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KEY FINDINGS Additional Funding is Required for the City to Achieve its Urban Forest Goals Over the past six years funding has increased for urban forestry -related work from $920,000 in fiscal year (FY) 2018/19, to $1.6 million in fiscal year 2023/24. The increase in urban forestry spending is partially due to extensive damage to trees caused by large winter storms in the more recent years, and also due 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. A further increase in funding will be needed to achieve annual service targets established in the UFMP. The annual service targets are based on achieving a 25% canopy cover goal for each residential neighborhood within Pleasanton, starting with ensuring tree removals do not outpace tree replacement and filling all vacant City -owned planting sites. The increase in tree planting efforts increases the number of trees for the City to manage, raising the level of service needed for watering new trees, pruning, removals, and risk assessment. It is estimated that the City's current budget of approximately $1.6 million would sufficiently cover costs to meet the urban forest service targets in the first year, but by year ten the City would need up to $560,000 in funding to fully cover costs due to the increased number of new trees in the City managed inventory. By the end of this Plan, in 2050, the budget difference is estimated to be $1.17 million for that year if the city doesn't implement alternative maintenance strategies (see section 1.4.5 for more information). 18 1 CITY OF PLEASANTON URBAN FOREST MASTER PLAN