STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Transportation & Infrastructure
AGENDA DATE: June 22, 2022
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): All
DEPARTMENT: Water Utilities Department
EXECUTIVE: Kimberly Bizor Tolbert
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SUBJECT
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Authorize (1) an increase in appropriations in an amount not to exceed $470,000.00 in the Operating Carryover Fund from General Fund Contingency Reserve; and (2) a transfer in an amount not to exceed $470,000.00 from General Fund Contingency Reserve to the Operating Carryover Fund for the management of a diverse forestry canopy including preventative and reactive maintenance - Not to exceed $470,000.00 - Financing: Operating Carryover Fund and General Fund Contingency Reserve (See Fiscal Information)
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BACKGROUND
The City of Dallas owns approximately 35,000 acres of open space and provides regulatory oversight of private and public urban forestry canopies. Management of a diverse forestry canopy includes preventative and reactive maintenance including but not limited to inventories, assessments, plantings, pruning, treatments, and removals.
In cooperation with, the Texas A&M Forest Services (TFS) and Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA), the City has been tracking and monitoring the emerald ash borer (EAB) infestation in Texas and surrounding counties since the mid-2000s. EAB is a significant threat to urban, suburban, and rural forests as it kills both stressed and healthy ash trees. The EAB is a destructive, non-native, wood-boring, pest of ash trees. Native to Asia, the emerald ash borer beetle (EAB) was unknown in North America until its discovery in southeast Michigan in 2002. All native ash species are susceptible to attack. Ash trees with low population densities of EAB often have few or no external symptoms of infestation. EAB is very aggressive and ash trees may die within two or three years after they become infested.
On May 18, 2022, TFS notified the City of the confirmed presen...
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