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Tree Trimmer 1 positions to the Tree Crew. Eugene will then have 7 tree care <br /> employees with an average of 14,286 street trees per employee. This is almost <br /> two and one -half times the survey average. <br /> Currently our five person tree crew prunes approximately 3500 trees or about <br /> 700 trees per employee per year. We prioritized our work in the following <br /> order: 1) Immediate removal of hazards brought to our attention 2)Requests <br /> for tree work by the public and 3) Systematic-block to'``block'pruning <br /> Priority one includes the clearing of traffic signs, removal of broken and or <br /> hanging branches and removal of hazardous trees. Block to Block pruning <br /> through out the City would be the ideal method or maintaining our 100,000 <br /> street trees. However, with a seven person crew able to prune about 700 trees <br /> each per year, this would take approximately 20 years to do every street tree <br /> in Eugene. This would not address the maintenance of Park Trees. Dependent <br /> upon the species, age, location etc. our street trees should be maintenance <br /> pruned every 3 -7 years. <br /> While the elimination of hazardous conditions located in trees is our primary <br /> concern, we do not have adequate resources or staff to both identify and <br /> maintain all the hazards that may exist in Eugene. A partial solution to this <br /> problem, and one that would provide us with an ongoing program of eliminating <br /> hazards. Would be to create an inspectors position to identify those <br /> situations that pose an eminent hazard and designate a crew to work on those <br /> hazardous trees only. To use existing personnel for this purpose would reduce <br /> our ability to work on tree requests form the public, park trees and perform <br /> block to block pruning. <br />