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HAMMITT Bob From: ANDERSEN Chris F To: HAMMITT Bob Cc: ARGENTINA Eileen Subject: FW: Westmoreland Park mowing Date: Friday, June 14, 1996 12:39PM Bob, THe issue here is the need for wetland plant seeds, an appropriate source on park land in Westmoreland, and the June 15th mowing requirement. I do not know the exact location of the seed source in the park, however, it would seem possible to get some positive mileage out of exempting from mowing requirement until after seed collection if we sign the area with an explanation of what we are doing and how this fits into the overall environmental, wetland, coordinated approach we have in place and use it as an opportunity to educate and inform the public. Are there other problems that we need to be concerned about? Chris From: EVANS Deborah S To: ANDERSEN Chris F; ARGENTINA Eileen Cc: MORGAN Dick A; RHAY Tim W; MEDLIN Johnny R; CAHILL Michelle R Subject: FW: Westmoreland Park mowing Date: Friday, June 14, 1996 10:19AM fyi. I'm hoping that the two of you can discuss the probality of exempting these sites in Westmoreland Park from the mowing ordinance until we are able to harvest native seed we need for this year's mitigation bank projects. The ordinance specifies that we need to mow June 15; our projection for completion of seed collection is mid July. Tim Rhay informs me that the PW Director has the authority to grant an exemption. In the course of this year's work, staff will be developing a seed collection strategy and timeline so that we can approach this in a more comprehensive manner in future years. For now, seed is in critical short supply and every viable site is precious so we are hoping to use Westmoreland as a donor site. Thanks, Deborah From: ALVERSON Ed R To: EVANS Deborah S Subject: FW: Westmoreland Park mowing Date: Thursday, June 13, 1996 1:06PM Here's Tim's response on the seed collecting site at Westmoreland Park. -Ed From: RHAY Tim W To: ALVERSON Ed R Cc: FOERSTLER Kevin J; MORGAN Dick A; MEDLIN Johnny R; KROECK Louis G Subject: RE: Westmoreland Park mowing Date: Thursday, June 13, 1996 11:54AM Good Idea. Let's put it on the INRT agenda. I am positive I will get complaints and that Kevin F. will hear from the citizens re "enforcement" if I do not mow the site promptly after the 15th. (I was originally assured that seed collection would be completed before that date but, of course, the weather this year was not cooperative.) If I'm goint to tell the citizens that we aren't going to mow and Kevin that I will not follow his ordinance - driven order to mow (He would then have the option of having the field mowed and billing us for the cost under ordinance provisions) I'll need something more solid that the vague and "wishful" discussions that have taken place to date. Understand, I have no objection to saving the field as a seed source. But I am not at liberty to ignore the City Code. It requires an authority higher than my own to exempt an area from the obnoxious vegetation provisions of the Code as currently written. From: ALVERSON Ed R To: RHAY Tim W Subject: Westmoreland Park mowing Date: Thursday, June 13, 1996 10:26AM 1 got a message today from Susanna Saxton and she said she has not completed collecting the buttercup seed from the site. Though she didn't say so directly the gist of her message was that she thought she would be able to finish sometime next week. Also, the site west of the community center has a good stand of California oat grass, another species that they plan to collect. In response to my query, she didn't Page 1