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Zimmerman amendment targets urban forestry reorganization; committee raises concerns about scope and timing
Summary
An amendment proposed reassigning parts of Urban Forestry (Title 11 activities) to PP&D and reducing related staffing in Parks. Sponsors said the change would restore park maintenance funding, while others cautioned that the budget is a blunt tool for structural reform and asked for more detail and bureau-level analysis.
Councilor Zimmerman presented an amendment to shift certain Urban Forestry responsibilities and staff from Parks into PP&D permitting functions and to adjust related funding, with the intent of preserving roughly $5.8 million in parks maintenance.
Zimmerman described the approach as rightsizing overlaps in duties between tree regulation, maintenance and permitting. "What I did in my…
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