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Mayor Patterson, Shade Tree Commission push for formal urban-forest inventory and management plan
Summary
The Athens Shade Tree Commission and Mayor Patterson discussed pursuing a formal urban forestry management plan and city street-tree inventory, estimating about $50,000 to contract the work and revisiting a roughly $100,000 grant application; funding limits prompted discussion of a May ballot measure and use of the city’s tree bank to plant more than 200 trees.
At a January meeting of the Athens Shade Tree Commission, Mayor Patterson and commissioners agreed to pursue a formal urban forestry management plan and a comprehensive street-tree inventory, and discussed how to pay for the work.
Chair (name not provided) told the commission the Arbor Day Foundation Tree City reporting showed local tree-related spending of about $55,082, which the chair said equates to roughly $2.31 per capita. The chair gave a line-item breakdown: about $13,494 in planting and aftercare, roughly $13,000 in maintenance, and removals listed around $25,000 (the transcript contains an imprecise fractional figure). The chair said better record-keeping between the streets and parks departments would make future reporting clearer.
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