Downtown Development Authority members reject Riverwalk Augusta tree-pruning request | The Augusta Chronicle

A request to spend $183,000 to prune trees along Riverwalk Augusta got a thumbs-down Thursday from a Downtown Development Authority committee.

Overgrown trees lined Riverwalk Augusta in late July. Two members of a Downtown Development Authority committee recommended rejecting a city department plan to spend $183,000 for Riverwalk tree pruning.

The authority’s Design Committee met to discuss the request from the city Parks, Recreation and Facilities department to allocate $183,000 in special purpose local option sales tax revenue.

Authority Chairman Cameron Nixon and Vice Chairman Scylance Scott Jr., the only members of the seven-person authority in attendance, both recommended rejecting the proposal, but the final say will come when the full panel casts its vote at an upcoming meeting.

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