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Meeting Minutes TOWN CLER
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Board - Committee - commission - council:
Town Forest committee
Date: 2020-08-18 Time: 7 PM
Building: Location:
Address:
Purpose: Town Forest Management Session:
Attendees: Members - Present:
Thomas Gardiner, Nancy Docktor, Kurt Habel, Dan Ford, Brian Scouten, Jeff
Larson, Bill Sullivan
Members - Not Present:
Rick Wetzler
Others Present:
Jane Kinsella, Reading DPW
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Bill Sullivan
Topics of Discussion:
Meeting was held by video conference due to the COVID pandemic.
• 90th Anniversary Celebration
o The Committee voted unanimously to postpone the 90th Anniversary
Celebration until 5/1/2021 due to COVID-19 and current limitations on
group sizes to 50 participants.
o Speakers and co-sponsoring groups will be notified accordingly.
• Mike Rodgers sent a check to Reading DPW from the surplus funds from his
Eagle project. These funds will be used for Town Forest activities. Some of the
funds will be used to purchase buckthorn pullers.
• Concern raised about pine scale on the pine trees in the TF. Discuss with Rick
Wetzler at the next meeting.
• Voted unanimously to approve the minutes of the 7/14/20 meeting
• Next Meeting: scheduled for September 22, 2020 at 7:00 pm
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