Supports the nonresident flexible pricing at these specialty gardens and coit tower, as well as the japanese teagarden. Weve been consistent in voicing our support at the r. P. D. Commission as well as the Commission Meeting on may 16. We believe adult nonresidents, flexible pricing will allow for more manageable traffic flow within the sites and in the surrounding neighborhoods. It also encourages attendance at nonpeak times that will result in a richer experience for all people who attend because there will be less congestion. We support the fee increase at japanese teagarden, the japanese teagarden is one of our historic gems and residents and visitors alike walk away stating that constantly. We fiscally sponsor two of the specialty gardens, japanese and the conservatory of flowers. The japanese teagarden is dedicated to raising funds for this renovation. We also feel flexible pricing and the maintenance fee will have long range effects and benefit the people that visit them. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Next speaker. Good morning. Fellow citizens. My name is kathleen wells. Im a United States constitutional practitioner and a National Executive entrepreneur. My request is unique and unusual. I have requested a half a Million Dollar budget to fully implement all of the legal groundwork i have laid here in the United States of america. Specifically, im looking to collect and receive on a United States constitutional judgment demand and lien placed on the United States currency presses. Let me say that. I exercise my United States constitutional right that this moment to exercise freedom of speech and freedom of the press. First amendment, United States constitution. What i need to do and i dont have the time now is to talk to each one of you to educate you on how this city can move forward now and receive currency funds rather than cutting the budgets for all of your honorable agencies. Again, my name is kathleen wells and i am the National Executive entrepreneur. Thank you for your attention. Supervisor fewer next speaker, please. Good morning. President yee, honored supervisors fewer, stefani, mandelman. My name is jane chin. Resident of the outer ridge district number 1. I have to say that i am really, really blessed to be living in an area that is surrounded on three sides by parks. Ocean beach, lincoln park and golden gate park. I am also a member of the board of the San FranciscoBotanical Garden. Im here to speak in support of the flexible pricing program. Noting that the program will only impact nonSan Francisco adult admissions. Admission will remain free to San Francisco residents, members of the garden and school groups. And flexible pricing offers free admission to everyone at certain hours, which removes any hardship this might create. Important to note is that according to the American PublicGarden Association our current price at 9 for nonresident adults is below the 25th percentile for large Botanical Gardens across the country. So were due for an increase. Flexible pricing will not negatively impact visitation. Since august 2010, when we first began charging nonresidents, visitation has increased 129 . Flexible pricing will only help us better serve our visitors and community. It will help encourage visitation at less busy times and provide enough needed support for revenue, improvements and programs. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good morning. My name is ryan. Im the curator of the Botanical Garden. Im in support of the flexible pricing. The garden is an amazing resource. Were visited more and more each year. Were a respite in the city. And our high attendance on the weekend, more and more people come on the weekends, and i think this flexible pricing would be great, because it will encourage people to take advantage of this fantastic resource during the week. And help a lot of the pressures we face with extra visitation to our amazing garden. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good morning. Im dr. Joseph, im an mauritius professor from madison. I partially retired in 1996 when i began to volunteer at the Botanical Garden and i learned that children doseant and adult dosant did walks and became a director of the board of society. I continue to serve as a life member on that board. Over the last 24 years, the Botanical Garden has been a major activity that ive participated in to bring people closer to the world of the nature around us. Which i think needs more attention than is usually given. We live in district 7, in norman yees area. And i just want to thank supervisor yee for the close working relationship that we in that district have with him in looking at issues. After careful consideration, the board and the Leadership Team of the Botanical Garden society voted to wholeheartedly support the flexible pricing program. It would only impact [bell ringing] nonresident visitors. Since 2010, since we began to charging nonresident admissions, weve seen an increase in the number of nonresidents and residents, and most importantly thing, weve gained resources to improve garden from the point of view of irrigation systems, planting, pathways and so forth [bell ringing]. