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Meeting Date: 9/14/94 <br /> Agenda Item: P 5 <br /> CITY OF FALCON HEIGHTS <br /> REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION <br /> ITEM DESCRIPTION: Request for authorization to proceed with expenditures for site <br /> improvements in front of city hall <br /> SUBMITTED BY: Pete Klinkenberg, Public Works and Parks Superintendant <br /> Carol Kriegler, Park and Recreation Director <br /> REVIEWED BY: Susan Hoyt, City Administrator <br /> Linda Treeful, City Forester <br /> Betsy Fitzsimmons, Hoisington Group, landscape architect <br /> EXPLANATION /SUMMARY: (prepared by Susan Hoyt) <br /> The property in front of city hall requires upgrading to be in keeping with the maintenance <br /> standards in the community. This will require establishlishing lawn in the bare, sandy area. It <br /> also requires some tree pruning and removal of some low branches, diseased and deteriorating <br /> trees. The staff met with Betsy Fitzsimmons, who is a landscape architect working on the <br /> Larpenteur Avenue project, for her advice on what vegetation should stay and what go. She <br /> suggested removing most of the low shrubs and the bending trees and branches, but felt that with <br /> some serious pruning some of the larger, healthy trees can stay. She said that the modest <br /> landscape improvements would not be a long term waste of money because good soil and <br /> trimmed trees would be part of any landscape changes in the area. <br /> Staff estimates that the tree removal, topsoil and seed will cost approximately $1,200. <br /> ACTION REQUESTED: <br /> Approve 1,200 out of the TIF capital construction fund for site improvements in front of city <br /> hall. <br />