Tuesday’s resolution comes after McNamara said the general manager of the California Insurance Pool Authority wrote the city in November to recommend it permanently eliminate the parkway tree policy. “We’re actually coming in and replacing that tree manual with something that’s much more robust and much more in setting with the 21st century,” he said. “The Parkway Tree Manual was very good. “The current tree manual clearly states that when a tree is dangerous and diseased it’s your responsibility to take it out,” she said. If the city had simply followed its own ordinance procedures and tree manual, there would be no settlement.”