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Edmonds Citizens' Tree Board v
City Council Chambers — Public Safety Complex
250 5th Avenue North, Edmonds, WA
March 3, 2016
6pm
1) Call to Order
2) Roll Call/Introductions
3) Approval of Agenda
4) Audience Comments (We respectfully request that guests limit comments to 5 minutes or less)
5) Approval of Meeting Notes
January meeting notes were distributed via email. Please bring corrections/comments.
6) Old Business/Discussion (40 minutes)
• 2016 events calendar. Barbara Chase suggested a publicity announcement of our 2016 events. Seems like a nice
idea. Discuss who, when, what, where.
• 2016 events calendar: confirm event list and chair/leader for each event. Date? Budget? Partnering agencies?
• Barbara Chase's My Edmonds News periodic article on tree topics. Who is willing to step up to contribute?
• Heritage Tree Program progress update from Barbara Chase.
• Cass Turnbull presentation update from Barbara Durr. Also discuss ideas for publicity, including the design of the
flyer and other promotional materials.
7) New Business (60 minutes)
• Tree Board City Council presentation, March 22 at the City Council meeting. Discuss presentation topics. We will
have approximately 12 — 15 minutes for the presentation, followed by Q&A. Confirm presentation outline. Steve
and Barbara will work on the presentation materials and will be the speakers.
• Critical Areas Ordinance Tree Board involvement. We have not been formally asked to provide feedback, but
there are some tree -related issues that we may want to quickly contact the City Council about.
• Tree City USA 2015 application recap.
• Tree Board applications. City Council is expecting to be through selection of two new members by March 1.
• Tree Board email demo. I'll bring my computer and see if we can work through some of the challenges folks are
having.
• Barbara and Jed: Collaboration w/ Climate Protection Committee. Please provide a brief report on the 3/3/16 CPC
meeting, and discuss of what types of partnering may be desirable/possible in the future.
• Tree Board consultant services. Shane Hope offered us the opportunity to re -assign some of our $3,000 materials
and supplies budget to consultant services if we feel it would be beneficial. Discuss pros/cons.
• Adopt a Park, Hutt Park, per Diane Buckshnis's email in February.
8) Tree Board Member Comments
9) Ad'lournment
Future meetings April 7 and May 5 (viva! El Cinco de Mayo), 2016