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MINUTES
THE COLONY TREE ADVISORY BOARD
SPECIAL SESSION
NOVEMBER 10TH 2011
PRESENT: TeRon Lawrence - President STAFF: Pam Nelson
Lisa Leary - Secretary Keith Helms - Absent
Stephen Sohn - Vice President Kathy Neal
Kathy Braby - Treasurer
Dan Mahle - Member
Don Beckel - Member
Rolando Reyes - Member COUNCIL LIAISON: Allen Harris - Absent
1. CITIZEN'S INPUT-
None.
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF FEBRUARY IOTH 2011-
Motion to approve the minutes Leary; second-Sohn; abstain Reyes; motion passes.
3. DISCUSSION AND REVIEW THE PRELIMINARY 2011 TREE CITY USA APPLICATION
The board was given a preliminary recap of the 2011 qualifying expenditures, and one item missing fi°om this
report is the North Colony landscape project. Bids for this project will be awarded in December; even
though the trees won't be planted until 2012 the project will be funded in 2011, so we can add it to the 2011
expenditures. There were more expenditures this year than we thought we would have due to maintenance.
The park maintenance crew spent a lot of time hand watering trees; because of the drought, the irrigation
systems were not sufficient enough to keep the trees watered so we had to supplement with hand watering.
A page will be set up on the CDC website dedicated to trees; it will have information about tree plantings, the
Adopt-A-Tree program, and registering trees with the North Texas Initiative.
4. DISCUSS "TREE NORTH TEXAS" INITIATIVE -
Between now and February is the best time to plant trees. We need to encourage people to register their trees
online whenever they do plant trees.
5. DISCUSS GOALS FOR 2012 -
Some of the goals set in 2011 did not get done, so we will do them in 2012; one of those goals is to develop
and online survey. A suggestion was made to have a tree planting seminar and to also make tree planting a
competition to see how our tree plantings compare with other cities.
There being no further to discuss, the meeting was adjourned at 10:17 p.m.
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Kathy Neal, Recording Secretary TeRon awi nce, President