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Tree subcommittee schedules trainings, movie screening and rain-garden outreach; members highlight Energy Choice signup event
Summary
The subcommittee announced a November young-tree training with ODNR, a July 30 documentary screening tied to an Energy Choice Ohio outreach table, and a rain-garden tour and rain-barrel workshop planned for August and October, respectively.
The Maumee Environmental Tree Advisory Commission tree subcommittee outlined a calendar of trainings and public events at its June 26 meeting, including a young-tree pruning workshop with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and a public screening tied to energy-choice outreach.
The subcommittee scheduled a Young Tree training for Nov. 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the police training room with the ODNR representative, Stephanie Miller. Members said attendees should bring lunch and handheld pruning tools. "We have something scheduled for November 20 with our ODNR rep, Stephanie," one member said; the subcommittee expects an ODNR trainer and a city staff member to lead the session.
For public outreach, the subcommittee confirmed a July 30 screening at 6:30 p.m. at the Maumee Indoor Theater of the documentary How to Power Our City. Jody Haney, who presented the Energy Choice Ohio program at the June event, will host a table before the screening to help residents check rates and opt in or out of municipal aggregation offers. The group discussed how switching could produce household savings; one member said the typical Maumee household average is about 1,200 kilowatt-hours per month and that the example comparison could result in roughly a $14 monthly savings for some customers.
The subcommittee also plans a rain-garden tour the evening of Aug. 19, starting at the library, and said members are lining up a rain-barrel workshop with Lucas Soil for October. Other items on the schedule include a Sept. 3 film event, a November presentation on the U.S. GLOBE office information and a December presentation by a local organization identified as CCL.
On outreach and mosquito control, members described a low-toxicity method for killing mosquito larvae using "mosquito dunks" placed in bait buckets; members said the dunks are nontoxic to pets and kill larvae in standing water and that the subcommittee might include a mosquito-dunk demonstration as part of rain-garden programming.
The meeting adjourned at 5:41 p.m. after a motion and second; the transcript records the motion and second but does not name the mover or record a roll-call tally.
