* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:02] ALL RIGHT, [CALL TO ORDER] I'M GONNA CALL TO ORDER THIS FEBRUARY 19TH REGULAR MEETING OF THE TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. AND I'M GONNA FIRST ASK OUR CLERK TO DO A ROLL CALL. EWING OBEYED HERE. FORM B HERE. KUSON. HERE. VER KERLEY. HERE. BERTELLI. THANK YOU. TERRIFIC. THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND THEN WE'LL MOVE TO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT [GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT] BEFORE I ASK ABOUT ANYONE IN THE ROOM. CLERK, DID WE RECEIVE ANY COMMENTS ONLINE BEFORE THE MEETING? NO, WE DID NOT. OKAY. WELL, AND CURRENTLY WE DO NOT HAVE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE, SO I'M GONNA GUESS WE DON'T HAVE ANYONE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, SO I FEEL CONFIDENT IN CLOSING THAT ITEM. AND MOVING ON TO APPROVAL OF MINUTES. [APPROVAL OF MINUTES] SO THIS WOULD BE APPROVAL OF MINUTES FOR THE MEETING OF JANUARY 15TH, 2025. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY CHANGES OR QUESTIONS ON THE MINUTES, DARREN? UM, I'M JUST WONDERING, UM, JUST A REAL SIMPLE BUTTON TO PUSH IS RECORD THE MEETING AND TRANSCRIBE IT AND THEN YOU JUST MAKE YOUR NOTES. IT TAKES MAYBE 20 MINUTES. I'D LIKE FOR US TO LIKE ADVANCE INTO THE 21ST CENTURY AND AUTOMATE SOME NOTE TAKING FOR THE MINUTES. I THINK IT WOULD REALLY BE GOOD FOR THE RESUME OF WHOMEVER IS RESPONSIBLE AND, UM, TO KNOW THIS TECHNOLOGY, WHICH HAS BEEN BEST PRACTICE FOR MULTIPLE YEARS NOW. AND BECAUSE READING THE MINUTES AS THEY STAND, THEY'RE BASICALLY SAY NOTHING, UM, EXCEPT FOR THE WHAT THE AGENDA WAS. SO, UM, I KNOW THAT IT'S BEEN A PRACTICE. I JUST WANNA SAY AGAIN, I THINK THAT, UM, IT'S TIME TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE INSPIRED INSTEAD OF DEFAULTING TO THE BARE MINIMUM. I KNOW THAT'S NOT ANYBODY'S RESPONSIBILITY HERE, BUT I JUST WANNA SUPPORT YOU IN DOING EXCELLENCE, IN FEELING THE SENSE OF, UH, ACCOMPLISHMENT THAT COMES WITH EXCELLENCE IN JOB PERFORMANCE. THANK YOU. POINT, WELL, CHAIR RASON, JUST BEFORE WE DO THAT AND TO LET THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS KNOW, CITY CLERK'S OFFICE HAS CHARGED US WITH ONLY DOING ACTION MINUTES. SO WE WOULD NOT BE DOING DETAILED MINUTES REGARDLESS. SO IF THERE IS ANY QUESTION TO WATCH ANY OF THE RECORDINGS THAT ARE POSTED, AND, UM, BUT IF WE HAVE QUESTIONS WE CAN GO BACK TO THE CLERKS, BUT THAT'S HOW WE'VE BEEN DIRECTED TO TAKE MINUTES. YEAH, I'M AWARE OF THAT. I JUST WANNA MAKE A SHOUT OUT TO ADVANCING AND TO BEING LIKE OTHER CITIES INSTEAD OF DEFAULTING TO THE BARE MINIMUM, WHICH IS PRETTY SUBSTANDARD THESE DAYS. BUT I UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS OUR CITY'S OFFICIAL POLICY. THANK YOU. YES, AND I WAS GONNA SAY POINT TAKEN AND I THINK IT'S WORTH PASSING THAT FEEDBACK ONTO THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE BECAUSE THAT KIND OF COMES FROM THAT LEVEL. UM, SO WITHOUT ANY SUBSTANTIVE CHANGING OF THE MINUTES, THEN UH, I THINK WE WILL APPROVE THOSE AND MOVE FORWARD TO OUR PUBLIC HEARINGS [PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION] AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION. AND THIS STARTS WITH ITEM NUMBER TWO, UPDATE OF THE URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN DEVELOPMENT. UH, NOW I HAD SOME COMMENTARY ON THIS. THIS IS OBVIOUSLY WITH URBAN ECOS, UH, KALA AND A WORKING GROUP OF COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS MET JUST THIS PAST WEEK ON THEIR PROCESS. I DIDN'T HAVE A FORMAL PRESENTATION, CINDY, I DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU WANTED TO SPEAK TO THIS AT ALL OR IF I SHOULD GIVE AN OVERVIEW AND LET YOU FOLLOW UP. UH, SO URBAN ECO HAS BEEN CONTRACTED TO HELP US DEVELOP OUR URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN. UH, AND CURRENTLY I THINK THEY'RE REALLY IN THE FACT FINDING AND EXISTING CONDITION STAGE OF THINGS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT OUR CANOPY COVERAGE IS, WHAT OUR GOALS ARE. I WAS ACTUALLY VERY EXCITED TO HEAR THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE USING KIND OF THE BEST IN CLASS TECHNOLOGY USING A LOT OF OVERHEAD SHOTS AND THINGS TO FIGURE OUT CANOPY COVERAGE ON ALL DIFFERENT PROPERTY TYPES, WHETHER THAT'S PUBLIC LANDS, WHETHER THAT'S PRIVATE PROPERTY, AND REALLY FIGURE OUT WHAT THE CURRENT STATUS IS IN TERMS OF CANOPY COVERAGE, UH, IN THE CITY. AND WHAT WE NEED TO DO. I THINK ONE OF THE BEST PARTS OF THAT MEETING FOR ME WAS HEARING ABOUT, UH, ESPECIALLY THE PAIN POINTS. AND THESE ARE FOLKS FROM RELIEF. THESE ARE FOLKS FROM THE COMMUNITY ENGAGED WITH TREES AT ALL LEVELS, TALKING ABOUT THE INCLUDING, UH, BEN ANDERSON, WHO MANY OF US HERE KNOW WHO'S BEEN WORKING ON THIS ITEM. UH, AND THEY GAVE SOME REALLY, UH, USEFUL INSIGHTS ABOUT THE PAIN POINTS WE'RE GONNA EXPERIENCE AS A CITY TRYING TO ENHANCE WHAT WE'RE DOING IN TERMS OF URBAN FORESTRY. I THOUGHT IT WAS VERY INTERESTING. THE CONSULTANT MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING THAT SHE REALLY WANTED TO GET PUBLIC WORKS INVOLVED, INVOLVED BECAUSE IN HER EXPERIENCE, THE CITIES THAT DO THE BEST JOB WITH URBAN FORESTRY PUT IT UNDER PUBLIC WORKS, WHICH I KNOW THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THIS COMMITTEE HAS BEEN SAYING FOR A WHILE. SO IT WAS NICE VALIDATION TO HEAR THIS CONSULTANT SAY THAT. UH, BUT I THOUGHT SOME GREAT POINTS WERE RAISED WHEN IT CAME TO CONCERNS ABOUT FIRE, CONCERNS ABOUT INSURANCE COMPANIES INHIBITING PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS AND THEIR ABILITY TO PLANT TREES OR MAINTAIN TREES EFFECTIVELY. UM, THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT BROUGHT UP THE OBVIOUS, UH, ISSUE WITH PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, YOU KNOW, WHO'S MANAGING STREET TREES RIGHT NOW, THE BURDENS ON THE [00:05:01] PROPERTY OWNER SHOULD IT SHIFT TO THE CITY? AND THEY SAID THEY ARE GOING TO LOOK AT CALCULATING WHAT THAT WOULD COST ULTIMATELY AS PART OF THIS FACT FINDING PROCESS, UH, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS REALLY USEFUL BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT. AND THAT WOULD BE A REALLY USEFUL DATA POINT TO HAVE. UM, SO YEAH, I THOUGHT IT WAS A REALLY PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATION. I BELIEVE THE NEXT ONE WILL BE, UH, I THINK IT'S, I THINK IT'S IN MAY, BUT THEY ARE GONNA BE CONDUCTING, UM, INTERVIEWS WITH THIS SMALLER STAKEHOLDER GROUP AS WELL AS OTHER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WITH INVOLVEMENT WITH TREES. AND I'VE RECOMMENDED A FEW NAMES, UH, INCLUDING PEOPLE ON THIS COMMITTEE THAT I THINK THEY SHOULD REACH OUT TO AND TALK TO. UM, AND THAT'S REALLY IT. I'M EXCITED TO SEE WHAT THEY COME UP WITH. IT SOUNDS LIKE THE KIND OF PROCESS WE'VE BEEN HOPING FOR TO REALLY ASSESS WHAT OUR ISSUES ARE AND WHAT THE BEST PRACTICES ARE MOVING FORWARD. UM, CINDY WAS THERE, CINDY, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD OR ENHANCE THERE. NO, I THINK, I THINK, UH, EVERYTHING THAT DARREN HAD TOUCHED ON IS TRUE AND, UM, WE DID NOT HAVE A PUBLIC WORKS REPRESENTATIVE THERE, BUT NOT BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT TRIED TO GET REACH OUT AND GET SOMEBODY ON THE COMMITTEE. THEY WILL FROM PUBLIC WORKS. I THINK THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO FIND THE RIGHT PERSON. AND AS I THINK COLLEEN PUT IT, SHE GOES, THEY WANNA BE INVOLVED BECAUSE A LOT OF THIS WILL PROBABLY FALL TO THEIR SCOPE. SO I THINK THAT WILL LIKELY HAPPEN. I THINK THE OTHER BIG THING TO NOTE IS THAT THE SECOND COMMUNITY MEETING, AND I KNOW ALL OF YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST COMMUNITY MEETING THAT WE HAD BACK IN NOVEMBER, ALMOST TWO YEARS AGO NOW. THE SECOND ONE WILL BE HAPPENING ON SATURDAY, MARCH 22ND. UM, I KNOW THAT KALA HAD SPECIFIED THAT DATE, SO WE'LL BE GETTING THE WORD OUT. BUT IF THE COMMITTEE WOULD HELP, GET THE WORD OUT TO THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS AS WELL SO THEY CAN PROVIDE FEEDBACK DURING THIS PROCESS. THE SECOND COMMITTEE MEETING'S HAPPENING ON MARCH 22ND. YES. THAT IS A SUPER IMPORTANT PIECE OF INFORMATION. MARCH 22ND IS GONNA BE ANOTHER COMMUNITY MEETING ON URBAN FORESTRY. UM, SO WITH THAT BEING THE UPDATE, I WILL ASK IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM COMMITTEE MEMBERS HERE. UM, ANY POINTS. AND, UH, TARYN, UM, SINCE WE'RE LIGHT ON AGENDA, UM, I'VE BEEN DOING A DEEP DIVE INTO SOMETHING YOU, I KNOW THAT, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER RAKU KNOWS REALLY WELL, BUT IT'S NEW TO ME. AND THAT IS SOIL HEALTH. AND SOIL HEALTH AND CONNECTIVITY IS THE THING OF OUR EARTH. AND IT IS HUGE FOR CARBON SEQUESTRATION. SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT TREES, TREES AND THE ROOTS ARE