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Town of Reading RECEIVED <br /> Meeting Minutes TOWN CLERK 3 <br /> READING MA. <br /> Board - Committee - Commission - CouncIP211 SEP 17 AM 9: 02 <br /> Town Forest Committee <br /> Date: 2020-07-14 Time: 7 PM <br /> Building: Location: <br /> Address: <br /> Purpose: Town Forest Management Session: <br /> Attendees: Members - Present: <br /> Thomas Gardiner, Nancy Docktor, Kurt Habel, Dan Ford, Brian Scouten, Jeff <br /> Lanson, Bill Sullivan <br /> Members - Not Present: <br /> Rick Wetzler <br /> Others Present: <br /> Jane Kinsella, Reading DPW; Bob Holmes, Chronicle <br /> Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Bill Sullivan <br /> Topics of Discussion: <br /> Meeting was held by video conference due to the COVID pandemic. <br /> • Doth Anniversary Celebration <br /> o Request submitted to DCR for funding - $500 approved <br /> Reading Celebration Committee will contribute $1,515 <br /> • Kurt prepared a video on how to pull buckthorn <br /> • J. Kinsella will upload to Town's webpage <br /> • Try an annual buckthorn pull in Reading? <br /> • Sign-up through TFC, not the Town <br /> • Meet at Council Ring and disperse around the TF to pull buckthorn <br /> o Lecturers have been lined up from Mass Audubon, forester Phil Benjamin, <br /> and bird/animal speakers <br /> o Nancy to draft description of activities for website <br /> o Need volunteers to direct people, provide information and distribute masks <br /> o May need to hold all activities outside due to COVID <br /> o Board of Health will require a COVID Plan <br /> • Concern raised about pine scale on the pine trees in the TF <br /> • Voted unanimously to approve the minutes of the 6/16/20 meeting <br /> • Next Meeting: scheduled for August 18, 2020 at 7:00 pm <br /> Page I 1 <br />