KLANG Royal City Council (MBDK) has various processes in place when it comes to carrying out tree maintenance work.
Its Corporate Communications Department director Norfiza Mahfiz said these included annual tree maintenance panel contracts, annual recreational park maintenance contracts, and through MBDK’s in-house Landscape and Recreation Department.
“Generally, the department gives priority to maintenance of risky trees that have termite rot, dead wood, leaning branches, broken branches, root problems and ones that damage public utilities.”
Norfiza: Tree maintenance work is carried out with input from various channels.
For Bandar Parklands, she said they had completed the quotation meeting for tree maintenance contract, adding there was an annual appointment for a contractor.
“Previously, the legal contract approved to extend the tree maintenance work was for only two months, and this is where we faced some problems,” she said when contacted by StarMetro.
She said the department had implemented the procurement of amenity trees totalling RM3mil this year, and MBDK had appointed six amenity tree maintenance panels.
(Amenity trees are planted in cities and urban areas for aesthetic purposes and to provide buffer zones.)
“The appointment of these panels covers the entire MBDK administrative area of 500sq km.
“Tree maintenance work has been carried out via input received through our resource channels such as iResponze Complaints, feedback from MBDK councillors, complaints from residents who visited the department counter and reports from field staff.
“All of this work is carried out on a scheduled and systematic basis according to the scope of work of the National Landscape Department’s amenity tree management system.
“The department also has its own in-house team if additional needs are required for emergencies such as fallen trees that exceed the capabilities of the amenity tree maintenance panel,” she said.
MBDK, however, has not responded to all the other concerns raised by south Klang residents, including the drainage cleaning, maintenance, and other infrastructure issues that are contributing to the flooding in their areas.
