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Public Space Manager Stephanie Trueblood
101 E. Orange St., PO Box 429, Hillsborough, NC 27278
919-296-9481 | stephanie.trueblood@hillsboroughnc.gov
www.hillsboroughnc.gov | @HillsboroughGov
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Minutes
Tree Board
9 a.m. Feb. 19, 2020
Town Hall Annex Board Meeting Room, 105 E. Corbin St.
Present: Vice Chair Frances Harris, Casey Collins, Tim Logue, Bryan Stuart and Liz Waters
Absent: Chair Andrea Lewis, Phyllis Simon and Greg Yavelak (ex officio)
Staff: Public Space Manager Stephanie Trueblood
Guests: Sarah Meadows
1. Call to order, roll call, and confirmation of quorum
Vice Chair Frances Harris called the meeting to order at 9 a.m. Public Space Manager Stephanie Trueblood
called the roll and confirmed the presence of a quorum.
2. Agenda changes and approval
The agenda stood as presented.
3. Minutes review and approval
Minutes from regular meeting on Jan. 15, 2020.
Motion: Member Tim Logue moved approval of the minutes as presented. Member Bryan Stuart
seconded.
Vote: Unanimous
Changes: None
4. Development of public outreach plans for Managed Natural Landscapes Ordinance
The board asked staff to prepare a news release soliciting volunteers willing to try converting some of their
grass to managed natural landscape areas. The Tree Board will offer consultation assistance to any volunteers.
The board also discussed creating a video to explain the new ordinance and its benefits.
5. Planning for National Pollinator Week Tour
National Pollinator Week will be celebrated May 31-June 6 in Hillsborough. Sarah Meadows, a member of the
Garden Club’s Bee City subcommittee, shared preliminary plans for the week with the board. The board
suggested that the video described in Item 4 could be released this week.
Trueblood noted that she would coordinate with the town clerk to have a proclamation read at a Board of
Commissioners meeting.
6. Planning for Earth Evening activities
Meadows and Logue volunteered to assist with the activities.
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7. Updates
A. Hillsborough Garden Club
There was no additional update.
B. Bee City Subcommittee
There was no additional update.
C. Staff and board updates
Trueblood reported that:
• The bee hotel in the Gold Park pollinator garden has native insect inhabitants. David Hinkle, who built
the structure and is maintaining it for three years, has learned bamboo is not good for the larvae
because it retains too much moisture. Hinkle will replace the bamboo with cardboard. He will also
train Chelsea Gailey, a Parks and Recreation Board member, on how to maintain the hotel. He also
told Trueblood that extending the garden near the structure would be beneficial to the insects.
• A tree died and fell in the Town Cemetery.
• Some dead trees on East Corbin Street were removed from the right of way.
• Landscaper Christina King will plant in Murray Street Park the following week. Trueblood hopes to
have a yard hydrant installed for watering at that location.
• Girl Scout Desi Parker will create a pollinator garden in Hillsborough Heights Park. She will first bring
her plan to this board.
• With permission and at the request of the Orange County Historical Museum board, some volunteer
crape myrtles were removed from the bank in front of the museum.
• Some pruning and tree removal is needed along North Churton Street between West Tryon and West
Union streets. Harris agreed. The Tree Board said it is fine with Trueblood making decisions about
trees along that stretch of right of way.
Harris noted that the first workday at the Gold Park pollinator garden is in March.
8. Adjournment
Harris adjourned the meeting at 10:06 a.m.