City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Trees & Greenery Committee, 13 Apr 2022

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4.13.2022 Trees & Public Greenery Committee

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uh There you go okay, good morning, uh dick adams, I'm sitting in for peter lockland, who.

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Is in st augustine, florida.

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I think is in west virginia what else.

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Did I do anyway, I have a couple of show-and-tell items for you.

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This is a piece of malignant artist with man.

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Surprisingly, heavy there's a hardness scale. I looked it up.

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And uh it's I'm not sure exactly what the hardness relates to or how don't think measure, but.

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It's in the 4500 range white, pine is or yellow pine is 600 for that kind of difference.

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The size of them.

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All right, the first item of business is the acceptance of the march.

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Minutes any comments, corrections.

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The harvard uh street uh trees should we take them as a block.

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Want to comment on them yeah. I can just briefly comment. There they're all heavily heavily. You.

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Name it they're pretty much if they're not dead, they are going to be followed over and then at the.

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Next, heavy parking fall they're just hanging on by a thread, so I don't think it's much of a question.

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A second discussion, those in favor of removal of all fiber trees,.

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So greenleaf avenue we have two red maples sure yeah, that's a another request from scott, which is.

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Understandable they're, unfortunately leaning over the triple phase and they're only getting wider.

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That's also leaving, I believe, there's two more that aren't as bad. Instead of taking them off.

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So he's the two worst ones: one has to decay the base. One has some decay in the canopy as well.

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I think long term, it makes sense. We.

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Can still use that right away to plant some better species that are suitable for that area.

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Yeah, the black cherry, that's next to us, the one that's on private property yep, it's kind of.

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Coming out over the road that one's, not one that you guys are proposing to take out it wasn't. I.

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Haven't really looked super close at it, you know we're focusing more on the hazard part of the.

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Trees, not something that might just be leaning and still be healthy to me that one seemed to be a lot.

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Discussion, would you eventually take all four of those.

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You'd have to depend on what they look like down the road. You know again we're not trying to.

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Deforest poison, if they stay healthy, then just assume they stay right. There.

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What's in favor of removal, okay, so all right.

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uh We're here at thailand, greece, behind me too, and mark bachelor.

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Are here uh together with me today we're working on a series of projects.

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um Who's driving around notice that we've hold all the strawberry anniversary.

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On monday- and they are finishing um any clearing today, uh so the proposed plan on the.

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Bottom side of that sheet is to actually put in a planting bed along the bridge street so that the.

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Parking lot is screened on all four sides. That's the ultimate plan. The entire parking lot is.

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Being slid toward maplewood avenue about four and a half feet to do that, we are eliminating.

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What was the interior concrete sidewalk so that people are creating pathways every so.

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Often, to get to the main sidewalk out on paperwood, that's how we're doing that so.

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I thought it was a worthy endeavor and the parking lot needed to be reconstructed so.

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We're taking this opportunity to make some minor changes um the strip along bridge street.

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uh Is open, public works will plant that and I don't know chuck what process if any.

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There is for selecting species for that, but I'll leave that chucking and his team. They know more.

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About it than I do, there is one tree that we're removing or relocating and chuck. I called you.

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About that yesterday, it's the ones that's shown right above the two handicap spots right there.

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It's a small tree, it's one! It's only about this break. So, uh depending on what chuck decides we can.

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Even relocate it down to one of those two trees to the left, it's showing darker um or we can.

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So that is bridge street as a whole. um The upper end over by islington street.

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Is going to be designed as part of the constraint project so we're going to.

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Leave that blank slate for now we've removed the shrubbery, uh but other than that. We're.

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Not going to go into that area today and get designed by the landscape architect.

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Those shrubs being discarded yes,.

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They've probably already been discarded at this point.

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So the second thing I'll talk about is google park, so I gave you some paper plans this morning, but I.

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Just jumped on another question sure, a handful of years ago we planted some hawthorne salon.

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Are they coming out? So if it's just that one tree, I don't believe that.

