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Lake City council amends tree ordinance to exempt city employees, utility workers from permanent-repair requirement
Summary
Lake City Mayor Umika Robinson and the City Council on March 25 voted to amend Section 12 of Ordinance 2025.001, adding an exemption that the public-tree maintenance requirement "shall not apply to city employees or utility workers for permanent repairs."
Lake City Mayor Umika Robinson and the City Council on March 25 voted to amend Section 12 of Ordinance 2025.001, the city's proposed tree ordinance, to state that the ordinance's public-tree maintenance requirement "shall not apply to city employees or utility workers for permanent repairs." The amendment was moved, seconded and approved with one abstention.
The change was proposed during discussion of public-tree maintenance standards after an initial motion to approve Ordinance 2025.001. The amendment language was read into the record as: "This requirement shall not apply to city employees or utility workers for permanent repairs." (Council member (unnamed in transcript)).
Why it matters: The ordinance sets the city's policy on trees on public and private property and establishes public-tree maintenance standards. Council members and staff…
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