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MEMO TO: Parks & Recreation Committee Members FROM: Kim Stephan DATE: May 27, 2011 SUBJECT: Updates Eagle Scout Tree Diversification Proiect, Laurie LaMotte Memorial Park Update from Mr. Philip Capra: Despite all the rain that we had Saturday and having to bail out the water in the holes twice, the tree planting project ran very smoothly. There were fifty volunteers maximum during the project, making it run much more quickly. It was hard for me to believe there were so many people there, since I was worried that the bad weather would turn most people away. Thanks for having the warming house available, by the way. It worked great, and it would've been terrible not to have it in the weather that we worked in. The Rum River Tree Farm planting supervisors that were there said the following: -Due to the extremely wet weather, we will need to add additional backfill to the trees, but only when the ground dries up (hopefully by the end of this week). -The trees cannot be mulched until the additional backfill is added. Rum River staff said that they should be fine for a little under a week until they get mulched. The bags of mulch that were delivered are stored in the warming house for now. Rum River donated additional mulch to the project, so we had volunteers used that extra mulch on existing trees in the park. Also, the sod from digging was transported and piled onto one of the corners of the parking lot according to Mr. Palzer's instructions. Thanks to Parks & Recreation Committee Member Suzanne Seeley and Council Member D. Love for volunteering! Sincerely, Philip Capra Free Comfort Yoga as Part of Fete des Lacs A local business owner Thia Casanova, Image Attitudes, contacted me regarding the possibility of offering a FREE Yoga session in Hidden Spring Park during Fete des Lacs. I attached her proposed flier to this memo. Use of City Email Addresses by Committee Members I added this as an agenda item to determine if Committee Members are using their City email accounts or would prefer to go back to using their personal emails for correspondence. I currently am sending items to both your City and personal email addresses and seldom get responses from either.