Farbo plans to replace ash trees wiped out by pests in 2023

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Direct deposit $1,000 a month and fund an investing account for a25% [music] increase. Cash account offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC member FINRA SIPC, not a bank. fees and eligibility requirements may [music] apply to certain checking features of the cash account. Yeah, we're time for a Minnesota. Boy, does time fly. It seems like well, it seems like just a few hours ago that Brad Feno was in studio, communications director for the city of Farabo, and he's back again. Good to see you again, Gordy. Happy to be here. So, hopefully I I didn't make things too painful yesterday. Not at all. I'm here. And you brought with you? I brought with me Adam King who is a environmental specialist with the city um and and heading up uh one of his many projects as uh the the voluntary tree removal program that's continuing here in the second year. Uh and he was also um a champion for um getting us a a grant through the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for a program called the Relief Program uh which is a a tree removal program and and replacement really um for trees here in the city uh specifically for um residents that that meet the income qualifying threshold. Well, Adam, welcome to AM Minnesota. Yeah, thank you. Appreciate it very much. I was chatting a little bit before going on the air. You have a soil and water conservation district background. Yeah, I worked for the Dodge soil and water conservation district for about 10 years. Enjoyed that? Yeah. No, it was a lot of fun. I was the manager down there and and I was commuting for I live in Northfield. Okay. So, commuting all the way down to Dodge Center got got long after a while and Fairbow's a lot closer. Yeah. How does this position differ from the one you were in? Yeah, I was the manager down there before and this one I'm the the environmental coordinator and so I'm I'm getting out into the field a lot more and and working with a lot of the contractors a lot more before I was managing a lot of staff and and some of the programs. So you were kind of a desk job before. Yeah. Yep. That's kind of is what the manager job ends up being after a while and and yeah, this gets me out into the field a lot more working with the contractors and and Yeah. And I can tell by the smile on your face, you enjoy that more. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. Yeah. Well, the ash trees are still dying all over the place. There are some just a couple blocks from here over by the Cathedral of our Merciful Savior. And I mean, they're dropping like flies, right? Yeah. I've That was one of the things that I noticed when I came into town. I've been in the position for about a year now. And yeah, last summer I noticed a lot of ash trees and I knew that the DNR had some funding for it. So, so when that funding, those grant applications became available and opened up, then I applied for them and and yeah, really wanted to to start trying to address that issue a little bit more. Now, Brad, I'm sure you're very well aware working with the city, grant writing is not easy. It's not. No. In fact, a lot of a lot of There's art to it. there is an art to it. Um, you know, when I was running the concerts in the park series, that was a grant that we were doing every year for that. Um, there's a lot of government entities that that specifically have, you know, grant a grant writer position. Um, because there definitely is an art to it. Um, and so, you know, Adam was was really able to to successfully, you know, take this take this grant and and put it into action and and we're excited to see that. you know, a little bit of little bit of background on on the um emerald ashbor and the community. Obviously, it's been wreaking havoc across the state and country. Um for years, uh it was 2021 when it was first detected here locally in the city of Farbo. Um really had been surrounded for for a while and likely was here before then, but that was the first time that we were actually physically able to detect it. Um, since then the city has really taken, you know, as as much of a proactive approach as you can of of taking down these ash trees on city- owned property and our parks and our various facilities. Um, and and has been replacing them when we can. Um, but it was it was last year when the city really kind of got together with the department leadership and said, "How can we approach this with with not so much of a heavy hand, if you will?" Right? the the city does have a true uh tree nuisance ordinance that um deems diseased or dying trees a nuisance on private property and city property. Um but we also understand as a city entity as and as humans um we understand that there's a a large cost to remove these trees and so the city said how can we try and get ahead of this before these become even more of a problem and that's where we launched that voluntary tree removal program last year which was which was highly successful. um we've seen some communities do it as well. Um and so we were fortunate to have a little bit of a framework to follow there. But last year we had it was right around 200 trees removed. Um and it was a it was about 180 property owners that submitted an application and and were able to get their trees removed last year. So it was a a great program. Um and and really what I've been saying is it's backed by popular demand. Um, so we're continuing that program in addition to launching this income uh specific uh specifically qualifying program which is funded with the grant that that Adam applied for. So I don't know if you have in front of you or maybe you have in front of you, Brad, what are the income guidelines? Yeah. So