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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Town Forest Committee
Date: 2020-10-27 Time: 7 PM
Building: Location:
Address:
Purpose: Town Forest Management Session:
Attendees: Members - Present:
Thomas Gardiner, Nancy Docktor, Kurt Habel, Brian Scouten, Jeff Lanson,
Rick Wetzler, Bill Sullivan
Members - Not Present:
Dan Ford
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Bill Sullivan
Topics of Discussion:
Meeting was held by video conference due to the COVID pandemic.
• Discussed group use of the Town Forest during COVID
o The time for the Reading Board of Health to review/approve TF group use
applications is now less than the 30 days previously required.
o Troop 702 will hold November troop meetings at the new council ring
o Pack 735 is looking for alternative venues due to the reservation
difficulties.
o Need to add Reading Fire Department to group use application process?
o Simultaneous group use at the new and old Council Rings should be
allowed.
o Need to make group use application and the TF Rules more visible on TF
website.
• Pine Die-Off
o Sudden explosion of pockets of dying trees near Council Ring
o Drone video to be taken
o Discuss with our forestry consultant, Phil Benjamin.
• Voted unanimously to approve the minutes of the 9/22/20 meeting
• Next Meeting: scheduled for 11/24/20 at 7:00 pm [subsequently rescheduled for
12/8/20]
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