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Urban Forest Council this is the product of many many months of work and is really overdue because the city is in desperate 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 e...

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 Planning Department to present following by mr. Duffy. Good afternoon. Supervisors im kim the planner with the San Francisco...

Catastrophic fires have severe longterm impacts to watersheds which are felt far beyond the area directly impacted by the fire. Unlike the more employers the aftermath from the severe fires we are experiencing as a result of the unnatural force conditions increased sediment loads and debris the reduce the Storage Capacity and a reservoirs and affect the predictability of runoff. Increased organics and sediment led to increase capitol. The cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. We know from science and experience and we know we need to act quickly to then overcrowding. The levels of governmen...

America. And there are still barriers like in my state tragically and it gets back to the earlier question cynthia, about jobs. In new york state, we have the same shale gas resource that they do in pennsylvania. In pennsylvania, they have 60 to 80,000 jobs good paying jobs developing that domestic source of clean gas. In new york state, we have a moratorium we have nothing. And we need to develop resources like that. The second thing i do on energy is create an integrated north american concept of energy independence. Canada developed massive resources. That was why the Keystone Pipeline was ...

Protect our watershed. Were also involved in a project with the Forest Service, bureau of reclamation city and national tore rest foundation to treat the 634,000 acre watershed that drains into the cc craigen reservoir. The projects were currently involved with highlight the need to improve federal policy to more efficiently make progress in restoring our forests and protecting our watersheds. Specifically there is a need to improve both Fire Suppression budgeting and the planning and compliance process for restoration proper skrektss. The cc craigen is a perfect example of why we need to addr...