Los Gatos is accepting purposes for its consulting city arborist, a contractual place that's renewed each 5 years.
The arborist is chargeable for reviewing how growth proposals impression city timber, Neighborhood Improvement Director Joel Paulson mentioned. The marketing consultant makes suggestions to city employees on preserving and sustaining city timber.
“Mainly, once we get growth purposes for brand new houses, property homeowners have a selection: They will put together an arborist report or have another person put together an arborist report. Our consultants will assessment that and supply suggestions or modifications,” Paulson mentioned. “Or they'll contract by means of the city immediately with our consulting arborists.”
The city at the moment has two consulting city arborists who're eligible to re-apply for the place.
“So each 5 years, we typically exit and take a look at these waters and see if there’s different alternatives that we will reap the benefits of in order that we will present these providers to the shoppers,” Paulson mentioned.
The city has a number of marketing consultant positions, together with a city architect whose contract will likely be renewed later this 12 months.
Los Gatos additionally has a full-time city arborist on employees who's chargeable for processing tree elimination permits on the town, separate from the event tasks overseen by the marketing consultant. Paulson mentioned the amount of purposes the city receives makes it needed to rent a marketing consultant.
Los Gatos City Council up to date the city’s finances earlier this 12 months to allocate $105,000 to create a city city forest supervisor place to interchange the city arborist place.
The city is accepting purposes for consulting arborists till April 1.