Dont have to. Hi, diane, and i want to say i came here to listen and learn and speak about another issue, but sitting there and hearing the proposal i just felt the need to stand up here as a citizen, certainly as a white bodied citizen to stand and show support and so i would say that i would support and endorse establishing vision 0 on homicides and Violent Crimes plan. I used to be a Public High School teacher in miami and we had a lot of space then and i worked in the arts, and the arts was a place people could come and talk about their feelings and i was in miami at a time that the racial tension was very intense back in the early 1990s and a lot of our students were abused by the police and its very close to my heart. I have not been in miami for a while now, and i know the importance of those sacred safe spaces, so i like the part of your plan that talked about people needing to come someplace to do something, to be thriving, to be active, to grow, to love each other so that they can grow in ways and not be in spaces where they could be harassed. So, thanks for putting that on the table and appreciate being here. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello, my name is dr. Aryan aroy, i did my masters thesis on abusers objective and dissertation on prisoner reentry. I agree with the other two speakers and emphasize reentry needs to be considered on the first day someone is incarcerated. The problem at hand. Considering a problem with the hope of resolving it, we must consider causes. Violence must be considered a Public Health problem. Its a product of a society that has an unjust economy, powerful people dont pay their taxes or conduct legitmized violence that impacts millions of people. Where onethird of our society lives in poverty, and focus on the crimes of the indigent and people of color rather than those of corporations and the wealthy, who impact millions. Poverty comes powerlessness and the problem of gross economic disparity, we all know and very much in San Francisco, bitter anger, seething resentment and internalized violence that also gets demonstrated into the domestic violence, and it also is something that we can see is a problem that expresses itself in addiction, homelessness, and violence of all kinds, including speeding on our streets where people who are sitting behind their laptops all day or whatever go out and drive recklessly, another form of homicide that needs to be addressed. I ask you to look at a Restorative Justice model to create Education Campaign for billboards, create an understanding that tailgating and riding through crosswalks are homicide as well, the arts could be used to treat traumatic people in fully funded environments where we recognize the sanctity of all life, the most powerless thank you, next speaker. Good morning again, after the break. Im Angela Jenkins and a member of s. F. Interrupting racial profiling. I appreciate every resolution here today looking at violence, looking at hate crimes, the disproportionate amount of aggregated crimes against certain communities. Ill read the quote, they gave it to me, we believe that violence is any thought or action that is oppressive in its intent or result. So, violence can also be seen as imposing ones will on to another person. That can be a domestic violence, it can be in racial profiling as well. From our other speaker from the group so demonstrated when we are online and looking at people, we are obsessed with their movements, where they are going, but know nothing about them. We are being violent towards them. We are imposing our will, our way on that individual without merit. I, too, have been the victim of violence in San Francisco riding on a bus in muni. Hit in the head, the person jumped off. I survived. And many times that ive seen violence and witnesses. So, i guess in concluding, vision 0 towards homicides is essential. A lot of us who have been oppressed may internalize it, being in black bodies, may act out. But today when i step up again, i want to emphasize that violence consists of imposing ones will or way on to another person and continue to look at the way we communicate online, communicate in subject matter of community policing, that it, too, not be rife with violence towards an individual obsessed with tracking. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other member of the public would like to speak before i close Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Supervisor walton. Thank you, chair. I want to thank everyone from the community and everyone who came out and support of this conversation and support of our resolution to really address the violence that exists in our city. I want to thank Michael Brown for getting the pledges, from the folks who are incarcerated, because if we really see what we are trying to capture with vision 0 for homicides and Violent Crimes, we are trying to work with everybody, and this is allinclusive, allencompassing to get to the root causes of violence and to come up with strategies to end the violence that exists. So we have to work with everyone to get that done, and so i want to thank folks who also understand that people who have made mistakes need to be a part of this conversation if we are going to get anywhere. Also want to thank everyone who just came out and gave Public Comment and we have had conversations with folks who are like why the term vision 0, because we already have a vision 0 plan for Pedestrian Safety and