CONNECTED TO THE FUNGI, ARE CONNECTED TO MICROORGANISMS, ARE CONNECTED TO EVERYTHING. AND THAT INCLUDES US BECAUSE WE'VE GOT FUNGI ALL OVER US AND IN US. AND SO I JUST WANT US TO REALLY UNDERSTAND AND, AND, UM, TO KEEP FOCUSED ON HOW TREES ARE NOT JUST DISTINCT, ISOLATED LITTLE THINGS THAT SHOOT UP FROM THE GROUND. IT IS A HOLISTIC SYSTEM. AND, UM, AS WE CONTINUE OUR WORK IN URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN, UM, IT'S GOOD TO REALIZE AND KEEP OUR EYES OPEN TO THE EXPONENTIAL BENEFITS THAT JUST SHOOT OUT IN EVERY DIRECTION WHEN WE TAKE CARE OF OUR TREES AND GIVE THEM WHAT THEY NEED. THANK YOU. POINT WELL TAKEN. I DEFINITELY MADE A NOTE IN THERE ABOUT SOILS AND MUSHROOMS AND THE CONSULTANT WAS REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT DURING THE MEETING. SO WHO KNOWS HOW THIS WILL KIND OF SPILL OVER INTO THAT BROADER CONCEPT. UM, SEEING NO ONE ELSE FROM THE COMMITTEE JUMPING ON THE MICROPHONE, I WILL ASK, UH, THE CLERK IF THERE WAS ANY GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM PRIOR TO THE MEETING. NO. AND THEN I WILL OPEN IT UP FOR IN PERSON GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IN CASE DREW IS THE INSPIRATION TO JUMP UP AT SUBMIT A COMMENT CARD, WHICH HE IS NOT. UH, SO I WILL PRETTY QUICKLY CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT AND WE WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER THREE. AND THIS IS A RECOMMENDATION FOR THE COMMITTEE TO APPROVE THE CITY OF PETALUMA'S OFFICIAL ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION FOR 2025. AND THIS IS WHAT WE DUBBED LAST YEAR TREE FEST. AND I'M GONNA SHARE A QUICK PRESENTATION ON KIND OF WHERE WE ARE. UH, AT THE LAST MEETING WE SHARED PROGRESS ON DOING A JOINT EVENT WITH THE CITY. SO THE CITY IS GONNA BE HOSTING FUTURE FEST ON MAY 4TH, 2025. AND IN THAT PLANNING PROCESS, UM, IT KIND OF, I THINK WE RAN INTO A COUPLE OF THINGS. NAMELY, UH, TREE FEST WOULD HAVE, OR TREE COMMITTEE WOULD HAVE TO COME UP WITH OUR OWN BUDGET FOR ANY OF OUR PROGRAMMING AT FUTURE FEST. UM, SO THAT WAS KIND OF A, A WRINKLE WE DIDN'T QUITE EXPECT. AND THEN THERE WAS WILL ON THIS COMMITTEE TO DO AN INDEPENDENT ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION, REALLY KEEP THE FOCUS ON TREES. I THINK FUTURE FEST IS GONNA BE AMAZING. IT'S GONNA BE GREAT. IT IS A BIG TENT, A HUGE UMBRELLA. AND I'M SURE TREES WILL BE IN THERE IN SOME FASHION, BUT THEY THOUGHT, UM, I THINK THE WILL OF THIS COMMITTEE WAS, LOOK, LET'S DO AN INDEPENDENT EVENT LIKE WE DID LAST YEAR, REALLY FOCUS [00:10:01] ON TREES AND UH, REALLY MAKE IT SOMETHING THAT'S A LITTLE BIT, IF I HAD TO SAY A LITTLE BIT LIGHTER ON PROGRAMMING, YOU KNOW, THEY, I THINK THIS EVENT WILL HAVE A LOT OF BOOTHS AND TABLES AND PRESENTATIONS AND OUR EVENT IS NOT QUITE THE SAME THING. SO I THINK OUR, OUR AD HOC COMMITTEE, MYSELF, ROGER, AND MARYANNE MET, KIND OF SAW THE WISDOM IN THAT AND STARTED PLANNING AROUND IF WE'RE NOT PART OF THIS BIGGER EVENT, WHAT DOES A SMALLER EVENT LOOK LIKE? OR JUST AN INDEPENDENT EVENT. AND SO I HAVE A QUICK PRESENTATION ON THAT AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE, OH, I DO HAVE A SHARE SCREEN. TERRIFIC. SO I'M GOING TO SHARE ON ZOOM AND THERE WE GO. SO PETALUMA TREE FEST, OUR OWN ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION. I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT THE DATE AND LOCATION. THAT'S THE THING WE'RE GONNA HAVE A MOTION ON IS THE DATE. I THINK EVERYTHING ELSE WE CAN, WE CAN TALK ABOUT. I'M JUST GONNA BE SHARING WHAT WE EXPLORED SO FAR. AND THEN THESE ARE I THINK, THE CORE COMPONENTS OF THE EVENT. UM, THE WORK THAT WE'RE GONNA BE DOING FOR TREES, THE ART IN SOME FASHION THAT ENGAGES THE COMMUNITY, THE EDUCATIONAL PIECE, WHICH A LOT OF TIMES WE LEAN ON COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO COME, UH, AND DO THAT PIECE. AND THEN THE FOOD THAT'S GONNA BE THERE. UH, SO DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION AT THIS POINT, AND THIS IS ACTUALLY AN INSPIRATION FROM CINDY ALL THE WAY LAST YEAR, RIGHT AFTER THE LAST TREE FEST WAS WHY DON'T WE HAVE IT AT CITY HALL? UH, BECAUSE THERE ARE TREES THAT NEED CARE. UH, IT'S A GREAT ACCESSIBLE SPOT FOR PEOPLE. UH, IT'S IN LAST YEAR WE DID SOMETHING ON THE EAST SIDE. THIS IS OBVIOUSLY ON THIS SIDE OF TOWN ON THE WEST SIDE. UH, SO WE PROPOSED TO DO APRIL 26TH, 2025. THAT IS A SATURDAY. THE ANTIQUES MARKET IS THE DAY AFTER BUTTER AND EGGS IS THE WEEKEND BEFORE. SO WE'RE KIND OF THREADING IN BETWEEN A PACKED SPRING CALENDAR THERE. UH, AND THE TIMING WE HAVE PROPOSED IS 11:00 AM TO 4:00 PM SEEMS TO BE A GOOD TIME. UH, PEOPLE CAN KIND OF COME HAVE LUNCH, WE DON'T STAY TOO LONG. PEOPLE CAN GET BACK FOR DINNER AND IT'S NOT A, YOU KNOW, TOO LONG OF AN EVENT. SO THAT'S THE LOCATION AND TIME. AND AGAIN, WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR A MOTION FROM THIS GROUP TO DECIDE ON THAT OFFICIAL DATE, UH, FOR OUR ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION. SO THEN THE WORK COMPONENT, THIS IS SOMETHING I JUST WANTED TO TOUCH ON, UH, WHEN WE HAD FIRST TALKED ABOUT THIS AND THIS LOCATION, UM, ROGER AND MARIANNE WHO BOTH HAVE LANDSCAPE BACKGROUNDS, ROGER, PARTICULARLY IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, HAD PUT TOGETHER A TREE PLANTING PLAN FOR THE FRONT OF CITY HALL. UM, MAYBE AFTER, AFTER THIS LITTLE PRESENTATION, CINDY CAN TELL US, YOU KNOW, WHY, WHY OR WHY NOT, THAT'S FEASIBLE. UH, BUT I WANTED TO INCLUDE THE PLAN IN HERE 'CAUSE ROGER PUT TIME INTO IT AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A, A GOOD IDEA, BUT I THINK THE BASELINE AT THIS POINT WAS TO DO MULCHING AS APPROPRIATE. UH, QUESTION THAT I WOULD PUT TO CINDY TO ADDRESS AFTER IS, YOU KNOW, CAN WE, IS THERE DEFINITE CITY SUPPORT? LAST YEAR, WE DEFINITELY RELIED ON THE CITY TO DELIVER THAT MULCH AND HAVE WHEELBARROWS ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT. SO I JUST WANT TO PREPARE OURSELVES WHETHER THE CITY HAS THE BANDWIDTH WITH SO MUCH GOING ON IN THE SPRING OR WE SHOULD PLAN AROUND THAT. UH, AND THEN, LIKE I SAID, THERE'S AN HONORABLE MENTION TO A TREE PLANTING PLAN. I'M JUST GONNA SHARE IT. THIS IS SOMETHING JUST BECAUSE A COMMITTEE MEMBER ON OUR AD HOC PUT IT TOGETHER AN IDEA OF PLANTING, UM, SOME COMPATIBLE SPECIES. AND I KNOW ROGER HAD SOME GUIDANCE ON WHAT SPECIES HE THOUGHT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE, WHETHER THAT'S SYCAMORE PIST ALMOST, I MEAN TREES THAT WE KNOW DO WELL AND PROVIDE CANOPY, UH, IN THIS FRONT AREA IN FRONT OF CITY HALL. I REALLY LIKED THIS IDEA, UH, 'CAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE PETALUMA THIS GREAT TREE CITY FOR OUR CITY HALL, HAD EVEN MORE TREES KIND OF ON THE WAY IN, COULD BE FANTASTIC. BUT I KNOW CINDY IS GONNA HAVE, UH, FEEDBACK ON THAT. I JUST WANTED TO, TO SHARE IT WITH THE GROUP GIVEN THE TIME INVESTMENT. UH, SO THE NEXT PART BESIDES THE WORK, WHETHER THAT'S PLANTING OR PROBABLY MULCHING, UH, IS THE ART PIECE. SO LAST YEAR WE HAD A BIG COMMUNITY MURAL, A I THINK 15 TO 20 FOOT LONG CANVAS THAT THE COMMUNITY WAS ABLE TO COME AND PAINT TREES ONTO. IT WAS A GREAT EVENT THIS YEAR. UM, WE WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE A TERRIFIC ARTIST, SUZANNE YOUNG, DO THAT ALL FOR FREE AND FOR FREE AND BRING ARTISTS AND PEOPLE TO MAN THE STATION. AND IT WAS A FANTASTIC EVENT THIS YEAR. I DIDN'T WANNA RELY ON FREE ARTISTS WHO WANTED TO CONTRIBUTE. SO, UH, WE CONNECTED WITH A GROUP, UH, THEIR NAME IS CLUSTER FUNK AND THEY'RE IN NAPA, SONOMA, MARIN. THEY DO A REALLY COOL EVENT, UM, OR A LOT OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF EVENTS THAT CAN RANGE ANYTHING FROM PAINT NIGHTS. AND THEY WERE THE ONE THAT ORIGINALLY HAD A COMMUNITY MURAL IDEA LAST YEAR. THAT'S KIND OF WHO I STOLE THAT FROM. UH, BUT FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, SCHEDULING REASONS, THEY WEREN'T AVAILABLE. SO THIS YEAR I MET WITH THEM, TALKED ABOUT WHAT COULD WE DO FOR AN EVENT ALL ABOUT TREES. UH, AND THEY HAVE FOUND A LOT OF SUCCESS WITH DOING THESE BIG, ALMOST LIKE MARINE PLYWOOD BOARDS AS A CANVAS, WHICH IS ACTUALLY FANTASTIC. 