I appreciate the clarification, Randall. One other quick clarification. It sounds like the add'l $2.6 million only gets us to the point of diseased tree removal within 20 days. Missing components are education, early detection and treatment (including simply pruning). Arguably, getting DED under control will take more.
Jason Stone Diamond Lake --- Randall G Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Stone writes: > > > When Commissioner Erwin recently highlighted the amount of money > > reallocated to deal with Dutch > > Elm Disease, I noted the absence of the dollar figure that was needed to > > adequately deal with the > > crisis. $2.6 million/year appears to be the answer. > > After reading the Skyway news article Jason > posts(http://www.skywaynews.net/articles/2005/01/26/news/news11.txt), it > appears that the total amount needed to deal with the crisis is $11.2 > million (the $2.6 million is in addition to the existing $8.6 million > forestry budget.) REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
