Please join us at the south end of the park to see the presentation of our park maintenance and master plan by the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum (NSA). The board will provide coffee/donuts and a scavenger hunt for the kids. Please bring some chairs or blankets to sit on. If the weather doesn’t cooperate, we’ll post a notice here and try the following Saturday.

Earlier this summer, we hired the NSA to review our park’s plantings and give us some advice on what we can do to maintain it in the future (see Site Analysis). The NSA has completed a tree survey of all the tree species, sent out a neighborhood survey to get feedback from neighbors, and developed recommendations for how to maintain our park.

The board has been meeting frequently with the NSA folks and we are excited to share this plan with you. The plan will incorporate neighbors’ feedback from the survey and consider how to rejuvenate some of our beds in a way that we can afford to maintain them well while keeping the layout and landscaping of the original design. The plan will be reviewed by the board and implemented incrementally to further evaluate the effectiveness of the ideas. We’ll continue to welcome your feedback as we continue to improve our park and how we maintain it.

Agenda

• Introductions and description of the master plan process
• Presentations of the master plan
  • Historical documentation
  • Existing conditions
  • Future planting and maintenance recommendations
• Questions for clarity are welcome during the presentation, but longer discussions will be tabled until the end

We hope we all will learn some things to apply to our own yards, so, please come and share in this learning experience with us. The plan will be posted on this website in the documents section after the meeting.