'CAUSE LAST YEAR WHEN WE USED REAL CANVAS, IT WAS BLOWING AROUND AND WE HAD TO, THERE WAS A LOT TO MAKE THAT WORK. WHEREAS A BOARD IS NICE, YOU CAN MOUNT IT, THERE'S A LOT OF ADVANTAGES [00:15:01] TO THAT. AND THEIR IDEA WAS TO PRE-PA THIS KIND OF BIG TREE WITH NO LEAVES ON IT AND A LANDSCAPE. AND THEN THEY WOULD HAVE THE COMMUNITY COME AND PAINT LEAVES ONTO THE TREE AND MAYBE THEIR NAME SOMETHING QUICK DOESN'T GET SUPER INVOLVED AND THEN HAVE A SEPARATE CANVAS, WHAT'S NOT SHOWN HERE, A SEPARATE SMALLER CANVAS FOR KIDS TO COME AND DO SOMETHING SIMILAR. UM, SO I THOUGHT IT'S A REALLY NEAT IDEA. THEY ALSO BRING ALL OF THEIR OWN EQUIPMENT AND SPEAKERS, UH, AND BRITTANY, THE PART OF THE BRITTANY AND TYLER DUO, UH, THAT IS THIS, THIS ART GROUP. UH, SHE IS A DJ, SO SHE COMES AND JUST PLAYS SOME AMBIENT MUSIC. THEY HAVE THEIR OWN SETUP. AGAIN, THAT'S PRETTY ATTRACTIVE BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO NECESSARILY RENT A STAGE OR, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT THAT GOES INTO GETTING A LIVE PERFORMANCE AND LIVE MUSIC TO BE KIND OF RIGHT. UH, WHEREAS THIS WOULD GIVE US THE MUSIC AND THE FEEL, UM, AS PART OF THE WHOLE EVENT WITH A, WITH A MUCH LOWER INVESTMENT, I THINK. UH, SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WOULD HAVE TO COME OUT OF THE TREE COMMITTEE BUDGET. I WAS GIVEN A FIRM QUOTE OF $600 TO DO THE, THE PAINTING AND EVENT. THEY WOULD PROVIDE ALL THE SUPPLIES, ALL THE CLEANUP. THEY WOULD BE LIKE A ONE-STOP SHOP TO DO ALL OF THAT, AS WELL AS DEPLOY SPEAKERS AND DO A WHOLE MUSIC SETUP AS WELL. UM, SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DISCUSS AS A COMMITTEE. BUT THAT WAS THE ART PIECE. AND I DEFINITELY THINK HAVING AN ART PIECE IS A BIG PART OF THIS. I KNOW LAST YEAR THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS REALLY SUCCESSFUL. UH, AND THEN EDUCATION, UH, SO JUST, I THINK IT WAS YESTERDAY RELIEF CONFIRMED THAT THEY CAN HAVE A TABLE, UM, AT THE EVENT TO SHARE OBVIOUSLY THE GREAT WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING. AND ALSO ASKED FOR VOLUNTEERS, UH, WHICH THEY DID LAST YEAR. UH, OTHER GROUPS THAT WE'VE REACHED OUT TO OUR CA MASTER GARDENERS. UM, THE, THE THIRD ONE IS SOMETHING MARIANNE KNEW ABOUT, WHICH IS THE SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE, THEIR HORTICULTURE PROGRAM. UH, I BELIEVE THEY ALSO HAVE A LANDSCAPE PROGRAM. SO I'M CONNECTED WITH SOMEONE THERE TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY DO A LOT OF EVENTS, BUT TO FIGURE OUT IF THEY CAN HAVE A TABLE AND WHO WOULD MAN IT AND WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE. BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE THAT PIECE TO SHOW, LOOK, THERE'S, HERE'S A CAREER PATH, HERE'S SOME MORE EDUCATION YOU CAN GET ON THIS, ON THESE TOPICS. UH, AND THEN SONOMA COUNTY PARKS, AND I'VE CONNECTED WITH THEM AND I THINK WE'RE EARLY ENOUGH WHERE THEY CAN HAVE A TABLE AND SHARE, YOU KNOW, ABOUT THE PARK SYSTEM AND THE PARK PASS AND HOW TO GET OUT AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING FOR TREES, WHICH I THINK COULD BE REALLY INTERESTING HOW THEY'RE MAKE BECAUSE THEY MANAGE REALLY LARGE AREAS OF SEMI-URBAN OR URBAN FOREST IN SOME CASES. UH, SO THE EDUCATION PIECE IS AGAIN, RELYING ON THIS COMMUNITY PARTNERS. WE TALKED ABOUT WHETHER WE HAVE WORKSHOPS OR DEMONSTRATIONS, UH, AS TREE COMMITTEE MEMBERS. AND IT JUST SEEMED LIKE IT PUTS A LOT OF ONUS ON US TO DEVELOP PROGRAMMING WHEN THERE ARE PARTNERS WHO HAVE A LOT OF THIS INFORMATION ALREADY. UM, AND IT FELT LIKE THE, THE RIGHT DIRECTION TO GO. BUT AGAIN, EVERYTHING HERE IS, IS KIND OF UP FOR DISCUSSION WITH THE GROUP TO SEE WHAT'S GOOD AND, AND WHAT WE WANNA MOVE FORWARD WITH. UH, AND THEN FINALLY JUST THE FOOD ELEMENT. WE'RE GONNA USE THE SAME FOOD TRUCK THAT WE USED LAST YEAR. THE SPOT, THE BIG THING THEY HAVE, THEY CAN MAKE A WIDE RANGE OF DIFFERENT FOOD. UM, AND ALSO THEY DON'T CHARGE A MINIMUM FEE, SO THEY'LL COME TO THE EVENT AND THEY'RE NOT GONNA COST US ANYTHING, WHICH IS FANTASTIC. UM, AND THEY'VE ALREADY CONFIRMED THAT THEY WOULD LOVE TO DO IT. SO. OKAY. SO THAT'S IT. UH, THE DISCUSSION AGAIN, IS ANY AND ALL OF THOSE ITEMS, ARE WE MISSING COMPONENTS? ARE THERE THINGS THAT WE SHOULDN'T DO? ALL THAT KIND OF FEEDBACK. AND THEN IF WE CAN ULTIMATELY GET A MOTION FOR AN OFFICIAL DATE, WHETHER THAT'S APRIL 26TH, UH, OR IF SOMEONE THINKS THERE'S A DATE THAT'S, UH, MORE APPROPRIATE, THROW IT OUT AND LET'S TALK ABOUT IT. AND THEN CINDY, UM, I KNOW I'VE KIND OF BOOKMARKED A BUNCH OF THINGS I'M HOPING YOU CAN COMMENT ON. UH, BUT THEN JUST THE BUDGET PROCESS AND HOW WE REQUISITION FROM OUR BUDGET. YEAH, SO NUMBER ONE, I THINK THE MULCH AND STAFF SUPPORT. I'LL WORK WITH MY STAFF AND WE'LL GET THE MULCH. I'LL HAVE THEM COME TAKE A LOOK AND SEE HOW MUCH WE NEED. AND SO WE'LL TAKE CARE OF THAT PORTION. UM, SECOND TO THAT, IF YOU'RE GONNA USE ANYTHING FROM THE FUND THAT YOU GUYS HAVE AVAILABLE, YOU JUST HAVE TO HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE USE OF THE FUNDS. YOU AND I, I DIDN'T CHECK THE BALANCE BEFORE I CAME TO THE MEETING, BUT YOU HAVE TO RUN $11,000 IN THAT FUND. SO YOU JUST KNOW THAT. AND ONCE, YOU KNOW, ONCE THOSE FUNDS ARE DRAWN DOWN, THEY'RE DRAWN DOWN. IT WAS A ONE TIME THAT WAS PUT IN THERE. SO, UM, JUST BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT WHAT YOU WANNA SPEND YOUR MONEY ON IS WHAT I WOULD SAY. AND IF IT MEETS WHAT YOU THINK IS THE TARGET OF WHAT THE COMMITTEE WANTS TO DO WITH TREES AND ABSOLUTELY. UM, BUT YEAH, WE'LL SUPPORT FOR THE DAY OF THE EVENT WITH WORLD BOROUGHS OR WHATEVER ELSE IS NEEDED. THAT'S FANTASTIC NEWS. AND THEN CAN YOU SPEAK A LITTLE BIT TO THE, UM, CHALLENGES AROUND ACTUALLY PLANTING OUT FRONT? UM, YEAH, SO THAT AREA IN PARTICULAR, I KNOW WATER CONSERVATION HAD BEEN WORKING WITH DAILY ACTS AND DAILY ACTS HAS A WHOLE PLANTING PLAN, BUT THAT WAS A COMMUNITY GARDEN. SO CITY HALL AT ONE POINT WITH DAILY ACTS HAD CREATED THAT INTO, UH, INTO A COMMUNITY GARDEN. IT DIDN'T WORK OUT BECAUSE THAT AREA'S PRETTY SHADY. SO PEOPLE DID NOT WANT TO PLANT [00:20:01] A GARDEN THERE BECAUSE THEY REALLY JUST ISN'T THE RIGHT SPACE. SO BECAUSE THERE'S ALREADY A PLANTING PLAN AND THERE WAS ALREADY ANOTHER COMMUNITY MEMBER THAT HAD VOICED THEIR INTEREST BEFORE WE JUST PLANTED OUT. I THINK WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT ACROSS, YOU KNOW, BETWEEN THE DAILY X PLANTING PLAN, THE PLAN THAT THE AD HOC HAS PUT TOGETHER AND THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT THAT IS INTERESTED. I THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT EVERYBODY WANTS TO DO. AND CANOPY THERE IN PARTICULAR, THERE'S ALREADY A FRUIT TREE. AND SO I DON'T KNOW, WE'D HAVE TO BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT HOW THE CANOPY WOULD AFFECT THE FRUIT TREE BECAUSE CITY HALL IS A GLEANING CAMPUS. SO AS YOU WALK AROUND CITY HALL, YOU'LL NOTICE THERE'S THE PERSIMMON, THE KIWIS, THE AOKE BUSHES, THE CITRUS TREES. SO I DON'T KNOW, WE'D HAVE TO TALK ABOUT DO WE WANNA GET RID OF THAT MATURE PERSIMMON TREE THAT'S PART OF THE GLEANING PART OF THE CAMPUS BECAUSE I THINK THE CANOPY WOULD COVER ALL THE SUN. SO I MEAN, THOSE ARE JUST SOME FACTORS. ALL, ALL PERTINENT FACTORS THAT I DIDN'T THINK OF WHEN WE BROUGHT UP THE PLANS. SO THANK YOU FOR, THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT. AND IT MAY BE SOMETHING, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO PUT COMMITTEE MEMBER MC LANE IN TOUCH WITH THE FOLKS ORGANIZING. AT LEAST HE CAN OFFER WHAT HE'S PRODUCED AND SEE IF IT CAN WORK IN SOMEHOW, OR IF THERE'S SOME COLLABORATION THAT CAN HAPPEN. ABSOLUTELY. I JUST DON'T THINK IT'LL HAPPEN FOR THE ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION. RIGHT, RIGHT. BUT AS WE PLANT THAT AREA OUT, 100%. OKAY, TERRIFIC. SO LONGER TERM VISION, I JUST DIDN'T WANT THAT, THAT EFFORT TO BE OVERLOOKED. UH, ANY COMMENTS, QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMITTEE? ANYTHING TO, TO BRING FORWARD, UM, ABOUT THE EVENT, ESPECIALLY FROM ANYONE WHO HELPED ORGANIZE LAST YEAR? THANKS DARREN. EXCUSE ME. THANKS DARREN. UM, I WOULD ALL IN FAVOR OF APRIL 26TH. I THINK THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT DATE. IT FITS IN THERE PERFECTLY. I, UM, I REALLY LIKE THE IDEA AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. THAT WAS REALLY GREAT. UM, ARBOR DAY AS, I MEAN, IT'S JUST, I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK OF IT AS A SORT OF TREE PLANTING DAY. OH, IT'S ARBOR DAY, LET'S PLANT A TREE. BUT I LIKE, ESPECIALLY FROM LAST YEAR, AND IT JUST CAME TO ME THIS YEAR WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT MULCHING AND SORT. IT'S MORE OF A TREE CARE DAY. LIKE THIS IS, YOU KNOW, SO MAYBE PETALUMA CAN KIND OF EMBRACE THAT, THAT LANGUAGE MORE THAN JUST PLANT A TREE. 