Category: Local live oaks

ESP = Environmental Studies Program on PHP(Pleasure House Point) map located here. Enter door at ESP school.

Meeting Agenda

November 18, 2024
4:00 – 5:30 PM
Virginia Beach Environmental Studies Program Academy
Macon and Joan Brock Center Classroom @ Brock Environmental Center
3663 Marlin Bay Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23455
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1. Introductions; Review Agenda for Additions, Corrections, Etc.
2. October 21, 2024 Meeting Actions
3. Administrative Matters:

• Fund Balance
• Facebook Update
• Website Update

1. Old Business:

• VDOF Grant: Jody Tasks; Tim Tasks; Remaining Tasks
• Tree Adoption Event December 7
• VA Native Plant Society Briefing Follow-Up October 24
• ITA Plan Letter October 31

1. New Business:

• 2024 Events Calendar (see reverse side); December 7: Tree Adoption Event and AREC Plant Work Day; February 11: First Landing State Park Speaker Series Presentation; Winter 2025 (date TBD): FOLO Walk at Bay Oaks Park and Monkey Bottom Visit; Winter 2025 (date TBD): Live Oak Grove Walk; Spring 2025 (date TBD): Tree Workshop with Lynnhaven River NOW
• Social Media Strategy
• Shore Drive Phase III Tree Impacts, Mitigation & Landscaping Plan
• Laskin Road Phase II Landscaping Plan

1. Existing / Future Partnerships: Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Virginia Native Plant Society, Lynnhaven River NOW, Virginia Department of Forestry, McDonald Garden Center, Virginia Beach Garden Club, Virginia Tech Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Virginia Beach City Public Schools Environmental Studies Program, Virginia Master Naturalists Tidewater Chapter, First Landing State Park, Virginia Cooperative Extension Virginia Beach Master Gardeners, ?
2. Future Business:

• AREC Maritime Forest Demo Garden
• Virginia Beach Live Oaks Photo Collection
• Membership Drive
• Norfolk Live Oaks Update
• Pending State Legislation Update
• DEQ Tree Planting BMP Draft Regulations

1. 2024 Priorities:

• VDOF Grant​
• Live Oak Grove
• State Legislation & City Ordinances

1. Summarize; Review Meeting Actions; Review Assignments and Items for Next Meeting

Adjourn.