All right, great.

So

it's

531.

We'll go ahead and uh call the tree advisory and tree preservation advisory board meeting for uh Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 to order.

Uh

at this point, uh we have the 15-minute public comment period.

And is there anybody online?

Doesn't look like

it.

I

can see it.

Nobody's not

okay.

Uh nobody online and there was nobody signed up.

So we'll move on to the regular meeting.

Um guess public comment.

That's was there um well uh the call to order.

Uh so we do have Quorum, we have Holly on the uh on virtual and Lee and myself.

Uh so we have three members present.

So uh next item is the approval of the minutes.

There are no minutes in the packet.

That's correct.

All

right, so we'll move on.

Uh so we move on to unfinished business.

Brad.

Yeah, thanks, Tim.

Um as I said, there should be a short meeting tonight.

What I'm really trying to get approval from for from the board tonight is our tree list, which we've been working on um over the last few meetings, and I want to give Holly credit before that.

I'm gonna turn it over to her to just to explain um, you know, the spreadsheet that she put together um sitting in the audience tonight is our planner um just for the record.

Um Mr.

Pierce and I had a conversation with him today.

And if we ratify the draft tree list today, um he's at work has worked extensively on the tree ordinance, and that means that we can then um turn that over to the planning department and they can use that as a reference.

Um so it's kind of important that we we get this tree lift um approved tonight.

Um and speaking with with Mr.

Pierce, we don't have to bring that back to council because of the verbiage is already in the the ordinance.

So he passed basically needs a master list, which was what this will be.

Um so this is something that we have been working towards, and um I'm really hopeful that if we get that done tonight, then we can um turn that over to Mr.

Pierce tomorrow and we can really move forward with that.

But on that note, I'd look to Holly just to you know bring us up to speed on on what she's done since the last meeting with the list.

Thanks, Holly.

Okay, well, I think I mean if you've seen it, so you know that what I did is take that list that was alphabetical by botanical name, um, sort those plants by uh size into three categories, which are um over 50 feet, 30 to 50 feet, and up to 30 feet, and then um organize the the um the categories that we might want people to have access to, the information we might want them to have access to.

Um we have height and width, um whether it's native to Delaware or not.

Um there's a column for growth form, which I did not fill in um because I have just want an opinion on that.

Um soil moisture, whether it's tolerant to urban conditions, um, like the harsh urban conditions, um, whether it has flowers and fall color.

Um,

and then we have both common and botanical name.

Um it's not really pretty.

Um I don't have

um

I don't have Excel.

I just have an open um access program that I worked on.

So it would be nice um if somebody that had Excel or something could like take the the headings at the top and turn them so that they're in a diagonal so they don't take up so much space.

Um, but I didn't have the ability to do that.

Um the growth form part I wasn't sure, you know, there's different verbiage that's used for that to define whether um something is um whether you want to use conical or pyramidal or you know what what terms you want to use.

So I was kind of looking to people that are in the landscape field um to see what they think is the most common verbiage to use there, and I can go back and fill that in for sure um to make that more useful.

Other than that, um I guess it's just also open to any comments that anybody has about you know how it's organized, or if you think that um I misrepresented something

there.

Well, again, Holly, I appreciate the work you've done for it in terms of making it pretty, you know, we can certainly take it from here and and you know, we would probably put it into some you know official sort of with city letter head and and doctor it up a little bit.