'CAUSE I THINK PEOPLE COME AND PLANT A TREE AND THEN THEY FORGET ABOUT IT. BUT IF YOU BRING PEOPLE ON SITE AND THEY CERTAINLY MIGHT WANNA PLANT A TREE, THEN YOU'RE ALSO SHOWING THEM HOW TO CARE FOR TREES. UM, THAT'S ANOTHER THING. AND I THINK ALSO, UM, WHEN YOU'RE DOING THE MULCHING, YOU COULD, YOU KNOW, TERRENCE SAID ABOUT THE, UM, THE SOIL HEALTH. UM, I KNOW THAT, UM, THERE ARE SOME SOIL SCIENTISTS IN NEW JERSEY WHO DID A SOILS STUDY STUDY FOR THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE IN MASSACHUSETTS. AND, UM, WHAT THEY FOUND IN WHAT THEY RECOMMENDED, UM, I THINK THE CITY'S TREE CANOPY HAS JUST EXPLODED BECAUSE OF IT. I MEAN IT'S, IT'S, IT IS LIKE 10 TIMES THE RATE OF, OF NORMAL GROWTH. AND, UM, I CAN GET THAT INFORMATION FROM THOSE SCIENTISTS I VISITED THEIR, THEIR FARM IN, UM, NEW JERSEY LAST YEAR. BUT, UM, I THINK THEY ALSO MIGHT BE INVOLVED AT STANFORD. SO ANYWAY, BUT, BUT TREE ARBOR DAY AS A TREE CARE, YOU KNOW, IS SORT OF, IT'S ALL, IT'S ALL ENCOMPASSING AND I LIKE THAT. AND, UM, CERTAINLY I THINK $600 IS, IS A REASONABLE AMOUNT TO SPEND ON ART AND MUSIC AND ACTIVITY. UM, I LIKE THE EDUCATIONAL, UH, COMPONENT OF IT. I REALLY LIKED BRINGING IN SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE. UM, MAYBE SOME OF THEIR, UM, REGENERATIVE PRACTICES AT ITS SHOWN FARM MIGHT BE, AGAIN, WITH THAT TREE, YOU KNOW, SORT OF TREE CARE, UM, REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE, BUT ALSO REGENERATIVE GARDENING, I THINK IS A, IS A HOT TOPIC. UM, IT SHOULD BE A, IT SHOULD BE A A, A MORE BROADER CONVERSATION ON THE WEST COAST, I THINK. AND, UM, AS FAR AS CITY HALL PLANTING ON THE FRONT, YEAH, I KNOW CITY. UM, WHEN I FIRST MOVED HERE 12 YEARS AGO, THAT WAS A VIBRANT, KIND OF WONDERFUL HAPPENING OUT IN THE FRONT THERE. UM, IT'S, IT'S VERY SAD RIGHT NOW. AND I THINK, I THINK IT DOES A CITY A DISSERVICE TO HAVE THAT AS OUR MAIN ENTRANCE TO CITY HALL. UM, AND CERTAINLY IF, IF, UM, IF ROGER WANTS TO TALK TO SOMEBODY AT DAILY ACTS OR WORK WITH DAILY ACTS, YOU KNOW, I'D HATE TO SEE THAT PERSIMMON TREE COMPROMISE BECAUSE I LOVE PERSIMMON TREES. BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE'S A, IT'S A STARTING SPORT, A STARTING POINT. AND, UM, THAT'S IT FOR MY COMMENTS. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU FOR THOSE COMMENTS. UH, ROGER. YEAH, MY, MY MY INTENTION WAS NOT TO BE SPECIFIC ABOUT THE TREES, [00:25:01] BUT TO, UH, IT REALLY CAME FROM A CONVERSATION WE HAD DURING OUR MEETING THAT, YOU KNOW, THE BEST THING THAT THE TREE COMMITTEE CAN DO IS PLANT TREES WHERE THEY'RE NEEDED. AND ARBOR DAY IS A GOOD SYMBOL OF SHOWING THAT. AND SEEMED LIKE TO ME, UH, WALKING IN THIS WALKWAY TO CITY HALL FOR THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, THE CITY HALL NEEDS SOMETHING. IT'S A, IT'S A, UH, EMBARRASSING PUBLIC ENTRANCE TO A PUBLIC BUILDING. UH, LACK OF ANY SORT OF CARE IS OBVIOUS. AND I JUST THOUGHT A FEW TREES THAT WOULD REALLY HELP PROVIDE SHADE SCALE BE MORE ATTRACTIVE FOR BOTH THE OFFICE PEOPLE LOOKING OUT AND THE PEDESTRIANS MOVING IN. IT ACCOMPLISHES SOME OF OUR SHADE, UH, IDEALS AND TEMPERATURE CONTROL. SO IT SEEMS LIKE IT SOLVES A LOT OF PROBLEMS UNLESS IT'S CONTESTED BY, YOU KNOW, CITY MANAGEMENT OR SOMETHING. SO THAT WAS THE INTENTION AND I'M WIDE OPEN FOR WHAT WE DO WITH IT. NO, AND AND JUST TO CLARIFY, I DON'T THINK IT WAS CONTESTED BY MANAGEMENT. IT'S JUST THERE'S EXISTING PLANS FROM OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE KIND OF GOTTEN THEIR FIRST WITH PLANTING PLANS AND THAT NEEDS TO WORK THROUGH THOSE CHANNELS. BUT I TOLD CINDY TO CONNECT YOU WITH ANYONE WHO'S IN PROCESS NOW, AND MAYBE YOUR IDEA OR SOME FORM OF IT CAN INFORM A FINAL PLANTING PLAN IN THE FRONT. I DON'T KNOW IF IT WILL BE IN TIME FOR ARBOR DAY, UM, BUT I THINK YOUR POINT IS WELL TAKEN. AND AGAIN, I THINK YOUR, YOUR EFFORT CAN BE USED BY WHATEVER GROUP IS KIND OF DOING THE ONGOING PLAN THERE. UH, SO, UH, THANK YOU FOR THAT. UH, TARYN, UM, WELL I'D LIKE TO COMMEND, UH, ROGER FOR, UM, DOING THE WORK OF THINKING ABOUT WHERE TO PUT TREES. AND I DO SEE FROM THIS, THIS DIAGRAM THAT THEY ARE PRETTY SPREAD OUT, RIGHT? AND SO, AND I DO SEE THE PERSIMMON TREE THERE. UM, BUT TO HOWARD'S POINT OF TREE CARE, I HAVE TREES IN MY YARD THAT I DON'T WANT 'EM TO GROW TOWARD THE NEIGHBOR'S SIDE. SO I TRIM THAT I CARE FOR IT, I CARE FOR ITS GROWTH PATTERN. AND SO IT PROVIDES SHADE CANOPY ON ONE SIDE, BUT THE OTHER SIDE, IT DOESN'T EVEN GO OVER THE FENCE. SO THERE'S A WAY WITH PROPER MAINTENANCE AND PROPER CARE TO REALLY SCULPT THE CANOPY IN A WAY THAT, THAT, UM, DOESN'T COMPROMISE THE HEALTH OF THE TREE AND PROVIDES MULTIPLE BENEFITS IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, CANOPY SHADE, UM, AND ALL THE POLLINATOR AND CLIMATE BENEFITS, BUT ALSO WILL ALLOW IT TO COEXIST. UM, WITH THE PERS SYMMETRY, WHICH I ACTUALLY HAVE, I HAVE A PERS SYMMETRY, UM, THAT IS UNDER, THAT GETS SHADED IN THE SUMMERTIME BY MY NEIGHBORS HUGE ASH TREE. AND IT DOES JUST FINE. UM, AND IT, UH, GETS MAYBE TWO HOURS OF SUNLIGHT IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND IT FRUITS IT DOES JUST FINE. SO, UM, I THINK ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, UH, HOW THESE ARE DIS I THINK IT'S WORTH THE CONVERSATION. I LIKE IT BECAUSE WITHOUT TREES IT'S PRETTY HOT. ESPECIALLY 'CAUSE IT'S KIND OF A HEAT ISLAND OUT THERE IN THE SUMMERTIME. YOU GOT THE ASPHALT WHEN YOU'RE WALKING ON IT AND THEN THE SUN'S BOUNCING OFF THE SIDES OF THE BUILDINGS. AND UM, AND THAT'S JUST FROM A TEMPERATURE STANDPOINT, IT DOESN'T LOOK VERY GOOD EITHER. BUT WHATEVER CONVERSATION, JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY HAD PLANS, YOU KNOW, A DECADE AGO, WHICH HAVE CLEARLY FAILED, I WOULDN'T WANT THIS INSPIRED, UM, VISION AND POTENTIAL WORK PLAN TO BE COMPROMISED. I'D LIKE TO SUPPORT, UM, BEING ABLE TO HAVE A, UM, WIN-WIN SORT OF A FRAMED, UH, CONVERSATION. UM, AND I'D LIKE TO MOVE TO A COUPLE OF LITTLE QUESTIONS. UM, UM, I THINK IT'S GREAT. THANK YOU CINDY, FOR THE SUPPORT OF MULCH. AND UM, I JUST WONDERED LAST YEAR IT WAS SO WONDERFUL THAT YOU BROUGHT WHEELBARROWS AND UM, SHOVELS AS WELL. IS THAT POSSIBLE THIS YEAR ALSO? THAT'S TERRIFIC. AND IF WE WERE TO DO TREES, DID I MISS, WHERE DID THE TREES COME FROM? WHO PROVIDES THE TREES? DO WE BUY, BUY THEM? WELL, WE HADN'T SOURCED TREES YET, ONLY BECAUSE WE RAN INTO THIS ISSUE WHERE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED. WE DIDN'T GET A DEFINITE. OKAY. UM, SO I THINK FOR NOW, GREENLEAF HAS A LOT OF TREE INVENTORY AVAIL. OKAY. GOT THAT. YEAH. AND THEN, UM, DO WE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT A PERMIT FOR THE FOOD TRUCK FOR CINDY? I DON'T BELIEVE SO. 'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT CHARGING. NO, BUT WE, WE WILL JUST DO AN EVENT PERMIT FOR THE PARK ITSELF IN GENERAL, LIKE I DID LAST YEAR FOR PRINCE PART. OKAY. THANK [00:30:01] YOU. AND TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT, I BELIEVE THE MUSIC AND ART FOLKS, THEY'LL GO THROUGH CONTRACTING AND MAKE SURE THEY HAVE ALL THE RIGHT INSURANCE. OKAY, PERFECT. SO WE CAN GET THE BALL ROLLING ON THAT. RIGHT. SO YOU'D WANNA ROUTE THEM TO ME AND IT'LL MAKE SURE THAT IT'S CONTRACTED PROPERLY. OKAY. AND, UM, I LOVE THE IDEA OF A MURAL ON WOOD. I WAS JUST TALKING TO A MURALIST THE OTHER DAY AND THEY'RE INSTALLING AT, UM, A RESTAURANT, A MURAL, AND IT'S ON BIRCH PANELS SO THAT IT CAN BE REMOVED AND REINSTALLED AT A DIFFERENT LOCATION. THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE VISION YOU HAVE, WHICH I THINK IS A WONDERFUL VISION. UM, THEN IT CAN MOVE TO A SCHOOL, IT CAN MOVE TO WHEREVER. UM, OKAY. AND THEN IF THERE ARE IDEAS FOR ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES THAT CAN BE, THAT IDEATION CAN HAPPEN WITHIN YOUR AD HOC BY JUST SUBMITTING STUFF TO YOU AT YEAH, SO I WOULD JUST SUBMIT COMMENTARY PROBABLY VIA, UH, CINDY OR CATHERINE AND JUST MAKE SURE YOU LABEL IT PROBABLY IN THE SUBJECT LINE FOR TREE FEST AD HOC. RIGHT. AND PUT YOUR COMMENTARY AND THEN THEY CAN FORWARD AND WE CAN AVOID, UH, BROWN ACT. OKAY. THANK YOU. UH, I SUPPORT ALL ASPECTS OF THIS. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR THAT. UH, VOTE CONFIDENCE AND DEFINITELY PASSING ALONG IDEAS. WE'VE THROWN AROUND A LOT OF DIFFERENT, UM, IDEAS. LIKE LAST YEAR WE HAD THE RESU HUNT AND DO WE DO LIKE TREE RAFFLES? UM, BUT I THOUGHT WE'D FOCUS ON THE CORE, MAKE SURE THAT'S ALL THERE, AND THEN TRY TO PIN ON KIND OF THOSE OTHER ACTIVITIES. OH, UH, AS APPROPRIATE. OH, COULD YOU PLEASE? OKAY. SO I KNOW THE ENTRANCE, WHERE WERE YOU ENVISAGING THAT THE MUSIC WILL HAPPEN IN THE MURAL WILL HAPPEN? IS IT LIKE IN FRONT OR IS IT OFF TO THE SIDE OVER IN THAT IT WOULD PROBABLY BE IN THE FIELD AREA. 