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Committee reviews river cleanups, plantings and outreach; longtime DPW staffer Kurt Tribbett to retire
Summary
The Sustainable Battle Creek Committee presented photos and summaries of recent river cleanups, tree plantings and a DPW open house, announced a pending wellhead grant and a denied food-composting grant, and noted Kurt Tribbett’s upcoming retirement; the committee unanimously approved minutes from its July 28 meeting.
The Sustainable Battle Creek Committee used its Aug. 25 meeting to review recent volunteer-driven cleanups, tree plantings and outreach events and to convey administrative updates for the fall.
Bessie (last name not specified) of the city environmental staff showed a PowerPoint highlighting a Battle Creek River cleanup in which volunteers removed tires, a cooler and other debris from the river. Bessie said city staffers and interns from engineering participated and that volunteers covered multiple stretches of the river, reached Horseshoe Bend Park and unloaded collected debris there.
The committee also discussed recent plantings.…
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