F Arbor Day Proclamation/Invite
CITY OF
CHANHASSEN
7700 Market Boulevard
PO Box 147
Chachassen, MN55317
Administration
Phone 952.227.1100
Fax: 952227.1110
Building Inspections
Phone 952.227.1180
Fax: 952227.1190
Engineering
Phone: 952.227.1160
Fax: 952227.1170
Finance
Phone: 952227.1140
Fax 952227.1110
Park & Recreation
Phone: 952.227.1120
Fax: 952227.1110
Re<:reation Center
2310 Coulter Boulevard
Phone: 952227.1400
Fax 952.227.1404
Planning &
Natural Resources
Phone: 952.227.1130
Fax: 952227.1110
Public Works
1591 Park Road
Phone: 952227.1300
Fax: 952227.1310
Senior Center
Phone: 952227.1125
Fax: 952.227.1110
Web Site
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MEMORANDUM
TO:
Todd Gerhardt, City Manager
FROM:
Jill Sinclair, Environmental Resources Specialist
DATE:
April 14, 2005
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SUBJ:
Arbor Day Proclamation
Chanhassen's Arbor Day celebration will be held on Saturday, May 7 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, Master
Gardeners will be available to diagnose plant problems. Jim Gilbert, local
naturalist and author, will give a talk at 10:30 am and a storytelling hour will take
place at 11 am in the Children's area at the library with author Norma
Sommerdorf and her book "An Elm Tree and Three Sisters". Kid's activities in
the Arbor Day tent include planting sunflowers to take home and making
birdfeeders. Black Hills spruce trees will again be for sale. 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
10 am - Noon
Chanhassen Library and City Center Park
Master Gardeners available to answer home landscaping and garden questions
Birdfeeder construction and sunflower seed planting in the Arbor Day tent
10:30 am
Chanhassen Library - Wilder Room
Jim Gilbert - "A Naturalist Looks at Spring in MN" and "Benefits of Trees"
Chanhassen Library
Woodsy Owl will make an appearance
11:00 am
Chanhassen Library Children's Area
Storytelling time
10 am - Noon
Black Hills spruce tree sales - $4 each
The City 01 Chanhassen . A growing community with clean lakes, qua lily schools, a charming downtown, thriving businesses, winding trails, and beauliful parks A gæat place 10 live, work, and piay
CITY OF
CHANHASSEN
7700 Markel Boulevard
PO Box 147
Chanhassen, MN55317
Administration
Phone 952227.1100
Fax 952.227.1110
Buitding Inspections
Phone: 952.227.1180
Fax: 952227.1190
Engineering
Phone 952.227.1160
Fax 952.227.1170
Finance
Phone: 952227.1140
Fax: 952.227.1110
Park & Recreation
Phone: 952.227.1120
Fax: 952.227.1110
Recreation Center
2310CoullerBoulevard
Phone: 952227.1400
Fax: 952.227.1404
Planning &
Natural Resources
Phone: 952227.1130
Fax: 952227.1110
Public Works
1591 Park Road
Phone: 952.227.1300
Fax 952227.1310
Senior Center
Phone: 952227.1125
Fax: 952.227.1110
Web Site
www.ci.chanhassen.mn.us
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 01 Chanhassen . A growing community with clean lakes, quality schools, a charming downtown, thriving businesses, winding trails, and beaulitul parks. A great place to live, work, and play
CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
DATE:
RESOLUTION NO:
MOTION BY:
SECONDED BY:
PROCLAMATION DECLARING SATURDAY, MAY 7 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 7, 2005 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, 1 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 25'" day April, 2005.
ATTEST:
Todd Gerhardt, City Manager
Thomas A. Furlong, Mayor
YES
NO
ABSENT
Invitation to Arbor Dav Celebration C W
In 1876 Minnesota became the fourth state to adopt Arbor Day as an annual
celebration. Today, Chanhassen sponsors an Arbor Day event each year in order
set aside a time to consider what trees do for us and our community. Trees add
beauty and character to our neighborhoods, reduce energy costs, increase property
values, reduce pollution, and help us replace trees we've lost in our community.
Perhaps Elton Trueblood said it best when he wrote, "A man has finally begun to
discover the meaning of human life when he plants a tree under which he knows
full well he will never sit." Let us plant today, the trees of tomorrow.
I invite all area residents, their families and friends to Chanhassen's Arbor Dav
event to be held on Saturdav. Mav 7 at the Chanhassen Library and City
Center Park. In the morning, volunteer groups will be cleaning local parks and
gathering for an appreciation lunch at noon. At 10 am, the community Arbor Day
event gets underway with a variety of activities. Jim Gilbert, local naturalist and
author will be giving a presentation in the Wilder Room at 10:30 am. Norma
Sommerdorf, author of "An Elm Tree and Three Sisters" will read from her book
in the Children's Area at 11 am. Free seedlings being given away at the reading.
Children's storytelling time will begin following the reading. At 10:30, Woodsy
Owl will make an appearance at the library. Carver-Scott Master Gardeners
available for gardening consultations near the library entrance from 10 am - noon.
Potted spruce trees will be for sale during this time as well. Outside in the Arbor
Day tent, kids and adults can plant a sunflower to take home and make birdfeeders
for their yards. I encourage everyone to come to this free and fun event.
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