'CAUSE WE WANT TO KIND OF DRAW PEOPLE OVER THERE. PART OF THAT, ONCE WE GET, UH, THESE FOLKS ON BOARD AND EVERYTHING IS KIND OF COPACETIC ON THEIR END, WORKING WITH THE CITY, HAVE THEM COME ON SITE AND HELP PICK THE BEST SPOT. UH, LIKE THE WOOD PANEL IDEA. THAT WAS NOT MY IDEA. THAT WAS THEIR IDEA. SO I'M REALIZING MM-HMM . THAT ARTISTS WHO HAVE DONE THIS A MILLION TIMES ARE GREAT PEOPLE TO LEAN ON TO SAY, HEY, WHAT DO YOU THINK? UH, SO I'M GONNA LET THEM GUIDE SOME OF THAT PROCESS TOO. SORRY, IT IS, UM, DOING ARBOR DAY AS TREE CARE, BUT IT ALSO, UH, I DIDN'T WANNA MINIMIZE THE IMPACT OF ACTUALLY PLANTING A TREE. AND SO WHETHER OR NOT WE PLANT THE THREE TREES, UH, IN THE ENTRANCE, WHICH I THINK IS A GREAT IDEA AND I I I THINK IT PROBABLY COULD WORK, UM, JUST A CONVERSATION WITH DAILY ACTS WHO MIGHT, I ASSUME HAS THE CONTRACT THERE. BUT, UM, IT, GIVEN THAT MAY OR MAY NOT HAPPEN, BUT IT SEEMS REASONABLE, AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, THAT WE COULD AT LEAST PLANT ONE TREE IN THAT FIELD SOMEWHERE. I MEAN TO, SO UNFORTUNATELY THE FIELD IS USED FOR SOCCER, SO THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT OF OPPORTUNITY TO PLANT IN THE PARK SIDE ITSELF. AND THEN ON THE ONE SIDE, WE HAVE SOME BIOSWALES, SO WE CAN'T TAKE UP THE BIOSWALES. SO THE PARK ITSELF DOESN'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF ROOM TO PAR PLANT TREES. THAT'S WHY WE HAD TALKED ABOUT EN VISITING A MULCHING DAY FOR ARBOR DAY AT CITY HALL. WE CHOSE THIS AS OUR SITE. WELL, I, I THINK WE SHOULD AT LEAST EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY THAT THERE'S, THERE, THERE'S A PLACE FOR ONE TREE THERE, CERTAINLY SURELY. AND THAT, AND THAT'S SOMETHING AS OUR GROUP, UH, WILL LIKELY MEET AGAIN WITH CINDY. UH, WE'LL KEEP PUSHING THAT IDEA FORWARD AND SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE AND WHAT MAKES SENSE. YEAH. CAN YOU PLEASE, UM, CHAIR KUSON, UM, SUMMARIZE THE TIMEFRAME, THE THE NEAR TERM, UM, UM, ITEMS, UM, IN A TIMEFRAME OF WHEN THAT WILL HAPPEN. LIKE, UM, FOR EXAMPLE, A TIMEFRAME OF APPROVAL OF THIS LOCATION. AND THAT WAY WHEN WE MAKE A MOTION, WE KNOW THAT WHAT WE'RE MAKING A MOTION BASED ON LOGISTICALLY, WE'RE, WE'RE MAKING A MOTION ON THE DAY. UM, SO WE'RE JUST SELECTING, THIS IS GONNA BE THE DAY FOR PETALUMA'S ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION. THIS IS ACTUALLY IN LIEU OF, TO MY UNDERSTANDING, CINDY, THIS IS IN LIEU OF PICKING THE FEDERAL OR STATE HOLIDAY, WE'RE JUST PLANTING A FLAG AND SAYING THIS IS PETALUMA'S ARBOR DAY. OKAY. UH, WHICH ACTUALLY I THINK TRACKS MORE WITH THE FEDERAL. UM, SO THAT IS THE MOTION WE'LL MAKE HERE. AND IT SOUNDS LIKE PEOPLE, NOW WE DON'T HAVE ALL OF OUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS, SO I DIDN'T WANT TO SHAPE THE WHOLE EVENT JUST BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ALL SEVEN FOLKS HERE. BUT I THINK WE'VE GOTTEN ENOUGH SUPPORT FOR THE IDEAS THAT WE'LL MOVE FORWARD AS THIS IS CONSTRUCTED AND, YOU KNOW, WITH THAT LOCATION. AND SO THOSE OTHER ELEMENTS OF GETTING THESE DIFFERENT FOLKS ON BOARD. AND THAT'LL ALL BE HAPPENING WITH THE AD HOC KIND OF RIGHT AFTER THIS MEETING. WE'LL GET ALL THAT STARTED. SO TIMELINE IS KIND OF NOW. OKAY, THAT MAKES SENSE. SO WITH THAT, I'LL MAKE [00:35:01] A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE APRIL 26TH, 11 TO 4:00 PM I'LL SECOND. OKAY. WE GOT A MOTION. UH, CAN I GET A ROLL CALL VOTE OBEYED. YES. FORM ME. YES. KUSON, YES. RECURRENT LANE. YES. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. TERRIFIC DISCUSSION. I WILL ASK, UH, THE CLERK IF WE HAD ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING ON THIS ITEM. NO, WE DID NOT. OKAY. WELL THEN I WOULD OPEN IT UP TO IN-PERSON PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT LACKING PUBLIC, UH, . THEN WE WILL CLOSE, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THE IN-PERSON FOLKS AND MOVE RIGHT TO ITEM NUMBER FOUR, WHICH IS THE STREET TREE AD HOC COMMITTEE PROGRESS UPDATE. AND THAT IS OUR RESIDENT STREET TREE EVANGELIST HOWARD TO GIVE US AN UPDATE. STREET TREE EVANGELIST. HUH. UM, UH, OKAY. SO WE, UH, HAVE MET AND, UM, THE, THE, WE PRESENTED THE WORKING DOC TO THIS GROUP. I THINK BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS, NOT HAVING ANY FEEDBACK. UM, WE DID HAVE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO, TO MOVE FORWARD ON. AND THAT WAS, UH, THE DESERT WILLOW, THE OPSYS LENIUS, UM, WHICH WE HADN'T HAD ON OUR, OUR STREET TREE LIST, WHICH HAD BEEN SORT OF CLASSIFIED AS A BUSH. BUT IN THAT TIME, UH, DEVIL MOUNTAIN NURSERY IS A WHOLESALE NURSERY IN TOWN, HAS BEEN GROWING TALL STANDARDS IN 15 GALLONS. AND I HAVE SEEN THEM, RELIEF HAS BEEN PLANTING THEM AND RELIEF. THIS IS ONE OF THE TREES THAT RELIEF ACTUALLY WANTED ON THEIR SORT OF, UM, AUXILIARY LIST. AND, UM, AND HAVING SEEN THE GOOD STALK. AND I KNOW, AND I KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME OF THOSE TREES, SOME MATURE TREES ON SOME STREETS IN PETALUMA. SO, UH, WE ARE GONNA ADD THAT ONTO OUR STREET TREE LIST. UM, THE OTHER ONE THAT CAME UP WAS THE PRUNUS LEONE, WHICH IS THE CATALINA CHERRY, UM, UH, WHICH IS CURRENTLY ON OUR STREET TREE LIST. BUT UM, I'VE SEEN, I'VE SEEN SOME RECENTLY PLANTED, WHICH ARE REALLY NO MORE THAN A BUSH. AND UM, UNLESS IT TAKES A REALLY DEDICATED HOMEOWNER OR A BUSINESS OWNER, I MEAN, WILL NEVER BE A TREE. AND, UM, AND, AND SADLY THOSE DEDICATED INDIVIDUALS ARE, ARE A FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. SO I ACTUALLY MADE A MO, UH, MOTION TO MY GROUP, TO OUR GROUP, OUR AD HOC, TO ACTUALLY MOVE THAT TREE FROM OUR LIST. SO, UM, I PUT IT IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS A C AND O IS, OR, OR, UM, TOON. BUT, UM, SO THOSE, THOSE ARE MOVING FORWARD, RIGHT. SHOULD HAVE BILL REINHARDT'S BEEN WORKING ON THAT DILIGENTLY FOR US AND I THANK HIM VERY MUCH FOR THAT. UM, HE SHOULD HAVE THE EXCEL DONE AND THE COPY DONE AND I'LL SUBMIT IT TO CINDY, I SUPPOSE, AND GIVE IT TO PLANNING. AND UM, UM, HOWARD, IF WE CAN BRING THAT BACK TO TREE COMMITTEE WITH ALL OF YOUR EDITS TO IT SO THAT THE TREE COMMITTEE CAN MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO SEND IT TO PUNTY, THAT'D BE GREAT. SO WILL YOU SEND IT TO TREE COMMITTEE OR WILL I PRESENT IT NEXT MONTH? IF YOU WOULD SEND IT TO ME, IF YOU COULD PRESENT IT AS PART OF YOUR UPDATE, THAT'D BE GREAT BEFORE WE SEND IT TO PA. ALL RIGHT. SO I WILL, I'LL AS SOON AS, AS SOON AS BILL HAS MADE THE EDITS, THEN WE'LL, WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU, WHICH SHOULD BE A FINAL DRAFT AFTER ALL THIS TIME. AND THEN, UM, UH, THE COMMITTEE CAN REVIEW IN THEIR LEISURE AND THEN WE'LL, WE'LL BRING IT UP AT, AT, UM, AND APPROVE IT NEXT TREAT COMMITTEE, MOVE IT FORWARD. THANK YOU. WELL, FANTASTIC NEWS AND GREAT WORK. I THINK A LOT OF TIMES I LOOK TO YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS AND AGREE. SO, UH, I, I LIKE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING THERE. I THINK THERE IS A DISCUSSION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF STREET TREES THAT WE WANT PRESCRIBED, WHAT IS THE FUNCTION LIKE, WHAT IS THE, WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES WE'RE LOOKING FOR? AND I THINK YOU REALLY MADE THAT POINT WELL ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE TREES THAT COULD BE STREET TREES IF YOU'RE AN EXPERT. UH, BUT WE CAN'T RELY ON EVERY PROPERTY OWNER OR DEVELOPER TO BE AN EXPERT. SO WE NEED TO GIVE THE, THE BEST POSSIBLE OPTIONS. UH, ANY COMMENTARY OR QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMITTEE? TARYN, I'LL JUST SAY THAT I NOTED THAT THE DESERT WILLOW IS DECIDUOUS. UM, AND UM, AS I MENTIONED IN OUR LAST MEETING, UM, WITH A RAISING OF THE FREEWAY, IT IS SO LOUD IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU CANNOT HAVE WINDOWS OPEN, WHICH IS A REAL CLIMATE BUMMER 'CAUSE YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE AIR CONDITIONING GOING ALL THE TIME. UM, BUT I NOTICED, YOU KNOW, IT'S WINTER HOW MANY TREES DON'T HAVE LEAVES ON THEM NOW. AND THE NOISE ABATEMENT WHEN YOU HAVE AN EVERGREEN IS JUST PHENOMENAL. UM, SO I, I DO APPRECIATE THAT. UM, THIS IS A DECIDUOUS TREE AND I WOULD HOPE THAT PERHAPS, UM, SOMEBODY WILL CHOOSE AN EVERGREEN [00:40:01] TREE, UM, INSTEAD OF A DESERT WILLOW IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THAT OPTION. UM, NOT ONLY FOR, UM, ONGOING CLEAN AIR, BUT ALSO NOISE ABATEMENT. THANK YOU. GOOD INSIGHTS AND FEEDBACK. ROGER, DID YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS ON UPDATES ON THE STREET TREE LIST? THE, UM, WELL THEY CAN, THEY DON'T NEED TO PICK IT AS ISSUE TREE. THERE'S OTHER CHOICES. SO, UH, I MEAN, I HAVE IT ON THE LIST. IS, IS APPROPRIATE, I DON'T THINK, AND, AND MY UNDERSTANDING THAT TREES DO NOT ACT AS SOUND BARRIERS OR VERY INEFFICIENTLY, SO I'M NOT SURE, UH, I WOULD USE IT FOR THAT PURPOSE. SO THE DESERT WILLOW, THOUGH, IS WORTHY OF BEING ON THE LIST. SO GOOD FEEDBACK. UM, OKAY, TERRIFIC. WELL, I THINK THAT'S A REALLY HEARTENING UPDATE FROM THE STREET TREE LIST. UH, I WILL ASK THE CITY CLERK IF WE HAD ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING ON THIS ITEM. NO, WE DID NOT. OKAY. AND I WOULD OPEN IT UP AGAIN FOR IN-PERSON PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT WE DO NOT HAVE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HERE TO COMMENT. OH YEAH, PLEASE, HOWARD. YEAH, I, TO TERRENCE'S COMMENT AND, AND ROGERS, UM, I, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MORE OF A CONVERSATION, BUT THIS GOES BACK TO THE URBAN FORESTRY OR BEING TREES AS INFRASTRUCTURE, WHICH IS A CONVERSATION THAT WE'RE ALL HAVING, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S