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A Resolution establishing a Grant program to be known as the Lex Grow Trees Grant Program and providing for its purpose and objectives; approving and adopting guidelines for the Lex Grow Trees Grant Program; and providing for the authority of the Tree Canopy Ad Hoc Committee over the Lex Grow Trees Grant Program, at a total cost not to exceed $1,000,000. [Council Office, Hall]
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WHEREAS, the Tree Canopy Ad Hoc Committee was allocated $1,500,000.00 to increase Lexington-Fayette County's tree canopy;
WHEREAS, the Tree Canopy Ad Hoc Committee has recommended to use approximately $1,000,000.00 of the $1,500,000.00 for the creation of a tree canopy grant program to improve Lexington's tree canopy by providing grants to eligible property owners and organizations for eligible activities, such as tree planting, tree maintenance, tree education, and the development of tree advocates and stewards;
WHEREAS, a locality's tree canopy plays an important role in improving air and water quality, creating energy savings, and aiding wildlife habitat and conservation in urban areas (See Coder 1996; Lovasi et al. 2008; Ulrich 1984; Seitz 2008; Smith 1999; Dolan 2015); and
WHEREAS, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government finds that such a grant program would provide a benefit to the public through improvements to air and water quality, energy savings, and habitat and conservation in the urban county.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE LEXINGTON-FAYETTE URBAN COUNTY GOVERNMENT:
Section 1 - In an effort to aid in the proliferation of Lexington's tree canopy, there is hereby established a grant program, to be otherwise known as the "Lex Grow Trees Grant Program" (hereinafter referred to as "the Program"), to provide local funding to certain eligible property owners and organizations as reimbursement or prepayment for eligible activities, such as tree planting, tree maintenance, tree education, and the development of tree advocates and ste...
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