F-1, Arbor Day ProclamationMEMORANDUM
CITYOF
CHANHASSEN
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C ~ani~issc~ MN 55317
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TO:
Todd Gerhardt, City Manager
FROM:
DATE:
SUB J:
Jill Sinclair, Environmental Resources Specialist
April 20, 2004 ~S'
Arbor Day Proclamation
Chanhassen's Arbor Day celebration will be held on Saturday, May 1 this year. In
the morning, community groups will be cleaning neighborhood parks. At noon,
all volunteer groups will gather at the commons area between city hall and the
library for a thank you luncheon. Beginning at 10 am at the library, the
Chanhassen woodcarvers will be in the Wilder Room helping kids construct
birdhouses. A storytelling hour will take place at 11 am in the Children's area at
the library. Black Hills spruce trees will again be for sale as well as hanging
baskets, annuals and potting soil. In order to properly recognize the day, I am
requesting that the City Council pass the attached proclamation concerning Arbor
Day.
Arbor Day Schedule:
9 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
10 am - Noon
Chanhassen Library
Birdhouse construction in the Wilder room (free event)
Master Gardeners available to answer home landscaping and garden questions
11 am - Noon
Chanhassen Library Children's Area
Storytelling time
8 am - Noon
Black Hills spruce tree sales - $3 each
Hanging baskets, annuals, potting soil - prices vary. Sold by Girl Scout Troop.
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
The City of Chanhassen · A growing community with clean lakes quality sch, ools a charming dow~ tow~ thr ~,,ing t)us~ mss¢,3 '¢¢odino trails and ts, eau~ifuI parks A gsa! [)'ace t,;, hve ~¢.rk, and play
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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
this holiday, called Arbor Day, was first observed with the planting of
more than a million trees in Nebraska, and
Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world, and
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 life-giving oxygen, and provide habitat for wildlife,
and
trees are a renewable resource giving us paper, wood for our homes,
fuel for our fires, and beautify our community, and
trees in our city increase property values, enhance the economic
vitality of business areas, and beautify our community, and
trees, wherever they are planted, are a source of joy and spiritual
renewal.
Tom Furlong , Mayor of the City of
Chanhassen
, do hereby proclaim
Saturday, May 1st as
Arbor Day
in the City of Chanhassen , and I urge all
citizens to celebrate Arbor Day and to support efforts to protect our
trees and woodlands, and
Further,
Dated this
I urge all citizens to plant trees to gladden the heart and promote the
well-being of this and future generations.
Mayor
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