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<br /> <br />Horticulture & Forestry <br /> <br />Advisory Board <br />Minutes <br /> <br />Thursday, May 6, 2010 <br />Library Meeting Room <br />951 Spruce Street <br />7 :00 PM <br /> <br />I. Call to Order-Chair Mike Frontczak called the meeting to order at 7:10 pm. <br /> <br />II. Roll Call-Board Members Present: Mike Frontczak, Vickie Marra, Theresa <br />Rounds, Matt Tepe, Ellen Toon. Board Members Absent: Kimberly Heestand, <br />Meredith Preston-Eddy. Staff Members Present: Dean Johnson. City Council <br />Member Present: Dave Clabots. Guest: Martha Kenny, Louisville resident. <br /> <br />III. Approval of Agenda-The agenda was approved by all members. <br /> <br />IV. Approval of Minutes- The minutes from the April 1, 2010 meeting were approved. <br /> <br />V. Public Comments on Items Not on the Agenda: None <br /> <br />VI. Dandelion spraying to be done by the City of Louisville, proposing five areas to <br />spray. Public relations around this would be helpful and the spraying will be spot <br />spraying to be cautious and responsible. <br /> <br />VII. Chris will be planting Cherry trees on Cherry Street. A thank-you letter will go to <br />Home Depot for Arbor Day trees. Mike and Chris will draft this letter. <br /> <br />VIII. Reviewed the Kerr end of Season report. <br /> <br />IX. The recent study session with City Council seemed to yield no sense of direction <br />with regard to the commercial landscape maintenance issue. It may be helpful to <br />investigate what other cities are doing. An alternate approach may be to pull the <br />original landscape plan and report missing trees on the property to the owner. <br /> <br />X. HFAB would like to ask new Planning Director, Troy Russ to attend a future <br />meeting to discuss landscape maintenance issue prior to the next study session with <br />City Council. <br /> <br />XI. Discussion about Conoco-Phillips and the City's Industrial and Commercial <br />Landscape Guidelines. Conoco-Phillips is hoping for LEED - Platinum certification. <br /> <br />City of Louisville <br />Parks & Recreation Department 749 Main Street Louisville CO 80027 <br />303.335.4735 (phone) 303.335.4738 (fax) www.louisvilleco.gov <br />