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Okay. Once the door closes which i think it is okay. Item 4. Okay madam clerk call item 4. Admiting the recession and open space element. Okay. Im the sponsor of item number 4 this legislation all the times the general plan and sets the citys Long Term Strategy to make sure the stunt of our streets keep part of our urban forest this plan, which is exciting were moving forward with it is long overdue and longterm in the the making i want to commend the department of public works and for the thoughtful and deliberate process that processes this document the plan was supported by the Planning Com...

The committee to my left is supervisor cohen our vice chair jane kim will not be joining us today shes been called into jury duty your clerk is andrea ashbury and i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting todays hearing jonathan and the others. Madam clerk, any announcements . All electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 2nd, 2015 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Call item one. On ordinance to define homeless shelters. The mayor is the sponsor we have the Plan...

Need of as supervisor wiener seven hundred we need a road map in dealing with the street trees one of the most important recommends is the sustainable Funding Source for street trees in San Francisco history of street trees in San Francisco is very long and very 2r0ub8d because it supervisors board of directors has given money prefixing and taken away money this is not the way to take care of urban trees they need to be taken care of i strongly recommend the supervisors endorse this plan. Thank you. John im on the board of friends of urban forest and want to thank you for having this hearing a...

Health and wellness with things like traffic calming so some of the studies for the first serve those are overall urban forest estimates as a Capital Asset in the city the city trees if we replaced them will be 1. 7 billion each year the trees give back benefits to the city and theres an estimate theyre responsible for one hundred percent of the Property Values so this you know one of the things that San Francisco is a top list of the world stresses but many of the citys trees we have a lack of green trees as the supervisor mentioned we have one the lowest canopies of street trees in the Unite...

Are budget challenges trees are the first thing to be slight out of the budget i wont have confidence we want to with the urban forest fund to make sure we have the lockbox funding for the trees that the city has the creation felt funds is conditioned on the city taking back the robot so if the city starts dumping trees the fund wont go away so we have longshoreman funding so i a look forward to that so with that supervisor cohen could i have a motion to forward item 4 to the full board well take that without objection. That will be the order thank you, everyone. Okay madam clerk call item 2. ...