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A very large percentage of park and open space trees (approximately 360 trees) are located in Country Lakes Estates Park, Reshanau Lakes Estates Trail and open space areas. Lino Lakes is working with a company called YTS to remove the trees from these areas. This work will be done this January. YTS will charge a mobilization fee of $2500 and remove the trees for the benefit of the product. This will drop our inventoried park trees down to less than 100. YTS is giving the City a quote that can be given to residents to remove or treat ash trees. Lino Lakes also gets a quote each year from a local company, Uppercut Tree Service, for removing ash trees and treating ash trees. The city will continue to look for other reputable tree services that can give a competitive bid to residents. The City is also providing drop off sites for residents that would like to preemptively remove their ash trees or have to remove them due to infestation. The City currently coordinates an annual tree sale. Residents who remove ash tress may purchase new tress through this program. The City also coordinates with the Anoka County Conservation District to promote their tree sale each year. Anoka County has thousands of ash trees in the regional park. Their policy is to allow the trees to die on the stump and remove only trees that pose a public health problem. There are thousands of ash trees in the regional park. Ash tree mortality can be slowed with aggressive sanitation practices; however, infested trees in the regional park will most likely bring Lino Lakes into the Ash Death curve rate as modeled in cities that were caught unprepared. That is, the City can then expect to lose all of our Ash trees in 7-9 years. That 7-9 year loss rate will most likely start after the next two summers. Requested Council Direction None. Discussion only. Attachments 1. Target Site Map