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Advisory Committee Agenda
Date: March 17, 2026
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Meeting Room 1C (insert MS Teams link)
1. Call to Order
2. Land Acknowledgment Statement
3. Additions to the Agenda / Adoption of the Agenda
4. Declarations of Pecuniary Interest
5. Adoption of Previous Minutes
a. Review Minutes of Meeting of February 17, 2026
6. Committee Administration
7. SWNA Workplan
Q1 2026
- Photo Contest (update on when the photos have been displayed) – Kayla
Q2 2026
a. Monarch presentation – Tom (Ethan, student of Tom’s will present to
the committee in the Spring)
b. Earth Week Cleanup (April 18’26) - Meg
c. Spring Perennial Planting (Brian to confirm date in May and Canadian
Wildlife Federation involvement) – Brian
d. Bird Box Cleanup – Brian/Carmen/Rod
Q3 2026
a. Moth Week (July) - Tom
b. Monarch Tagging (September) - Tom
Q4 2026
a. Fall Cleanup (November) – All
b. Bird Count (December date and confirming if expanding into Orono area)
- Brian
8. External Projects
a. Communication – Facebook (next steps of group and name confirmation)
– Kate/Meg/Brian
b. Missing Garbage Receptacle (revisit location of the garbage receptacles
once the weather improves) - Ken
c. Additional Nets (Nets are in storage and need to be assembled) - Ken
d. Connection with Indigenous Group (needs to go through Council first) -
Ken
9. Other Business
a. Barriers for New Pollinator Planting Area (added to Spring work list) - Ken
b. Committee Membership Participation (Marg to update on the two open
positions and how to move forward with filling them) – Ken
c. Leo Blindenbach SWNA Memorial (memorial options, and plaque wording)
– Ken/Brian
d. Develop 2026 Workplan additions:
- Tree Identification week – Ken to get dates
- Spring Ephemerals identification – Brian to confirm date in May with Tom
and the 2 field naturalists contacts
- Presentations – update on Soper Creek, Birds of Prey and Turtle
Conservation groups – Meg/Brian
- Fall Hike/Salmon Life Cycle/Monarch Tagging – Meg to update on her
meeting from this Friday with contact.
e. SWNA Committee communication strategy (information item) - All
10. Round Table – All
11. Date of Next Meeting April 21, 2026
12. Adjournment