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11/30/99 LCEC AgP NOTICE Land Conservation & Environment Committee will meet Tuesday, November 30, 1999 and at 5:45 p.m. at Shorewood City Hall 5755 Country Club Road Shorewood, MN 55331 A G E N D A 1. Convene Meeting A. Roll Call B. Review Agenda C. Elect Officers 2. Approval of Minutes - Meeting of November 9, 1999 3. Status of Gideon Glen Project 4. Discussion on Benefits of Conservation Projects 5. Report on Member Projects 6. Public Relations Issues 7. Work Plan (Bruno) 8. Update on Intern Search 9. Set Meeting Dates and Times 10. Adjournment A majority of the City Council may be present. No Council action will be taken. NOTICE Land Conservation & Environment Committee will meet Tuesday, November 30, 1999 and at 5:45 p.m. at Shorewood City Hall 5755 Country Club Road Shorewood, MN 55331 AGENDA 1. Convene Meeting A. Roll Call B. Review Agenda C. Elect Officers • 2. Approval of Minutes - Meeting of November 9, 1999 3. Status of Gideon Glen Project 4. Discussion on Benefits of Conservation Projects 5. Report on Member Projects 6. Public Relations Issues 7. Work Plan (Bruno) 8. Update on Intern Search 9. Set Meeting Dates and Times 10. Adjournment A majority of the City Council may be present. No Council action will be taken. • City of Shorewood • Land Conservation and Environmental Committee Tuesday, October 12, 1999 The meeting was called to order at 5:47 p.m. by Acting Chair Fred Bruno. ROLL CALL Present - Acting Chair Fred Bruno, Donna Woodruff, Paula Berndt, Tom Schmid. Also present City Administrator Jim Hurm. Arrived at 5:48 p.m.-Lucinda Kirchner. Absent-Dave Gosen and Joel Jurgens. AGENDA Paula Bernt asked to add an agenda item as New Business as #3D. The addition concerns residential composting. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Donna Woodruff moved and Lucinda Kirchner seconded that the minutes be approved with no changes. Approved 6/0. Jim Hurm left for another meeting. MISSION STATEMENT There were Mission Statement suggestions submitted by Donna Woodruff, Fred Bruno, Lucinda Kirchner and Paula Bernt. There was discussion by all that the statements were similar. Lucinda moved and Joel seconded that the statement by Fred Bruno be adopted. Approved 6/0. The Mission Statement is as follows: The mission of the Land Conservation and Environmental Committee is to implement a process which will permanently protect and increase natural open space in the City of Shorewood, to serve as an educational resource of the City Council, commissions and property owners regarding land protection options and the benefits of a continuing land conservation effort, and to assist, guide, and coordinate environmental issues and education. BYLAWS Tom Schmid will be the Bylaws Subcommittee and submit an outline for the bylaws for the next meeting. 1 • Donna Woodruff reported on the phone conversation with the Minnesota Historical Society. A grant application form was given to Jim Hurm along with the notes about having a historian do research on the Gideon's Glen property. There is already a Gideon/Pond house in Bloomington, MN. Donna Woodruff will get more information about that for the next meeting. Jim Hurm stated that he will work with the Minnehaha Watershed District. Although there is no grant process, the agency seems very interested and has funds to use. Fred Bruno asked about the potential financial resources from the MN DNR. Jim Hurm also reported that the City of Shorewood has discussed setting aside money for the Gideon's Glen Project. There are also Rule B funds that were used this year for the wetland delineation costs for Gideon's Glen, which is now completed. Fred Bruno asked about the resolution that the committee was going to approve and Jim Hurm said that he had included language in the grant, so that the resolution is not necessary. Fred Bruno reported that he had not met with the owner of the Gideon's Glen property and will wait for him to call. DISCUSSION OF BENEFITS OF CONSERVATION PROJECT • There was no discussion. REVIEW OF BYLAWS There was no discussion. REPORT ON MEMBER PROJECTS Donna Woodruff reported on Buckthorn. The one page report is included in the minutes. Donna Woodruff will get the MN Department of Agriculture brochure for all committee members. Paula Berndt gave an update on Residential Composting. Hennepin County has no program to help cities. The Office of Environmental Assistance has a grant program that requires a two page preproposal that Paula Berndt, Lucinda Kircher, and Torn Schmid agreed to submit. The funds would help the City of Shorewood start a residential composting by subsidizing the citizen purchase of composting bins. Motion by Paula Berndt, second by Lucinda Kircher to make Residential Composting Item #4 on the Work Plan for this committee. Lucinda Kircher reported on a property on the west end of Shorewood that is a 17 • acre undeveloped parcel for which she is getting information. Lucinda Kircher will assist in education for this committee as a Master Gardner and will help Paula Berndt with the composting. The one page report is included in the minutes. Fred Bruno reported on the Lawn Chemical Project. Fred Bruno stated that eliminating lawn chemicals will be a controversial issue. The one page report is included with the minutes. Tom Schmid is interested in all of the project reported on by the committee and is most interested