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Urban Forestry
Landscaping
• Planted 119 trees and pruned 680 trees in city parks and along city streets. • Removed 225 hazardous trees from city parks and streets. • Treated city-owned ash trees for the seventh consecutive year for protection against the emerald ash borer. • Urban Forester Erin Hatch and Urban Forestry staff Kevin Prince and Haskell Smith attended the Indiana Arborist
Association’s annual meeting in Indianapolis. • Urban Forester Erin Hatch earned Certified Arborist designation through the International Society of Arboriculture. • Planted a total of seven memorial trees in Bryan Park, Lower Cascades Park, RCA Community Park, The Waldron,
Hill and Buskirk Park, and Twin Lakes Sports Park. • Bloomington was named a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation for the 35th consecutive year. • Annual Arbor Day tree planting ceremony was cancelled due to COVID-19.
• Contracted with Eco Logic to manage invasive plants and install native plantings at Miller-Showers Park. • Utilized tractor-mounted mulching equipment to remove 29.25 acres of woody invasive plants at Olcott Park, the
Renwick Trail, Clear Creek Trail, B-Line Trail, and the Skate Park at Upper Cascades. • Planted 290 native trees and shrubs at Olcott Park, 264 at Park Ridge East Park, 467 at Schmalz Farm Park, and 111 at Southeast Park. • Assumed landscape maintenance responsibilities for 114,000 square feet of native landscaping at Switchyard Park. • Expanded native pollinator garden at Park Ridge East Park by adding 300 native plants • Renovated landscape medians at Twin Lakes Sports Park by adding trees, shrubs and perennials. • Installed more than 7,755 native plants, sowed 15 acres with native seed, planted 5,125 native bare-root tree saplings, and 1,404 containerized native trees and shrubs at various city parks and city-managed landscape areas. • Composted 500 cubic yards of organic yard waste
Rose Hill Cemetery
Lot Sales (cremation ground lots) 5 Mausoleum niche sales 1 Interments 14 Inurnments 11 Disinterments 0 Plot Surveys 1
White Oak Cemetery
Lot Sales Interments Inurnments Disinterments 20 16 0 0
Program Revenue
General Fund-Cemeteries $47,750 General Fund-Landscaping/UF $0 Non-Reverting $8,650
Total 2020 Revenue $56,400
Program Expenses
General Fund
$1,074,067 Non-Reverting $940
