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Page 73 1 up to your forester, you know, Walt Kipp is -- 2 whatever decision he makes, it's scrutinized. And he 3 could be blamed, you know, because not everybody in 4 West Orange is going to agree with his decisions and 5 there's always going to be someone who disapproves of 6 the granting of that ordinance for whatever reason. 7 And it's -- it's usually somebody, you 8 know, somebody from the other side of town that is 9 going to object about a tree that is removed on, you 10 know, over in South Orange end of town, you know. 11 You know, they drove past and they see a solid stump 12 and they say, oh, that was a healthy tree. 13 Well, not -- not all dead trees are 14 hollow in the -- you know, so basically, you know, 15 having expertise and having support of other people 16 -- in fact, and the way this ordinance is structured, 17 a lot of the heavy lifting is done for Walt Kipp by 18 requiring a licensed tree expert to certify the 19 tree's dead. The tree's not dead but it has this 20 defect. 21 You know, I mean, it's -- it's -- it's 22 a lot. It's a lot of hoops to jump through. But -- 23 but it's for the good. 24 And, you know, I mean I -- 25 CHAIRMAN NEUER: Mr. Linson, I think