Beautification Committee Report: December 12, 2017

Our focus will be primarily on developing a plan for cleaning up the area in front of the entrance wall at the corner of Fort Washington Road and Warburton Drive, involving several steps:

· Determining how best to approach the property owner to seek permission to clean up the area and maintain it.

· Consulting with Dianne Brown and Lydia Barbour about enlisting the Tanta-Cove Garden Club for advice and assistance in the project.

· Securing advice for and at least three estimates for any tree work needed, after seeking background and advice from Tom Whidden (L’Enfant Drive).

· Ultimately seeking Board approval for any proposed expenditures.

· Hopefully, obtaining PGCS approval to grant students community service credit for helping with the entrance area.

Another project on which we hope to collaborate with the Government and Public Liaison Committee is the identification, photographing, and reporting of trees and limbs that were not dealt with in the past spring’s Comprehensive Community Clean-Up, as they were supposed to be.

A more difficult and long-range project would be to resume some earlier efforts on deer population control, especially since they have recently enacted deer population control in Rock Creek Park, in spite of our having been told earlier that it was not permitted on National Park Service property. And the District of Columbia is researching the success of other cities in rat control by providing them water sources that contain chemicals that render them sterile.