the the income guidelines, it's going to be based on on household size and the income that the household makes. And so when we applied for the grant, we said it was going to be, and this is the first time I had dealt with it, um, income qualifications. And so we used the 80% of the area mean income, which I guess is a common common way of uh use or using um income qualifications. So So yeah, it depends on the household size and the the household income. So for one person, you know, if one person is out there on social security or something, it's going to be, you know, if you make less than $60,350, then you would qualify for the program. For two people, it's it bumps it up to $68,950. For three people, like if it's a right, a child and and two young young people, 77,550. Um, and then a a household of four, it bumps it up to $86,150. And and it's not they don't get this free, right? It's assessed on their property taxes and they have to pay it over a year. Two two different programs. The voluntary tree removal program that we launched last year, that's the 5-year assessment program where the city will pay the upfront cost and then it's assessed to the individual property owners for 5 years. the relief program, which is through the grant that Adam applied, that is a free program. Okay. Yep. And so if you if you fall into those income qualifications, you're going to get your tree removed, the stump removed, and you're going to get another tree to plant. You get your choice of trees. And so we do have some the DNR wants to see, right? They don't want this to happen again, right? There's a whole lot of dead ash trees in the town. Well, you can say that again. Yeah. And so so they don't want to see a whole lot of maples and and you know that to happen again like if something should happen to another species they don't want you know predominantly one species right and so so yeah there's species that we can't plant which would be the the maples we can't plant the spruces obviously we can't pl plant ash and we can't plant um arborvites like the the white white cedars. Um so we do have a list of trees that we can replace those with. Um it would be, you know, a lot of the birches, uh blue beach, we have crab apples, the American elm. So that one is I think also the Princeton elm. It's Dutch elm resistant. Why would you want a crab apple tree? They're pretty. They are very pretty in the spring at least. Pain in the you know what. And I know there's a whole lot of robins in mine that that come in in every spring. In my yard growing up, we had every tree imaginable on my parents property. I'm not exaggerating. We had apple trees, we had grabb apple trees, we had walnut trees, we had pine trees, you name it, the species was on our property. I think the tree diversification is important, right? I mean, you look at the city of Farbo and and you know, some numbers have been thrown around that about a third of our tree canopy is is ash trees. And obviously you're going to you're going to recognize that when when a disease comes through such as emerald ashbor. Um so I think what Adam's getting at there with the the DNR grant and the trees that you can select from is that's really what the DNR is pushing for is that diversification. I thought about planting a peach tree, but I don't know. You think we can grow peaches in Minnesota? I've heard I've heard there's, you know, some variants now that that do well in Minnesota, but yeah. So possibly [laughter] Well, it takes a while, you know, for apples to take hold. Yep. The apples we had when I was a kid were good. Not good eating apples, but they were great baking apples. Yeah, absolutely. I'm a I'm a fan of apple pie myself, so anytime. That's right. Apple pie, apple crisp. Yep. Apple cobbler. That's right. Mom made it all. and all the income restrictions or the income qualifying guidelines rather uh that Adam mentioned uh along with the list and trees um applications all that is found right on the city website. So if you go right to ferbow uh.gov uh on the homepage there you scroll down you'll see a picture of a diseased ash tree with the evidence of a emerald ashbor larae on there. Um you will be able to click on that and that's going to take you right to the to the page that's got all the information you need. So, um, we're also going to be doing some some direct mailing and a little bit of canvasing, if you will. Uh, the city's working with Riverbend Nature Center on the grant um to to get out into the community. We know that um not everyone's aware of emerald ashbor uh and and even if they are aware of it, they may not be aware that they have trees that are diseased that are going to become a problem over time. Well, you can certainly tell when your tree is dead, right? Yeah, a lot of times. And so, yeah, some people have some questions and I know, yeah, like Brad said, we're partnering with Riverbend Nature Center and we're gonna they're going to be the ones doing a lot of the heavy lifting on it. They're going to be reaching out to to those people that fill out the forms on the website and and some of the forms that you do fill out will be sent directly over to Riverbend and they'll be following up with everyone. Does this include Riverbend? They must have some ash trees. They do have some ash trees. Uh but nope. We're looking for for more of the trees on the residential property. Oh, okay. You said there were approximately 200 that's citywide or was it in one particular quadrant of the city? No, it was last year was right around 200. And the way it was bid out um and and again for a little bit more background, the the non-incomequalifying program, so the voluntary program where it will be assessed on the property t or the property owner's taxes, the deadline to apply for that