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123 Member Rudolf asked about the upkeep of the inventory of trees. She wondered 124 what the plan is for maintaining the inventory of trees. 125 126 Mr. Taylor explained one of the things the City made sure of with the contractor is 127 that all of the data the City gets from them can be dumped into the City's current 128 asset management software, Beehive. It will all be managed in Beehive when this 129 is done and it will be the City's Forestry Coordinator's responsibility when a tree 130 is removed, added, or replaced to keep that data complete and up to date. 131 132 Member Fergus understood it was important to maintain some Ash trees and, 133 hopefully, the ash borer population will go down, but he was aware of very 134 substantial trees on private property that are clearly sources of lots of ash borer. 135 Mr. Taylor mentioned there was a ten percent discount with Tree Trust and he 136 wondered if there was any possibility of incentivizing, saying if the resident gets 137 rid of an infected tree, the City will give them another tree or something that would 138 allow the resident to remove the tree. 139 140 Mr. Taylor thought that was a great idea and something staff will continue to look 141 at. Right now, it is not set up that way but does not mean that moving forward the 142 City cannot look into that and adapt to a new plan or something like that. 143 144 Chair Ficek thanked Mr. Taylor for coming to the meeting and the presentation. 145 146 Mr. Freihammer reviewed the City's tree trimming history with the Commission. 147 148 8. AARP Walk Audit 149 Sustainability Specialist Noelle Bakken explained staff is coordinating with 150 resident, Bob Bierscheid, who is interested in conducting a community -wide walk 151 audit to assess pedestrian safety within Roseville and identify possible areas of 152 opportunity. He noted Mr. Bierscheid would like to use the AARP Walk Audit 153 Toolkit to guide the assessment process and is looking for other interested 154 community members to participate. He asked the Commission to provide feedback 155 after the presentation. 156 157 Ms. Bakken introduced Mr. Bierscheid who gave apresentation to the Commission. 158 159 Member Mueller asked if the plan was to provide this to the City for consideration. 160 161 Mr. Bierscheid indicated when the audit is done it will be brought to the City to 162 show what was done and what the public has seen. He explained there are many 163 professionals in the City that can look at it and maybe the audit itself will need to 164 have some corrections made to it. 165 166 Ms. Bakken explained staff involvement will be minimal because they want to 167 make sure that it is an unbiased account of what people are seeing. Staff will help Page 4 of 7 Page 6 of 82