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, next speaker, please. This is just item 4 and 5, about flexible pricing on these park facilities. Okay. Ill withdraw. Supervisor fewer done, okay . Any other Public Comment on item 4 and 5 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Any questions . Nothing . Okay. Can i make a motion to move these amendments to the full board with a positive recommendation. President yee, seconded, take that without objection. Thank you very much. Oh, excuse me, someone were just going to clarify to the board of supervisors meeting on 716. Supervisor fewer thats right. So sorry. Madame clerk, did you get that. July 16. Just want to make clarification that item number 4 is amended, was amended and recommended to the full board on july 17 supervisor fewer 16. Sorry, and item number 5 was recommended. Supervisor fewer so id like to move item number 5 to the full board of july 16. Take that without objection . Seconded by supervisor mandelman. Thank you very much. Okay, madame clerk, what id like to do now is recess this budget and finance committee. Is mr. Wright here . Oh, mr. Wright, id like to open up Public Comment . Is this on one and two now . On items 1 and 2, and remember, if you speak now, mr. Wright, you cant speak later. Always want to speak after you speak when the trail is hot. Supervisor fewer okay, trail is hot, come on up. Another thing, i want to tell the listening public, if you would like to comment later when we recess back, i will open up Public Comment again for those people who would like to speak. Right now, mr. Wright would like to speak on items 1 and 2 while the trail is hot. Now, talk about you sleep at the wheel, you more asleep at the wheel, youre drunk driving, thats what youre doing. Being disappointed in yourself, you should be furious. You talk about your wasted money, that demonstration you did yesterday, where you agreed to another goddamned navigation center, when you have the audacity to what is the best way to house people without sending them through your system and putting them back on the goddamn streets and i show you how to build a 27 story Apartment Building complex to give permanent housing for the people that need housing. It didnt matter. Makes a fool out of his self after his demonstration. This is not a solution to the homeless problem. This is not a solution to the goddamn homeless problem, what the hell you doing it for then . If its not a solution to the homeless problem, why you doing it . Youre ignorant, and unproperty tax about the goddamn services and salary, you want to talk about salary. You see this guy here, city college. Everybody is going to school for free. If its a good goddamn program how come your 32 million in debt . He said he was 11 million in debt. All the other colleges in the bay area, their students not going for free. You got them coming out here and now you got to have them going to classes for free and by the same, where they live at, their junior colleges dont charge. Had this chance to work for free. You ask me that question, how we going to take care of the problem and keep them off the street. I show you how to house people [bell ringing] and you still dont take my advice. Supervisor fewer thank you for your Public Comment. Id like to continue do i close Public Comment . Any other Public Comment . Come on up. You have two minutes. Im housed at la nay and i think its ridiculous that you give me housing in a dual diagnosis building and im in district 6, and this doesnt even say district 6 downtown. They lump us in with tenderloin. So from the time that ive been there, ive cleaned up that block. Ive gotten those honduran drug dealers. Ive got a fence put up in front of the Old City College building. Bottom line im being identified as a nuisance. Theyre in the process of evicting me. And i would like to know how all these agencies that keep putting signs on my door saying they want to help me from being evicted. Im going all the way to the judge. Because when you give someone a notice to quit, you dont continue to collect rent from them. There is a lot of ridiculous stuff going on. Why do you have a. D. T. And i live in an s. R. O. , which i call it a charming studio and a charming building. And everybody in my building is turning into ice people, who dont even speak english and its atrocious. And i just i want to just take time some time off of this record to find out this young lady who you are, and then the other woman, because i really would like to talk to you all personally, to let you know exactly what is going on. Because its appalling. It really is. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any other Public Comments . