Laden gentlemen, please welcome congresswoman custer. [applause] good morning, nashua, thank you for turning out, great to see you. A snowy morning. Some Holiday Cheer going on. Thank you for taking a break festivities to be here to pick the next president of the United States. We take our responsibilities seriously in New Hampshire and youe folks are here because vet candidates, talk to candidates, have they shoveled your lawn lately. Honoreduper excited and to introduce two of my favorite candidates over the years, we have secretary john kerry is with us, for those of you on the 2008 campaign. [applause] kuster secretary kerry is a friend to New Hampshire, veterans, women, environmentalists. We were proud to send him on his way to the nomination. And joe biden, Vice President of the United States. [applause] kuster like many of you i havent made my final decision but im excited to have him in the house and room today, give him a big applause, welcome him, he was the author of the vio
Challenges, our overall goal, were trying to move toward is be able to sustain a 15year tree management cycle. We want to do tree management maintenance on each parked tree in maintained open space on a 15year schedule. And we are attempting to do that through, basically, three strategy approaches here and we do have our daytoday tree maintenance. Our tree crews who do the daytoday tree maintenance and our reactive resource to get out and take care of things in realtime, as tree issues occur. And we do tree assessments each year. We use a thirdparty contractor. Hortscience is our city provider and contractor. We do usually six tree assessments on six we do six assessments on six Park Properties per year and from those assessments, we take the recommendations and they then compromise the work plan for either tree crews or contract work to accomplish those maintenance actions on our park trees. And as nicholas pointed out, a very important point for us is that we are in a joint rfp with
Lets get going. Good afternoon. Please take your seat. We will get started. Good afternoon and welcome to the december 10th, 2019, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call roll call. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Will 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 at San Francisco government tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . None to report today, mr. President. Okay. Colleagues, we are approving the minutes from the october 22nd, 2019 and october 29th, 2019 board meetings. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . So moved. To moved by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor ronen without objection, those minutes will be approved after public c
You slept yesterday. It is great to be back in the granite state, a second home for me. I have two second homes, iowa and New Hampshire. [laughter] mr. Kerry i love this state. Growing up, i have great memories of visiting here rattlesnake, getting up the highway there towards some of your blue ice you get to ski on sometimes. Concord wherel in i would rarely look forward to season onthe hockey the black ice and how the ice doesnt even freeze. So its hard to do today, but i love the primary tradition of this state. Not just because you voted for me. It goes farther back than that. When i was 24 years old, stationed on the other of the earth, when Radio Broadcasts and weeks old newspapers in a mail pouch that finally got to us, shared with me my idealized introduction to the phenomenon of the New Hampshire primary. Just 40 days after one of my very closest friends in college was killed in combat, New Hampshire was no longer just a place i went to high school. Of 1968, New Hampshire was
Tree or limb failures. So our strategies with these resources in tackling those challenges, our overall goal, were trying to move toward is be able to sustain a 15year tree management cycle. We want to do tree management maintenance on each parked tree in maintained open space on a 15year schedule. And we are attempting to do that through, basically, three strategy approaches here and we do have our daytoday tree maintenance. Our tree crews who do the daytoday tree maintenance and our reactive resource to get out and take care of things in realtime, as tree issues occur. And we do tree assessments each year. We use a thirdparty contractor. Hortscience is our city provider and contractor. We do usually six tree assessments on six we do six assessments on six Park Properties per year and from those assessments, we take the recommendations and they then compromise the work plan for either tree crews or contract work to accomplish those maintenance actions on our park trees. And as nichola