Some City of Warren boards and commissions have been struggling to find enough members to have a quorum.

One potential solution was discussed during Tuesday’s Street Landscape Committee meeting — consolidation.

City staff and the committee, with just two members present, discussed the possibility of merging with the city’s Parks and Recreation Commission.

“It is not a bad idea to explore that thought,” Department of Public Works Director Mike Holtz said.

Street Landscape chair Josie Gerardi suggested the idea go before the Commission as well as be vetted by city staff.

The committee asked about a couple of tree issues — spongy moth and the status of spruce trees — and Cecile Stelter, district forester, DCNR Bureau of Forestry, had the answers.

She explained that the spongy moth population “crashed” in this corner of the state but not so in the central and northeast portions.

“(You) will see a lot of defoliation but the population is still on the upswing in those parts of the state,” she said, noting that the “most conditions” needed to crash that population were present this spring.

With the spruce, she said many “look particularly stressed” to a couple of different diseases enhanced by hot and humid conditions.

“(We are) getting a lot of calls on all the conifers,” she said, noting that there is not much to be done outside of potentially cutting some limbs to increase airflow among such trees.

The committee also set the date and time — Sept. 20 at 4:30 p.m. at the Healing Garden at Crescent Park — for the presentation of this year’s Civic Beautification Awards.