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Agenda · September 18, 2023

Shade Tree Commission meeting agenda — September 18, 2023

  1. Approve — Minutes from August 2023
  2. Tree Removal on Edwards Street property
    • Blue Crue $1200 · planting 1 hornbeam and 2 serviceberries

Tree Tender Workshop

  1. Separate Fall Tree Order — Thur, Oct 5, 9-1 at Penn State Schuylkill, Classroom Bldg C-101 · 505 Edwards · condensed course/refresher
    • serviceberry (2) · hornbeam

Fall Tree Orders

  1. grant – 16 for Pottsville
    • 170 N Centre St – hackberry
    • 700 N Centre St - little leaf Linden
  2. direct purchase — 6 Howard Ave – hawthorn

Planters for Oct/Nov

  1. pre-hole digging
  2. tree removal/sidewalk cuts
  3. group/individual help

Fall/Winter Pruning

  1. Need location for Boy Scouts
  2. Mahantongo Street pruning

Open Time

  1. Schuylkill County Conservancy Annual Fall meeting — at Penn State Sch – Sept 16
  2. Install a live stake nursery near Sweet Arrow Lake — Oct 7 Sat (Oct 9 raindate) with 90 trees · The fenced in area will be mulched with paper/cardboard and woodchips and deep watered · Contact Vicki Reed at [email protected], Berks/Sch Master Watershed Steward
  1. Next Meeting — Monday, October 16, 2023 @ 3:00
  2. Grant Trees 19 TreePA bare root trees
    • 12 & Norwegian Playgd 2 Red Oak and Linden
    • City Hall/Laurel 1 Syringa Ret "Ivory silk"
    • Eastside Playgd 1 American Elm
    • 609 Edwards St 1 Serviceberry
    • 607 Edwards St 1 Hackberry
    • Wolf Street 4 2 tiliia, 1 Kentucky coffee tree · 1 prunus sarg "colunmaris"
    • 18th & Westend 6 Japanese syringa lilac
    • Shenandoah 3 2 prunus sarg colunmaris · 1 tulip popular

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