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Non-Professional Services Agreement between August 1, 2023 City of San Leandro and AERI Tree Services — Exhibit A Page 1 of 35 EXHIBIT A SCOPE OF SERVICES PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The City of San Leandro is requesting a bid for the trimming of Yarwood Sycamore Trees located on major boulevards, adjacent side streets, and residential zones as outlined below and as directed by the Street Services Supervisor. Quantity, location, and work requested is identified in Table 1. SCOPE OF WORK: Furnish all labor, tools, equipment, materials, transportation, and perform all operations necessary and incidental for the proper execution and completion of all tree trimming in accordance with the specifications. A D-49 Tree Service Contractor’s License is required for this work. No bid will be accepted from a contractor who has not been licensed in accordance with Chapter 9, Division 3 of the California Business and Professions Code. CLEANUP: All branches, brush, leaves and debris are to be removed from the site and properly disposed of by the Contractor each day as part of the bid price. The intent is that all areas are to be left in as clean as condition or better than before the Contractor’s operations. Cleanup is to be done continuously as each tree is finished. No brush is to be left at any of the tree sites. CORRECTION OF HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS: If, in the determination of the Street Services Supervisor, any work done or omitted by the Contractor or any act of vandalism or theft has created a condition hazardous to the public, the Street Services Supervisor will notify the Contractor’s office by telephone. The Contractor shall commence correction of such condition by placement of barricades or otherwise directed by the City within one (1) hour of receipt of such notice at his office and shall complete correction thereof on the same calendar day, regardless of the size of the working force required or the number of hours of work required. If the contractor cannot be reached by telephone or fails to respond to the hazardous condition within the specified one (1) hour limit, the City shall have the authority to cause said hazardous condition to be corrected and deduct the cost thereof from any amounts due or to become due to the Contractor. Such costs shall include any minimum or base costs for labor, materials or equipment as required by contracts, agreements, or supplier but in no case shall such cost be less than $250 per hazardous condition per location. STANDARDS: All tree trimming is to be done in accordance with the American National Standard for Tree Care Operations - Tree, Shrub, and Other Woody Plant Management - Standard Practices (Pruning) (2017); Third Edition, Best Management Practices – Tree Pruning (2019), and in compliance with ANSI Z133 (2017 Safety Standards). Specifically, the quality of work shall be consistent with the National Arborist Association definition of Fine Pruning (Class 1). Contractor and all employees performing pruning are required to have a thorough knowledge of these standards and is to have copies of these standards on all sites where work is being performed. In addition, in order to minimize damage to the trees, no pruning is allowed with circular saws and no climbing with spikes is allowed. Trees are to be raised from the sidewalk and street, thinned, shaped, trimmed back from buildings, wires, streetlights and signs cleared as much as possible, long/heavy limbs lightened, and as is consistent with the growth stage of the tree, have all basal and inside sucker growth removed as is consistent with the above standards. On large mature trees, no scaffold limbs or major limbs shall be removed, as is consistent with ISA pruning standards, unless authorized by City