Recommendation to receive and file a presentation on the Giving Heart Tree Project, a gift from Council District 2 and from Councilwoman Pearce.
I'm 35. Communication from Councilmember Pearce, Councilwoman Price, Councilmember Younger Councilmember Richardson recommendation to receive and file a presentation on the Giving Heart Tree Project. Catherine Pearce. Thank you very much. I had a presentation with this, but I did not expect it to be almost 1:00. So this is our last gift to the second district. It is my attempt to ensure that we are addressing our climate change issues, our beautification of our neighborhoods, and really building a community structure and network that is going to give back to the district for a long time. Every tree that is planted consumes about 50% of their carbon dioxide, their weight in carbon dioxide. This is something that greatly impacts our health, including issues like COVID, something that I've talked about many times with this council. So we agenda is previously $2.50 thousand to plant trees in the second district. We've got 2300 empty tree wells in the second district. Our goal is to raise the rest of that money to plant these trees. The majority of them are in neighborhoods probably in front of your yard or the park that you go to. And so we're asking for community members to join us on Thursday at 7 p.m.. Myself, our mayor, will be there briefly. The incoming council member for the second District will be joining us, Cindy Allen, which I'm very thankful of and many more. We've got three bands. We'll be raising these funds to make sure that we can not only plant these trees, but that the jobs stay locally. If we reach our goal of planting 2300 trees, we'll actually create about 6000 work hours right here in the second District. So it's something that we thought was appropriate given the state of our budget, but also given the state of our climate. And so I'll save you guys the PowerPoint, but expect each of the council members and staff. There's an activity book that goes along with this item. We will have these activity books at Second District restaurants. If you order from them on Thursday, you'll be able to get a second district activity book with your meal delivery. Right now we've got the socialist, the ordinary, and I believe Alley's on board. Anybody else that wants to reach out, we'd love to drop some of these off with you. It includes a coloring page that actually opens up into a poster. So we're encouraging everybody to color that with their families safely and put that up in your window so that you can continue to build that community with the residents and your neighbors. So with that, I ask for the council to vote yes on this item. Is there any public comment? No public comment on this item. Okay. World control, please. District one. District two. I. District three. I. District four. All right. District five. By District seven. By District eight. Rye District nine. My motion carries.