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Millie Bunnell, Chairman of the IRC Historical Society's Jungle Trail Committee, explained that in the action letter that Stan Boling wrote on July loth summarizing the June 27th meeting, it states that "the applicant is to arrange a field meeting with staff, Stan Boling, Roland DeBlois, and Jim Davis, to tag trees that will need to be removed in the new Trail corridor. In this way agreement can be reached in a timely manner and you can better ensure that the satisfaction of tree preservation conditions is not jeopardized." Mrs. Bunnell stated that this was not done until after those trees were removed. She had counted 23 holes out there within the buffer zone where trees or something had been removed, and she has pictures of those holes if the Board would like to see them. Commissioner Scurlock understood that Rex Hailey and Public Works had taken some trees out of there, but Chairman Wheeler understood that Rex Haily had removed 4 palm trees at the direction of Mr. McQueen, who identified the trees that were within the realignment portion. Darrell McQueen of McQueen & Associates, engineers for Orchid Isle Development, explained that those holes were dug to put in palm trees that were being removed from other spots in the project. He felt that each of the Commissioners needs to drive this project and look at the site. Chairman Wheeler commented that he went through there two weeks ago and the holes he saw looked like holes where trees had been removed, not holes made to put trees in. Mr. McQueen replied that you use the same thing to make a hole to put a tree back in as you do to take trees out. There are trees being planted up there all the time to buffer this road more. Mrs. Bunnell emphasized that the trees are being planted without any sort of advice on native landscaping or vegetation. Somebody just points and says put a tree in here, and sometimes the trees are all in a straight line. 47 dd ® EOOK. Fw ``h1