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Public Works outlines 10-year street-tree management timeline; seeks council policy and funding direction
Summary
Public Works presented an implementation timeline for the recently adopted Street Tree Management Plan, emphasizing near-term work to update policy and explore funding, midterm operational changes and longer-term canopy monitoring; staff recommended bringing policy items to council starting in November.
Devorah Zotterer, Public Works program manager, and John Hockridge, the city arborist, briefed the commission on next steps to implement Albany’s Street Tree Management Plan, which the transcript records as adopted by the City Council on September 15.
Zotterer said the plan’s recommendations break into three categories: immediate improvements that can be implemented within current resources, service changes that require council action and funding, and longer-term program development. She proposed a near-term (about 1–2 years) focus on policy updates that would…
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