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Names. Go ahead and come to the podium calling names good afternoon. Im rancho im the director of policies and communications inform the San Francisco parks lions im here to speak in favor of the program we think this is a wonderful way to add to the space and encourage stewardship of our public spaces. Our streetscapes partner with Public Utilities thats a useful model to think about when our considering this program because it has allowed neighbors to take an interest in underutilized public s...

Encourage stewardship of our public spaces. Our streetscapes partner with Public Utilities thats a useful model to think about when our considering this program because it has allowed neighbors to take an interest in underutilized public spaces and turn them into maskal neighborhood gyms the hidden sunset in the a buff beautiful ill work and the penn e pennsylvania garden has been a gem so we think this is a very positive extension of that idea. And we want to always encourage more activation an...

Not i dont know why that is. Second im the executive director of the friends of urban forest weve been working with the Forest Council for the last two years to construct a master plan for the San Francisco urban forest its been an open process to the public. Weve been working with the Forest Council for the last year and a half having meetings with the Planning Department. Weve excited about the work and we think that the Planning Department in conjunction with the dwp and other entities have s...

And those trees are actually a tremendous capital estimate it will cost about 178 billion if we replanted those trees but those trees are mature they provide 10 million a year in environmental benefits from cleaning the air and a filtering are stormwater and increase Property Values in the city by 100 million. The trees have environmental benefits to economic benefits. They make studies have shown they make commercial districts more importantly and reduce heating and cooling costs and their calm...

Public works so article 16 to transfer the maintenance to the adjacent Property Owners but outlines the steps so prior to the transfer of trees the are tree needs to be inspected theres no immediate maintenance required we have to post a notice on the tree and provide information for tree care and address concerns and have a public hearing as requested by someone that has received a street tree so, now some of the challenges for the tree transfer we have many Property Owners that are unwilling t...

From the Planning Department for the urban master plan. Good afternoon, everyone. Supervisors im john sway with the planning staff and the manager of the citys urban forest plan i want to give you an update and copy for the supervisors so the urban forest plan a joint effort between the Planning Department and the rec and Park Department as well as work with the friends of the urban forest and the urban Forestry Council the goal to figure out a way to manage the cities trees and grow our urban f...

Also transferred trees to other agencies so the agencies other city agencies buildings and as a result of the program were going saying we cant do this so were making you responsible for the trees outside of their properties. It transfer doesnt save public money it is only a different action that is doing it less efficiently. It doesnt save the public money but were able to allocate that to other agencies. Other agencies part of the city budget for whatever it might be are having to spend money ...

Money but were able to allocate that to other agencies. Other agencies part of the city budget for whatever it might be are having to spend money stay great cost per tree because they dont have the inhouse staff. Thats valid. Hi carla when our talking about transferring trees back to other agency when was that transfer made. It was done in fiscal year 20132014 and after we transferred trees to residential owners or homeowners. Yeah. Its concurly we identified the trees adjacent to other city age...

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This is a collaborative effort with various city county act sis such as a ta, and tpw and the department is playing a leading role. We did request funding from the Capital Planning committee during last fiscal years budget process, we did receive funding and we are asking for some additional funding for our continued work on that project, similar to the payment to parks program, this will allow for the department to retain and formalize the program, conducting a Program Evaluation and analysis, ...