Forests_green_space

1:30:00 - Aye. - Opposed? Motion passes. Thank you, staff. All right. That brings us into communications from the council. Councilor Harless. - Just may the fourth be with you. - Thank you. Councilor Perez. - Yeah, I was hoping to get an answer from somebody in the urban forestry or park planning, but the article about the large trees being removed on Evergreen Highway and our surprised neighborhood area, leaders in the neighborhood. So was there an effort to communicate with the residents that this was going to take place? I mean, the surprise factor is the bad feeling here, and I just wanted to know if there was an effort to work with the residents there.

1:30:56 - Councilor Perez, Deputy City Manager Lisa Brandl. I can ask urban forestry about that and provide the information to council. - Okay, yes, I think it was quite a surprise to learn about that in the article, and it just felt like our residents were also surprised to see these. Here we are trying to protect our large trees with the mission of that and our large white oaks and such, and I know that every time large trees are going to be cut because of feasibility or whatever, we always hear from the public, so we should know by now that whenever we're going to cut any trees, we should communicate with the public and our residents, and at least for us to be aware that that's gonna take place.

1:31:52 Also, just wanted to thank Samantha, oh, she left. Last week, I attended a webinar series on expanding access to home ownership, history solutions and resources, and speakers were the Department of Commerce and the Washington Home Ownership Resource Center, so I was glad to hear how Samantha was able