HomeMy WebLinkAboutTree Board Minutes 01.19.2023Minutes
City of Laurel
Tree Board
1/19/23
Council Conference Room
Attending: Michelle Mize, Walt Widdis, Paul Kober,Matt Wheeler Phone: LuAnne Engh
1. Public Input
a.
2. General Items
a. November minutes approved –
b. City balance $843 for Arbor Day. School Balance $220 Kurt is working on the DNRC
grant of $750
c. Arbor Day – May 2nd - Heroes for Life by Finley Watts. Walt will see about getting
Finley in the paper closer to Arbor Day to give more exposure to how students are
involved. We’ll also give Finley a gift certificate from the committee.
d. Shirts through Dynamic were quoted at $10.90 each with $3 extra for XXl. Don came
back to say the design requires more colors so it will be higher.
e. Laurel Foundation (Jon Rutt & Dave Bauer) are working on the Foundation
connection. We need a contract signed and then they will upload our information
on the website to collect donations or if people are interested in donating a
memorial tree. LuAnne will apply for the Walmart grant through the Foundation too.
Paul said he would contact Rotary and Cenex for donations.
f. Plaques – If Memorial trees are donated we discussed the plaque with the
information. Walt suggested the family find their own plaque. It was also discussed
that a uniform plaque approved by the committee would be more appealing.
g. Aaron has suggested we plant 5 new trees..most would replace trees that are nearly
gone. Michelle suggested we plant some trees to help shade the new splash pad.
Patrick (our city tree trimmer) could also give advice since he has taken care of the
Thomson trees for several years and did the most recently trimming.
h. We have the tree list from Good Earth Works to consider as well as Rivers Edge.
i. Michelle will contact Richard Close for the Honor guard. Since we have bathrooms
are the park we won’t need the portables.
j. Edie Armstrong said she will make the sloppy joe lunch again with the SOW
committee.
k. LuAnne will ask Lynn to speak again unless the Mayor would like to do the
presentation.
l. We need to contact the Laurel PTA for water for the kids unless they bring their own
water bottles where we can have gallon jugs to refill. When it’s cool they don’t use
much water.
3. Old Business
a. The LURA committee has started meeting again. There is also the downtown
committee that wants to improve the downtown storefronts. Hopeful ly ideas
will start flowing again to improve the commercial area.
b. The city is committed to the Splash Pad. $150K is raised and hopefully by March
construction will start.
4. Other Items
a. Volunteer hours – Keep your hours for all meetings, time spent on Arbor Day or any
other project.
b. We only have 3 more meetings before our event. So everyone should be working on
their responsibilities.
Next meeting Thursday, Februar16th - 9:30 Council Conference room