Thursday, December 20, 2012
A negotiation process that stemmed from a bidder's objection will result in cost savings as the village removes trees infested with the emerald ash borer.
Buffalo Grove will pay $342,842 next year for the removal of infested ash trees, officials decided this week. The cost is lower than the village was prepared to spend earlier this month. Officials were prepared to award the contract to another company when a Clean Cut Tree Service representative objected, stating that the company could complete the work for a more competitive price. Buffalo Grove then invited Clean Cut and the other company, Central Forestree, to negotiate with the village, which would award the contract to the lower of the two offers. Central Forestree, which the village originally declared the winning bidder, was outbid by Clean Cut by just under $3,000. Buffalo Grove will continue its ash tree removal program in 2014 …
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
A vote to issue a contract for ash tree removal was delayed Monday night due to confusion over prices.
Buffalo Grove will invite a bidding war between two tree businesses competing for a contract to remove infested ash trees in the village. Buffalo Grove officials were prepared to vote on a 2013 contract with Hoffman Estates-based Central Forestree Monday night when another bidder objected, stating that his company actually provided the lowest price. Based on prices submitted for removing trees of various diameters, the village determined that Central Forestree would charge $361,406.25 for next year’s work, while the second-lowest bidder, Lake Villa-based Clean Cut Tree Service, would cost $389,129.17. Following a conversation with Clean Cut Tree Service’s Michael Kelly, village officials determined that the company’s prices were lower …
Thursday, September 20, 2012
The village plans to remove thousands of ash trees in the coming years and replace them with a variety of other trees.
The Village of Buffalo Grove will continue to replace ash trees with other species in the months and years ahead. Bids are being solicited for the removal of 6,183 ash trees between 2013 and 2015. It is suspected that all ash trees in the village are infested with the emerald ash borer, officials were told earlier this year. “We’re starting to see in the north part of the village the trees are showing signs of distress,” Village Manager Dane Bragg told trustees Sept. 10. Trustees agreed last week to purchase 700 trees, which will be planted this fall and next spring. The new trees will replace ash trees that were removed due to ash borer infestation. “There’s a whole litany of trees. None of those will be ash trees,” said Village …
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Village launches public information campaign, outlines next steps.
The prognosis is bleak for Buffalo Grove’s ash trees, village officials learned Monday. Village crews have inspected about 1,000 ash trees thus far, Deputy Public Works Director Richard Kuhl said. All were infested with the emerald ash borer, an insect whose larvae feed beneath the tree bark. The emerald ash borer infestation was confirmed in Illinois in 2006, and was found at the east end of Buffalo Grove in 2009. At that time, there were about 7,000 ash trees on parkways and other public areas in the village. Today, the village has about 5,900 trees that could be treated, but it's likely too late to save them, Kuhl said. “We’re probably 100 percent infested,” he said. Not included in that count are 450 to 500 ash trees on the village’s …
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Chicagoland news to talk about: Distracted bicyclists will get tickets in Chicago.
Long-range forecasters are expecting this winter's snowfall and average temperatures to rank the city as home to the nation's worst winter. According to AccuWeather.com's forecast, the Chicago area will likely be clobbered by between 50 and 58 inches of snow this winter -- approximately the same amount as the 56 inches that fell over the city last year. The culprit is La Nina, said Ed Fenelon, meteorologist for the National Weather Service's Chicago office. “In a La Niña pattern, there are mild periods followed by cold outbreaks, and snowy weather. There is a higher than normal risk of severe weather, like the tornadoes we had in November last year,” Fenelon said. The city of Elmhurst has not escaped the emerald ash borer infestation …
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Chicagoland news to talk about: Seven cases of salmonella, linked to ground turkey, have been reported in Illinois.
The body of a Bolingbrook canoeist, missing since Tuesday, was recovered in a Lemont retention pond this morning, reports the Lemont Patch. Jeremy Asbell, 25, was reported missing after he and a friend were tossed from a canoe that capsized on the pond. In Yorkville, Kendall County Animal Control Warden Christine Johnson euthanized the wrong dog and has resigned due to public criticism. The bull mastiff that did bite three people was put down on Monday. Lake County Forest Preserve officials plan to release an experimental group of wasps in the Sedge Meadow Forest Preserve in Gurnee to fight the emerald ash borer, which has been responsible for destroying ash trees in the area. The wasps lay their eggs inside the larvae or eggs of …
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