HomeMy WebLinkAbout02/19/2025 SOUTHOLD TOWN TREE COMMITTEE
REGULAR MEETING
February 19, 2025 HELD IN PERSON& VIA ZOOM
6:00 PM
Present: Committee: Gerard Orientale, Jay Jansen, Jill Doherty, Dave Cichanowicz, Derek
Bossen, David Gamberg, Dan Goodwin, Erick Haas --Public: Leah Tillman.
This Regular Meeting of the Southold Town Tree Committee was called to order at 6:00 PM—this
was an in-person meeting—and held via Zoom.
The minutes from the January meeting were approved.
Discussion Items:
Posters from the four schools which participated in our Arbor Day poster contest were judged by
the committee at tonight's meeting. The overall winning poster came from Oysterponds. The
Honorable Mentions from Southold, Fishers Island and Cutchogue East.
Derek will go to the schools on Arbor Day, April 25, 2025 to make the presentations.
The winners of the poster contest will be recognized at Town Board, Tuesday, April 29 meeting
at 4:30 p.m. Letters will go out to the schools of the winners to give out the pertinent information.
We will move forward with installation of Peggy Murphy as a lifetime Honorary Member of the
Tree Committee by Town Board Proclamation.
Committee will have two vacancies to fill this coming April.
Leah Tillman attended this evening's meeting with concerns about the replacement of trees on
Love Lane. Highway Superintendent Dan Goodwin was in attendance at our meeting and educated
us on the various challenges facing Love Lane,i.e.the underground utilities and gas mains on both
fR>sides of the street, which hamper the possibilities of certain types of plantings. The possibility of
some type of container plantings,which can be removed in the winter will be looked into.
Zoom attendees were also concerned about the replacement of trees that were removed on Love
Lane, and also wondered if our Committee's website could be updated with notices from Cornell
Cooperative and/or the DEC about the various problems affecting some of our trees; such as blight,
pine beetles and oak wilt.
We will next meet on March 19, 2025. This meeting was adjourned at 7:20 p.m.
Respectfully submitted, Diane DiSalvo
RECEIVED
MAR 2 0 2025
Southold Town Clerk