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Grant for Legislatively-named Municipality FY19: Updated November 2018 7 Exhibit A: Grant Project Deliverables 2021 Preparing for EAB Grants City of Lino Lakes Deliverables Grant Sum Total: $32,910.86 Grant Contact Deliverables • Adopting an EAB management plan through this grant process if the community does not yet have one in place • Each ash tree removed must be replaced with a newly planted tree • Grantee must be willing to participate in work by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and University of Minnesota to evaluate project impacts Regardless of requests for reimbursement, a written update must be submitted by each reporting deadline, to ensure project is moving forward and on track to completion. Add written reports below corresponding to each reporting date: June 30, 2022 Update: December 30, 2022 Update: June 30, 2023 Update: As work is completed, thoroughly address all applicable bullet points below. Add in the date of reporting (i.e. 6/30/22) and change the font color of your update to red, to show where information has been added. Continually add to this document over the lifetime of your grant, making sure that all bullet points are addressed by the time of the grant’s completion. Work with DNR to fully execute and report on the impacts of the work plan by meeting the requirements as submitted in the City of Lino Lakes’s application: Project Overview Emerald ash borer was first confirmed in Lino Lakes in 2017. Since then, the rates of infestation and tree mortality have increased rapidly throughout the City. Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Park, a county park that our City completely surrounds, has a large number of ash trees, many of which are currently infested. The Department of Agriculture holds field sessions at Wargo Nature Center because there are plenty of infested trees there to use as examples. Our Parks crew has been aggressively removing ash trees from boulevards, parks, and natural areas since 2010. We currently have 287 boulevard ash trees remaining. Resources allow us to treat 100 trees per year to allow for staggered removals over time. Budget allows for removal and replacement of 30 boulevard ash trees per year, along with additional removals and replacements of hazard trees of other species. At this rate, it will take 10 years to remove and replace all boulevard ash in the City. 2024 will be the first year that we can dependably treat half of our remaining boulevard trees, so for the next three years, trees will be on a 3 year treatment cycle, leaving trees less protected against ash borer damage. While removals in parks and natural areas are ongoing, our inventory of these areas is far from complete. The sooner we can complete removals and replacements of boulevard trees, the sooner we can focus our efforts entirely on parks, trails, and natural areas. • The plan we are submitting will allow for three years worth of removals and replacements in one year, which will bring our number of remaining boulevard ash below 200 so we can continue to remove them safely. • The plan involves contracted removal of 60 trees that are large enough to be beyond the scope of what can be safely handled with our aerial truck, which has a 30 foot reach. DocuSign Envelope ID: 065F83CA-61C8-441A-99AB-0093E546627C