Environmental Advisory Committee - Regular Meeting

We're not moving to another room again. I know. We're going to have to move our office musical chairs. Somebody just started coming. No, it's just me. Okay. So, are we on? Yeah, we're on. Okay. Well, welcome everybody. I'd like to call to order the September 10th, 2025 EAC monthly meeting. Um, we all receive the minutes along with the agenda. Are there any edits edits or objections or any changes from the committee to the meeting or to the minutes? Okay. Can I have a motion to approve those minutes?

I move. And a second. All in favor? Wonderful. Um, this would be a time for public comments. Seeing that there are none, we will move on. The first order of business today is the nomination and election of uh the chair and vice chair. I just want to make everybody aware that that position goes from October 1st of this year to January 1st of 2027 in alignment with all other committee chairs and vice chairs. Um, with that, can I have any nomination for the chair? I'll nominate Jeff.

Any other nominations? Seeing there are none, um, all in favor? by acclamation. Okay. All right. Um, thank you. And can I have a nomination then for vice chair? I nominate Melissa. Melissa. Okay. Sorry. I think what that said was Melissa. Melissa. Melissa. So, are we nominating Melissa?

Um, so seeing that Melissa was nominated for vice chair, do we have any other nominations? And that is by AC acclamation. Okay. Very good, Melissa. Thank you. Condolences. Moving on to project updates. Uh Melissa, can you please update us on sustainability?

Sure. So, we had our first um meeting with the students of the cohort from Penn State. Uh we have three students who will be working with us through the school year. So very exciting. Um the first ask from them is for some general information about Macandas. We're going to be responding to some questions and then meeting with them to talk about some of the answers. It was about what goes into our town as far as economy. I can't recall the exact specifics of questions, but happy to share them to the group. If you'd all like to see those at some point, we can send you all the email. Um but in our initial meeting, they also asked us to think about what makes me special, how do we feel about the community, and why is it special to us. So, if any of you have any thoughts on that to contribute or at community day if you have any insights into that, you can bring that back to us as well and we could pass it along to them. Um, right now they're pretty much waiting on information from us for electricity and natural gas and wastewater information as well as solid waste. And they're hoping to get all of that information by the end of September. And then the other big takeaway from our first meeting with them, they will actually be holding an inventory presentation to the EAC group at our December meeting. So hopefully they'll be here in person and be able to share their findings with us and it'll be very nice and exciting. And then in the second semester of the winter, they'll be turning that information into some type of plan for us sorts.

Any questions? Which has really been faster than I thought it would be. So that's that's really it's very impressive. Uh and Melissa brings up a good point. We will forward everybody the questions in case you want to respond to them and give input to what they're looking for. And Nick, honestly, if you could bring it to town council, too, get their thoughts, that might be helpful as well. Great. Anything else for Melissa on sustainability? Okay, wonderful. Next to rain garden update from Joanna.

Sure. So, um, I think this is where we're going to discuss. Um, I had an idea, but I wanted to run it past you guys as far as business partnerships and reaching out to different things. And this relates to both rain garden and a little bit with the native plants and everything as far as how to bring in additional native plants. Um, before when I seeded it, which is the best way to get um, dense planting within the rain garden, um, I use seeds from seeds. Um, and I happen to see online, even though they aren't specifically a macas company, but um, Sorals just down the road is, uh, partnering with Ernst Seeds to promote uh, and they're going to be growing in their green houses, uh, PA native plants. Um, and I think they're going to be native ours, not um, a lot of places around here do have native plants, but they are cultivars of native plants and they aren't like usually the actual native plant that you can find if you went out into North Park or wherever. So, um, I was thinking about reaching out to them and seeing different business ideas or even just different ways that we could connect with them. So, even if it's a greenhouse tour, even if it's um some kind of promotion back and forth between them, I wanted to reach out to I was thinking Bernie, but I was, you know, everybody who has more of the businesssided background what kinds of ideas you have along those lines that maybe I could inquire about before I reach out to them.

Yeah. I mean, I don't know if they'll be doing trees or not, but um one of the things that got these tree adoption events very quickly with the shrubs and small trees. So, you know, I would love to have them maybe focus on some native shrubs that we can also kind of do beyond just canopy, but try to encourage people that way. So yeah, I'd love to see how we can maybe helping with the native kind of understory stuff. Did I say that right? Yeah, it's they're not they're not a nursery nursery, but you know,

but I think working with a local group like, you know, with Sorals is is Sorl has been in I guess it's probably like fifth generation at this point,

you know, my my first POS was one of the Sorals. Yeah. So, yeah, there they've been in the North Hills a long time. There's a couple of those like really really old green houses that the Swirls is one and I I was recently talking with the owner of one of the other like really ancient greenhouse facilities that's down in Ross. I am not sure. They're somewhere like further south but North Hills that um they were trying to figure out like which direction to take the business from here. So that's um I don't know if you guys have heard of Geer and Sons but some friends of mine.

Yeah, we used the one branch of Sals used to have a nursery a 37 acre nursery that's now houses. I used to prune three rows of U bushes when I didn't have tree work to do. That was only a thousand U bushes. So So I like this idea and I like this partnership. um potential partnership and would you then would you then you know go and introduce yourself and say that you know we're discussing it at the I mean at this level and you know if there are if we have um events

there might be something you know maybe they can help sponsor them and I mean sponsor them just in a way that they make seeds available at cost or something like that. So there could be a little soral um you know you know kiosk to some of the things that we do. Ask ask them what they want to do. Yeah. Right. What would they be willing to do and what kinds of things like if they're like, "Oh, I don't know." What kinds of things I could bring up. Um I've had a couple people ask me about like if we could have somebody promote like some kind of uh native plant sale. Um I'm I'm going to get to that a little bit later. I'm gonna get to that a little bit later.

That I didn't want to dig into that too much. I was like that's that's further on down the road. But I think this is a way where we we don't promote it but it's like in our area even if it's not directly in the campus. I think Marshall or it's still for the greater good. I think they're Franklin Park. Yeah. Yeah, they are. Also, one of the circles is my neighbors if you guys need that connection. Amy and I know Kevin there is

I've met when I was starting the Pennsylvania association for agriculture I was working at that time with Penn State raised money for them and I remember Randy and I were on the committee for number of years but again this is like 30 years ago so I mean history. Um, but that was one time that I worked with them and their goal at that time was to save the farm right when everybody was selling, you know, development. So, I think anything we can do to promote farm, you know, maintaining farms for the region.

That's great. They may they I would bet that they have a dozen ideas that we haven't thought of. Sure. And I'm I'm just very curious about the program and what they have in mind. And I mean, I would love to see greenhouse work. I think that'd be amazing. But try some green houses. Good. I think we support that. Okay. Anything else for Joanna? Okay. Um Bernie um update on anything for tree program. Yeah, I just really did one slide for John.

