Julia and Harry, Erica, and who am I thinking of? Luke Bollinger. They're doing stuff for the town council every single week. So Tom will be the one exception, so we'll work with him. Yeah. If we have you mentioned if we have changes to our agenda that we make during our meeting, do we send that directly to the clerk's office, or do we send that to our liaison and they send it to you guys? You can send it directly to the clerk's office and cc Tom. Yeah. Because we'll be the ones uploading it and getting it into the record. Okay.

Yeah. But it's always good for them to know. We're trying to involve the staff liaisons more and more with the advisory boards so they have more contact and and more presence. So so far, so good. Okay. Any other questions? Well, thanks for having It's always nice to

see you all. Yes.

That's okay. For the orientation or for the open house.

Which was so great. Good job. Thanks for doing that. That's fun. That's fun.

Yeah. You're all set. I'll slip out.

Right. So next on the agenda, we have the forestry update, but unfortunately, we're it's been pushed back until March. So we'll check back in then. Next, we have our 2025 budget. I don't have exact numbers. Jason is sick, and I'm not trying to do this

here. Mhmm.

But he did tell me that we were able to use our budget in in the in how how we discussed last on our last meeting. He said he that we were able to include the best for for the new members. Yes. Yeah. So he said we spent the rest of the budget. Awesome. Alright. Next week, have twenty twenty six TreeTalk. It's not out yet, but Tom said it's it should be out in the next few days. There was just a a small delay there, but like I said, it should come out soon.

Jason did put together an Excel sheet so that we can keep track of previous topics. And Oh, nice. Yes. So did did you guys get it by chance? Did we

send it to you guys? In months.

Okay. So maybe we should share that with with the rest of the team so that we can all look into it and might help us get more ideas for future topics. Actually, he has a tab for ideas for future topics, so that would be a good way for all of us to collaborate too. The next one comes out in the spring. Content is due on the April 1, And I think we should definitely talk about Arbor Day since that'll be in that same month.

So maybe we should dedicate maybe a quarter of our 800 words to Arbor Day. Do you guys have any ideas on other topics? In the spring.

Spring. Maybe for free walks since that'll be starting up probably Okay. Monday. Right? That's what it was last year. It's the first one. Free walks.

Okay. So I'll have to guess I'll have to check-in with Tom.

Did we wanna highlight another tree?

We didn't do a schedule with next year, did we?

I don't think we have a schedule. No. We don't have a schedule yet. Did talk about well, we talked about having Or where? An evening free walk in the summer to see if we get more participation that way.

Yeah. That's a good idea.

And we talked about potentially doing it at the dog park. That way, it can be like a family friendly thing and dog friendly.

I don't

know. Maybe maybe we have more participation. So do you guys have any suggestions on

Well, maybe we should try and make a schedule for the tree walks and then put that into the if we're gonna talk about tree walks, set up a schedule with Tom and put it into the newsletter

Okay.

So people can see it ahead of time.

Alright. So we have Arbor Day, tree walks. We should probably highlight a tree, or, I don't know, maybe offer an educational section of

what's going on in the spring.

Think it's always a good idea to pick a tree or some kind of, you know, genus variety. Do a spring flowering tree. Yeah.

Spring snow crab.

I thought, have we done an ornamental yet? I don't

think we have. I don't think so.

Thanks. We'll have to look at that Excel. Have we done a red bud? We love

We did little trees. We did evergreens.

Now a perfect time to do a Yeah. That would be fun. So, yeah, either a crabapple or

Yeah. Redbud.

The nice thing with spring snow is that there's no fruit.

Which is true. Flowering.

And that the builder and our developer did a row of, like, 30 of them. There's, like, one week a year where it's just really fragrant, all these white flowers. That's funny. Then, of course, they all fall out and pull around for a little bit. It's gone.

I got that in my my yard too. I'm like, oh, I got a.

And we don't have to decide Not right now. Yeah.

But just, you know, just

to start

thinking about it. Maybe next month, we can finalize our topics and assign them. Sure. Yep. Good call. Alright. So next, we have planting the future. I did get an update from Jason. He said that he's gonna start sending emails to the schools next week. Okay. So I'm sure he'll have an update for us next month.