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One is a hawthorn and I believe that two, just down from that are hall thorns. So I.

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Don't believe so, I think this one is a crab apple from when I went on monday.

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So, and neither one of those are going to be: okay,.

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um I have a question um chuck so you'll select whatever is added to.

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The lot I mean you're talking about the hanover street in.

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What is that? That planting bed will be ready for plants and trees.

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And within probably four weeks of time,.

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Okay, so have you ordered the trees I mean, do we even know what they are? Will they I didn't want.

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To presume and decide what tree species they would be, I figured we might have some trees.

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Left over from the planting process- and I was going to leave it to.

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Our arborist to decide what they should put there.

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We can do something, there uh probably trees to start uh and work with.

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Core and on smaller plants, okay, I was just curious if you'd already, I have not, I actually have not.

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Known, but I mean the beauty of this too- is there's no real rush to to make a decision.

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Yeah, you know really. The big thrust for the timing is getting the asphalt down getting the.

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Parking lot functional as hanover garage goes into construction right, so the landscape can follow.

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um And it's it's there's a desire to have more discussion. We can hold up on making any decisions.

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Okay, thank you is that an in-house job, the reconstruction it's going out to bed, it's gone out.

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To bed it's it's being managed by dave and mark, um but it's it's being done by advanced pavement.

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We don't have the bandwidth at this point to take our project that size.

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Okay, okay, so we'll switch over to the paper copies.

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Okay, so uh cleveland park is being um yeah, is getting a new entrance.

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This is part of the island street project, so I gave you two sheets. The first one is.

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uh Park as it is right now with the new streetscape superimposed above it.

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uh You can see we're doing the brick accents with concrete sidewalks out on the streetscape.

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uh Chuck's been working with jeff highland on picking trees for the streetscape.

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And we're going to come back next month and give you a full report.

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On the species that we picked for the streetscape, those plans are sitting at about 90.

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And a half percent right now, I'm expecting that by the time you see me next month that project.

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Should be a little bit for construction so depending on if we get lucky or not, um find.

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A contractor with the royal vermont building that phase two starting this summer, the second sheet.

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Is the same superimposed streetscape above, but now it's showing new.

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The brick walls that are currently there will get rehabilitated.

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We're going to put granite caps on them. They're uh the water is getting into the wall right now,.

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So that needs to be addressed as part of this, so some of the drainage caps that we're removing.

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Notice that, on either side, the two entrances that are there today are now being changed.

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So those will be changed to line up with the crosswalk on either side. So.

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That people from the neighborhood can enter the park directly as they cross the street.

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So that's all being redone to be completely compliant with ada. uh The brick.

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Surrounds that show up on the first page are being removed in those two spots.

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And the sidewalks are being realigned, there's no uh impact to screens part of this work. We will.

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Be adding some volume lights along the main entrance uh for the black walnut lights? That.

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We use in the park out of market street. I mean chosen for that to provide lighting to ethanol.

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And the fence that currently is on the frontal part, is being either rehabilitated or replaced.

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It's aluminum fasteners good quality effects, but it at least needs to be reset.

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In possibly a couple of sections.

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They have questions about the partner, so just a quick statement. um The park is in need of.

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Additional attention at some point, the intent of this overall project was not a park. Rehabilitation.

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Project it really, it really drove from the fact that the streetscape side of islington touched.

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The park and then we wanted to make sure that he didn't have a nice streetscape against a.

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Section of park- that was, you know not as nice as the rest of the streetscape, so it really was.

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Just doing the the what we felt was made sense relative to the project in the street. It wasn't.

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At one point, the landscape architect started to do rims. You know, keep expanding and spending all the.

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Time out, but we have a limited budget with limited time. You know the intent here is really to make.

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The streetscape along islington, coherent and also you know, as they pointed out, improve ada american.

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Disability act, compliance, so that's really so it wasn't we're driving further deeper into the park.

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If bids are chosen, this work will take place next.

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But actually the phase two line is actually shown on the plan, but I don't suspect that everything.