So if you just kind of go to the second slide um because I know everybody wanted to just do brief comments. So um so this is kind of the activities. I sent this all to you u but I incorrectly said our next meeting was September 8th instead of October 8th. So I I'm sending you all corrected version but we have a lot of activities with the trees going on. Um

as you can see by you know the list that Don shared. Um, so community day. Um, Don's going to announce it, uh, probably around 10:00 a.m. or somewhere, I don't know what time, the pre-adoption on September 18th. So, when we're community day and we're talking about we're holding a tree tender and a free adoption. We'll open up the free adoption program on the 18th and it'll be the first time people will get free.

I see. Okay. There's a link um on the flyer. Uh we so we have the link. We didn't put it on this flyer today. So in the handouts, it won't have the link because it will be first come first serve and John's going to release it through social media on that day with the link and the link looks like this. It's a QR code

that we have on this flyer. But rather than handing So these would be the two things we could hand out on community day. So one is just promoting the adoption and one is promoting the tree tender you know program. They're both happening on the same day. So, um, we figured exactly one month in advance we'll open up the the adoption. First 100 people will get trees. Um, and they'll have a list of I haven't seen the list of what trees but that's the combination of big small shrubs.

But on community day we can promote the fact that on the 18th this is going to be this is we're going to open that up. You want to say tell people when I think that's fair and then John it's just when we decide to release it because they won't be ready. So we're coordinating all of these signups are happening through preitt because it's part of what we pay for their management of all of this um because they have the programs to do this. able to get copies of doublesided version of that so that they get one sheet has all of that information. We got a gang of them. He did make a bunch of them.

At this point over there and he agree with you if they're already. Yeah, I hear you. Save the trees, right? Right. Uh anyway, so that's it. And I I think what I'm looking for is um a couple of folks who might be willing to assist with the pre-adoption. So my hope is I I know you've got something that

um so I do have a couple of folks, you know, from who are attending the the training who said they could help with the adoption after what are the hours. What are the hours?

So, it's on here. Um, so from 9 to 3 is the tree tender training and it will be here in this room and then inside the public works building is where we'll be giving out the 100 trees. I don't think it will take long. Um, we have a two-hour window from 3 to 5 to get them out. But they do have a training for um, whoever is kind of running that. Um, so I'm hoping that if you know EA team members might be willing to join me with the the tree adoption training like three to four of us if we would do the training she wants to do it in September 22nd or 23rd time would be determined and so they would teach us essentially how to do it because they're not coming we're really running the thing even though they'll be here for the training. So anyway, so I'm looking for if anybody, you know, on

I I have to I have to tell you I I am at a wedding that day and I cannot be there at all. It's my best buddy son and I can't I cannot make this. I can't ignore a wedding. Well, I this one I definitely I'm not available that night for sure. I have no life the next month and a half. Sorry. It's up to you. Well, wait. Did you say you have No, I said I have no life the next month and a half. Oh, it's pretty bad. So, sorry. So, can you not So, so nobody from the committee will tender training or I I might be able to make the training the tree, but that ends at three. It seems that might be okay, but I have to confirm. I just know I have plans that even

So, that's right. Right. I'll figure it out. Um And that would bring me to my next slide which is um Arch has agreed to co-chair the tree program with me. So oh wow leadership and you know somebody who will jump in and we'reing um so we'll kind of and that's what I've been looking for to kind of work with me on this and so he's agreed to. So he and I have been back and forth with a bunch of stuff that he wanted to see of her. So, and he is available all day that day from 9 through Oh, that's great.

Work with me on that day. So, and yeah, we'll probably um Julia, so we signed up for the training. So, the adoption and if

can I come at the last minute if I am free? Oh, yeah. you know, and I'll put you to work. If I can, I'll come I'll be able to, but that by that time we may have some student. Yeah, junior. That's a good point. Yeah. Yeah. So, so I I think there's a I think there's some real possibility there. And again, you know, I know I apologize. I know others would apologize too that we can't be there to help you, but we I would rather these are things that are unbreakable. This is certainly unbreakable for me. Yeah. And Bernie, I don't know what the hours are for my event yet. I know what day it is and I'm very mad that my boss picked that day, but

I prefer to be sitting in a tree, but if you need help, that will be

I mean, what I was looking for a couple of folks on signing folks in in the morning, which again, you know, I I can probably help you. And then um and yeah, you know, the last thing of the um the day is actually going to be a panel where light will be on and this whole break tree right place and we're going to have somebody there. So tree pit we didn't want to have him speak on his own. So we put him on a panel. So it'll be kind of let's talk about trees and storms and me about it. So,

and also look at at the planning guide that that Judy did, you know, to to refer people to that because that was one of our main things when we were putting that together was putting the proper tree in the proper place. Not like the red oaks that they put underneath the power lines over going to LA Fitness. Well, and I do think that's got to be the routine has that as trying to get them on board with, you know, assisting. So, it'll be with us that day too for the tree adoption and for the tenders. So, anyway, um so we'll see how

anyway I know you want to keep it. So, oh, that's that's that's perfect. Thank you. It's new business. Appreciate that. Any other questions for Bernie? Okay, moving on to community outreach. Um, the deer presentation is the next event after community day on September 30th. I got an update from Abby and there are 14 signups to date. Okay. And John, you talked with Janine so that you've got Yeah, I plan on being here that night so I can probably just I can do a show for her when she talks. Okay. And record it if we want to put it out. I think we probably do.

I will be there for that presentation. Yeah. If you're able to attend, should we be signing up as well? It it's one of those things of people that think that the room's going to be overflowing and and we have 14 people signed up. So you you know be the judge. The same signin program that we use for you know Yeah.

Yeah. Civic. No. Now it it it worked. It worked for other things. So, I don't know why it didn't work for that one, but um yes, please if you if you can make it, then sign up and we'll we'll get these numbers going. Yeah, Tree is pretty good. I mean, she has good slides and I'm sure to illustrate what she's talking about and everything. Well, we'll push it harder community day. We're going to push the tree tenders and we're going to push the um you know, the adoption obviously and we'll push um uh the present. Yeah, deer management. What's the time of this again? 7 o'clock on the 30th if I can make it. Yep.

Anything else about that, Ken? Yeah, it's it's um everything's in place and it's just a matter of the event happening. I have to get I'm going to get in touch with her just so that I'm we'll introduce her the way she wants to be introduced. Yeah. Okay. and then kind of let her go and and we'll see uh see what the response is. Okay. Whatever you need from me, um I'm there.

Like I keep asking because I just think it's a program I want to keep pointing to program to be able to say we need to do this related. I think we're going to keep promoting it afterwards though. Well, you know, John municipality have have promoted heavily. It's in every publication that comes through. It's it's consistent. It's a consistent message. I'm actually really surprised by like how like few reactions it's getting on social media actually. There's usually like people crazy. Yeah. And they're really I mean they're they're Has anyone dropped a name in the camel's community Facebook groups? That's what I was just about to ask.

It's been shared. I know at a community forum just yeah little reaction there too surprised by that it's it's the reaction that at the master gardener thing virtually every person that stopped there even though we weren't really publicizing it but wanted to talk about deer yeah just yeah sure national night outlets yeah absolutely yeah so it's it seems to me from what I'm seeing is is that the vast majority of people are very cognizant that we've got way too many deer and we need to bring them back in into balance.

