In today's newscast:
Free trees will take root in Salinas
The Salinas city council has allocated $100,000 towards the Adopt-A-Tree program.
Councilmember Andrew Sandoval said the money came from the City’s infrastructure reserve and will help plant up to 190 trees.
” We're only at about 11.5 percent canopy coverage," he said, "so this new $100,000 is definitely going to go to plant more trees in underserved areas."
The city’s Adopt-A-Tree program had previous applicants but never planted any trees. "People had applied, but there was no funding tied to it," he said.
An advocacy group called the Salinas Tree People formed months ago and began talks with the city.
“Tree enthusiasts got together and created this group to help push the city to plant more trees," said Sandoval.
They plan to get more residents to apply for the program. As of this week there are about 70 applications.