in education. He is willing to act as moderator for any meetings. PUBLIC RELATIONS Fred Bruno agreed to write an article for the City of Shorewood newsletter. Jim Hurm will do a press release from that article. It was agreed that the committee members names, but not their phone numbers would be in the article. WORK PLAN There was no discussion. UPDATE ON INTERN SEARCH Jim Hurm reported that two applications had been received, but there should be more, so the deadline for applications has been extended to November 30, 1999. MEETING DATES AND TIMES The next meeting will be November 30, 1999 at 5:45 p.m. at city hall. Paula Berndt will contact Dave Gosen about attending. Jim Hurm wanted to know at what point the committee might want to get more citizens involved. Lucinda Kircher suggested that the newsletter article should state the present interests of the committee. Donna Woodruff suggested that the committee might get involvement that with educational meetings. ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at 7:15 p.m. SIGNED A z e . PET PROJECT ----BUCKTHORN Donna Woodruff Minnesota has as of summer 1999, restricted the selling, moving and planting of buckthorn, which is an invasive plant that has three species found in Minnesota. Effective immediately buckthorn is on the noxious weed list and on January 1, 2001, it will be illegal to sell any of the species, which include Rhamnus alnifolia or dwarf alder, Rhamnus cathartica or common European buckthorn and Rhamnus frangula or glossy buckthorn. The ban also includes the cultivars of glossy buckthorn, which are fernleaf buckthorn and tallhedge buckthorn. The dwarf alder species, a native to the northern half of Minnesota, is a small shrub that is found in tamarack swamps and wet meadows. It is not considered invasive in its native range and is not sold by nurseries. The common buckthorn is native to Europe and was brought to Minnesota in the mid- 1800's as a hedge. It readily invades woodland and prairie edges. It is drought and shade tolerant. It is spread rapidly by birds feeding on the black berries. This species can grow to 20 fee with glossy black fruit in clusters on the twigs. The leaves stay dark green and on the tree well into the fall, so it can be easily spotted. Glossy buckthorn was also brought from Europe. It has similar traits to the common variety and has aggressively invaded wetland and moist woodlands. Nurseries sell a columnar form the is a narrow upright that grows to 12 feet. It is admired for its hardiness and border-setting abilities. These descriptions note that these shrubs are very invasive and have the ability to take over native wooded areas by its dense growth that prevents other plants from getting enough sun. Nothing else can grow, where buckthorn grows! The Minnesota Department of Agriculture brochure states that unfortunately it is difficult to control without some herbicide use. The best control method is to pull or dig small plants as they first grow. Because buckthorn grows back unless the roots are removed, it needs to be dug if it gets bigger. If it must be cut, the stumps need to be treated with Tordon RTU, Garlon or Roundup. There are now serious efforts in many city and county parks to eliminate buckthorn, but the process will take years and millions of dollars. Hennepin Park System as buckthorn days, when volunteers work to eliminate it. Minneapolis Parks are working to remove buckthorn in order to allow native growth. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT ALL BUCKTHORN BE REMOVED IMMEDIATELY according to the University of Minnesota Extension Service. • Page 1 of 1 Pamela Helling • From: Gosen, Dave <Dave_Gosen@ATK.COM> To: 'shorewood city hall' <cityhall@ci.shorewood.mn.us> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 10:46 AM Subject: Land Conservation Committee To: Jim Hurm Jim, My work travel schedule has changed such that I am traveling much more than when I interviewed and accepted the position on the Land Conservation Committee. Therefore, I must inform you that I can not continue to meet the requirements of the Committee and must resign my position. wish the Committee success in meeting their goals and will follow their progress. Regards, Dave Gosen 11/30/99 s r s ~ U o } U Q' = CaJ c C .i y ~ LA pl C 0 U ~ M p~ EC M ~ wl r- OU ~ N O M M M 0cn en 0 p no`r' N p*l N on ,rZ 00z Nw O~n O 0 0 0 0 3 3 U o ~a3, ~ ~ o 0 PC 55 E5 zn cz ~ a; x MM ~ w ~ L y1 f1, C o L ^^CO L o c p s x r E 3 on At L°~ vW uIn `C: .tip V) wl tn -5 > N _ c cue ° 0 d- a- _ ~Ca~r ~Z 0 Q~N E" N f+,N ~N CL. C-4 U C • o o ° ! M cn en rn Fo J UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Twin Cities Campus Department of Plant Pathology 495 Borlaug Hall . College of Agricultural, Food, 1991 Upper Buford Circle and Environmental Sciences St. Paul, MN 55108-6030 612-625-8200 Fax: 612-625-9728 E-mail: pipa@puccini.cri.umn.edu http://www. pl pa. agri. umn.edu I have two topics which interest me: 1.) Provide a quarterly informational sheet on tree care (disease, watering, pruning, fertilizing, etc.). This will help meet the educational provision. This is something that I would be more than willing to do. 2.) Look into reducing, eliminating or limiting the number of billboards in the city of Shorewood. I have no idea what current laws are "in the books", but this is an avenue I would like to persue. JoelJurgens • 1 1 ;fly NOV 10 1999 By