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26. Duty to Accept Gifts Selected text was: "Make recommendations to the mayor and council on using donations to the city for programs sponsored by the EPTF." 27. Duty to Develop a Management Plan The Environmental Specialist, with the assistance of the Environmental Policy Task Force, shall develop, and each subsequent year, update the Urban Forestry Plan. The plan shall outline urban forestry program activities for a minimum of the next five years. This plan shall describe the urban forestry activities to be undertaken by the city, the reasons for those activities, the possible funding source(s), the means of accomplishing the activities, the alternatives available to the city to fund or accomplish the activity, the projected date of completion, and the consequences if the activity is not completed. Activities may include but are not limited to street tree inventory, planting, tree removal, beautification projects, and educational projects. It shall be the responsibility of the Environmental Policy Task Force to study, investigate, counsel and develop and/or update periodically a written plan for the care, preservation, trimming, planting, replanting, removal or disposition of public trees and shrubs. The Environmental Policy Task Force shall insure that the plan will be in conformance with the goals and objectives of the City of Ramsey Comprehensive Plan by submittal to the Planning Commission for review and approval. Upon approval and adoption of the recommended plan by the City Commission, it shall constitute the official Community Forestry Plan and become a part of the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Ramsey. 28. Duty to Develop and Maintain a Tree List Selected text was: "To recommend to the proper authority, the type and kind of trees to be planted upon such municipal streets or parts of municipal streets or in parks as is designated. This includes, but is not limited to, advice as to the kinds and species of trees unsuitable or undesirable for planting, such as noxious trees, and advising as to the areas and conditions under which suitable and desirable trees should be planted. Only desirable, long-lived trees of good appearance, beauty, adaptability, and generally free from injurious insects or disease shall be planted in public sites." 29. Consensus was to delete "Duty to Develop and Maintain a Master Tree Planting Plan" from the ordinance draft. 30. Duty to Amend Management Plan Selected text was: "The Environmental Specialist shall have the responsibility of regularly updating a master systematized tree management and planting program." 31. Duty to Supervise Selected text was: "The Environmental Specialist shall have the authority and it shall be his or her duty to supervise all work done in accordance with the terms o£this ordinance."