READING., Pa. \u2013\u00a0Reading City Council voted Monday night to award a contract for a city-wide tree master plan to F.A. Bartlett Tree Experts, Birdsboro.<\/p>\n
The $82,542 contract is being funded through a grant that was awarded to the public works department.<\/p>\n
The grant was awarded to the city in accordance with Reading\u2019s 2021 Climate Action Plan regarding the importance of expanding the city\u2019s urban tree canopy as a strategy for reducing urban heat island effects, improving public health, managing stormwater, enhancing biodiversity and sequestering carbon.<\/p>\n
The plan will serve as a strategic, inclusive and actional roadmap to guide tree-related policies, investments, and stewardship across the city.<\/p>\n
Kyle Zeiber, public works director, said the master plan will include a tree inventory of the entire city.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will identify a lot of different areas that need to be improved through a tree inventory and make maps and a priority list of what needs to be trimmed, what needs to be planted, and what needs to be removed,\u201d Zeiber said.<\/p>\n
Zeiber estimated it will take about one year to complete the master plan.<\/p>\n
In other business, council voted to:<\/p>\n
Authorize the\u00a0purchase of a new police emergency response patrol vehicle from Costars vendor Tom Masano Ford, Shillington, $72,684.22 from the Capital Budget. The vehicle will replace one that was lost in a recent accident.Remove\u00a0James Cole from the Environmental Advisory Council on the recommendation of the Board of Ethics for violations of the City of Reading Ethics Code and failure to attend meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING., Pa. \u2013\u00a0Reading City Council voted Monday night to award a contract for a city-wide tree master plan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[12589,2999,12587,5194,128,1095,130,129,12588],"class_list":["post-17526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-bartlett-tree-experts","tag-environmental-advisory-council","tag-james-cole","tag-kyle-zeiber","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-council","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-tree-master-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}