Recommendation to request City Manager update and revise the policies and procedures related to the City’s Tree Maintenance Policy and urban wildlife policy, including nesting birds. Direct City Manager to reevaluate the standard operating procedure, including, but not limited to inspections by a trained biologist, when trimming or removing City trees that have evidence indicating an active bird nest. Also, direct City Manager to report back on the feasibility and costs associated with establishing a program to pro-actively inspect trees for urban wildlife that are scheduled for trimming and removal.
Okay. Then we'll go on to item. There is a request to move item 16. So we'll do item 16. Communication Town Council Member Your Anger Councilwoman Price. Councilman Mongo Vice Mayor Richardson Recommendation to request City Manager to update and revise the policies and procedures related to the city's tree maintenance policy and urban wildlife policy, and to report back on the feasibility and costs associated with establishing a program it customary. Right. I think this is your item. GONZALES. Yes, yes. Thank you, Mayor, for putting this item up too quickly. First of all, I want to thank Vice Mayor Richardson, Councilmembers Rice and Mogo for joining me on this right here. We know we've had a lot of issues in without treaties over the past few years, and many of them have to do with the fact that some contractors have been negligent or have been very careless in how we treat our trees and their cut and being treated. We're not. So this item here is, I believe, that the city manager can review the current policies and procedures for our tree maintenance throughout the city and being able to come back with a recommendation as to how we can implement a program that will be much more general and broad to make sure that our our herons and our nesting birds are taking care of and that their homes not destroyed as we take care of our trees, as we need to go, and we have projects that we want to develop. One of the major projects that brought this to to the forefront is that I have a project in my district over the really greenbelt and there were some trees that were perhaps mistakenly brought down. A review indicated that there might have been some nesting birds in that area. And so it just raised a furor in regards to what are we doing to protect our trees and to protect our nesting birds. So I think that with this policy that the city manager is requested through to review it and come back with some recommendations, would help us address that and the least amount of fears that are out there in the community in regards to our nesting birds and our very precious trees. So I'm I'm glad that we're bringing this forward. And again, I want to thank my councilmember colleagues for enjoining me in this effort as well. And with that, I'll leave it to Abi. My second. Thank you. And Councilman Mongo to the second. Thank you. This is an item that has been in need for quite a long time. I'm very fortunate to work very closely with Councilmember Suranga, who cares so much about our community and our trees. We've worked together on many projects, including disease, trees and other things in his district and across the city. And I'm very proud of the work that we've done to make improvements, but we do need to make more. And so I'm really excited about this item. We cover the tree component of every major project, but it really needs to be pulled together in a more concise document that really gives the. Warrant that is necessary for something of such importance to our community on a go forward basis. Our trees are aging and we really have to have a plan on the way forward. So thank you for a great item. Thank you. Councilman's in the house. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to say thank you to Councilmember Suranga for bringing this item forward. And, Mango, I know that this is very important, especially in those areas where trees actually get rooted and deep rooted and uplift the curves. It can become so dangerous. And so I think that a program like this would be really great to be able to evaluate and be able to get those those fixed before people have accidents. And I'm especially thinking of our seniors on their walks and people with disabilities that don't have any alternative route. So I'm really looking forward to this to supporting this item and the results when it comes back. Last May, Richardson. Thank you, Councilman Aranda, for bringing this forward. We have a responsibility to take care of our tree canopy as it doesn't take care of itself. It requires investment. It requires care. Our city was built at different times, and therefore there were different trees that were utilized in different parts of the city. And each of our districts has different, unique needs. And so the fact that we're staying on top of this and asking staff to keep a sharp eye on this is important. And it's the types of things that the neighbors, the neighborhoods want and need from their city council. Thank you. Thank you. I don't believe there's any public comment on or actually there might be two couple comments on this item. No, those callers are not on the line. Okay. So we'll go to a roll call vote. And Councilman Price is having a little bit of tech issues, so she'll be probably back in about ten, 15 minutes after I do the work. So we'll call the. District one district to. My. District for. My. District five. I. District six. I. District seven. I. District eight. Hi. District nine. By. Motion carries.