RIGHT TREE RIGHT PLACE. AND SO RIGHT NOW THERE'S, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK THAT THERE'S ANY OVERSIGHT IN PUBLIC WORKS AS TO SORT OF, IF A HOMEOWNER COMES AND SAYS, OH, I WANT TO PLANT A TREE HERE. MY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO SORT OF OVERSIGHT OTHER THAN MAYBE, UM, THEY'RE BEING, UM, THEY'RE BEING SENSITIVE TO THE WIRES OVERHEAD AND PLANTING A, YOU KNOW, THE RIGHT TREE UNDERNEATH A A, A, UM, A PG E POWER LINES. BUT OTHERWISE, UM, I SEE BEAUTIFUL LARGE TREE PLANTING AREAS. UM, I'LL JUST, YOU KNOW, THROW IT OUT. THE ONE IN FRONT OF ACME BURGER, A GREAT BIG, YOU KNOW, SIX FOOT TREE PLANTING AREA AND NO OVERHEAD LINES, AND THERE'S A CRATE MYRTLE THERE. I MEAN, IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ALLOWED. SO IT'S JUST THAT, THAT NEEDS TO BE OVERSIGHT FROM THE CITY. AND I DON'T, YOU KNOW, AND I'M ASSUMING THAT'S PUBLIC WORKS, BUT AS FAR AS I KNOW, THERE'S NO OVERSIGHT. UM, THERE'S, RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM THERE, THERE ARE CRATE MYRTLES IN FRONT OF THE, THE OFFICE BUILDING THERE, BUT THEY'RE CUT DOWN TO EIGHT FEET TALL AND THEY'RE REPEATEDLY CUT DOWN TO EIGHT FEET TALL. AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST, IT'S, IT'S, THESE THINGS JUST CANNOT CONTINUE TO HAPPEN. OTHERWISE, ANY, ANY GOALS OF AN URBAN FOREST IN THIS TOWN ARE JUST, ARE JUST, IT'S, IT'S A JOKE REALLY. SO THAT'S, I FEEL, I FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT THIS. THANK YOU. YEAH. TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL, HOWARD. WELL, I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE REASON THE URBAN FORESTRY PLAN IS SO IMPORTANT IS LISTS. WE CAN GENERATE ALL OF THESE SUPPORT MATERIALS AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE STILL RELYING ON THE USER TO MAKE THE RIGHT SELECTIONS OR MAKE THE RIGHT, AND THAT'S REALLY THE DISCUSSION THEN GOES INTO THE URBAN FORESTRY PLAN OF, IS THIS SOMETHING LIKE WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE CITY OR WHAT IS THE OVERSIGHT? WHAT ON EVERYWHERE WHERE WE THINK ABOUT TREE PLANTING AND PICKING THE APPROPRIATE TREE. SO I THINK THAT'S POINT WELL TAKEN AND REALLY IMPORTANT. I DON'T THINK YOU'LL EVER, EVER FOOLPROOF A STREET TREE LIST. SOMEONE WILL STILL FIND A WAY TO PLANT THE WRONG TREE IN THE WRONG PLACE. UM, SO YOU NEED THAT, THAT SUPPORTING ASPECT. UM, WELL, LIKE I SAID, WE DON'T HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ISSUE, SO I WILL MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER FIVE, WHICH IS THE COMMUNICATION AND OUTREACH AD HOC COMMITTEE PROGRESS UPDATE. AND I DIDN'T DO MY HOMEWORK ON THIS, TARYN, I WILL LOOK TO YOU FOR ANY UPDATES. UM, NO NEW UPDATES IN TERMS OF BUSINESS. WE JUST HAVE ONE OUTSTANDING, UM, INQUIRY THAT, UH, DIDN'T MOVE BEYOND THE INQUIRY STAGE. UM, AND SO THAT'S BASICALLY IT. UM, EXCEPT FOR, UH, UH, WANTED TO TALK ABOUT, UM, I GOT A FEW, UM, INTERACTIONS WITH THE PUBLIC REGARDING BACK TO, YOU KNOW, CARING FOR TREES AND THE ECOSYSTEM, UM, THAT THE CITY COUNCIL RECENTLY APPROVED INSTALLING, UM, A BRAND NEW ARTIFICIAL TURF FOR TWO AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS AT LUC CASEY BECAUSE THE THING UTTERLY FAILED AND THEY HAVE TO GUT THE WHOLE THING OUT AND PAY MORE, UM, UH, TO, TO JUST REINSTALL. UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE REALLY UNHAPPY WITH THAT, ESPECIALLY THAT, YOU KNOW, THE AMOUNT OF, UH, PERCEIVED BIAS, UM, IN THE STAFF REPORT AND IN THE NUMBERS. AND REALLY QUICK TARAN, I DON'T WANT, I DON'T WANNA THROW YOU OFF. LET'S TRY TO YEAH. SO THERE HAVE BEEN REQUESTS BY, UH, THE COMMUNITY, UM, TO SEND A LETTER TO THE CITY COUNCIL REGARDING, UM, CAN WE, UH, MAKE SURE THAT THERE ARE GREENER OPTIONS [00:45:01] IN THE FUTURE. UM, AND THEY ALSO WANTED, UM, SO THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT PARKS AND THAT THEY WANT THE TREE COMMITTEE TO, UH, SEND A LETTER TO THE CITY COUNCIL, UM, REINFORCING THAT TREES HAVE, UM, A CONNECTED ENVIRONMENT TO ALL SOIL AND FOLIAGE OR WHATEVER, UM, OTHER KINDS OF PLANTS. UM, AND TO, UH, REQUEST THAT THE CITY PR COUNCIL CHOOSE TO PRIORITIZE A, UM, UH, AN ENVIRONMENTAL FORWARD PARKS MASTER PLAN AND TO, UM, BECAUSE THE CITY'S GOING TO BE CHOOSING PRIORITIES AND THEY WANT THAT TO BE A PRIORITY IF THE CITY'S GONNA KEEP DOING ARTIFICIAL SURF TO AT LEAST KIND OF LIKE DOUBLE DOWN ON THE COMMUNITY'S, UH, INTERESTS IN BEING IN ENVIRONMENTALLY AND CLIMATE, UH, UH, SENSITIVE. AND TO PUT TOGETHER A PROGRAM FOR, UH, THAT GUIDES LIKE A GUIDING DOCUMENT FOR ALL OF OUR PARKS, A PARKS MASTER PLAN. THANK YOU. YES. AND I, I HAD A SIMILAR QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER WE COULD SHOW SUPPORT FOR MAKING THE URBAN FORESTRY PLAN A TOP 10 PRIORITY OR A TOP PRIORITY FOR COUNCIL THIS YEAR. NONE THE LEAST OF WHICH, BECAUSE WE HAVE A GRANT THAT EXPIRES THIS YEAR, SO IT'D BE NICE TO PRIORITIZE IT AND GET THIS KIND OF ON THE ROAD. THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'D BE, UM, CINDY, CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE MECHANICS OF THAT? HOW WE CAN WRITE A LETTER OF SUPPORT? IS IT THE ENTIRE COMMITTEE? DO WE WANT TO WAIT FOR MOTIONS AND WAR MEETINGS? WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO DO THIS? UM, SO GENERALLY IN THE PAST WHEN THE COMMITTEES WANTED TO WRITE A LETTER OF SUPPORT TO COUNCIL, THE CHAIR HAS WRITTEN THE LETTER BECAUSE THERE WAS A MOTION PUT FORWARD BY THE COMMITTEE TO SET A LETTER OF SUPPORT. BUT THE UFM IS IN THE TOP 10 PRIORITIES, IT'S UNDER THE TPO. SO WHEN, IF YOU LOOK AT THE GOALS AND PRIORITIES, IT IS THERE AND IT IS FOR, IT WAS ON LAST YEAR'S PLAN AND THIS YEAR'S PLAN. SO IT HASN'T, AS FAR AS I KNOW, CHANGED IF YOU WANT IT TO BE PULLED OUT FROM THE TPL. I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW THAT I'M JUST, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE'S ANY UTILITY. IT'S ALREADY IN THE TOP 10. IT WAS PRIORITY NUMBER ONE THAT WAS LISTED FOR COUNCIL GOALS AND PRIORITIES THIS YEAR. SO, BUT IF YOU WANNA SEND ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, A LETTER SAYING THAT THE COMMITTEE WHOLLY SUPPORTS THIS WORK, YOU COULD DO SO. ABSOLUTELY. BUT IN THE PAST, THE CHAIR'S WRITTEN THE LETTER BASED ON A MOTION BY THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS SUPPORTING IT. WHAT ABOUT THE, WHERE'S THE PARKS MASTER PLAN AND THEIR PRIORITIES, UH, ON THE GOALS AND PRIORITIES FOR THIS YEAR? IT'S NOT IN THE TOP 10 AND IT'S NOT IN THE COMING YEARS, I BELIEVE AT COUNCIL IT SAID IT WAS COMING AFTER THE FAIRGROUNDS. MASTER PLANNING IS COMPLETE IS WHEN THAT WHAT HAPPENS WITH MEMORY SERVES ME. RIGHT. I THINK IT'S THREE YEARS OUT IS WHERE THE PARKS MASTER PLAN SITS. SO REALISTICALLY THAT MEANS WE MIGHT GET BY THE YEAR 2035. RIGHT. UM, IF YOU DO THE, OKAY. SO IS THERE ANY WAY TO A, UM, TO DO WHAT CITIZENS ARE REQUESTED, LIKE TO GIVE THEM SOME SORT OF A, A SUCCESS? UM, SINCE A LOT OF THEM ARE PRETTY SHOCKED ABOUT THE, UH, VOTE FOR ARTIFICIAL TURF AND THEY WANT LIKE NO PLASTIC UH, SLIDES. NO, THE RUBBER, UM, GROUND THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR THE PLAYGROUNDS, THE RUBBER SURFACES. YEAH, THE RUBBER INFILL, WE HAVE VERY FEW OF THOSE ANYWAYS. I THINK THERE'S MAYBE TWO PLAYGROUNDS THAT HAPPEN AND IT'S NOT OUR STANDARD, THE ENGINEERED WOOD CHIPS, THE PLAY CHIPS ARE OUR STANDARD, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE ONE PLAYGROUND LEFT THAT HAS SAND. YEAH, WE HAVE ONE LEFT THAT HAS SAND IN IT. UM, BUT BEYOND THAT, AS FAR AS WHAT WE WOULD DO IS WHEN THINGS ARE BROUGHT TO THE REC COMMISSION, RMPC, RECREATION, MUSIC AND PARKS COMMISSION, IF WE'RE DOING A PLAYGROUND REPLACEMENT, IT WOULD COME THERE. AND IN THAT PUBLIC PROCESS, I WOULD SAY THE PUBLIC SHOULD COME AND COMMENT DURING THAT PERIOD TO SAY, THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR. THESE ARE THE THINGS WE'D LIKE INCLUDED WHEN THE SURVEYS GO OUT TO THE COMMUNITY TO SEE WHAT ELEMENTS THEY WANT IN THEIR PLAYGROUNDS, IT SHOULD BE MENTIONED THERE UNTIL WE CAN DO AN OVERALL PARKS MASTER PLAN. RIGHT. THAT WOULD BE THE PROCESS THAT WE'D WANNA DO IT. UNTIL THEN, OUR NORMAL THINGS LIKE OUR RPM AND ALL THOSE THINGS WILL STILL BE IN PLACE. WE'RE NOT SPRAYING, WE'RE PILOTING OUR ORGANIC SOIL TURF MANAGEMENT PROGRAM TO SEE HOW IT WORKS TO SEE IF WE CAN GROW THAT. SO THIS WILL BE THE FIRST YEAR. THEN AFTER THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOING SOILS TESTING TO SEE WHERE THE HEALTH IS AND THEN SEE IF THAT WORKS. AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO EXPAND THAT, HOPEFULLY IF WE CAN GET THIS RIGHT. SO I MEAN, WE'RE DOING I THINK, ELEMENTS OF IT, TARYN, I WOULD SAY. BUT THE BIGGER THINGS, WHEN ITEMS COME UP, I WOULD SAY THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE PART OF THAT INPUT PROCESS. UM, THANK