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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, March 19, 2018 Page 6 trees. When we decided not to do that trail, we were able to move that buffer in a little bit towards the creek but you had to still disturb a great amount of trees in that area, again, just to do the stabilization work. Even though the challenge may be 50 feet away, you still had to build this floodplain and embankment to stabilize what failed. The trees that also did not have to come out now was the area west of the cliff as you went back and were going to do the connector. That area is staying wooded obviously because there's no trail going in there. These guys from the Sewer District and their Engineer painstakingly tried to not disturb any area that did not need to be done. From a pure ecological point of view, whenever you have a stream area, as much shade as possible helps, so removing trees and destabilizing some areas is not in their best interest. They are not doing it just for fun or willy-nilly. If they had to remove them, they had to be done. Council President Saponaro asked, so the comment that Ms. Tweed heard regarding staging? Mr. Cappello replied, there could be some areas. I apologize. I didn't see exactly where all these trees got removed but there is some area that may be close to.the sidewalk. Is that where they are talking about staging? Ms. Tweed replied, from what Rachel and Matt explained to me, it is going to come off of SOM arid down in that area where they cleared out all of the trees that are close to the homes; that is where they are going to use for staging. Mr. Cappello stated, and again, to build and to do this work, you do need an area to stage your equipment and work from. I know they also had an extensive landscape plan which they had a large amount of trees and shrubs. They are going to make this area look the best they can. It is not going to look like it did before as far as natural trees and timber, but give it a few years and it is,going to come back. This work clearly had to be done to do the restoration. I don't want to have anyone thinking that they did this just willy-nilly. This was well thought out and had to be done. . Ms. Tweed stated, I have to say that Rachel and a couple of people are going to meet with us Friday at my home so we can talk about the planting that is going to go in there and the additional planting they have agreed to pay for. The concern is, you take. out 40-50 foot trees and you put a 5-foot tree in there. That is not sufficient to even support the area and to make . sure we have no further erosion. We need to make sure we put -the appropriate trees and landscaping in there to maintain that area. Council President Saponaro stated, thank you. I know that part of what they are doing at that embankment is to build it back up again. Rachel and her team should be able to explain exactly the mechanics behind that because certainly I can't. It.'s not in my area of expertise. They will certainly explain that to you. I would imagine you could make suggestions as a group because it's their project. It truly is not our project. It's theirs. It does need to be done. I think whatever you can provide for them I am sure they would appreciate. I am sure you would appreciate having a voice in the process.