00:01:36 OFFICIAL FILING WITH YOUR COMMITTEE.
00:01:41 >> FINALLY, ITEMS AFTER THE PUNCH TODAY ARE EXPECTED TO
00:01:42 APPEAR ON THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AGENDA OF OCTOBER
00:01:47 6TH, 2026 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED.
00:01:51 >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. WILL YOU PLEASE CALL ITEM
00:01:52 NUMBER ONE? YES.
00:01:54 ITEM NUMBER ONE IS A HEARING TO CONSIDER THAT THE TRANSFER OF A
00:01:57 TYPE 21 OFF SALE GENERAL BEER, WINE AND DISTILLED SPIRITS
00:02:01 LIQUOR LICENSE AND THE TRANSFER OF A TYPE 86 EDUCATIONAL
00:02:04 TASTING LICENSE TO NAJWA ANC DOING BUSINESS AS QUITE LIQUORS
00:02:09 LOCATED AT 1657 POWELL STREET IN DISTRICT THREE WILL SERVE
00:02:12 THE PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OR NECESSITY OF THE CITY
00:02:16 AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. >> THANK YOU MADAM CLERK
00:02:19 AND I'D LIKE TO BEGIN BY WELCOMING OFFICER BRENNAN
00:02:21 ERICKSON FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO POLICE DEPARTMENT LIAISON UNIT
00:02:23 TO THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL
00:02:27 OFFICER ERICKSON GOOD MORNING SUPERVISORS.
00:02:31 THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU A REPORT
00:02:33 FOR NAJWA INC OPERATING DOING BUSINESS AS COYOTE LIQUORS.
00:02:39 THEY HAVE APPLIED FOR A TYPE 21 LICENSE AND IF APPROVED THIS
00:02:40 WILL ALLOW THEM TO OPERATE AN OFF SALE GENERAL LIQUOR STORE
00:02:43 TO BE LOCATED AT 1657 POWELL STREET.
00:02:46 >> THERE ARE ZERO LETTERS OF PROTEST AND ZERO LETTERS OF
00:02:50 SUPPORT. THEY ARE LOCATED IN PLOT 130
00:02:53 WHICH IS CONSIDERED A HIGH CRIME AREA.
00:02:56 THEY ARE IN CENSUS TRACT 107.02 WHICH IS CONSIDERED A HIGH
00:03:00 CONCENTRATION AREA. CENTRAL STATION HAS NO
00:03:03 OPPOSITION MOU RECOMMENDATION APPROVAL WITH THE FOLLOWING
00:03:08 CONDITIONS CONDITION NUMBER ONE PETITION PETITIONER SHALL
00:03:11 ACTIVELY MONITOR THE AREA UNDER THEIR CONTROL IN AN EFFORT TO
00:03:12 PREVENT THE LOITERING OF PERSONS ON ANY PROPERTY
00:03:16 ADJACENT TO THE LICENSE PREMISES AS DEPICTED ON THE ABC
00:03:20 FORM. 257 CONDITION TWO THE
00:03:23 PETITIONER SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING FREE OF LITTER
00:03:27 THE AREA ADJACENT TO THE PREMISES OVER WHICH THEY HAVE
00:03:30 CONTROL AS DEPICTED ON ABC FORUM 257.
00:03:33 >> THANK YOU OFFICER ERICKSON AND I BELIEVE WE DO HAVE
00:03:37 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE APPLICANT THIS MORNING.
00:03:39 YOU'RE WELCOME TO SPEAK IF YOU'D LIKE TO BUT NOT REQUIRED
00:03:44 . GOOD MORNING BOARD KARVELAS
00:03:45 FOLLOWING THOSE ON BEHALF OF MR. SORRY I JUST WANTED TO PUT
00:03:48 ON THE RECORD THAT WE ASKED THE BOARD TO CONTINUE LICENSING AS
00:03:52 OFFICER HAS HOPEFULLY AGREED YOU KNOW HE'S ON A PUBLIC
00:03:59 CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY. HE'S BEEN A GREAT COMMUNITY
00:04:00 MEMBER AND HE CONTINUES TO BE LIKED AND DOES WELL IN THE
00:04:04 COMMUNITY AND IF MR. QADHI WANT TO SAY ANYTHING ON BEHALF YEAH
00:04:08 THAT THE REASON FOR MOVING THE TRANSFER AS WAS THAT HE DIDN'T
00:04:12 KNOW WAS BECAUSE I LOST MY STORE IN A FIRE AT 585 COLUMBUS
00:04:17 AND THIS WAY I MOVED TO 1657 POSSIBLE TEMPORARY TILL THE
00:04:20 BUILDING BUILD OUT AND HOPEFULLY I GO BACK
00:04:23 IN THERE QUITE LIKE I HAVE BEEN SINCE 1961 IN THE SAME
00:04:26 NEIGHBORHOOD, SAME BEAUTIFUL NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE AREA IS
00:04:30 GETTING BETTER AND BETTER THAN BEFORE AND ALWAYS TOOK CARE OF
00:04:34 THE BUSINESS ALWAYS LESS CLIENTS.
00:04:35 WE HAVE THE BEST CLIENTS AND WE LOVE THE NEIGHBORS AND TO BE
00:04:38 IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND ALWAYS THE SUPPORT FROM EVERYONE.
00:04:41 THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
00:04:45 >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. SEEING NO OTHER COMMENTS FROM
00:04:49 MY COLLEAGUES, CAN WE OPEN THIS UP TO PUBLIC COMMENT PLEASE?
00:04:50 >> YES. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH
00:04:53 TO SPEAK ON THIS HEARING SHOULD LINE UP NOW ALONG THE SIDE BY
00:04:55 THE WINDOWS. >> ALL SPEAKERS WILL HAVE TWO
00:04:57 MINUTES. >> MR. CHAIR, WE HAVE NO PUBLIC
00:05:01 COMMENT FOR THIS ITEM. THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.
00:05:04 >> PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW CLOSED.
00:05:05 I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF KNOWING LIQUOR FOR MANY YEARS
00:05:09 AND PROPRIETOR AS WELL AND I THINK HE IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE
00:05:13 OF A FANTASTIC MERCHANT SMALL BUSINESS OWNER SOMEONE WHO
00:05:19 TAKES CARE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD THROUGH HIS MANY BUSINESSES
00:05:20 AND SO VERY HAPPY TO SUPPORT THIS TO MAKE SURE THAT LIQUOR
00:05:23 CAN CONTINUE FOR MANY YEARS AHEAD AND THAT CIOTTI CONTINUES
00:05:27 TO TAKE CARE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD AS HE ALWAYS DOES
00:05:30 . SO WITH THAT I'D LIKE TO MOVE
00:05:31 THAT THE CLERK PREPARE RESOLUTION MAKING A
00:05:34 DETERMINATION THAT THE TRANSFER OF A TYPE 21 OFF SALE GENERAL
00:05:37 BEER WINE AND DISTILLED SPIRIT LICENSE AND THE TRANSFER OF A
00:05:41 TYPE 86 EDUCATIONAL LICENSE TO THE APPLICANT WOULD SERVE THE
00:05:44 PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OR NECESSITY .
00:05:48 YES I'M ON THAT MOTION DIRECTING THE CLERK TO PREPARE
00:05:49 A RESOLUTION AND FOLLOWING THAT RESOLUTION TO THE FULL BOARD
00:05:53 WITH POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION. REMEMBER WONG REMEMBER WONG I
00:05:57 SHALL MAHMOOD VICE CHAIR MAHMUD I CHAIR SLAUGHTER CHAIR
00:06:02 SLAUGHTER I HAVE THREE EYES WITHOUT THE MOTION PASSES.
00:06:03 >> CONGRATULATIONS TO THE APPLICANT MADAM CLERK WOULD YOU
00:06:07 PLEASE CALL ITEM NUMBER TWO? YES.
00:06:10 ITEM NUMBER TWO IS A HEARING TO CONSIDER THAT THE PERSON TO
00:06:13 PERSON PREMISE TO PREMISE TRANSFER OF A TYPE 21 OFF SALE
00:06:16 GENERAL BEER WINE AND DISTILLED SPIRITS LIQUOR LICENSE TO
00:06:20 MISSION BAY COMMUNITY MARKET LOCATED AT 1360 FOURTH STREET
00:06:23 AND DISTRICT SIX WILL SERVE THE PUBLIC CONVENIENCE
00:06:26 AND NECESSITY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
00:06:30 >> OH THANK YOU. AND WITH THAT WILL WELCOME
00:06:31 OFFICER ERICKSON BACK. THANK YOU.
00:06:34 YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU A REPORT FOR MISSION BAY COMMUNITY
00:06:38 MARKET OPERATING AS MISSION BAY COMMUNITY MARKET.
00:06:42 THEY HAVE APPLIED FOR A TYPE 21 LICENSE AND IF APPROVED THIS
00:06:43 WILL ALLOW THEM TO OPERATE AN OFF SELL GENERAL SUPERMARKET TO
00:06:46 BE LOCATED AT 1360 FOURTH STREET.
00:06:49 >> THERE ARE ZERO LETTERS OF PROTEST AND ZERO LETTERS OF
00:06:53 SUPPORT. >> THEY ARE LOCATED IN PLOT 295
00:06:55 WHICH IS CONSIDERED A HIGH CRIME AREA.
00:06:59 THEY ARE IN CENSUS TRACT 607.01 WHICH IS CONSIDERED A HIGH
00:07:02 CONCENTRATION AREA. SOUTHERN STATION HAS NO
00:07:06 OPPOSITION MOU RECOMMENDATION APPROVAL WITH THE FOLLOWING
00:07:10 CONDITIONS CONDITION ONE PETITIONER SHALL ACTIVELY
00:07:13 MONITOR THE AREA UNDER THEIR CONTROL IN AN EFFORT TO PREVENT
00:07:18 THE LOITERING OF PERSONS ON ANY PROPERTY ADJACENT TO THE
00:07:21 LICENSE PREMISES AS DEPICTED ON THE ABC FORM 257.
00:07:24 LASTLY CONDITION TO THE PETITIONER SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE
00:07:28 FOR MAINTAINING FREE OF LITTER THE AREA ADJACENT TO THE
00:07:29 PREMISES OVER WHICH THEY HAVE CONTROL AS DEPICTED ON ABC FORM
00:07:35 257. >> THANK YOU OFFICER ERICKSON
00:07:36 AND IF WE DO HAVE ANY ANY MEMBERS OF THE APPLICANT YOU'RE
00:07:39 WELCOME TO SPEAK. >> THANK YOU.
00:07:42 GOOD MORNING. HEY, GOOD MORNING.
00:07:45 >> HEY, GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS RAYDENE SALINAS.
00:07:49 I'M THE OWNER OF THE MISSION BAY COMMUNITY MARKET LOCATED AT
00:07:52 1360 FOURTH STREET. >> SO ALCOHOL WILL ONLY BE A
00:07:56 PORTION OF OUR OF OUR OVERALL PRODUCT SELECTION.
00:08:03 SO WE'RE NOT INTEND TO OPERATE AS A LIQUOR STORE LICENSE WILL
00:08:07 ALLOW US TO PROVIDE GOOD WINE SPIRITS AS PART O THAT BROADER
00:08:11 GROCERY SHOPPING EXPERIENCE FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS
00:08:13 AND THE MISSION BAY. SO WE RESPECTFULLY ASK THE
00:08:19 COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT OUR APPLICATION.
00:08:22 >> THANK YOU. AND WE WILL HEAR FROM THE
00:08:26 MISSION BASIC ADVISOR HIMSELF THROUGH RESIDENCY.
00:08:27 >> GREAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
00:08:30 CHAIR SLAUGHTER I WILL SAY YOU KNOW IT'S INTERESTING HOW
00:08:33 IN THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE WHEN WE GRANT A LIQUOR LICENSE
00:08:35 WE ALWAYS USE THE LANGUAGE PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OR NECESSITY
00:08:38 AND THAT'S ACTUALLY ORIGINATES IN STATE LAW.
00:08:41 IT'S A FINDING THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE.
00:08:42 BUT IN THIS CASE I REALLY DO THINK MISSION BAY REALLY THIS
00:08:46 REALLY DOES SERVE THE CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY
00:08:49 IN MISSION BAY BECAUSE THERE ISN'T A STORE LIKE THIS.
00:08:52 SO I JUST WANT TO EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION TO YOU FOR
00:08:54 SUPPORTING THIS NEW UP AND COMING NEIGHBORHOOD.
00:08:56 I WILL GIVE YOU A CARD IF YOU EVER HAVE YOU KNOW I WILL YOU
00:09:00 WILL SEE ME THERE. SO I JUST APPRECIATE.
00:09:03 THANK YOU. I BELIEVE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
00:09:04 APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT. THANK YOU VERY GOOD.
00:09:07 >> THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR DORSEY AND THANK YOU TO THE APPLICANT,
00:09:08 MADAM CLERK. LET'S NOW OPEN PUBLIC COMMENT
00:09:11 PLEASE. >> YES.
00:09:12 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS THIS ITEM
00:09:15 SHOULD LINE UP NOW ALONG THE SIDE BY THE WINDOWS.
00:09:16 ALL SPEAKERS WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES.
00:09:21 >> MR. CHAIR, WE HAVE NO PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS HEARING.
00:09:25 THANK YOU. AND PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW
00:09:26 CLOSED AND SEEING NO FURTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS I'D LIKE
00:09:30 TO MOVE THAT THE CLERK PREPARE A RESOLUTION MAKING A
00:09:33 DETERMINATION THAT THE PERSON TO PERSON PREMISES VARIANCE
00:09:34 TRANSFER OF A TYPE 21 OFF SALE GENERAL BEER AND WINE DISTILLED
00:09:38 SPIRITS LIQUOR LICENSE TO THE APPLICANT OR TO SERVE THE
00:09:41 PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OR NECESSITY YES AND ON THAT MOTION
00:09:45 DIRECTING THE CLERK TO PREPARE A RESOLUTION AND FORWARDING
00:09:49 THAT RESOLUTION TO THE FULL BOARD WAS POSITIVE
00:09:52 RECOMMENDATION REMEMBER LONG NEVER LONG I'VE I SHARE MAHMUD
00:09:56 VICE-CHAIR MAHMUD I CHAIR SLAUGHTER CHAIR SLAUGHTER I
00:10:00 HAVE THREE EYES THANK YOU MADAM CLERK THE MOTION PASSES.
00:10:02 >> CONGRATULATIONS TO THE APPLICANT AND MADAM CLERK,
00:10:05 COULD YOU PLEASE CALL ITEM NUMBER THREE NOW?
00:10:08 >> YES. ITEM NUMBER THREE IS A HEARING
00:10:09 TO CONSIDER THAT THE PERSON TO PERSON PREMISE TO PREMISE
00:10:12 TRANSFER OF A TYPE 21 OFF SALE GENERAL BEER WINE AND DISTILLED
00:10:16 SPIRITS LIQUOR LICENSE TO AN ARIANA FARMER'S MARKET LOCATED
00:10:20 AT 4929 MISSION STREET IN DISTRICT 11 WILL SERVE THE
00:10:23 PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OR NECESSITY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN
00:10:27 FRANCISCO. >> THANK YOU MADAM CLERK
00:10:30 AND LET'S WELCOME OFFICER ERICKSON BACK AGAIN.
00:10:31 >> THANK YOU. YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU A OF REPORT
00:10:35 FOR NARAYANA FARMER'S MARKET DOING BUSINESS AS NARAYANA
00:10:38 FARMER'S MARKET THEY HAVE APPLIED FOR A TYPE 21 LICENSE
00:10:42 AND IF APPROVED THIS WOULD ALLOW THEM TO OPERATE AND OFF
00:10:43 SELL GENERAL SUPERMARKET TO BE LOCATED AT 4929 MISSION STREET
00:10:48 THERE ARE ZERO ZERO LETTERS OF PROTEST ZERO LETTERS OF SUPPORT
00:10:51 THEY ARE LOCATED IN LOT 896 WHICH IS CONSIDERED A LOW CRIME
00:10:54 AREA. THEY ARE IN CENSUS TRACT 260.04
00:10:58 WHICH IS CONSIDERED A LOW CONCENTRATION AREA.
00:11:02 INGLESIDE STATION HAS NO OPPOSITION MOU RECOMMENDATION
00:11:05 APPROVAL WITH THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS CONDITION ONE
00:11:09 PETITIONER SHALL ACTIVELY MONITOR THE AREA UNDER THE
00:11:10 CONTROL AND AN EFFORT TO PREVENT THE LOITERING OF
00:11:14 PERSONS ON ANY PROPERTY ADJACENT TO THE LICENSED
00:11:17 PREMISES AS DEPICTED ON THE ABC FORM 257 CONDITION TWO THE
00:11:20 PETITIONER SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING FREE OF LITTER
00:11:24 THE AREA ADJACENT TO THE PREMISE OVER WHICH THEY HAVE
00:11:28 CONTROL AS DEPICTED ON THE ABC FORM 257 THANK YOU OFFICER
00:11:31 ERICKSON AND BE HAPPY TO WELCOME THE APPLICANT HERE THIS
00:11:36 MORNING IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY.
00:11:39 >> GOOD MORNING SUPERVISORS. MS. CREIGHTON I DO ALL OF US
00:11:43 THESE APPLICANTS AND THEIR SUPERMARKET ARE HIGHLY REGARDED
00:11:46 IN THE MISSION DISTRICT. THEY'RE WELL KNOWN FOR BEING
00:11:50 RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS OWNERS WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT IF
00:11:51 YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A LIQUOR LICENSE.
00:11:54 I HAD REQUESTED THAT THEY PURCHASE A PROCESS ITEM WITH AN
00:11:58 ID READER. IT'S VERY BENEFICIAL IF YOU
00:11:59 HAVE A STORE THAT SELLS LIQUOR. THEY AGREED TO THAT AND THEY
00:12:03 DID PURCHASE IT AND THE VENDOR IS GOING TO COME AND PROGRAM IT
00:12:06 FOR THEM. WE'RE HOPING THAT YOU'LL
00:12:07 SUPPORT THIS APPLICATION THIS MORNING.
00:12:09 I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP
00:12:13 AND YOUR SERVICE TO OUR CITY. >> THANK YOU AND THANK YOU.
00:12:16 AND WITH THAT, MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE OPEN UP PUBLIC
00:12:18 COMMENT ON THIS ITEM? >> YES.
00:12:21 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM SHALL
00:12:22 LINE UP NOW ALONG THE SIDE BY THE WINDOWS.
00:12:25 >> ALL SPEAKERS WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES.
00:12:28 >> MR. CHAIR, WE HAVE NO PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS HEARING.
00:12:32 >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK. WITH THAT PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW
00:12:33 CLOSED AND SEE NO FURTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM MY
00:12:36 COLLEAGUES I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT THE CLERK PREPARE A
00:12:40 RESOLUTION MAKING A DETERMINATION THAT THE PERSON A
00:12:43 PERSON PREMISE TO PREMISE TRANSFER OF A TYPE 21 OFF SALE
00:12:45 GENERAL BEER WINE AND DISTILLED SPIRITS LIQUOR LICENSE TO THE
00:12:49 APPLICANT WOULD SERVE THE PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OR NECESSITY
00:12:53 . >> YES AND ON THAT MOTION
00:12:54 DIRECTING THE CLERK TO PREPARE A RESOLUTION AND FORWARDING
00:12:58 THAT RESOLUTION TO THE FULL BOARD WITH POSITIVE
00:12:59 RECOMMENDATION REMEMBER WANG REMEMBER WANG I VICE CHAIR
00:13:02 MAHMOOD VICE CHAIR MAHMUD I CHAIR SLAUGHTER CHAIR SLAUGHTER
00:13:06 I HAVE THREE EYES. >> THANK YOU, MADAM CLERK.
00:13:09 AND WITH THAT THE MOTION PASSES.
00:13:12 MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU PLEASE CALL OUR NEXT ITEM?
00:13:14 >> ITEM NUMBER FOUR? YES.
00:13:16 ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS A HEARING ON THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
00:13:18 WORKS RESPONSE TO A LETTER OF INQUIRY REGARDING TREE CANOPY
00:13:21 QUALITY AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN DISTRICT SIX.
00:13:24 >> THANK YOU MADAM CLERK AND I KNOW THIS IS AN ITEM THE LARGER
00:13:31 ITEM OF TREES IS SOMETHING WE'RE ALL INTERESTED IN TODAY
00:13:33 WE'RE GOING TO BE FOCUSING SPECIFICALLY IN DISTRICT SIX.
00:13:35 SO GIVEN THAT I WOULD LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO MY COLLEAGUE
00:13:37 DISTRICT SIX SUPERVISOR DORSEY TO LEAD THIS HEARING TODAY.
00:13:40 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH CHAIR SONNER FOR SCHEDULING THIS
00:13:44 HEARING. COLLEAGUES, DURING MY TIME
00:13:47 IN THIS ROLE ON THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MY STAFF AND I HAVE
00:13:51 HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS WITH THE RESIDENTS.
00:13:52 I REPRESENT WHO HAVE EXPRESSED A FAIR AMOUNT OF FRUSTRATION
00:13:55 AROUND THE CITY'S TREE PLANTING EFFORTS ARE ABOUT TREE EQUITY
00:14:02 AND CANOPY COVERAGE IN OUR DENSE NEIGHBORHOODS WE
00:14:03 REGULARLY GET QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW OUR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
00:14:07 AND GENERAL PLAN COMMITMENTS ARE BEING CARRIED OUT AND WHAT
00:14:10 OUR CITY CAN DO TO GET MORE TREES PLANTED IN OUR
00:14:14 NEIGHBORHOODS. >> WHILE THESE CONCERNS SEEM TO
00:14:15 BE ESPECIALLY PRONOUNCED IN DISTRICT SIX WHERE MY
00:14:18 RESIDENTS CONTINUE TO ALERT MY OFFICE TO EMPTY TREE BASINS
00:14:25 IN SOUTH OF MARKET IN RINCON HILL MISSION BAY AND ELSEWHERE
00:14:29 ,I KNOW THAT PUBLIC INTEREST IN SAN FRANCISCO'S TREE CANOPY
00:14:30 IS NOT LIMITED TO MY DISTRICT EITHER.
