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Chair mar good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, february 20 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. I am supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee, and im joined by Committee Member supervisor matt haney and supervisor raphael mandelman, who is substituting for supervisor peskin, who are unable to be here. Id like to thank john carroll, our clerk, and sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes, thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure you silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Copies of documents and...

Its also important to note that the use of these guidelines are discretionary. Unlike other guidelines that are triggered by a particular zoning or petition, these are voluntary by the applicant and would be requested by the staff or one of the commissions. Ill get into a little more detail about the Design Guidelines themselves. I think its important to note that the retained elements Design Guidelines are focused on the how, how you do something. Once you weigh the options and consider whether there is something existing that should be maintained, then the next question is how to do it so th...

Have another meritorious thats been submitted, and a cliff rescue. Im going to mention lieutenant baxter, cliff baxter. He manages to be two or three places at the same time, but i really want to give kudos to lieutenant chief baxter. Theyre going to the Police Department academy, talking to the protectionabationary acade talking to them about what we need, doing it in a very professional way, explaining what we need in terms of parking, not blocking hydrants, and were really building a strong relationship with the Police Department right now, that i really am proud of them for, and thats also...

At slalom consulting. For disclosure, i serve as a member of san raphael fire commission, but in my role today, im only speaking as a slalom consultant. So building on sarahs conduct, this leveraged a paperbased system as she mentioned, but the d. P. A. This year made a focused investment on d. P. A. Technology to introduce a foundational tool to introduce timely and accurate report with specific reference to 1421 in mind. The tool provides near realtime visibility to cases in progress and opportunity for improved efficiency in collaboration. Looking forward, the d. P. A. Can leverage case dat...

We see decline. You can see the patches where there arent any leaves at all. That is a sign the tree is in decline. The other big challenge is the root system of the tree are aggressive and can impact nearby utilities, and we can fix the sidewalk around the tree in many cases. We dont want to cuts the roots too severely because we can destabilize the tree. In a city like San Francisco our walks are not that wide. We have had to clear the branches away from the properties. Most of th the can canopy is one street side and that is heavyweight on those branches out over the street. That can be a f...