C. Arbor Day Proclamation and Invitation to Arbor Day
CITY OF
CHANHASSEN
7700 Market Boulevard
PO Box 147
Chanhassen, MN 55317
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MEMORANDUM
TO:
Todd Gerhardt, City Manager
FROM:
Jill Sinclair, Environmental Resources Specialist
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DATE:
April 27, 2009
SUBJ:
Arbor Day Proclamation
Chanhassen's Arbor Day celebration will be held on Saturday, May 2 this year. In
the morning, community groups will be cleaning neighborhood parks. At noon,
all volunteer groups will gather at the Senior Center for a thank you luncheon with
the Mayor. Also in the morning, Bruce the Bug Guy will be giving a presentation
in the Chanhassen Library Wilder Room at 10:30 am. Master Gardeners will be
available at the library as well to diagnose plant problems. Kid's activities will
happening in the library lobby area and will include planting seeds to take home
and making a craft project as well as the opportunity to take home an evergreen
seedling. The tree sale this year offers the following selections for purchase:
sugar maple, river birch, scotch pine and Red Splendor crabapple. In order to
properly recognize the day, I am requesting that the City Council pass the attached
proclamation concerning Arbor Day.
Arbor Day Schedule:
10 am - Noon
Adopt-A-Park
Clean-up at neighborhood parks by local community groups
Noon
Thank you luncheon for park clean-up and planting groups at City Hall Senior Ctr.
10:30 am
Chanhassen Library - Wilder Room
Bruce the Bug Guy - Environmental program
10 am - Noon
Chanhassen Library
Master Gardeners available to answer home landscaping and garden questions
Kid's craft (seed planting)
Free seedlings
Tree Sale
Sugar maple $18
Red Splendor crabapple $20
Scotch pine $8
River birch $8
Noon
Chanhassen Library Children's Area
Library storytelling time
Chanhassen is a Community for Life - Providing for Today and Planning for Tomorrow
Recommendation:
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the following motion:
"The City Council adopts the Arbor Day proclamation shown as Exhibit A."
Attachments:
Exhibit A - Arbor Day Proclamation
CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
DATE:
Auril 27. 2009
RESOLUTION NO:
2009-
MOTION BY:
SECONDED BY:
PROCLAMA TION DECLARING SA TURDA Y, MAY 2 AS ARBOR DAY
WHEREAS, in 1872, J. Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture that a
special day be set aside for the planting of trees; and
WHEREAS, this holiday, called Arbor Day, was first observed with the planting of more than a
million trees in Nebraska; and
WHEREAS, Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world; and
WHEREAS, trees can reduce the erosion of our precious topsoil by wind and water, cut heating and
cooling costs, moderate the temperature, clean the air, produce oxygen and provide habitat for wildlife; and
WHEREAS, trees are a renewable resource giving us paper, wood for our homes, fuel for our fires
and countless other wood products; and
WHEREAS, trees in our city increase property values, enhance the economic vitality of business
areas, and beautify our community; and
WHEREAS, trees are a source of joy and spiritual renewal; and
WHEREAS, Chanhassen has been recognized as a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day
Foundation and desires to continue its tree-planting ways.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Thomas A. Furlong, Mayor of the City of Chanhassen, do hereby proclaim
Saturday, May 2, 2009 as ARBOR DAY in the City of Chanhassen. I urge all citizens to support efforts to
care for our trees and woodlands and to support our city's community forestry program; and further, I urge all
citizens to plant trees to gladden the hearts and promote the well-being of present and future generations.
Passed and adopted by the Chanhassen City Council this 27th day April, 2009.
ATTEST:
Todd Gerhardt, City Manager
Thomas A. Furlong, Mayor
YES
NO
ABSENT
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