is July 15th. And that's intentional. I I understand it's a a little bit of a quick turnaround. Um but it's intentional and it's because we want to get that work done. Um so once we get all of those applications in, um the city will then bid that bid that project out like we did last year where which was in four different quadrants. And we did that to make it more manageable for tree removal services. Right? If we were to put out a bid that's you know 200 trees total, that's a pretty tall task. So, we bid it out in four different quadrants um so that it was more manageable for some of these tree removal services to get in on the project. So, did the one service get all four quadrants? Ultimately, they did last year. Yeah. Um we were like I said, we were intentional in and breaking it so it was more manageable for for tree tree trimming services of all sizes. Um but ultimately, yes, it did go to one one company last year. you see this happening, Adam, in other tree species as far as having them having a program like this or Yeah. And so I mean this program is for the dead and the dying trees, right? And so so if you have a tree that you think is ugly in your yard, it's not going to qualify for that. Um but yeah, so unless it's an asht tree, I mean, if you have something other than an ash tree dying, it doesn't qualify. No, it does. So, if there's a if you have a dead pine tree in your yard, right, that would that there's a lot of those, too. Yep. And so, so, yep, that would qualify. Um, but if you have a tree that you just think is ugly and you don't want in your yard anymore, um, that one's not probably not going to qualify. No, it's got to be dying or dead. Yes. All right. We're going to get an opening market report here, a service of your KDHL Agra boosters, and then we're going to come back and visit more about trees. What a woody subject when a Minnesota continues. After a nice run up yesterday [music] on the Linder Farm Network joining us, Jim Murf [music] and Awning Company, Alexandria. Well, Jim, corn and soybean futures lower at this hour. What are you following? Hey, Linda. In front of a long weekend, I think you just look around at weather. We've got a good precipitation forecast ahead. Generally normal to below normal temperatures and that just takes a little bit of risk off the market coming into this. Obviously, we're not that far away from the June 30th acres and stocks report either. And uh so again, some hedging in in front of that on this small modest rally. U but let's make no mistake the expectations and a lot of times when we get into these environments, they turn into buy the rumor, sell the facts. And right now what's highlighted is, you know, the anticipation that China bought some beans, possibly other uh grain commodities. And there's no question they did, Linda. In the private sales report this morning, we did get 132,000 metric ton of soybeans sold to China. Uh also 120,000 metric tons of soybeans to Unknown. That's on top of the unknown uh purchase that was confirmed yesterday. We also got private sales of 285.775,000 metric tons of corn to Mexico. So all these were great but maybe markets just expecting more. So when you couple that with good weather I think uh the riskoff approach is coming in front of this long weekend. Now export sales were good today in corn 1.157 uh million metric tons. That puts corn at 98.7% of uh USDA's percent of average. Typically this time of year we're about 93.4. So there's no question we're running ahead of corn. Even in the bean market we're about on pace 96.4% 4% of uh USDA's pace versus 97.2 is where we're typically at. So right on track here and and the net sales and beans this morning were 424.9. So little risk off in front of the long weekend, Linda. We'll see if it sticks and we'll see where we go next week. Obviously the Iran front coupled with the weather and coupled with demand are the big features here working into next week. And a little low and lower on the cattle and leanhogs a little lower too. What's going on there? Well, and I think when we look at these markets, Linda, there's kind of a riskoff tied to the uh Fed decision yesterday. Obviously, a no rate change, but kind of a hawkish tone, concerned about inflation. Uh the dot plot basically indicated that over half or near half of the uh uh chairs are expecting a rate increase the time ahead. So, I just think in general commodities are taking the brunt of the sell pressure here today. And and it stems in the meat markets here as well. We've had a nice rally up, but we're not doing any chart damage yet. But the cattle market maybe just taking a pause in front of this long weekend as well. Jim Mer fan awning company Alexandria. July corn 417 down four. December 44 and a/4 down 4 and 1/2. July soybeans 1124 and 3/4 down 7 and 1/4. November 1143 and 1/2 down 5 and 3/4. July soybean meal down 380. July soybean oil down 206. September Minneapolis wheat up 3 and a quarter. June live cattle down 72. August down 110. 