Yeah. So, we're winning that battle. It's just that you you know presenting it maybe maybe presenting it is not the you know the end all be all. Maybe it's you know it's it's something that we do. It's a service that we provide, but people are already signed up and ready to go whatever the whatever the municipality decides to do anyways with an extended deer call. And the guys from Suburban Whitetail will be here. If any anybody that's attending is interested in signing their property up with them, they'll be here for that. That's nice. So, you know, we're we're trying to make it that it's one-stop shopping, so to speak, for for people.

Okay. But, you know, my point is is always that the uh we killed three times as many with cars as we did with with arrows last year. So, Yep. Okay. Um, anything else on the deal presentation for Ken?

Okay, moving on to community day. Um, we have lots of material. I stopped at um at at state senators vent cut's office and got additional material. Um, I think there were a few other and and they actually had new material for me. So, uh, there's our our boots have been stacked with, you know, takeaways. We got we gave a lot away at National Night Out. Um, we've replenished. We have we have some new stuff. We have the flyers. We have what we're trying to promote. You have flyers for the deer? I do. Okay.

I do flyers for the deer and also flyers for the John made ones for the for the property owners, too. So we have for the deer presentation, we have for tree tenders, um we have um you know everything is promoting that. We have you know everything that we've had with regard to you know some of the things that we're trying to highlight. We still have our you know our our little story boards. Um we have all that stuff and now we're moving on to um you know sort of you know Joanna you just want to sort of go into what we think we can do for you know fun for All right. I have lots of fun going on. So I was in charge of fun. All right. Yeah.

So, it started with um what was the craft going to be? Because since we're not going to have the edible earth um wanted something that was accessible, but thinking ahead, I wanted something that anybody could do and you could have it like easy for a 2-year-old up to if a 14-year-old wants to come and make a craft and they want to put a lot of effort into it, they are more than welcome to and it could turn out really cute if they wanted to. So trying to think about that and also thinking about as a parent, what do I not want to carry around a festival? Anything that's covered in glitter, anything that's covered in wet paint, anything that's covered in wet glue, which ruled out a lot of crafts, but it's all right because I came up with two that I feel like are kind of accessible, um, easy to do. We already have about half the materials. Um, so the first one, um, I also ran some of these ideas past children. Um, this one it's just leaf rubbing. I mean, we all do leaf rubbing when we're a kid. And let me tell you, it's kind of fun. It is.

I want to do it right now. Yeah, it is one of those kind of satisfying things. And we can have a whole bunch of different kinds of leaves and everything. And the kids can I have crayons. We can sit. We can rub the cray. This isn't going to be messy. This isn't going to be too much. And this one was made specifically by a three-year-old with disabilities because I did it as like how accessible is this. So this one was a three-year-old. Do we have a surface for them to do that on? We can work on that. Ground. Yeah, that's gonna be the tricky part. I have I do have a bunch of clipboards I could burn. That's a thing. Card table. Yeah, cuz

we're not on a corner. We're on our corner. Yeah. And those booths are not big. And with all the stuff we're going to have on top of the table, we're not going to have a lot of room for space. Good point. It's a great craft. It's a great craft. And that's why I actually have not fully committed to buying any of the materials because I wanted to make sure like what these were. So that is a good point that I didn't think about. The clipboard idea isn't bad at all. Yeah, I do have I have about 10 clipboards. 10 more. Yeah. So, so that one's easy.

Um, the other one that was really fun is a sun catcher. Um, this one you can we didn't even decorate around the outside. This one's made by a sevenyear-old. Um, she really enjoyed the craft. I was able to ask her opinions about things and she preferred this one to this one. Um, and this one is just like different materials and you can arrange it. If you're a three-year-old, you're just going to stick it on. And if you're a 14-year-old, I mean, you can arrange it and like cut them out and make it look like a lion or something like that. I

It's your I don't know. It's an interesting canvas. So, this is a paper plate, cheapest paper plate you can buy. And then the slightly pricey part, this is contact paper. So, it's not too bad. Depends on where you buy it. And like Target, it was about $8 a roll. Um, I think you can get it cheaper and I can get it off like Amazon or something like that for cheaper. But, um, but it actually is kind of pretty. And this is something I feel like people would be When weird question, are you going to identify the tree leaf? I'm going to at least make sure it's not poison because I I want to have like I don't even have Oh,

I'm just looking at it as an educational thing like this is a red oak. You know, you could and you can sit and if the kid wants to know if it's a kid that is interested in that kind of thing. I was thinking with the parents when they're watching the kid do it. You have like a sheet or like a chart or Well, you also have a scavenger hunt sheet.

Yeah. Funny enough, you uh which we have. Yes. And I've made a copy myself too at home. So, one of the other things because I was thinking, well, I don't having a craft going all the time seems like it's going to be a lot and mean somebody is going to have to be like hovering over the craft the whole time and knowing how to do the craft and it's just like constant chaos because that's kind of how it was even at uh Winterfest. It's just someone's just constantly doing crafts. Um, and it's a very very long event compared to Winterfest. So, thinking ahead because it's hard to say like how many materials we're going to need. We don't know how many kids are going to be there. We don't know. I don't know. We don't know what kinds of kids are going to be there, how interested they're going to be, how many other crafts they're going to be. So, my thought is if we kind of narrow the window, which Melissa spoke about, is going to be like from two to six, I believe it was, about two to six is when we'll have crafts, but then we'll have other times and we'll take little breaks in between. what do we have in the meantime if there's not a craft going? And so I had a couple different activities that I had in mind that we could have still available but don't require someone to hover over a craft. So one of them is a scavenger hunt. So I came here Monday night and went out and did my best to identify all of the trees. Thank you to my app for double checking on what things are. That's pretty good with most of them. But um so I have the different leaves and there found nine different trees out there that are safely accessible um through Demp Park area. Um and then I did my best to find pictures and put them on here so people can go through and check them off.

Finding those like down in the park or will they have to venture up at all? Um it is not in the rain garden. It's only like on the side like kind of over to the side of the sidewalk that kind of goes across the bridge and then a little bit like on the side by the playground. Will you provide a basic cheat sheet in case they come back to ask us? Yes. Some of them are easier to find than others. Like is is there a prize if I if I get all of them? Ken, if you don't get all of these, I'm going to be a little disappointed in you. But that's kind of my thought too with this. This is also an activity adults can do. Hey, how many adults couldn't identify a pinup? Yeah.

Most. Yeah. Most. Most. Yeah. So, it's one of those like it's not bad for adults to kind of have fun with, too. And I've mentioned it to a couple people and they're like, I'd love to do that. And actually, when I was doing um the tree identification, I ran into one of my neighbors who had a little three-year-old out playing, and they're like, "No, that sounds really fun. We we come here all the time. We'd love to sit here and identify the trees." Yeah. I think it's something that the parents can do with the kids, right? And the thing is is that even if they don't do it that day, they do it another day. And you've educated them.