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. We will recess this meeting until 2 00 this afternoon. And so ill see you back then. This is the budget and finance committee. We [gavel]. Supervisor fewer this is the budget and finance committee. We are reconvening, and i am going to recess until 4 00 today right back here in this room. [gavel]. Chair fewer thank you very much. [gavel]. Chair fewer so we are reconvening the budget and finance committee, and i would like to recess again. So sorry, apologies to everyone who spent their whole day here, but were just crunching some numbers. Were very, very close, so id like to reconvene until 5 30, and well see you back then. Thank you very much. Chair fewer and id like to recess this meeting again until 6 30. Thank you. [gavel] [gavel]. Chair fewer we are reconvening the meeting of the budget and finance committee. I would like to recess this meeting until 8 00. Thank you very much. [gavel] [gavel]. Chair fewer so we are reconvening the budget and finance committee, and we will recess until 9 00. Thanks. [gavel] [gavel]. Chair fewer okay. We are reconvening the budget and finance committee, and going to recess until 10 30. Thank you. Chair fewer good evening, everyone. We are now reconvening the budget and finance committee of june 26, 2019, and thank you all for staying here. It is approximately 11 30 at night, and we have a budget, so we are thrilled. First, id like to call on madam budget director, kelly kirkpatrick. Thank you, chair fewer, and everybody in the audience, members, and board staff. It is with great pleasure that i authorize and propose to appropriate 17 million to facilitate the boards priority spending as well as the appropriation of 52 million to help facilitate the appropriation of the education reserve for the excess eraf plan, so i ask that the members of the committee accept the amendment to accept those priorities being appropriated. Thank you. Chair fewer so i just want to say that this is thank you to the public and thank you to the advocates. You know, we started with an over 400 million add back list of asks. So it just demonstrates so much need in our city in addition to a 12 billion budget. It encompasses many things. Nonprofit organizations and nonprofit workers, street trees, rental assistance, support for seniors and people with disabilities, lgbtq communities, legal defense, and so much, much more. And because of our partnership with the mayors budget office, this process has been less painful than as it has been in the past and less adversarial. Id like to thank our partners, lisa, and of course we could not do this without the budget and legislative analysts. And id like to thank sophia and lisa for working so hard with us. And then id like to thank my colleagues who sat through 50 meetings, all about the budget. And then, i want to thank the clerk, linda wong for assisting us and guiding us through this process. I would not remiss if not did not mention lisa and chelsea. [applause] chair fewer thats right. So i just want to say that she had a vision for how this whole process should work, and this is the thor hammer for her. She has a young child at home, and missed many, many nights with her daughter, and worked many, many nights. I just want to thank her for sacrificing h sacrificing her time with her family and also her personal time for getting us where we are today. I think the budget should reflect the personal values of San Francisco. Because we have advocates here in the room, i think this budget does reflect San Francisco. I think you should all congratulate yourselves because this is a collective effort. So id like to make oh, president yee. President yee i dont often rise because its so hard for me to standup. I really want to thank everybody in this process, and its been ive been at this what is this . My seventh . My seventh budget season, and this is never easy, never. So dont i kid you not, because were putting a budget together before midnight. One of the things i want to say is i made a decision in january, and it probably was my best decision, which is to make sandy fewer the chair. [applaus [applause] president yee thats because i knew she had chelsea. So besides thanking the Controllers Office and ben and the budget staff or kelly and sophia, you know, its been kay te team been a team effort for all of us. People were advocating for the things that they really care about, and we could always say, you know something . This is what i want and be stubborn about it, and if i dont get it, im going to pout about it. But thats not what happened. People realize theres more needs than were ever going to have funding for, and this has been a great process. Weve been able to expand the budget to serve more people in need, and the fact that we got this done before midnight is a testament of how we Work Together. Not only was chelsea involved in this process, but many of our own staff, and i want to thank them for their efforts. Many of them are still here. Thank you very much. [applause] president yee so the only thing i really want to say is that thank goodness we got to a conclusion. And i also want to thank the mayor breed, you know, because its always a give and take in all this process, and it really was a give and take. Everybody wants certain things. We got certainly things partially, but not fully, and we weve shown and were going to show the city that were adults, and we can work on something that we can all agree with, and i think thats what weve come up, is a package that i think we can all agree with. Thank you very much to my colleagues on the budget committee, and im really happy ive been able to assign all of you to this committee. Thank you very much. Chair fewer supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani thank you, chair fewer. I want to start by thanking my colleagues on the committee, and