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Agenda Item: 6A |
Prepared By: Jim Kornas |
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Business: Old Business |
Department: Executive Office |
Subject:
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Chair Needles’ Committee Update (M. Needles)
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BACKGROUND: At the Committee’s June 4, 2025 meeting, Chair Needles, with the support of the Committee, endorsed a proposal offered by Vice-Chair Scherzinger to offer a collaboration between the Beautification Advisory Committee (BAC) and the Parks & Recreation Advisory Committee (PRAC) in identifying desired tree-planting locations within the City’s parks that could be addressed by the BAC during the 2026 Fiscal Year. He volunteered to reach out to the Chair of the Parks & Recreation Advisory Committee (Ms. Dolores Siegel) to propose that a Parks & Recreation Advisory Committee representative be identified to work with Vice-Chair Scherzinger on this effort.
Also at the Committee’s June 4, 2025 meeting, Chair Needles volunteered to reach out to former Beautification Advisory Committee Chair David Leaser to schedule a time for him to address the Committee with his (Mr. Leaser's) insights and recommendations for implementing a citizen and business community funded donation program to plant trees on Marco Island.
At that same meeting, Chair Needles also volunteered to contact representatives from the Naples Botanical Garden to invite them to address the Committee on trees (and their root systems) that might be best for planting in neighborhood swales.
Chair Needles will provide an update to the Committee on these outreach efforts, and other items of interest, at the Committee’s July 9th meeting.
FUNDING SOURCE / FISCAL IMPACT: N / A
RECOMMENDATION: Receive Chair Needles’ updates.
POTENTIAL MOTION: None expected.