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88 | CITY OF PLEASANTON URBAN FOREST MASTER PLAN URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES 1.2 City Resources 1.2.1 Budget Knowing where you are starting from is the first step in being able to plan for the future. This section highlights where and how much of the City’s budget (on average) is spent on the maintenance and management of Pleasanton’s urban forest. Table 1-1 shows the total expenditures on tree care. Pleasanton’s most recent annual urban forest program spending in fiscal year (FY) 2023-2024 was roughly $1.6 million, which when divided by the City’s most recent inventory of 23,722 trees, equates to spending roughly $68 per tree per year. Table 1-2 shows a comparison of what other California cities of both similar and larger size spend on the management of their public trees which ranges from $26 per tree in Napa to over $80 per tree in San Francisco. There are many unique factors for each city in managing their urban forests which makes it challenging to directly compare one city’s per-tree budget to another city, so a more useful metric comes from looking at what services Pleasanton is accomplishing with the funding it spends on its public trees. This is discussed further in Section 1.2.3 Annual Service Data. The increasing amount spent over the last four years by Pleasanton, a difference of over $687,200 when comparing the spending in FY 23/24 compared to FY 20/21, shows a dedication from the City to keep pace with the rising costs of tree establishment and maintenance work, in order to provide the same level of tree services to its residents. Table 1-1. Total Urban Forest Activity Expenditure by Fiscal Year Fiscal Year Total Spent FY 23/24 $1,604,187 FY 22/23 $1,514,107 FY 21/22 $1,200,273 FY 20/21 $916,987 FY 19/20 $1,089,017 FY 18/19 $922,925 Six Year Average $1,207,916