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CITY OF PLEASANTON URBAN FOREST MASTER PLAN | 31 STATUS OF THE URBAN FOREST 1.4.4.2 Budget The City’s urban forest funding has been increasing over the past six years to meet rising costs and the growing needs of maintaining a healthy urban forest. The six-year averages per maintenance activity is broken down by line item in Table 1-7. The most recent fiscal year 2023–2024 spending on the City’s Urban Forest program was $1,604,187, which covered all projected urban forest maintenance and emergency work from storm events. The six-year running average does not meet the projected funding requirements if the City is to meet its future canopy cover goal of achieving 25% cover in all residential neighborhoods. Achieving this goal will require the City to fill over 1100 vacant tree sites over the next 25 years and invest more staff time and resources into tree establishment care, public outreach and education, and grant writing. See section 1.4.5 for a more detailed breakdown on the projected future budget needed to meet Pleasanton urban forestry goals. The sources of the program budget are presented in Table 1-8. Most of Pleasanton’s funding comes from the General Fund, with the remaining funding coming from the Urban Forestry Fund. The Urban Forestry Fund is funded through contributions from development projects within the City. The Urban Forestry Fund in Table 1-8 is an average of the last three years. The General Fund amount in Table 1-8 was determined by taking the six- year average total on urban forest expenditures presented in Table 1-7, rounded to the nearest thousand dollar, and subtracting the three-year average Urban Forestry Fund total. Table 1-9 represents a comparison of the Pleasanton urban forest program budget using the most recent fiscal year (2023-2024) with other municipalities of a similar population and those located in Northern California.