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Example of poor tree maintenance: vinyl covering killing a newly planted tree
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Council Member Holden shares a specific example of poor tree maintenance, detailing an incident where a newly planted tree died due to a vinyl covering placed by a homeowner.
- A homeowner placed vinyl covering around a newly planted tree, choking it
- Holden reported the issue to the centralized Parks Department
- Despite follow-ups, the issue remained unresolved for nearly a year
Robert F. Holden
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I actually consider them mine because I actually helped get them planted and went around to all the locations.
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However, since you centralized, here's what happens, and I wanna tell you real cases.
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A new tree was planted around the corner from where I live, so I generally walked past it.
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I noticed some guy, the the homeowner probably, put a vinyl covering down because he didn't want weeds coming up.
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So he actually choked the tree.
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Tree died.
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I brought this up to Parks.
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I mean, I had to go through Central.
1:21:26
I I used to go to Phil Sparaccio, and I can't do that anymore.
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So I have to go to Central.
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Central called up apparently called up the homeowner.
1:21:36
You gotta remove that vinyl sheet.
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Well, the tree was dead.
1:21:41
The tree was gone.
1:21:43
You gotta remove the vinyl sheet.
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Oh, and I called so I called Central, and they said, oh, he promised to remove it.
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Well, guess what?
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He didn't.