You've educated them. So, and and in the meantime, what I'll do is I'll I will do we'll be doing the wheel. Um the wheel will be always going um for between, you know, it'll spin. It's either compost, recycling, or garbage. And they'll guess what it is. And I have little You want to just show that box of scrunchies? We have a We got like 130 of these little scrunchies for them to um you know, they get it they get it right, they get this. If they don't get it right, then they get a sticker. You know, that type of thing. So, so I have we have 130 of these. Uh Matt, what what do you think? What is your been your experience at community day? How many people will come to our booth? And I mean, I I know it's a big question, but you know, will there be a lot, a little? Are we are we shooting too high, too low? Um so, previously I'm trying to think about how many pudding cups we gave out. Um, do we remember by any chance how many we kind of started with last year? Because that's how I would do my count. I don't remember specifically how many people we've seen, you know, at the booth total.

Was it busy though? It was busy. Yes. Community. It was It was really busy. And once he started the game, I felt like it was sort of non-stop people. As long as he was doing that, I I almost think you might want double that. Oh, is that right? Okay. It's also longer than it has been in the past. Halloween's coming anyway, so if you don't use them all, you can give them as I said, that's a really really good idea. Candy. Yep. Okay. Okay. Joanna, anything else? Oh, yeah.

Oh, I have fun. So, um, Bernie brought up last time, how could we have the kids plant a tree? So, I was thinking about it and I had a fun idea. So, one of the things I have at work and I was thinking it might be fun for the little kids to have and especially if we have kids there that um enjoy sensory activities, which many kids do. It's a way of making the whole park a little bit more accessible. It's good for regulation, that kind of thing. And we do this at my job all the time where you just have a bin of some kind of material, a lot of times beans, rice, pasta, dime. Um, and you just kids will scoop it, they'll pour it, they'll ever, you know, all kinds of things goes all over the floor, get a vacuum, whatever. Um, so I was like, what if I could turn that into a tree planting activity? So for dirt, um, I actually I didn't bring it in, but um, I was a bad sunflower seeds because I figured that's a non it's dark like dirt, but it's kids aren't going to have an allergy to it. It's kind of fun. And then I made a tree that we can plant and I can I'll have like little scoops and things the kids can still play in there. And I think I might be able to borrow the sensory table for my work.

Just make disappear for the weekend. Nobody will know. And so I made my little tree and then you can show kids how to like, oh, we're going to push this off. We're not going to pull it out. And look, here's our little root ball. And then we could talk about the different things with the root ball that we could do. And then we could plant it in the ground and talk about how deep we need to plant it. We could have little signs out there about how to do it. Or kids could just play with it or they could just scoop things into it. However it works. But I made a cute little tree that we can plant. Nice.

Um, also one of the things someone brought up was reading a book. I know Matt mentioned one book. I had another one that it stemmed off an idea that Melissa brought up when I was showing her the list of other random activities I had floating around my head. And one was like a contest for um like judging kids for how creative they could stomp on a fake lantern fly with points for um creativity, effectiveness, and passion. They're kids. And Melissa's like, "I don't know how much we want to promote, even though it's lantern flies, how much we want to promote stomping on bugs." I was that triggered a memory. I have a book on not stomping on books. So, if we want to do some book readings, we could read this. This is really cute. Um, where we talk about, you know, June teaches her friends that bees are very busy helping flowers and other plants grow, and it's better to let them work. The bees are thankful. It's very

Are we going to have any student volunteers with us? Did we get any on time? Oh. Oh. Um, that's a great question. Matt, sorry.

So, don't apologize vocally. Um, so the uh the volunteers are all coming through Abby. So, they have all signed up through her and we have let her know that we need volunteers, but I don't know if we ever let her know exactly how many we need or when we needed them or anything along those lines. So, if we haven't heard from her yet, she may have volunteers that we can get, but I don't know that any have been assigned to us yet. Okay. I would propose that we follow up with her and ask if we could specifically have any volunteers between two and six. That would be the most helpful window when we're planning to do the additional activities to help support Joanna.

I'm happy to email her. I'm happy to email her.

Anything else you want? I think that's all I have. I think the rest is all your wheel of fun. Okay, good. And which which we're still working on. So that that that should be something that we com we certainly will complete and it's something we can do throughout the day and we'll get more scrunchies. Now with that Melissa timing. Yeah. So I did send out a schedule. Did everybody see that schedule? Did it move through? Um are there any possible conflicts with any of that or does that work for the most part? I do have one slight change. Um, would it be possible if I cut out was four instead of five if I we'll have Ken and Joanna for sure during that time.

Okay. So, that would work out perfect as long as it's okay for you because my mom is doing surprise last minute visit. So, I'm not very happy about the date. Can you can you read that schedule then please so everybody's aware of it and and me as well. Um, you and I will get there for setup. I don't know what time that begins. So, I was going to ask you about that. Well, I mean, you know, you you know, we did it for now. 12:30. Yeah. So, so Okay. Okay. I think 12:30 is like the last. They like they open up at 10:30 and then no more cars on the parking lot after I think 12:30. So,

okay. I'll be there. I'll I'll be I'll be there. I have all day. I I'm This just be pacing until we start start this thing. So, I I'm five minutes away. I'll bring down. I'll set everything up. time. So, and we need rods this time. We do. Yep. Yep. Yep. We'll figure this out. So, so um Jeff and I will set up. I'll be there until 4. Uh and then Bernie can come from 4 till 8. Jeff will be there. Ken, um I tentatively had you there from 3 to 6, but if you want to adjust that a bit, you're more than welcome to. That's fine.

Okay. And then, um Jeff would take a mini break as needed or still stay if you wanted to. And then he'll sort of curve the 6:00 to 8. And then we have Joanna there for craft time fun from 2 till 6. And our thoughts were that crafts would operate with 45 minute windows during each of those hours. So then she could have her 15 minute of downtime break and it would give the opportunity to switch to a new craft or however we decide to do it. So that was the general plan and then

that was it. So we'd have for the most part three people there. If we get the student volunteers as well to help with the crafts that would be amazing. if we're able to. Otherwise, the first hour and the last two hours, there will just be two adults there. Won't be ongoing. So, just more talking and wheel and promoting everything we do as well as getting people to sign up. Make sure we have That's right. That's right. Signup sheets. Oh, Melissa. Very good. Yeah. Okay. Very good. Good. Good reminder. Thank you for the flexibility there. Everybody good with that? Where are we parked? Where is the parking? I don't know that. I

I saw signs that they were going to do a shuttle for me. I saw an email come through and it was talking about like the one that you said something about parking but not being able to get out. So, I I don't know. Is Abby are we able to follow up with Abby for more questions on the parking situations? We have her email um mentioned that if we sign up on the on her link then um there'll be parking information but I don't know that it's parking information like oh hey um you're coming at 6:00 or whatever that is. We've got a spot for you. I don't think it's down to that. I mean Abby could never that's that's too much detail.

