(A) The Tree Commission shall promote the planting, evaluation, and care of trees and shrubs throughout the village with particular responsibility for ensuring safe, quality tree canopy on village property and shall educate and inform residents about the selection, planting and maintenance of trees within the corporate limits, whether the same be on private or public property.
(B) The Tree Commission shall hold a minimum of eight regular meetings annually and special meetings as needed at which the subject of trees insofar as it relates to the municipality may be discussed by the members of the Commission, officers, personnel, and Council committees of the municipality and all others interested in the tree program. Annual activity shall include implementing a public Arbor Day observance and writing and presenting a State of the Urban Forest report for Village Council.
(C) The Tree Commission shall consist of five or seven voting members; voting members do not need to be Village of Swanton residents. One member of Council appointed by the Mayor, one representative from Public Service, and the Village Administrator shall act as advisory, non-voting members of the Commission.
(D) The Mayor may appoint non-voting, volunteer auxiliary members to assist in special events, projects, and programming.
(E) Appointments to the Commission shall be for three-year terms, provided that the term for one of the members appointed to the first Commission shall be for one year and one of the members appointed to the first Commission shall be for two years. Because of the long-term nature of tree programming and management, the Tree Commission shall be exempt from the two-year term limit.
(Ord. 2022-14, passed 6-13-2022)
Cross-reference:
Trees, see Ch. 98