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Public commenters press Henrico on tree removals and electronic-voting transparency
Summary
During public comment Jennifer Lieberman urged the board to curb large-scale tree removals and protect ecological services; Lt. Col. Douglas Clark raised concerns about transparency of electronic voting systems and said he will seek cast-vote records again after earlier FOIA and court experiences.
Two registered speakers used the public-comment period to press the board on separate issues: trees and election integrity.
Jennifer Lieberman told supervisors she supports planting but criticized what she described as widespread tree removal in Henrico. She noted the county recently celebrated planting 10,000 trees but said that number does not offset the mature trees removed and urged officials to consider trees’ roles in carbon storage, water retention, shade and fire…
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