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um Actually has been working on sidewalk projects in.

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Multiple neighborhoods um state street maple, haven and pla.

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Over the last couple of months, we've had a public meeting in this neighborhood neighborhood.

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Has asked and did ask for sidewalks in this neighborhood a while ago it was.

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Added to the cip, peter four or five years ago, six, seven, maybe six or seven years ago,.

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It was long enough that people are getting upset, frustrated, yeah, so um right now.

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Pianoa has sidewalks on both sides of the street they're.

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Three feet: wide they're, unusable um they're, unusable because of tree roots. Quite frankly,.

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um We looked at narrowing the road to put the sidewalk over the paved surface that doesn't work.

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The road is not wide enough here that we can do some kind of trimming project uh the only place.

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For the sidewalk, unfortunately, is the current location of the sidewalk. So internally we.

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Made the decision that the best thing to do to limit the amount of trees that are going to be.

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Impacted was to replace the sidewalk on one side of the street. Only the other side of the street.

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Would have the old sidewalk removed permanently? We looked at both sides of the street to count.

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How many trees would be impacted on the inner side versus the outer side? There are less trees under.

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This proposed scenario, which this blue ring that's shown up on the screen in front of you- shows.

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Tearing out the existing three to three and a half foot asphalt, sidewalk, that's unusable, replacing.

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It with a five and a half foot wide sidewalk in its current location, one greater asphalt, concrete.

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In order to do that, uh mark and I walked around monday and we have counted a final towel. There are.

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28 trees that need to be removed in order to put in the sidewalk of note, there are 24 large trees.

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And several small trees that will be remaining on that side, so about half the trees on that side.

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Of the street are being removed for the sidewalk project or want to be removed. The inner loop side.

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There are no trigger removals, so we're saving all the trees on here and asking that we remove.

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About half the trees on the outer room so that we can construct this sidewalk for the neighborhood.

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I believe they're all original equipment, the steamboat was built.

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During world war ii, so they're all about the same age and they're, all mostly women's right.

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Primarily yeah, I think, there's one or two that are maples. What's a maple that really is quite ugly.

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But in general they're all elementaries, so they haven't been posted yet.

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When you've had a gold, meaning, the neighborhood is very much in favor of putting in the sidewalk.

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um So at the next meeting we'll be asking you to allow us to remove all those trades.

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We will send this project out to bid. We.

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Have problems getting bitters, which seems to be you know a problem lately for all.

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Aspects of construction, then we would rebid the project for next year, but as it stands right.

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Now we are planning on fitting this project for construction this summer and this fall.

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Are residents aware of how many trees we have mentioned? That would mean that there.

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Would be a large number, you did not give them an exact number. I believe.

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As part of the process, you know we work closely with the church and.

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The attempt is to try to minimize it. You know hamster trees.

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As you know, when you get into the roots of putting sidewalk in you're, going down a foot.

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And you know you're gonna if it's right next to the tree, you're going to be damaging roots.

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So we do our best to try to figure out if there are ways to avoid everything. As david said him.

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Say the 24 jerusalem yeah, so it would be uh to follow those 24 trees that are staying and.

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See what they look like over the course of the next couple years after the project is true. If.

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We thought they were going to be damaged, we would have them on the list, but we think that we could.

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So the next meeting we did not post.

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For this meeting, because we figured it will stir, a lot of people will be very interested.

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Seeing a bunch of flyers up on the trees along the hilarious, so instead of you know,.

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Kicking the hornet's nest immediately. We wanted to bring it to you guys. First.

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Has been added.

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Is there more on that? Stick, um tyler, no.

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We're also, as I alluded to we're, also working with um abelhaven has the exact same sidewalk.

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Set up it's a little younger neighborhood and, as the name implies we're doing maples not lindens.

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um But we're still in the design process and trying to decide what the scope enable even.

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Is um seems to be a lot of controversy over what side of the street sidewalks go on.

