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Beautification committee outlines summer plans; public notes remaining old trash cans downtown
Summary
Volunteers and staff from the Beautification Committee updated the council on planter care, entrance landscaping, recent replacement of downtown trash receptacles and challenges recruiting volunteers; a public commenter noted two remaining dilapidated trash cans and flagged typos in the committee packet.
Members of the Mount Shasta Beautification Committee reported to the council on ongoing projects, volunteer recruitment challenges and future plans for downtown plantings and entrance signs.
Brenna Montaigne and Laurie Saunders, both committee members, told the council the group works with volunteers and Public Works to maintain entrance landscaping and downtown planters. They said planters remain largely volunteer-maintained but that Public Works has taken over care of three entrance areas to town. The committee highlighted a completed project replacing aging trash receptacles with new pebble-style cans and said one replacement can remains in storage.
The committee also said it plans to participate in rehabilitation of the Castle Street islands, continue care of planters in front of the library, and help maintain a small triangular planting at the Lake Street and Washington intersection. They reported two committee vacancies and said recruiting volunteers has become more difficult.
In public comment, David Allen Ream thanked the committee but pointed out two items in the packet: a typographical error ("oversize" instead of "oversight") and an apparent discrepancy between the packet statement that "replaced all aging trash receptacles" and the existence of two still-dilapidated cans in the downtown business district. The committee acknowledged the remaining cans and said the initial replacement project is otherwise complete.
The committee and the council discussed murals and the relationship with DIAC (Downtown Improvement/Arts Committee) for murals on public versus private property, and a longer-term goal to replace a failing wooden south entrance sign with a stone sign to match existing ones at other entries to the city.