We're going to be using the parking lot over by Heritage Center or you can park there. That's they closed that off. Um they there is some parking there. So I might just walk down if you can. Yeah. Yeah. I mean you're you're right there. I was planning on having John drop me off. So as long as there's a place close enough I can walk. Yeah. Okay. That's a good idea. We're done at 8, but then the fireworks are at 8:45. Did I get that right? Or fireworks, I think, are right at 8. They're closer to 8:30. Okay. Pretty much everyone's probably going to be done around 8, I think. Yeah.

And and they won't care about us at that point. They're gonna be gather. So, you know, 7:30 we'll be starting to break our stuff down for sure. Oh, yeah. There's also apparently a marching band that goes through at one point and there's activities up in the other field this year, too. So, seems to We have a skydiver coming. Oh, okay. Did not see that. Everybody loves a skydiver. I just saw that there not allowed to be any roaming mascots. So, I know not to wear my Litterbug costume. I can't roam even if I do. So, well, that's a shame. They mean even you. Yeah, there's going to be there's at least one or two. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I said on there because you're not allowed to leave more than five feet from your booth. And Well, it didn't say you couldn't dress up.

Yeah, you're allowed to dress up. You're just not allowed to roam if you're dressing up. Okay. So, so then then we are we are on our way then. I I mean certainly with the with the schedule on our way with that you're okay with with and and any anything that you buy and we can expense. We have a budget all that kind of stuff. So keep all that finalize the Yeah. And we just have to finalize the wheel. Okay. Good. So we're so we're good now for we're we're good now for community day. Everybody's good. Okay. Any other any other comments about that? Looks like Joe Bardi from Weatherbell says the n

last 10 days of September, the first 10 days of October are when all the hurricanes are going to come through. So,

all right. So, open initiatives. Um the the first one on here is the junior EAC member and um I've characterized this as as best I can. Anybody can jump in if they want to. We had interviews on Monday evening of three candidates. Um and we had um you know we we we had good robust conversations. Um one of the candidates which we feel very strongly about um is a Macandas resident but attends high school at Taylor Alderise. Um and then the other two were both Macandas and North Alagany students. Um we would like to anything else I'm missing there that that might be interesting for the Okay. Um so so with that um we did come up with um two that we would like to move forward with and what we're looking for from this committee is a um sort of an affirmation that that you would be okay to have two student EAC members um join us you know at every meeting for the next you know school year.

Good. I think it'll be interesting to have the opposing opinions then because they're not both at the same school. They have different It'll be cool. We we saw a lot of reasons um a lot of good reasons for them to they had different talents. Um and we thought that they could, you know, they could they could both rise, you know, rise up together, little competitive, little bit little cooperative. Um we thought that there was a it was sort of a win-win where we had somebody who was could be um you know embedded in NA but somebody else who could go out into the world

and the one who is already more the one who interviewed better and seems like she's more used to doing outreach and things like that will be able to help the one who is at McKenna's local school and help bring it to her district too. So it should be good. It should be fun to have too. Um both seem very capable.

We we think this they will be interactive. So we're pretty we're pretty happy with that. Matt, any other uh thoughts of this? Okay. Um so agreeing upon that, uh we'll now move to the roadside cleanup date. And this becomes a little tricky, so um bear with me on this. Easter is April 5th. Opening day of trout is April 4th. So flipping that, April 4th is the opening day of trout. Easter is April 5th. So you would lose boy scouts, different things like that potentially for the fourth. Um the ACT test, Matt, I'm out of my skis right now. Um are April 11. Is is that a thing?

Yeah. You don't want to interfere with it. Okay. Okay. Well, then then we're going to have a tough time. So, now the prom is April 18th. Oh my gosh. When is their spring break? Um, Earth Day is April 22nd and the PSSAs are April 25th. Oh jeez. There's not a weekend in April. Go ahead, Matt. What did you do? Sorry. Did you say the PSSAs because those should be an inschool T. They wouldn't be on a weekend. Okay. Oh, that's a good point. Or maybe it just says the week of maybe what I I looked at the NA calendar. It says week of.

Okay. So, so um Earth Day is actually a weekday. Yeah. Yeah. So, so why don't we um then it looks to me like April 25th, which is always better than April 4th because the weather April 4th is March basically and April 25th is May. So, I I think we got a better shot at the weather. So, it looks to me um and anybody can chime in here. It looks like April 25th might be the day for our roadside cleanup. It's going to rain that day. That sounds good. Okay. Okay. Jinx uses. Okay.

The plants won't have grown very much at all at that point. So, it's still good. Okay. Good. Matt, did you have your hand up? Okay. So then agreeing upon April 25th, Joan, I'm sure that's important for you. Um the backup date would then be moving into May. That's that's a good one. So it would be So the backup date I don't think there's anything um for what would it be? May 2nd or something like that. When the school endur Okay. So was it May 3rd? Is it Saturday? Second.

Okay. So May 2nd is our backup data. Very good. Okay. Um, moving on from there, miscellaneous. Yes. Yes, ma'am. Uh, just FYI, May 2nd is an SAT date. So, just just so you know, May. Any issue with May 9?

Okay. So, May 9 is a backup. And again, when does school when does school get out? Oh, that wouldn't be until late May. Yeah. Okay. Good, good, good. Okay. Thanks, Matt. Okay. Moving on to miscellaneous. Um, open EAC position. As everybody knows, um, Mark has, um, resigned his position on the committee. We do have an open position now. Um, John, do you know if that was um past council in the last meeting? I guess this past Monday. Yeah, the resation was accepted on Monday. Okay.

And um we're not advertising yet because there's a bunch of other positions to advertise. I don't know if it's going to be rolled in with that or not yet, but it's likely that happens. We did get someone who applied early though, so we at least have one resume on file now for for the open EAC position. Yes. The name escapes, but they did submit it. Okay. and and and all and all the better to have two students I think because we are we are down one committee member I'm sure you know if it's a if it is a um you know an active member then then that person will jump in um but it's it's nice to have you know fresh faces and and all sort have you named by name the two students I didn't

we did not uh we we need to do some other formalities before we do that and it needs to go to council and be approved by council able to share it with the group. Well, if I share it by the group, this this is this is recorded. So, somebody then knows that they're been chosen and somebody knows that they haven't been chosen. That's sir. Yeah. Share after. Yes. Yep. Um let let's skip that McMill tip right now. So, anything else on the open EAC position? Is there a certain kind of candidate that receive an active one? Passionate. Yes. Living

fire in their hearts. Yeah. They have to be. We originally did it that we had to have somebody from each ward and we found that that was an impossible thing to do. Insane. So it's been so if we have anybody who has good interest in things like that, I mean that that's really where we are. Yeah. Yeah. If anybody good. Thank you, Ken. So if anybody knows of somebody, you know, please encourage them. I mean, you know, I I met Kurt from Van Drive at the, you know, at the Potter Park purchase. I mean, he is a very um, you know, he is I know them. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we we know Kurt. I mean, I'd love to see Kurt apply,

but um Is there a benefit to reaching out to all of our potential volunteer like all the people who signed up to volunteer with us? We can send an email out to them letting them there know that there's an open position in case anybody Yeah, sure. Because then it would be Yeah. Okay. I'll clean up after we collect more names this weekend. There was one person who requested the off the list. I got to go back and take that out. So, okay. Your list or our list? It was her list. I sent the I sent the So, it's EAC list, but I sent out there. Well, there's a few different places where the sports need. Yeah, that's good to know, though. Thank you, John.

