2005-10-20 Arborist Advisory Committee Minutes

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then he thinks we should go ahead with it. But all of the details should be correct before we give it to the Zoning Inspector. J. Anderson amended her motion to ask that the Planning Departments Zoning Inspector investigate the pruning of the False Kamani Tree at Haili Church, that was done against the recommendation of the Committee and that our documentation of prior correspondences and activity be submitted to the Inspector upon verification of those events. It was seconded by C. Hendricks. During the subsequent discussion on the revised motion, Chair Bisel stated that the Inspector would have copies of the before and after pictures of the tree as well as a copy of our recommendations and the full report that M. Kraus did. Corp. Counsel Noda wanted clarification that it was the Committees position that this over-pruningsubstantiallydamagedtheaestheticqualitiesofthetree.ChairBiselstated it went beyond aesthetics. According to the arborist on our Committee, it went beyond aesthetics to the health of the tree. Chair Bisel will help J. Anderson with the letter. The motion on the floor carried unanimously. NEW BUSINESS None. ANNOUNCEMENTS 1.Chair Bisel reported that C. Hendricks will resign from the Committee. C. Hendricks stated that her on-going health problems have limited her participation in this group. Members stated their appreciations for all of her time and effort as well as her experience that helped in making decisions. 2.Chair Bisel recalled that at our last meeting it was pointed out that one of the primary responsibilities of the Committee is to document via maps the location of all the Exceptional Trees. We have about 1/3 of them and gave the GPS coordinates to Roy Takemoto of the Planning Department. Some of the other individual trees would be easy to document that way. Both he and M. Kraus have handheld GPS so whenever theyre out theyve agreed to document the individual trees. The problematic ones are the Groves. After the last meeting, R. Siracusa mentioned that the Hawaii Community College has a surveying curriculum. Chair Bisel will check with Clyde Kojiro and Gail Cho to see if the mapping of the trees can be a class project.