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By SCOTT CARLSON But Greavu,who dissented,ex-
Staff Writer pressed strong opposition to
A projected $11,000 increase Blank's recommendation before
in Maplewood's diseased tree re- the Council voted. I think the
moval contract has City Mayor man(contractor)should find his
John Greavu own sites,"Greavu said."I don't
know why we should provide
them.
City taxpay- „ See Trees,Page 8 (E)
ers,he recently ay--.-- —_
asserted,
shouldn't picks
up the extra 9
tab for E $
Bluemel's Tree
and Landscape
Service to haul
diseased trees
toamoredis-
tant disposal Greavu
site in Anoka County.The con-
tractor was hauling trees to a
Ramsey County site in Vadnais
Heights until recently.
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ACTING CITY Manager Eric
Blank said that Bluemel,the
city's contractor,has incurred
increased costs hauling the trees
to the Anoka County site.
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The Council approved Blank's
recommendation to allow an in-
crease in the contract.
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posal site in Vadnais Heights. own site',"Bittner told Greavu.
"If this thing continues,to hell THE VADNAIS HEIGHTS
the shade trees,"Greavu
withith the and site was open until Aug. 15, But he added: "A
Ramsey added.Cded "If the stateus keep Blank noted.But he added that it going broke isn't what we want
cutting down treesw then theyp was recently shut down due to working for the city.I think we
vide the sites or else I don't hink public opposition.
I'll vote for any damn tree cut- expect a reasonable amount of
work for a reasonable amount of
ting next year." "The tree dump situation in dollars from our contractors and
Blank and Bittner,cityRamsey County has deteriorated inturn wetoexpect." to work with
public Bill said over the past three weeks to the our contractors."
public tworksid director,1632 was point where literally no dump
based onel s bid
of$16 that Ram-
eased
exists,"Blank said. m later County
dties with
say County would provide a dis- Ramsey County cities with dis-
"If we want to get technical eased tree programs are experi-
we could say`contractor,fulfill encing increased contract prices
_EBNA BoMbeck 1 your obligation and provideyour
because of the Vadnais Heights
J p site shut down.