Last night was our long awaited Urban Forestry Commission meeting. The first one we've had since April. As frustrating as the wait has been, we have only had one item on our agenda to even have a meeting--the tree inventory. Over and over we have discussed this and in reality it has been the top priority since 2008. We re-emphasized the priority again with Jon Andersen and asked that all measures be made to get this finished ASAP. We have tasked him to certain goals and we need to report back on September 9th. Mainly it is about finding someone to do this. Someone one with either the knowledge or experience to go out and inventory the trees. It is 3/4 done, but we need just a little more.
It is frustrating to see this not get done. Especially when the Urban Forestry budget for tree maintenance currently is just a good guess. If the inventory was done we could more actively manage and plan a successful budget to maintain South Ogden's trees.
For the first time we had someone from the public attend the meeting. Immediately I assumed it was someone running for city council. I was correct. I will hold the name until the 14th, when campaigning can officially begin. But we had a great discussion afterwards about the city. Apparently he has been a reader of my blog and had lots of great ideas.
Elections are coming soon.
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