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PLANTING: Planting is the only way to insure the diversity of the community forest and every attempt <br />is made to plant at least as many trees as removed. <br />During the fiscal year 2012, 267 trees were planted; this represents a decrease of 15 trees from fiscal <br />year 2011. All plantings were made by in house personnel. <br /> <br />BUDGET: <br />Salaries $176,162.00 <br />Contractor Allocation: $45,000.00 <br />Trees for planting: $10,000.00 <br /> <br />TIME ALLOCATIONS: <br />Pruning: 35% <br />Removals: 50% <br />Planting: 12% <br />Other: 3% <br /> <br />PROJECTIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 12-13: <br />Removals: 200 <br />Prunes: 2000 <br />Plantings: 200 <br /> <br />COMPLETED ACTION ITEMS FOR YEAR 2012: <br /> <br />CONTINUE TO ADVANCE THE BLOCK STREET TREE PRUNING ACROSS THE THIRD WARD. <br /> Extended the block pruning to Ferguson Ave. <br /> <br />PROMOTE TREE AWARENESS AND STEWARSHIP AMONG CITY RESIDENTS: <br />A) Increase tree and forest educational opportunities for residents <br />The Urban Forestry Commission completed another Tree Walk <br />B) Continue with the annual Arbor Day celebration. <br />Arbor Day was celebrated on April 6 with a tree planting in Flynn Park in partnership with The <br />st <br />Flynn Park School 1 grade. <br />. <br />RECRUIT MEMBERS FOR THE URBAN FORESTRY COMMISSION <br />A) A new board member was added Carol Dean <br /> <br />UPDATE THE CITY’S STREET TREE INVENTORY <br />A) Street tree inventory was completed for the Arboretum. <br /> <br />INCREASE TREE PLANTING (Added by the Urban Forestry Commission) <br />A) To work towards a goal of increasing the planting of trees by 120% to offset what is <br />removed each year. <br />Decreased tree plantings by 15 trees over previous year. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />