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Agenda · October 16, 2023

Shade Tree Commission meeting agenda — October 16, 2023

  1. Approve — Minutes from September 2023
  2. Tree Removal on Edwards Street property
    • bill sent 9/25/23
  3. Tree Tender - Workshop Oct 5
    • Separate Fall Tree Order
    • Training online Jan 17–Feb 28, 2024
    • 505 Edwards – serviceberry (2)

Fall Tree Orders

  1. Hornbeam
  2. 170 N Centre St — hackberry
  3. Planters for Oct/Nov — 700 N Centre St – little leaf Linden
    • pre-hole digging Howard Ave – thornless hawthorn
    • tree removal/sidewalk cuts
    • group/indiv help

Fall/Winter Pruning

  1. Boy Scouts — Sat, Oct 21 morning
    • Earl @ dukeearl76@comcast.net 570-640-4875
  2. Mahantongo Street pruning — 10/4 Troop 615

Open Time

  1. 618 Mahantongo St and street tree at 3rd floor
    • advise Charlotte Mayley

Next Meeting

  1. Monday, November 20, 2023 — 3:00 pm

Grant Trees

  1. Grant Trees — 16 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 – 2 tiliia, 1 Kentucky coffee tree, 1 prunus sarg "colunmaris"
    • 18th & Westend – Japanese syringa lilac

Volutella Blight of Boxwood

  1. Disease overview and management — Fungal disease caused by Volutella buxi affecting boxwoods, resulting in browning leaves and stem dieback. Management includes pruning infected branches a few inches below the juncture of diseased and healthy tissue, disinfecting tools between cuts with 70% alcohol, and applying fungicides to prevent disease development.

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