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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the september 23, 2013. The San Francisco Small Business commission. The meeting is called to order. I will conduct a roll call. Commissioner adams, here, dwight, here, obrien, cartagena, riley, here. Commissioner white . White is on her way and dooley has an excused absence. Thank you, mr. President. Item no. 2, Public Comment. Anyone wish to make a comment on items that are not on the agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is close. Item no. 3, approval of the september 9, 2013, meeting minutes. Second to approve. All in favor say, aye. . Aye. Next item. No. 4....

Ive had joes cable car burgerseses and they are the best burgerses in town. Thank you. Regular customers say they cant enjoy a burger anywhere else. Joes cable car is a landmark in the excelsior and in San Francisco, and they cater to food consewers who appreciate the time and effort that goes into serving the ultimate burger and that is why joes is fresh chuck daily usda choice beef only. We are sorry to see him go. His last day of operation will be sunday, march 16th. Thats coming very, very quickly, and many, many people will be very sorry to see you close your doors. Its a neighborhood ins...

As i mentioned, this is a former Redevelopment Area plan and pursuant to those requirements, 25 of the housing that is built in this area plan must be affordable to lowincome and an additional 10 must be affordable to moderate income residents. We do have mike rizzo who is a senior project manager of the office of Community Investment and infrastructure here to give a brief presentation on the background of the area and details of the transaction to answer any questions from the board. Thank you. So, with that id like to invite up city staff. If you have any brief comments youd like to make. I...

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 to care for their trees theyre facing maintenance and some of the trees are large trees maintained by...

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 adj...