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aA URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES 1.2 City Resources 1.2.1 Budget Knowing where you are starting from is the first step in being able to plan for the future. This section highlights where and how much of the City's budget (on average) is spent on the maintenance and management of Pleasanton's urban forest. Table 1-1 shows the total expenditures on tree care. Pleasanton's average annual urban forest program spending over the last six fiscal years was rough $1.2 million, which when divided by the City's most recent tree inventory of 23,348 trees, equates to spending roughly $51.74 per tree Table 1-2 shows a comparison of what other California cities of both similar and larger size spend on the management of their public trees which ranges from $26 per tree in Napa to over change to say over $84 per in Rancho Cordova. There are many unique factors for each city in managing their urban forests which makes it challenging to directly compare one city's per -tree budget to another city, so a more useful metric comes from looking at what services Pleasanton is accomplishing with the funding it spends on its public trees. This is discussed further in Section 1.2.3 Annual Service Data. The increasing amount spent over the last four years by Pleasanton, a difference of over $687,200 when comparing the spending in FY 23/24 compared to FY 20/21, is due in part to extensive damage to trees caused by the previous 88 1 CITY OF PLEASANTON URBAN FOREST MASTER PLAN winter's large storms, and also due in part to the rising costs of tree establishment, and maintenance work combined with the City's desire to maintain the same level of tree services each year. While the current urban forestry program spending is adequate to maintain the City's existing public trees in a healthy and safe condition, it is isn't enough to also grow the City's urban forest and meet the new canopy cover goal which is discussed further in the next section. Table 1-1. Total Urban Forest Activity Expenditure by Fiscal Year FY 23/24 $1,604,187 FY 22/23 $1,514,107 FY 21/22 $1,200,273 FY 20/21 $916,987 FY 19/20 $1,o89,017 FY 18/19 $922,925