YOU. I WASN'T AT THAT CITY COUNCIL MEETING. DID THEY DO A FINAL VOTE ON WHAT CHOOSE THEIR PRIORITIES OR IS IT STILL A OPEN THING? I BELIEVE IT'S COMING BACK ONE MORE TIME FOR FINAL ADOPTION OF THE TOP 10 PRIORITIES FOR THE YEAR. SO IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S STILL OPPORTUNITY [00:50:01] TO AT LEAST ASK FOR A MASTER PARKS PLAN. UM, WHETHER THEY CHOOSE IT OR NOT IS A SEPARATE THING, RIGHT? ABSOLUTELY. SO THE ASK CAN ALWAYS HAPPEN UNTIL THEY HAVE THE PRIORITIES SET FOR THE YEAR. WELL, I MEAN, FROM THIS, I, I THINK IT IS GERMANE FOR TREE COMMITTEE TO WEIGH IN ON SOME OF THESE ISSUES BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE IN THE TOP 10 OR IN DISCUSSION OF THE TOP 10 FOR THINGS THAT RELATE TO OUR SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE. UM, AND I THINK FOR THE PARK'S MASTER PLAN ELEMENT, I WOULD WANT TO, WHATEVER, IF, IF SOMETHING GETS GENERATED, FOCUS ON THE TREES AND SOIL AND THOSE ELEMENTS OF A PARK PLAN. I DON'T KNOW IF I'D FEEL COMFORTABLE RECOMMENDING EQUIPMENT PER SE. UM, BUT I THINK ADVOCATING FOR, UH, PRACTICES THAT FALL MORE IN LINE WITH WHAT WE THINK OF WHEN IT COMES TO TREE CARE, SOIL HEALTH, ALL OF THOSE THINGS, I THINK, I, I THINK IT COULDN'T HURT. UM, AND WOULD JUST ADD IN THOSE SCALES OF COUNSEL WHO HAS TO DECIDE ON WHAT THEY WANT TO PRIORITIZE. UM, I GUESS THEN FROM THIS ITEM, WOULD IT BE APPROPRIATE TO ASK FOR A MOTION FROM THIS COMMITTEE? OR WOULD WE NEED THE BODY OF THE LETTER FIRST? UM, UNFORTUNATELY WE CAN'T MOTION BECAUSE THIS AS AN UPDATE. IF WE'D WANT TO HAVE A MOTION, WE'D HAVE TO AGENDIZE IT NEXT TIME IN THE MEETING. BUT JUST TO REMIND COMMITTEE MEMBERS, YOU'RE ALWAYS WELCOME TO WRITE A LETTER INDIVIDUALLY, RIGHT? WITH YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS. YOU CAN ALWAYS DO THAT. SO IF THE TIMEFRAME DOES NOT ALLOW FOR US TO WAIT FOR THE NEXT MEETING, JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND. AND CAN WE USE OUR TITLES? CAN I SAY CHAIR TREE COMMITTEE ONLINE? ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. OKAY. SO WE CAN ALWAYS DO THAT AS WELL. I REMEMBER WHEN THE CLIMATE COMMISSION, UM, DISCUSSED AND, AND UH, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY VOTED OR NOT, BUT THEY HAD THEIR CHAIR WRITE A LETTER TO THE CITY COUNCIL SAYING, NO MORE ARTIFICIAL TURF. AND UM, AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS DONE AFTER, YOU KNOW, THEN THAT CHAIR JUST WROTE THE LETTER AND SENT IT WITHOUT IT COMING BACK TO THE COMMISSION. WELL, YES, AND I'M HAPPY TO, I THINK HEARING FROM OUR GROUP TONIGHT, UM, THIS AFTERNOON, I'M HAPPY TO WRITE A LETTER LIKE THAT. AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE US ALL TO WRITE A LETTER. I THINK IF EVERYBODY IN THE TREE COMMITTEE WROTE A LETTER TO THESE EFFECTS, THAT HELPS. THAT'S DOING WHAT WE CAN IN THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS TO PRIORITIZE TREES. OKAY, THANK YOU. YEAH, THERE'S, UM, SINCE OUR ROOTS NEED HEALTHY SOIL AND NOT DEAD SOIL, I THINK THAT THAT'D BE REALLY NICE TO SUPPORT THEM, THE TREES THROUGH OUR, UM, BIG CHUNKS OF LAND IN OUR PARKS. THANK YOU. ABSOLUTELY. VERY, VERY IMPORTANT. UH, ROGER, DID YOU HAVE A COMMENT? THE QUESTION, UH, REGARDING THE, THE PARKS MASTER PLAN, AS I RECALL IN IN THE PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS ABOUT FUTURE PARKS, UM, IS THAT WE ARE OVER PARKED IN TERMS OF REQUIRED DEDICATION FOR THE BROWN ACT, DEDICATION OF SO MANY ACRES PER A THOUSAND POPULATIONS WE'RE OVER PARKED. IT JUST DOESN'T ALWAYS HAPPEN TO BE IN THE RIGHT PLACE OR THE RIGHT INGREDIENTS FOR WHERE IT IS IN TERMS OF CHILDREN OR PLAY YARDS OR WHATEVER. SO THE DISCUSSION WAS, WELL WHAT ABOUT ALL THE DEVELOPMENT DOWNTOWN AND THE PARK REQUIREMENTS THAT THAT WOULD GENERATE? WELL, WE WILL PUT AHO UNDER PARK 'CAUSE WE'RE OVER PARKED AND THE, AND IT, IT'S KIND OF NOT IN THE LOCATION WHERE IT'S NEEDED, BUT IT QUALIFIES FOR PARK CREDIT. SO IT'S JUST, IF THERE'S A MASTER PLAN OF PARKS, IT SEEMS MORE LIKE A GENERAL PLAN, LAND USE STUDY AS OPPOSED TO A PARKS AND REC STUDY. UH, WHERE ARE PARKS NEEDED? HOW ARE THEY FUNCTIONING? UH, WHERE WILL THEY BE NEEDED IN THE FUTURE? WHERE'S THE DENSITY GONNA BE? HOW DOES ALL THAT WRAP TOGETHER TO CREATE NEIGHBORHOODS? AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S BEEN ADDRESSED AT ALL. AND, AND I DON'T WANT TO CUT OFF YOUR COMMENTS, BUT I THINK YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD. THIS IS DEFINITELY A GENERAL PLAN ITEM, UH, IN TERMS OF OUR PARK ALLOCATION, UH, WHERE THOSE ARE, YOU KNOW, THE LAND USE DISCUSSIONS THAT COME FROM THAT, THAT IS ALL DEFINITELY A GENERAL PLAN, UH, ITEM FOR US TO, TO CONSIDER. AND OF COURSE WE'LL BE BRINGING BACK, YOU KNOW, AS OTHER COMMITTEES. SO FOLKS, WHEN YOU'RE ON OTHER COMMITTEES OR YOU SEE GENERAL PLAN DISCUSSION SURFACE, IT WOULD BE GREAT FOR FOLKS TO COME AND REPORT OUT ON THAT. WHATEVER RESEARCH YOU DO ON THE GENERAL PLAN, THINGS YOU THINK, THINGS YOU THINK ARE GERMANE TO THIS COMMITTEE, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, AS MUCH AS WE CAN, WE HAVE A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO INFORM THE GENERAL PLAN, WHETHER IT'S ABOUT PARKS, WHETHER IT'S ABOUT TREE HEALTH. UM, AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT DURING OUR COMMITTEE COMMENTS, WE REPORT OUT ON ANY UPDATES AND THEN ALL OF US AS INDIVIDUAL TREE COMMITTEE MEMBERS CAN APPROPRIATELY INJECT OUR EXPERTISE INTO THAT PROCESS AND ADVOCATE FOR WHAT WE WANT. SO, UM, ABSOLUTELY THIS IS A BIG ISSUE WITH THE GENERAL PLAN AND LAND USES PARK LANDS AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT. [00:55:02] UH, WELL THEN I THINK THERE'S SOME ROBUST COMMITTEE DISCUSSION. SO I WILL ASK THE CLERK IF THERE IS ANY PUBLIC COMMENT PRIOR TO THE MEETING ON THIS ITEM. NO, THERE'S NOT. I'LL OPEN IT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT FOR IN-PERSON COMMENTERS AND WE STILL DON'T HAVE ANY. SO I WILL CLOSE IN PERSON, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS ITEM. AND WITH THAT, THAT CLOSES OUR PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION. AND RIGHT BEFORE I DO THAT, CINDY, UM, IT'S JUST COMING TO ME THAT FOR TREE FEST, WE TALKED ABOUT A PRICE FOR THESE FOLKS TO GET GOING. IS THAT SOMETHING WE WOULD MOVE AT THE NEXT MEETING WHEN WE'VE GOT THEM IN THE SYSTEM AND EVERYTHING? YES. OKAY, PERFECT. JUST DIDN'T WANNA MISS MY CHANCE TO MAKE SURE WE'RE ON TRACK. UH, SO THEN I'LL TURN IT OVER TO COMMITTEE COMMENT AND [COMMITTEE COMMENT] I WILL ACTUALLY START, UM, ON MY LEFT. ROGER, IF YOU HAVE ANY UPDATES FROM ANY OTHER COMMITTEES YOU'RE ON OR ANYTHING RELATED TO TREES? NOPE. OKAY. UM, YOU HAVEN'T HAD A PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING IN MONTHS? SO I'M IN THE SAME BOAT. I DON'T HAVE ANY UPDATES FROM PLANNING, UH, HOWARD, ANY UPDATES ABOUT TREES? I HAVE NO UPDATES ABOUT TREES, ALTHOUGH I WILL PUT A PLUG IN FOR, UM, DEVIL MOUNTAIN WHOLESALE NURSERY THERE. UH, ONE OF THEIR NURSERY MANAGERS OUT THERE HAS BEEN DOING, UM, A WHOLE SERIES ON TREES FOR, FOR CHANGING CLIMATES. AND SO IT'S, UH, YOU CAN JUST GET ON THEIR MAILING LIST AND GET THEIR NEWSLETTER, UM, AND CHECK OUT PAST THINGS. BUT IT'S A, IT'S A REALLY GREAT LIST FOR ANYBODY THAT'S INTERESTED IN TREES AND CHANGING CLIMATES. SOME THINGS. IS THAT THE DROUGHT DEVILS OR IS THAT I THINK, I THINK HE IS CALLING, WELL, DROUGHT DEVILS I THINK IS A WHOLE NOTHER, IT'S, IT'S OKAY. IT'S ALL ENCOMPASSING. BUT, UM, THIS ONE'S SPEC SPECIFICALLY ABOUT TREES FOR CHANGING CLIMATES, SO. OKAY. WELL FAN, FANTASTIC UPDATE. UH, TARYN, UM, I'LL JUST SAY THAT I HAD OCCASION TO, UM, TRAVEL RECENTLY UP, UM, ALONG THE GREAT, UH, REDWOOD HIGHWAY THROUGH AND PASSED THE REDWOOD CURTAIN AND, UM, VISITED THE, UH, NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM UP THERE. UM, AND ONE OF THE NEAT THINGS THEY DO UP IN THAT AREA, AS EVERYONE PROBABLY KNOW, KNOWS, IS THAT THEY CALL OUT AND CELEBRATE, UM, OF COURSE PROTECT, BUT THEY REALLY CELEBRATE AND BUILD ENERGY AROUND SPECTACULAR TREES. AND I KNOW WE DID THAT LAST YEAR WITH THE TREE FEST AT PRINCE PARK. BUT I'D LOVE FOR US IN THE FUTURE TO DO SOME BRAINSTORMING ABOUT THAT WITHIN OUR TREE COMMITTEE MEETING SO THAT WE COULD START, YOU KNOW, USING THAT CARROT MORE THAN A STICK AND REALLY COMMEND THOSE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT ARE TAKING CARE AND GOING THROUGH SIGNIFICANT ADDED EXPENSE TO, UM, TO PRO MODE AND PROTECT AND NURTURE, UM, REALLY SPECTACULAR OLDER TREES. INTERESTING TREES. UM, BECAUSE THEY REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE. YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT JUST THIS, UH, COOKIE CUTTER TYPE OF A TOWN. WE DO HAVE SOME INTERESTING, UNIQUE, UH, CHARACTERISTICS AND BE NICE TO YOU, CELEBRATE THE TREES MORE THAT WAY. WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL ONE BEHIND OUR CARNEGIE LIBRARY, UM, THAT SOME OF US KNOW ABOUT. BUT THAT'S JUST A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING SO SPECIAL THAT WE HAVE. AND I'D LOVE FOR US TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE MINDFUL AND MAYBE EVEN AGGRESSIVE ABOUT IDENTIFYING MORE AND, AND REALLY CALLING THOSE OUT. 