thank you, president yee, for allowing me to serve on the budget and finance committee. Its been an absolute privilege and honor. I want to thank the mayor and the mayors budget director, kelly, and sophia, and our clerks office, linda a and alisa. And thank you, chair fewer. You are just so tough. You have set an example that we all matter to you, and i really thank you for including all of our opinions on and taking to heart what we thought. It really means a lot. And of course, chelsea, we know we cant do it without our aides. My office, andy, who just came on board, thank you so much. And sam and daniel, thank you so much. I love you guys. Thank you so much for being here. Im so grateful for you, and we are nothing without our aides. Lastly, i want to thank the advocates, too. When we sat through Public Comment. Its really heartbreaking to hear we cant fund everyone, we cant save everyone, we cant do everything we want to do. But what we take home with us is the heart thats in this room and how much all of you care about san franciscans and just really seeing this process is amazing. And lastly, malia taught me to look into the camera. And gianna sophia, my daughter, who turned ten today. Happy birthday. Im so proud of you. Chair fewer supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen you know, it was somewhat auspicious that we came to our budget on the first night of the democratic debate on t. V. , where we saw a return to intelligent policy making, to candidates who care about human beings, and who care about protecting those that need help in our country. And i think that it felt good to see that again at the federal level, and to watch it right here at the local level under the incredible leadership of supervisor chair fewer. Ive been through primarily as a legislative aide my second gosh, the time. But i think so now ive been through nine budget processes as an aide and a supervisor, and this one, by far, was the best one that ive been through in the past nine years. As supervisor stefani says, it was so fun to watch you at work, chair fewer. I learned a lot about the budget and really sort of negotiation skills from watching you work, and it was extraordinary. I know that you and chelsea chelsea, you are amazing. You taught me the budgets when i was first a legislative aide, and you were at coleman advocates for youth, and i said, teach it to me, and i took you to lunch, and you taught it to me, and it was incredible. It was a brilliant pick, president yee, but you two are a dynamic duo. But i just cant overstate, you work so hard, and youve been working working so hard for months on end. I just want to tell you from my constituents and the people of San Francisco, thank you for working so hard. And then to the mayors amazing staff, kelly. Youre a fantastic, fantastic, and thank you for being so straightforward and honest in your dealings with us. Sophia, of course, ben and everyone from the budget and legislative analyst. I just have a lot of gratitude for all of you. Thanks so much. Chair fewer thank you. Supervisor mandelman supervisor ronen sorry. Carol carolyn gusen, where are you . Carolyn, thank you for staying on top of the people from district 9. We love you. Supervisor mandelman in many ways, this budget process is depressing because we hear about so much need that far exceeds what we have the capacity to address, but its also we need to see this amacing s amazing set of folks that you all are doing every sipping will day to try to meet the needs of san franciscans in distress. I am just so in love with this because of all the work that you do. And i am also a little bit in love with the mayor and people in this building because their there are areas that we defer, and there are areas that we differ, but there are so much priorities where we are aligned, and i think there has been such great cooperation around this process, and i wonder if it has anything to do because this process has been headed by women, sandy fewer, who i have known for more than a decade with at this point, and ive really had the opportunity to work with you and see you in this role that i think youre meant for, i think. Intimidating and scary at the right times, and also figuring out how to make the compromises and include everyone else, as supervisor stefani was saying. And then chelsea, of course, absolutely deserved the standing ovation earlier. But our mayor and her team, with sophia and kelly, and ben rosenfeld, and the b. L. A. And tom temprano, youre amazing. I love you. And this is an amazing city, and choair fewer, i love you. Chair fewer well, its a love fest in here. I was remiss for not thanking the mayor and all of her work on the budget. And then kelly kirkpatrick, so professional and brilliant. I have learned a lot watching you work, and so i so you can teach an old dog some new tricks, i think, so thank you so much. We are joined by supervisors brown and safai. Therefore, we are convened as a special meeting of the board of supervisors. Okay. So supervisors, would you like to Say Something or nothing at all . Okay. So i have instructions. The chair makes the final motion to do the following. Id like to make a motion to amend the appropriation ordinance item 1 and salary ordinance