[CANUFNET] Tree Maintenance of City trees

Thu Oct 19 12:16:36 EDT 2017

Good Morning Paul,

The City of Winnipeg currently has a program in place that allows for residents to have work completed on City owned trees and the answers to your subsequent questions are as follows:

a)         Do you provide an approved 'roster list' so to speak of who they can use to have the work completed?

              Yes.
b)      What checks and balances do you have in place to ensure that the work is done by one of the approved vendors?
                Formal paperwork must be filled out by both the homeowner and Contractor and submitted to the Urban Forestry Branch, detailing the work to be done and who will perform the service.
c)       Does the homeowner pay for this service directly and 'out of pocket' or does your program reimburse them partially or fully for the completed service?
                                The homeowner pays for the service and there is no reimbursement.

The following link provides further details in respect to the process:  http://winnipeg.ca/publicworks/parksOpenSpace/UrbanForestry/Homeowner_Tree_Maintenance_Guidelines.stm

I hope this helps.....

Cheers,

[City of Winnipeg]<http://www.winnipeg.ca/>

Christopher Lepa
Acting City Forester
Parks and Open Space, Public Works
City of Winnipeg

Phone: 204-986-2006
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From: CANUFNET [mailto:canufnet-bounces at list.web.net] On Behalf Of Adrina Bardekjian via CANUFNET
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2017 8:30 AM
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Subject: [CANUFNET] Tree Maintenance of City trees
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Sent on behalf of Paul Giroux <pgiroux at citywindsor.ca<mailto:pgiroux at citywindsor.ca>>

Dear CANUFNET members,

During a recent Council meeting, one of our councillors asked whether our City would entertain allowing homeowners to engage and hire the private tree care sector for tree maintenance of City trees as an option to expedite the tree maintenance process. In other words, if the homeowner didn't want to wait for the City to provide the maintenance of the city tree (which could take between 6 months to a year or more to complete), they could have the option to call a tree care contractor directly and theoretically, have the work done much sooner.

So my question(s) to the group is, does your City, Municipality or Region allow for this, and if so;

a)      Do you provide a approved 'roster list' so to speak of who they can use to have the work completed?

b)      What checks and balances do you have in place to ensure that the work is done by one of the approved vendors?

c)       Does the homeowner pay for this service directly and 'out of pocket' or does your program reimburse them partially or fully for the completed service?

Look forward to hearing from many of you. Thank you.

Paul Giroux, RPF
City Forester/Manager of Forestry and Natural Areas
Parks Department
2450 McDougall Street, Windsor, ON  N8X 3N6
Office: 519.253.2300. ext. 2760.
Email: pgiroux at citywindsor.ca<mailto:pgiroux at citywindsor.ca>

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