Okay, so um moving on with that, we're we're good with that. Okay. Um I want to move on to see the 2026 budget. So, I was um encouraged by um burough manager John Schwin to give him a budget. Our budget is currently $1,000, which I'm guessing that we moved through pretty fast. John, we did. Yeah. Do you I mean, do do we have a do we have a a department code that we that we expense things to the budget? So, that 10,000 was put under the storm water department code for some reason. Uh which kind of makes sense, but I think they just need to find a place for it. I think some items when we went past that came out of my communication budget, and I think some of it comes out of Aby's rec budget as well.

Okay. Uh we did meet earlier this week briefly to talk about budget, mostly communications, but they seem to recommend initially maybe about $6,000 this year, especially considering some of the tree costs that we're having. Okay. So So the recommendation is $6,000 about there. Right there. Yeah. Okay. And and so what cost would come out of that would be the cost that that you that the bureau has has underwritten with regard to the tree tenders course and the would would that already be in that budget? I think if there's going to be any tree actions in 2026, it would come out of that. Yes. Okay. Now

calendar year calendar year. Yeah. and and and so you know and I I I look at 6,000 and I I mean I look at 6,000 I say that covers your you know your your little stuff and that covers my little stuff and that covers um you know some things and I make a little sign here or something like that and that covers probably everything that you would think about right um and can that would cover everything that you would think about Bernie where you know is your stuff can your stuff fit into that or would your stuff be like it's offline It would be it I mean this is why when we work with the staff on there are very specific programs with the state for treats

and there are other local brands as well. Um so we missed the window because of the change over you know losing the town manager

you know right at the moment when all of them are due. They're usually due between March and May. And even like the latest uh the gambling funds, you know, again, I think, you know, the township has, you know, plans for certain buckets of grant programs that that, you know, we may not want to do the tree program with. But likewise, you know, one of the things I hope to get underway is kind of a sponsor program, you know, but again, I think that all needs to be coordinated through Okay. the township staff,

right? So, so, so to my point, and and Matt, I didn't mean I didn't mean to to bypass you. Um, you know, do you have any thoughts, you know, that something that you are thinking about uh would be greater than the 6,000 that we're discussing? So, so you know, fitting into that 6,000 would be normal activity, would be normal cost that we incur. If you're going to say we want to plant a thousand trees and this is going to cost, you know, 20 whatever a million dollars or $20,000 or whatever that is, that's going to be that's going to be covered by something off off this budget. So then 6,000 seems like a good number for us then.

Yeah. and maybe it could sponsor you know the 17 or 1400 for the like 300 certainly and then the rest you're right we could fund raise like grants for $100 sure um you know west power at this point you know we talked about doing that spring planting right

that would be sponsored same with 15 light at this point request for sponsorship so so we'll see what comes But that's what I've said. I didn't want to come after the Canvas town budget. Um, you know, we need to raise the funds, but you know, it really is the uh I don't mind filling out the applications, but it needs to be Okay. continue work. Okay. Great. So, is everybody then okay with a budget of $6,000 for 2026 for the EAC? Okay. John, do you do you um then communicate that that I will let them know that they like that number that you guys like that number? Okay, good. Thank you.

I personally will and I don't see any of my fellow members having any problems with that. That's great. Well, they see what we're doing. They see what we're accomplishing. Value everything you guys do a lot. So,

wonderful. Thank you for that. Um, next up is a mechanism 175th. Um, I did join that committee and I was concerned at the beginning because I thought, well, there's just another thing I put my hand up for and another but I but I go and there there's 16 people there and there's 16 connected people there. So it is it is a you know they are they are um they are representing every area in McCandless and the workload for the EAC and my representation is limited to exactly what what we want it to be and that is you know promoting the tree program that is you know identifying um you know mature trees and and having a tour having park tours all that kind things that that are that are in our wheelhouse. house. It I didn't I didn't sign up for anything else like I'm going to be out there, you know, standing on the corner trying to collect money for this thing. So, the Macanas 175th is representative in by the EAC. It is a it is a an appropriate representation and it is a an active committee that will not go on forever. It will just go on for the rest of the year. And I and I'm I'm fine joining that committee. So, just want to let you know that we're represented and I think we're represented in a way that we want to be represented.

Is there a way you could bring back kind of the meeting minutes or not? So,

I can. Thank you for saying that. I I'll do that. Yep. Okay. Okay. Anything else on that? Okay. Moving on to the regional EAC reboot. Um, and you know, for those that have been, um, around a couple years ago, uh, that was something that the North Hills regional EAC's uh, would do, I think, on a quarterly basis, and somebody would sponsor it, I believe we sponsored at one time, Hampton sponsored at one time, and it would be Pine, Hampton, McCandless, um, Ross and a few other ones. And I think that I think that lacks leadership right now, but I think we would get a lot out of that. And I think I would like to move ahead by trying to put that back together. I talked to Liz and I talked to KP at Pine. I've been talking to KP at Pine and they're like, "Yeah, we'd we'd be all in." So, it would be, you know, we we'd meet at the pavilion at Devlin Park. Whoever wants to show up can show up. Basically, you just welcome people. you have some some snacks and uh you talk about initiatives that you're working on in your community and you share ideas.

It it's really worthwhile because they have some different ideas and they have some different connections and things like that. Um so it it it's really a really good networking thing to uh be able to get different programs up and started and and they they know about different grants and things like that. Yeah. So I I it's I think it's worthwhile to share all the different EAC's to get together and share. Okay. So if you guys are okay, I'm going to sort of run with that one and try to put that together and uh you know, we'll we'll we'll we'll think about the beginning of next year or the first quarter of 2026 for a meeting. So you're not going to start it?

Well, I mean, I'd like to sort it earlier. You know, I really would. I'd like to sort earlier, but you know, we'll we'll see how it goes. the end of the holiday season might be smarter just making contacts um you know different things and then yeah so um if I could do it it would be probably you know by November would be the earliest something like that and you want you want the weather to be acceptable that you're standing outside as opposed to standing around a burning barrel or something like that you know sometimes they're inside too like with Ross it was inside okay okay but I'll but I'll come back to the committee and let you know what I find out. And if I can go earlier, I will.

Yeah. I mean, I know Liz is the one that said she would have space for these in the spring. So, to me, that's where again, I just need to look back with her. It was all based on whether or not she could get clearing in the park in the opera for about 200 trees. So, you know, I just need to coordinate that. But that's what I mean. I feel like a lot of them are the same people. Yes. And you know, that's where it'd be nice to have a a way to, you know, all of us kind of collectively communicate. Agree. Can you send me her email, please, Bernie? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Different different EAC's have different quote unquote responsibilities. Like Hampton is, you know, with Liz, they're involved with zoning and things like that also. M so different EAC's have different uh criteria that they're taking care of. Y so it's it's it's it's good it's a really good networking thing to just sit down and chat with other people.