item 2 to reflect the Committee Changes in the summary entitled board of supervisors budget spending plan. Accept the mayors technical adjustments as provided by the mayors budget director, authorize the controller to make adjustments as necessary to implement the committees actions and balance accounts, forward items 1 and 2 on todays agenda as amended to the board of supervisors for the july 16 meeting with a positive recommendation. And so may i have a second, please . President yee second. Chair fewer and so, president yee, may i take that oh. So before that, is there any members of the public that would like to give Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. [cheers and applause] chair fewer so i believe, colleagues, we have a motion, seconded by president yee. If i can take that without objection . [gavel]. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, is there any further business before us today . Clerk theres no further business. Chair fewer we are adjourned. [cheers and applause] good morning, everyone. You guys should be excited. Good morning. Thank you. I serve as the director of public works in the city and county of San Francisco. On behalf of public works, we are very excited because we are going to be a tenant in this new building 49 south vanness. How about a big hand for that. [applause. ] i am also excited to be here to celebrate a Major Construction milestone. Today is very, very exciting not just for public works but for the other nine city departments that will be relocated into this stateofthearts building upon its completion. At the end of our ceremony, we will raise the final steel beam into place to complete the structural framing of this new 430,000 square foot building. 430,000 square foot building. How about a big hand for that. [applause. ] it will house approximately 1800cit1800city staff to movet summer. This gives us a good reason to celebrate. I want to thank all of those forgetting us here today. Thank you builders, the prime contractors. Lets give them a big hand. The Development Firm and the architects worked on many projects. Lets give them a big hand. Public works takes great pride in the Public Private partnerships such as this one as they help bring the citys vision for a modern advanced San Francisco to life. I also want to give a special shout out to the project management team. Lets give them a big hand. [cheers and applause. ] all of this work would not happen, however, without the leadership from our elected officials who allow for Capital Infrastructure projects to be approved and implemented. With that said i have the pleasure of introducing our mayor london breed to say a few words about this project. Welcome, mayor breed. Thank you. You know, as someone who grew up in the city and someone who has had to get permits and get permits specifically for festivals and community events, it was often times frustrating works through did bureaucracy. One minute it is the Planning Department in this building then to city hall, then down the street somewhere that you couldnt find, and the fact is this building what is so amazing. We are bringing 10 city agencies together in one building with a central permitting system that would make it easier to do construction projects, would make it easier for entertainment, easier for events and all of the things we do in San Francisco that make San Francisco such a great city. It is about making bureaucracy more efficient. That is what this building is about. I know people dont get excited around efficiency, but i do. Because i know you all remember when it was taking us 18 months to build one accessory dwelling unit and putting out an executive directive to bring in the Fire Department and planning and Building Department to Work Together. We completely reduced the time. Now it takes up to six months. Streamlining the process is critical to building more housing and making sure the festivals and events and nightlife that we are so excited to have in our city continues without delay because San Francisco as we know is a special place, but we only work when we work more efficiently together. I am excited, and i know those over 1800 employees are excited to have new bathrooms and shower and places to park bicycles and the other great things we are adding to new buildings. I want to thank everyone who is building this place and the work you are doing to get this building built on time and hopefully on budget. You know that is important to us. More importantly, how this is going to be one of the projects that really changes how we do business in San Francisco. No longer will you have people going on line to those different places where they complain about the process and what they have to do to get a permit. What i want to see them going on line to say is, wow, the city makes it easier. They have a new permitting process to get permit online and it doesnt take that long. That is what this place is about. I want to thank all of you for being here today. I also would like to acknowledge which i think is absolutely incredible that we will have an on site child care at this location as well so that families who work for our city in those various departments have a place to take their children. This budget that i Just Announced last week also including 7. 