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(4) What was the total cost of the maintenance.
(5) How many dead, hazardous or trees identified as in irreversible decline have been removed on each day between 1 April 2012 to date.
(6) How many contractors were involved in the removal of the trees identified in part (5);
(7) What was the total cost of the removal of trees identified in part (5).
(8) How many of the trees identified in part (5) have (a) been replaced or (b) will be replaced.
Ms Gallagher: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) Generally, trees that are assessed as hazardous are removed or made safe and not pruned. Records indicate that approximately 185 hazardous trees have been removed to date in 2011-12 financial year from streets and parkland areas.
Attachment A details the suburbs where trees have been removed to 10 May 2012.
(2) Trees that are assessed as hazardous are either removed or made safe within 48 hours of notification.
(3) TAMS does not use contractors to maintain or prune trees. Hazardous trees are generally removed by TAMS tree maintenance teams. Contractors are utilised for tree planting, removal of non hazardous trees and watering activities.
(4) Maintenance of hazardous trees is undertaken ‘in house’ by the Urban Treescapes Unit within its allocated budget. The total tree management budget for 2011-12 budget is $6,377,528 million.
(5) 770 trees were removed in the period 1 April to 10 May 2012. Of these 161 were removed by TAMS teams and 609 trees were programmed and removed under contract.
(6) One contractor has been engaged by TAMS to remove non hazardous trees on the 2011-12 tree removal program.
(7) The cost of removing the 161 trees removed between 1 April and 10 May 2012 by teams from TAMS was $22,487.
An accurate cost of the work under contract for the removal of trees identified in part (5) is not available as the work undertaken by the contractor is a part of a larger project involving the removal of 952 trees.
(8) The trees that were removed between 1 April and 10 May 2012 were part of an ongoing works program for the 2011-12 financial year that involves removal of approximately 1,500 trees and replacement of approximately 1,800 trees.
Tree removal and tree planting do not align because of the timing of seasonal planting programs and issues associated with the supply of tree types required for specific locations.
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