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City of Quincy miscaring for new city trees during drought
– News about Quincy Massachusetts from Quincy Quarry News
Pruning instead of watering — what the Q?
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The City of Quincy is koching up on things as regards taking care of roughly 1,500 trees planted by the city in recent years. These trees were mostly along local streets before the ongoing drought hit the fan..
Not only are city officials calling for help from localss to water what are city trees because the City of Quincy Department of Natural Resources did not have a plan in place to water trees planted by the city in recent years to ostensibly combat climate change even though droughts are common occurrences as well as that this summer’s drought was well-forecast last spring.
Then again, the City of Quincy has a long and sorry record of koching-up on the care of newly planted and often expensive trees – other than along the impeccably if not well past merely obsessively maintained – along the $35 million Kim Jong Koch Plaza.
Plus, one would think that Mayor Koch, a one-time long-time Park & Recreation commissioner before he was elected as the mayor of Quincy in 2007, would have some sense of how to care for plants other than those that can be seen from his office suite in City Hall; however, apparently not.
Pruned branches left lying where they fell
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Even worse, on top of not having a tree watering plan in place to protect the vulnerable young trees, a roving Quincy Quarry News reporter happened up how at least trees planted recently along Washington Street were recently pruned.
Particularly gobsmacking, not only where the limbs trimmed cut too close to the trunk per well-known best practices, the pruned branches were left where they fell.
Granted, while Quincy Quarry has yet to discern if city employees where involved in the curious pruning work done as well as not done, tasking workers to pruning young trees at a time when watering them is far more pressing a need, if not also an imperative.
Say what?
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Put another way, it would appear that the Koch Maladministration has set a new low for koching-up.
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The city’s complete incompetence has no end. I wonder how many recently planted 1,500 trees will survive the summer?
Meanwhile, the firefighters play Xbox in their air-conditioned hoser clubhouses. How about a bit of fire prevention?
So, with skyrocketing taxes and already high water/sewer bills, the Lord Mayor wants us to essentially pay even more. He wants us to increase our own water bills by pissing away water on the municipal plantings that the city should have planned and provided for — drought or no drought.
When will the city be offering to water my lawn and trees, because, well, you know . . .
They pay Parks Department employees overtime on Saturdays to water flower planters but cannot use the same equipment and employees to water trees? Pure incompetence!