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 public works, bureau of urban forestry to acquire an urban forestry database. This is important for us right now. Everything weve been doing to this point, were basically managing it on paper. And for the data requirements that we want, we need a better data basis to capture and manage what were doing so that we can track is plan our tree maintenance cycle and track and plan and document our reforestation efforts and that type of thing. We have high hope for a positive outcome through this rfp to be able to identify and then acquire an youre been Forestry Management database system. Largely our priorization process focuses on high use and adjacency to paths of travel and this is to make sure we are identifying and mitigating any hazards whether from limb failure, storm damage, tree failures and that type of thing and being able to manage from that perspective first and foremost. The tree seattle assessments i d contribute to that importantly because they help us to identify where the potential hazards may be. In this current fiscal year, rather than six tree assessments, were conducting two because theyre two large properties. We are completing a tree assessment on glenn canyon, glenn park and we have underway a tree assessment of stern grove, which is a large property with about 2500 trees that will be assessed out there. When we get the findings and recommendations in, as i said, those will compromise the work plan for accomplishing the recommendations in the upcoming fiscal year. Switching now to reforestation, we have a reforestation guideline populous policy document that will outline the guidelines we will be following now and in the future for our maintain parkland. Within that guideline document and also, as our performance measure within our own Strategic Plan of the department, our goal is to plant two trees for every one tree that gets remove on parkland. And its important to point out when that occurs, we choose the treeplanting sites and not necessarily where the one tree was removed. We look to put the two trees in for the one tree that is coming out. Necessarily, for example, if it was a large mature tree in a large mature stand of trees and that tree came out, there isnt enough sunlight over open space for a newly planted tree to thrive and grow into its full structure. So its a commonly misperception, came out, that tree came out and youll plant two trees right there. Maybe, but not necessarily. And also, as mentioned by public works, we drive our schedule based on our staffs ability to sustain what we maintain as a fouryear root establishment period for all new trees, where we have to do watering, perhaps a structural prune and that type of thing to help the tree establish its root system and then thrive for the duration of its life. And having said all of this, i want to point out that we do have constraints on canopy expansion in park land. And its driven by a couple of things. Number one, we do want to preserve the native plant for communities that we find on our park land and preserve the remnant of the San Francisco landscapes that are still in existence here around the city. And so thats always a consideration. Very importantly, we have to accommodate multiple active park uses. What i mean by that is that, as im sure you know, we have a large number of athletic fields. We have concert meadows, picnic meadows and that type of thing and we would not necessarily start a large treeplanting effort in those because we have to maintain that open Space Available for a wide variety of park use. We try to keep our Tree Planting consistent with all of these various park designs and park uses, some of which do compete with each other. So how are we doing our reforestation number for the past fiscal year . We planted 415 trees, we removed 252 trees and so we did not hit our two for one ratio this year. We hit a 1. 7 but it continues to be our goal to meet and exceed that two for one ratio going forward. Lastly, a few comments on Climate Resilience and biodiversity, were mindful in rec and park about Climate Change impacts and ve vegetation adaptation which is pretty much for us an evolving science. You know, seeing what there is out there and seeing what works and also understanding that the climate itself is changing and, you know, looking around california, coastal california for what we should be planning for in the future. And our strategies, as we undertake that, we focus exclusively on drought tolerant, mediterranean climate palate and we are predisposed to dangerous species, not exclusively but when we say native, its not just the bay area but looking throughout california. As has been mentioned here, Sann Francisco has no native forest. It was beach scrub. Were happy to have a forest now but were mindful of what that forest what climate that forest may have to grow into in the future. And maintaining an overall diversity of plantings. As i said, we have three main species for the large specie trees. We tried to keep it diversified and have a wide biodiversity in our parkland and with that, i would be open to your questions. Thank you so much. I just had a few questions. You mentioned theres