Yeah. What we have to realize when we do that is that there are resources available. You know they they may have environmental engineers or you know some you know their committee might be there might be a requirement that they have somebody on there. We're not that. I mean, you know, you know, the subject matter expertise is, you know, you have it, Bernie has it, um, you know, in in your your field and we have it, you know, in other things, but we don't we don't have we don't have scientific uh representation on this committee. So, the one the one guy from Rossa actually was on nuclear uh power plants and stuff. Yeah.

Yeah. So, so I will move forward on that and burn if you could send me her email um I'll I'll connect with Liz. Thank you very much. Okay, great. Okay. Then now then now then the next one is um a pretty big uh discussion but uh it's one I I think is is very very interesting and I've been I've been tableabling it tableabling it but uh John if you could bring up the link for bird tone PA so bird bird is that's a bird um is under the umbrella of the Pennsylvania autoborn council and I talked talked to Nick Stallman, community conservation coordinator at the Ottabbon Society in Fox Chapel. Fox Chapel is a member, Pine is a member. Um, if you could scroll down a little bit, uh, John, and right there. So, it says with municipal leaders, we engage and work together to, and we can read all those things, but restore habitat, um, you know, manage storm water, um, address climate. Okay. So, but but they work with the municipal they they they give you expertise and they give you support. So, uh scroll down a little bit more, John. Remove invasive plants in the community. We actively develop, offer, engage and educate about. So, they give you resources to educate the community, educate the community in invasive species, in you know, tree management. um they they will give us resources to reach out into the schools. Um storm water management, one of our one of our candidates for the junior EAC is is particularly interested in storm water management. Um removal of invasive species. They partner with the community to address these issues, the very issues that we want to address. And then lastly, John, if you could scoot down a

little bit more with residents, we educate, engage, empower, and provide native species information, native plant information, um, landscaping tips, you know, it goes, it goes on and on and on and on what they can do. Um, so it's basically what it is. It is a partner in some of the very things that we are attempting to do. and all it takes is to pass a resolution and pay a $100 fee from the standpoint of the of the uh the township. This is this was brought to me by Joe Wall and I know that it's supported by I believe that it's supported by John Schwin, the business manager, because his last community I think was a bird tone PA. Um John, could you go over to the next screen and I believe it is the pine. Yeah. So this is Pine's EAC screen. This is on their their so Berttown Pennsylvania about the program. They talk about this um they were named the Birdtown community in 2025. So beginning of the year and some of the things that they are doing in the community and a lot of this is are things that we're already doing. So we already basically meet the criteria for um you know for um membership into this and what it would be it would just be a supportive group for us and it would sort of memorialize some of the things that we do and give us resources to better do them in the community. Um go a little bit a little bit more down John.

So they talk about

what obligation would we have? uh just to report to them what we've done. The same obligation that I have in their format, the same obligation that I have to council and I'm going to be doing this in the next month reporting what we've done over the past year. And I I I talked to Nick about um you know the things that we're doing. He's like, "Yeah, this is this is you're you're doing what what we what you need to do, even down to the fact that we do the litter cleanup. It all fits into this. It all it all this is just this is basically just a foundation of what we do but gives us support I think to do it better and to be to reach to areas that we don't know how to reach into. I think it memorializes what we do. It makes us more formal I believe and I don't mind that. Um, you know, so they, so you know, walks in the park. Um, you know, there's Pine's goals. Uh, promote lights out, you know, so we we do that. Um, include articles about Birdtown, PA. Um, you know, in our newsletters, um, organize a bird walk so we can do that in in Potter Park. um you know different things that are um

adopt a say a pineway adopt a pineway or adopt a highway in mechanis which is what we're doing right so a lot of these things and and and I think what I'm looking for is I think I'm looking for something that um makes the EAC a little bit more robust um in the footprint of McCandless's information to people and and I like this screen. I looked at this screen and said, "Boy, this is something that really that really promotes what they're doing." So, that lets people know what we're doing and what our goals are. I think this also ties in nicely with what the Penn State students are helping us to do

because what they're going to develop for us in the spring is in perfect alignment with the same thing. Yes, I'm in. Yeah. Um so and they also um they also would bring a regional there's a they have regional meetings speakers um so they have a speaker series we could attend or not attend. They have actually have one it's tonight and they invited me to it. I'm like well I can't go tonight. They're like well you can come and meet everybody who else is in it. you know, Fox Chapel Pine. There's no reason why mechanists for $100 in passing a resolution can't have something that would even if we even if we sort of fumble around a little bit and try to figure it out, um I think it's still beneficial to us to give it a try.

Can I make that? Please do.

Great. My only concern was is any obligation it was giving to us and that that doesn't seem like that's for an annual report. We already honestly have a lot of points just from there. Yeah, it's and if they are providing us resources that we can then share with the community. No reason not to. Plus, it gets our name up there with all of our neighboring municipalities. Yes. Uh John, could you go to the next link, please? And looks like you want to ask a question. I was just going to say we have a motion to second. I don't know if you guys want to actually vote on that or not. Um, all in favor? Very good. How did Matt do?

U, was that all in favor? Aaron, do I see a paw up there? Very good. Um, and then and then you can see, uh, yes, thank you, Matt. Um, you can see Pine officially recognizes a recognizes a bird tone that's in the trib. And then there's their smiling faces. Um, and they get a nice little article.

As a quick aside, anybody that's interested in migrating birds, if you go over to Hawk Mountain at this time of the year, it's over halfway across the state, but that's where all the eagles and hawks and all that stuff migrate through. It's it's it's a pretty and there'll be a lot of ornithologists there. So, even if you don't know anything, there'll be a hundred people there that can tell you what you just saw. So, you know, we too could be standing and smiling and and you know, for the for the paper on this. So, um, thank you for for accepting that. I think I think it's a great foundation for us and I think it's nothing it's no different than what we're doing now, but I think it it sort of memorializes a little bit more of what we've done and and and gets the information out and makes us a little bit more formal to the community. and I'm and I'm interested in doing that.

Then lastly, um any any comments at all, Matt? We don't want to miss you. One second.

Yes. Quick, just a quick question regarding the uh three at least three member Birdtown Committee for long-term sustainability. Would that just be us? Would that be need to be a different group? Would that be members of this group? How would we be forming that particular group? Um, it's a good question because you do have to form a a a committee. I think it mostly sits in EAC's, but I will find out about that because maybe what happens is that it would be it would it might be an EAC member because this is the way that it was for PA sustainability sustainability team, an EAC member, a township employee, um, and then a council member, something like that. So it could be, you know, may maybe maybe Joe Wall, you know, is is it or Nick or whatever, but um you know, so so it might be that. But I'll find out what the complexion is. I could

also say at least three number. So three is the minimum. I don't see why we would all of us. Okay. Anything else, Matt? Please don't do that. that [Laughter] I mean we could even throw it out there some of the other committees like I know there's a guy who does water stuff on planning committee because he's my neighbor so you know maybe he'd be interested in having some role yeah because storm water management and yeah

okay and then lastly in miscellaneous is October McMail tips we had an idea and I don't remember what it was? Well, I I think I No. Um, we posted we posted some migration um on social media. Is that right? In the past. Yes. This week.

