Agenda Item: 8A
Prepared By: Jim Kornas
Business: Staff Communications
Department: Executive Office
Subject:
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Mackle Park Tree Donation Implementation Update (S. Malloy, Parks & Recreation Department) & (S. Connelly)
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BACKGROUND: At the Committee's October 2, 2024 meeting, Public Works Director Justin Martin shared an update on the status of the Mackle Park Tree Donation noting that:
1) a review of the Site Plan and proposed tree planting locations had been scheduled with the City's landscape contractor;
2) the process for procuring the desired trees would follow soon thereafter, and;
3) the Committee can expect a monthly update on the implementation and completion of the project from Parks, Culture, and Recreation Manager Samantha Malloy
At the Committee's November 13, 2024 meeting, City of Marco Island Storm Water Engineer Zurima Luff read the contents of an October 24, 2024 email from City Manager of Parks, Culture & Recreation Samantha Malloy regarding the status of completing the planting of donated trees around the lake at Mackle Park.
In the email, Ms. Malloy shared the City's concern with the salinity of the soil resulting from the storm surge experienced from Hurricane Milton, and that, to enhance the success of the new plantings, she recommended that the planting be delayed until January - February, 2025. Ms. Malloy indicated that an updated email will be sent to the Committee when a date for the plantings has been scheduled.
Chair Connelly expressed her concern with the length of time that it has taken to act on the donation offered by the McGlade family in planting the trees which they are sponsoring, and she advised the Committee of her scheduled November 14, 2024 call with Ms. Jessica Ryals, Extension Agent with the University of Florida UF/IFAS Collier County Office, and her colleagues, to obtain her Office's recommendations regarding new tree planting during January and February.
Chair Connelly requested that this item...
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