In 2024, the City was awarded $669,073 in federal USDA Urban and Community Forestry funding as a pass-through partner of the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN). On April 4, 2025, the City was notified that the USDA had terminated its grant agreement with USDN, which paused the City’s grant and all related spending. In September 2025, USDN informed the City that a federal judge had issued an injunction blocking the USDA’s termination, allowing the City to resume eligible grant activities on a reimbursement basis rather than through advance payments. The proposed supplemental appropriation would increase the forestry budget within the 2026 Open Space Fund to support planned USDN grant activities in 2026.