[Anna Callahan]: conversations with the Department of Public Works. We've gone back and forth also with Therese Medford and to that end there at the last minute there in the last couple of weeks there were a couple of tiny changes requested by Therese Medford then by the administration and by Therese Medford and so I will be asking for one small amendment but I'm excited for this relatively simple ordinance that I think will go a long way toward us having long-term goals and maintenance of our beautiful tree canopy here in Medford. If you'd like, I would be happy to go ahead and state my amendment, which I believe I did also send to the City Clerk. If that would be helpful at this point, I could do that. That would be great. Great. So currently there is a little bit of text in what people received today, or received in the packet a few days ago, that says, and this was a request, it was removed, and it was re-added, and so we've gone back and forth, and it says, if a tree is removed from the sidewalk strip, the tree committee and residents within a block of the site must be informed of the intent to remove the tree and the plan for stump removal and replacement. and then heard back from our DPW commissioner that the word block is not a great word to use because sometimes our blocks are super short and sometimes they're super long so he was preferring a little bit of different
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