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Titusville commissioners press for clearer accounting, dedicated urban-forest funding; master-plan bid due end of month
Summary
TEC members debated how landscape trust fund money has been used and urged staff to clarify whether a 50/50 split for canopy funding exists; commissioners also discussed pursuing an urban-forest manager and noted the city's urban-forest master-plan procurement is out for bid.
Commissioners at the Titusville Tree and Environmental Commission meeting pressed staff for clearer accounting of the Landscape Trust Fund and discussed dedicating more of those funds to an urban-forest program, including hiring a full‑time manager and prioritizing large shade-tree plantings.
Member Browning, who brought the item to TEC, urged that money collected from tree mitigation and landscape fees be used "mostly, if not wholly" for large canopy shade trees to support stormwater management and heat‑island mitigation. He and other commissioners said the fund has been used for gateway beautification projects and maintenance work and asked staff to confirm current policy on allocations.
"We couldn't do anything better than take whatever money we can get and…
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