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Berne board approves plan to distribute saplings to residents and schools
Summary
The board agreed to coordinate sapling giveaways for residents and continue third-grade school distributions, instructing staff to create a web request form, advertise via utility bills and social media, and verify residency for distributed saplings.
The Berne Tree Board agreed to pursue a sapling distribution program for residents while continuing the third-grade school sapling tradition.
Board members discussed logistics including residency verification, minimum order quantities (saplings commonly come in bundles of about 30), and possible tie-ins with community events. The chair said the tree ordinance allows the city to distribute saplings as a service to residents and suggested advertising the opportunity through the utility bill, Facebook and local papers.
Staff (S6) volunteered to investigate a web form that would accept requests and feed them to staff email, and committee members suggested pre-signups to avoid excess leftovers. The board discussed a budget-conscious approach to ordering and agreed to track requests before finalizing quantities.
The board recorded a voice vote in favor of proceeding with the distribution plan and asked staff to prepare an outreach timeline and residency-verification process.
