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higher number of trees planted. The additional advantage we get with using the coordinators is for them to come back to us for multiple years. 4. We are not getting time free for Scott to participate with the activities of the Tree Crew or develop any policy framework for the maintenance of Street or Park trees. Remembering that this was one of the major problems we had with the previous Urban Forester, we have a goal of the Urban Forester at least attending their crew meetings. The difficult being if we don't follow -up on their requests or concerns, we loose credibility in having any role in supporting their activities. 5. We are working to establish set office hours for Scott and Mike that they will be available to the public for accepting telephone calls and not be available the remainder of the days. This has become necessary due to the incredible number of phone calls which come in for the public and other staff regarding tree issues. Due to their dealing with the immediate interest and issues of people, they are not getting quality time to work on their other assignments. I really feel many of these calls could be avoided if the policies and procedures were developed but I've already talked about our difficulty there in #4 above. 6. We have the new technician assigned to perform development review at the PIC under Scott's supervision who will be coming on board hopefully in July. Please remember that this person is funded to perform coordination and review for the full range of assets under PWM jurisdiction and the maximum time the person can put toward urban forestry issues would be 25 %. For at least the first few months, Scott is going to loose more time to the needs of supervising and training a new person that he will be able to offload in terms of work assignments to this person . 7. The Mayor's request for a DAC for developing management plans for natural forested areas. This is a major problem. I can see having 40 -60 person hours into this project just getting through the process to select a DAC. I don't believe we have in -house personnel who can develop such a management plan and I really doubt letting the DAC develop it would be time efficient or politically expedient. I suspect the best way to undertake this would be to hire a consultant to do such a plan for a specific area for $10 -15K and then having the DAC review, comment, and then the consultant modify the plan based on this input.. This would be similar to the process Engineering is using for stormwater. I suspect the DAC reviewing the first management plan would meet once a month for a year before something could get adopted. I would suspect the consultant costs would be around $25K (15 for the plan and 10 more for changes and support at the DAC meetings). The staff time involved would likely be 25 hours of meetings, 75 hours of preparation and review times two people. This would equate to 200 hours @ (again assume $40 /hr) or $8,000. The you would need to add something for minutes recorders, advertising and misc. Putting the staff part together with the consultant part we have a $35 -40K project to get the first management plan completed. Once we have the first one done to use as a guide and format, we likely could do additional ones at less cost. I would comment that the DAC for each one would likely need to be different people because we have much different groups interested in what happens at Morse Ranch than at Hendricks, or Spencer, or Skinners and vice verse. I don't think we have the existing resources to undertake anything to this magnitude. What I would recommend is that we develop this as a SLCM proposal and request the monies and resources through that process. The staff monies could be used to hire temporary staff to off -load some of Scott's /Mike's work so they could support this type of a project. This is a quick evaluation of issues and I've likely rambled on long enough. I'd be happy to discuss them with you further at your convenience. Thanks Johnny Page 2