Council: Thrilled to read this morning the city has a pending law suit from an arborist who worked for the city in 2015. Interestingly I had a discussion with the current city arborist, Christian, the previous public workers manager, Jesse, and copied the city attorney who never weighed in on the conversation. Happy to forward to any one who cares to read the email exchange. The tree trimming in our neighborhood of Suburban Park was a very dangerous situation in 2015. Branches were being dropped from 40 ft. over head with no one on the ground watching to make sure a child didn't run under the area. Branches were dropped on private property and workers entered private property and drove their truck and chipper on private property. No one wanted to take responsibility then, and it looks like the work practices of the tree trimming crews were even worse given the reports in the paper. The public works manager stated that city workers could enter private property because they left a door hanger saying don't park under the trees. This statement is completely false. The contract the city has signed does not name individual property owners as additional insured and the city contractor has zero right to enter private property. No surprise this law suit is happening given the poor management of this department and dangerous work practices. Many neighbors at that time commented on the Nextdoor blog about the workmanship. Once again another city department run amuck, lets give them all raises and sweep this under the table, or a novel idea maybe the city should actually represent its residents and protect their interests. Anyone on the council care to stand up and clean up this department??? Tim Yaeger 387 Hedge Road Nice picture of the chipping equipment on a residents front lawn, not city right of way clearly and clearly no need to drive on someones lawn. 5/25/15 https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=5d0b403275&view=att&th=14d925fc6ba7ef6d&attid=0.2&disp=safe&realattid=4ce5a4932fb66c85_0.3&zw > IMG_2507.JPG Received on Thu Oct 12 2017 - 09:47:37 PDT
