Believe the transfer of the responsibility to prove or disprove is not ideal but important i want to emphasize the department has taken this over but industry standards say that trees are pruned every 43 to 5 years but were on a schedule for 10 years lack of the maintenance were well aware of the fears just a quick snapshot of the state of urban forest Property Owners have had the rocket for 2 3rds of the trees and the department 1 3rd under the proposed program well continue to maintain a number of trees in the public medium and in the public facilities by the majority of the street trees adjacent to private property is transferred to the private Property Owners for maintenance this justice an example of decline of resources and the impact on the pruning cycle as you can see in our had a deal 19 arborists and over time this has declined and currently only 11 arborists i note that acknowledging the shortfall from funding recently to launch an arrest warrant above the Apprenticeship Pro
The San Francisco Land Use Economic Development committee im supervisor wiener the chairman of the committee our Committee Vice chair supervisor kim was unable to join us today so supervisor mar is sitting in place the of supervisor kim and supervisor cohen a member of the committee were also joined by the president of the board of supervisors supervisor chiu sfgovtv is broovtd toys be hearing i want to thank Jessie Larson and derrick our clerk is announcements . Yes. Please silence all electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be smoimentd to the clerk and items acted upon today will appear on the on september 4th agenda your madam clerk call one. A vacation of an area between twin peaks boulevard. Im the author of item number one colleagues speak proposal vacancies an embankment and the construction of a stairway and installation a permanent landscaping by the adjacent Property Owner curling youre going u during any rains well eventually have rai
Sfgovtv is broovtd toys be hearing i want to thank Jessie Larson and derrick our clerk is announcements . Yes. Please silence all electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be smoimentd to the clerk and items acted upon today will appear on the on september 4th agenda your madam clerk call one. A vacation of an area between twin peaks boulevard. Im the author of item number one colleagues speak proposal vacancies an embankment and the construction of a stairway and installation a permanent landscaping by the adjacent Property Owner curling youre going u during any rains well eventually have rain the dirt slides down the hill it will stabilize the hill and provides Paul Mccartney the improvements has strong support in the neighborhood and the neighbors have submitted letters that are includes in the agenda materials the proposal has been reviewed by the Planning Department and the public works and both agrees are in support of the proposal the projec
It up to Public Comment. Good afternoon again commissioners. Eric brook representing San Francisco green party and the local organization our city. First a technical point on all of this. I was under the impression and check with dhr on this that the executive position still exists but filled on an interim basis. Maybe i am wrong on that but good to make sure youre correct on that from the staffs perspective. I agree bringing it back in house because the next year is going to be really big for clean power sf and some other things and we need somebody that can be available five days a week, 50 weeks a year. I mean thats really going to be important, but the main thing i want to focus on is that the advocates for clean power sf have had some concerns with the way that lafco when we originally set set up lafco to work on clean power sf and especially get at the beginning of 2007 and what we needed from lafco and i believe the intention we needed somebody on task for clean power sf itself
Power sf have had some concerns with the way that lafco when we originally set set up lafco to work on clean power sf and especially get at the beginning of 2007 and what we needed from lafco and i believe the intention we needed somebody on task for clean power sf itself that could approach the sf puc on many occasions the sf puc wasnt thinking outside of the box on this to put it politely, and we need someone, and i think we will need someone well versed in local distributive generation, the dynamics of Financing Clean Energy and clean energy over the next year so we can take the build out work that is looking promising and realizing for reasons for saving the planet and economics that we must do this local build out. Its not really something that we can debate. We need so whatever you do with these positions we would hope that you still end up with two positions and one position could be carefully dedicated to somebody with a lot of expertise on local distributive renewable and gene