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I join in Council Member Whitehead's desire to protect water. Which is why I'm perplexed by why Council Member Whitehead fights the removal of Sissoo trees. There is literally nothing that grows in Scottsdale that wastes more water than a Sissoo tree. Because it consumes massive amounts of water and is the greatest cause of underground leakage in the County, our County put it on its "Do Not Plant" list. The CAP management spends millions each year to remove them from the banks of the canals that they bust up and cause to leak. The City of Buckeye Public Works Director calls the Sissoo the worst thing that ever happened to Buckeye and refuses to repair streets where homeowners won't remove them.

One would think that Council Member Whitehead would fight to stop them from ever being planted again and seek to replace them with a better choice.

But one would be wrong. Inexplicably - and in direct contrast to her stated position about conserving water - she has done the opposite. To the point of threatening homeowners who remove those trees with Code Enforcement Violations (of a Code section that does **NOT** exist).

From: Whitehead: Water! Protecting our most precious resource

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