Interested getting involved with a Lake Worth volunteer board? Try testing the waters at the Tree Board tonight (Thursday) at 5:30 in City Hall

There are many volunteer City boards in Lake Worth and they are crucial for the City to function. The City Commission regularly recognizes their work and sacrifice.

For example, a few of the volunteer City boards are the Historic Resource Preservation Board, Planning & Zoning, and pension boards and they all have their particular topics to deal with. Some boards handle matters narrow in focus and others require skilled professionals with certain experience such as the Finance Advisory Board. Some meetings are very short (such as the Tree Board, see agenda below) and others can last well into the night depending on the agenda.

Tonight (Thursday, 4/14) the Tree Board is meeting in the City Hall conference room (next to where the City Commission meets) at 5:30. The meetings are typically short and here is what they are tasked with doing:

[E]stablishes policy and provides standards within the City Landscape Ordinance for tree preservation. Policy includes educational materials (proper planting, pruning, and insect and disease control), permit guidelines, and City tree sale program.

The staff liaison for the board is David McGrew from the Parks Department and you can contact him for additional information at dmcgrew@lakeworth.org (copy & past into your email browser).

This can be a way for someone who has an interest to "test the waters", so to speak and watch and maybe even participate in a City board meeting. Below is this weeks agenda:

Call to order: 5:30
Pledge of Allegiance
Agenda: Additions, deletions, reordering
Approval of minutes: February 11, 2016, March 10, 2016
Public participation on non-agenda items (3 minute limit)  
New business
Advisors report  
Report from Susan Mason on 17th Street Natural Area
 
Old business
Landscape Ordinance  
Earth Day Tree Give-away—Ted Brownstein
Tree Board Talk review