Tree Commission


5 Year Terms

The Huntingdon Tree Commission will meet  the first Tuesday, then every other month.

Ginny Gill, Vice-Chair                   Home:  (814) 643-6646
1431 Mifflin Street
Huntingdon, PA  16652
Term Expires:  January 2030

Greg Lawson                                  Home: (814) 599-1112
1514 Mifflin Street
Huntingdon, PA  16652
Term Expires: January 2027

Matt Powell                                   Home: (443) 802-6300
719 Warm Springs
Huntingdon, PA  16652
Term Expires:  January 2029

Sherri Law                               Home: (267) 347-0073
1400 Washington Street, Apt 3
Huntingdon, PA  16652
Term Expires: January 2027

Tree Commissioner Emeritus – Lifetime Appointment

William Frazier                               Home:  643-8346
2545 Miller Avenue
Huntingdon, PA  16652

James Savory                                       (814) 643-8346
611 Agnes Street
Huntingdon, PA  16652

Tree Commission Contacts:

Bill Elmendorf                                      (814) 863-7941
Penn State Urban Forester

Alan Sam                                              (814) 234-7145
Consulting Arborist                              (814) 692-7285

Tuckaway Tree Farm                            (814) 667-3666


§ 2721.  Shade tree commission.

(a)  Establishment.–Council, by ordinance, may establish a shade tree commission and delegate to the shade tree commission the exclusive care, custody and control of shade trees and authorization to plant, transplant, remove, maintain and protect shade trees on the streets and highways in the borough.

(b)  Commission authority.–The shade tree commission may make and enforce regulations for the care and protection of shade trees. No regulation may be in force until it has been approved by the council and enacted as an ordinance.

(c)  Park commission.–If in any borough there exists a commission for the care of public parks, the council may, by ordinance, confer on the park commission all the powers and all the duties prescribed by this chapter for a shade tree commission.