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And the city has done boulevard tree programs in the past where we've worked with property owners to get them in. Obviously, it uh it's a it's a neat aspect to to some towns, right? Providing snow off the sidewalks kind of thing. You know, I I certainly think that's an aspect to it as well, but I I also think it's an appearance, right? You look down Seventh Street or you look up Second and it's it's kind of neat to see those trees on there. It adds a little bit of a a nice appearance there. And and you're right, a lot of communities don't. Um, but I think it's become a little bit of a staple here in Farbo of being able to see that and and provide some shade to the community. Um, which obviously has its benefits as well. Um, so the city has done, like I said, boulevard tree programs in the past through the parks and recreation department. Not aware of one currently ongoing. Um, but this, now correct me if I'm wrong, gentlemen, but the boulevard is actually city property. Correct. That would be within the rightway. That's not my property. No, but I mow it. I take care of it, but it's not mine. Correct. It is your responsibility to to provide the maintenance. Correct. So then, do I get a free tree on the boulevard? When the boulevard program was going on, this was a handful of years ago when I was still officed in the parks and wreck office. Yes, it was a free a free program to to replace them. Um, like I said, not aware of a program of that going on, but if that's something that the the community is interested, obviously always always reach out. We're we're here to um to take ideas and and to hear from the residents and and we're always open to to things like that if that's what the community desires. Yeah. Adam, didn't you say you grew up in the Lacrosse area? Yeah, I did. Did they allow trees on the boulevards? So, I didn't grow up in the city. I grew up just outside of the city. And so, yeah, they did. And yeah, there's boulevard trees in Lacrosse as well. Do they are they beneficial or Yeah. I mean sometimes you can see you know right when it starts raining there's not going to be any it's going to be dry underneath the tree right so there is a lot of storm water benefits associated with those trees and and some of the volume reduction and so not all the water will just go rushing straight down into the storm sewer right away. And obviously you're not going to plant the tree where you got to get to any piping or anything that's going into the house, right? Yeah. Generally, I mean, those service lines are going to be, you know, easily identifiable by our staff that um, you know, now know where to look with within the utilities division, and those are avoided at all costs. And, you know, that's with this tree program that we're talking about here today, both the income qualifying and the uh the voluntary tree removal. Um, with every application that comes in, we send out a staff member that's a a certified tree expert, [music] if you will. I think there's a formal certification, uh, title with that. Um, but, uh, we go out and and and measure the tree, uh, mark the tree, u pay attention to the surroundings to see if there's any obstacles or things like that that are going to add to the cost of that tree removal. um just so that when we can, you know, get the the folks connected with a contractor or put the project out to bid that um you know, they're aware of of everything that's involved with the tree removal for that specific tree. So, um like I said, when you when you fill out the application, that's really the starting point from there is when city staff go out and and do an inspection, uh take a look at it. Um and then um you know assuming people want to maintain and and continue on with the program is when generally they're going to get back in touch with folks at public works uh and sign what's what's called a consent and waiver form which gives the city permission to assess that cost back onto their property taxes. Again on Minnesota today the voice you just heard was Adam Bradfen. He is the communications director for the city of Farbo. Adam Ring is the environmental and water resources coordinator. So what other things do you do in your capacity? And so mine is so I do a whole lot with the the MS4 program which is the municipal separate storm sewer system. And so yeah, we have a separate storm sewer system separate from the sanitary, right? And so a lot of times people don't realize that that storm water that goes into the storm sewer goes straight into the river. it goes into the Straight River or or the Canon River without being treated. And so I go and I I do that program, the the pollution control agency. So when I mow my boulevard, Yes. I shouldn't have the mower shooting the grass into the street. No, you shouldn't. Because it'll end up in the sewer. Yep. And then it'll end up in the the lakes or the rivers and the streams and yeah, there's a lot of nutrients in those grass clippings, right? Because you you fertilize and those grass clippings have a lot of nutrients in them. So sends the nutrients out into the stream and into the lakes and that can cause some algae blooms, right? Because algae needs nutrients as well and that's where they're getting it from. I'm going to start shooting the opposite way. Absolutely. Or if you're quick, once you do shoot it in the road, go out there with a leaf blower and blow it right back into the grass. Get it out of that storm gutter. Yeah. Oh, that's good. That's a good thing to know. I'm sure a lot of people are doing what I did. Yeah. It's something Adam's always working on, you know, educating homeowners and, you know, he's a he's a a regular, you know, contributor to various media publications trying to ed educate folks. And, um, being here today, it's it's an opportunity for us to continue that education for folks because it's it's not common knowledge as much as we want to think it is or hope it is. Um and and you know, we're the city's taking a proactive approach and and and really trying to say, listen, this is this is ways you can you can pitch in to make an impact. One thing I've noticed that's making kind of a comeback are rain barrels. Yeah. Yep. And so instead of just sending that that water, you know, into the street and then down into the the sewer there, a lot of people are saving it, right? So then you don't have to to turn on your hose and and buy the city's water. you can kind of save up your own. Mother Nature's water is better than no offense to the city, but it's better than the city's water. In terms of nutrients, in terms of drinking, I think I would disagree, but for sure. Right. No, I'm not talking about the drinking. Yeah. No, absolutely. Uh storm gutters are are great are great. They uh they're a great way to to reuse mother's, you know, mother nature's gift to us and uh a great way to um to again pitch in and and make your impact. Many hands make light work, right? It's a good way to water your garden. It is. Absolutely. And it'll be much more beneficial than the hose water. