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Common Council Meeting with Committee of the Whole Meeting June 17th, 2026

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Common Council Meeting with Committee of the Whole Meeting June 17th, 2026

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Unidentified speaker 19:05
Hold on, hold on. Joe, you guys are talking about two different things. If we go and abate the tree, there's a specific, whatever the costs, whatever the abatement costs that we put in, we ask for as far as a court procedure, and then it gets put on the taxes. Or if you're talking about just a code violation, whatever the figure is for a violation, if you're violating a code, So if the code says you can't ride the scooter on the street and it's a $250 fine if you do it and you're found, um, guilty of that, then that's what that is. So if that's what you're talking about with respect to the trees, those are two totally different—
20:49
I understand that. So what I'm saying is that what the city is responsible for is the city's already done and they did tree inventory on. I understand that you're talking about somebody's backyard and stuff like that. And I personally, and you know my feelings on this, like I don't see how the city can go in, they can't even go in somebody's backyard for a codes issue if they have chickens or anything anything like that. So the point to this, and I understand what Joe's saying, and it is a big problem, and I don't know how the City of Rome does it. I thought maybe because it's a bigger city and they might have more land and it's easier to see something on somebody else's property. But I think that the inventory that we have is based on the tree inventory that we did as a city. We hired somebody to do. Anything outside of that scope, I think, is just too much for the city to handle and outside of their scope of—