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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, March 19, 2018 Page 5 Council President Saponaro stated; we did not have any opportuniTy to see that. Unless it is something that was public, we did not see it. - Ms. Tweed stated, oh, okay, I am sorry. This was shared with us today on the trees that they intend to take out. Those trees are 100 years old. There is nothing wrong, with the trees. They were not dying. They are all gone except for two. Those trees were not in the area where they were going to do the construction on the stream I was told, and I called Rachel, I called the Project Manager, I came down to the City Hall, I talked to a number of people; I was told that the trees they took out were removed because you needed a staging area. Not even a permanent area. It's a staging area. So, we removed trees that were 100 years old for a staging area and that was really disappointing. I went out with some of my neighbors so we could take pictures to show you the real destruction that took place. At some point, Dr. Parker had asked about the walkway being through there so everyone could observe the beauty back there. Go look at it Dr. Parlcer, there is no beauty. They have cut down basically every tree in that area. That's really really disheartening. They would not work with us on what could be saved and what had to go. That's very disappointing. . Nancv Lanese 6612 SOM Court The Service Director was kind enough to come out to my house today and that's when I received the picture that Gina passed out that showed all the x's on the trees. He was under, the impression that that had been shared with us. The first time that me and any of my neighbors saw it was today. Council President Saponaro asked, was this picture at Plannirig and Zoning? You did see it and you may not have recognized it, but if you go back to those Minutes, there was a discussion. We talked about the riparian setback. We talked about this being the area. Ivan Valentic was talking about the trees that have to come down and these are the trees going in there. He talked about all of the types of trees and there were trees and shrubs and things that are going to go into that area. That was shared.. It is part of the public record. It should be attached to the Minutes. Ms. Lanese stated, we have a copy of the Minutes here and do not see that attachment. Council President Saponaro stated, it should be. Any time we show anything it should generally be part of the Minutes as an attachment. That is something that was at that meeting. But again, we certainly hear what you are saying. I don't think anyone anticipated, hey, we are going to go in and. clear=cut and I don't think from their perspective that was their intention to go and clear- cut. I have not talked with them. I don't know if anyone from Administration has talked with them and can comment. We at least need to have a conversation. Mr. Cappello stated, I think the confusion everyone keeps talking about with the stream relocation which is down on the bottom, but in order to do that, there's embankment and earthwork that needs to be done which, ends up going up the slope which fills in that big sheer cliff that's out there: In order to do that work, you have to clear the area and clear some of these