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Mourns ViEw City of Mounds View Staff Report Item No: 8D Meeting Date: June 28, 2021 Type of Business: CA Administrator Review: To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Don Peterson, Director of Public Works/Parks and Recreation Item Title/Subject: Resolution 9438 Approving a Contract with Rainbow Treecare for the (EAB), Emerald Ash Borer Injection Program Background/Discussion: Public Works is charged to oversee the Forestry duties in the City. Forestry duties include but not limited to the trees in/on City properties as well as trees in the ROW (Right of Way) along with facilitating the Diseased Tree Ordinance, which was recently amended to include recently Ash Trees, with the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB). Further Discussion: At the April 26, 2018, Park Recreation and Forestry Commission Meeting, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture presented a report that Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) was discovered and verified to be present in the City; options in dealing with EAB were also presented. One of these options was to start an EAB injection program, with this program high valued Ash trees in City Parks and on City grounds would be injected with the goal to help slow the ash borer down while planting a new tree to replace the current ash tree. Since the start of the program in 2018, 170 private ash trees have been injected and 18 City trees have been injected. Staff received an updated proposal for Rainbow Treecare with no increase in cost for injections. Rainbow Treecare is currently working in several other communities providing this same service. Rainbow Treecare also indicated they will continue to provide the following service: Dedicated full-time municipal consulting and GIS staff Design, printing, and mailing of co -branded flyers to residents National experience in the impacts and management of EAB in communities The Mounds View Vision A Thriving Desirable Community