7 million to digital the city permitter and create an electronic review process. San francisco is the technicaltal of the world but our city is a little behind schedule. We have to make the right investments to get to a better place. This is making bureaucracy more efficient. I want to thank all of you who have played a Critical Role in doing that. Probably the only member of the board of supervisors who cares about efficiency the way that i do is my former colleague on the board who is supervisor for district 6. I want to ask supervisor aaron peskin to say a few brief words. Supervisor peskin thank you, mayor breed. I am the supervisor representing the Northeast Corner of the city, but i share with mayor breed the desire to have a one stopper hitting shop for everything in San Francisco, and this floor print of almost an acre, 40,000 square feet, is precisely the right way to do it whether it is integrating planning and building and health and fire. This is going to be a huge step forward for the city and county of San Francisco. Thank you to related, thank you to public works. I cannot wait for it to be finished. [applause. ] it is not easy to get projects done in our city. The person who is a leader to make sure we put forward the responsible policies and budgeting practices to allow an opportunity like this and recognizing we need to make the city more efficient and provide facilities that are safe and Energy Efficient is really the leader, one of the leaders of the city, our city administrator, naomi kelly. Good morning. I have to say i am so honored to be here today. I want to thank mayor breed, supervisor peskin. They were with us in the beginning. We had to go to them to help with financing. Part of that was selling off three city buildings to get into this one beautiful building that will have a one stopper mitt center. Part permit center. Why they supported us to open a restaurant you need 20 permits from 13 different city locations all over the city, not just one spot. If we get a one stopper mitt ste permitting that is how we kick started this. I promised we are not just about brick and mortar colocation. We need to streamline that process to make the permitting process more customer friendly through digital. I want to thank the mayor and board through funding those opportunities. In this building is the department of public works, building inspections, city planning, environmental services. In the one stopper mitter shop in addition to those major departments it will include the Fire Department, public utilities, office of small business, Entertainment Commission and we are looking at other satellite departments to touch the building in here, m. T. A. , office of cannabis, disability. Police, board of appeals and tax collector. That is all important. As the mayor talked about a. D. U. Pilot and trying to streamline that process, let me drilling down what our team is looking at. As we currently before if you were an a. D. U. Permit resident you needed five different departments, answer 516 questions and navigate multiple applications and forms, as we looked at that we want to unduplicate questions we are asking over and over. We needed 289 questions. We could stop asking the same question 227 times. That is what we are looking for. One clap is good government. That is the bureaucracy mayor breed and supervisor peskin wanted eliminated. Then we will make it digital. I am excited to be here today. Thank you tom, john, stephanie and all of those and ken leading this out of my office and Melissa White house. You have all been fabulous to make sure we are not thinking about this as brick and mortar but streamlining the process. Thank you. Next up our partner in the begins, matt woody is instrumental to make sure he works with us every step of the way. He works on many projects. This is one that is near and dear to my house. Up next matt woody from related california. [applause. ] thank you, mayor breed, city administrator kelly, director, i am matt woody. We are overseeing the development of this unusual project. In the city like San Francisco that is so land constrained, it is rare to find a 2. 5acre site, much less acquire it in the heart of the city close to Public Transportation and codevelop it. That is the reason we are here to celebrate. I would like to recognize the vision and leadership of our former mayor ed lee. Many years ago as city administrator mayor lee began creating the one stopper mitt center to simplify the process. This including the food truck to a project like this, everything you need approval for in San Francisco. This is less than a year away from realizing his vision. Later on, as mayor, he was instrumental in acquiring this site from Goodwill Industries in 2014. This is the type of thing we look to do. It is something we are going to be proud of it a year from now when it opens. I would like to recognize the people you have heard about from the supervisor and mayor. Chief among them is john updike, josh keene, john ram, jeff jocelyne and dan snider from planning. Edgar lopez at public works and Charles Sullivan from the City Attorneys Office who work with us to get us to this point. Related has been partnering with the city and working in San Francisco for over 30 years on large projects of this type. Innovative Public Private partnership is the type of challenge world class developments we work to do. 49 south vanness fillings the need to consolidate the city to one place as you have heard. By designing abconstructing both buildings at the same time we had the unique opportunity to plan and consider the needs for both buildings. I would like to kill out som and their team who work with us and the city to get these two buildings less than 200 feet apart to look as compatible as we can agree they do. The results of 1. 