HUNTLEY – Starting next year, residents will have an added incentive to replace ash trees infected by the emerald ash borer beetle.

The Village Board directed staff to develop a reimbursement option in the 2013 budget to go along with the current 50/50 tree replacement program under which village workers replace dying ash trees on public parkways at a cost of $150 to the resident.

The new option that trustees decided on would allow residents to pick another variety of tree and do the replacement work themselves. The village would reimburse 50 percent of the cost, up to $200 per tree.