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um Here are a lot of um yes, we want sidewalks, but we wanted on that side of the street, not.

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Our side of the street and people on either side of the street are pointing to the outside stream.

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So that is still working. I guess so we're not going to talk about people even today, um but.

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We should have a good feel for what's going to happen down there by the time you get to the.

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Next key, so did you have a lot of that in penalty matter too people say put it on the other side.

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Tail two c's right: I've driven through there a bunch of times recently and everybody's.

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Walking up the street- and I just went through this one of those people walking bus going by.

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You know just they don't use the walkers the streets.

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Is literally just that um you know we have good data from good engineering data that says.

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Under a certain amount of cars a day and if the cars travel at a certain speed.

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Sidewalks really aren't warranted, so it might be one of those things that um enable him, because the.

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Traffic pattern is a different way, is a loop. You have to cut or go through there, but maybe.

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Once you get into the main entrance split in five or six different directions, so the traffic tiles.

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May not be there so we'll work through that design process and we'll be back next month.

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I'm sure there's going to be more than enough grass strip left that there's room for trees.

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So I would imagine that we do have we plant the effort the year after we as long as we have yeah.

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Right away, I don't see why not we'll also reach out to homeowners to make them aware that if.

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They would like trees, you know, as you recall, we're looking to plant 400 trees next year.

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So we're going to be looking for places to plant, you know plant trees.

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Chuck with regard to land instead do they display a particular tendency to have the roots.

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Come up near the surface, I'm not what I'm aware of no, I I haven't dealt with that. I.

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Mean not any more than any other species, um but I think peter said if we can, for the sake of.

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Having a efficient watering routine, uh we like to kind of reforest areas. So if we had.

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She's on 50 trees planted in pan away when that project's done and we're reforesting.

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That area and we can water efficiently, as opposed to bouncing all over town.

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That's a good question. Scott. Do you have any? What do you think about lindens and raising.

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Sidewalks, are they, like black chuck said they don't ever? Every species runs with the problem.

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Goings down it's easier to come up and push the surface up.

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Any further questions for me.

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Thank you. Thank you. Thanks dave, we appreciate your time. Thank you. Thanks mark.

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Let's go peter, you want to address the uh everyday award now um I actually will defer to chuck yeah.

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The work that his in history do, I would like to give him the opportunity, so this year.

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um Every year we apply just for the growth award for different.

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uh Whatsoever or categories to meet so this year, um there's a few different categories.

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It was establishing uh a safety training program with the tree crew, so it's a little bit different.

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Than the past, where, however, we qualify for many different areas, this year, we established a weekly.

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Safety training program for crew members, which is really important for us and also.

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Continuing education for crew members, so uh investing thanks to peter on being able to send.

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All members to the crew to isa events, conferences, stuff, like that new hampshire harvest events.

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Then there was a third category which, which I think was our yes. It was a young tree training.

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Which is not just planting trees and kind of abandoning them, but uh working on them.

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For a five-year pruning cycle that we have currently.

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So, for five years we rigorously go around and prune those. It doesn't take a lot of time, but.

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uh Having them on that list for the first five years of their life to do pruning that.

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Will last for many years to correct issues like co-dominance stems and stuff like that, so anyways.

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Those were the factors this year, just a quick update. All right, our trees arrived.

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All the weeks are blending into one now. uh I think it was last monday, but we've already put in.

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um 70. yeah, so we are, we hope to be pretty much done by the end of this week um and into.

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Watering, so we're at there'll be a hundred trees in the ground. um I think we'll have a few extras.

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That'll be kind of uh the school. The high school wants, some trees, dondero school and some trees.

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uh So we saved you know a handful for stuff like that, but the these trees will be in the.

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Ground by the end of this week, and then we still will do some ball and burlap plantings such as.

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Various projects so arbor day, we can talk about that, but we'll plant a tree that day.

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That'll probably be involved in burlap, um possibly bridge street. That's the first I've heard of that.

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Planting, but that would be a good in four weeks. We can go to millikins and get some trees for that. So.

