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public sidewalks of Vignes Street and Cesar Chavez Avenue at Gateway Plaza, Downtown Los Angeles, CA

Plant the empty tree pits along Link Union Station early works beside Metro headquarters, One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles.

Two workers lower a young street tree into a cleared pit near the Union Station and Metro headquarters build and firm the soil by hand. They finish with a water ring, a stake and a photo of the tree upright. Read all of it

Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $85 proposed.

Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
  • Proofplanting permit, 811 ticket cited + each tree photographed with species, GPS + mulch ring, first watering recorded per tree + the establishment watering plan named
  • Open until2026-11-28
  • Levelintermediate
All of it: the words, the place, the proof

Plant the empty tree pits along the Union Station and Metro headquarters build with the city's planting permit. Every block around a build has pits with no tree in them, and a build is the one time the block is already torn up. With an honored 811 locate, use the species on the city's approved list for Vignes Street between Cesar Chavez Avenue and the US-101 overpass, and Cesar Chavez Avenue at the Gateway Plaza edge, to ANSI A300 Part 6: the root flare at grade, the hole wide not deep, the stakes only if the tree cannot stand, a mulch ring kept off the trunk, and a first deep watering. Leave an establishment watering plan with whoever will keep it. For the payer: - Price: $85 per job, counted in trees planted. - Likely payer: City Plants and StreetsLA Urban Forestry, for street tree work. - Public money rule: if a public agency pays for this job, California treats it as public works (Labor Code 1720). On public works over $1,000 every worker is paid at least the state prevailing wage for the craft (Labor Code 1771) and the contractor keeps certified payroll (Labor Code 1776); on a project over $25,000 the contractor must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (Labor Code 1725.5). The crew works under the payer's contractor of record. - No license is needed while the whole job, labor and materials together, stays under $1,000 (Business and Professions Code section 7048); at $1,000 or more, a CSLB C-27 Landscaping license for planting, and D-49 Tree Service for any pruning or removal.

Offer to pay $85. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.

What it looks like
Two workers lower a young street tree into a cleared pit near the Union Station and Metro headquarters build and firm the soil by hand. They finish with a water ring, a stake and a photo of the tree upright.

A description of this kind of work, not a record that it happened here.

Where
public sidewalks of Vignes Street and Cesar Chavez Avenue at Gateway Plaza, Downtown Los Angeles, CA. Open the map
Pay
$85 proposed

This job is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price, not money held for the worker. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash: recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof
planting permit, 811 ticket cited + each tree photographed with species, GPS + mulch ring, first watering recorded per tree + the establishment watering plan named

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level
intermediate
Open until
2026-11-28
Posted by
0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

Safety, read before you claim

Stay outside the build's fence; work the public side. Start after the crew's safety orientation; the employer provides drinking water, shade and cool-down rests, and N95 masks when wildfire smoke puts the AQI at 151 or more. Never plant without the city's permit and an honored 811 locate, or in a sight triangle at a driveway; no license is needed beyond the permit; wear safety-toe boots and leather gloves.

The full safety list for this job:

  • Gear, Title 8 sections 3385 and 3384: safety-toe boots for root balls and stakes of 50 pounds or more that can drop; leather gloves for rough bark, stakes and ties.
  • Wildfire smoke, section 5141.1: at a PM2.5 AQI of 151 or more the employer provides N95 respirators for voluntary use and moves the work indoors or cuts exposure where feasible; above AQI 500 respirators are required under a respiratory protection program.
  • Heat, section 3395: drinking water, shade and cool-down rests; shade is ready at 80 F and the high-heat steps start at 95 F.
  • Orientation, section 3203: the crew's injury and illness prevention program orientation comes before any work.
How this work is done

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Bring

  • GPS-capable phone
  • camera
  • round-point shovel + digging fork
  • hand pruners
  • mulch (wood chips) + measuring stick
  • watering can or hose
  • gloves + closed-toe boots

Steps

  1. 1. Confirm the planting spot is inside the posting radius and clear of marked utilities (811 locate honored); record the GPS waypoint.
  2. 2. Photograph the bare site and the nursery stock (label/species visible) before planting.
  3. 3. Dig the hole 2-3x the root-ball width and no deeper than the root ball, so the root flare will sit at or just above grade.
  4. 4. Remove the container or cut away burlap/wire, gently loosen circling roots, and set the tree with the root flare visible at grade.
  5. 5. Backfill with the native soil in layers, firming out air pockets; do not bury the root flare or amend heavily.
  6. 6. Build a shallow watering basin, water in slowly until the backfill is saturated, and apply 2-3 inches of mulch kept 3 inches off the trunk.
  7. 7. Stake only if the tree cannot stand on its own; use two loose ties that allow trunk movement, and note a removal date within one year.
  8. 8. Record species, GPS, before/after photos, root-flare-at-grade confirmation, mulch depth, and water applied into the proof record; sign.

What counts as done

  • The request that sends you: the MyLA311 service request number, or the Urban Forestry, City Plants or park work order or approval number, written down before the first photo.
  • The city's street tree planting permit reference and the 811 locate ticket number and date
  • Each tree photographed at planting with the root flare visible at grade, its species from the approved list, and its GPS point
  • The mulch ring and the first watering recorded per tree
  • The establishment watering plan and who holds it
  • Sign-off: the StreetsLA Urban Forestry or City Plants contact, or the park's gardener, signs off the finished work in writing. Write who signed and the date, or the date you asked.
  • Photos: take the before photo and the after photo from the same point (stand where the first one was taken and match its frame), each with its GPS point and its date and time.
  • Count: trees planted, written next to the photos.

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Tree Planting and Establishment. Planting a tree properly is a codified craft, and the arborists' standards are blunt about why: most young trees that die were killed at planting, by a hole dug too deep, a root ball left bound, a first summer without water. Mastery looks like trees you planted years ago still standing, which is the only measure arborists accept. The craft lives in exactly the steps this packet asks for: the wide shallow hole, the freed roots, the mulch kept off the trunk, the watering that follows. Plant one tree correctly and you know something real.

What is promised, and what is not

Three separate acts, never one: a vote is a free signed preference that moves no money; a pledge is free signed backing intent, balance-checked, that moves no money and never marks the packet funded; funding is a real payment, made by the payer straight to the worker, with no Vealth fee. Paying Vealth is closed: Vealth takes no new card or wallet payment for a job. To fund a job, offer to pay the worker directly, then pay them yourself when you accept the proof, from your own wallet or by your own card or bank. From a wallet: prepare_token_offer, sign, submit_token_offer; after the proof is accepted you pay the worker on chain and the worker records it (prepare_token_settlement, or POST /labor/settle for USDC on Base). By card or bank: prepare_direct_offer, sign, submit_direct_offer; you pay the worker yourself and the worker records it with prepare_direct_settlement. Both are free, need no gas, and move no money through Vealth.

Open, but not claimable yet. restricted: permit-required. Regulated or permit-required work cannot be claimed on this rail yet. It stays readable; voting and pledging are free, and funding is separate from claiming.

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