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February 22. 2011 Financial Impact: . Case Management, restoration services and supervision: Mileage Travel Time Estimated billable services (Revenue) Estimated Expenditures Estimated Net/Excess Revenue $163,800 28,340 10,680 $202,820 $145,000 $ 57,820 No local match funding is required. Recommended Action: . Adoption of an ordinance. Vision Principle: Thriving Neighborhoods and a Sense of Community. Next Steps Following Council Action: . The Director will ensure that by implementing this program, restoration services will meet the guidelines of the programs, provide quality and needed services to the population we serve. Motion by Mr. Whitehurst, and seconded by Mr. Edmonds, to adopt the following ordinance, and was adopted by the following vote: "ORDINANCE TO APPROPRIATE IN THE FY 2010-11 BEHAVIORAL HEAL THCARE SERVICES FUND THE SUM OF $202,820 FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXPANDING THE PROVISION OF JUVENILE COMPETENCY RESTORATION SERVICES BY THE DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIORAL HEAL THCARE SERVICES." Ayes: Cherry, Edmonds, Heretick, Moody, Randall, Whitehurst, Wright Nays: None 11 - 83 - Adoption of a resolution authorizing participation by the City of Portsmouth in the Virginia Department of Forestry Urban Tree Canopy Program. Vision Principle: Thriving Neighborhoods and a Sense of Community. Background: . The Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF) under the Chesapeake Bay Program's Riparian Forest Buffer Directive No. 03-01 was directed to work with at least five local jurisdictions to complete an assessment of the urban forest. . The VDOF has invited the City of Portsmouth to participate in the Virginia Urban Tree Canopy Program to establish community urban forest goals and provide data from the tree canopy assessment. . The communities being targeted for inclusion in the program are those which are Tree City USA communities and which have GIS capabilities in house to use the information developed in the assessment. Discussion: . The City will be required to set a goal to increase the urban tree canopy by a minimum of 5% over the next 10 years and outline how the City plans to increase the canopy. . The City will benefit by being provided a layer for the GIS system that can be used to analyze the canopy coverage by the GIS data layers such as by parcel, zoning district, building layer, streets, etc. . The goal setting and implementation must be endorsed by the locally elected officials. . The landscaping and buffering requirements of the newly adopted Zoning Ordinance along with the long established Tree Canopy Ordinance will serve to allow the tree canopy in the City to be increased through the development process. . Participation in the program will also further the goals of the Comprehensive Plan related to landscaping.