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300 new trees coming to Galveston

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Turning Over a New Leaf: Galveston’s Push
to Rebuild, Recover, and … Replant!
Galveston, Texas
March 16, 2009
Ike certainly dealt the Island a blow, but with spring in the air the City of Galveston is
taking steps to replace many of the trees and plants that were damaged by the hurricane’s
salty tidal surge. On Saturday, March 28th, volunteers will plant nearly 300 trees
throughout the Island. Working closely with the Texas Forestry Service, Texas
Department of Transportation, and the National Arbor Day Foundation, the City has
organized this reforestation effort to replant trees in the esplanades along Broadway and
25th Street as well as within in several city parks.
Hurricane Ike’s fury uprooted 32 of the historic live oaks that line Galveston’s main
streets. Since last September, City officials have worked closely with the Texas Forest
Service and Texas A&M University to save the remaining trees along the grand
esplanades. Nearly 100 years old, these oaks were planted after the 1900 Storm as an
integral part of the Island’s original reforestation. They are contributing features to
Galveston’s historic landscape.
In addition, the National Arbor Day Foundation has donated 5,000 seedlings for residents
to plant on their properties! The main seedling distribution point will be Ball High
School, 4115 Avenue O. City officials will be handing out seedlings in conjunction with
the Galveston Community Recovery Committee’s last public open house meeting. The
seedlings will be given away on a first-come-first-serve basis.
The City wishes to thank the many sponsors who made this event possible: Texas
Forestry Service; Texas Department of Transportation; City of Galveston; Texas A&M
University at Galveston; Clean Galveston; Keep Houston Beautiful; Houston Galveston
Area Council (H-GAC); National Arbor Day Foundation (NADF); Houston Area Urban
Forestry Council (HAUFC); International Society of Arboriculture - Texas Chapter (ISAT);
Apache Oil; Rodeo Houston; Boyer; and Christison Landscape.
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Press Release
For information:
Alicia Cahill
Public Information Officer
(409) 797-3546
cahillali@cityofgalveston.org
This release is also located on the City of
Galveston’s website under the News heading.
Please visit www.cityofgalveston.org

Galveston City Council Meetings can be found on streaming video

Are you like me and would love to watch the city council meetings but do not subscribe to Comcast nor have time to attend the 6 to 8 hour meeting? I found out just this a.m. that you can watch it at http://www.guidrynews.com/ via streaming video. The link is right on the front page! The city council in their wisdom is not advertising the fact this has been available since December 18. The hours I could have saved had I only known. Read the article below taken directly from http://www.guidrynews.com/. Thank you Jim Guidry!



Galveston County
Remarks to Galveston City Council
by Jim GuidryThursday, February 26, 2009
These remarks were prepared for delivery to Galveston City Council:
Mayor Thomas and Members of City Council.
I am Jim Guidry, co-owner of Guidry News Service with my wife Lynda. We are currently headquartered in Galveston City Council District 3 at 1818 Church.

GuidryNews.com has been posting Streaming Video recordings of Galveston City Council meetings, which are accessible on any computer connected to the Internet, since December 18, at no cost to the City of Galveston.

We decided to provide this service because of the severe budget problems caused to the city by Hurricane Ike. You had budgeted for an elaborate system of live and archived streaming video of the city council meetings, but were forced to abandon that project this year, because of Ike. I hope that the city council will choose to provide the service in the FY 2010 Budget.

Lynda and I believe that it is important that the video be provided online so that Galveston residents who have been forced to live off the island until their properties are restored can follow your deliberations.

Also, residents who remain on the island have had budget problems themselves because of Hurricane Ike and many no longer subscribe to Comcast; and thus, cannot follow the city council meetings from their homes.

While many residents have expressed appreciation for this service, that has not been the case here at City Hall.

Here is a little background on this project.

Our first offer was to upload the video to GuidryNews.com at no cost to the City, if the City would provide an appropriate video file.

The City initially declined this offer because of the expense of converting the DVD recordings by Darrell John’s DLJ Productions. My webmaster said that he had software to accomplish this and we decided to move forward at our own cost.

Then we had a problem with timing. Darrell John said that he normally provides the DVDs to the City several days after the meeting, but said that he would accommodate us with speedier delivery if the city manager approved. We agreed to pay for "rush" delivery, which DLJ has been providing. It has been costing us from $75 to $125 per meeting, depending on the length of the meeting.

The DVD's of tonight's meeting will be converted to streaming video on Friday and we will have it posted Friday evening.

My reason for appearing before the city council this evening is two-fold.

I want to announce to the public watching on Channel 16 that this service is available at GuidryNews.com and they can tell their friends and neighbors who are living off the island or who do not have cable.

The second reason is to complain that the City of Galveston has refused to include an announcement of this service in the scroll on Channel 16 and also has refused to put a front page link to our free service on the City's website.

Alicia Cahill, the City's public information officer, first said that the agreement with Comcast would not permit such an announcement on Channel 16. Later she revised that to say it would violate city-adopted rules for use of the channel.

"The rules clearly state that advertising is prohibited," she said.

Well, this is not advertising. It is advising residents of Galveston about a service that is available.

The City also has refused to put a link to the Streaming Video on the front page of the City's website, presumably for the same reason.

Using that logic, the City could not advise evacuating residents to monitor KTRH Radio, which is now the city's official radio station, for emergency information during hurricanes.

This is one of those things that if it were not so serious, it would be silly.

Please review the current policy and add an announcement about the GuidryNews.com streaming video of city council meetings to the Channel 16 scroll and to the front page of the City's Website.
Thank you for your attention.
Listen to the actual presentation: RealPlayer MP3