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HAMMITT Bob From: LYLE Les A To: MEDLIN Johnny R Cc: HAMMITT Bob; MILLS Gale L; KROECK Louis G Subject: RE: Trees on the Sidewalk Project Date: Friday, October 21, 1994 4:30PM Not sure how Pat is drawing his conclusions but my position is that if we take trees out as a result of a project, the project will replace them. I suspect what Pat is trying to do is keep the assessable cost to a minimum and looking for ways to finance the tree replacement independent of the assessment. I discussed one situation with Gale this week on Royal Avenue and we agreed that we need to either go curb -side or setback (around the trees) even if it requires a sidewalk easement. If those options are not feasible we then need to take the trees out and then replace. However, we can't justify adding trees that presently don't exist as part of the project cost but I don't believe that is what you are saying. There is one location where Gale indicted that Hawthorn trees exist and Yan indicated they were not appropriate street trees. That's fine but my position is that it is not all that unusual and we shouldn't use that as the standard to decide to remove a series of trees. If that were the case we would be taking all the historic trees (hawthorn) out on Willamette street. So, we need to get the appropriate players together to make sure we are all on the same page. I hope this note helps. Thanks Les L From: MEDLIN Johnny R To: LYLE Les A Cc: Hammitt, Bob; STASZEWSKI Jan Subject: Trees on the Sidewalk Project Date: Friday, October 21, 1994 1:52PM Les, I was just briefed by Jan and Louie that there are going to be tree issues that need to be resolved in the upcoming sidewalk project. Jan said that Pat Bayes had told him that there would not be any money for tree replacement in the project. Feeling strongly that trees would be a needed component of the project (I agree if we impact trees we will at least need to mitigate that impact) Jan said perhaps he could find monies for tree planting. The only place Jan could do this from is the capital account for tree planting /stocking which has been used to support the NeighborWoods program. I'm very uncomfortable in paying for contract project related work from this account since I question if it is large enough to cover the volunteer program related costs as it is. Last year we over -ran this budget. Les, I believe the question of trees does need to be addressed on this project at a level higher than Jan and Pat. I suspect we (you!!! because I'II duck!!) run the risk of getting slapped around if we ignore planting of trees. I don't have an idea of what the costs would be (Pat might), but I believe it needs to be addressed as a project cost. This may be something we need to stress to Council that there is more costs associated with sidewalks than just the sidewalks. Please let me know what you think. Johnny Page 1