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Gallery donates to start gazebo weed-control; library to pay monthly maintenance through growing season
Summary
Trustees accepted a gallery committee donation to fund initial landscaping work around the library gazebo and voted to cover monthly organic weed treatments from April through October at about $150 per month.
The trustees approved a landscaping plan for the library’s gazebo area that the library expects to maintain through an organic monthly weed-control service.
Jennifer Jones said Spillane's Nursery and Landscape Company proposed an initial treatment (listed in the documents as $13.60) and monthly maintenance of about $150, recommended April through October. She said the Great Ponds Gallery requested the cleanup so the gazebo area could serve as an extension for an opening reception tied to a juried exhibit and conference in July.
At the meeting, a trustee moved to accept the gallery committee’s donation of $1,366 to fund the initial work and to have the library assume the monthly $150 fee for April–October; trustees voted in favor. Jones said she will confirm timing with the contractor so work can be completed ahead of the July 14 reception.
Trustees discussed longer-term options such as replacing gravel with pavers, but said the monthly treatment is an interim step to make the space usable for events this summer.
