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Tree-planting plans trimmed after IRA funding pulled; village still pursuing smaller grants and canopy study
Summary
Wellington staff said a federal Inflation Reduction Act grant that would have funded several hundred trees was withdrawn; some invasive-removal funds were spent and smaller grants and a $20,000 canopy-study award remain pending.
Wellington landscaping staff told the Tree Board that a previously awarded federal grant under the Inflation Reduction Act will no longer fund the planting work it had been intended to support.
“Originally it was $747,000 ... so we were going to plant a couple of hundred trees with that funding, but now that's not going to happen,” the landscaping superintendent said. He told the board $250,000 of the award had been spent on invasive-removal work and that the remainder was halted when…
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