What's ours what's our tentative schedule? Do we know if we can't we don't know yet, do we, when we're going?

He's gotta get himself.

He has to get the schools on board. And Yeah.

Okay.

We can line it up with them. It's hard.

We did we decide after spring break? Seems like we worked around spring break.

Yeah. You don't wanna straddle you don't wanna straddle it. Right. You gotta either have, like, a four weeks prior to spring break or right after spring break.

Mhmm.

Because there was a couple there were a few times where the teacher had to water the tree over spring break.

I was

gonna say that. That they knew going in that Those

trees all die. So sad. Exactly. Turn into a really traumatic school project.

You said how many weeks before spring? Four.

I think it's I think it's three weeks. It works.

So we're talking early March. Mhmm. February, actually, maybe.

When can what are they supposed so, again, this has never worked out for me ever. I've killed a 100% of the Dixie paper cup trees. What are they supposed to do when they take them home? Should they put them in a pot, put them in the ground?

I've done it. I just I've got one in the ground and a few in pots. In pots.

So

Yeah. And they If you upsize the pot,

that helps. It grows. We isn't part of what we send the kids home with is a little instruction for parents.

Yeah. It it should probably be good to look.

How can

I help you? Your child.

Don't pee, like, in, like, bear. So Yeah. And you don't have to plan around, like, putting it outside or anything like that.

With a young seedling, I would wait until you're kind of, like, May, May before I plant it in the ground. And then if I were I mean, I'm basing it off of catalpas that are growing in all around my catalpa tree. Like, if they're in a Dixie cup and it starts getting top heavy, upgrade it to another like, go another two inches wider. And then each time it starts to

get kinda top heavy, just kinda upgrade it until it's time to pop it in the ground.

With a young tree like that, you don't wanna

You know, just put it straight in the ground. Yeah. And not

and not with the threat of frost that's really Yeah.

Freezing. So that won't matter as far as scheduling.

Trampled by a dog. Yeah. Or

the neighborhood cat who decided to, like, shoot one by golden rain tree. Oh,

no. No.

It's, like, this big that it grew from frack about bridge parks. Oh, those

are so That was

squishy when you pick up those seeds.

Yep. I've got one in the yard. But but something else that I can pepper

on there. Moistenate. Don't we use and sprinkle some like, you put on your pasta?

I put the pepper on the seed. This little sound like it.

Yeah. Put it on your

little your tree. Tree.

Okay. Good idea. Some characters does something. Anyway, other another technique I used in the past was to bury the pot up to the rim in the garden at the end of the season. I somehow have too many plants in pots now, so I just put them all together and some Yeah. Some most of them made it last year. Almost all of them made it last year. But

They're gonna make it this year.

Yeah. I know.

You know? Well,

unless I forget the water.

No. I I

need to. It's crazy.

But it's interesting.

Couple weeks ago.

The catapult we my son and I planted two catapult trees in preschool when he was in preschool. And one is, like it's in the ground, and it's, like, this tall. And the other one that's in the pot is only, like

Oh, interesting. Yeah.

So

So it definitely wants to be in the ground

at some point. Wants to be in Okay.

It's experiment. Yeah. Yeah.

Love it. How old is your son? 13. 13.

They're growing together?

They're growing. Yep. The tree has outgrown him.

Okay. So he's sending out emails next week. Hopefully, we'll get some schools lined up.

Yes. We did talk about, like, just, like, preselecting dates when we're available and just offering, like, we have this, this, and this. So maybe maybe we can work on that this year, and it might it might simplify scheduling. Because it just seems like when we leave it up to the teachers, and they're already trying to plan all these all these things. So I think if we provide a date, it might it might be easier.

That's a good idea. Just an idea. I'll talk to Jason about that. Alright. So next, we have Arbor Day, Earth Day celebration.