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We'll still sprinkle in some trees, but our biggest thing is watering. You know it's we're right at.

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Maximum uh capacity for keeping them watered all summer, so we don't want to get too carried away.

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But anyways it's just an update on where we're at with that. So I I'd like to just you know. I.

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Appreciate chuck's acknowledging my effort, but it's really it's really the effort of.

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This community, this committee, as well as the city council uh that has continued to support um this.

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Important investment in the city over the last 20 plus years- and you know you all- have spent a lot.

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Of time and effort- um and I really you know it's- I can't say enough for for that, because it really.

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You know, as you know, the the highway department and public works department.

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Haven't uh historically been focused on uh trees and protecting trees and uh through the education.

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And through hiring some really good staff, we've been able to create a really good program and.

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The continued support of the committee of the committee and that translated to council has.

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Been really important, um so you know I appreciate everything you guys do and I really want to take.

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This opportunity to thank you and the council for the continued support of the programs.

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And chuck and his staff are outstanding, we are, we are probably one of the best cities in the state.

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If not the country um relative to doing this stuff, so I'm really proud of the work they do.

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Note that it wasn't that many years ago, that.

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We managed to do our planning in the peak of the drought season.

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Is good there's a few just uh the there's four of the taxodium species, which is bald cypress.

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That they do great all in burlap, but they're your tricky bare root and we'll see how they.

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Do but just a note on arbor day so where the red pines were at um pierce island. So the red.

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Pines are all gone um and all of them they're all gone yep. They all were infested and we worked with.

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Cameron anyways, we finally removed those this winter, so we've already planted.

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About 15 or 16 trees from this round all different species out there and we will.

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Plant, even some more as long we want to have the each species are large species, because there's.

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No overuse overhead utilities, so we want to be able to have them grow to be big specimens, so we.

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Don't think we're going to go as dense as it was before um that being said, arbor day.

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Friday, the 29th we think that'll be the spot. Well we're planning on having it there at 8 am.

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Just to kind of kick off and conclude that that reforestation project I just.

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Think that'll be a good spot to do it so anyways. Will that be publicized? Yes,.

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Yeah, I just wanted to throw it out. There is the pierce island committee that really important.

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Not as it's it's tough, because I I went there and there's a lot of opinions at the committee, but at.

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The end of the day we removed the trees. Our trees were here, and I need to replant there because.

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We just need to be replanting where we remove that many trees, so we just went for it in terms of.

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Putting new trees on that hillside, but I'm totally open to working with the peer sign committee for.

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There's other ideas or more trees in other areas, I mean there's still.

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A lot of area on pierce island that we could do projects. I mentioned that.

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Milwaukee forest project that they did in cambridge and there was people.

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Interested in that, but I don't know- I mean the committee's involvement.

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In operations uh is limited, you know- and this is an operational um approach from our side, so.

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You know we do. We had staff there last night, they had a meeting, so I'm sure we get some feedback.

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And the four trees that are potentially not going to make it that we knew that are in the wet area.

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Just before that point, therefore, we wanted to make a bald cypress grove there in that wet area.

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And if they don't make it we're going to try and still do that project with paulden burlap.

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Trees, oh so you tried the bare root. Yeah, the berry works, excellent. We had.

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96 out of 100 trees from last year do wonderful, it's just that species. In particular, I don't.

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Know why neither does the wholesaler? He warned me and I was like oh let's just try it anyways.

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They may do fine, but I just they had a look and I said yeah it's hard to find.

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A lot of good buds on them. How long have you been here? It's only been about a week.

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We had way worse, trees last year that were fine with zelkovas that broke bud at the end of june.

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And did excellence the rest of the year and are full of mud for this year. So.

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Yeah similar situation, it was just every now and then you get a species.

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And the same goes with all the burlap trees and they like wet feet right. They.

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They do love the wet areas, but they also do really well in dry areas.

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So we will see, but if you walk by there and you think, there's five trees that are dead, we're.

