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Roseville City Council
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10/7/2019
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Regular City Council Meeting <br /> Monday, October 7,2019 <br /> Page 3 <br /> zens and secure a vision with the one vendor, Economy of Scale, for a long-term <br /> contract that can manage this disaster over time. <br /> Commissioner Stoner emphasized that trees killed from EAB become hazardous <br /> very quickly, requiring prompt removal, relatively quickly after the tree dies. <br /> Minnesota's colder climate will slow EAB which is bit of a blessing and a curse <br /> because if there are a series of cold winters that cause a lot of over winter mortali- <br /> ty, it may not require as many trees be removed the following year. With climate <br /> change, that might not always be the case. If cold winters no longer materialize, <br /> the current budget may not be sufficient. This could cause difficulty in budgeting <br /> year to year for removal. He explained sufficient funding is not sufficient for re- <br /> moval. Parks and Recreation and Public Works have maxed out their removal <br /> funding for the last two years and the city is at capacity for that. The Commission <br /> would recommend to the Council, that the city commit to having a planned ap- <br /> proach that has dedicated funding. The Parks and Recreation Commission sug- <br /> gested removing all of the publicly owned Ash trees in Roseville before the trees <br /> become hazardous and that way, the city is getting out in front of the problem and <br /> are not in a reactionary mode. <br /> Commissioner Stoner indicated the Parks and Recreation Commission would also <br /> recommend the city include some level of replanting which will set them up for <br /> success. If the trees are planted right at the start rather than waiting ten years <br /> down the road for something that is going to take ten years to reach maturity and <br /> provide a sufficient level of canopy, it will be too late and there will be significant <br /> gaps across the city's canopy. <br /> Commissioner Stoner explained the city will get to a point where contractors can <br /> ask any price they want for removal and still have more than enough work to keep <br /> them busy and the same thing will happen with planting. The city will also see <br /> more planned removal and plantings. If there is some kind of contract approach, <br /> the city can reduce that variability from year to year. Some risks with a planned <br /> approach are that the city does not know yet whether contractors will be willing to <br /> engage with them on a project of this scale and is not something that has been <br /> done before. Mass removals have been done before in other cities but not with a <br /> replanting, and never over a prolonged period of time. <br /> Commissioner Stoner indicated the city can mitigate this risk as the example plan <br /> the Parks and Recreation Commission has given to the Council approaches with <br /> an RFP and is an option. The Parks and Recreation Commission may want to use <br /> these city funds in some other way later on, but these trees will die, and their re- <br /> moval will be necessitated at some point, which is the bulk of what was presented <br /> in the proposal. The proposal from Parks and Recs staff is an example, the Com- <br /> mission is not suggesting that this is the one true solution, but it is an example of a <br /> plan and covers most of the important points. The Parks and Recreation Commis- <br />
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