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2. Emerald Ash Borer PresentationFinance MEMORANDUM Phone: 952.227.1140 TO: Park & Recreation Commission CITY OF ash borer CHANHASSEN FROM: Todd Hoffman, Park & Recreation Director /X 01 Park & Recreation DATE: March 26, 2013 7700 Market Boulevard • Removing ash trees from the city's planting list. PO Box 147 Chanhassen, 14 55317 SUBJ: Emerald Ash Borer Presentation, Environmental Resource Phone: 952.227.1125 Specialist Administration Emerald ash borers (EAB) have made their way into the Twin Cities Phone: 952.227.1100 commission. Fax: 952.227.1110 Metropolitan Area and are now confirmed to be present within 15 miles of Fax: 952.227.1404 Chanhassen. As the ash borer continues to spread across the Twin Cities, the Building Inspections resulting death of thousands of ash trees will have a noticeable effect on the Phone: 952.227.1180 Fax: 952.227.1190 landscape and environmental conditions. Issues like increased cooling costs due Natural Resources to the loss of shade, increased storm water run -off due to the loss of canopy Engineering coverage, and the overall loss of significant numbers of ash trees located in Phone: 952.227.1160 Fax: 952.227.1170 parks, boulevards, residential properties and woodlots will soon be a reality. Finance Although no formal City of Chanhassen ash tree policy has yet been adopted, Phone: 952.227.1140 staff has administratively responded to these impending issues in a number of Fax: 952.227.1110 ash borer Phone: 952.227.1300 ways: Park & Recreation Jill Sinclair, the city's Environmental Resource Specialist, has prepared a Phone: 952.227.1120 • Removing ash trees from the city's planting list. Fax: 952.227.1110 Phone: 952.227.1125 • Initiating the removal process by cutting down the least desirable ash Recreation Center trees in our inventory. 2310 Coulter Boulevard commission. Phone: 952.227.1400 • Proactively planting new trees in areas with high ash tree Fax: 952.227.1404 g: \park \th \emerald ash borer \prc memo 3- 26- 13.doc concentrations Planning & Natural Resources . Investigating the future desire to treat the most desirable ash trees in Phone: 952.227.1130 our inventory with insecticides. Fax: 952.227.1110 a Chanhassen is a Community for Life - Providing for Today and Planning for Tomorrow • Continuing to educate residents at the local level about the emerald Public Works 7901 Park Place ash borer Phone: 952.227.1300 Fax: 952.227.1310 Jill Sinclair, the city's Environmental Resource Specialist, has prepared a presentation that reviews many of the issues that the city and our residents will Senior Center Phone: 952.227.1125 be confronted with once the ash borer reaches Chanhassen. This evening is Fax: 952.227.1110 intended as an educational session with no formal action being requested of the Web Site commission. www.ci.chanhassen.mn.us g: \park \th \emerald ash borer \prc memo 3- 26- 13.doc a Chanhassen is a Community for Life - Providing for Today and Planning for Tomorrow