00:14:33 EARLIER THIS YEAR I SUBMITTED A LETTER OF INQUIRY TO THE
00:14:37 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW THE CITY
00:14:40 IS IMPLEMENTING ITS TREE PLANTING REPLACEMENT
00:14:41 AND MAINTENANCE POLICIES PARTICULARLY IN SOUTH OF MARKET
00:14:45 AND OTHER DISTRICT SIX NEIGHBORHOODS WHICH HAVE BEEN
00:14:48 IDENTIFIED AS PRIORITY AREAS FOR OUR URBAN FORESTRY
00:14:51 INVESTMENT. FOR CONTEXT SOUTH OF MARKET HAS
00:14:55 LONG BEEN RECOGNIZED AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITY
00:14:58 AND AS ONE OF THE CITY'S MORE HEAT BURDENED PARK POOR
00:15:02 AND ENVIRONMENTALLY OVERBURDENED NEIGHBORHOODS.
00:15:03 CITY PLANS AND FUNDING PROGRAMS HAVE IDENTIFIED COMMUNITIES
00:15:06 LIKE SOMA AS PLACES WHERE ADDITIONAL TREE PLANTING CAN
00:15:10 MAKE A MEANINGFUL DIFFERENCE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH, CLIMATE
00:15:13 RESILIENCE AND NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOOD LIVABILITY.
00:15:18 AT THE SAME TIME, DISTRICT SIX RESIDENTS HAVE DONE EXTENSIVE
00:15:19 RESEARCH INTO WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING ON OR IN THE GROUND
00:15:26 IN THIS CASE. THEIR WORK HAS RAISED IMPORTANT
00:15:27 QUESTIONS ABOUT TREE CANOPY DISTRIBUTION, PLANTING
00:15:30 OUTCOMES, EMPTY TREE BASINS, REPLACEMENT PRACTICES, THE LOSS
00:15:35 OF EXISTING CANOPY AND WHETHER THE CITY'S FUNDING
00:15:38 AND OPERATIONAL DECISIONS ARE PRODUCING THE EQUITABLE
00:15:39 OUTCOMES THAT WE'VE COMMITTED TO.
00:15:42 THEY ALSO IDENTIFIED BASES FOR NEIGHBORHOOD EXPECTATIONS BEING
00:15:46 SET THAT DISTRICT SIX WOULD SEE SIGNIFICANT AND DENSE
00:15:50 INVESTMENTS IN ITS TREE CANOPY ONLY TO SEE THOSE INVESTMENTS
00:15:53 GO ELSEWHERE. THAT'S WHY I SUBMITTED A LETTER
00:15:56 OF INQUIRY. I WANTED A CLEARER
00:15:57 UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THESE DECISIONS WERE BEING MADE, HOW
00:16:01 EQUITY IS BEING APPLIED IN PRACTICE, WHERE RESOURCES
00:16:04 ARE BEING DIRECTED AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE RESULTS ON THE
00:16:08 GROUND DON'T APPEAR TO BE ALIGNING WITH WITH STATED GOALS
00:16:12 . >> I VERY MUCH APPRECIATED THE
00:16:13 DEPARTMENT'S DETAILED RESPONSE WHICH CERTAINLY HELPED TO
00:16:16 EDUCATE ME ON THE VARIOUS FACTORS PUBLIC WORKS CONSIDERS
00:16:20 IN ITS URBAN TREE CANOPY WORK. STILL, I THINK HEIGHTENED
00:16:24 PUBLIC INTEREST AMONG NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS
00:16:27 ESPECIALLY QUESTIONS AROUND FUNDING PLANNING PRIORITIES,
00:16:31 REPLACEMENT POLICIES AND HOW RESOURCES ARE BEING ALLOCATED
00:16:32 ACROSS VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS CITYWIDE MADE CLEAR TO ME THAT
00:16:36 THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT DEVOR THAT DESERVED MORE PUBLIC
00:16:39 AND PARTICIPATORY CONVERSATION THAT THIS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
00:16:43 HEARING AFFORDS. NOW HERE I SHOULD PROBABLY
00:16:47 SHARE HOW I VIEW THE ROLE OF HEARINGS BY THIS BODY CITY
00:16:50 CHARTER SECTION 16.1 14 VESTS THIS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS WITH
00:16:57 THE UNLIMITED POWER OF INQUIRY AND REVIEW AND FORMAL HEARINGS
00:17:01 IS ONE WAY WE EXERCISE THAT POWER.
00:17:04 OVER THE YEARS WORKING IN THIS BUILDING I HAVE SEEN HOW THESE
00:17:05 CAN SOMETIMES BE PERFORMATIVE EXERCISES THAT HAVE A LOT MORE
00:17:09 TO DO WITH GENERATING HEAT THAN SHEDDING LIGHT.
00:17:12 I WILL TELL YOU THAT ONE OF THE BIGGEST AXES I HAVE TO GRIND
00:17:16 ABOUT HOW POLITICS CAN PLAY OUT IN THIS CITY AND IN THIS
00:17:19 BUILDING AND HOW IT CAN REALLY DISTURB THE CAUSE OF GOOD
00:17:21 AND EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT IS THAT OVER THE YEARS I HAVE SEEN
00:17:24 BOARDS OF SUPERVISORS AND MAYORS FOR THAT MATTER SET
00:17:28 OUR CITY DEPARTMENTS UP FOR FAILURE AND THEN MAKE A BIG
00:17:32 PRODUCTION OF HAVING A HEARING TO BLAME THEM FOR FAILING.
00:17:35 THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I FIND USEFUL.
00:17:38 I DON'T THINK IT'S GOOD GOVERNMENT.
00:17:39 I HAVE STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT NOT DOING THAT.
00:17:43 THE ROLE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS AT LEAST IN PART SHOULD ALWAYS
00:17:46 CANDIDLY ASSESS TO WHAT CHALLENGES OUR DEPARTMENTS MAY
00:17:48 BE FACING IN MEETING THE EXPECTATIONS OF OUR CITY.
00:17:52 >> BUT WHAT WE AS ELECTED POLICYMAKERS AND BUDGET
00:17:55 DECISION MAKERS CAN BE DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR CITY
00:17:59 DEPARTMENTS ARE SUCCEEDING. SO WHEN WE ALL SUCCEED TOGETHER
00:18:03 WE BETTER SERVE OUR RESIDENTS. SO I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT I
00:18:06 INTEND FOR THIS TO BE A CONSTRUCTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE
00:18:10 HEARING. MY GOAL IS FOR US TO BETTER
00:18:11 UNDERSTAND AND NOT JUST ME BUT THE RESIDENTS WHO HAVE ALSO
00:18:14 BEEN WORKING ON THESE ISSUES. WHERE PUBLIC WORKS IS FACING
00:18:17 CHALLENGES. LET'S IDENTIFY WHERE THERE MAY
00:18:18 BE GAPS BETWEEN POLICY AND PRACTICE AND HAVE A
00:18:21 PRODUCTIVE DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW WE CAN ALL BEST ACCOMPLISH OUR
00:18:25 SHARED OBJECTIVES AND THAT'S TO GET MORE TREES PLANTED.
00:18:26 AND FOR MY RESIDENTS ESPECIALLY IN DISTRICT SIX.
00:18:29 SO BEFORE WE HEAR FROM THE DEPARTMENT, I WANT TO THANK
00:18:34 DISTRICT SIX RESIDENTS AND COMMUNITY ADVOCATES WHO
00:18:35 HAVE SPENT A GREAT DEAL OF TIME AND EFFORT TO RESEARCH THESE
00:18:40 ISSUES. I WILL SAY THAT SOME EXCELLENT
00:18:41 USE OF DATA RESOURCES I THINK IT'S REALLY FULFILLING THE
00:18:45 PROMISE OF THE TRANSPARENCY THAT THE CITY HAS COMMITTED TO
00:18:48 WITH DATA S.F. THAT PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY TAKING THIS
00:18:51 AND CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS AND ASKING TOUGH QUESTIONS
00:18:52 AND HOLDING THEIR SUPERVISORS ACCOUNTABLE AND THEN IN TURN
00:18:56 HOLDING CITY DEPARTMENTS ACCOUNTABLE.
00:18:57 BUT THIS IS THE WAY GOOD GOVERNMENT SUPPOSED TO WORK.
00:19:00 SO I APPRECIATE THAT THE WORK OF THE CITIZENRY IN THIS I
00:19:06 THINK THIS IS WHAT WHAT GOOD PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY IS
00:19:11 MODELING. AND WITH THAT I WOULD LIKE TO
00:19:15 WELCOME DAVID MOORE, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE BUREAU OF
00:19:16 URBAN FORESTRY OR FORESTRY TO PRESENT AND BEFORE THE
00:19:19 PRESENTATION. VERY BRIEFLY I KNOW THAT
00:19:23 SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD HAS REMARKS AS WELL AND THANK YOU SO
00:19:26 PRESIDENCY I JUST WANT TO THANK SUPERVISOR TRACY FOR CALLING
00:19:28 THIS HEARING AND I KNOW THIS THE FOCUS WILL BE ON DISTRICT
00:19:31 SIX YOUR LETTER OF INQUIRY I THINK STARTED A MUCH BROADER
00:19:34 CONVERSATION IN MY DISTRICT IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS AS WELL.
00:19:37 >> WHEN STARTING THIS JOB I DID NOT YOU DIDN'T WARN ME
00:19:41 SUPERVISOR DORSEY THAT TREES WOULD BE SUCH A BIG TOPIC THAT
00:19:44 MANY OF OUR CONSTITUENTS CARE ABOUT.
00:19:48 I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO MY WIFE MORE GIVEN SHE'S A
00:19:49 CERTIFIED PERSON BUT I THINK AS TALKING TO SO MANY
00:19:56 CONSTITUENTS, STREET TREES ARE ESSENTIAL TO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS
00:19:59 AND IN DISTRICT FIVE AND THE PROCESS AROUND HOW THEY'RE
00:20:03 PLANTED AND NOT PLANTED AND FUNDED OR NOT FUNDED IS
00:20:04 SOMETHING THAT WE REGULARLY HEAR ABOUT.
00:20:08 >> AND SO PARTICULARLY AROUND THE QUESTIONS AROUND WHAT
00:20:11 HAPPENS WITH AN EMPTY TREE WELL OR A TREE THE SIDEWALK OR EVERY
00:20:14 SAPLING THAT'S FIGHTING FOR LIFE TRYING TO TELL A COMPLEX
00:20:16 STORY OF PROBABLY BIOLOGY AND BUREAUCRACY AND SO REALLY
00:20:22 EXCITED TO DIVE INTO THIS HEARING TODAY TO UNDERSTAND HOW
00:20:24 WE COULD ENSURE EQUITY IN OUR CANOPY ESPECIALLY AS IT RELATES
00:20:27 TO NEIGHBORHOODS AND SOME OF THE HUB AND STANDS TO THE
00:20:31 TENDERLOIN AND HIS VALLEY TO THE CAN WE JUST HOPEFULLY AS
00:20:34 GREEN AS SAINT FRANCIS WOOD AND PRESIDIO HEIGHTS SO EXCITED
00:20:36 TO DIVE IN. >> THANK YOU SUPERVISOR DORSEY
00:20:39 AND WITH THAT WE WILL NOW PRESENT MY MOOD AND WITH THAT
00:20:42 WE WILL NOW GO TO DAVID MOORE, SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
00:20:46 BUREAU OF URBAN FORESTRY. >> MR. MOORE THANK YOU FOR
00:20:50 HAVING ME TODAY COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR THE RECORD MY
00:20:51 NAME'S DAVID MOORE I'M THE SUPERINTEND OF THE BUREAU OF
00:20:54 URBAN FORESTRY. IT'S AN HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO
00:20:57 BE HERE TODAY TO DISCUSS THIS IMPORTANT TOPIC AND I, I AGREE
00:21:01 WITH THE STATEMENTS THAT WERE MADE IS THAT PUBLIC WORKS
00:21:02 AND OUR BUREAU SHARE THE SAME GOALS AS THE COMMUNITY
00:21:06 IN ACHIEVING A FULLY FUNDED AND IMPLEMENTED URBAN FOREST
00:21:10 PLAN THAT WAS PASSED ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO.
00:21:13 >> I'LL START BY SAYING I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE HARD WORK
00:21:17 OF OUR STAFF. BUREAU OF URBAN FORESTRY
00:21:18 INCLUDES ABOUT 150 EMPLOYEES, A PORTION OF WHICH ARE FOCUSED ON
00:21:24 TREE PLANTING AND TREE WATERING AND ARE DOING THIS WORK
00:21:26 DILIGENTLY 5 TO 6 DAYS A WEEK YEAR ROUND THEY ARE PLANTING
00:21:32 TREES IN HOSTILE CONCRETE SIDEWALKS THAT IS NOT THE
00:21:39 NATURAL ENVIRONMENT FOR REALLY ANY PLANT YET WITH HARD WORK,
00:21:43 INGENUITY AND PERSEVERANCE THEY ARE DOING THEIR ABSOLUTE BEST
00:21:47 TO ACHIEVE THIS VISION. I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE
00:21:51 COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO WE HAVE WORKED WITH IN PARTNERSHIP
00:21:57 IN ALL FOUR OF YOUR DISTRICTS COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND THEY SHOW
00:22:00 UP AND INVEST THEIR OWN PERSONAL TIME IN HELPING KEEP
00:22:04 THESE TREES ALIVE ONCE THEY'RE PLANTED AND REPORTING TO US
00:22:08 QUICKLY IF SOMETHING'S GONE AWRY SO WE CAN COME IN AND
00:22:12 ADDRESS THAT SITUATION. AND I ALSO JUST WANT TO
00:22:13 RECOGNIZE THAT I'VE PERSONALLY SEEN OR WORKED WITH ALL FOUR OF
00:22:17 YOU ON SUCH THESE THESE PROJECTS IN OUR LANDSCAPES
00:22:21 IN THE URBAN FOREST, ON TREE PLANTING AND TREE CARE EVENTS
00:22:24 WITH PUBLIC WORKS AND APPRECIATE YOUR LEADERSHIP
00:22:26 AND HOW EACH OF YOU LIVE YOUR VALUES.
00:22:29 SO I THINK THAT THIS IS A PERFECT SETTING FOR THIS
00:22:32 CONVERSATION WITH ALL OF YOU HERE.
00:22:33 >> THE PHOTO ON OUR FIRST SLIDE IS ONE OF OUR TREE PLANTING
00:22:36 EVENTS WHICH WE CHOSE BECAUSE IT INCLUDES VOLUNTEERS WORKING
00:22:42 ON TEHAMA STREET IN SELMA. IT WAS ABOUT A YEAR AGO
00:22:43 AND IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE PICTURES BECAUSE MY SON IS
00:22:47 IN IT. HE'S THE GUY ON THE RIGHT, YOU
00:22:48 KNOW, LIKE A GOOD CUB SCOUT. HE'S THERE DOING CIVIC MINDED
00:22:51 THINGS AND HE'S PLANTED MORE TREES THAN MOST EIGHT YEAR OLDS
00:22:55 I KNOW. AND IN THE CENTER THERE IS
00:22:57 KEESHA, ONE OF OUR TREE PLANTING AND MAINTENANCE
00:23:00 LEADERS AND PUBLIC WORKS SHEPHERD PHOTOBOMBED AGAIN WITH
00:23:08 SUPERVISOR DORSEY ON THE PHOTO ON THE LEFT AT THAT SAME EVENT
00:23:09 AND I COULDN'T HELP BUT INCLUDE THAT IN THE SLIDESHOW BUT LIKE
00:23:13 I SAID LIVING THEIR VALUES I'VE SEEN ALL FOUR OF THESE
00:23:16 COMMITTEE MEMBERS OUT THERE WITH PUBLIC WORKS WITH THE
00:23:20 COMMUNITY MEMBERS IMPLEMENTING THE WORK THAT WE'RE TALKING
00:23:23 ABOUT BUT THE OVERVIEW OF BUREAU OF URBAN FORESTRY IS TO
00:23:27 MAINTAIN THE CITY'S GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE PUBLIC
00:23:30 RIGHT OF WAY WHICH INCLUDES OUR URBAN FOREST AS WELL AS THE
00:23:34 LANDSCAPES AND THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY LIKE THE MEDIANS WE
00:23:35 DRIVE BY EVERY DAY AND THE SIDEWALKS BENEATH THE TREES IT
00:23:41 EXPANDS BEYOND THAT WHERE A BUREAU OF URBAN FORESTRY ALSO
00:23:45 REGULATES TREES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY AND PEOPLE NEED TO
00:23:46 HAVE A PERMIT THAT IS SIGNED OFF BY OUR OFFICE IF THEY ARE
00:23:50 TO DO CONSTRUCTION AND WE ALSO DO WORK FOR OTHER CITY AGENCIES
00:23:57 THAT DON'T HAVE A LANDSCAPE CREW OR A TREE CREW OR A CEMENT
00:24:00 CREW AND WE DO CLIENT WORK ACROSS THE CITY THAT INCLUDES
00:24:04 FOR INSTANCE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
00:24:07 THE TREES IN OUR CITY NOT ONLY PROVIDE BEAUTY AND QUALITY OF
00:24:12 LIFE BUT THEY DO ADD TO OUR ENVIRONMENTAL WELL-BEING.
00:24:16 IS THAT IN A CONCRETE CITY YOU NEED TO HAVE TREES TO SHADE THE
00:24:20 STREETS, CLEAN THE AIR, ABSORB STORMWATER AND PROVIDE
00:24:24 ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES. >> THE RANGE OF OUR WORK
00:24:31 INCLUDES MAINTAINING THE STREET TREES CITYWIDE AND SO THERE'S
00:24:35 ABOUT 125,000 OF THEM. IF A TREE LOSES A BRANCH OR
00:24:39 FALLS DOWN WON'T BE THERE 24 HOURS A DAY TO COME AND CLEAN
00:24:41 IT UP AND MAKE THE SITE SAFE. AS I SAID, WE ALSO ISSUE
00:24:44 PERMITS AND REVIEW DEVELOPMENT PLANS REGARDING TREES AND WE
00:24:50 ARE MAINTAINING ABOUT 16,000 OF THOSE STREET TREES ANNUALLY.
00:24:53 >> WE HAVE AN INSPECTION TEAM THAT SUPPORTS EACH OF OUR SHOPS
00:24:58 AND HELPS WITH THE PLAN REVIEW AND THE DEVELOPMENT PERMITS WE
00:25:01 HAVE PLANTING OR SUPPORTING THE PLANTING OF OVER 1500 TREES A
00:25:06 YEAR THAT INCLUDES US DIRECTLY PLANTING THE TREES AS WELL AS
00:25:10 FUNDING THE PLANTING AND WATERING OF OTHER
00:25:13 ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE AWARDED THAT WORK THROUGH COMPETITIVE
00:25:17 REQUESTS COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS .
00:25:22 I'LL SAY THAT LAST YEAR WAS OUR ONE OF OUR RECORD SETTING TREE
00:25:26 PLANTING YEARS OF WE PLANTED 1880 I BELIEVE STREET TREES AS
00:25:31 A CITY AND OUR GOAL FOR THIS COMING YEAR IS 2500 AND WE'RE
00:25:34 SCALING UP AND I'LL HAVE A CHANCE TO SPEAK MORE OF THAT
00:25:36 LATER. >> LAST YEAR WE ALSO REPAIRED
00:25:39 OVER 100,000FT OF SIDEWALKS UNDERNEATH TREES AS WELL AS WE
00:25:44 WORK ON THE MEDIANS AND TRAFFIC TRIANGLES AND ANY OTHER PUBLIC
00:25:49 RIGHT OF WAY THAT HAS A LANDSCAPE ON IT AND IN THE PAST
00:25:52 FEW YEARS WE'VE BUILT AND DEVELOPED THE STREET TREE
00:25:56 NURSERY WHICH IS ACTUALLY LOCATED IN DISTRICT SIX ON
00:25:59 FIFTH STREET AND HOWARD RIGHT UNDERNEATH THE FREEWAY THERE
00:26:03 WHICH WAS A I BELIEVE A $5 MILLION INVESTMENT THAT WE
00:26:06 AGGRESSIVELY SOUGHT FUNDS FOR FROM THE STATE.
00:26:12 THERE WAS THERE WAS A QUITE A BIT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT EQUITY
00:26:17 PRIORITY AREAS AND I JUST WANTED TO BRING UP A MAP OF THE
00:26:20 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITIES MAP THAT WAS
00:26:24 CREATED BY SAN FRANCISCO PLANNING I BELIEVE IN 2023.
00:26:26 JUST AS AN OVERVIEW OF AREAS IN RED OR CONSIDERED THE
00:26:31 HIGHEST PRIORITY AND THEN THEY'RE SHADED TO YELLOW AS
00:26:34 MORE OF A MEDIUM AND GREEN INTO LOWER.
00:26:37 NOW THIS BEING MY FIRST MEETING WITH YOU ON THIS TOPIC
00:26:41 SPECIFICALLY THOUGH IT HAS COME UP IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
00:26:43 >> I'M NOT SURE IF YOU WOULD LIKE ME TO PRESENT OR IF YOU'D
00:26:46 LIKE TO START WITH QUESTIONS BUT I'M HERE TO TAKE YOUR
00:26:49 DIRECTION OR I CAN TAKE THE INITIATIVE MYSELF.
