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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES Tree Board 2011-12-16Members Present: Scott Roederer Sandy Burns Rex Poggenpohl Barbara Williams Mike Richardson Trcc Board Minutes Friday, December 16, 2011 8:30 a.m. Engineering Conference Room Town Hall Members Not Present: Chuck Levine Carol Shannon Others Present: Diana Selby, Colorado State Forest Service; Russ Franklin, Scott Zum and Dave Mahaney, Town of Estes Park Arboretum Board members decided to roll over 2011 dollars to 2012 for use in hiring a landscape designer for the arboretum. The first step is an RFP for the landscaping design bid. The cost of this part of the project is a concern Board members discussed waiting until after the Tree Symposium to proceed further (mid -summer). In addition, Scott Zum advised that the Board needed to consider the impact of the potential parking lot to be built east of the Visitors' Center; the Town is waiting to hear on a grant application for the parking lot. Also there is a 50 foot setback requirement from the river —it would appear that this leaves 90% of the potential arboretum area available. Legacy Tree Program Rex discussed the program and ongoing problems with finalizing a proposed plan. Public Works would like to raise the fee to $400/tree; however, the public does not want to pay the increased fee unless a plaque or marker is used to designate the tree. There continues to be controversy about the markers, given maintenance issues and the concern about creating a "gravestone" kind of environment. Scott R. distributed photos of markers he observed at a Florida arboretum. Board members voted to continue work on the Legacy Tree Program. Arbor Day As Chair for this event, Sandy reported that her meeting with the new school principal Karen Glassman, and Jen and Mike was productive. May 18th is the preferred date. She plans to repeat last year's program, given its success. The program will include CSFS and RMNP speakers, tree plantings, and the tree cookie contest with prizes. She suggested two new additions: poster/calendar contest and the CSFS seedling program. Board members did not agree to fund the calendar contest. Further discussion about this and the seedling program was scheduled for the next meeting. Tree Symposium Mike is the chair and Rex the assistant for this program. Date is May 9th at the Rocky Mountain Park Inn conference center. Board members discussed topics/speakers, tentatively agreed upon as: • General tree topic plus future forest health: Dave Leatherman is preferred speaker • Beetles: speaker TBD. Diana to recommend. • Local plants and/or tree identification. Speaker TBD • All agency panel regarding beetle mitigation programs and results (speakers TBD) • Fire mitigation (except title to be modified to be more appealing to audience (Sue Pinkham and others TBD). A vendor list is needed, as well as plan to contact each vendor for purposes of attendance at the Symposium. The meeting was adjourned at 10:00 a.m. Submitted January 20th, 2012, by Sandy Bums.