City Council Meeting

Anna Saffordstaffadaptive management approach as we do the one-year check-ins and five-year progress reports. But then I want to take a moment and tie this back to earlier in the presentation on the project's background. The city completed that urban forestry program evaluation approximately five years ago. I would say we've accomplished a lot over the past five years, and since then we've had a lot of changes in resources managing the urban forest, as well as, of course, our urban forest continues The thought is this plan now provides us better guidance and a more strategic plan to do work moving forward. It provides a bit more transparency as to how we're meeting community priorities as well as where the priorities are for the urban forest needs.

And then second, I want to reiterate the Sprout Initiative and how that was designed to implement. It was not just designed to develop the plan, but again, to implement it as well. It is not a coincidence that it touches on all five objectives of the plan. Its foundation is in community stewardship as well as engagement. It's taken an all-hands approach on invasive species management. It prioritizes tree planting to maximize community benefit. And, of course, it is rooted in that strategic planning as well as communication to the public at very frequent intervals. And so the Sprout Initiative is how you can see how implementation will continue forward after adoption. And then lastly, I want to share the Urban Forest Master Plan project does have deliverables beyond the plan itself.

Brooke HardinstaffAnd, and, and again, doctors, Gloria and Jaberri are here this evening and can speak in, in much more detail regarding the services provided, um, at the facility. If there are those questions in looking at the project development timeline, and I know one of the speakers earlier this evening had a much longer arc, uh, in terms of this project for the purposes of this discussion, um, effectively started in 2013. So about, about 13 years ago at this point with the parks and rec strategic plan and the strategic plan identified that the city, um, needed to study green acres. And so in 2015 and 2016, a task force was appointed to study green acres, solicit input from the community and make recommendations for near-term and

Mr. AlexanderstaffGreat question. That is March 3rd. That's part of that follow-up on retreat and next steps. That was the second or third item on that agenda. So I would anticipate, if my mind serves me well at a quarter to one, that we talk strategic plan, we talk efficiency, we talk communications, and we also talk metrics. So all four of those will come back at the same time and we'll have very specific action steps for all of those