00:26:50 >> WE COULD PROBABLY I COULD WE COULD DO IT IN THE Q&A IF YOU
00:26:54 WANT. >> SOUNDS GOOD, SIR.
00:26:55 YEP. OH, I SO WOULD YOU WANT TO
00:27:01 CONTINUE OR. >> WELL, I THINK THAT IT WOULD
00:27:07 MAYBE HELPFUL IF YOU WALK ME THROUGH THE QUESTION SO I DON'T
00:27:09 GO DOWN SOMETHING THAT'S A LOWER PRIORITY AT THE SHOULD WE
00:27:13 HAVE HAD SOME QUESTIONS ON ASKING TO ELABORATE TO HELP US
00:27:16 UNDERSTAND HOW ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE BURDEN SCORES ARE USED
00:27:20 WHEN THE DEPARTMENT MAKES DECISIONS ABOUT RESOURCE
00:27:24 ALLOCATION AND THE TREE PLANTING PRIORITIES.
00:27:27 >> I KNOW THAT IT'S FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND FROM THE
00:27:31 DEPARTMENT'S RESPONSE IT NOTED THAT SCORES CAN SUPPORT GRANT
00:27:35 APPLICATIONS BUT IT'D BE HELPFUL FOR US TO UNDERSTAND
00:27:39 HOW THEY'RE INCORPORATED IN THE ACTUAL PLANTING PLANS.
00:27:41 ABSOLUTELY, SIR. THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
00:27:46 COMMUNITIES MAP WHICH IS MADE IN 2023 IS VERY HELPFUL TOOL IF
00:27:53 WE HAD TO PULL THAT BACK UP AGAIN OF HELPING US UNDERSTAND
00:27:55 WHERE TO PRIORITIZE RESEARCH RESOURCES IT'S A GUIDING
00:28:00 DOCUMENT SO IT'S NOT NECESSARILY MEAN THAT WE CAN'T
00:28:04 MOVE TO A YELLOW SECTION UNTIL ALL THE RED SECTION IS
00:28:06 COMPLETE. WE USE THIS AS A GUIDING
00:28:09 DOCUMENT IN COMBINATION WITH OTHER FACTORS SUCH AS WE DO
00:28:12 HAVE TO PROVIDE SERVICES CITYWIDE.
00:28:16 THERE ARE COMMUNITY GROUPS IN EACH OF OUR DISTRICTS THAT
00:28:17 ARE ADVOCATING FOR TREE PLANTING AND WE DO WANT TO
00:28:20 RESPOND TO THEM AND PROVIDE THEM SERVICE.
00:28:24 IN FACT THERE'S 11 NEIGHBORHOOD BEAUTIFICATION DAYS AND THE
00:28:27 LOVE YOUR CITY SERIES AND WE GO TO A DIFFERENT ONE EACH MONTH
00:28:30 AND OFTEN PLANT SOMEWHERE IN THE RANGE OF 10 TO 15 TREES
00:28:34 IN THAT DISTRICT. ONE OF THE FINDINGS OF THE 2021
00:28:40 AUDIT WAS HEY, THE CITY IS NOT PLANTING ENOUGH STREET TREES
00:28:44 AND THE DEPARTMENT'S RESPONSE AT THE TIME WHICH STILL TRUE
00:28:48 TODAY IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE A CONSISTENT CONTROLLED FUNDING
00:28:51 SOURCE TO PLANT 5000 TREES A YEAR WHICH IS YOU KNOW WOULD
00:28:54 HELP US IMPLEMENT THE URBAN FOREST PLAN.
00:28:58 WE DO RECEIVE SOME FUNDS THROUGH FOR INSTANCE PROP L FOR
00:29:02 THE S.F. CTA AS WELL AS FEES THROUGH IF SOMEONE HAS TO
00:29:09 REMOVE A TREE OR PAY FOR A PERMIT THAT WILL BE REUSED FOR
00:29:13 TREE PLANTING THE FUNDING SOURCES THAT WE AGGRESSIVELY
00:29:17 SEEK OUT COME FROM OFTEN THE STATE OR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
00:29:21 AND WE HAVE A MAP I MAYBE I'LL JUMP TO HERE AND I'M JUST GOING
00:29:25 TO TALK ABOUT THE MAP ON THE LEFT FOR NOW AND WE CAN COME TO
00:29:29 THE TABLE ON THE RIGHT A LITTLE LATER BUT THAT SHOWS IN THE
00:29:33 PAST FROM BETWEEN 2022 AND 2029 WHAT GRANTS WE SOUGHT AND WHEN
00:29:38 YOU APPLY FOR US URBAN FORESTRY GRANT FROM THE STATE THEY HAVE
00:29:43 THEIR OWN METRICS FOR EQUITY AND THEIR OWN EQUITY TOOLBOX OR
00:29:47 THEIR MAPPING THAT ACCORDING TO THEIR ALGORITHM AND THEIR DATA
00:29:51 AND THEY SAY THESE ARE THE AREAS THAT RATE AS HIGH
00:29:52 PRIORITY FOR US. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAD
00:29:55 THEIRS WHICH HAS NOW BEEN REMOVED DUE TO CHANGES
00:29:58 IN ADMINISTRATION AND THE STATE HAS THEIRS NOW CAROLINE BY YOUR
00:30:03 SCREEN IS THE NAME OF THE TOOL FOR THE STATE.
00:30:05 NOW THEY'RE UP TO 4.0 SO IT HAS EVOLVED IN AT LEAST THREE OTHER
00:30:07 ITERATIONS BEFORE THAT AND SOMETIMES WHEN WHEN THEY'RE
00:30:11 USING A DIFFERENT DATA SET THE POLYGONS FOR WHAT'S FUNDABLE OR
00:30:14 WHAT'S THEIR PRIORITY FOR FUNDING WILL SHIFT.
00:30:17 I WOULD SAY THAT BY AND LARGE THE STATE METRICS AND THE THE
00:30:21 FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS METRICS OVERLAP WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL
00:30:25 JUSTICE COMMUNITY MAPS BUT THEY'RE NOT THE SAME BECAUSE
00:30:29 THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITY MAPS USE DIFFERENT
00:30:30 DATA IN ADDITION TO CAL ENVIRO SCREEN TO MAKE THEIR MAP.
00:30:36 SO THAT'S THE CONTEXT FOR THE LONG STORY SHORT IS THAT WHEN
00:30:38 WE APPLY FOR FUNDING BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A CONTINUOUS
00:30:40 CONTROLLED FUNDING SOURCE INTERNALLY TO MEET OUR GOALS WE
00:30:44 LOOK FOR FUNDING THAT IS GEOSPATIAL CONSTRAINED TO
00:30:48 SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIC AREAS AND THAT'S PORTRAYED ON THIS
00:30:52 MAP AND IF I PUT MY GLASSES ON I CAN SEE CLOSER BUT I DID
00:30:56 OVERLAY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS DISTRICT SIX HERE
00:30:59 YOU CAN SEE THE STAR SHOWS OUR BIGGEST INVESTMENT FROM CAL
00:31:06 FIRE. WE RECEIVED $1.1 MILLION
00:31:09 AND $3.8 MILLION TO BUILD THE STREET TREE NURSERY WHICH IS
00:31:13 NOW COMPLETED. BUT OUR PLANTING PROGRAMS THE
00:31:17 BIGGEST ONE IS THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT
00:31:20 GRANT WHICH WE CALLED COLLOQUIALLY REFERRED TO AS IRA
00:31:24 IS FOR $12 MILLION AND THAT SUPPORTS THE PLANTING OF 3500
00:31:28 STREET TREES AS WELL AS WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
00:31:30 AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS THAT'S SHADED IN YELLOW
00:31:34 OR YOU COULD SAY PEACH ORANGE. NOW THOSE ARE VERY SPECIFIC
00:31:38 POLYGONS THERE INCLUDING PARTS OF THE MISSION THE TENDERLOIN
00:31:47 DISTRICT THREE IN NORTH BEACH AND CHINATOWN AS WELL AS
00:31:48 DISTRICTS NINE, TEN AND 11 AND A LITTLE PIECE OF THE
00:31:52 SUNSET. >> YEAH.
00:31:53 CAN I ASK JUST WHENEVER THE QUESTION OF FEDERAL FUNDING
00:31:55 COMES UP I MEAN THIS HAS BEEN SOMETHING THAT HAS BEDEVILED US
00:31:59 IN WAYS THAT YOU KNOW, WE ARE UNPRECEDENTED HONESTLY IN MY
00:32:03 EXPERIENCE IN OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS
00:32:06 THE IS IT YOUR EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE ALSO
00:32:09 AMONG THE FEDERAL AGENCIES THAT'S RETREATING FROM ITS
00:32:13 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY? >> ABSOLUTELY NOT.
00:32:16 OKAY. WE MET WITH THEM IN RECENT
00:32:20 MONTHS AT I THINK IT WAS IN AUGUST AND THEY CAME TO US
00:32:25 WE WERE THEY HAD SENIOR LEADERSHIP FROM OUT OF STATE
00:32:29 FROM THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE THAT CAME TOGETHER WITH CAL
00:32:30 FIRE AND PUBLIC WORKS AND FRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST
00:32:33 ALL HAD A SUMMIT MEETING TO REVIEW OUR WORK AND THEY WERE
00:32:36 TOUTING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF OUR THE OUR GRANT PROGRAM AS WE
00:32:43 ARE IMPLEMENTING IT AND SAYING THAT WE WERE A GREAT ROLE MODEL
00:32:44 FOR THE PROGRAM THOUGH IT IS UNPRECEDENTED WE'RE HOPING THAT
00:32:50 IF FOR FOR THE SAKE OF THE CAUSE HEY IF WE DO SUCH A GOOD
00:32:55 JOB MAYBE THIS WOULD PUT A SPOTLIGHT ON THE CAUSE AND IT
00:32:58 WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN THOUGH WE DON'T
00:32:59 HAVE A DIRECT SAYING IT WE HAVE NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT
00:33:05 RELATIONSHIPS ARE CHANGING AND WE CERTAINLY HOPE IT WON'T
00:33:06 BECAUSE WE REALLY WANT TO PURSUE THIS WORK AND COMPLETE
00:33:10 THE PROJECT WHICH WILL BE WRAPPED UP IN 2020 NINE.
00:33:13 >> THIS IS A COMPLEX QUESTION SO IF I CAN IF YOU DON'T MIND
00:33:17 ME CONTINUING AND SPEAKING TO OTHER FUNDING SOURCES, SIENA
00:33:20 FREY HAD A VERY SPECIFIC POLYGON FOR FUNDING AND THAT
00:33:25 WAS FOR ALMOST A HALF $1 MILLION FOR 250 TREES THAT HAVE
00:33:31 BEEN PLANTED IN THE TABLE FOR THAT SHOWING THAT IS ON THE
00:33:36 RIGHT AND PROP L GRANT THAT WE'RE DOING THIS YEAR WE USE
00:33:43 EQUITY PRIORITY AREAS IN DISTRICTS NINE, TEN AND 11
00:33:46 NOW TO GO BACK TO THE HEART OF THE QUESTION IS HOW ARE WE
00:33:50 USING THE EQUITY GUIDELINES WE HAVE TO BALANCE NUMEROUS
00:33:56 FACTORS IN TERMS OF OPERATIONAL FEASIBILITY AND LOGISTICS AS
00:34:01 WELL AS EQUITY AS OUR GUIDELINE.
00:34:02 WE AGREE THAT WE WANT TREES IN THESE AREAS AND THAT'S WHERE
00:34:09 THEY'RE NEEDED MOST AND THAT ALIGNS WITH ENVIRONMENTAL
00:34:10 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE PRINCIPLES THAT HAVE BEEN GONE
00:34:12 ON FOR DECADES JUST UNIVERSALLY YOU KNOW, IN SOCIETY WE HAVE
00:34:16 SOME CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTATION SOMETIMES WHEN
00:34:20 WE GO TO AN EQUITY PRIORITY NEIGHBORHOOD THEY HAVE A
00:34:24 DIFFERENT SET OF PRIORITIES BASED OFF OF THEY HAVE LESS OF
00:34:28 THEIR BASIC NEEDS FILLED AND ACTUALLY A TREE COULD BE AN
00:34:32 UNWELCOME THING. SO IT'S A MUCH HIGHER EFFORT
00:34:35 IN CERTAIN CASES OF WHERE TO FIND PLACES TO PLANT TREES
00:34:36 AND WHERE WE'RE FACING PEOPLE COMING AND USING GRACE BERRY
00:34:40 PAINT TO SPRAY OVER OUR LINES FOR CUTTING WITH THE CEMENT
00:34:44 CREW COME WILL COME IN AND SOMEONE STANDING ON THE SPACE
00:34:47 WHERE WE WANTED TO PLANT THE TREE.
00:34:51 WE'RE ALSO DEALING WITH VANDALISM AND TREES JUST BEING
00:34:52 REMOVED WHICH IS WHY WE'RE REALLY CHERISH THE
00:34:59 RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOCAL COMMUNITY GROUPS OF PEOPLE WHO
00:35:00 ARE VIGILANT AND CARE FOR THE TREES AND MAKE THOSE TREES PART
00:35:04 OF THE COMMUNITY. THAT'S WHY WE'VE BEEN FOCUSING
00:35:07 ON THAT ON DIFFERENT PROJECTS AND GETTING WINS WITH THE
00:35:11 COMMUNITIES SO THAT THEY CAN GROW.
00:35:12 SO SOMETIMES EVEN IF IN SAY HYPOTHETICALLY IN AREAS SHADED
00:35:18 RED AND THERE'S AN AREA SHADED ORANGE RIGHT NEXT TO IT IF THE
00:35:19 AREA THAT'S SHADED ORANGE SAYS THEY'RE GOING TO CARE FOR THE
00:35:23 TREES, WE'RE NOT GOING TO TURN THEM DOWN.
00:35:26 WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO FIND A WAY TO GET THEM INTO THE
00:35:27 SCHEDULE AND I'LL ALSO SAY THAT WE HEAR THE COMMUNITY'S DEMAND
00:35:33 AND WE ALSO WANT TO REPLACE TREES THAT ARE MISSING FROM
00:35:36 EMPTY TREE WELLS. WE'VE SEEN PEOPLE LIKE
00:35:40 SUPERVISOR SOUDER ON SOCIAL MEDIA SAYING LIKE WHAT'S UP
00:35:44 WITH ALL THESE EMPTY TREE WELLS?
00:35:45 >> AND IT'S LIKE YES, PEOPLE ARE AMPLIFYING AMPLIFYING THE
00:35:48 MESSAGE HERE WE HEAR IT LOUD AND CLEAR AND ACTUALLY WE'VE
00:35:52 JUST AWARDED A CONTRACT FOR A NONPROFIT PARTNER THROUGH
00:35:56 THROUGH A COMPETITIVE PROCESS TO PLANT TWO 2000 EMPTY TREE
00:36:00 BASINS OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS SO THAT THAT CONTRACT WAS JUST
00:36:03 AWARDED WITHIN THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS AND WE EXPECT WORK TO
00:36:07 BEGIN IN DECEMBER. SO WE'RE GOING TO BE USING OUR
00:36:10 EQUITY SCORES TO GUIDE WHERE WE'RE GOING TO START REPLANTING
00:36:14 TREES AND THE NUMBERS ACTUALLY THAT I HAVE IN FRONT OF ME
00:36:18 AND INDICATE THAT THERE ARE IN DISTRICT SIX WE KNOW OF 221
00:36:27 PLANTING LOCATIONS THAT ARE EITHER EMPTY TREE BASINS OR
00:36:32 SITES THAT HAVE STUMPS IN THEM AND DISTRICT THREE HAS 161 OF
00:36:38 THOSE. >> SO OUR DATA ALSO IS
00:36:41 IMPERFECT. WE'RE DEALING WITH A WORK ORDER
00:36:43 DATABASE TO MANAGE OUR CITYWIDE ASSETS WHICH POSES A LOT OF
00:36:47 DILEMMAS. >> BUT WE'RE GOING TO BE
00:36:51 WORKING WITH OUR NONPROFIT CONTRACT AUTHORITY TO HELP US
00:36:55 IDENTIFY TREE PLANTING LOCATIONS.
00:36:58 AND IF WE YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY TO
00:37:00 SAY LIKE HEY, RAISING MY HAND, JUST MAKING SURE YOU GOT THIS,
00:37:03 WE WILL CERTAINLY INCLUDE THAT IN THE PROGRAM.
00:37:05 SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT MOVING THAT FORWARD AND I MIGHT
00:37:10 BE GOING FAR ENOUGH AWAY FROM THIS QUESTION AND INTO ANOTHER
00:37:14 ONE BUT I'D BE HAPPY TO PAUSE THERE AND GIVE YOU THE CHANCE
00:37:16 TO ASK FOLLOW UPS OR GO TO THE NEXT QUESTION.
00:37:19 >> WHY DON'T YOU PROCEED WITH THE PRESENTATION?
00:37:20 YES, SIR. >> SO LET ME LOOK AT THE THE
00:37:31 QUESTIONS THAT I WAS SENT. OKAY.
00:37:35 SO I'D LIKE TO AGAIN HONOR THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN HELPING US
00:37:40 TAKE CARE OF TREES AND WE'VE ACTUALLY SET UP A EQUIVALENT OF
00:37:43 LIKE A TREE CALLED THE ARBORIST PROGRAM WITH LIKE A EMERGENCY
00:37:50 TREE STEWARDSHIP RELATIONSHIP IF SOMEONE SEES LIKE OH MY GOSH
00:37:54 ,WE PLANTED A TREE AND NOW IT'S GONE SIDEWAYS, SOMEONE
00:37:55 PUSHED IT OVER. WELL IF SOMEONE TAKES A PHOTO
00:37:59 AND SENDS IT TO US WE'LL SEND PEOPLE OUT RIGHT AWAY AND I
00:38:01 THINK GAIL CAN SPEAK TO THAT. WE'VE HAD SOME SUCCESSES IN HIS
00:38:03 VALLEY AND WITH THAT TYPE OF RELATIONSHIP AS WELL AS ALEX
00:38:07 HAS HELPED US AND SOMA REPORTING THINGS AND I COULD GO
00:38:13 ON ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT PEOPLE ARE HELPING LIKE
00:38:15 SOMA WEST IS ACTUALLY WATERING TREES AND WE'RE THROUGH A I
00:38:20 COULD SAY GIVE JOSH CREDIT TO IT'S GOING TO SOUND LIKE A
00:38:24 BUNCH OF SHOUT OUTS BUT JOSH HELPED ADVOCATE TO GET
00:38:27 RESTITUTION FUNDS FOR FROM TREE REMOVALS AND SOME OF THOSE
00:38:31 FUNDS ARE GOING TO BE DIRECTED TO SOMA AND SOMA WEST HAS
00:38:35 OFFERED THERE'S GOING TO BE 25 STREET TREES WHICH HOPEFULLY
00:38:38 WILL BE PLANTED IN THIS FALL IF NOT IN THE WINTER IN NEW
00:38:40 LOCATIONS AND SOMA WEST HAS OFFERED TO WATER THEM
00:38:44 AND THEY'VE ACTUALLY BEEN WATERING OVER A FEW DOZEN
00:38:47 STREET TREES THAT WE'VE PLANS WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN THE
00:38:48 PAST YEAR. >> OKAY.
00:38:51 SO THERE'S THERE'S I DO HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS AND SOME OF THEM
00:38:55 ARE JUST FOR MY EDIFICATION OR MY MY TEAM BUT ALSO SOME OF
00:38:59 THEM ARE QUESTIONS THAT RESIDENTS HAVE HAVE ASKED THE
00:39:03 THE 2021 BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST AUDIT RECOMMENDED THAT
00:39:06 WE ESTABLISH SPECIFIC TREE CANOPY TARGETS CITYWIDE BUT
00:39:13 NOTED THAT IT HASN'T BEEN CREATED.
00:39:14 SO I WAS HOPING YOU COULD SPEAK TO WHAT CHALLENGES THE
00:39:17 DEPARTMENT SEASONED IN DEVELOPING THAT OR IF YOU
00:39:18 THINK THAT'S A RECOMMENDATION THE DEPARTMENT AGREES WITH?
00:39:21 ABSOLUTELY. AND LET ME ZOOM OUT THREE
00:39:28 LAYERS AND SAY TWO FOR THE RECORD WHAT TREE CANOPY IS TREE
00:39:33 CANOPY WILL BE A MEASUREMENT A TWO DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT
00:39:37 FROM A HIGH ELEVATION LIKE A HIGH FLYING AIRPLANE OF AERIAL
00:39:43 IMAGERY THAT MEASURES HOW MUCH OF THE THE MEASUREMENT AREA IS
00:39:47 COVERED BY WHAT LOOKS LIKE TREE BRANCHES AND LEAVES AND THAT IS
00:39:51 A COMMON METRIC FOR URBAN FORESTRY AS LIKE HOW ARE WE
00:39:55 DOING FOR AT LEAST THE PAST 30 YEARS IN THE TRADE?
00:40:02 >> I'LL SAY THAT THE TREE CANOPY THOUGH IT WASN'T
00:40:06 MEASURED IN THE 1800S WAS FAR LESS BECAUSE SAN FRANCISCO
00:40:09 STARTED OUT AS MOSTLY A SAND DUNE WITH A MOUNTAIN NEARBY
00:40:14 AND SOME COASTAL SCRUBBY AREAS. THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING
00:40:18 PLACE TO TRY TO PLANT AND ESTABLISH TREES.
