Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager to execute a contract with West Coast Arborists, Inc., of Anaheim, CA (not an MBE, WBE, SBE or Local), for a park tree inventory, on the same terms and conditions afforded to the City of Agoura Hills, for a total amount not to exceed $199,000, for a period of one-year, with the option to renew for one additional one-year period, at the discretion of the City Manager or his designee.  (Citywide)
Motion carries eight votes. 1616 is a recommendation of Parks, Recreation and the Financial Management Department, with a recommendation toward a contract with to award a contract to West Coast Arborist for an amount not to exceed $189,000. So moved to. Close the motion and a second I'm going to first get a public comment saying none. I'm as I get back behind the rail to customer ships keep it also Mr. Clarke, can you restart the podium? Keeps blinking off over there, Councilor Reshevsky. Thank you, Mr. Garcia. Mr. Chaplin, before you came here, Mr. Heston, we started. We initiated this tree inventory using the AI tree software, and we utilized Boy Scouts and a number of youth. Is there any way that we can reach back out to those groups and involve them? They actually somewhere in the city is the data from the initial inventory that they started. So is there a way we can reach back out to scouting troops? And I know this is a private contractor, but there's a lot of interest out there in youth about getting involved. Councilman, we certainly can try. I think part of the issue is the the contract calls for certified arborist to do this work. And, you know, it's the overall tree counts, the location of species. They also they're also going to look at the conditions of the trees and the maintenance needs. So really, we're really going to need people who can actually make that call. Out in the field. In addition to that, they're using technology that interfaces with the citizen system and our work order system. So I think we can probably find other projects for them, but this one is really important for us to utilize. The Certified Arborist. Well, I understand that I'm not asking for a replacement, but I would hope that we could reach out with these groups because they could maybe perhaps tag along because they the arborist did go with them last time and identified trees and so that they were able to do measurements and things. It would just be helpful that we could kind of grow our own team of community environmental arborist because there's an interest out there. We'll certainly look at it. Okay. Thank you very much. Okay, great. See no other comment. Please cast your votes or the motion. I mean. Yes. Councilmember Johnson. Motion carries eight votes. Item 17. The report from the police department with the recommendation to receive and receive the application of state side crafts for an original ABC license at 42428 Atlantic Avenue and determined that the application serves the public convenience and necessity. And submit a public notice of protest to ABC.