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Challenges, our overall goal, were trying to move toward is be able to sustain a 15year tree management cycle. We want to do tree management maintenance on each parked tree in maintained open space on a 15year schedule. And we are attempting to do that through, basically, three strategy approaches here and we do have our daytoday tree maintenance. Our tree crews who do the daytoday tree maintenance and our reactive resource to get out and take care of things in realtime, as tree issues occur. And we do tree assessments each year. We use a thirdparty contractor. Hortscience is our city provider...

Years, that 500 a year to establish that costing 1500. If you break that down into per visit, if youre making 52 visits in a year, it comes out to 10 per visit and were cog g a lot of that. The hesitation on our part, we dont want to plant a tree if we dont have a program in place to water it. And currently our watering staff is maxed out as many trees as we can water as they take trees off the list as theres room to add more trees. As we talked about, we have a goal from the urban forest plan to plant 50,000 new trees and you can imagine what that will cost if we have to plant and water those...

Not culminating but you were the dean of Harvard Law School. When i was at Harvard Law School i had a teacher that changed my life. Guest ive learned so much from you through the years, so thank you. I love the book because it has your voice. Its compassionate and wise. From access to the highest legal power to writing a book about forgiveness. At that time the Reconciliation Commission in south africa had just started and i was so intrigued by the development of the new Legal Institution to deal with violence and depression in finding an alternative to these response ever since that time, peo...

Tree or limb failures. So our strategies with these resources in tackling those challenges, our overall goal, were trying to move toward is be able to sustain a 15year tree management cycle. We want to do tree management maintenance on each parked tree in maintained open space on a 15year schedule. And we are attempting to do that through, basically, three strategy approaches here and we do have our daytoday tree maintenance. Our tree crews who do the daytoday tree maintenance and our reactive resource to get out and take care of things in realtime, as tree issues occur. And we do tree assessm...

The communicators. Congresswoman clarke, thanks for being here. I want to start with the smart cities caucus. First of all what is it and how do you envision smart cities . Guest we decided to establish a bipartisan smart cities caucus. Originally darrell issa was my cochair. Its now congresswoman from indiana susan brooks. We knew that already technology is a major part of our lives. Its the utility that we can use to make sure that we are economically feasible going into the future, that we are efficient in our use of energy, and it enables us as a society to be far more productive than our ...