00:40:19 MANY AMERICAN CITIES NAMED THE TREES AND NAMED THE STREETS
00:40:23 AFTER THE TREES THEY CUT DOWN YOU KNOW, TO DEVELOP THE
00:40:25 SUBURB. BUT SAN FRANCISCO IS DOING IT
00:40:26 THE OPPOSITE WAY. WE'RE HAVE A WONDERFULLY
00:40:29 BEAUTIFUL CITY WITH STREETS AND BUILDINGS AND WE'RE TRYING
00:40:33 TO EXPAND THE URBAN FOREST. >> ONE OF THE CHALLENGES OF
00:40:37 HAVING A TREE CANOPY GOAL IN AND OF ITSELF IS THAT IT'S
00:40:44 HARD TO IF YOU SET A GOAL TODAY YOU WOULDN'T KNOW IF YOU MET IT
00:40:48 FOR LIKE ANOTHER 30 YEARS BECAUSE IF I WERE TO HAVE THE
00:40:52 MAGICAL ABILITY TO PLANT 30,000 STREET TREES TODAY IT WOULD
00:40:58 HARDLY MOVE THE NEEDLE ON TREE CANOPY AND YOU COULD YOU CAN
00:41:00 IMAGINE A TREE THIS BIG MAYBE THIS BIG ISN'T IT DOESN'T
00:41:04 ACTUALLY HAVE A LOT OF BRANCHES ON IT.
00:41:07 >> THE MEASURABLE GAINS IN TREE CANOPY OVER A 5 TO 10 YEAR
00:41:11 PERIOD IS TYPICALLY FROM MATURE TREES THAT GET BIGGER NOW NOW
00:41:18 PUBLIC WORKS DOES A LOT OF WORK TO MAINTAIN TREE CANOPY BY
00:41:22 STRUCTURALLY PRUNING OUR STREET TREES WHICH HELPS THEM HAVE A
00:41:26 LONGER LIFE SO THEY DON'T TAKE SALE WHEN THEY ARE IN A BIG
00:41:29 STORM OR HAVE A LOWER LIKELIHOOD OF THAT.
00:41:33 ANOTHER FACTOR IN TREE CANOPY IS THAT TREE CANOPY MEASURES
00:41:36 TREES ON ALL PROPERTY TYPES SO THE SUNSET DISTRICT HAS HAS THE
00:41:44 LOWEST NUMBER OF STREET TREES PER SE PER ROAD MILE BUT IT HAS
00:41:49 A RELATIVELY MUCH HIGHER TREE CANOPY BECAUSE THE BUILDINGS
00:41:52 ARE DEVELOPED IN A DIFFERENT WAY AND THERE'S TREES
00:41:53 IN PEOPLE'S BACKYARDS. >> THERE'S ALSO SUNSET
00:41:56 BOULEVARD IF I WAS IN A COMMUNITY WHERE I LIVE NEAR THE
00:42:00 PRESIDIO OR GOLDEN GATE PARK THAT WOULD MAKE A DRAMATIC
00:42:03 IMPACT ON THE TREE CANOPY MEASUREMENT OF THOSE
00:42:05 NEIGHBORHOODS. SO I JUST WANT TO PROVIDE SOME
00:42:11 CONTEXT OVER WHAT TREE CANOPY COVERS LIKE IT WOULD INCLUDE
00:42:14 STATE FEDERAL LAND, PRIVATE PROPERTY AND MANY OTHER THINGS
00:42:18 THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF PUBLIC WORKS CONTROL.
00:42:19 BUT SINCE PUBLIC WORKS WHERE THE AUTHORS OF THE URBAN FOREST
00:42:22 PLAN AND I'M HERE TO REPRESENT THE URBAN FOREST TODAY I WOULD
00:42:25 GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL INTENTION OF HAVING A STREET
00:42:29 TREE PLANTING GOAL PER THE URBAN FOREST PLAN WHICH IS A
00:42:33 MUCH MORE TANGIBLE GOAL BECAUSE IF WE WERE TO SAY HEY WE
00:42:37 PLANTED 30,000 NEW STREET TREES WE MIGHT NOT SEE THE CANOPY
00:42:38 EFFECTS OF IT FOR DECADES BUT AT LEAST WE KNOW THAT WE DID
00:42:42 THE RIGHT THING TO SET OURSELVES UP FOR THE FUTURE.
00:42:45 SO THE THE PUBLIC WORKS STILL STANDS BY HAVING THE GOAL OF OF
00:42:49 HAVING 155,000 STREET TREES AND WE'RE STILL HAVE ABOUT
00:42:54 30,000 TO GO BUT IT'S HARD TO SET A CANOPY GOAL WITH ALL
00:43:02 THESE OTHER FACTORS AT PLAY AND I DIDN'T MENTION BUT I'LL
00:43:04 ADD I THINK I ALLUDED TO IT WITH THE SUNSETS LIKE
00:43:07 DEVELOPMENT FACTORS INTO THIS A LOT IF THE SOMA HAS A PAST
00:43:13 HISTORY OF LIGHT INDUSTRY AND WAREHOUSES
00:43:15 AND MANUFACTURING IT'S GOING TO HAVE FUNDAMENTALLY LESS SPACE
00:43:18 LIKE THERE'S NO BACKYARDS IN MANY AREAS AND THERE'S JUST
00:43:22 FUNDAMENTALLY LESS SPACE TO PLANT A TREE.
00:43:25 >> SO WHAT IS THE TOTAL POTENTIAL THE BEST WAY TO FIND
00:43:30 OUT IS TO PLANT THE AVAILABLE TREE PLANTING SPACES AND THEN
00:43:31 PROTECT THEM SO THAT THEY CAN GROW.
00:43:34 >> YEAH. OKAY.
00:43:35 SO ONE THING IS, YOU KNOW, I THINK A SUPERVISOR MARQUARDT
00:43:41 AND I REPRESENT RESIDENTS WHO HAVE VERY STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT
00:43:44 GEOGRAPHIC EQUITY THAT INVOLVES MANY DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS
00:43:48 BEYOND YOURS. BUT WE HEAR IT IN THE CONTEXT
00:43:52 OF OF TREES AND ALLOCATION TO THE DEPARTMENT NOTED THAT
00:43:56 DISTRICTS FIVE SUPERVISOR MARKWINS DISTRICT SIX MINE
00:44:01 AND TEN SUPERVISOR WALTON'S DISTRICT WERE INITIALLY
00:44:05 PRIORITIZED FOR 2022 PROP L FUNDING AND I THINK THAT MAY
00:44:12 HAVE SET SOME EXPECTATIONS AMONG OUR RESIDENTS BUT THAT
00:44:16 THE SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
00:44:20 ULTIMATELY PRIORITIZED DISTRICTS NINE, TEN AND 11 SO
00:44:23 FOR FOR TWO OF US YOU KNOW THERE'S IT'S A DIFFICULT
00:44:27 SITUATION BECAUSE WE WANT TO SERVE THE CITY BUT YOU KNOW, IF
00:44:30 SOMETIMES WE THERE'S 11 OF US FIGHTING FOR FOR RESOURCES FOR
00:44:34 A GREATER SHARE OF THE PIE. SO I WOULD INVITE YOU TO
00:44:37 EXPLAIN HOW THE METRICS PLAYED OUT, HOW THEY DIFFER IF YOU
00:44:45 KNOW THE PROP L VERSUS CTA AND HOW THAT ALL PLAYED OUT IF
00:44:49 YOU COULD HELP US UNDERSTAND IT.
00:44:50 >> YEAH, ABSOLUTELY, SIR. >> I'LL DO MY BEST TO ANSWER
00:44:52 THAT QUESTION. >> THE PICTURE WE HAVE ON THE
00:44:56 SCREEN OF THE LEFT SHOWS A MOSAIC APPROACH TO FUNDING
00:45:00 AND THE PICTURE WE GO BACK TO THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE MANY
00:45:06 DIFFERENT AREAS THAT REACH THE CERTAIN EQUITY PRIORITY RATING
00:45:11 IN RED. SO I'LL I WANT TO START BY
00:45:15 ASSURING THAT AND THIS IS CERTAINLY NOT THE POINT OF YOUR
00:45:19 QUESTION BUT I JUST WANT TO FOR THE RECORD SAY THAT THE FUNDS
00:45:23 WERE NOT SPENT ON ANYTHING OTHER THAN TREE PLANTING
00:45:26 AND THEY WERE NOT SPENT ON ANYTHING OTHER THAN STREET
00:45:27 TREES IN AREAS THAT WERE DEEMED AN EQUITY PRIORITY.
00:45:31 NOW I SAID BEFORE THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS THAT DIFFERENT
00:45:34 ORGANIZATIONS MEASURE THIS AND I, I WASN'T ACTUALLY HERE
00:45:37 IN THAT SPECIFIC YEAR BUT I CAN SAY BY LOOKING AT THE MAP NINE,
00:45:43 TEN AND 11 ARE CONSIDERED EQUAL OR COMPARABLE EQUITY PRIORITY
00:45:48 AS DISTRICT SIX AND THAT THERE WAS AND THE DEPARTMENT ALSO
00:45:52 WENT THROUGH ADDITIONAL EFFORT TO SEEK AND APPLY FOR
00:45:59 AND RECEIVE FUNDING FROM SIERRA.
00:46:00 THERE'S THE CALIFORNIA NATURAL RESOURCE AGENCY WHICH INCLUDED
00:46:05 250 TREES PLANTED IN DISTRICTS FOUR, THREE, FIVE AND SIX
00:46:11 AND YOU CAN SEE THAT IN THE PERIWINKLE POLYGON UP THERE IT
00:46:17 MAKES SENSE TO CONCENTRATE A PROJECT IN A GEOGRAPHIC AREA
00:46:22 JUST FOR THE SAKE OF LOGISTICS BECAUSE IT'S NOT A ONE TIME
00:46:25 VISIT TO THE TREE BUT IT'S A WEEKLY VISIT TO THOSE TREES.
00:46:28 SO BUILDING IN EFFICIENCIES OF ONE REGION VERSUS ANOTHER HELPS
00:46:32 KEEP TRACK OF THINGS LIKE IF YOU HAVE MULTIPLE PROJECTS
00:46:36 OVERLAPPING IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD YOU MIGHT LIKE
00:46:40 JUST ON A DAY TO DAY LEVEL YOU MIGHT DRIVE BY A TREE AND BE
00:46:42 LIKE OH THAT TREE IS NOT LOOKING GOOD AND YOU'D GO
00:46:45 AND TRY TO PICK OH NO WAIT THAT WAS PART OF A DIFFERENT
00:46:46 PROJECT. SO SEPARATING THEM HELPS WITH
00:46:48 LIKE ADMINISTRATIVE CLARITY BUT THEN CONCENTRATING THEM HELPS
00:46:55 WITH LOGISTICAL EFFICIENCY SO YOU CAN COVER MORE TREES WATER,
00:47:00 MORE TREES MAINTAINED EACH WORKDAY WITH LESS DRIVING TIME.
00:47:03 >> AND I WANT TO ADD TO THE ONE OF THE REAL LIFE CHALLENGES
00:47:07 THAT WE'RE FACING AND CUT TIES TOGETHER A COUPLE OF POINTS
00:47:11 THAT WERE NOT BROUGHT UP AND I'VE MENTIONED IS THAT OF
00:47:14 THOSE TREES PLANTED UNDERNEATH THAT THERE ARE SAY 225 250
00:47:21 TREES PLANTED IN THE SIENNA RAY GRANT UPON OUR INSPECTION
00:47:25 AND 87 OF THEM HAVE BEEN VANDALIZED OR ARE MISSING WHICH
00:47:29 HIGHLIGHTS MY POINT ABOUT THE HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT THAT WE'RE
00:47:33 PLANTING THEM IN THAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN ENVIRONMENTAL
00:47:36 FACTORS, IT COULD HAVE BEEN NON ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS LIKE
00:47:38 HUMAN BEINGS, TRUCKS, DOGS, PETS, PEOPLE STEPPING IN THE
00:47:45 TREE BEDS, PEOPLE RIPPING THEM OUT OUT OF FOR ANY OTHER REASON
00:47:48 AND WHY THOSE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS ARE SO IMPORTANT
00:47:53 BECAUSE IF PEOPLE ARE MORE VIGILANT ABOUT THEM PEOPLE CAN
00:47:56 TELL THAT THOSE TREES ARE PART OF THE COMMUNITY SO WHEN WE
00:48:00 HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS WE WE AGREE WITH THE COMMUNITY THAT
00:48:04 WE WANT TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS. BUT SOMETIMES SOMETHING AS
00:48:07 SIMPLE AS HAVING THE MONEY TO PLANT THE TREE SOUNDS LIKE IT'S
00:48:11 MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. BUT FOR US IT'S REALLY THE
00:48:15 FIRST STEP AND WE CAN'T GET THROUGH THE REST OF THAT
00:48:16 JOURNEY WITHOUT PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND COMMUNITY
00:48:19 RELATIONSHIPS. >> OKAY, SO THE DEPARTMENT
00:48:22 NOTED IN ITS RESPONSE TO MY LETTER OF INQUIRY THAT UNLIKE
00:48:26 SOME OF THE OTHER DISTRICTS, DISTRICT SIX RECEIVES TREE
00:48:31 PLANTING FUNDS OR SHOULD RECEIVE TREE PLANTING FUNDS
00:48:34 THROUGH DEVELOPMENT ENTITLEMENTS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
00:48:38 PROJECTS I WILL CONFESS THAT WHILE I'M OPTIMISTIC OVER THE
00:48:42 LONG TERM FOR MORE DEVELOPMENT ESPECIALLY FOR HOUSING, I WORRY
00:48:46 THAT RELYING ON THAT AS A FACTOR IN WHERE WE'RE INVESTING
00:48:53 CITY RESOURCES MAY BE DISADVANTAGING THE
00:48:57 NEIGHBORHOODS I REPRESENT IF WE'RE RELYING ON PRIVATE
00:49:01 DEVELOPMENT, WHO KNOWS WHEN THAT'S GOING TO PENCIL OUT OR
00:49:05 YOU KNOW THAT WHEN INTEREST RATES WILL COME DOWN AND WE'LL
00:49:09 START SEEING THE BENEFITS OF THAT.
00:49:10 SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT DISADVANTAGING
00:49:12 DISTRICTS LIKE MINE FOR EQUITABLE CITY INVESTMENT SO
00:49:18 IT'D BE HELPFUL TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE DEPARTMENT ACCOUNTS FOR
00:49:20 CHANGES IN DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY PARTICULARLY AS DEVELOPMENT HAS
00:49:23 SLOWED IN RECENT YEARS CONCERNING THE LONG TERM
00:49:27 AVAILABILITY OF FUNDING FOR DISTRICT SIX NEIGHBORHOODS.
00:49:34 MUCH OF THIS QUESTION MIGHT BE MORE IN THE LEAN OF PLANNING
00:49:38 DEPARTMENT THAN IT IS FOR THE BUREAU OF URBAN FORESTRY
00:49:41 BECAUSE I'M NOT AND I WOULDN'T CLAIMED FOR DEVELOPMENT
00:49:45 AND INTEREST RATES TO BE MY PART PART OF MY EXPERTISE BUT
00:49:49 I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION IN WITH WHAT I CAN
00:49:53 YEAH I GUESS I GUESS WHAT WHAT I WHAT I'M WHAT I WONDER AND I
00:49:57 THINK SOME OF MY RESIDENTS WONDER IS LISTEN WHEN WHEN THE
00:50:00 ECONOMY GETS BETTER AND INTEREST RATES COME DOWN,
00:50:04 WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO SEE A DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF
00:50:05 DEVELOPMENTS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
00:50:08 I'D LIKE TO KNOW THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER WILL HAPPEN
00:50:11 IN THE FUTURE WE'RE NOT MAKING DECISIONS NOW THAT DISTRICT SIX
00:50:15 DOESN'T NEED TREES BECAUSE YOU'LL GET THEM ONCE THE
00:50:17 DEVELOPMENT COMES. IN OTHER WORDS, THIS IS A
00:50:19 QUESTION ABOUT THE EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF CITY FUNDS
00:50:23 AND CITY RESOURCES AS THEY'RE LOOKING AT THINGS AT FOR
00:50:27 EXAMPLE PROP L WHICH WERE I THINK THERE WAS AN EXPECTATION
00:50:31 SET THAT SOME OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS WOULD SEE THESE
00:50:35 INVESTMENTS AND THEN IT TURNED OUT THEY DIDN'T.
00:50:36 >> ABSOLUTELY. AND THANKS FOR SAYING THAT.
00:50:38 I WOULD SAY THAT WHEN THE DEPARTMENT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION
00:50:42 TALKING ABOUT DEVELOPMENT YES, WE WE INTENDED TO SAY THAT AT
00:50:50 LEAST IN MY OPINION ABOUT HOUSE THERE'S CITY DEVELOPMENTS SO
00:50:54 FOR TO CITE THAT SPECIFICALLY THE FOLSOM STREETSCAPE
00:50:57 IMPROVEMENT INCLUDES THE PLANTING OF 33 NEW TREES.
00:51:00 THERE'S THE SIXTH STREET PEDESTRIAN SAFETY PROJECT WHICH
00:51:04 INCLUDES NINE NEW STREET TREES THE THE DOG PARK ACROSS FROM
00:51:08 THE STREET TREE NURSERY INCLUDE SIX TREES.
00:51:09 >> THERE IS A COUPLE AT THE TREE NURSERY ITSELF PLANTED
00:51:12 IN THE GROUND AND THEN THE TRANSBAY BLOCK THREE PHASE ONE
00:51:15 INCLUDES NINE NEW STREET TREES WHICH TOTALS 59 TOTAL AND IN
00:51:23 THE IN THE PAST SIX FISCAL YEARS THE DEPARTMENT HAS
00:51:32 COLLECTED $206,000 WORTH OF ENTITLEMENTS FOR SPECIFICALLY
00:51:36 FOR TREE PLANTING LIKE IN LIEU FEES IN DISTRICTS SIX AND I
00:51:41 WOULD I WOULD ARGUE THAT OVER THE PAST FIVE OVER THE PAST
00:51:45 FORGIVE ME FISCAL YEAR 21 THROUGH 26 WHICH IF I CAN COUNT
00:51:51 CORRECTLY THAT SIX FISCAL YEARS OVER THE PAST SIX FISCAL YEARS
00:51:53 THE DEPARTMENT HAS SPENT FAR MORE THAN $206,000 ON STREET
00:51:56 TREE PLANTING. >> SO I SO I WOULD LIKE TO
00:52:00 REFRAME OUR POSITION ON THAT AS WE ARE SPENDING A LOT MORE
00:52:06 MONEY THAN IS COLLECTED SPECIFICALLY FOR STREET TREES
00:52:07 IN DISTRICT SIX. >> OKAY, GREAT.
00:52:10 >> SO IF I COULD MOVE ON FROM THE GEOGRAPHIC EQUITY SORT OF
00:52:15 ASPECT OF THIS TO TREE WELLS AND DEFERRED TREE REPLACEMENT,
00:52:18 THIS IS A COMMON AREA OF QUESTIONS THAT WE GET.
00:52:22 HOW DOES THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS USE 311 REQUEST
00:52:26 CONCERNING EMPTY TREE BASINS TO IDENTIFY PLANTING NEEDS
00:52:30 AND COORDINATE FUTURE TREE PLANTING.
00:52:33 THANK YOU FOR ASKING THAT 311 IS ONE OF THE STREAMS OF
00:52:37 INFORMATION THAT WE RECEIVE FOR REQUESTS AND DOCUMENTATION OF
00:52:44 EMPTY TREE BASINS WE ALSO HEAR FEEDBACK DIRECTLY FROM
00:52:48 COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND WE DO OUR OWN INSPECTION WORK.
00:52:52 THE TROUBLE WITH A INSPEC ACTION PROGRAM OR EXCUSE ME THE
00:52:57 TROUBLE WITH 311 IS THAT IT'S ALL IT REQUIRES A PERSON TO
00:53:04 TELL US THERE'S A PROBLEM WHICH IS ACTUALLY A HUGE BENEFIT
00:53:07 IN MANY SITUATIONS BUT IT DOESN'T HOLISTICALLY ADDRESS A
00:53:09 BIGGER PROBLEM NECESSARILY WHICH IS WHY WHAT WHEN WE DO
00:53:15 RECEIVE REQUESTS WE DO RECEIVE THAT INFORMATION AND DOCUMENT
00:53:19 IT BUT WE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN A ONE FOR ONE TREE
00:53:22 PLANTING RIGHT AWAY WITHOUT WITHOUT THE CONSISTENT FUNDING
00:53:29 TO PLANT A A FULL ON TREE PLANTING PROGRAM IN THE AREAS
00:53:33 THAT PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING IT AND WITH LIMITED INSPECTION
00:53:35 STAFF WE REALLY HAVE TO PLAY WITH ECONOMIES OF SCALE SO
00:53:38 WE'RE BETTER OFF PLANTING AND PROJECTS WHERE YOU CAN
00:53:42 PLANT 1020, 50 STREET TREES IN A CENTRAL AREA HOPEFULLY
00:53:47 WITH A COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, IF WE
00:53:53 WERE TO RACE AGAINST EVERY 311 SERVICE REQUEST WE WOULD MAKE
00:53:57 THAT INDIVIDUAL HAPPY BUT WE WOULD MAYBE MISS THE BIGGER
00:54:00 PICTURE WHICH IS WHY WE'RE APPROPRIATING THE FUNDS TO
00:54:04 PLANT 2000 EMPTY BASINS OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS AND THAT'S
00:54:08 GOING TO WORK WITH ECONOMIES OF SCALE AND WE HAVE OUR OUR DATA
00:54:12 OF WHAT'S OUT THERE BUT WE ALSO WOULD BENEFIT FROM COMMUNITY
00:54:16 FEEDBACK OF LIKE HEY DID YOU CATCH THIS ONE BECAUSE OUR
00:54:20 DATABASES ARE ALSO IMPERFECT AND THE FOLKS WHO ARE GOING TO
00:54:23 BE OUT THERE DOING THE WORK WILL ALSO REPORT TO OUR STAFF
00:54:27 IF THEY SEE SOMETHING THAT THEY THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE ON OUR LIST
00:54:31 AND THEY'LL SAY HEY, CAN WE ADD THIS TO OUR LIST FOR PLANTING
00:54:35 WHICH I HOPE WILL MAKE MORE PEOPLE HAPPY INSTEAD OF
00:54:39 RESPONDING TO THE INDIVIDUAL REQUESTS ONE AT A TIME.
