Avenue in 1971. He was called he has called district 7 home for over 35 years now and art was always eagle tore get involved and was active in the filipinoamerican community. During a time when there was a struggle for communities of color to even be recognized ~. He was one of the founding members of the filipino professional and Business Association and helped San Francisco create ties with the manila as a sister city. Art is well known in the neighborhood for his charm, warmth, and most importantly his leadership. Always friendly, amicable, art helped to elevate the voices of neighbors and merchants. He served as the president of the west Portal Merchants Association twice and served on the board of forest hills neighborhood association. Art carries himself with great civic pride and hes generous with his time as he has served in many capacities as a volunteer, advisor, and advocate to city and state bodies including the treasure island, Yerba Buena Island citizens advisory board. T
Property owners responsibility or the citys responsibility. When we have the responsibility for the tree, we have the responsibility for that damage as well and the liability. Thank you. The shaping of that tree is kind of unusual for the species, isnt it . Its big and old, so i think the canopy is broader thaen often you see for the species. Who handled the hearing . Its not the director, right . No, there is a hearing officer. A number of representatives that attend the hearing and make final recommendations and the director makes that decision base on their recommendations. Did you want the name . No. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing no Public Comment we can start with our rebuttal with the appellant. Sir, you didnt identify yourself to the board, are you mr. Sullivan . Im gerald sullivan. I have no problem with the department of public works. In the past years, 1994, the flags were replaced. We asked the roots be terminated and they said they would not r
The captain spoke. Im sorry, i dont know your name. We have many options. We are not going to make a decision without having an actual process here. I hope thats clear for everyone in the room. Okay. So if we wanted to talk about a continuance which is not, weve heard objection from the representative of the appellant, i think its time for people who want to speak to that to address that issue. With a show of hand how many people want to speak to the issue of the continuance and not the merits . Youve already spoken. You are not a member of the public. Anyone part of the organization that is not a member of the public for this purpose. Okay. I too greatly respect commissioner fungs opinion. However, the applicant is not a party to this issue. Its the respondent is the Police Department. So technically there is no due process issue with the applicant. Its the interested party. She has a stake in this process. She was here and chose to leave. So under the boards rules people who are offi
Sorry. In terms of cost benefit, when thinking about the resources of the city and your department in particular for purposes of repairing sidewalk versus removing something that is obviously damaged, the sidewalks will continue to in some form require some maintenance. How do you weigh those cost . If taking aside a minute the health of the tree, the imminent hazard, taking that aside. Just dollars in cost . Carla short, department of public works. Generally we dont take away those other factors because larger trees provide more benefit to the city in terms of their environmental services. So when we are looking at, its true we have limited resources and obviously, repairing a sidewalk more than once may seem as though its not worth it with the cost, but if you look at that means maturization of a tree and then with Community Concerns which was the deciding fact or in this case. Okay. Good answer. All right. The commissioners who have already spoken. I just want to say for the record
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