[0:01] It's five o'clock. We'll call the tree
advisory committee meeting to order. And
[0:07] the first uh point of business is a call
roll call. Michelle
[0:14] » here.
>> Amy.
[0:18] » No, I'm Beth.
>> Beth. Beth. [laughter] I don't know why
[0:21] I was thinking.
Beth all Beth
[0:26] » here.
>> Kathy
[0:27] » here.
>> Jason. Richard here. Chip,
[0:32] » I'm here.
>> Okay. We have a quorum.
[0:36] Uh
I don't know of any announcements or
[0:40] presentations that's not conducted under
the business. [clears throat]
[0:47] Okay.
[0:50] We need a motion to approve the minutes
from May 21st, 2026.
[0:58] I move to approve the minutes for May
21st, 2026.
[1:01] » We have a motion.
>> Second,
[1:03] » Kathy. A motion, a second. Any question?
>> All in favor? I
[1:09] » I
>> Okay.
[1:12] Okay. Jason, update on the tree
ordinance and a recommendation what the
[1:17] city's doing.
>> Uh I know that Brett has looked at it,
[1:22] uh the street commissioner. I do not
know where it's at with either the city
[1:27] attorney or the director of planning,
but he did say that he was going to try
[1:32] to push that through and get it on the
next agenda to get approved.
[1:38] » Do we need to be there for anybody?
>> I will find out from him whether we need
[1:42] to or not. I'm assuming once they look
it over, if changes need to be done,
[1:46] they'll send it back to me. I'll make
whatever appropriate changes need to be
[1:49] done and then give it back to him.
>> Okay.
[1:52] » But yeah, I'll let you know. I can send
an email out once everything's approved
[1:55] by
>> We've been working on that for a year
[1:57] and I think we have it [snorts] pretty
well uh settled and just need a city
[2:04] council approval.
>> Yep.
[2:08] Did we ever do anything with the
inventory,
[2:12] the city tree inventory?
>> We have a new GIS guy now. Uh so Chris
[2:18] is working on a lot of different things
with uh storm water mapping, sanitary
[2:23] sewer mapping. Uh that will be on his
plate at some time for the uh complete
[2:28] tree inventory. We still have the
inventory we've been working off of from
[2:33] 2011 I think it was uh when Davey did
it. Uh I occasionally add them uh or
[2:39] delete uh trees in there when we remove
trees or add trees to the to the list. I
[2:43] know you re removed some here recently
with all the wind and rain.
[2:47] » Yep. Yep. But yeah, it's not a I mean
it's just a an inventory in our asset
[2:52] management system uh that we keep, but
it's not completely up to date. Uh but
[2:58] once once he gets through doing uh the
mapping for everything else, then the
[3:02] tree inventories on the list.
>> Okay. Keep us appraised.
[3:08] Okay. New business. Uh, our next
activity is a fall festival and we have
[3:15] a booth at the festival and I believe
it's from 9 to 5.
[3:22] So, we will need to have some staff
board members and others to help us with
[3:29] that.
Chip.
[3:32] » So, let me give you an update on that.
Um, I had our marketing uh coordinator,
[3:37] Victoria, uh, design a new tent
uh for the tree advisory committee. So,
[3:43] it'll uh, I think it says Franklin trees
and has the city logo and the parks logo
[3:48] and so it'll have plenty of advertising
there. We also um, bought you a Arbor
[3:54] Day flag uh, official Arbor Day flag
that will can go in the booth and I
[4:00] bought we also bought five I believe. I
haven't gotten to Jason about this yet.
[4:03] I bought five Tree City USA signs that
um say 19 years on them because we it's
[4:09] been 19 years to help advertise at the
booth.
[4:13] » We have a flag Tree City flag.
>> Probably do somewhere.
[4:16] » Yes, I believe I've got one. Yeah. Okay.
Maybe we can hang that again.
[4:20] » Yeah, we may end up hanging it up at the
amphitheater uh permanently, too. But at
[4:24] least we can put we'll have two you can
put up at the booth so we can have
[4:27] plenty of advertising for that. Jason, I
don't know if the we we got a new DNR
[4:32] person that had contacted me from that
was for southern Indiana that um I'm
[4:38] getting ready to meet with. I can't
remember. It's in the next week or so.
[4:41] Um that she's going to be coming through
uh Franklin and she's going to give me
[4:45] all kinds of uh DNR information about
trees and all those kind of things. So,
[4:49] they'll have plenty of stuff to hand out
is what I'm trying to get at. And then
[4:52] I'll work with Jason and we'll see if we
can't get some kind of tree saplings or
[4:56] something for you to be able to hand
out.
[4:57] » Yeah. when she comes in, we may talk to
her because that's where I got them the
[5:00] last time.
>> Yeah. Perfect. Okay. So, but this time
[5:04] you're gonna have plenty of information
to hand out. You got plenty of
[5:06] advertising so people know what the
booth is and all that kind of good
[5:09] stuff. Uh like I said, we'll get some
tree saplings so we can hand those kind
[5:14] of things out to I think we bought
something else. I can't something else
[5:16] to hand out from the Arbor Day
Foundations where I bought all this
[5:19] stuff at. And um really all you guys
need to worry about is just getting you
[5:23] a schedule of of who's going to be there
and if there's any, you know, gaps or
[5:27] something in there, just let us know and
I'll get some staff to to to be there
[5:31] when you guys can't be there. So yeah,
it should be way better than even the
[5:35] previous years we've had. So
>> great.
[5:40] » What are the hours that we need to
>> 9 to 5?
[5:43] » 9 to5.
>> Yeah. I'll be there all day. 9 to
[5:47] probably midnight.
>> Yeah. cuz Jason's already there anyway.