00:54:42 >> OKAY. >> A QUESTION THAT WE HAVE
00:54:46 GOTTEN IS ABOUT PUBLIC WORKS CODE ARTICLE 16, SECTION 806A6
00:54:52 SEE I THINK WE JUST REFER TO IT COLLOQUIALLY IS SECTION 806A
00:54:58 REQUIRES TREE REPLACEMENTS WITHIN 120 DAYS OR INCLUSION ON
00:55:02 A DELAYED TREE REPLACEMENT REPORT.
00:55:05 >> COULD YOU HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW THIS YEAR MAYBE THE STATUS
00:55:09 OF THAT REPORTING REQUIREMENT WHEN THE NEXT REPORT IS
00:55:12 EXPECTED HOW THE DEPARTMENT KEEPS THAT INFORMATION CURRENT?
00:55:17 >> YES. AS THE FIRST RESPONSE FOR
00:55:20 ANYONE WHO DIDN'T READ FROM THE LETTER OF INQUIRY IS THAT WE
00:55:25 STRUGGLE TO CREATE SUCH A REPORT BECAUSE THE WORK ORDER
00:55:28 DATABASE THAT WE USE TO MANAGE OUR REQUESTS AND WORK ORDERS
00:55:32 DOESN'T LINK TO GEOGRAPHIC ASSETS.
00:55:39 SO THIS IS THIS IS A STRUCTURAL CHALLENGE FOR NOT JUST OUR
00:55:43 BUREAU BUT BUT FOR OTHER BUREAUS AND PUBLIC WORKS.
00:55:47 >> WE HAVE WORK ORDERS THAT ARE ORGANIZED BY WORDS RATHER THAN
00:55:54 A MAP WHERE YOU CAN CIRCLE AN AREA AND COME BACK TO IT.
00:55:58 SO IN A IN A DIFFERENT WORLD WHERE WE HAD AN ASSET
00:56:03 MANAGEMENT DATABASE WITH GEO SPATIAL FEATURES YOU COULD
00:56:07 HIGHLIGHT A TREE BED AND SAY OKAY WELL ON THIS DATE WE
00:56:11 PRUNED THE TREE, HAD TO REMOVE THE TREE BECAUSE IT'S DEAD
00:56:14 REMOVE TREE CIRCLE THAT ASSET OKAY REMOVE STUMPS, CIRCLE THAT
00:56:17 ASSET OKAY PLANT TREE CIRCLE THAT ASSET AND AND YOU KIND OF
00:56:21 TRACK THE WHOLE LIFECYCLE OF THAT ASSET.
00:56:25 WE ACTUALLY CAN'T LINK OUR WORK ORDERS TO ASSETS WHICH IS JUST
00:56:29 A FUNDAMENTAL DATA MANAGEMENT ISSUE THAT IT'S HARD TO TIPTOE
00:56:33 AROUND THAT AS GOOD IN ANY WAY .
00:56:40 >> IT MAKES IT VERY WE IN ORDER TO PRODUCE A REPORT OF VACANT
00:56:44 TREE SITES WE HAVE TO TRY TO PRINT OUT SEVERAL DIFFERENT
00:56:47 SOURCES OF INFORMATION ALL DATABASES THAT HAVE BEEN
00:56:51 RETIRED A TREE INVENTORY THAT IS FROM SEVERAL YEARS AGO A
00:56:56 LIST OF SERVICE ORDERS AND A LIST OF OF SCHEDULES AND USE
00:57:00 OUR EYEBALLS TO CROSS-REFERENCE WHICH IS NOT THE MOST NOT THE
00:57:08 OPERATIONAL BEST USE OF OUR TIME WHICH IS WHY WE'RE TRYING
00:57:12 TO TAKE THIS DIFFERENT APPROACH OF USING THE INFORMATION THAT
00:57:15 WE HAVE AND LETTING THE THE SERVICE PROVIDERS FIELD CORRECT
00:57:19 ANYTHING THAT'S MISSING AS THEY GO SO WE CAN COVER MORE GROUND
00:57:23 . SO WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE
00:57:24 ACHIEVE THE SAME OUTCOME OF REPLACING THE TREES BUT USING A
00:57:27 DIFFERENT METHOD THAN WHAT'S STATED IN THAT DIRECTIVE.
00:57:31 >> OKAY THIS MAY BE A GOOD TO THAT POINT THAT I MADE EARLIER
00:57:35 ABOUT HAVING MAKING SURE THAT THE BOARD IS A FULL PARTNER
00:57:38 WITH THE DEPARTMENTS IF THERE'S A TECHNOLOGY NEED THAT YOU HAVE
00:57:40 YOU DON'T MIGHT NOT BE TO TAKE THAT OFFLINE.
00:57:42 RIGHT NOW THE CITY IS UNDERTAKING SOME BIG CHANGES
00:57:44 WITH ITS SOFTWARE SO IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD BE
00:57:47 THINKING ABOUT OBVIOUSLY THAT'S A BIG INVESTMENT BUT IT'S LIKE
00:57:50 LISTEN, IF IT BETTER SERVES OUR CITY, MY DOOR IS OPEN.
00:57:54 I THINK WE WOULD ALL BE OPEN TO USING TECHNOLOGY BETTER TO HELP
00:57:58 YOU TO DO YOUR JOB BETTER. >> YES, I DON'T WANT TO CAST
00:58:02 OUR I.T. DEPARTMENT IN A WAY THAT'S
00:58:06 THEY'RE NOT TRYING TO BE HELPFUL BUT THAT THE SYSTEM WAS
00:58:10 DESIGNED TO DO SOMETHING THAT NOW THE EXPECTATIONS HAVE
00:58:14 EVOLVED SIGNIFICANTLY AND IN OTHER I WORKED IN NEW YORK CITY
00:58:18 WHERE MANAGING STREET TREES AS WELL AS THE CITY OF OAKLAND
00:58:21 BOTH USED A DIFFERENT SOFTWARE WHICH I DON'T THINK I SHOULD
00:58:25 NAME IT BY NAME IN THIS SETTING BUT IT IT'S VERY USER FRIENDLY
00:58:29 AND YOU CAN PRODUCE REPORTS LIKE THIS AND THE AVERAGE
00:58:32 PERSON COULD DO THAT AND IT'S MADE FOR CITY ASSET MANAGEMENT
00:58:36 DATA OVER A LARGE GEOGRAPHIC AREA AND YOU CAN TOGGLE ON ALL
00:58:40 THE DIFFERENT ASSETS IN A GIS LAYER AND HIGHLIGHT WHATEVER
00:58:44 YOU'RE WORKING ON AND SHOW THE SERVICE REQUEST AND WORK ORDER
00:58:47 HISTORY AS WELL AS THE 311 CORRESPONDENCES THE CONTACT
00:58:51 INFORMATION, THE OWNERS AND IT'S VERY USER FRIENDLY
00:58:56 AND WE'RE JUST CURRENTLY WITHOUT THAT AT THIS MOMENT
00:58:59 AND IT'S BEEN A IT'S BEEN AN OUTSTANDING ISSUE FOR SOME
00:59:01 YEARS NOW. >> OKAY.
00:59:03 I'M HAPPY TO CONTINUE WORKING ON THAT WITH YOU OFFLINE.
00:59:07 >> THANK YOU. JUST A COUPLE MORE QUESTIONS.
00:59:08 ONE OF THESE ARE QUESTIONS THAT WE GET WE HAVE BEEN ASKED
00:59:13 LEGISLATIVELY IF WE SHOULD BE AS A BOARD UP TO UNDERTAKE
00:59:21 TAKING LEGISLATION TO ESTABLISH BINDING NEIGHBORHOODS SPECIFIC
00:59:25 CANOPY TARGETS. WE HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED THAT
00:59:29 THERE'S NO SUCH TARGETS THAT CURRENTLY EXIST AT LEAST IN THE
00:59:33 SOUTH OF MARKET SOUTH BEACH MISSION BAY TREASURE ISLAND
00:59:36 NEIGHBORHOODS. >> DO YOU HAVE THOUGHTS ON IS
00:59:40 THIS SOMETHING THAT WOULD LEGISLATION HELP CLARIFY OR IS
00:59:44 IT NOT SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL?
00:59:45 >> I'M GOING TO ANSWER THAT WITH CONTEXT AND AS WELL AS
00:59:49 REFERRING TO SOME THINGS THAT CAME UP IN THIS CONVERSATION
00:59:53 ALREADY. SUPERVISOR DORSEY I MENTIONED
00:59:59 THAT CANOPY GOALS ARE PRETTY NORMAL THING.
01:00:03 THERE'S VERY FEW WAYS TO MEASURE AN URBAN FOREST
01:00:07 HOLISTICALLY IF WE SET A CANOPY GOAL AND WE PLANTED 30,000
01:00:11 STREET TREES TODAY WE WOULD JUST BE WATCHING THEM GROW FOR
01:00:15 DECADES TO SEE IF OUR WORK HAS MADE UP HAS MOVED THE NEEDLE
01:00:19 PLUS PLUS OR MINUS. >> THERE'S ALSO TREES THAT ARE
01:00:23 NOT THEY'RE NOT UERNEATH THE CITY'S JURISDICTION WHATSOEVER
01:00:29 AND THERE'S OUTLIERS LIKE A PARK OF GOLDEN GATE PARK OR THE
01:00:33 PRESIDIO THAT ARE GOING TO TOTALLY SKEW THOSE NUMBERS
01:00:34 DEPENDING ON HOW YOU BREAK DOWN THE GEOGRAPHIC POLYGONS.
01:00:40 >> IN MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION THERE'S THERE'S A
01:00:44 ADMINISTRATIVE WAY THAT WOULD BE BEST AND IT ALIGNS WITH
01:00:49 HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND I'LL SAY THAT ADMINISTRATIVELY WE SET
01:00:53 THE GOAL OF PLANTING ALL THE STREET TREES THE VACANT TREE
01:00:56 SITES AND ACCOUNTING FOR ATTRITION.
01:01:00 SOME ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BE REMOVED.
01:01:01 THEY REACH THE END OF THEIR SAFE LIFESPAN.
01:01:03 YOU KNOW THEY BECOME TOO MUCH OF A RISK.
01:01:04 THEY HAVE TO BE REMOVED ACCOUNTING FOR THAT AS WELL.
01:01:07 >> WHAT THE DEPARTMENT SAID IN 2021 AND STILL STANDS TODAY
01:01:11 IS THAT THERE'S JUST NOT CONSISTENT FUNDING TO DO THAT
01:01:15 WORK. THE DILEMMA WITH GRANTS THAT
01:01:18 WE'LL SEEK OUT AND I CAN USE PAST EXPERIENCES IN OTHER
01:01:22 WORKPLACES IF YOU SEEK OUT A GRANT OKAY YOU'RE GOING TO PUT
01:01:26 IN YOUR BEST APPLICATION AND IT MIGHT HAVE TO DO A STREET TREE
01:01:30 PLANTING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THERE'S A BEGINNING AND AN END
01:01:34 OF THAT GRANT AND THERE'S NO GUARANTEE YOU'LL EVER GET ONE
01:01:36 AGAIN. >> IN FACT THE FUNDING SOURCE
01:01:37 COULD DRY UP BECAUSE POLITICS AND PRIORITIES CHANGE AT THE
01:01:40 STATE OR FEDERAL LEVEL. >> SO WHAT YOU HAVE IS YOU HAVE
01:01:44 A FUNDING FUNDED PROGRAM THAT BEGINS AND ENDS AT A CERTAIN
01:01:47 DATE OFTENTIMES AROUND THREE YEARS TO KICK START A PROGRAM
01:01:51 AND HIRE STAFF AND ACQUIRE RESOURCES UNDERNEATH THAT
01:01:55 TIMELINE ESPECIALLY WITH THE CITY'S TIMELINES FOR HIRING
01:01:59 RESOURCE ACQUISITION, PROCUREMENT CONTRACTING YOU END
01:02:03 UP EATING UP LIKE THE FIRST SEVERAL MONTHS MAYBE A YEAR OF
01:02:07 THAT TIMELINE JUST TRYING TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE EVERYONE
01:02:11 CAN AGREE TO DO THE WORK WHEN YOU APPLY FOR THE GRANTS YOU
01:02:14 DON'T EVEN HAVE TIME. IT ISN'T SCOPED IN ADVANCE.
01:02:16 SO SCOPING AS PART OF THE GRANT CYCLE WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO
01:02:19 PLANT THE TREES AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE KNOCKING ON THE
01:02:20 DOORS AND PEOPLE ARE SOMETIMES TURNING US DOWN AND WHAT
01:02:27 HAPPENS IS THAT THE SERVICE PROVIDERS IF YOU'RE A
01:02:30 CONTRACTOR OR A NONPROFIT IT'S HARD TO CREATE A BUSINESS THAT
01:02:35 INCLUDES AN OFFICE AND OPERATIONS YARD TRUCKS,
01:02:38 WATERING TANKS, PEOPLE DESKS, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, PAYROLL
01:02:42 SYSTEMS. IF YOU DON'T KNOW IF YOUR
01:02:43 BUSINESS IS GOING TO HAVE FUNDING IN THREE YEARS SO
01:02:46 THERE'S NOT A HUGE ECOSYSTEM OF BUSINESSES WHO ARE
01:02:50 IN COMPETITION WITH EACH OTHER WHO ARE READY TO DO THE WORK.
01:02:53 AND THOUGH I SAY THAT WE ARE INCREASING OUR LAST YEAR WAS
01:02:56 OUR BIGGEST TREE PLANTING YEAR AT LEAST IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS
01:02:59 WE'VE HAD A FIVE YEAR AVERAGE OF ABOUT 1500 TREES AND LAST
01:03:02 YEAR WE'RE AT 1880 TWO PUSH TO 2500.
01:03:06 THIS YEAR WE ARE HITTING THE CEILING WITH WHAT OUR STAFF CAN
01:03:10 DO, WHAT OUR SERVICE PROVIDERS CAN DO, WHAT COMMUNITY PARTNERS
01:03:14 CAN DO AND IT'S REALLY HARD TO LEAP OUT OF THERE BECAUSE
01:03:17 THERE'S NOT A BUILT IN ECONOMY OF PEOPLE WHO SPECIFICALLY DO
01:03:21 THIS WORK ESPECIALLY FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES BECAUSE THERE'S NOT
01:03:25 ENOUGH JUST ON THE BACK OF A NAPKIN AND THIS IS NOT A
01:03:28 FINANCIAL CALCULATION ON THE BACK OF A NAPKIN IT WOULD COST
01:03:31 ABOUT $13 MILLION A YEAR TO PLANT 5000 STREET TREES A YEAR
01:03:34 IF THERE IS IN A DIFFERENT WORLD $13 MILLION A YEAR ON AN
01:03:38 ONGOING BASIS YOU BETTER BELIEVE THAT'S GOING TO
01:03:41 GENERATE SOME BUSINESSES WHO WANT THE WORK AND HAVE AN
01:03:42 APPETITE FOR IT AND THEY'D HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DO IT.
01:03:46 >> BUT SO SO THAT'S WHY I WOULD I WOULD SAY THAT LEGISLATING I
01:03:52 DON'T HAVE THE VOICE OR INFLUENCE OVER LEGISLATING
01:03:57 WHAT'S GETS FUNDED IN THE CITY'S BUDGET AND WHAT THE
01:03:58 PRIORITIES ARE. BUT I THINK THAT WE CAN'T
01:04:01 BYPASS THE FACT THAT THERE'S NOT ADEQUATE FUNDING TO
01:04:04 ACTUALLY DO THE WORK AND IF I HAD A FITNESS GOAL OF MYSELF
01:04:08 I'M GOING TO GO TO THE HUMAN BEHAVIOR PART IF I HAVE A
01:04:12 FITNESS GOAL, IF I NEED TO IMPROVE CERTAIN STATS AND MY
01:04:15 BLOOD SUGAR AND CHOLESTEROL BUT I HAVEN'T I CAN'T AFFORD
01:04:19 SNEAKERS AND A GYM MEMBERSHIP AND I SAY OKAY, WELL NOT ONLY
01:04:23 DO I WANT TO BE FIT, I WANT TO BE LIKE ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
01:04:26 BODYBUILDER WELL IT'S LIKE WELL WHY DID I JUST CHANGE THE GOAL
01:04:31 EVEN HIGHER WITHOUT GETTING THE THE BASICS IN PLACE SO THAT I
01:04:34 COULD DO THE WORK? WHAT HAPPENS I THINK IN HUMAN
01:04:38 BEHAVIOR IS WHEN WE SET THE GOAL TOO HIGH AND IT'S TOO OUT
01:04:43 OF REACH AND WE HAVEN'T GIVEN OURSELVES THE MEANS TO START IT
01:04:46 FEELS LIKE LOSING AND THAT'S REALLY DISCOURAGING.
01:04:47 AND THEN CERTAIN FOLKS MIGHT SAY WELL WE SHOULD SET THE BAR
01:04:51 EVEN HIGHER. BUT THE AVERAGE PERSON MIGHT
01:04:53 JUST SAY LIKE I GIVE UP. >> IT'S HOPELESS.
01:04:54 AND I THINK THAT YOU CAN LOOK AT A PARALLEL OF THAT
01:04:58 IN CLIMATE CHANGE WHERE IT'S LIKE CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT A
01:05:02 KNOWLEDGE DEFICIENCY, IT'S NOT A SCIENCE DEFICIENCY OR
01:05:05 RESOURCE DEFICIENCY. IT'S A PRIORITY IMBALANCE OF WE
01:05:09 JUST HAVEN'T CHOSEN TO SHIFT IN THIS DIRECTION AS A WORLD
01:05:12 AND I WOULD HATE TO THINK THAT PEOPLE GET DISCOURAGED BY
01:05:16 SETTING GOALS THAT WE HAVEN'T RESOURCED AND THEN FEEL LIKE
01:05:20 THEY'RE LOSING AND GIVE UP HOPE ON THE CAUSE ALTOGETHER.
01:05:21 >> OKAY. I THINK THE POINT IS WELL
01:05:24 TAKEN. >> I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING
01:05:25 WHERE WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO MAKE SURE THATE'RE
01:05:26 PRIORITIZING THE URBAN CANOPY IN SOME OF THE BUDGETARY
01:05:29 DECISIONS THAT WE'RE MAKING. MY LAST QUESTION IS GOING TO BE
01:05:32 ABOUT WE HAVE GOTTEN QUESTIONS ABOUT A PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTORS
01:05:36 ORDER THAT IS FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND REALLY RIGHT RIGHT
01:05:40 NOW DOESN'T ALLOW REPLANTING ON SIDEWALKS THAT ARE NARROWER
01:05:43 THAN SEVEN FEET SIX INCHES. WE HAVE A LOT OF SMALL ALLEYS
01:05:50 THAT ARE REALLY CHARMING AND HAVE HAVE TREES BUT AS
01:05:52 THOSE TREES MAY SOMETHING MAY HAPPEN TO THEM, I THINK THERE'S
01:05:55 A POLICY IN PLACE THAT WE DON'T REPLANT THEM IF THAT'S IF I
01:06:01 UNDERSTANDING IT CORRECTLY, IS THERE A WAY TO EITHER REVISE
01:06:06 THAT OR THINKING CREATIVELY? ARE THERE I RECALL FROM THE I
01:06:13 RECALL FROM THE RESPONSE TO THE LETTER OF INQUIRY THAT THERE
01:06:17 ARE SOME CHALLENGES THAT ROOTS AND YOU KNOW, CHALLENGES TO THE
01:06:21 TREES THEMSELVES. I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE THINKING
01:06:22 CREATIVELY IF THERE ARE SPECIES OF TREES THAT WOULD BETTER
01:06:25 THRIVE IN THAT KIND OF A IN THIS NARROWER SPACE.
01:06:31 BUT WHAT CAN WE DO ON THE SORT OF NARROWER STREETS TO MAKE
01:06:35 SURE THAT THEY'RE INCLUDED IN BEING ABLE TO GET TREES
01:06:39 AND THAT'S BOTH A POLICY AND A PRACTICAL QUESTION.
01:06:43 THANK YOU FOR ASKING THAT. I KNOW THAT THIS IS AN
01:06:45 IMPORTANT ISSUE TO MANY PEOPLE AND WE TAKE IT VERY SERIOUSLY.
01:06:54 >> I'LL I'LL MAYBE BRING UP A DIFFERENT COUPLE OF DIFFERENT
01:06:58 FACETS OF CONTEXT. >> THERE'S GOING TO BE A
01:07:02 NATURAL CONSEQUENCE TO NOT SETTING UP A TREE FOR SUCCESS
01:07:06 WHETHER THAT'S IT GETS CLIPPED BY A DELIVERY TRUCK HE GETS
01:07:10 STOMPED ON IT. HE LEAVES THE SIDEWALK BECAUSE
01:07:13 HE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH SPACE OR IT JUST DOESN'T LIVE A LONG
01:07:17 LIFE AND IT WAS A VERY EXPENSIVE SHORT LIVED ASSET.
01:07:20 >> THERE'S THINGS THAT WE CAN DO TO SET IT UP FOR SUCCESS.
01:07:27 THIS I'M NOT A PLANNING EXPERT BUT FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND JUST
01:07:32 ACADEMICALLY IS THAT THE USE OF SOMA HAS CHANGED OVER THE
01:07:36 DECADES FROM DIFFERENT EXPECTATIONS.
01:07:40 I WAS I'M LISTENING TO A COOL AUDIO BOOK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF
01:07:41 TECH CULTURE AND LIKE IT SEEMED LIKE IT WAS REALLY NEAT IN THE
01:07:45 EARLY 90S OF A PLACE TO DO A STARTUP AND THERE'S A WHOLE
01:07:50 HISTORY THERE BUT THAT'S BECAUSE THERE WAS OPPORTUNITY
01:07:51 BECAUSE THE MANUFACTURING USAGE IN THE WAREHOUSING HAD CHANGED
01:07:54 AND BECAME AVAILABLE. SO WE'VE BUILT THESE BUILDINGS
01:07:58 AND THESE STREETS AND THESE SIDEWALKS FOR ONE TYPE OF
01:08:02 PURPOSE AND NOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED DRAMATICALLY AND NOW
01:08:05 THEY'RE BEING USED FOR MANY DIFFERENT PURPOSES AND THE
01:08:07 EXPECTATIONS FOR THOSE STREETS HAVE CHANGED.
01:08:09 WHAT WE HAVEN'T DONE IS MAKE THE SIDEWALKS WIDER OR THE
01:08:13 STREETS EXPANDED. I JUST I DON'T I DON'T SEE HOW
01:08:14 FEASIBLE THAT IS. SO THERE'S A LOT OF DEMAND ON
01:08:18 SIDEWALKS THAT MIGHT ONLY BE 7 OR 8FT WIDE.
01:08:21 >> TREES ARE SUCCESSFUL IN SOME OF THOSE AREAS BUT NOT ALL
01:08:25 AND IT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH HOW THE SITE IS USED IS OUTSIDE OF
01:08:29 PUBLIC WORKS CONTROL IN THE EXAMPLE OF THE SIERRA PROJECT
01:08:35 FOR 250 TREES IN DISTRICTS THREE, FIVE AND SIX A THIRD OF
01:08:39 THOSE TREES WERE REMOVED OR VANDALIZED OR DEAD AND WE WERE
01:08:43 GOING TO REPLACE THEM. >> GOSH THAT IS SO FRUSTRATING
01:08:46 TO HAVE TO WORK ON THIS EVERY DAY AND TO SEE THE FRUITS OF
01:08:48 YOUR LABORS AND JUST HIT THAT DEAD END AND THEN WE'RE GOING
01:08:51 TO KEEP GOING. >> BUT IT'S AN UPHILL BATTLE
01:08:54 WHICH IS WHY WE'VE BENEFITED FROM WORKING WITH COMMUNITY
01:08:58 GROUPS TO PLANT TREES IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS AND WHEN WE HEARD
01:09:05 THAT THERE'S A VERY ENTHUSIAST STICK COHORT OF COMMUNITY
01:09:10 MEMBERS ON A FEW DIFFERENT BLOCKS IN DISTRICTS FIVE
01:09:13 AND SIX WHO ARE SAYING LIKE YOU CAN SHRINK THE TREE BED A
01:09:17 LITTLE BIT, IT'S ONLY GOING TO BE 2.5FT WIDE AND WE'RE GOING
01:09:20 TO PROTECT THESE TREES AND WE'RE GOING TO GET THE WORD
01:09:24 OUT AND IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO THEM WE'RE GOING TO CONTACT YOU
01:09:27 . >> WE WE BET ON THAT AND SAID
01:09:28 OKAY, WELL LET'S LET'S GIVE IT A SHOT.
01:09:31 LET'S PILOT AND SEE HOW IT'S GOING AND LIKE I SAID, SO MY
01:09:34 WEST HAS GONE OUT OF THEIR WAY. THEY HAVE MORE TIME WITH THOSE
01:09:38 TREES THAN OUR STAFF DID BECAUSE THEY'RE OUT THERE
01:09:39 WATERING EVERY WEEK WITH THEIR RESOURCES, FINDING WAYS TO MAKE
01:09:45 THE TREES FEEL WELCOME BY THE COMMUNITY AND PROTECTED
01:09:49 AND WATCHED AND CARED FOR IS GOING TO BE THE PATH FORWARD
01:09:53 FOR PLANTING TREES AND NARROWER AREAS.
01:09:54 >> AND WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT IN 30 YEARS IF THAT BET WAS
01:09:58 WRONG, IF IT WAS AND YOU KNOW THEY'RE TOTALLY BUCKLING ALL
01:10:02 THE CURBS AND THE SIDEWALKS HERE AND IT'S MAKING IT ADA
01:10:06 INACCESSIBLE AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO OWN THAT.
01:10:07 BUT WE'RE WILLING TO TAKE THIS CHANCE WITH THE COMMUNITY WHEN
01:10:10 THE COMMUNITY COMES TO US TO TO HELP BUILD THE BRIDGE FROM BOTH
01:10:14 SIDES. >> WE INTEND TO CONTINUE DOING
01:10:17 THAT AND WE WOULD WELCOME CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP A PAUSE
01:10:21 AND SAY GOING TO THE THE WAY THAT THE DOCUMENT IS WRITTEN IT
01:10:26 SAYS WE DO HAVE TO HAVE STANDARDS BECAUSE IF WE WERE TO
01:10:29 CHANGE THE STANDARD IT COULD POSSIBLY MEAN THAT PEOPLE ARE
01:10:34 PLANTING TREES IN 2.5FT WIDE ACROSS THE CITY AND THAT'S
01:10:38 REALLY NOT WHAT WE WANT BECAUSE THE TOPS REALLY REFLECT HOW
01:10:40 MUCH HOW WELL THE BOTTOM IS DOING AND IF WE KEEP LIMITING
01:10:43 THE BOTTOM WE'RE GOING TO GIVE OUT THE WRONG MESSAGE TO THE
01:10:46 REST OF THE WORLD. IN FACT, WE'RE CHANGING OUR OUR
01:10:49 OUR ASPECTS TO PLANTING BIGGER BASINS THREE, THREE FEET BY
01:10:53 THREE FEET HAS BEEN THE STANDARD WE'RE REALIZING LONGER
01:10:57 PERIODS OF DRYNESS. WE NEED TO GET MORE WATER INTO
01:10:58 THE TREE ROOTS. LET'S SEE IF WE CAN GO TO THREE
01:11:02 BY SIX WHENEVER THERE'S SPACE OR EVEN WIDER LIKE FOUR BY 4 OR
01:11:05 4 BY SIX. SO WE'RE MOVING IN THE OPPOSITE
01:11:08 DIRECTION AS A DEPARTMENT FOR THE PLANTINGS THAT WE DO
01:11:12 AND THE THERE IS A STATEMENT IN THE I THINK IT'S BEEN
01:11:16 MISCHARACTERIZED SAYING THE TREES ARE OUTLAWED ON NARROW
01:11:20 SIDEWALKS. >> IT'S NOT SAYS THAT WE WON'T
01:11:23 PLANT IN SOMETHING WHERE THERE'S LESS THAN THREE FEET
01:11:26 WIDE TO PLANT THE TREE UNLESS APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT SO
01:11:30 WE WILL PROVIDE THAT EXCEPTION ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS AND IF
01:11:33 PRESENTED WITH THAT INFORMATION OF IS THIS PLANT ABLE, YES WE
01:11:38 WILL MAKE THAT EXCEPTION. BUT WHEN WE GO OUT TO THE SITES
01:11:42 THERE'S BEEN MANY TIMES WHERE IT'S LIKE WELL WHY DID YOU SAY
01:11:45 THAT WE CAN'T PLANT THE TREE HERE?
01:11:46 YOU SAID IT WAS TOO NARROW. IT'S LIKE WELL THAT MAY HAVE
01:11:49 BEEN THE NOTE THAT WE SENT AND IT WAS PROBABLY OUR FAULT
01:11:53 FOR NOT ARTICULATING IT WELL AS WELL AS WE COULD.
01:11:54 BUT YOU'RE ALSO LESS THAN FIVE FEET AWAY FROM THE SEWER LINE
01:11:57 HERE AND YOU'RE LESS THAN YOU'RE RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF A
01:12:01 CURB CUT HERE AND THERE'S A FIRE ESCAPE RIGHT ABOVE YOU
01:12:05 AND IT'S PARKING. >> SO THERE'S MANY, MANY
01:12:08 DIFFERENT CONFLICTS ON THESE NARROW SIDEWALKS BASED OFF OF
01:12:11 THEIR USAGE AND DEVELOPMENT THAT ALSO PLAY INTO THAT
01:12:12 PICTURE OF THE SIDEWALKS BEING NARROW.
01:12:16 SO SOMETIMES IT MIGHT SEEM LIKE OH WELL WE TURNED DOWN THE TREE
01:12:20 BECAUSE THE SIDEWALK WAS NARROW BUT IT'S ACTUALLY BECAUSE IT'S
01:12:21 IN CONFLICT WITH SEVERAL OTHER PARTS OF INFRASTRUCTURE.
01:12:24 >> OKAY. OKAY.
01:12:25 MR. MOORE, I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR ANSWERS TO MY QUESTIONS.
01:12:28 I THINK I'M DONE WITH MINE. >> I WILL HAVE A CLOSING
01:12:32 STATEMENT BUT I WILL HAND IT NOW BACK TO OUR SHARE.
01:12:35 >> THANK YOU. RESIDENCY AND I BELIEVE THAT MY
01:12:37 COLLEAGUES TOO AS ARE MAHMOOD DOES HAVE SOME QUESTIONS AS
01:12:41 WELL. >> THANK YOU AND THANKS
01:12:43 CONSUMERS ARE DORSEY FOR CALLING THIS HEARING AND THESE
01:12:45 QUESTIONS SO A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
01:12:47 ONE REFERRING TO SOME OF THE QUESTIONS REZA DORSEY HAD ABOUT
01:12:51 ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES FOR TREES RELATED DEVELOPMENT
01:12:58 AND KIND OF BRING IT ON CONTEXTUALLY TOO.
01:12:59 AND YOU COVERED THIS A LITTLE BIT BUT WE RECENTLY HAD
01:13:02 LEGISLATION WAS PASSED THAT ALLOWED FOR CHANGES FOR MORE
01:13:06 PROJECTS TO PAY FEES IN LIEU OF TREE PLANTING AND WANTED TO
01:13:09 CHECK HOW DOES THAT CHANGE AFFECT THE MATHEMATICAL
01:13:13 CALCULUS FOR BUDGET ALLOCATIONS GOING FORWARD AND IS THERE SOME
01:13:20 WAY TO ENSURE THAT THOSE IN LIEU FEES ARE PLANTED NEARBY
01:13:25 TO THE DEVELOPMENTS THAT PAID THE FEES TO BEGIN WITH?
01:13:28 >> SO THE QUESTION IS IF I HEARD YOU CORRECTLY SUPERVISOR
01:13:33 MIKE WHERE IS THERE HOW DO WE KNOW THAT THERE THE RATE IS THE
01:13:36 RIGHT AMOUNT FOR A TREE TREE REPLACEMENT AND AS WELL AS HOW
01:13:41 DO WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE BEING PLANTED IN PROXIMITY TO THE
01:13:48 ACTUAL DEVELOPMENT? >> THAT'S THE FIRST IS MORE
01:13:54 JUST WHETHER WHETHER THE THE CHANGE ITSELF CHANGES ANYTHING
01:14:01 ABOUT YOUR METHODOLOGY MORE BROADLY.
01:14:03 AND THE SECOND IS WHETHER THE TREES WILL BE CLOSE TO WHERE
01:14:05 THE DEVELOPMENT THAT PAID FOR THEM IN LIEU OF PLANTING WILL
01:14:11 HAPPEN. >> YES.
01:14:12 THANK YOU FOR ASKING THAT OUR METHODOLOGY AND IF I'M IF I'M
01:14:19 NOT ANSWERING THE FIRST PART PLEASE HELP ME UNDERSTAND BUT
01:14:23 WE'RE NOT CHANGING OUR METHODOLOGY FOR HOW WE'RE
01:14:27 COLLECTING OR PLANTING TREES BASED OFF OF ANY CHANGES
01:14:31 IN LEGISLATION. IT'S YET TO BE SEEN IF THIS
01:14:35 WILL BE A NET NEUTRAL OR OR INCREASE IN FEES COLLECTED IF
01:14:39 PEOPLE CHOOSE OR DEVELOPERS OR OR PROPERTY OWNERS CHOOSE TO
01:14:43 CONTINUE PLANTING OR IF THEY PAY INTO OUR IN LIEU FEE WHICH
01:14:47 ARE GOING TO ADOPT A TREE. I'LL START BY SAYING THAT ANY
01:14:51 FEE THAT'S COLLECTED FOR THAT PURPOSE WILL SOLELY GO TO
01:14:55 STREET TREE PLANTING WHICH MIGHT BE ASSUMED BY THE MEMBERS
01:14:58 OF THIS COMMITTEE. BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT FOR
01:15:00 THE PUBLIC RECORD THERE WILL NOT BE SPENT ON ANY OTHER
01:15:02 PURPOSE EXCEPT FOR TREE PLANTING OUR CURRENT PRACTICE
01:15:08 FOR STREET TREE PLANTING WOULD STILL BE THE SAME OF IF WE HAVE
01:15:13 IF WE HAVE FUNDS AND ADOPT A TREE WE WOULD STILL USE OUR
01:15:16 EQUITY PRIORITY AS A GUIDELINE IN COMBINATION WITH WHERE ARE
01:15:20 THERE COMMUNITY PROJECTS COMMUNITY DEMAND WHAT'S
01:15:23 LOGISTICALLY EFFICIENT, WHAT'S OPERATIONALLY FEASIBLE
01:15:27 AND WE'RE GOING TO HIT THAT CEILING PRETTY QUICK BECAUSE WE
01:15:31 DON'T HAVE A CONTINUED FUNDING SOURCE FOR ALL OF THE DEMAND.
01:15:35 BUT IF WE IF WE'RE AWARE OF A COMMUNITY GROUP OR A
01:15:39 NEIGHBORHOOD THAT IS A PRIORITY FOR FUNDING WITHIN ANY PART OF
01:15:43 THE CITY, WE DO HAVE STAFF THAT ARE DEDICATED TO LISTENING TO
01:15:47 THAT BECAUSE LIKE GOING BACK TO SOME OF THE THEMES IS LIKE WHEN
01:15:51 WE PLANT TREES WHERE PEOPLE WANT THEM THEY HAVE A MUCH
01:15:54 BETTER SUCCESS RATE SO WE HAVE AN OPEN DOOR FOR ANYONE WHO
01:15:58 WANTS TO PRIORITIZE TREE PLANTING IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD
01:16:01 AND WE'LL SEE WE'LL TRY TO SERVE THEM AS BEST POSSIBLE I
01:16:02 GUESS TO CLARIFY THEN MY UNDERSTANDING BASED ON THE
01:16:06 HEARING IS THAT AND THE RESPONSES TO THE LINE IS THAT
01:16:09 YOUR YOUR HOW YOU'RE PLANNING FOR ALLOCATION OF TREES SEEMS
01:16:13 TO BE INFORMED BY THE DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE IN THE
01:16:20 AREA. SO IF YOU HAVE A SYSTEM NOW
01:16:21 WHERE IT'S MOVING TO IN LIEU OF HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PREPARE
01:16:28 THE ALLOCATION OF TREES WHEN THE DEVELOPMENTS NOW MAY NOT
01:16:32 REQUIRE THAT MAY NOT HAVE THAT TREE THAT IS THAT THAT'S WHAT I
01:16:35 MEAN MY METHODOLOGY CHANGE WELL WE WOULD NOT NECESSARILY
01:16:39 EXCLUDE PLANTING DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THAT DEVELOPMENT
01:16:40 THAT WOULD BE LIKE OBSERVED ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS AND I
01:16:43 THINK THAT WHEN WE SAY DEVELOPMENT EVERYONE HAS A
01:16:47 DIFFERENT PICTURE OF THAT IN THEIR MIND.
01:16:49 SOME MIGHT THINK THIS IS GOING TO BE A LARGE CAMPUS OR
01:16:51 APARTMENT OR COMMERCIAL BUILDING.
01:16:55 ME MAY THINK OF IT AS THIS IS A SINGLE FAMILY PROPERTY SO
01:16:59 THAT COULD TAKE ON IN MANY DIFFERENT FORMS.
01:17:02 WE RECEIVE GUIDANCE FROM OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT OF WHAT
01:17:06 FUNDS ARE ELIGIBLE TO DO WHAT AND WE FOLLOW THEIR GUIDELINES
01:17:09 AND IF THERE WERE TO BE RESTRICTIONS ON WHERE SOMETHING
01:17:11 CAN BE SPENT OR CAN'T BE SPENT WE WOULD FOLLOW THAT, YOU KNOW,
01:17:14 AND BE AUDIT READY. BUT AS AS OF NOW WE DON'T OR
01:17:18 I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY LEGAL RESTRICTIONS THAT WOULD LIMIT
01:17:22 TO WHERE WE COULD PLANT THOSE TREES.
01:17:26 AND THE FOLLOW UP QUESTION HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT TREES WILL BE
01:17:29 PLANTED NEARBY TO THE DEVELOPMENT WHERE IT WAS PAID
01:17:31 IN LIEU OF I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T HEAR THAT.
01:17:34 HOW DO WE SO WHEN DEVELOPERS WILL BE ABLE TO DO A PAYMENT
01:17:40 IN LIEU OF PLANTING A TREE HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT THE
01:17:42 SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD IS GOING TO BE PRIORITIZED FOR
01:17:45 THAT MONEY THAT IS PAID IN LIEU OF WE?
01:17:51 WELL, I THINK THAT WE WOULD HANDLE THAT ON A CASE BY CASE
01:17:55 BASIS BUT IT'S IT'S THE DEPARTMENT LIKE I SAID, UNLESS
01:17:59 WE'RE CONSTRAINED TO SPEND IT IN A CERTAIN LOCATION LIKE IT
01:18:02 ACTUALLY DOES HELP US TO USE OUR TREE PLANTING FUNDS
01:18:06 IN EQUITY PRIORITY AREAS TO ALIGN WITH OUR CLIMATE ACTION
01:18:10 GOALS AND OUR EQUITY GOALS. OKAY.
01:18:17 SECOND IS THE LOW I MENTIONED THAT THERE'S NO DEREK DUNN
01:18:21 DEDICATED TREE PLANTING BUDGET CURRENTLY NOT TO THE AMOUNT
01:18:25 THAT WOULD MEET THE GOALS THAT WERE STATED IN THE URBAN FOREST
01:18:29 PLAN SO WHAT BUDGETARY ASK WOULD IT TAKE TO CLOSE THE GAP
01:18:36 THAT WOULD REQUIRE A CALCULATION FROM OUR FINANCE
01:18:40 DEPARTMENT IF I WERE TO SAY IN A NONBINDING WAY JUST FOR
01:18:45 THE SAKE OF THE CONVERSATION THE IN LIEU FEE OR THE
01:18:49 ESTIMATED COST FOR A STREET TREE PLANTING PLUS WATERING IT
01:18:53 FOR THREE YEARS THROUGH ESTABLISHMENT AND THE
01:18:54 REPLACEMENT IF IT WERE REMOVED IS IN THE BALLPARK OF $2,600
01:18:59 AND THAT'S THAT COST IS NOT SET BY THE DEPARTMENT BUT IT'S SET
01:19:04 BY ANOTHER DEPARTMENT THAT SETS IN LIEU FEES.
01:19:07 >> IF YOU MULTIPLY THAT BY 5000 IT ADDS UP TO ABOUT 13 MILLION
01:19:10 I THINK IT'S $30 MILLION. >> SO THAT WOULD BE WE WOULD BE
01:19:13 LOOKING FOR RIGHT NOW WE MIGHT GET 1 OR $2 MILLION
01:19:19 CONSISTENTLY THROUGH CAPITAL OR PROP L SO WE DO COLLECT PERMIT
01:19:27 FEES ON TOP OF THAT BUT THERE'S STILL SEVERAL MILLION DOLLAR
01:19:28 GAP. OKAY.
01:19:34 >> MOVE INTO THE SECOND TOPIC THAT'S RESIDENTS YOU MENTIONED
01:19:35 AS WELL AS AN EMPTY TREE WELLS IT'S A COMMON COMPLAINT WE SEE
01:19:38 PARTICULARLY THE TENDERLOIN A LOT OF TWO TREE WALLS AND IF
01:19:41 YOU NOTED HOW EMPTY WELLS ARE SOMETIMES NOT DEEMED SUITABLE
01:19:45 FOR PLANTING BUT THE COMMUNITY DOESN'T WANT THEM SEALED WITH
01:19:49 CONCRETE EITHER IS PUBLIC WORKS OPEN TO WORKING COMMUNITY
01:19:53 AND FINDING OTHER SOLUTIONS AND AND USES AND WHAT WOULD
01:19:56 THOSE BE TYPICALLY? >> ABSOLUTELY.
01:19:59 IN PLACES WHERE A TREE CAN'T BE PLANTED DUE TO NOT MEETING THE
01:20:04 STREET TREE PLANTING STANDARDS THERE'S ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
01:20:08 SIDEWALK GARDENS WHICH STILL CAN POSE CHALLENGES IF YOU HAVE
01:20:15 LIKE EXAMPLE LIKE KNEE HIGH VEGETATION IN AN AREA THAT'S
01:20:19 HIGH TRAFFIC IT MIGHT HAVE A HIGHER CHANCE OF BEING STEPPED
01:20:22 ON OR TRAMPLED ON OR YOU KNOW, COLLECTING DEBRIS AND GARBAGE.
01:20:26 BUT THOSE ARE THAT IS ANOTHER PATH FORWARD AND PUBLIC WORKS
01:20:31 DOES SUPPORT AND PERMIT THOSE TYPES OF PROJECTS YOU SAID
01:20:34 AND THEN LAST QUESTION THE BROADLY ONE REPORTING WE
01:20:41 USUALLY HEAR ABOUT THESE SOMETIMES 2311 BUT WHAT WE
01:20:45 OFTEN HAVE HEARD BACK FROM CONSTITUENTS IS THAT THE 311
01:20:49 REQUESTS ARE OFTEN CLOSED WITH A TIE THAT JUST SAYS PLANNED
01:20:53 MAINTENANCE. >> IS THERE A BETTER WAY TO
01:20:54 COMMUNICATE TO THREE ONE FILER IS THE SPECIFIC REASON THE
01:20:58 REQUEST RELATING TO TREE WELL MIGHT NOT BE COMPLETED.
01:21:01 >> IT'S KIND OF GENERIC AND IT'S IT'S HARD FOR THEM TO
01:21:05 KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT. >> YES I CAN SPEAK TO THAT.
01:21:11 I THINK THERE'S ROOM TO IMPROVE WITH THE WAY THAT REQUESTS ARE
01:21:15 INTAKES REPORTED FROM 311 SINCE THE DEPARTMENT AND HOW OUR
01:21:19 DATABASE WORKS THERE'S DILEMMAS INVOLVED IN HOW IT'S COLLECTED
01:21:26 AND IF SOME WHO WHO THE AVERAGE PERSON IT WOULD BE RARE FOR
01:21:30 THEM TO UNDERSTAND THE LINGO OF EVERY SINGLE TYPE OF REQUEST
01:21:31 AND HOW WE CATEGORIZE THEM. >> SO THERE MIGHT BE SOMEONE
01:21:38 MIGHT WANT A TREE PLANTING BUT IT GETS DOCUMENTED AS SOMETHING
01:21:39 ELSE LIKE THERE'S A TRIPPING HAZARD OR SOMETHING AND THE
01:21:43 DEPARTMENT MIGHT RECEIVE THAT AND IT'S NOT POSSIBLE FOR US TO
01:21:47 REASSIGN IT BUT IT HAS TO GO BACK THROUGH 311 AND IT MIGHT
01:21:50 BE CLOSED AS SAYING LIKE THIS IS YOU KNOW NOT THIS IS NOT THE
01:21:53 TYPE OF REQUEST THAT WOULD LEAD TO A TREE PLANTING AND WE'D ASK
01:21:57 THEM TO SUBMIT ANOTHER REQUEST .
01:22:00 THERE'S MANY DIFFERENT EXAMPLES OF THIS AND I RECALL A
01:22:04 SITUATION WHERE SOMETIME IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS ONE OF OUR STAFF
01:22:07 WENT THROUGH HUNDREDS OF SERVICE REQUESTS OUR SERVICE
01:22:11 ORDERS FROM 311 AND CLOSED THEM AS AN ADMINISTRATIVE CLEAN UP
01:22:15 JUST BECAUSE OUR THERE WAS ERRONEOUS OR MIS CATEGORIZED
01:22:18 REQUESTS MIXED WITH MORE ACCURATE REQUESTS AND IT WAS
01:22:23 JUST TOO HARD TO TELL WHAT THE PRIORITY IS.
01:22:24 >> SO IT IT WE RECEIVED FEEDBACK THAT THIS APPEARED
01:22:27 LIKE SOME SORT OF MASS CLOSURE WITH AN INTENTION TO DISCOURAGE
01:22:34 PEOPLE PLANTING STREET TREES. BUT THAT WAS NOT THE CASE.
01:22:35 IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF THERE IN SOME OF THESE THERE MIGHT BE
01:22:38 LIKE SEVERAL DUPLICATE REQUESTS FOR THE SAME THING WHICH ADDS
01:22:42 THOSE NUMBERS BUT IT WAS REALLY JUST AN ADMINISTRATIVE CLEAN UP
01:22:45 SO WE COULD TELL WHAT THE USEFUL REQUESTS ARE AND WHAT
01:22:47 THE ERRONEOUS ONES WERE. >> THANK YOU.
01:22:50 YES AND I'M SURPRISED I THOUGHT I, I DIDN'T QUITE ANSWER ALL
01:22:57 THE WAY ONE OF MR. SUPERVISOR DORSEY'S QUESTIONS WOULD IT BE
01:23:01 OKAY IF I JUST SPOKE TO THAT? I THINK ONE OF THE REQUESTS
01:23:04 ABOUT PART OF THE CONVERSATION OF THE NARROW SIDEWALKS IS THAT
01:23:08 YOU DO SEE ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS AND SOME STREETS
01:23:11 INCLUDING TO HAMA I THINK NEAR FIFTH STREET WHERE IT'S LIKE
01:23:13 THE SIDE THE CURB BUMPS OUT AND THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF OF A
01:23:20 REDESIGN OF THE SIDEWALK SPACE. SO INSTEAD OF A CURB GOING
01:23:24 STRAIGHT DOWN ALONG THE SIDEWALK THERE'LL BE A PORTION
01:23:28 THAT BUMPS OUT MAYBE ABOUT 3 OR 4FT ON A ON A CURVE AND THEN
01:23:35 CURVES BACK. THAT SOUNDS LIKE A SIMPLE
01:23:38 SOLUTION BUT IT'S ACTUALLY ENGINEERED IN A WAY THAT'S
01:23:39 QUITE COMPLEX. IT HAS TO YOU KNOW IT'S MORE OF
01:23:43 LIKE A ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROJECT THAT HAS TO BE IN LINE WITH
01:23:49 STREET SWEEPING LOGISTICS TO MAKE SURE THAT IT DOESN'T
01:23:54 INTERRUPT STREET SWEEPING, IT DOESN'T INTERRUPT TRAFFIC FLOW
01:23:57 AND IT DOESN'T, YOU KNOW, IMPEDE ON OTHER THINGS AROUND
01:23:58 THERE. BUT THAT'S AN EXAMPLE TO GET
01:24:01 MORE REAL ESTATE FOR TREE PLANTING.
01:24:02 THERE'S SOME SUCCESSES OF IT BUT TO MY UNDERSTANDING IT HAS
01:24:05 TO BE LEGISLATED AND THEN FUNDED IN ORDER TO CREATE THOSE
01:24:09 TYPES OF ASSETS BUT THAT COULD BE ANOTHER PATH FORWARD TO HELP
01:24:13 ACHIEVE THE TREE PLANTING GOALS IN THESE TIGHTER AREAS.
01:24:16 >> THANK YOU FOR THAT AND SUPERVISOR WONG THANK YOU.
01:24:21 >> I. SOME GENERAL QUESTIONS BEFORE A
01:24:25 TREE IS PLANTED OUTSIDE SOMEONE'S HOME OR BUSINESS WHAT
01:24:29 INFORMATION DO THEY RECEIVED ABOUT THE PROPOSED SPECIES ITS
01:24:33 EVENTUAL SIZE AND WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS CARE?
01:24:36 HOW CAN RESIDENTS RAISE SITE SPECIFIC CONCERNS AND WHAT IS
01:24:40 THE PROCESS FOR PEOPLE THAT PRIMARILY SPEAK A LANGUAGE
01:24:44 OTHER THAN ENGLISH? >> I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THAT
01:24:47 . SUPERVISOR WONG AND IF I MISS
01:24:48 ANY PART OF IT PLEASE HELP ME CIRCLE BACK TO THAT.
01:24:51 >> WE DO HAVE SEVERAL TOUCHES ON A SITE BEFORE WE PLANT A
01:24:59 TREE AND THAT WILL INCLUDE MARKING AND THERE MIGHT BE A
01:25:02 DOT OR DIMENSIONS PUT ON A SIDEWALK AND I WILL SAY TREE
01:25:08 WHICH IS USUALLY PROMPT FOR FOLKS TO CONTACT US IF THEY
01:25:15 HAVE CONCERNS WE HAVE TO HAVE A DULY MARKED BY A UTILITY
01:25:19 COMPANY. >> SO THERE'S ANOTHER TIME THAT
01:25:20 WILL COME BACK AND THERE ARE TIMES WHERE PEOPLE WILL HAVE
01:25:26 SPECIFIC QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS OR REQUESTS ABOUT A TREE
01:25:29 INCLUDING THE SPECIES OR THE LOCATION.
01:25:30 NOW SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO HAS OVER 500 DIFFERENT TREE
01:25:34 SPECIES BECAUSE WE HAVE A PRETTY GOLDILOCKS TYPE OF
01:25:38 CLIMATE THAT'S NOT TOO HOT AND NOT TOO COLD YEAR ROUND BUT
01:25:44 WE HAVE SOME TREES THAT ARE PART OF OUR OFFICIAL STREET
01:25:48 TREE LIST THAT ARE BASED OFF OF WHAT'S GOING TO SURVIVE
01:25:52 AND WHAT'S THE CHANCE WHAT'S THE BEST CHANCES OF IT BEING A
01:25:53 LOW RISK TREE THAT PROVIDES THE MOST BENEFITS?
01:25:56 >> OUR STAFF ARE TRAINED PROFESSIONALS TO MAKE THESE
01:26:00 DECISIONS BUT IT ALSO INCLUDES OTHER FACTORS OF LIKE WHAT'S
01:26:04 AVAILABLE AT A NURSERY. WE HAVE TO TAKE INTO
01:26:08 CONSIDERATION NOT JUST THAT ONE SITE AND THE SITE SPECIFIC
01:26:12 CONDITIONS BUT WHAT'S THE TOTAL POPULATION OF TREES IN THAT
01:26:15 NEIGHBORHOOD AS WELL AS THE CITY?
01:26:19 >> ONE OF THE DILEMMAS OF A GLOBAL ECONOMY IS THAT
01:26:22 MONOCULTURES TEND TO BE INVADED BY PESTS THAT COME FROM
01:26:26 DIFFERENT ECOSYSTEMS THROUGH SHIPPING LIKE INTERNATIONAL
01:26:29 SHIPPING INTRODUCED A PASS THROUGH PACKING MATERIALS THAT
01:26:31 CAN VERY EASILY DECIMATE A SINGLE PLANT OR TREE SPECIES
01:26:37 AND WHEN YOU WORK WITH LIKE AGRICULTURAL EXTENSIONS THEY'RE
01:26:38 TURNING THEMSELVES INTO PRETZELS TRYING TO MANAGE THIS
01:26:41 AND THERE'S BEEN EXAMPLES OF THAT HAPPENING ACROSS THE
01:26:45 COUNTRY AS WELL AS LOCALLY. SO WE DO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
01:26:46 THERE'S DIVERSITY NOT ONLY SURVIVING THE SITE AND BEING
01:26:49 LOW RISK BEING APPROPRIATE FOR THE SPECIFIC SITE CONDITIONS
01:26:53 BUT HAVING DIVERSITY. WE DO TRY TO OFFER RESIDENTS
01:26:57 OPTIONS AS AMONGST WHAT WE ARE IN OUR PROFESSIONAL OPINION IS
01:27:01 FEASIBLE BUT WE CAN'T ALWAYS PROMISE THAT THEIR PRIORITY OR
01:27:09 THEIR PREFERENCE IS GOING TO BE MET ULTIMATELY AS THE MANAGERS
01:27:13 OF THE ASSET RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BUDGETS AND THE OUTCOMES WE
01:27:17 HAVE THE FINAL SAY IN THAT IF A RESIDENT IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE
01:27:21 PLACEMENT OF THE TREE AND THERE'S ALTERNATIVES THAT
01:27:24 ARE ALSO VIABLE IN FRONT OF THAT SAME PROPERTY, WE'LL
01:27:25 CERTAINLY TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION AND IF THEY FEEL
01:27:31 THAT OUR OUR PROPOSED PLANTING SITE OR THE OR THE THIS ALSO
01:27:35 INCLUDES THAT PROPOSAL OF OUR THE PARTNERS THAT WE FUND IF
01:27:39 THEY DEEM THAT OH WELL LOOK LOOK AT THIS I THINK THAT YOU
01:27:43 MISMEASURE THIS AND THIS ACTUALLY DOESN'T MEET YOUR TREE
01:27:46 STREET TREE PLANTING SPEC THEY WE WOULD HONOR THEIR CASE
01:27:47 AND WE ARE TYPICALLY YOU KNOW WALK AWAY FROM THAT SITE IF
01:27:51 THERE'S NO OTHER ALTERNATIVES IF IT TURNS OUT THAT WE DID NOT
01:27:55 ACTUALLY MEET OUR STREET TREE SPECIFICATIONS AND IT'S NOT A
01:27:59 VIABLE SITE AND THERE IS A ONE OF THE EMBEDDED QUESTIONS WAS
01:28:03 THE ONE ABOUT THE LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH.
01:28:07 >> YES, WE DO HAVE STAFF WHO WORK IN URBAN FORESTRY, OUR
01:28:14 INSPECTION STAFF AS WELL AS OUR PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICERS
01:28:17 WHICH SOUNDS LIKE A VERY LIKE MILITANT TITLE FOR PEOPLE WHO
01:28:21 ARE DOING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT SPEAK SPANISH AS WELL AS
01:28:26 CHINESE AND THEY CAN ASSIST IF WE NEED TO DO LANGUAGE
01:28:30 TRANSLATIONS WE'LL HAVE COMMUNITY MEETINGS IN MULTIPLE
01:28:34 LANGUAGES AND WE'VE RECEIVED FEEDBACK IN RECENT HISTORY THAT
01:28:40 THIS IS AN ONGOING NEED DUE TO THE LANGUAGE DIVERSITY OF SAN
01:28:44 FRANCISCO AND THAT THERE'S MANY FACTORS THAT COME INTO PLAY FOR
01:28:48 COMMUNICATION. IT CAN BE A COMMUNICATION STYLE
01:28:49 BASED OFF OF AGE, DEMOGRAPHIC OR CULTURE AS WELL AS LANGUAGE
01:28:55 AND THAT WE'VE BEEN GIVEN FEEDBACK THAT BASED OFF OF THE
01:28:59 DEMOGRAPHIC LANGUAGE PREFERENCES AND COMMUNICATION
01:29:03 STYLE IT WOULD BE IN THE DEPARTMENT'S BEST INTEREST TO
01:29:04 FOSTER PROACTIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH AT THE SUPERVISOR LEVEL.
01:29:11 SO IF IN YOUR DISTRICTS YOUR FEEL THE NEED OR YOU FEEL LIKE
01:29:15 THEY'RE YOUR CONSTITUENTS ARE REQUESTING MORE DIALOG WITH THE
01:29:19 DEPARTMENT, WE WILL BE GLAD TO PROACTIVELY COME TO YOU OR THE
01:29:23 COMMUNITY GROUP AND COME TOGETHER FOR A MEETING THAT
01:29:27 WOULD BE IN APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE TO DISCUSS TREE
01:29:28 PLANTING PROGRAMS AS A WHOLE. >> OKAY.
01:29:31 AND IN YOUR EXPERIENCE WORKING ACROSS THE CITY, DO YOU
01:29:35 ENCOUNTER BOTH RESIDENTS ACTIVELY REQUESTING TREES
01:29:38 AND RESIDENTS THAT HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT PLANTING ONE AT
01:29:42 A PARTICULAR LOCATION OR I GUESS THE OVERALL QUESTION IS
01:29:46 WHAT KINDS OF CONCERNS YOU TYPICALLY HEAR?
01:29:47 WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT RANGES OF FEEDBACK?
01:29:50 >> WELL THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION .
01:29:53 THERE'S FOLKS WHO ARE ALREADY ON BOARD AND LOVE TREES
01:29:57 AND THEN THERE'S PEOPLE WHO ARE CONCERNED ABOUT UNINTENDED
01:30:02 CONSEQUENCES OR COSTS RELATED TO THAT TREE THAT COULD INCLUDE
01:30:09 NOT WANTING TO HAVE LEAVES ON THE SIDEWALK OR FRUIT OR NUTS
01:30:13 OR SEEDS AND THAT COULD INCLUDE NOT WANTING TO HAVE SOMETHING
01:30:17 IN FRONT OF THEIR PROPERTY. YOU KNOW, THEY SAY I LOVE TREES
01:30:21 BUT I LIKE THEM IN MY BACKYARD AND I DON'T WANT IT OUT FRONT
01:30:24 AND I DON'T AND WE'LL SAY OH, WITH THIS YOU KNOW IT'S FOR FOR
01:30:28 PERSONAL REASONS THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING ELSE THAT HAS TO DO
01:30:32 WITH THEIR CULTURE THAT IS OPPOSED TO THE ESTHETIC OF
01:30:36 HAVING A TREE OR JUST THEIR PERSONAL PREFERENCE AGAINST THE
01:30:37 ESTHETIC. THERE'S SOME FOLKS WHO ARE
01:30:40 PARKING THEIR CARS ON SIDEWALKS AND A TREE WOULD FUNDAMENTALLY
01:30:44 COME IN THE WAY OF THEM DOING THAT AND THAT'S A DILEMMA FOR
01:30:48 THEM. THERE'S PEOPLE WHO WILL SAY
01:30:52 THAT TREES CAUSE ALLERGIES WHICH I'M NOT A DOCTOR SO I'M
01:30:53 NOT GOING TO COMMENT ON THAT AS A WHOLE.
01:30:56 BUT WE LIVE IN A WORLD THAT TREES WERE HERE BEFORE HUMANS
01:31:00 AND PLANTS SO IT'S HARD TO SAY THAT THAT'S A REASON IF YOU
01:31:04 KNOW WE CAN'T PLANT A TREE THERE IS THAT ONE OF THE BIG
01:31:10 CONCERNS THAT I DIDN'T MENTION ALREADY IS THE CONCERN ABOUT
01:31:12 SIDEWALKS BEING HEAVED AND PEOPLE SAY WELL HOW ABOUT
01:31:15 THAT OTHER STREET NEARBY WHERE THE SIDEWALKS ARE LIFTED BY THE
01:31:18 TREE ROOTS AND WE'LL SAY WELL WE'VE LEARNED A LOT OF LESSONS
01:31:22 SINCE SINCE PLANTING THOSE TREES 30 TO 50 YEARS AGO.
01:31:25 WE EITHER DON'T PLANT THAT SPECIES ANYMORE OR NOW WE PUT
01:31:28 THEM IN APPROPRIATE SIZED TREE BEDS OR WE COULD SAY WE'RE
01:31:32 IN CHARGE OF REPAIRING ALL THE SIDEWALKS UNDERNEATH THE STREET
01:31:36 TREES PER PROP E THAT WAS PASSED ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO.
01:31:42 >> THERE MIGHT BE SOME OTHER ISSUES AS WELL BUT IT'S WE DO
01:31:46 TRY TO EDUCATE PEOPLE ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF TREES BUT IT WILL
01:31:50 REQUIRE SUPPORT AND MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS TO, YOU KNOW,
01:31:54 GET SAN FRANCISCO AS A WHOLE ON BOARD WITH THIS MOVEMENT.
01:31:58 >> YES, I DEFINITELY HEAR ABOUT THE SIDEWALK RUPTURES.
01:32:01 AND MY LAST QUESTION WHEN EVALUATING A PLANTING LOCATION,
01:32:06 HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT FOR THE TREE'S MATURE SIZE OF ELBOW
01:32:09 GROWING SPACE LONG TERM CARE COSTS?
01:32:10 HOW MUCH FLEXIBILITY TO STAFF HAVE TO RECOMMEND A DIFFERENT
01:32:14 SPECIES OR LOCATION WHEN THE INITIAL CHOICE MAY NOT BE A
01:32:17 GOOD FIT BASED ON FEEDBACK YOU' REALLY THINKING LIKE AN
01:32:22 URBAN FORESTER WITH THAT QUESTION I LIKE THAT BECAUSE
01:32:25 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING IS WHEN YOU GO TO A
01:32:27 PLANTING SIT DON'T ENVISION PLANTING AN EIGHT FOOT TREE.
01:32:30 ENVISION WHAT THAT TREE SPECIES COULD LOOK LIKE AT MATURITY NOW
01:32:36 IF YOU GO BY THE BOOK LIKE A BOOK OR ENCYCLOPEDIA ABOUT
01:32:41 TREES AND IT SAYS BLUE GUM EUCALYPTUS CAN GROW 150FT TALL
01:32:45 WELL PEOPLE MIGHT READ BY THE WAY THAT'S A BAD EXAMPLE
01:32:49 BECAUSE WE DON'T PLANT BLUE GUM EUCALYPTUS STREET TREES BUT
01:32:53 THAT'S JUST A MONSTROUS TREE WHICH IS WHY I PICKED IT UP.
01:32:57 SO IF SOMEONE WERE TO SAY OH MY GOSH, AS A BLUE GUM EUCALYPTUS
01:32:58 PLANT RIGHT THERE, IT'S GOING TO GROW 100FT 50FT TALL.
01:33:01 THAT MIGHT BE A MISPLACED CONCERN BECAUSE IN AN URBAN
01:33:05 ENVIRONMENT WHERE YOU'RE DEALING WITH VERY LIMITED SOIL
01:33:06 SPACE, SOIL SPACE IS GOING TO BE A MAJOR CONSTRAINT.
01:33:09 NONETHELESS, WE DO CHOOSE TREES BASED OFF OF THEIR POTENTIAL
01:33:13 SIZE BASED OFF OF THE SITE CONDITIONS AND THEIR SPECIES.
01:33:17 AND THERE'S GOING TO BE LIMITING FACTORS THAT LIMIT US
01:33:20 TO THE POTENTIAL SIZE OF THE TREE.