3 million square folk and two magnificent buildings to bring 1800 City Employees and apartment complex is unique in San Francisco. This mixed use is proof of what San Francisco can accomplish when we Work Together with optimism. Thank you very much. Lets hear from the team on the ground getting this building done. Come on up. Thank you for introducing me. I am joe mckeown. I have the honor to stand up with this great group of speakers. I hope i can live up to their charm and wit. Welcome. This is a place of pride for all of the workers. This is our daily life and family. We are here to Work Together to build this great building for the city and county of San Francisco. We appreciate related california and the city and county of San Francisco to build this building that will live on for the next 100 years to serve the city and county of San Francisco. A special thanks to the teams that show up every day and work hard building this building. [applause. ] it is the Skilled Trades men and women behind me today that have worked over 260,000 hours on this building. They excavated 92,000 cubic yards ofvillsoil. Today will hang the last beam of 2200tons of 2300tons of structural iron. I am proud to represent this team and i would like to ask you to join me in a great round of applause for the men and women behind me who are the heart and soul of this project. Thank you. [applause. ] thank you. Now, mayor, we will go sign the beam and we can get our signatures and it makes the journey to the 16th floor to complete the structural work, and next summer this building will be occupied with the city agencies you heard and the one stop to get anything you want done in the city. Come in the door and someone will take care of you, right melissa . Thank you. Thank you. Still a lot of people wonder since the trees have a lot of issues, why did we plant them in the first place . Trees are widely planted in San Francisco. With good reason. They are workhorses when it comes to urban forestry. We have begun to see our ficustrees are too big and dangerous in San Francisco. We have a lot of tree failures with this species in particular. This is a perfect example of the challenges with the structure of the ficustrees. You can see four very large stems that are all coming from the same main truck. You can see the two branches attached to one another at a really sharp angle. In between you cant it is a lot of strong wood. They are attached so sharply together. This is a much weaker union of a branch than if you had a wide angel. This is what it looks like after the fi c. U. Resolution s limb. We see decline. You can see the patches where there arent any leaves at all. That is a sign the tree is in decline. The other big challenge is the root system of the tree are aggressive and can impact nearby utilities, and we can fix the sidewalk around the tree in many cases. We dont want to cuts the roots too severely because we can destabilize the tree. In a city like San Francisco our walks are not that wide. We have had to clear the branches away from the properties. Most of th the can canopy is one street side and that is heavyweight on those branches out over the street. That can be a factor in tree limb failures. A lot of people wonder since these trees have a lot of issues. Why did we plant them in the first place . They provided the city with benefits for decades. They are big and provide storage for carbon which is important to fight Climate Change and they provide shade and really i think many people think they are a beautiful asset. When we identify trees like this for removal and people protest our decision, we really understand where they are coming from. I got into this job because i love trees. It just breaks my heart to cut down trees, particularly if they are healthy and the issue is a structural flaw. I have also seen first hand what happens when we have failures. We have had a couple of injuries due to tree failures. That is something we cant live with either. It is a challenging situation. We hate to lose mature trees, but Public Safety has to always good morning. Y has to always welcome and thank you to the 200 volunteers who made this Pink Triangle happen. [cheers and applause] it went up in record time this year. It took 36 minutes. [laughter]. [cheering] we lost most of the people because they didnt want to hang around two hours. Im patrick corning, and i founded this project and event. Its the 24th Pink Triangle. [cheers and applause] so long ago, a small, tiny group of us crept up on the twin peaks and installed the first Pink Triangle in the dark of nights we wouldnt be arrested. In a 24 years ago, 24 years im still here. Hard to believe