September 29, 2025 in Agenda Notices, Arbor Commission
ARBOR COMMISSION
1 City Hall Plaza, Ellsworth, ME 04605
Regular Meeting
Monday, October 6, 2025, 8:15-10:15 am
AGENDA
1. Call to Order
2. Adoption of Minutes of September 8, 2025
3. Staff Comments
- Roddy Ehrlenbach
- Michael Otzwirk
- Caleb Pelletier (strangulating root systems, Knowlton Park)
4. Report from City Council (Tabatha White)
5. Citizen Comments
6. Project Management Team
– Project Canopy Grant
- Staff education – monthly workshop
- Street Tree inventory/GIS mapping – DUE OCT 2025
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- Inventory data
- Lawyer – written approval for private property owner sign off on tree plantings
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- Ash Tree inventory – 510 Ash in the Right of Way
- Pest/Disease Management Plan – DUE OCT 2025
- Branch Lake Public Forest Management Plan – DUE OCT 2025
- Tree Trust
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- Finalize and file Tree Trust bylaws and secure corporate status
- Secure CPA to file 501(c)3 status
- Create Tree Trust website
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- Draft Comprehensive Forestry Management Plan
– IRA Grant
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- Fall planting project schedule/locations – NOV 2025 (11/4-7) Foster/Washington/Water St
- Tree procurement
- Volunteer cultivation
- Volunteer and staff education – Ash Tree panel (Ellie MacDonald, UMO, Ash Protection Coalition)
7. Member Comments/Other business
- Financial accounting (send reimbursement requests to ap@ellsworthmaine.gov)
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- Project Canopy – expense number: 242
- IRA – expense number: 243
- Arbor Commission Account – expense number: 10-515-51030
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- Report on memorial marker in Knowlton Park
- Fall work in Tree Nursery
- UMO internships
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- Paying for an intern via Arbor Commission budget versus IRA grant
- MCSIE intern gathering at Moore Center
- UMO Forestry intern program
- Job fair/job description/interviews
- Relationship with future Project Canopy Grant
- Healthy Acadia Orchard on Beechland Road
- Coordination with Planning Board/Technical Review Team
- Info to planning office for proposed changes to Chapter 56
- Revision of approved plan to substitute borders for trees as buffer
- Ellsworth Historical Society request for trees on Chamberlain House lawn
- HCTC – tool shed
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8. Next meeting: November 3, 2025, 8:15-10:15 am
9. Adjournment