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Department of Agriculture and contact with our surrounding municipalities. Staff participates in an EAB Forum, which is a bimonthly meeting where state agencies and other entities provide updates on EAB work during the past two months and anticipated work during the upcoming two months. The information distributed at the October forum is attached for Council review (Attachment E). Discussion The approved EAB Management Plan does not include treatment of public trees. The City Right of Way (ROW) ordinance states that maintenance of trees within the ROW is the responsibility of the homeowner. The City completed an ash tree inventory in 2012 of all ash trees in the right of way of City streets with the software Simple Trees. A total of 2,397 trees were plotted and 374 are listed as ash trees. A map of the locations of these trees is included for Council review (Attachment F). This inventory does not include Ramsey County streets or parks. It also does not include the parks and trails. However, an inventory of the City parks was done before Simple Trees was complete, 70 ash trees were found in the maintained areas. . The City could consider treatment of significant park trees (maintained areas). However, not all ash trees are good candidates for treatment. The tree must be fairly healthy. height) be treated. Our current tree contractor Precision Landscaping has a rating scale they use to determine if each tree is a good candidate for treatment. The ash trees in the park have not been rated to determine what percentage would be good candidates for treatment. Precision Landscaping can offer insecticide treatment at - DBH trees used and has shown to have a 99 percent survival rate on healthy trees. Treatment is for two seasons and the trees would have to be retreated every two years. Below are two spreadsheets listing existing ash trees within the maintained areas of our parks with their removal costs and treatment costs. The removal costs do not include stump grinding or tree replacement. TREE REMOVAL COSTS TREES IN MAINTAINED AREAS OF PARKS Park Total # of trees: Estimated # of trees: Estimated Total ash Removal Removal Estimate trees or less Cost or more Cost for removal Arden Manor 2 2 $104 0 0 $104 Arden Oaks 2 2 $169 0 0 $169 Cummings 3 0 0 3 $520 $520 Floral 6 3 $182 3 $468 $650 Freeway 2 2 $208 0 0 $208 Hazelnut 3 1 $130 2 $429 $559 Ingerson 13 1 $130 12 $3,120 $3,250 Johanna Marsh 1 1 $130 0 0 $130 24 Page of