I don't have a whole lot on that because we haven't met. The the committee hasn't met yet. We're talking about potentially meeting on the twenty second of this month. And we have not filled out the application with the town just yet, but we're gonna look into that when we meet on the twenty second. So we're we're waiting for Karen to get back to us. Karen Who's can we meet you on the twenty second? Who were you moving? So the committee, so it'll be you Yeah. Yeah. And myself and then Karen and Art from From SAP.

From SAP. Okay. Gotcha. And we're

just talking the evening of the twenty second possibly?

I We don't have to the date and time. I don't know yet. We did have some meetings in person last year, but I think this year, it might be it might be, like, a Zoom meeting because

I'm working now. Okay. I don't

have as much flexibility. But but it it'll be easier for me to do a meeting that way. Okay. And it's still not for sure.

Got

it. So we'll wait till till Karen gets back to us. Okay. Do you guys have anything else to add to about Arbor Day?

How much how much are we involved with it at this point? I mean, seems like last year, the town pretty much took it over. What do we have to do?

No. We did a lot last year. I set up all the.

Well, setting it all up, but, I mean, they got everybody basically, you start by getting the people lined up. Mhmm. Right?

But didn't you do a lot? Like, there was a lot of the phone calls to all the vendors. Yeah.

A lot of the food vendors.

What town staff is just trying to, like, button it up so that is, in theory, easier to do. And it should be. It should be. Mhmm. That here are the steps. Mhmm. Mhmm. Here's who was reached contacted last year and exhibited. Mhmm. It's just retaining that information so that it's not reinventing it every year.

Yeah. And we have this the spreadsheet that we that we updated at the end of the the event. So, yeah, we have a a pretty good guide to start with, and we basically just have to follow the steps. But I think the first things first is we have to fill out the application with the town as soon as possible. I'm pretty sure they're gonna reserve the date for us since we already have it, but we just need to do it as soon as possible just to make sure. Reach

out to to the library for the backup.

Mhmm. Yeah. We need to reach out to the library, and and I guess, you know, we'll know more once we meet with the committee and, like, figure out who's gonna take care of what this year. So next month is going to be a more informative meeting.

Sorry. Is is it usually the third Saturday or the fourth?

The twenty fifth. It's I read it Saturday.

Last Saturday. Okay.

Was it in April? It was in wasn't it in

the mail outside? My husband's birthday. Oh.

It'll be it'll be the twenty fifth this year.

Yes. So

just because, you know, I organized an event with the town at the rec center and then knowing how competitive all the scheduling is, I don't think it's a bad idea to get ahead and just say heads up to whomever we're please hold these date the Saturday just to make sure it's on the calendar. And then if you change it for some reason or something has to change, it wouldn't be, like, hard to say, oh, never mind. We're gonna do the eighteenth instead of the twenty fifth. But who knows what else is competing for

Mhmm.

That space. So I don't think it's a bad idea to just go ahead and reach out to someone To touch base. To say, this is our Saturday. And they may already have it marked up. But

They could reach out to to Sarah and Tom

Mhmm.

And ask

for them to just contact the appropriate person in that current position to Yeah. Just your market as day, that date.

Because I feel like that's the competitive piece.

I think

it should be a pretty easy application

Yeah. Agreed.

Too. So Just putting it off until after the committee meets feels

like We're just waiting.

Yeah. So we need we

need Tom to touch base with,

like, the library for the backup plan. And then the

Just send it out to the board committees Okay. And Eric and Tom. And just say, plea we wanna just make sure that this stays here marked.

And Yeah.

And then we'll follow it up with the application.

Okay.

And then e m And you already got all the details.

But And the but the library is gonna

be separate. Yes.

Okay. And I'll look at the application tomorrow and get with Karen and see if we can just pull it together and get it done instead of sending everyone emails if we can just knock it out tomorrow. Mhmm. I will definitely attempt to do that.

Okay? I'm

not encouraging you to do your your As long as you're if you're. It's just the dates are so competitive.

No. No. I I well and we were supposed to meet early this month, and we kinda waited for the date to be set. But I think I think everyone has a lot going on with the holidays and travel and stuff. So, I mean, that's why why we see the delay. But we had planned on meeting early in, like, the January because I think that's what we did last year. It was the very first week. So yeah. I know we're running behind. So I'll look at the application tomorrow and try to coordinate with Karen and see if we can get it together.

If not, I will send an email to Tom and Erica.

I would just

Just send it? Just send

an email to to to Emily's point.

Yeah. He just

never If you know that's the date

Yeah.

It always is. So, hopefully, they already have it marked off.

But And, you know, while I'm at it, I'll reach out to the library and just get that going. Who's Erin? Can do that. Or

Erin? The what's your title? Director of Environmental.

She's she's not she's the manager of the state sustainability.

Gotcha.

Director's David Frank. Yeah.

She's sustainability support staff liaison.

And all around amazing human too. We should just say it on the record.

Okay. Okay.

I will resolve there now. Concur.

It's great. Right. Do we have anything else on Arbor Day?

When the time comes, I'm happy to deal with the map. Oh my god.

It's nice that we're all, like, kind of falling into our roles, and we know what to do. We just need to make sure we don't move from move out of Erie.

Right? No one's allowed to retire from the board. Board. Like, even Brian's moved on, but saved.

I'll come back to the tree board.

I I my husband wants to move, and I'm like, I just to make sure it's in Erie. So I don't have to quit the tree board. Well, that's all we have for Arbor Day. Do we have any other business?

Anyone been on a bike ride and ripped a tree limb up the tree? Really? I mean, I haven't seen anybody do that in a while.

Really? Almost got lost.

That so there you go. It's perfect. Been keeping up. That's good. Training.

It's because the limb was too was, like, right at their head.

Oh. So as he was riding his bike, he

just took limb and went so it wouldn't hit him. Have a

lot of people concerned. I have been tempted to walk around the neighborhood with my printing chairs and Sorry.

I know. I'll sneak people's trees along as I've been walking and, like, be that person on Facebook. Yeah. Exactly. That

wouldn't happen in a year. I don't know what you're

Never would

I do it,

but I'm very tempted always. I

have people that were concerned about their beach trees right now. Like, those starting to bud out.

Are they? No. All of them are budding out.

There's a Chanticleer Claire down.

I'm like, I just wanna

be rebooted.

Oh, man. We talked we talked about that

maybe last week or last month before. Yes. There's some concern.

I have a

picture of it.

So sad.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I have To try to grow peaches

ever on the side of the mountains. It's crazy.

I got a girl once. Twice the one. I think I've killed one of peach trees that actually had peaches. Yeah.

Consume those and outright for you.

That's true.

I love them.

It's always something. That's why I have all these pots of So many pots. And it's like my bowl of plants because I know I'm gonna lose something every year. You're up.

Exactly. You're

Next up.

I've got

a white jacket on maple that's hot in the garage.

Mine is. I pulling mine in and out. If it goes below, like, 30, I I bring him in. But, otherwise, he's pretty

much been out. Staying cold and sat in the garage.

Just couldn't go out in the sun for a little while.

Like like

traveling tree.

Oh, no. One.

One It's on rollers. Rear.

Okay. Those yeah. So this one I've tried the

The last I have long.

I had one in the ground.

I'm doing a while. In the ground in

the pot. One win out. Out.

Would be very

in the big pot. I wish whirlwind back and forth.

Yeah. This is where these were too.

Okay.

Okay. But in the.

The low overnight lows.

A big day. Yeah. We get one. Just called in.

We're all

good at that fandom, but

it was part of the other business.

Yeah. Right? Right. Other business.

The other business is water your tree. Yeah. Water your tree.

Actually, that's not a bad if we can get that message out, it's fine. That's That was in the I

think that was

in the utility mail out, wasn't

it, this this time around?

It did that day. Did you? Good. Go.

Alright. Next put some out in the newsletter?

Yeah. We've kind of saturated the winter water. They either get it or they don't Water at this point. Mhmm.

When's our next meeting?

Eleven. Deal.

Alright.

Well, if there's nothing else, it is 07:17, and the meeting is now adjourned. A quickie. It was like, what do we

You're fine.