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Minutes
Tree Board
9 a.m. Jan. 16, 2019
Board Meeting Room, 105 E. Corbin St.
Present: Chair Andrea Lewis, Vice Chair Frances Harris, Casey Collins, Tim Logue, Phyllis Simon, Liz
Waters and Greg Yavelak (ex officio)
Absent: Bryan Stuart
Staff: Public Space Manager Stephanie Trueblood
1. Call to order, roll call, and confirmation of quorum
Chair Andrea Lewis called the meeting to order at 9 :08 a.m. Public Space Manager Stephanie Trueblood
called the roll and confirmed the presence of a quorum.
2. Agenda changes and approval
There were no changes or adjustments.
3. Minutes review and approval
Minutes from regular meeting on Nov. 14, 2018
Motion: Board member Liz Waters moved to approve the minutes as presented. Board member
Frances Harris seconded.
Vote: Unanimous
Changes: None
4. Review of draft Hillsborough Heights Park Master Plan
Trueblood said the Parks and Recreation Board has been interested in including native plants and
pollinator plants in the park master plans. Specifically, the Parks and Recreation Board was interested in
creating a contemplative area in Hillsborough Heights Park, which might require plants that do well in
the shade.
Trueblood said the Parks and Recreation Board planned to let the current pl ay equipment age out in five
or so years and then replace it with swings, a balanced beam, and climbing structures shaped like
beehives. Currently there is a bush in each corner of the park, one tree in the middle of the park and
roughly nine trees in the back.
The Tree Board recommended:
• Callicarpa
• Leucothoe
• Spice bush
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• Fothergilla
• Clethra
• Aquilegia (spring ephemerals)
• Phlox
• Calycanthus
• Flame azalea
• Box honeysuckle
• Coral honeysuckle
• Crossvine (fragrant climbing vines for fence)
• Native grasses at entrance
5. Discussion of options for volunteer work days for late winter/early spring
• Cates Creek Park — Trueblood reported she believes that the rain garden in Cates Creek Park would
be expanded this spring and that one work day could be spent separating existing plants to plant in
the extension. There was interest in holding a work day from 9 a.m. to noon or 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
April 6. Trueblood will reach out to The Little School and Orange County master gardeners for
possible volunteers.
• Turnip Patch Park — Lewis reported that the Hillsborough Garden Club is working to establish a
regular monthly workday (in spring and summer) for Turnip Patch Park. Also, the club would like a
picnic table in the park moved out of a mulched bed. Trueblood said she could have the table
moved.
• Riverwalk — Trueblood said she planned to spruce up plantings at the Calvin Street entrance to the
Riverwalk greenway in February. She noted which Tree Board members were interested in helping
her.
6. Updates
• Hillsborough Garden Club — Lewis reported the club planned to place articles in the News of Orange
newspaper every other month on the best plants to attract pollinators. Also, the garden club is
working on National Pollinator Week in June. Trueblood suggested attending a meeting of
Hillsborough Merchants and Restaurants instead of visiting each business to discuss pollinator week
participation.
• Bee City initiative — Trueblood asked for PDFs of everything the garden club sent out in 2018 to
prepare for the annual Bee City application renewal.
• Staff updates — Trueblood reported that:
o Some trees had to be removed at the corner of the water plant because of root damage to the
building.
o Duke Energy is planning to trim trees. A tree is resting on the power lines on West Margaret Lane
and will likely be removed.
o The North Carolina Department of Transportation is seeking comments on plans to widen a
portion of South Churton Street.
8. Adjournment
Lewis adjourned the meeting at 10:44 a.m.