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We are in london. I am guy johnson. And i am olivia sterns. Also coming up, a bloomberg exclusive. For the first time in three unveilingoschino is its collection in london and not milan. We are finding out why. Brandsporsche is making making moves to preserve its racecar past. We will speak to its ceo as well. First, lets return to our top story. Seven weeks after General Electric made a bid for alstoms energy assets, a story that bloomberg broke, siemens has made a counteroffer. We have the details of the siemens did. Bid. It is a little confusing. Good morning. You are right. This idea that ...

Susceptible to inspects, the red beetle, et cetera. Overall hort science found our urban forest to be relatively healthy an only recommending a very small number of trees to be removed. Because nobody likes to see one of our big, beautiful, Majestic Trees removed, but after expensive study these were deem to be atrisk of failure. So i thought some context would be helpful. There was no Public Comment and with that well entertain a motion. So moved. Moved and seconded. All those in favor . A. So moved. We are now on item 10, Park Maintenance standards report. Good morning commissioners, general...

It back over to steve to give you more details and talk a little bit about what department is doing and is planning to do to respond to some of our recommendations. So overall scores this year were incredibly consistent over last year. They did go up from 88. 3 on average last year to 88. 4 this year. So that is pretty consistent and generally pretty highscoring. In terms of look at longer term, going back to the beginning of the parks program, you can see that the overall trend park scores have improved and then this also just breaks down for you you can see kind of orderly how the park score...

Again they have been very stable. The changes since the last year are fairly small. And over the time you can see that the department is has really different focus to the area s where there is high use, the gardens, restrooms, athletic fields have improved. There are low use areas, wider in acreage and harder to maintain, but also, it reflects the park evaluation process itself. And something that were working on. The open space is only graded on a single score. And as a result, it can vary in its score greatly from evaluator to evaluator and from time to time this. Kind of oscillation is part...

Rating of 9 as the threshold for actually abating the tree meaning removing the tree. So in Golden Gate Park, and we did this citywide, in Golden Gate Park. There were 336 trees overall with a ranking of 9 or above and among those 126 were Monterey Pines and 78 were monterey cyprus and the rest blue gums. From there, hort science gave us the recommendation to remove a number of the trees. Its worth noting that Monterey Pines were the Largest Group and two reasons for this. First Monterey Pines in Golden Gate Park are what hort science refers to as largely overmature in development, which means...