Tree Board

Tree Board Minutes November 10, 2020 @ 2:30 pm Zoom Meeting Attendance: Wes Powell, Dottie Mann, Alexandra Wills, Ron Erb, Eddie Combs and Kathrine Killebrew 1. City Forester update. Kathrine announced that her department has planted two Memorial Trees as well as replaced two sweetgums on Franklin St. and one Zelkova at the the Downtown overlook. Also, The TAEP grant trees will be planted over the next two weeks at Trice landing. Kathrine will get photos for social media posts. 2. The Board has purchased two cherry trees to add to the arboretum for our Arbor Day Celebration 3. The city’s Arbor Day celebration will be held on Nov 13th at 11 am in Liberty Park. Wes went over the itinerary for the event. John Woodcock with TN Forestry will be at the celebration to present Arbor Day Foundation Recognitions. Parking will be near the boat trailer parking. We will not do a press release prior to the event in order to keep the numbers small. The press release will go out after the event. 4. Dottie is writing a memorial and recognition of service for Tracy Jackson. She will read this at the celebration. 5. Wes showed the board the previous draft of the Tree Board Logo. It was discussed to remove the ‘C’ from the center to allow more room for additional tree shapes. Also add the establishment date of 1989. 6. Eddie Combs with CDE said that they would be happy to chip Christmas trees at Heritage Park again this year. We will send out press releases and social media pushes immediately following the December meeting. 7. Wes started the discussion of doing another art contest in the spring of 2021. The board decided to have the theme be Trees and their Benefits to our Health. Art should be on 8 1/2” x 11” paper or card stock. Art will be scanned and emailed to the board for judging. Katie will check to see is they can be sent through Parks and Recreation web site. Contest will be available for to grades K-5 in Montgomery County. Judging Criteria are Originality, Creativity, and Illustration of Theme. Art should have student’s name, school and grade in the lower right hand corner of the paper. With no further business the meeting was adjourned. Next meeting: December 9th at 2:30pm - Zoom Meeting