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Euclid council backs dedicated urban-forest assessment, approves tree-maintenance contract and related grants
Summary
Council approved a resolution to create a 0.25-mill urban forestry special assessment (designed to keep overall special-assessment rate at 1.5 mills), estimated to generate about $227,000, and authorized a $76,180 Knowles Municipal Forestry contract, leveraging a $65,000 grant from Cuyahoga Soil and Water District.
Council took a series of actions aimed at accelerating the city—s urban-forest work.
Administration described a two-step process under Ohio law to create a dedicated urban forestry special assessment of 0.25 mills that would fund planting, maintenance, trimming and removal of public right-of-way trees. "This proposed legislation is the first piece, that seeks to set a 0.25 mills property special assessment in the city," administration said, adding that the…
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