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CITY ENTERS INTO $118,000 CONTRACT TO INVENTORY TREES

(Richmond, IN)--The Richmond Parks Board has entered into a contract with a private group to have every public tree in the city inventoried and entered into a database.  Here’s a park department employee talking more about what the contract provides:  "...a comprehensive GIS-enabled inventory of every public tree on city-maintained property including right-of-way trees, municipal facilities, and maintained areas of our parks system."  The program is initially expected to include more than 12,000 trees.  The contract is for a little more than $118,000 and will be in effect for three years.