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RECEIVED <br />Town of Reading TOWN CLERK <br />Meeting Minutes READING, MA. <br />'o�n <br />2022 DEC -I AH 8: 13 <br />mnco <br />Board - Committee - Commission - Council: <br />Town Forest Committee <br />Date: 2022-10-18 Time: 7 PM <br />Building: Location: <br />Address: <br />Purpose: Town Forest Management Session: <br />Attendees: Members - Present: <br />Tim Kievan, Kurt Habel.leff Lamson, Nancy Dockter, Bill Hughes, Bill <br />Sullivan <br />Members - Not Present: <br />Susan Bowe, Tom Gardiner <br />Others Present: <br />Jane Kinsela, DPW; Martha Moore, Conservation <br />Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Bill Sullivan <br />Topics of Discussion: <br />Meeting was held by video conference due to the COVID pandemic. <br />• Introduced new committee member Bill Hughes. Welcome Bill. <br />• Discussed Phase 3 of the dead tree removal. <br />o Reading Conservation Commission approved the Forest Cutting Plan (FCP) at <br />their 9/28/22 meeting. DCR approved the FCP. <br />o An application for a grant was submitted to DCR as was done last year. <br />o DPW will contact Kidder Peabody about the required separation from the gas line <br />near Area 7. <br />• Discussed native plants for Area 3. Susan and Jeff, with guidance from Walter Kittredge, <br />planted 40 to 50 pots of native plants after a mustard seed test found no jumping worms. <br />Thank you all. <br />• Discussed how to bid invasive plant control. Need to prepare a scope of work to treat the <br />areas of greatest need. Will utilize the balance of the ARPA funds to be determined after <br />the Phase 3 bids are received. <br />• There was not a quorum of members who were present for the 9/27/22 meeting to <br />approve those minutes. Will try again at the 11/29/22 meeting. <br />• Next Meeting: scheduled for 11/29/22 at 7:00 pm <br />Page I 1 <br />