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Is what I'm guessing. I I don't know that for a fact. Yep. Yeah. All the the water that comes into all the houses and everything goes through the water treatment plant, you know, making sure there's no bacteria or anything in it, but your garden doesn't need all those. In fact, it probably would thrive without all that. Yep. I'm guessing. Yeah. Yeah. So, I've just got a couple minutes left in the show. Anything else you want to get the word out on today, Brad? Um, you know, we're every second Wednesday of every month, uh, we are continuing with our community engagement program called Council Chats. It's a great It's a great opportunity for members of the community to Has this been a council chat? Uh, this program has not. No, it has not. Um, this last month we were at Buckham West, the senior center. And I think you're at the airport next month. We are. Yep. Last month, we brought in our public adviserss from Ellers, which is our um uh kind of economic development advisors that help us with our tax increment financing and tax abatement, and they provided a really good overview of of what those economic tools are um and and how we use them and uh really crowd. Yeah, we did. We had close to with the presenters that we were just over 50 people. So, we had a really good crowd. We were very impressed with that. Um, and we recorded it. So, that video will be going up on the city's YouTube. It's on FCTV's YouTube right now. Um, but a really great program. And you're you're correct. This next month, uh, we will be at, um, the Farbo Municipal Airport, which is which was a year ago, too. I went to that one. Yep. Absolutely. It's a it's a really neat aspect of of the city that not many people are aware of. Right. Um it's um it's a it's a an area of the community that perhaps isn't the most visible in terms of it's kind of on the out the outskirts of city limits, if you will. So unless people are traveling that way, they aren't necessarily aware of it. Um but it's a it's a it's a busy place. Um and it's also getting some construction um infrastructure work done on the East Lane taxi way. The number of businesses that it's hosting is for a city our size a lot. Absolutely. Yeah. There's five businesses out there. So, it's a it's a great opportunity for folks to come out and learn a little bit more about that um that facility. Um what it means to the community, how it's funded, and um you know, it's a it's a great opportunity for for people to learn. Every every month these council chats every month we're we're doing a new topic uh at a different facility and we're always looking for more topics. So, if there's folks in the community that want to learn uh specifically more about something the city does or why it does it, we're all ears and and and we'll get it on the schedule. So, feel free to reach out to me at the city and and we'll get that lined up. Yeah, maybe you ought to do a tree planting one. We will. It's going to be tough with the timelines uh just because that voluntary tree removal program, the deadline for that is July 15th. The deadline for the income qualifying one um is September 30th or uh until the grant funds are exhausted. So, um, if you're interested in getting trees removed, uh, head over to the city website and get those applications in sooner than later. All right, sounds good to me. I hope always painless for you there, Adam. Yeah. No, thanks for having us on. Yeah, no problem. Absolutely. I've got uh about a minute left in the show. Anything you want to get the word out on? No, I think Brad covered, you know, a lot of everything that we're doing right now. Um, yeah, like you said, for the income qualified program, it's first come, first serve and and we already got, you know, some of some people have already signed up, so we got 24 or so trees. Is it a simple form? Yeah, it's a pretty simple form and just kind of fill it out. If you give me a call or if you give Kate Ford over at Riverbend Nature Center a call, we can go through the form with you real quick and get that filled out and and get you on the list. All right, sounds good. Folks, take advantage of that. It's not every day of the week you get offered that. It's a great program and like I said, it's it's backed by popular demand. We saw the success of it last year and and are just building upon it with the income qualifying this year thanks to the grant from the DNR. Yeah, let's hope the disease does not hit my maple that I planted here with them last couple of years. That's the hope. That's the dream, the desire. Tomorrow we go to the Kenyon Sportsman's Club. They're celebrating their 50th anniversary this Saturday. I'll be on the road for AM Minnesota at the Kenyon Sportsman's Club tomorrow. Have a super rest of the day. Before I switched to Wealthfront, my APY was probably [music] 0.1. Like, it was a joke. I was literally getting pennies once I [music] switched. Ching. With the Wealthfront cash account, earn up to 4.2% APY on your cash. The high APY with Wealthfront [music] was a clear winner. There are no petty fees. Every month there's this much that I'm getting an interest in and [music] I didn't have to do anything. 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