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Email with all the finalized, the sightseeing.

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Yes, yep yeah we'll have sights species everything uh asap just there's a little bit of.

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Stuff moving around right now.

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So the it's pretty much the same as we discussed before that you know: we've got donations from.

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The rotary club, um the city's planning on their traditional and then uh you know, working with aj.

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Off the balance of them, you know, I, I think it's probably uh something that will work beforehand.

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Committee uh to start doing outreach, um but you know probably what we'll do is put together a.

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Flyer or something like that, folks run it by the committee first, uh but you know it will be word of.

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Mouth just for the most part, I would think because people don't always look at the advertisements and.

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Information out there, but it'll be a good opportunity. If there are areas that you see.

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With their private properties that you say, jesus would really be a beautiful spot to put some trees.

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um You know if you know these people, if you reach out to them. That would be great, but so we're you.

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Know we're excited about this. It's going to be, you know, as chuck said, you know it's all great well,.

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With the plan, and then you have to get the water yeah, so there's gonna, there's gonna be a little.

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Bit of gearing up uh to be able to cover that there'll be some commitment, resources and time.

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From our side to make sure we do the best we can to keep things watered.

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um So what we're excited about? We think it's a it's a great opportunity to kind of celebrate.

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The 400th and the same time, you know, continue the work that this committee's been doing so.

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It's good thing: exciting. I'm bob burner from eversource on the opera strip resource down.

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In the portsmouth area, um scott shared um your extensive planting plans with me.

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And eversource would be interested in donating 10 trees, either in a celebration of arbor day.

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Or as part of your plan for 400., that's great. Thank you very much awesome. Thank you.

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Patton probably put words in her mouth, but she uh emailed me with a question about.

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The committee getting him involved in some level with cyber species selection a number of years ago,.

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We used to do that. I realized this would add complexity to your already difficult job, but.

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If there are members of the committee who would like to weigh in it's primarily a way.

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Of learning more about yeah trees, yeah, so speaking on that, um yes, we have to figure out how it works.

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Logistically, but we currently, um we actually so we have 100 trees and there's 19 species.

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We, let's see, I think it would be a matter of maybe doing an initial just.

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I get a availability order, form from the nursery say around christmas time, maybe making that.

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Shareable with the committee and going from there as to what we want to include, I I just.

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It's tough because uh when I put the order in oftentimes I'm rejected for the species, I want.

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So I think it's important that we're all on the same page but um say michael once see this planted.

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Oh yeah, no problem, they have 100 available and then I put in the order. It's like that.

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Sorry too later they all died. I mean just because, but yes, I think that's important, but right now.

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Currently, I just go super diverse. The only trees that we don't put in that they grow is really just.

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More fruiting trees, but yeah. I think we look at what that would look like. Maybe it's just.

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Sending out the availability form when I get it around the holidays, having everyone review.

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And then maybe just having a meeting putting it on the agenda where we just talk about.

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Species things we don't want to see things we want to see. Is it possible to put together.

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You know, I don't know how many years we have data for, but the types of trees that we would species.

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Of trees that we've planted over the last five years and say: okay, so absolutely here's the 15 15.

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Are we dominant on you know 90 of this one species yeah because of yeah, um so that would.

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Be good that'd be good information too. To say you know if everybody wants the same thing, but.

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We've already planted a bunch of yeah, we should be looking at other, you know diversifying ones yeah.

A

We don't want to slow down the process either. No, no, I think it's difficult, I think, having just.

B

Sending out maybe we just started an annual.

B

Thing where I get it, I send it to everyone in the next treason, greenery meeting.

B

We verbally go over it because that's really the most realistic, because if it starts getting into.

B

I think sending specific trees via email. I can just see that turning into a nightmare.

B

But if we just verbally meet and we can print off the list go through species and some yeah like.

B

Peter said someone will want some of these. Oh, we just planted a bunch, but for the most part, as long.

B

As we keep it, we usually at the most have eight of one species per year, so there's 19 species.