for vehicle or incidences. Which is the purpose of why we chose vision 0 for this. We have to stop all violence. We have to put plans and strategies in place to address all types of violence, to address anything that leads to people being harmed, and being hurt. So, we took vision 0 so everyone would Pay Attention and make sure that they understand that. People are dying in our streets whether its from vehicles, whether its from stabbing, whether its from gunshots, whether its from, whats happening in homes and communities from domestic violence, we have people dying and assaulted on the streets. Vision 0 is all encompassings, all in all inclusive. We can address violence across San Francisco, do it equitably and culturally within community and with community in the league. So, thank you for hearing this item this afternoon and i see that supervisor has some comments. Thank you. I just wanted to thank you you, supervisor walton, and, for your leadership on these issues and putting forward the vision 0, the legislation creating vision 0 on homicides and Violent Crimes. And also thank all the Community Members and the Police Department and other city departments that have worked with you on this and im really proud to cosponsor it. And i, and i commend you on sort of the comprehensive vision and telescope scope of this and i know it started a lot with incidents and issues within district ten and among your constituents which have been, who have been the most impacted by Violent Crime, but i appreciate that. Its a citywide plan and, because these issues indeed impact all the districts and all communities in our city. From my district, district 4, and also the Chinese Community citywide, Public Safety and crime is a major concern and even made more so by the shocking attack on the elders in chinatown, and the sunset district, two assaults of chinese members on the street that happened the last week as well. So, and and actually, so ive been sort of, ive been also grappling with these issues and working with my constituents, particularly in the Chinese Community and the sunset around these issues and did lead me to work with the Police Department on developing legislation that would require regular reporting on the demographics of crime victims citywide, and across the different types of crime, including property crime as well as Violent Crime and hatemotivated crime, seeing a huge surge in the last few years in San Francisco and nationally. And the initial data that we have gotten from the Police Department on the demographics of crime victims and hatemotivated crime really did emphasize, or reinforce the concerns in the Chinese Community that they were increasingly victims of certain types of crime in the city, and also assaults. I think the most striking statistic from the initial data that we got from the Police Department was how African Americans are overwhelmingly, disproportionately victims of Violent Crimes, homicide, Sexual Assault and assault. Thank you for your work on this, especially supervisor walton and i look forward to supporting this effort moving forward. Thank you. Supervisor walton, would you like to make a motion to forward this to the full board with positive recommendation . Definitely, and add language and amendments specific to d. V. At the full board. Great. Take that without objection. Good. We have been joined by supervisor mar, here for the fourth item. Agenda item number 4, oh, excuse me hearing to examine the planting, removal and maintenance of trees on public sites in San Francisco. Great. Supervisor mar. Your hearing. Thank you for allowing us to hold this hearing today and cosponsoring it as well. And we are here to talk about trees in San Francisco. How many we have, how we are taking care of them, and when and why we are removing them, and more importantly, how many we are planting. At 13. 7 , San Franciscos urban canopy is the smallest of any major city in the United States. We set Ambitious Goals to expand the canopy yet last year we removed twice as many trees as planted, reducing the street tree canopy by nearly 2,500 ministries. With the recent addition of the street tree s. F. Program, dramatic changes in how we manage the street trees, and nine years remaining to make dramatic reductions in Greenhouse Gas emissions we have no time to spare. And i want to be clear at the outset of this hearing, when we talk about trees, we are not just talking about decorations or accessories or amenities, nice to have, which they are. We are talking about infrastructure, Green Infrastructure. To cap tower and sequester carbon, a tree. Earlier this year declared a state of emergency on the climate crisis, thank you supervisor mandelman, and urban canopy is a glaring blind spot to reduce Greenhouse Gasses and combat Climate Change. Combat Climate Change. Id like to welcome our first presenters, peter bradstou and jen from the department of environment. Sorry about that. Im from environment and jen jackson had to go. She had another engagement given the break for the alarm. And so thanks for calling this hearing. This is obviously a really important topic. Just briefly, who i am about the department of environment. Im a coordinator at the department providing Staff Support to the urban council and our department, as you know, provides a role of convener for many of the city departments and, of course, youll hear about the ontheground work later. The one place in the code where theres an actual