The only certainty surrounding future open space at the LBI Grade School site in Ship Bottom is that trees will delineate the borough’s property line from a planned housing development.

“The trees are going in, whether it’s Ship Bottom putting them in or whether it’s him (developer Michael Pagnotta) donating them to us,” Mayor William Huelsenbeck said the morning of June 2, days after questions arose about the trees at the borough council’s centennial meeting at the firehouse last week.