'CAUSE I THINK PEOPLE FEEL PROUD. I THINK THEY FEEL INSPIRED AND I THINK WE'VE GOT IT HERE. WE JUST NEED TO KIND OF LIKE EMBRACE THAT KIND OF LIKE THE, THE GRAINERY IN TOWN. YEAH. THEY'RE, THEY'RE DIFFERENT. NO OTHER TOWN HAS IT. THAT'S A DISTINCT CORE ASSET OF OUR BRAND AND I THINK WE NEED TO EMBRACE IT MORE. SO I'D LOVE TO SEE IT IN THE FUTURE LIKE THEY HAVE UP IN, UH, THE EUREKA AREA. THANK YOU. YEAH, THANK YOU FOR REMINDING I, UM, AND THAT OAK BEHIND THE LIBRARY IS MAGNIFICENT. UM, I THINK IT DOESN'T NEED THAT DECK AROUND IT. I THINK THAT'S DETRIMENTAL TO IT. BUT, AND ALSO THE UM, THE SECURITY LIGHT THAT THE BUILDING OFFICE BUILDING HAS ON IT, I THINK IS JUST ITS BRIGHTEST DAY BACK THERE AND THAT CAN'T BE HEALTHY FOR THAT TREE. UM, I THINK ABOUT IT EVERY TIME I SEE IT AT NIGHT. UM, BUT UM, AND I THINK THAT THAT SOMEHOW MAYBE THIS COMMITTEE COULD AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE BE MORE OF AN ADVOCATE FOR THINGS LIKE THAT, FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR BEST PRACTICES FOR AGAIN, YOU KNOW, TREE CARE. UM, BUT IT REMINDED ME, I DID GET A CALL FROM A, A FRIEND OF MINE WHO HAS, UM, A LARGE TREE, UH, I THINK IT MIGHT BE A VALLEY OAK, UM, JUST OFF OF D STREET. UM, AND HE'S BEEN TRYING FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS NOW TO GET IT DESIGNATED AS A HERITAGE TREE. BUT THE, UM, THE HOOPS THAT THE HERITAGE TREE, WHOEVER IS IN CHARGE OF GRANTING HERITAGE TREE ARE MAKING HIM JUMP THROUGH LIKE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, PROVING THAT IT WAS THERE AND THINGS LIKE THAT. [01:00:01] I MEAN, WHO HAS THAT? AND SO THEY JUST, THEY JUST, THEY'RE, THEY'RE HOMEOWNERS. THEY HAVE A BEAUTIFUL TREE. THEY WANT TO PRESERVE IT. UM, IT'S IN DANGER, IT'S IN EMINENT DANGER FROM THEIR NEIGHBOR HACKING HALF OF IT OFF, UM, WHICH WILL KILL IT. AND SO THEY WANT TO DESIGNATE AS A HERITAGE TREE AND THEY CANNOT GET IT DONE. AND SO, UM, I THINK, UH, I'M JUST MENTIONING IT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I COULD DO ABOUT IT, BUT I THINK AS A COMMITTEE, AGAIN, TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UM, THESE THINGS NEED TO BE ADDRESSED. AND I KNOW THAT, THAT A COUPLE OF YEARS WAS SPENT IN THIS COMMITTEE REVISING THE HERITAGE TREE LIST AND THINGS. UM, BUT I THINK IT MAY, IT MAY BE SOMETHING THAT WE WANNA LOOK AT AGAIN SOON. YES. CINDY, MAYBE YOU CAN SPEAK TO THAT REALLY QUICK, JUST THE HERITAGE TREE LIST. 'CAUSE I REMEMBER US DOING THAT WORK AND FOLKS WHO WANT TO MAKE THEIR TREE A HERITAGE TREE. WHAT IS THE OVERLAP OF THOSE PROCESSES? 'CAUSE I DON'T THINK WE PICK THE HERITAGE TREES, RIGHT? NO, IT'S SELF NOMINATION. IT GOES THROUGH PLANNING. SO I WAS GONNA SAY MAYBE, UM, CHAIR ATKISSON AND UM, COMMITTEE MEMBER ERLING CAN TALK TO THEIR PLANNING COUNTERPARTS TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON IF THEY'VE SUBMITTED AN APPLICATION THAT'S REALLY ODD THAT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN RESPONSIVE. SO I, I MEAN I WOULDN'T EXPECT THAT. SO THERE'S A NOMINATION FORM, SELF-NOMINATION, AND IT GOES THROUGH PLANNING. THEY, THEY'VE BEEN RESPONSIVE, THEY'VE JUST BEEN DENIED. SO BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THE PROPER DOCUMENTATION. THAT'S WHAT MY FRIEND SAID. SO IS THERE A WAY TO EXPLORE, UM, EITHER A WAIVER OR IN LIEU, LIKE AN ARBORIST REPORT THAT SPEAKS TO HOW OLD THE TREE IS AND CAN YOU DO SOMETHING DARREN AS A CHAIR AND SEND A LETTER OR WELL, HOW CAN WE MAKE IT HAPPEN? WE, I DON'T WANNA CUT CINDY OFF, BUT WE CAN LIAISE. SHE TOLD US IT'S A PLANNING ITEM, SO WE'D WANT TO LIAISE WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO. AND MAYBE IT'S THAT CASE, MAYBE THAT'S A GOOD EXAMPLE CASE AND, AND FRANKLY THIS IS A GOOD TIME OR THIS IS A GOOD PLACE TO BRING THINGS LIKE THIS UP BECAUSE WE CAN NOW TAKE ACTION AND AS LONG AS, I MEAN ANYONE ON A TREE COMMITTEE CAN MEET AS LONG AS WE'RE UNDER A QUORUM ON ISSUES WITH THIS AND TACKLE ADVOCACY FOR A SINGLE HOMEOWNER OR A SINGLE TREE. UM, SO I LIKE THAT IDEA OF JUST BRINGING IT UP AND THEN OUR GROUP WILL BE THE ADVOCACY GROUP, SOME PART OF IT AND GO OUT AND IN THIS CASE ASK PLANNING WHAT IS THE HERITAGE TREE PROCESS? WHY CAN'T THESE GUYS GET A TREAT? HOW CAN WE IMPROVE THIS? AND I THINK IT JUST TAKES BEING A LITTLE BIT OF THE GREASY WHEEL. UM, YES PLEASE. AND THEN YOU JUST, UM, SAY, YOU KNOW, CAN WE GET A VARIANCE RIGHT OR UM, UM, UH, AN EXCEPTION TO THE RULE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. YEAH. AND GENERALLY, BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, I'D HAVE TO LOOK AT THE RULES OF THE HERITAGE TREES AND I DON'T KNOW WHY THE DENIAL HAPPENED TO THEM, SO I CAN'T SPEAK TO IT, BUT I DON'T REMEMBER THERE BEING A PROCESS WHEN YOU'RE DENIED, YOU KNOW, GETTING ON THE HERITAGE TREE LIST BECAUSE OTHER TREE ITEMS, IT GOES TO THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS OR THE DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION. SO WHEN IT COMES TO ROAD TREE ITEMS, BUT FOR THE HERITAGE TREE LIST, I DON'T KNOW OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, SO I'D HAVE TO KIND OF LOOK INTO IT FOR YOU GUYS. BUT I WOULD SAY IN, IN ABSENCE OF WAITING FOR ME TO DO RESEARCH IN THE NEXT MEETING, I WOULD LOOK TO OUR PLANNING LIAISON TO MAYBE MAKE CONNECTIONS TO SEE WHAT THAT PROCESS IS. YES, HOWARD, IF YOU CAN SEND ME THAT INFORMATION, I'D BE HAPPY TO PASS THAT ADDRESS AND SEE WHAT WE CAN. WHEN IS THE NEXT PLANNING COMMITTEE? NEXT TUESDAY? PROBABLY, UH, NEXT TUESDAY IS WHAT IT'S SCHEDULED FOR NOW. OKAY. AND WE HAVE DATES SET IN IN MARCH AND APRIL AS WELL. SO GREAT DISCUSSIONS. LOOK FORWARD TO FOLLOWING UP ON THAT. I WILL NOW MOVE TO STAFF COMMENT AND [STAFF COMMENT] CINDY? YEAH, I WAS GONNA SAY, JUST THE REMINDER THAT RELIEF IS AT THE END OF THEIR PLANTING PROGRAM FOR THEIR PLANTING SEASON FOR THE YEAR. SO THEY HAVE BEEN OUT PLANTING DOING THE EAST SIDE CONNECTOR AS WELL AS UM, A CITY OWNED PARCEL THAT THEY WILL BE OUT THIS WEEKEND OUT BY ADOBE CREEK AND THEN AT DENMAN REACH THIS YEAR, THEY BELIEVE THEY PLANTED OVER 170 TREES. SO IF YOU GET OUT TO DENMAN REACH, PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AND SEE THE PLANTING THAT THEY'VE DONE. THEY'RE NOT DOING THE BIGGER PLANTINGS THIS YEAR. THEY'VE CHOSEN A DIFFERENT FORMAT, SO THEY'RE DOING SMALLER GROUPS AND MULTIPLE PLANTINGS. BUT IF YOU DO HAVE TIME AND YOU WANNA GO PLANT A TREE, KNOW THOSE OPPORTUNITIES ARE STILL AVAILABLE THROUGH THE MONTH, BUT REALLY SUCCESSFUL. AS YOU GUYS KNOW, WE REACHED OVER 2000 TREES, SO, AND WE'RE KEEPING ON GOING, SO THAT'S REALLY GOOD NEWS. AND PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, FOR MARCH 22ND, SPREAD THE WORD, WE WILL HAVE THE ASSEMBLY ROOM AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE UFM. WE WOULD LIKE TO FILL THAT ROOM. I KNOW IT'S, YOU KNOW, COULD HAVE UP TO 300 PEOPLE. IF WE COULD GET THAT MANY COMMUNITY MEMBERS, THAT'D BE GREAT. THAT'S WHY WE CHOSE TO DO A SATURDAY INSTEAD OF A WEEKNIGHT, HOPING THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET MORE PEOPLE THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO COME. AND EVEN IF THEY CAN'T COME FOR THE WHOLE PERIOD, BUT TO COME FOR PART OF THE DAY, MORE INFORMATION WILL FOLLOW. BUT IF YOU CAN START SPREADING THE WORD, THAT'D BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. ANY, ANY APPROXIMATE TIMES YET? WE DON'T HAVE HOURS IN THE DAY YET. OKAY, GOT IT. GOT IT. CINDY, COULD YOU PLEASE UPDATE US ON SOMETHING REALLY PRESENTED ON, WHICH IS AN INSTALLATION OF TREES, UM, IN THE LIBRARY PARKING [01:05:01] LOT? IS THAT STILL GONNA HAPPEN? OH, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE TREES ON WHEELS INSTALLATION THAT THEY TALKED ABOUT? YES, UNFORTUNATELY THEY DID NOT GET AWARDED THE GRANT, SO THAT PROGRAM WON'T BE ON THE BACK BURNER, BUT WE'RE HOPING THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO REAPPLY. I DID MEET WITH RELEAF AND THE GRANTING AGENCY TO SEE MAYBE WHERE OUR APPLICATION DIDN'T COMPETE WITH THE OTHERS, SO WE WILL BE BRINGING THAT BACK AGAIN IN THE NEW GRANT PERIOD NEXT YEAR. SO WE HAVEN'T LOST HOPE. WE'D STILL THINK THAT IT'D BE A GREAT PROGRAM TO SEE PEOPLE WHAT MATURE TREES WOULD LOOK LIKE IN A SPACE THAT DOESN'T TYPICALLY HAVE THEM. UM, BUT YEAH, UNFORTUNATELY THIS YEAR WE WEREN'T AWARDED THE GRANT. GOOD UPDATE AND GOOD MEMORY, TARYN ON THAT. I I LIKE THAT PROJECT. UH, AND WITH THAT WRAPPING UP STAFF COMMENT, OUR MEETING IS ADJOURNED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.