There is hereby established in and for the City a Gift-A-Tree Program which shall be administered by the Director of Finance.
(a) The Director of Finance shall establish a separate designated fund, maintained in accordance with applicable City finance procedures, to receive cash donations to the Gift-A-Tree Program.
(b) Donations shall be recorded by the name of the donor, the date and the donation amount. All such donations shall be used solely for the purchase and placement of trees in the City. Donations may also include trees in lieu of money.
(c) All trees shall be purchased by the Director of Public Works in accordance with appropriate ordinances of the City. Siting, planting and maintenance of trees will be the responsibility of and at the sole discretion of the Director of Public Works. The Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to adopt rules and regulations as are necessary to implement this Program.
(d) Donations will be acknowledged by a personal letter to the individual honored, a representative of the individual memorialized, and the donor notified as appropriate. The Director of Finance shall cause a Gift-A-Tree Program record book to be created, acknowledging donations, honorariums and memorials. Entered in the Gift-A-Tree Program record book will be individual donations of trees or moneys which meet or exceed the currently established cost of the acquisition of a single tree. Donations will be accepted throughout the year and will be encouraged throughout the year to facilitate planning.
(e) The initial minimum donation for inclusion in the Gift-A-Tree Program record book shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per tree or the donation of a tree acceptable to the Director of Public Works. Such amount may be amended from time to time by resolution of Council so that the Gift-A-Tree Program contribution is maintained at a level equivalent to the current cost of the acquisition and placement of individual trees. Donations of lesser amounts than the cost of a single tree, as currently established or as may be established by resolution of Council, may be accepted by the Director of Finance, but will not be individually recorded in the Gift-A-Tree Program record book. Such donations may be from time to time, at the discretion of the Director of Finance, added to the record book in groups representative of purchases of trees and their placement without regard to specific locations or designations. (Ord. 37-90. Passed 4-16-1990. )