[5:51] » Is there music that night? I think there
is.
[5:54] » There is.
>> There'll be music and fireworks.
[5:56] » And fireworks.
[5:59] » I think
>> and and not I'm sorry. I didn't
[6:02] remember. We'll put you down at that
prominent spot, too, as you're walking
[6:05] down Monroe Street right when you go
into the entrance. Yeah. Where that
[6:08] grass area is right on the end because
that was pretty good that year. We had
[6:11] it there. So,
>> Kathy, didn't we normally kind of block
[6:15] this in about three hour? Yeah, I think
so.
[6:20] Um, I can do afternoon. I've got we've
got cross country in the morning, but I
[6:25] can do afternoon.
>> Well, I can
[6:29] bar in any unusual circumstances, I
could do some in the morning.
[6:32] » Yeah, I could.
I mean, football game is on Friday that
[6:38] So, I probably be free for an hour.
>> Okay. Well, okay.
[6:46] You don't need that today or anything.
Something you could do between now and
[6:49] then to figure out.
>> We don't meet again till then.
[6:52] » Well, you better do it today then.
>> Some ideas with uh
[6:57] Okay, Kathy, you're in the afternoon.
>> Mhm.
[7:01] » What What's good? 2 to 5 or
>> Yeah, I could do that.
[7:05] » All right,
[clears throat and cough]
[7:09] » so what time do we open?
>> 9 to5.
[7:13] » Yeah, let me confirm. do the morning.
>> Let me confirm that's 9. It may be 10.
[7:17] » Okay,
>> morning's probably easier for me.
[7:21] » It is 10. So, it the booth actually
start at 10:00.
[7:25] » We'll get it all set up for you. So,
don't worry about the setup part of it.
[7:28] So, if you just want to get there a
little before 10:00, it's fine.
[7:30] » 10 to 12. Yeah, I could do that.
>> Okay.
[7:34] » Okay.
>> Both of you ladies will be 10 to 12.
[7:37] I'll come then from 12 to 2 or a little
longer.
[7:46] and Kathy two to four. And I'll talk to
uh
[7:50] Meg and Dana because I know Dana likes
helping.
[7:56] » Yes.
[8:02] » Brooke, did not we not take Lindsay
Purscell off?
[8:08] » I wasn't told to.
>> Chip,
[8:10] » we we did.
>> We did. He so he will not be appearing
[8:13] as a member anymore.
>> I'll I'll help you do that, Brooke,
[8:16] because I did I did notice that the the
dates are out of whack, too. So,
[8:19] » okay.
>> I I'll help you.
[8:23] » Okay. So, we have a tentative sign and I
will send all of us a reminder.
[8:27] » Okay.
>> For that.
[8:33] Any other new business?
Jason
[8:38] up give us an update on the city and
what's happening.
[8:42] » Uh right now we're doing a lot of tree
trimming in heritage. Uh been there for
[8:47] about three weeks.
I'm hoping another week and we're done.
[8:52] Uh probably next year though we we get
in an addition work and then we get
[8:58] called off and then you have to go back
and then you get called off. So, next
[9:03] year
with my other role as director of the
[9:08] street department, I'm going to
implement a quarterly trimming instead
[9:14] of jumping all over the place. So, I'm
going to block the city into four
[9:19] sections and we're going to work into
that one section until we're done. If we
[9:23] get a call that we've got something
dangerous or the school calls about
[9:28] something, we'll jump off and go do
that. But if it's a resident that calls,
[9:31] we'll see you in your section. It may be
this year, it may be next year, it may
[9:35] be four years, but we're going to start
working like that. We we can't get
[9:39] anything done by jumping all over the
place.
[9:42] But, uh, it should work out. Like I
said, if there's something dangerous or
[9:46] or it's damaged, you know, something's
damaged a vehicle because, you know, the
[9:49] buses are driving through or something,
we'll take care of that. But, I got a
[9:52] limited number of resources. I've got
three guys that do this every day. So it
[9:57] takes when you're doing a a large area
like what Heritage has so many trees, it
[10:02] it takes forever to do it.
>> You did a nice job at the college.
[10:07] » Thank you.
[10:11] » Oh yeah. Uh not really. Uh been pretty
fortunate storms this year. We've had
[10:17] we've had numerous storms. A lot of
brush out there, but very few of our
[10:21] trees have come down. Only [snorts]
things really came down of ours uh
[10:25] lynons and pear trees which are
typically rid trees.
[10:31] » Yeah, agree. I cut them all down.
>> Yeah,
[10:33] » exactly.
>> That's it.
[10:37] » Okay. Chip, do you have anything to add
on reports?
[10:40] » I do not.
>> Okay.
[10:44] Uh open it up for public comment.
[10:50] Advisory comments, Kathy?
>> No, I don't think so.
[10:55] » No, I'm sorry.
>> Nothing from me.
[10:59] » U sounds like we're in good shape for
the fall festival. I will remind
[11:04] everyone to make sure you track hours
preparing for a meeting at a meeting or
[11:12] anything involved with uh the tree
committee because all those hours Jason
[11:18] takes at the end of the year and we add
up and that helps us maintain our Tree
[11:22] City USA.
>> Yeah, I'll probably start that report
[11:27] after fall festival, end of
Septemberish.
[11:32] So most of there's not a lot of
preparation, but there is some. So just
[11:36] kind of think about it. And you're brand
new, so we got work on getting ours.
[11:41] [laughter]
>> Exactly.
[11:42] » So
>> tell me what to do.
[11:43] » Chip, anything else we need to be
appraised of?
[11:46] » Nope.
>> Okay. There's no other comments. Uh
[11:51] we'll adjourn our meeting.
Thank everyone for attending.