North End Neighborhood Council
Meeting – www.nenc.org or NENC FB
Monday August 7, 2023
6:00 p.m.
Cookies & Iced Tea from 5:30 p.m.
Where: Rotunda at the
University of Puget Sound
Wheelock Student Center, 3209 N 15th St.
Virtual – Via Zoom
Meeting ID: 882 2046 7648
Passcode: 649767
More Trees, Please…
National conservation group American Forests recommends urban cities to have a 40% tree canopy.
Yikes! Tacoma’s tree canopy is 20%. The NENC tree canopy is not much better, at only 23% per City’s
Equity Index Tool. And that includes 3 major gulches. It takes 30 years for a tree to mature allowing removal
and storage of carbon dioxide to clean our air.
Join us at the NENC meeting this Monday to hear about the Tacoma Tree Foundation’s efforts to provide
trees to be planted in the most challenged areas of Tacoma and learn about what you can do to increase tree
canopy where you live.
1) Call to order, adoption of agenda —
2) Introductions and welcome—
3) Announcements —
Historic Cushman Street Fair – September 23 11 am – 3 pm
4) Approval of Minutes
5) Treasurer’s Report
6) Liaison Reports
Police
Tacoma Public Utilities
City Manager’s Office
7) City Council Member Report(s)
8) Tacoma Tree Foundation
Lowell Wyse
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
9) Old Business
10) New Business
11) Adjournment
NOTE: Our next meeting will be Monday, September 11 – (delayed by one week due to the
Labor Day holiday). We will have two presentations – one from Tacoma Public Library and
one from our Washington State Representative – House Speaker Laurie Jinkins.
To read the full agenda for Monday’s meeting, please follow the link below: