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Item No: 8G <br />Meeting Date: August 27, 2018 <br />Type of Business: CA <br />Administrator Review: ____ <br /> <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Don Peterson, Interim Director of Public Works <br />Item Title/Subject: Resolution 9007 Approving the Contract with Upper Cut Tree <br />Service for Tree Removal of Accessible and Non-Accessible <br />Trees. <br /> <br />Background/Discussion: <br />Public Works is charged to oversee the Forestry duties in the City, this includes trees in on <br />City grounds as well as trees in the ROW (right of way). Duties include the Diseased Tree <br />Ordinance, where Elm Trees, Oak Trees and recently Ash Trees, with the Emerald Ash <br />borer the main concern of this Ordinance. To assist Public Works with the removal of <br />diseased trees, quotes are obtained for the removal of accessible trees where a vehicle <br />and equipment has easy access to the site in order to remove the trees and non-accessible <br />trees, for cases where access with vehicles is not possible. In the past the contracts have <br />been annual to every two to three years; both contracts for the tree removals expired in <br />May of 2018. Public Works Staff sent the requests for bids to five tree services companies. <br /> <br />The Proposals were further broken down in both the accessible and non-accessible trees in <br />two categories: <br />• Cost per tree with trunk diameter less than 35 inches <br />• Cost per tree with a trunk diameter greater than 35 inches <br /> <br />There were four companies that submitted proposals. The results are as follows: <br /> <br />Tree <br />Service <br />Tree <br />Diameter, <br />inch (dbh1) <br /> Unit Price Schedule <br />Contractor Good Vehicular <br />Access <br />(boulevards, front <br />yards, parks, etc.) <br />Difficult Vehicular <br />Access <br />(back yards, remote <br />locations, etc.) <br />Removal 0 up to 35 The Davey Tree Expect <br />Precision Landscape & Tree <br />4 Seasons Tree Care Inc. <br />Upper Cut Tree Service <br />$45.00/dia.-in. <br />$25.00/dia.-in. <br />$25.00/dia.-in. <br />$24.00/dia.-in. <br />$50.00/dia.-in. <br />$45.00/dia.-in. <br />$40.00/dia.-in. <br />$39.00/dia.-in. <br />Removal 35 to 40 The Davey Tree Expert <br /> Precision Landscape & Tree <br />4 Seasons Tree Care Inc. <br />Upper Cut Tree Service <br />$50.00/dia.-in. <br />$35.00/dia.-in. <br />$28.00/dia.-in. <br />$28.00/dia.-in. <br />$60.00/dia.-in. <br />$85.00/dia.-in. <br />$43.00/dia.-in. <br />$40.00/dia.-in. <br />Removal over 40 negotiable negotiable <br />Trimming2 any The Davey Tree Expert <br />Precision Landscape & Tree <br />4 Seasons Tree Care Inc. <br />Upper Cut Tree Service <br />$no bid amount <br />$250/hour <br />$160/hour <br />$150/hour <br /> <br /> $no bid amount <br />$350/hour <br />$no bid amount <br />$175/hour <br /> 1dbh=diameter at breast height (4.5 feet off ground) <br /> 2trimming unit price includes a two-person crew, bucket truck, chipper, and chip truck or loader