definition of the term urban forest, trees on streets and public rights of way and the jurisdiction of the department of public works. And so, this is important because, actually, this part of the urban forest was subject of phase one of the urban forest master plan, which was pas passa few years ago. But thinking more broadly, if you look at the environment code, actually, which created the urban Forestry Council, that ordinance sets out kind of a broader scope of authority for the urban Forestry Council including trees on private lands. You dont have this in handout form, do you, the presentation . Oh, goodness, i dont. I totally neglected to do that. My bad . Environment and no paper, wasnt thinking. [ laughter ] ok, so the point of this slide is just to say that the urban forest is larger than, obviously, just the public realm of that which is in the jurisdiction of public works and, of course, includes private properties and parks and open spaces and trees all over the city. Trees are no everywhere and we steward other lands in the city which are remnants of San Franciscos natural ecosystem, such as bernell hill. And so, indeed, urban forestry and ecological restoration and all of these activities of managing plants, managing trees and planting new trees, all important aspects of our citys Climate Action strategy and so, withizero, 80, 100 roots, roots symbolizes Climate Mitigation and adaptation. And so the other thing i wanted to say about that was just simply, obviously, trees and other plants store and sequester carbon and, in fact, these are three trees other than streets that do a good job of that and this is one of the, you know, Main Services that trees provide within the city is storing and sequestering carbon but there are many other services that trees provide. Ill just go over those one by one. Even supervisor mar covered this presentation already. So obviously great for mitigating the heat island effect that cities create with our concrete and asphalt all over the place and trees provide really important shade and Energy Savings for buildings, especially our days, we have hotter days in San Francisco as projected with Climate Change. And also for storm water capture. So evergreen trees and broadleaf evergreen trees will capture a lot of rainfall and, thus, reduce urban runoff. And obviously, through foe foe photosynthesis trees creat creae oxygen and take pollutants out of the year. The california buckeye for the butterfly, tree can provide habitat for our native critters. And just to focus on the quality of life aspect that trees provide, so obviously traffic calming and again, pedestrian and bicycle safety, really kind of a nature connection in the built environment and as supervisor mar pointed out, really contributing to Better Mental Health and physical health in the city. And so in summary, trees can provide services for both people and wildlife in the built environment and these benefits need to be enjoyed by every person in San Francisco in every neighborhood and because as we know, the communities are most vulnerable to the effects of Climate Change that are happening now, already announcemenand ithink with thatt over to dan flanagan who will talk about the council. Thank you, supervisor mar, for holding this hearing. I am the chair of the urban Forest Council and im also the executive director of the friends of the urban forest, which i think you all probably know already. I also took a different look at how i wanted to talk to you today and ill repeat some of the things. You did capture a lot of things about urban forestry and forgive me if i repeat some of them, but i like to start with a simple quote by al gore who says the best Available Technology pulling Carbon Monoxide from the air is called a tree and it was in a to newspaper article this year. Its a good article and i recommend you all look at it. I think we have a roadmap for what to do about trees in San Francisco. In 2015, we di the forest urban council, ufc, and public works and they came up with a comprehensive plan and it was three parts. The first part was for street trees. The second part was for park trees and the last part is for backyard trees and green buildings. And now, the recommendation for the first part, which is the only part thats been finalized was maximize the benefit of urban trees and thats something that we can do now because with the passage of prop e, now a city can control what type of species tree we want to put in the streets of San Francisco. And we want to look very carefully about planting large trees, trees that can capture large amounts of co2 as possible. The second was to grow the population by half, 50 . We were thinking in those days we would grow it by half and now more like 40 or 35 . And the third one because we have made progress . Ill talk about that later. Establishing a fund for citywide Street Tree Maintenance Program and we start that off with the street tree sf and prop e. The last one was to manage street trees throughout the entire life cycle and when you have a tree come down, instead of chipping it, lets use some of the wood in turn fir furnitu. It was the first time weve done that in the city. We found out, actually, for years we thought we had 105,000 street trees and now we have 124,000, almost 125,000 street trees but in that process, we learned we asked the people doing the survey how many opportunities do we have to plant new trees in the city all throughout the city. A