currently a major tree assessment happening in glenn canyon and stern grove. Yes. Do you expect that to result in identification of a large number of trees in those two parks that would need to be removed . We know there will be some recommendations for removals and i am not anticipating large numbers. Theres always removals the recommendations always encompass removals and side trimming and then monitoring and so those are the three things and depending on the tree stands, you know, the number of those vary. But from glenn park, in particular, we do not anticipate a large number of removals there and stern grove is too early in the assessment to know. Great. In following up on that, i had a question about thanks for presenting the reforestation numbers for fiscal year 1819 and good to see the 1. 7 ratio, which is close to the goal. And what i was curious what the ratio has been over the last five years. Its hovered around there. We have hit 2. 0 and down to 1. 6 before and it hovers between 1. 6 and two. Thank you. Any questions . We could move from the final presentations from john scarpula at the Public Utilities commission. Good afternoon. Im with the puc. It looks like the computer turned off and there it is. Got it. Thanks, everybody. So john scarpula with puc and im joined by my colleague, Sarah Minnick, the manager and director of our Green Infrastructure program and shell be talking, as well, today. So quickly, the puc Properties Within the city, where theres trees and lake merced area and its managed via an mou by rec park but we work closely with them. The lumbar reservoir lands in district two and the oceanaci track making its way towards gullen park and Sunset Reservoir in d4 and twin digs reservoir and sutro reservoir. Most know where the first four are located and for the next four, just want to orient everybody. Laguna honda is along the l laga reservoir and thats 28 acres and thats one of the bigger areas. Also, sutra reservoir, across from the claretin elementary. And on the hill there, very close to number four which is between peaks and i wanted to orient folks because not everyone knows where they are. So its a much smaller number of trees, 131,000 from rec park and we have approximately 4,000 trees that puc oversees. Of those, about half of them are lake merced, which are maybe maintained by rec park. What are maintenance measures . We do tree trimming and removal of dead trees and we remove trees and there was a hearing about it that present yi called last week or two weeks ago. We do also remove trees to ensure fire breaks between the homes and to ensure that we have state required fire protection. The other time that we remove trees, a lot of our tries, a lot of people dont know theyre on our reservoirs which are earth and dams. The vision of safety, dsod, division is safety of dams is a state department and they will come in and ask us to remove trees on certain occasions. Theyve done so since 2017, when the oraville dam failed. Theyve become much more strict about removing trees and you cannot replant because of dam safety and reservoir safety. We plant a lot of ma native vegetation and work with neighbors to identify proper ownership and recollect. Responsibility. A lot of times the backyards go into reservoirs and theres to fences. We werent to make sure its clear were taking care of trees versus someone else. This is an historic photo and peter touched on this earlier, is bringing back the native ecosystem and supporting the watersheds that are historic and native to San Francisco. And we do that on our reservoir lands but why Sarah Minnick is here, the puc is taking it further and thinking how can we support the native ecosystem and biodiversity in the streets of San Francisco, on private properties in San Francisco, Large Development projects in San Francisco with a stormwater lens but bring in other benefits such as greening and traffic calming. So sarahs group leads that effort. With that, i can answer questions about the reservoir lands or pass it off to sarah and should can jump into the street work. Thank you, john. We have to incident great and deliver stormwater to San Francisco. We have ten gallons of rain that falls on our city every year and it falls on to impervious and pervious surfaces. This is a map and all of the gray surfaces. Its 10 on public parcels and 35 in streets. Typically all stormwater goes into our sewer system made up of treatment facilities, pipes, pump stations and storag storag, et cetera, which as you know are underground. In the past decade, puc started to integrate Green Infrastructure technologies into our Stormwater Management portfolio to try to have interinterventions and as all oe speakers have mentioned trees manage stormwater and other interventions take it from other impervious surfaces and manage it on the surface of the landscape. Theres traffic calming, urban habitat and even water supply diversification to San Francisco. And the way that we do that is using three principal tools, through regulation incentives and Capital Projects. And because Green Infrastructure is relatively new, weve tried to tried to support all efforts with robust Technical Assistance and Strategic Partnerships. Ill go