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Good afternoon, and welcome to the january 14th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call roll call. Thank you, mr. President. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of the San Francisco government tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. Madame cl...

So moved. Second by supervisor walton and if theres a no objection. Then supervisor ronen is not in the chamber. Im suggesting a roll call. Supervisor yee can i have a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion not to disclose, supervisor preston. [roll call] there are 10 ayes. Supervisor yee ok. Motion passes. Could i have a motion to file this closed this agenda item. Made by supervisor peskin seconded by supervisor safai. If theres no objection, can we take the same house same call. No objection,...

President yee good afternoon. Welcome to the january 21, 2020 special meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, will you please call the roll. Fewer present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. Yee present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Stat...

Law you heard about oh we cant do anything about adus because the state says we cant. We cant do anything about this because the state says you cant. Youre widening authority is being constantly narrowed by these state projects that are, these state laws that are one size fits all. And that one size does not fit San Francisco. Youve got to find a way to push back on some of this stuff and particularly in the mission we cant have, you know projects that are done with such low affordability and fa...

Unfortunately, i live on the side of town and they planted palm trees all the way down the street. They look horrible. I mean, they look miserable. And they dont do anything as far as what they are taking out as far as carbon monoxide. Its kind of a weed. So it saddens me to see that we are taking this many trees out like wholesale. And what is the survival rate for a new tree . Theres typically a two to four percent mortality of replacement trees. Only four percent . You are saying 98 percent s...

That doesnt include trees on private property. I realize that these are not all the urban forestrys fault. It is the only group in the city dedicated to our urban canopy. Better than anyone else, they understand just how bad our tree situation is. The recent urban Forestry Council noted at the citys current funding we have barely enough money to replant trees at the rate we are removing them. Putting all these things together if the city is serious about slowing down Climate Change and making th...

Clear, i mean, this is like eight affordable units out of 60. Okay . So its not 18 percent. And even 18 percent is way lower than the mission needs. These large state projects that come under state law you heard about oh we cant do anything about adus because the state says we cant. We cant do anything about this because the state says you cant. Youre widening authority is being constantly narrowed by these state projects that are, these state laws that are one size fits all. And that one size d...

Octavia. It was not the biggest one out there. It split in half. If you think about it buses get in accidents all the time and people get hurt but for the common good of the city, we have buses. So i think trees are very similar to that. I mean i unfortunately, i live on the side of town and they planted palm trees all the way down the street. They look horrible. I mean, they look miserable. And they dont do anything as far as what they are taking out as far as carbon monoxide. Its kind of a wee...

If you have an argument in the city where the elites, the rich people they have plenty of housing. Theres no problem. Its the majority of people, the core worker in the city. The not underclass, middle who is not served by affordable housing, or work for affordable housing, or anything like this. When we do Something Like this this is what bothers me. You are taking an and elation of a dozen items that will serve a group of individuals who by this one type of car that is no less six pensive than...

The order status to phase one, the sfmta is committed to plant 53 new trees prior to the design phase of this project. Architects identified trees which should be removed. So, we are Walking Around 16th street, looking at things making the street scape project more successful. These are the 75 trees that are on the 16th street phase one. Notice the road trees here are trip ficus. Those are the ones a survey rated as being priority removal. In other words, dangerous to people and property. When t...