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Member Rudolf asked about the upkeep of the inventory of trees. She wondered <br />what the plan is for maintaining the inventory of trees. <br />Mr. Taylor explained one of the things the City made sure of with the contractor is <br />that all of the data the City gets from them can be dumped into the City's current <br />asset management software, Beehive. It will all be managed in Beehive when this <br />is done and it will be the City's Forestry Coordinator's responsibility when a tree <br />is removed, added, or replaced to keep that data complete and up to date. <br />Member Fergus understood it was important to maintain some Ash trees and, <br />hopefully, the ash borer population will go down, but he was aware of very <br />substantial trees on private property that are clearly sources of lots of ash borer. <br />Mr. Taylor mentioned there was a ten percent discount with Tree Trust and he <br />wondered if there was any possibility of incentivizing, saying if the resident gets <br />rid of an infected tree, the City will give them another tree or something that would <br />allow the resident to remove the tree. <br />Mr. Taylor thought that was a great idea and something staff will continue to look <br />at. Right now, it is not set up that way but does not mean that moving forward the <br />City cannot look into that and adapt to a new plan or something like that. <br />Chair Ficek thanked Mr. Taylor for coming to the meeting and the presentation. <br />Mr. Freihammer reviewed the City's tree trimming history with the Commission. <br />8. AARP Walk Audit <br />Sustainability Specialist Noelle Bakken explained staff is coordinating with <br />resident, Bob Bierscheid, who is interested in conducting a community -wide walk <br />audit to assess pedestrian safety within Roseville and identify possible areas of <br />opportunity. He noted Mr. Bierscheid would like to use the AARP Walk Audit <br />Toolkit to guide the assessment process and is looking for other interested <br />community members to participate. He asked the Commission to provide feedback <br />after the presentation. <br />Ms. Bakken introduced Mr. Bierscheid who gave apresentation to the Commission. <br />Member Mueller asked if the plan was to provide this to the City for consideration. <br />Mr. Bierscheid indicated when the audit is done it will be brought to the City to <br />show what was done and what the public has seen. He explained there are many <br />professionals in the City that can look at it and maybe the audit itself will need to <br />have some corrections made to it. <br />Ms. Bakken explained staff s involvement will be minimal because they want to <br />make sure that it is an unbiased account of what people are seeing. Staff will help <br />Page 4 of 7 <br />