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13. Ensure that the City's annual reforestation budget and contracting authority are appropriate to meet the future year's tree goals. (TTF Recommendation 911) 14. Ensure that staffing levels are maintained in the Forestry Division and that the Division is empowered to contract out certain tree care tasks such as dead tree removal. (TTF Recommendation 912) 15. Maintain and grow the tree tag program which has already identified over 70 trees in our City parks. (TTF Recommendation#15) 15. Maintain a policy of consistently watering newly-planted public trees during the first two years of life to aid the survival rate of those trees, thereby making efficient use of public dollars. (TTF Recommendation #17) now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. This Council and Mayor of the City of Lakewood hereby indicate support and endorsement of the principles for tree care and the urban forestry management goals recommended by the 2013-14 Lakewood Tree Task Force and amended by the City's Forestry Division as set forth in the preamble of this resolution. Each of the recitals listed in the preamble to this resolution shall be the policy of the City, and the principles and goals therein shall guide City budgeting, decision making, and procedures for urban forestry until such time as they might be updated or repealed by this Council. Section 2. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to this Resolution were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal actions were in meetings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements, including Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code. Section 3. The Clerk of Council is hereby authorized and directed to forward a certified copy of this resolution to the Mayor and a copy of this Resolution shall be spread upon the minutes of this meeting.