Meeting Minutes 03/24/2023

Notes

•  Walkthrough
  • Northeast of the property needs to be cleaned out
  • The pile  on east field of dead branches, need a chainsaw
    
  • South tree logs
  • How many logs can we move out?
  • Logs on west berm
    • remove some of them and put edging
  • Take note of the stumps in the front by the path
  • Dead tree near the carport (we can take that out)
• Robyn to work with Lila and Joe to take care of the space near their house
• Lila has been adopting Myste's yard
  • Planting Pumpkin plants
  • Strawberries
• Winter Maintenance - It can still be done
  • Roses on the east side are in the driveway
    • None of the shrubs have been trimmed
    • Power tools needed, very difficult task
    • Trim shrubs out of sidewalk - got a warning from city last time
  • No trimming on the plums
    • The last time we quoted $400 to trim all plums
• Swale on west entrance
  • Need to remove seedlings that are now tall
  • Laraine paid Mike and he cleaned the whole area out. Amy worked on it too, used TORDON RTU
  •  Vinnie is interested in working on the trees in the swale.
• May found an electric pruner
• Stump grinding - What's the criteria for removing?
  • Safety is more important than aesthetics (Lila, Mary)
  • Give preference to the ones that are along the walkway (Lila, Robin)
  • Kay: "Alex picked a bid that didn't include the stumps but was more expensive.  I'd say she's lost her chance."
• Tree in front of Vinni's
  
  • Landscape committee agrees to remove Vinni's tree (17)
  • Needs to be brought up to management
• Dry material behind north units can be removed (all owners on board)
• Clean up date still TBD
  
• Common house lawn - patches

To-dos

• Walkthrough April 15th at 1 pm
  • Emilie to text Alex about the walkthrough
• Emilie to e-mail Linda and Laraine about trimming plums
  
• Emilie to send a note about tree in front of Unit 17
• We need a new conversation about stump griding next month
• Emilie to come up with vision statement