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Parks, Recreation & Trees Advisory Board
Meeting Agenda
March 25, 2014
4:30-6pm
City Hall 1 st floor conference room
1. Call to order— roll call.
2. Approval of March 25, 2014 agenda.
3. Approval of January 28 & February 25, 2014 minutes.
4. Staff report? (Steve Wright) Steve asked to be notified 2 days before
PRTAB meetings. Said he may attend, depending.
5. Report on progress of Park, Recreation and Open Space Functional Plan
through City Council March 3. (Rosemary and Debbie)
6. PRT work plan 2014:
a. Tree City USA-
i. Update on possible DNR TreeCity grants for 2014:
Community Forestry Assistance Grants, Inventory Grants,
and Tree Planting Grants. (Cecil & Debbie)
ii. National Arbor Day Friday April 25.
• Saturday April 26 plant a pine tree from Chetzemoka
nursery at Bobby McGarraugh Park while the 3000
bulbs we planted last year are blooming. Steve Wright
approved the tree planting and suggested planting it in
the irrigated part of the park. Ron Sikes volunteered to
plant the tree. Time? Other activities going on while
tree is being planted? Children's finger painting? Who
will organize?
• Ron Sikes will lead the Fort Worden tree walk from the
Significant Tree Brochure. What day &time? Arborist
along on the walk?
• Who will lead the uptown tree walk from the Significant
Tree Brochure? What day and time? Arborist along on
the walk?
• Will we have a tree walk at Bishop Park? Who will lead
it? What day and time? Arborist along on the walk?
• Arbor Day proclamation to be read at the April 21 City
Council meeting. Rosemary will contact Joanna Sanders
to make arrangements and accept the proclamation
and announce our planned activities for the weekend.
• Is anyone willing to do some publicity for the events?
• Discuss DNR offer to reimburse for a landscape sized
tree to plant for Arbor Day.
b. Volunteers for our parks-
i. Mar 16 Kah Tai work party report. (Rosemary) Next work
party at Kah Tai Park on Sunday, April 27 from 9am-noon,
weed removal, and garbage pick up.
ii. Mar 13 tree planting at PT golf course report. (Debbie)
iii. Update on Parkside Park. (Debbie) Notify neighboring
apartment complex about Parkside Park. (Ron)
7. Discuss starting a list, to be updated on some scheduled frequency (every
six months or annually) of issues and changes that need to be considered
for inclusion in future parks plan updates (ie., new park and open space
facilities, grants, changed conditions in existing parks, etc.) so that a
concise written record exists for the next update. (Debbie)
8. Discuss what grant opportunities we would like to go forward with this
cycle at RCO and elsewhere. (Debbie)
9. Future Meeting Agenda Items. Next regularly scheduled PRTAB meeting
Tuesday April 22 from 4:30-6pm?
10.Visitor and PRT board comment— 3 min per person.
Adjourn