through a couple of examples. Our main tool in the regulatory space is the Stormwater Management ordinance, which we passed in 2010. So weve been lucky enough to leverage over 10 billion worth of vertical development thats gone on in San Francisco since that time to integrate Green Infrastructure into those projects. So over 270 are completed and over 170 are in progress and all of our redevelopment areas are subject to the Stormwater Management ordinance. And were getting a lot of beautiful Green Infrastructure out of that regulatory effort and in many cases spaces that get engineered out if theyre optional but the ordinance has helped to keep the green spaces and manage stormwater at the same time. And in our redevelopment areas, which are largely in separate sewer areas, Green Infrastructure is the principal tool for treating storm water before it goes into receiving water bodies. And then were using incentives to get people to build Green Infrastructure in their neighborhoods. The Stewardship Program has been available since 2008, a partnership with the Community Challenge grant to do sidewalk landscaping which rainwater harvesting and Green Infrastructure. But weve recognised that a lot of that effort with the watershed stewardship grant was in the public realm and on schools leaving out a lot of those really large impervious surfaces that we need to capture stormwater off of. So we established this year the Green InfrastructureGrant Program in february to really try and scale up our efforts on impervious parcels. So we have 6. 4 million available to give away to grantees for Green Infrastructure. And so far, we have three in the queue. Just a quick note that the far left and far right photos have accidentally been swapped. So those are mislabeled, for but the ron i reason im showig current conditions, they were just awarded and not under construction but you can see in three photos how impervious these sites are and how little access to nature or ecological function is available on a lot of the sites and so our hope is to get the winwin opportunities where the puc can leverage Stormwater Management and recipients of our grant funds can get the programming and investment that they need to have ecological function and opportunities for Environmental Education on site. And then the last way that we integrate Green Infrastructure into the landscape is by building it through Capital Projects. And our first effort to do that was to do one in each of our eight urban watersheds. Weve completed six so far. And you can see some of the resulting photos here, some in the streetscapes and some in partnership with rec park, managing stormwater in parks and this is a way to really bring ecological function back into what is a very dense and impervious city and to be able to have multiple plantings in the streetscape. To make sure this is of high quality over the years, weve created and launched a bunch of different Technical Assistance materials. They go from planning, designing construction through maintenance and inspection and some next steps for that are to have curriculum and workshops for them to dig deeper into the topics and were looking for Strategic Partnerships where agencies can come together to manage stormwater and deliver multiple benefits. One example is on the octavia boulevard where they could leverage impact fees but needed a partner to offer assistance and maintain that. So were entering into an mou to do that. And then what we always are keeping our eye on from a participation inspecto perspectt are we getting . And this shows the stacked benefits of having those regulatory incentivebased and capital interventions in the landscape. So by 2032, wore looking to manage about half a billion of gallons of stormwater to keep it out of our sewer system and continue our efforts to a longterm goal of removing a billion gallons a year using Green Infrastructure and that would be about a tenth or 10 of all of the rain that falls on San Francisco. And just as important as the Stormwater Management, the whole point is to deliver multiple benefits to San Francisco. In terms of the place making with a stormwater performance, weve done a lot of different modeling exercises and this just represents one scenario. So its meant to be representative. And it shows that by leveraging this investment, we could have about 200 boxes of green streets, eight miles of daylighted creeks, 50 stormwater schools or parks and all of those, would, of course, be in concert posing what kind of programming and investments do you need and want to deliver and how can stormwater be a part of that . So were eager to integrate stormwater into the benefits that other folks are looking for. So over the past decade, Green Infrastructure has come a long way but we have work to do to amplify and scale it up as we would like to see it citywide. These are efforts were looking at moving into the next two years, stormwater credit trading which could amplify the regulatoriests we the Design Community and were looking at joint Capital Project delivery with partners and were going to be expanding our Technical Assistance portfolio, as well as working on integrated projects as the work on resilience really gets am