Okay. Um I think the heaviest time for bird migration might be past, but um there's no reason why we can't use this as this this month to talk about um dimming the lights a little bit. There was some discussion about air quality last time too. That's what it was. Yeah. And the air quality has been phenomenal for the really good for the last three weeks. So we've been able to windows for the first time.

Yeah. I mean, if you want, I could do something on the air quality. Um, and managing during the the smoke event. I mean, the western fires, like right now, we still have fires in LA and it's, you know, the Canadian smoke is the biggest issue, but, you know, I think right now because we don't have a lot of the smoke, it's not as bad of an issue. But, you tell me. I I think it's important. I I mean I really focus a lot on indoor air quality with co lungs. So yeah, if we have a a red day like the day we all went on a hike that was like a pretty high orange day and I know breathing.

So you know so I can you know making people aware you know that they are issues. Is it a timely issue? Is it is it a is it now? I mean well to the extent that or wildfires in the west or the northwest that are sending smoke here uh it's an issue but to the extent that right now at this moment they're not or at least they're not hitting us we've had all green skies you know green air uh for the last three weeks but we haven't had it all year on record I mean we've just had the best air quality in the last three weeks uh that we've had all year

so you know it's been a really unique moment And I think it's too hard on but anyway up to you whether or not you want to do air quality at this point.

Well um I I don't have an issue against it. I I think that I think that we might be a little late on a bird migration message. We could still send out social media post to please, you know, maybe you can maybe can repeat a few of those. Um, you know, because I think I think some residents would like to see those. Um, so maybe we could do that. So we could we can we can not do that. But the the air quality competes with your tree message. So you you chose unless somebody else has a you know an opinion about this. I mean, I think you have two messages. Um, so, you know, I I want you to pick the one that you want to put out.

I mean, you could even tie them together because I agree. And I do think I mean, in part what I had hoped to promote for the air quality message, you know, was the the three kinds. But, you know, if you were to look at the map just briefly, you can just see, uh, we don't have a lot of purple air, so

we're not going to have horrible air quality, at least not at the moment. Um, so, you know, but yeah, I could I could tie them together, but I do think talking about this being an important time to look at your trees, manage your trees, you know, it's like prep them for winter. Um, Of course, there's always, you know, the reminder about picking up, you know, the leaves for your neighbors who can't do it, you know. So, I think there's you did a little bit of that last year. So, I think I'd like to talk about, you know, something on trees.

Yeah, you had I mean, you had a great one last year was really I mean, it was, you know, it did we do the tree one last year for November 1 or for October 1? Because really the leaves start falling. It's November. It's the heaviest. But my It's a little early this year, I guess. So moisture stress. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it might be a little bit different. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of dead weeds, a lot of Right.

Yeah. So I think Yeah. Let me focus on trees. You know what's happening with trees in October and what they can do. And last year we didn't have a tip in October. For 2024 we had light pollution in 2023, no tip in 2022. Pumpkins, recreational burning, and trash and trash, but last year there wasn't. So, okay. Well, you'll be breaking new ground. Yeah. to do, you know, trees in October. That's great. Okay, good. So,

you know what's happening with trees in October? You know, there's you can plant, you can, you know, there's only a couple times a year you can really plant. So, I think it's perfect. Now, the planting period, I just updated the list. So, it will it's in there for 2025. Okay, great. And then like you said, maybe you can tie that in and and maybe you know make that the the main body of your work but say and trees obviously help with the you know the error you know the situations of code red blah blah blah. Um can I ask now we have the sensor here. Oh we didn't get it yet. Okay because we can't me because I was thinking okay

but when you do that we could do the air quality thing because there is a group called That's the one that I went to the first a couple years ago. It's called R Oc, but they do free trainings for indoor air quality. It's kind of the tractor sponsored. So, they do cohort probably four times a year. So, you sign up and you can learn about indoor air quality. It's how I got all my meters was through that program. indoor, outdoor, you know, VR things, the radon monitors because I would like to in that same air quality thing about radon. Yeah. Okay.

Because I know we've got a massive issue with radon. I've been dealing with radon in my place. So, I just put a bigger fan in. I'm putting a return air system in because I've been monitoring radon for a year now and I have the data and why things do and don't work. So I feel like we we do need to educate people more of that radon and even if they get you know what was installed on mine was a little fan we not put a big one on and it's helped but it's not solving it yet. So thing you know these radon system so we'll tie that one in down the road then.

Okay. So okay so we have our tip then for October 1st. Very good. That's great. employees what they worked on in DC in 1980. Okay, Nick, do you have a report from town council? Nothing really to add other than um just we'll make sure that those two junior members get put through. Can we add it on to the next meeting agenda? I think does it have to be when we do the EA because I just need to do but I'd love to get it. Yeah, get them. Yeah, get them in. Yeah, absolutely. Y as close to the beginning of the school year as possible.

That' be great. Okay, so now now we're working on a um new EAC member, junior EAC members. Um Okay. Putting a lot in front of council. Okay. Very good. Anything else, Nick? Okay. Uh topics for next month's EAC meeting? Ideally will be joining us if they're when we don't know when the posting will be for Oh Junior. Yes. Okay. So we would want to ensure

Yes. Yes. Yes. We will we will do that this time. Not not miss that this time. Even if we can't do it at the next meeting, we could No, because then it would be October 13th. I mean, they could come in as guests for the next meeting. Okay. Yeah, I think that's Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Long as they're here.

Okay. Uh other topics for next meeting. Well, at that point we we know that what we'll do is we'll obviously have um you know a debrief about community day. We will have a debrief about the deer presentation and then we will be all hands on deck um to to assist you as best we can right from for for the for the tree tenders. Um, might even actually I'll ask the guys if I can have a a report from the uh suburban whitetail because archery season starts, you know, here in midepptember. Yeah,

we'll refer that back on a project update then. Yeah.

Okay, good. Okay. Got it. All right. Well, we'll do that. Um, and and I would say now let's let's look at the miscellaneous list real quick. Um, open EAC budget. We're done. 175th. I'll just follow up with that. Regional EA, that's not a project. Um, Burnttown, PA is not a project. Um, I, you know, we'll we'll we'll move to um, you know, we'll move forward on getting it, you know, as a resolution by council. We'll move forward to paying the $100 and so forth, but then it may become I don't know if it becomes a project. I don't think it's actually a project. It's sort of

we have to do the once a year report. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, it won't go to project then. Okay. Okay. Very good. Anything else? Motion to Sure. Sure. Seems like the right thing to do. Can we have a second? All right. Meeting adjourned. Thank you very much.