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Needham staff present $110,000 tree‑planting proposal, outline canopy priorities
Summary
A DPW forestry proposal asking roughly $110,000 to expand tree plantings and removals was presented to the Finance Committee; town forestry staff reported an annual planting rate of about 100 trees and said the funding could roughly double plantings if put out to bid.
Forestry staff and Ed Olson, appearing remotely, briefed the Finance Committee on a tree‑planting and forestry-management proposal that would allocate about $110,000 to increase plantings, removals and related work.
Ed Olson described Needham’s longstanding setback planting program and said the town currently plants about 100 trees per year. He told the committee he could not provide an exact “trees added” number for the $110,000 without a formal bid but said the town would be “hypothetically…
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