20230411 - Shade Tree Commission Meeting Agenda

STC Meeting, Tuesday, April 11th, 

7:30 pm, Garden Room, Village Hall

 - Organizational: Call to order.  Approve minutes from March 14th meeting.  Attendee introductions (3 min).

- Special Attendee: Mathew S. Rogers, Esq., Village attorney.  Discussion of legal issues/liabilities of volunteer participation in tree planting on municipal property. 

(15 min).  N. Brennan-Hill and A. Brown will present their proposal for resident volunteers planting trees on municipal strips (5 min).

 - By-Laws: Approval for Amended By-Laws, (G. Wolfson, 5 min).  

 - Sub-committees: Establish Sub-committees and related projects.  Members are required to at least one Sub-committee (G. Wolfson, 10 min.)

- Floor nominations/voting for 2023 STC Chair and Vice-Chair.  Maria Damasco is Recording Secretary. (S. Winograd, 10 min).

- 2022 Tree Planting: Lessons learned and suggested changes for 2023 tree planting (A. Lowry, 10 min).

- 2023 Capital Budget: “Final” appropriations by the VC to be voted on in April, effective May.  Review cuts and allocations and implications.  (C. Jacoby, 20 min).

 - New Business: 

 - Re-implementation the Adopt-a-Tree program (G. Wolfson, 5 min).

 - Project Pride (S. Winograd, 5 min). 

 - Dunham Trail/PSE&G right-of-way tree removal (A. Lowry, 5 min).

Note: Time allotments are only guidelines as discussions may require more/less time.