Those who live in neighborhoods with mature trees know what a positive feature they are to our streets, yards, and overall neighborhood appearance. Many historic neighborhoods have trees that have been around as long as the houses they surround.
If you're interested in the care and trimming of tress on city property, please read this notice below sent to Knox Heritage by KUB. We encourage our members to get involved. The application form is included as a PDF document at the bottom of this notice.
As you may know, the Knoxville City Council passed a resolution on KUB’s tree trimming program at its December 1 meeting. Among other things, the resolution included KUB’s suggestion to the City that we address concerns by establishing a citizen panel to perform a comprehensive review of our program policies and make improvement recommendations.
KUB has made many improvements to our tree-trimming program over the years to address issues raised by customers. We’ve improved our communications and modified our trim standards to respond to community input. We’ve also raised the level of professional oversight of the program through certified arborists on staff and use of outside consultants.
We recognize, however, that concerns and disagreements remain. We look forward to working with this new panel to address those concerns and to develop policies and practices based on a broad community consensus. We are anxious to get started and need your help to identify potential panel members.
Our goal is to identify 15 individuals with diverse viewpoints and experience. We anticipate panel members will serve for six months or less, with a meeting schedule to be determined. Meetings will be open to the public, and we anticipate one or more public forums for citizen input. The first meeting has been tentatively scheduled as a half-day session on January 22.
The resolution calls for a representative from KUB and a representative from one of several City departments. These other areas will also be included:
- Neighborhood and community representatives
- Professional arborists/tree experts
- Business representatives
- Community design experts/landscape architects
- Beautification groups
- Environmental groups
- Others with an interest in the issue.
Please feel free to nominate yourself or anyone you believe might be a good fit for this panel and to copy and distribute the attached interest form (which is also available at www.kub.org). We’ll be asking for input from organizations throughout the community and hope to have a panel selected early next year.
We ask that you return the interest form no later than January 8, 2010, so the review can get under way.
Thank you for your consideration.
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| KUB Tree Trim Review Panel Interest Form.pdf | 26 KB |