B

100 trees and the most of that 100 is eight. It's usually trees that it's usually the small trees.

B

uh That go under utilities, there's only so many species that growers grow of small flowering.

B

Trees and every city wants them, that's the thing so we're battling cities.

B

Much bigger than us, like cambridge, it's 700 trees twice a year uh that type of thing so.

B

It's a battle check, we pre-order like we did. We said you know two years out, you know and then.

E

We put a deposit down, we say you know secure us 53, so the next I couldn't that is potential.

B

Which is also a battle is to almost have our own plot at these wholesale nurseries. um In a way.

B

But there's other cities that that want that too. So I tried the same thing with.

B

Amherst nurseries, they basically grow here in western mass they're growing northampton's trees.

B

A bunch of trees for cambridge on these plots that they've reserved.

B

It's possible I could ask, or in at this point very close contact with schicktales in western new york.

A

There's a few in the area, but primarily milliken nurseries and then we'll work with northern.

B

That's sometimes sometimes stratum circle, but millikin really has.

B

The best trees once again we're only able to plant a hundred trees because.

B

They're bare root: it wouldn't even be close to that number if they were falling in their lap.

B

And as of right now, our success rate is equal, if not higher, uh there's only four trees. Last year.

B

That didn't make it so we're we're big fans of that. So far,.

B

Does anyone have any older new business.

C

Good morning, everyone we'll see you all the way from scottish some northern tree.

C

Service and speak on behalf of other sources uh this morning, I just have a general question.

C

There is a tree down at people's united bank. I believe that state street fleet.

C

That corner of that parking lot ever source is looking to do some work in that parking lot.

C

Trim the trees back and I contacted cornerstone tree service. We managed the property for them.

C

There is the potential that we would like to take a tree out from down there, starting to split apart.

C

It could fall in the three three-phase along the short narrow side streets, but his concern came up.

C

That there may be some statute or regulation as to the amount of shade cover needed in that parking.

E

uh We'll need to to review that with the planning department to see if the cycle development plans.

E

Had some requirements associated with that, okay- and it may be an administrative change or may have.

E

To go to planning, if that's the case on board, but I'm not aware of any restrictions on that.

E

I know the quarter street condos, which is across the street from that parking lot on porter street.

E

Have some planning requirements associated with that, but I'm not sure about the parking lot. Okay,.

C

I think I needed a place to start. This was probably going to be the area some of the.

A

Discussion we've had in the past was planning gives them requirements of planting for the.

A

Initial owner or the initial setup for that property, but that those planting requirements.

A

Don't carry forward in perpetuity we've run into that a few different lots here in the city.

E

There are some that are like that, there's some that have it actually into their needs.

E

You know they're required to maintain uh there's a couple out of them.

E

Like that so, but I I can check and find out what he's got. Okay, yeah that'd be great. Like I said you.

C

Know cornerstone was fairly agreeable to letting us take that treat out. They just didn't want to.

C

Get hit with a surprise. Oh now we got to put a tree back. How are we going to do that yeah, but I.

C

Told them I would ask the board and see what their thoughts were on. Thank you for that peter. What.

C

As a matter of fact, I did some of the board. Members did send me a.

C

Po box here in portsmouth and I mailed him a letter and I actually got a phone call.

C

Last night, from them that said, yes, but that cherry tree could be cut down. Wow.

C

I kind of thought that was just a lost cause can't find anybody. I've.

A

Seen photographs in that cemetery, probably palmer era, early 90s, it was well maintained.

A

At that time it seems to be in disrepairs. I don't know if anyone's mowing it now or not.

B

I think it gets mowed very sporadically. It didn't look overgrown yeah run. Yes,.

A

There's an ash tree right in the middle. Isn't it a big one? I think so yeah, that's something.

C

That's all I have thank you boy for all their cooperation that we've got bro a year ago.

C

With everybody else, thanks scott, thank you.

C

Various locations parking some of our stuff over to greenland now down towards northampton area,.

B

We're just going to plant the tree.