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Hackensack Shade Tree chair announces $200,000 schools grant and Second Street canopy project
Summary
Chair Josh Cohen told the council the Shade Tree Advisory Committee secured multiple grants — including a $200,000 Trees for Schools award and an Arbor Day Foundation grant to plant about 100 trees in the historically undercanopied Second Street neighborhood — and outlined utility coordination and planting timelines.
Josh Cohen, chair of the Hackensack Shade Tree Advisory Committee, told the council the committee has secured a string of grants to expand street and school-site canopy in parts of the city with low tree coverage.
Cohen said the committee has a $5,000 Green Communities grant through a state urban-forest program for a community-forestry management plan, a $15,000 stewardship grant to contribute to the citywide street-tree inventory, a $200,000 “Trees for Schools” grant in partnership with Hackensack Public Schools to plant roughly 100 trees on school sites and nearby streets, and an Arbor Day…
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