OLD LYME TREE COMMISSION AGENDA
SCHEDULED MEETING, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2018, 4:00 pm
TOWN HALL MEZZANINE CONFERENCE ROOM
Record of Votes
ATTENDANCE
Regular Members present: Joanne DiCamillo, Michel Gaffey, Joan Flynn, Anne Bing
Members absent: Emily Griswold (regular)
Ex-officio members absent: Thomas Degnan, Tree Warden
Guests: Bob Cooper, Mary Jo Nosal
CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order at 3:44 pm
CLERK’S REPORT - The minutes of September 20, 2018 were approved
BUDGET REPORT – FY 2019/2020 budget proposal approved in the amount of $13,960 (no increase).
Balance remaining
Expenditure
2018-2019 review budget proposal
OLD BUSINESS - no vote
Memorial cherry tree at the police station - mulch
List of young trees - pruning, fertilizing and mulching
Hartford Avenue new trees - state inspection
50 Grassy Hill Road - oak tree pruning
Town Hall dogwoods
NEW BUSINESS – no vote
2017-2018 Chairman’s Annual report
2019 Tree Commission Meeting Calendar
Communications from Town Hall
9/24 126 Whippoorwill Road resident reported a large tree branch leaning on wire of utility pole
9/27 letter from 50 Grassy Hill Road resident - re: red oak tree pruning report
10/2 letter from 2 Moss Point Trail resident - re: damage to vehicles from falling oak tree limb
Inspection by tree warden 10/30 and local arborist 10/4
10/5 - 44 Center Beach Ave. resident reported oak tree trimmed recently still damaged from low branches
10/10 - 166 Mile Creek Road resident requested removal of dying tree on property.
10/16 - 22 Library Lane resident concerned about tree at front of property on corner of Dunns Lane
10/29 - 126 Sill Lane resident reported three trees on town’s r.o.w. may be in danger of falling
Mailbox
9/20 - letter from Islanda Court East Lyme property owner - re: tree removal by Eversource
10/3 - 169 Mile Creek Road resident sent Eversource form to tree warden requesting modification of Lucas’s proposed work on maple tree
10/17 letter from 155 Mile Creek Road resident reporting tree mailed to the tree warden
10/15 - Permit Application request - 1 Academy Lane resident - remove dying dogwood tree on town’s r.o.w.
OTHER BUSINESS – no vote
Reappointments: Anne Bing, Joan Flynn, Emily Griswold
ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned at 4:55 pm
Next scheduled meeting will be December 20, 2018 at 4:00 P.M. in Old Lyme Town Hall
Martha Hansen, Clerk
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