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CITY OF ROSEMOUNT
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR ACTION
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: MAY 3, 1994 I'I
AGENDA ITEM: AGENDA SECTION:
ARBOR DAY PROCLAMATION DEPARTMENT HEAD REPORT
PREPARED BY: AGENDA f��(�f� � � �
DAVID J. BECHTOLD, DIRECTOR PARKS AND RECREATION � � i}��
ATTACHMENTS: APPROVED BY:
COPY OF PROCLAMATION �
Protecting our natural reso�rces must be of great importance to each of us. Tree City USA is an award given to those
cities who depict an honest and active program to promote the protection of our natural habitat and of our trees.
Lacelle Cordes, Mark Joosten, and Dave Bechtold attended the award ceremony at the State Capitol on April 21, 1994,
to receive the City of Rosemount's Tree City USA award from Lieutenant Governor Joanell Dyrstad. This is our second
year of achieving this award.
The attachment is a proclamation by the Mayor proclaiming the last Friday of April to be Arbor Day and the month of
May to be Arbor Month. The staff inembers who accepted the award for the city have been completing projects for
Arbor Day with the local schools for the past several years. This proclamation indicates that we would continue with
theses types of programs and others in the promotions of tree planting and protection. This year we will also be using
seedling trees donated from the Rosemount Jaycees to work with a planting program for our youth.
It is our intent to join together with committees and commissions to further enhance our policies relating to the
preservation of our trees and to continue to reforest our city. This type of effort will help to qualify us for the Tree City
USA award in future years.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
MOTION to proclaim the last Friday of April as Arbor Day and the month of May to be Arbor Month and to
officially accept the Tree City USA award which will be so noted on the plaque located in the councii chambers.
COUNCIL ACTION:
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Cl�TY OF ROSEMOUNT
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS: Minnesota's forest treasures were a significant
attraction to early settlers because of their
usefulness and the beautiful environrnent they
provided; and
WHEREAS: Trees are a vital resource enriching our lives by
purifying air and water, helping conserve soil and
energy, serving as recreational settings, providing
habitat for wildlife of a11 kinds and making
Rosemount more livable; and
WHEREAS: Human activities such as construction damage and
pollution, as well as drought, disease and insects,
threaten our trees, creating the need for concerted
action to ensure the future of Rosemount's trees;
and
WHEREAS: The next decade wi11 be one emphasizing the
environment and the citizens of Rosemount wi1l be
able to positively impact the world problems Iike
"global warming" by Iocally planting trees and
ensuring that these trees are nurtured, protected
and wisely used in the years to ahead; and
WHEREAS: The message of Earth Day whose twentieth
anniversary was in 1990 is sti11 strong, teaching
children and adults alike that trees are related to
aI1 components of the environment - air, water,
soil and wildlife; and
WHEREAS: Each year on the last Friday in Apri1 - Arbor Day -
the citizens of Rosemount pay special attention to
the wonderful treasure that our trees represent and
dedicate themselves to the eontinued hea.Ith of our
cities trees.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, ��� . I � 1 C►�W'`�' r��X , Mayor of the Ci ty of
Rosemount, do hereby proclaim April 29, 1994 to be
"ARBOR DAY"
and the month of May, I994 to be
"ARBOR MONTH"
In Rosemount, Minnesota.
Further, I urge alI ci tizens to become more aware of the importance
of trees to their we11 being, to participate in tree planting
programs that will ensure a green Rosemount in decades to come, and
to plant, nurture, protect and wisely use Rosemount's great
treasure of trees.
MAYOR DATE