01:33:24 >> ONE BIG ONE IS OVERHEAD HIGH VOLTAGE POWER LINES WHICH AGAIN
01:33:27 IS MANDATED BY THE STATE'S CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITY
01:33:32 COMMISSION TO PROTECT THEIR HIGH VOLTAGE ASSETS BY MOWING
01:33:35 DOWN ALL VEGETATION WITHIN CERTAIN DISTANCES AND THEY JUST
01:33:40 SEE IT VERY MUCH AS LIKE AN ENGINEERING PROBLEM THEY JUST
01:33:43 MOW AWAY. SO IF YOU HAVE A GIANT TREE
01:33:44 SPECIES UNDERNEATH HIGH VOLTAGE POWER LINES IT'S GOING TO GET
01:33:48 FLAT TOPPED OR TURN INTO LIKE A FLYING V WHICH IS NOT GOOD FOR
01:33:51 THE TREE STRUCTURE. >> THAT MAY HAVE BEEN A PAST
01:33:54 PRACTICE 30 TO 50 YEARS AGO BUT LESSONS HAVE BEEN LEARNED LIKE
01:33:56 JUST PLANT A SMALL TREE UNDERNEATH THE HIGH VOLTAGE
01:33:59 POWER LINES. >> BUT AS WE DISCUSS TREE
01:34:02 CANOPY AS LIKE THE MOST COMMON METRIC OF OF TREE PLANTING
01:34:09 WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE TREE CANOPY IF WE'RE PLANTING SMALL
01:34:10 SPECIES ALL THE TIME SO WE DO TRY TO PLANT THEM MAX LIKE WHAT
01:34:14 WOULD BE MAKE THE MOST USE OF THAT SITE AND NOT PLANT SAY
01:34:17 LITTLE FLOWERING TREES IN AREAS WHERE YOU COULD PLANT A MUCH
01:34:21 BIGGER TREE. SO WE THERE'S A LOT OF
01:34:25 DIFFERENT FACTORS LIMITATIONS AS WELL AS GOALS TO BALANCE
01:34:28 IN EVERY STREET TREE PLANTING DECISION.
01:34:32 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
01:34:33 DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING? NO.
01:34:36 OKAY. I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS BEFORE
01:34:37 WE MOVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT. CAN YOU GIVE A SENSE OF YOUR
01:34:43 VACANCIES IN YOUR DEPARTMENT AND WHAT YOUR STAFFING LOOKS
01:34:44 LIKE? THANK YOU FOR ASKING THAT.
01:34:54 I'LL SAY THAT THE STAFF WE DO HAVE ARE VERY HARDY PEOPLE
01:34:58 AND THEY'RE WORKING HARD TO DO ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING THEY CAN
01:35:01 WITH WHAT THEY GOT. I I DON'T THINK THAT WHEN THE
01:35:06 DEPARTMENT SAYS WE'RE SHORT STAFFED IT REALLY RESONATES
01:35:09 WITH THE PUBLIC BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE A CLICHE.
01:35:13 SO I WANT TO BE CAREFUL OF NOT SOUNDING LIKE POOR US BUT I
01:35:17 WILL SAY MATTER OF FACTLY WE WE DO HAVE SIGNIFICANT VACANCIES
01:35:21 IN OUR DEPARTMENT DUE TO STAFF RETIRING, MOVING ON AND JUST
01:35:25 ONGOING DIFFICULTY ATTRACTING PEOPLE AND HIRING THEM TO FILL
01:35:33 POSITIONS IN THE INSPECTION SHOP WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR
01:35:37 CREATING SERVICE ORDERS FOR OUR TREES AS WELL AS RESPONDING TO
01:35:41 SIDEWALK REQUESTS AND THEY HELP WITH TREE PLANTING STRATEGY
01:35:45 AND PROVIDING QUALITY CONTROL TO OUR TREE MAINTENANCE
01:35:48 CONTRACTORS THERE ARE 9 OR 10, 9 OR 10 POSITIONS BUT ONLY FIVE
01:35:56 OF THEM ARE FILLED RIGHT NOW THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE HAVE
01:36:00 THE APPROVAL TO MAKE OFFERS FOR THREE MORE AND WE HAVE TWO MORE
01:36:03 IN THE HOPPER AFTER THAT. THAT SAME TEAM OF URBAN
01:36:06 FORESTRY INSPECTORS IS MISSING THEIR MANAGER SO WE'RE WORKING
01:36:10 WITH ABOUT HALF THE STAFF THAT WE SHOULD BE FOR INSPECTION
01:36:14 CREW INSPECTION SERVICES AND THEY'RE MISSING THEIR
01:36:18 MANAGER WHICH IS VERY DIFFICULT TO MAKE THESE MAKE PROGRAMS
01:36:25 FUNCTION VERY WELL. >> OUR ARBORIST SHOP WHO
01:36:29 MAINTAIN THE TREES WE HAVE WE'RE MISSING TEN CREW MEMBERS
01:36:36 AND WE JUST HAVE A WE JUST PUT FORTH A REQUISITION TO FILL 415
01:36:40 BECAUSE ACTUALLY THERE'S FIVE POSITIONS THAT ARE TEMPORARY
01:36:45 AND THEY'RE GOING TO EXPIRE. SO WE'RE TRYING TO RECRUIT 15
01:36:48 MORE PEOPLE AND ON A TEAM OF RIGHT NOW I KNOW THERE'S 13 ARE
01:36:54 TYPICALLY 13 ARBORISTS PLUS A COUPLE OF DRIVERS AND LABORERS
01:36:55 THAT ARE MANAGING ALL OF OUR STREET TREES.
01:36:58 SO THAT'S A THAT'S A HUGE GAP OUR TREE PLANTING AND WATERING
01:37:02 FALL WITHIN THE LANDSCAPE WHICH IS GARDENERS AND LABORERS
01:37:06 AND RIGHT NOW THEY'RE MISSING ABOUT HALF OF THEIR WORKFORCE
01:37:10 DUE TO WORK RELATED ISSUES OR INJURIES.
01:37:18 SO THEY'RE THEY'RE REALLY LIGHTLY STAFFED RIGHT NOW TO
01:37:22 OVERALL WE I'M A NEW HIRE AS OF LAST YEAR AND RUN HEYSTEK
01:37:29 AND CHARLIE MURPHY HAVE BEEN HIRED AS ASSISTANT SUPERINTEND
01:37:33 GUIDANCE SO WE HAVE WE'RE MAKING BIG CHANGES IN TERMS OF
01:37:38 HAVING MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP TO TAKE OUR
01:37:39 BUREAU INTO THE NEXT ERA. BUT THE THREE OF US THE WORK
01:37:44 THAT THE THREE OF US ARE DOING WE'RE BEING DONE BY ONE PERSON
01:37:45 FOR A FEW YEARS I WAS NICHOLAS CRAWFORD WHO IS THE ACTING
01:37:49 SUPERINTENDENT OF ABOVE SO IT'S VERY HUMBLING TO KNOW HOW HAR
01:37:56 HE WAS WORKING TRYING TO COVER ALL THAT GROUND AND NOW THE
01:37:59 THREE OF US FEEL LIKE WE HAVE VERY FULL PLATES AND IT'S LIKE
01:38:03 WOW, I CAN'T BELIEVE ONE PERSON WAS DOING THIS.
01:38:04 SO I'D SAY THAT IN SOME WAYS WE ARE SHORT STAFFED AND TRYING TO
01:38:07 FILL GAPS BUT IN OTHER WAYS WE ARE STAFFING UP FOR A BETTER
01:38:11 FUTURE. >> OKAY.
01:38:12 I THINK MAYBE YOU KNOW WE HAVE ANOTHER HEARING RELATED TO
01:38:15 TREES LATER THIS FALL AT THIS COMMITTEE SO MAYBE THERE WILL
01:38:18 BE A TIME TO DIG INTO THAT FURTHER.
01:38:22 >> I HAVE LONG HEARD THAT THE THAT THE FUNDING IS A CHALLENGE
01:38:26 IN TERMS OF NOT HAVING A CONSISTENT RELIABLE STREAM.
01:38:30 THAT'S SOMETHING I'D LIKE TO WORK WITH YOU TO CHANGE.
01:38:34 I'D LOVE TO HEAR YOUR VISION ON THAT AND YOUR DEPARTMENT'S
01:38:37 VISION ON THAT BUT IN THE IN THE SHORT TERM IS THERE ARE
01:38:41 THERE UPCOMING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES THAT YOU FEEL
01:38:45 CONFIDENT ABOUT THAT ARE AROUND THE CORNER THAT YOU'RE
01:38:49 COMPETING FOR? LIKE WHAT WHAT ELSE IS I MEAN
01:38:52 IT'S FANTASTIC THAT WE'RE NOW FINALLY GETTING THE IRA MONEY
01:38:56 IN THE GROUND BUT WHAT'S NEXT? I MEAN IS THERE ANYTHING CLOSE
01:39:00 ON THE HORIZON? >> I'M GLAD YOU ASKED THAT.
01:39:03 >> IT'S IN PUBLIC WORKS STRATEGIC PLAN TO ONE OF OUR
01:39:08 SUB GOALS IS TO CREATE A FIVE YEAR TREE PLANTING STRATEGY
01:39:11 WITH THAT IDENTIFIES PROGRAMS NUMBERS, RESOURCES, AVAILABLE
01:39:18 RESOURCE GAPS AND PERSONNEL GAPS.
01:39:22 >> AND SO WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF VISIONING THAT BECAUSE WE
01:39:26 NEED TO HAVE AT LEAST A FIVE YEAR VISION RIGHT NOW WE ARE
01:39:30 IMPLEMENTING WORK FOR THE IRA GRANT WHICH IS A HUGE LIFT
01:39:37 AND WHERE THE MOMENTUM IS BUILDING WE HAVE SUBMITTED I
01:39:41 THINK THIS WEEK FOR ANOTHER CITY GRANT THROUGH PROP L, YOU
01:39:45 KNOW FOR A FUTURE OR CURRENT FISCAL YEAR WE ARE LOOK WE HAVE
01:39:53 OUR EAR TO THE GROUND AND OTHER GRANT OPPORTUNITIES THAT YOU
01:39:54 COME UP WE MAY HAVE PUT IN A CONCEPT PROPOSAL FOR ONE THIS
01:40:00 FALL I DON'T THINK WE HEARD BACK BUT WITH THE IRA FUNDING
01:40:04 AND OUR CURRENT STAFFING RESOURCES AND DYNAMICS WE ARE
01:40:08 KIND OF LOOKING AT LIKE WHAT'S GOING TO COME UP IN 2028, 2029
01:40:11 BECAUSE THAT'S YOU KNOW THE IRA GRANT WILL BE CLOSING UP
01:40:15 IN 2029. I JUST ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT
01:40:18 LIKE THE WE TALK ABOUT FUNDING, WE TALK ABOUT THERE'S A NEED WE
01:40:26 YOU KNOW, THE DEPARTMENT IS AGGRESSIVELY SEEKING GRANTS FOR
01:40:30 PROCESS OF APPLYING FOR GRANTS AND THEN ADMINISTERING THEM IS
01:40:34 LIKE A WHOLE NOTHER LEVEL OF BUREAUCRACY WHICH YOU MAY BE
01:40:35 FAMILIAR WITH BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THE PUBLIC IS AS
01:40:38 WELL. IT'S LIKE A WHOLE NOTHER SET OF
01:40:39 BUREAUCRACY ACCOUNTING, FINANCE, FINANCIAL TRACKING
01:40:45 AND ADMINISTRATION ON TOP OF ALL THE CITY GOVERNMENT
01:40:46 ADMINISTRATION AND THAT REQUIRES STAFF AS WELL.
01:40:50 WE HAD A MANAGER POSITION SPECIFICALLY FOR CONTRACTS
01:40:54 AND GRANTS AND THAT POSITION WAS LOST DUE TO RECENT BUDT
01:40:57 TIGHTENING. SO IT'S LIKE IT'S HARD TO PULL
01:41:01 IN BOTH WAYS AT THE SAME TIME AND NOT FEELING LIKE WE'RE
01:41:05 WE'RE STRAINED. >> HMM.
01:41:08 THANK YOU. I THINK I HEARD EARLIER SOME
01:41:12 HESITATION ON YOUR PART AROUND SPECIFIC GOALS AND YOU KNOW,
01:41:16 EVEN TALKING ABOUT HOW THE TREE CANOPY TAKES A LONG TIME TO TO
01:41:20 REALLY SHOW PROGRESS AND I AND I HEAR THAT BUT I THINK YOU
01:41:24 KNOW, AS YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR IN PUBLIC COMMENT AND AS YOU
01:41:27 KNOW LIKE YOU HAVE A LOT OF FOLKS WHO WANT TO SEE YOU GO
01:41:31 FURTHER WANT TO SEE MORE TREES IN THE GROUND AND I DON'T THINK
01:41:35 ANYONE'S GOING TO, YOU KNOW, BE MAD AT MAD AT YOU FOR FOR
01:41:42 PUTTING FORWARD AN AMBITIOUS VISION AND PUTTING NUMBERS
01:41:43 BEHIND THAT. I THINK THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE
01:41:46 GOING TO ACTUALLY SEE SUPPORT IN YOU KNOW ALONG THE SAME
01:41:52 LINES I KNOW THERE'S SO MUCH MORE HERE TO GET A TREE IN THE
01:41:56 GROUND THAN ANYONE KNOWS AND CAN CAN UNDERSTAND, YOU
01:42:00 KNOW, WHETHER IT'S THE CONTRACTS AND THE GRANTS TO GET
01:42:03 THERE ALL OF THE UPKEEP FOR YEARS TO COME AND THE
01:42:04 MAINTENANCE, THE WATERING. BUT I WOULD LOVE IN MAYBE THIS
01:42:11 COMES IN THE IN THE FUTURE HEARING TO I'D LOVE TO HEAR THE
01:42:15 OPPORTUNITIES LIKE WHERE YOU THINK WE CAN GET BETTER WHERE
01:42:18 WE HOW WE DO REACH THESE GOALS BECAUSE I THINK YOU KNOW AT
01:42:22 LEAST SPEAKING FOR THE FOLKS ON THIS COMMITTEE YOU'RE GOING TO
01:42:25 HAVE SUPPORT AND PARTNERS ON THAT.
01:42:26 BUT WE WANT TO SEE THE SPECIFICS OF HOW YOU GET THERE
01:42:32 AND HOW WE GET THERE FOR EVERY DISTRICT, YOU KNOW AND YOU
01:42:37 KNOW, EVEN THE EXAMPLE OF THANKS FOR POINTING OUT THE
01:42:40 EXAMPLE ON TEHAMA WHERE YOU KNOW, I WASN'T AWARE OF THAT
01:42:42 DESIGN. I THINK THAT'S A FANTASTIC
01:42:45 APPROACH. I KNOW IT TAKES MONEY TO DO
01:42:47 THOSE STREET REDESIGNS WITH CONCRETE BUT THAT IS SOMETHING
01:42:52 WHERE YOU KNOW THAT IS A NET GAIN BOTH FOR TREES AND THE
01:42:57 ENVIRONMENT BUT ALSO FOR S.F. MTA THINKING ABOUT THEM
01:43:00 IN THEIR TRAFFIC CALMING EFFORTS.
01:43:01 THOSE ARE THE SORTS OF APPROACHES I'VE SEEN OTHER
01:43:05 CITIES BE A LOT FURTHER AHEAD ON.
01:43:06 I'D LOVE US TO GET THERE AS WELL SO THOSE ARE MY BRIEF
01:43:11 REMARKS AND THANK YOU FOR FOR BEING HERE.
01:43:12 I KNOW WE'VE AS A COMMITTEE HAVE RECEIVED SOME REALLY
01:43:16 FANTASTIC FEEDBACK AND PUBLIC COMMENT FOLKS PARTICULARLY
01:43:22 IN DISTRICT SIX WHO HAVE DONE A LOT OF WORK TO ELEVATE THIS
01:43:23 ISSUE SO AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO ASK THAT WE CAN GO TO THE
01:43:27 PUBLIC COMING PUBLIC COMMENT MADAM CLERK YES, MEMBERS OF THE
01:43:30 PUBLIC WHO WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS HEARING SHORELINE NOW
01:43:34 ALONG THE SIDE BY THE WINDOWS ALL SPEAKERS WILL HAVE TWO
01:43:37 MINUTES. >> HI SUPERVISORS.
01:43:48 MY NAME IS ALEX LUDLUM. I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF
01:43:52 SOME WEST COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT.
01:43:55 I WAS HAPPY TO COME OUT AND SPEAK ABOUT THE PILOT
01:43:59 PROGRAM THAT DPW ENTERED INTO WITH US.
01:44:06 >> I THINK IT REPRESENTS THE BEST OF WHAT CBD AND THE CITY
01:44:10 DEPARTMENT CAN ACHIEVE TOGETHER SO WE AS DAVID MENTIONED WE'VE
01:44:14 TAKEN ON WATER AND MAINTENANCE SOME MAINTENANCE RESPONSIBILITY
01:44:20 FOR 83 TREES NOW ABOUT HALF OF WHICH DPW PLANTED THEMSELVES
01:44:27 AND VOLUNTEER PLANTING DAYS AND ABOUT HALF OF WHICH THEY
01:44:32 THEY ASKED FOR WHO HAD RECEIVED SOME OTHER GRANTS TO PLANT THEM
01:44:36 IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD UNDER THIS PARTNERSHIP IT'S EXPENSIVE FOR
01:44:42 FOR SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T HAVE A FLEET OF TRUCKS AND WORKERS TO
01:44:47 GET ALL THAT GOING AND INVEST IN THAT EQUIPMENT TO MEET THE
01:44:51 NEEDS BUT WE ALREADY HAVE THAT FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
01:44:55 SO FOR US IT'S IT'S RELATIVELY LOW COST BECAUSE OF OUR
01:45:01 EXISTING WORKFORCE AND FLEET AND IT JUST IS A PERFECT
01:45:05 MARRIAGE AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE ANY OTHER I ENCOURAGE MY PEERS
01:45:09 TO SUGGEST SIMILAR PROGRAMS AND YOU KNOW YOU ALL WHO HAVE
01:45:17 KIDS MAY LOOK INTO IT YOURSELF .
01:45:21 SO WE'RE HAPPY. I KNOW I KNOW DAVID AND CHRIS
01:45:25 ARE PLANNING SOME MORE PLANTINGS COMING UP AND IS
01:45:30 IT'S WHERE THERE'S LEARNING ON BOTH SIDES IN THE COURSE OF IT
01:45:36 AS WE FIGURE OUT HOW TO WRITE THE REPORTS BETTER AND HOW WE
01:45:40 CAN TAKE IN INPUT FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
01:45:44 BUT I THINK IT'S A SUCCESS. SO FAR AND EVERYONE'S EAGER TO
01:45:48 KEEP YOUR COMMENTS. >> NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
01:45:55 >> MORNING. MY NAME IS LEANNE AND I LIVE
01:45:56 IN SOMA WEST WITH MY HUSBAND AND MY ALMOST THREE YEAR OLD
01:45:59 SON. WE'VE LIVED HERE SINCE 2020
01:46:01 WHEN WE BOUGHT OUR HOME AND WE'RE COMMITTED TO THIS
01:46:03 NEIGHBORHOOD. MORE TREES ARE INCREDIBLY
01:46:06 IMPORTANT TO OUR FAMILY BECAUSE OUR AREA ALREADY STRUGGLES WITH
01:46:10 AIR POLLUTION, EXCESSIVE HEAT, LARGE EXPANSES OF CONCRETE, NO
01:46:14 SLOW STREETS AND VERY LIMITED GREENERY AND OPEN SPACE TREES
01:46:20 ARE NOT SIMPLY ANESTHETIC IMPROVEMENT HERE THEY DIRECTLY
01:46:22 IMPACT THE HEALTH, COMFORT AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF MY
01:46:27 FAMILY AND OTHERS WHO LIVE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.
01:46:28 >> I'VE WATCHED BADLY NEEDED INVESTMENTS IN GREENSPACE
01:46:32 CONTINUE TO BE STOPPED RESOURCES ORIGINALLY ALLOCATED
01:46:35 TO SO MOST MOVED TO OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS.
01:46:39 ONE EXAMPLE IS THAT PROPOSED GREEN SPACE AT ELLSWORTH
01:46:40 AND TOMA WHICH WE'VE BEEN WAITING YEARS FOR IT WAS
01:46:44 APPROVED YEARS AGO ALLOCATED TO A DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOOD, PUT
01:46:48 ON PAUSE INDEFINITELY FOR FAMILIES LIKE MINE THESE
01:46:51 DECISIONS IMPACT OUR LIVES GREATLY.
01:46:53 WE'RE A CAR FREE NEIGHBORHOOD JUST LIKE MANY OF US IN THIS
01:46:55 NEIGHBORHOOD. SO WE EXPERIENCE OUR
01:46:58 NEIGHBORHOOD AT STREET LEVEL EVERY SINGLE DAY I WALK THESE
01:46:59 SIDEWALKS WITH MY TODDLER SON THROUGH THESE BLOCKS IS VERY
01:47:07 LITTLE SHADE, VERY FEW TREES, FAR TOO MUCH PAVEMENT
01:47:11 AND CONCRETE. IT'S NOT A NICE TO HAVE FOR US
01:47:14 IT'S ABOUT OUR HEALTH AND WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO LIVE AND RAISE
01:47:18 A FAMILY EVERY DAY. >> SO I REQUEST AND STRONGLY
01:47:25 URGE THE CITY TO PRIORITIZE MORE TREES IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
01:47:27 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
01:47:30 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> HI MY NAME IS GAIL BARR.
01:47:37 I'M A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE HAYES VALLEY NEIGHBORHOOD
01:47:38 ASSOCIATION AND I'VE WITNESSED EXACTLY WHAT DISTRICT SIX IS
01:47:43 DESCRIBING IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. ONE OF THE THINGS I WE
01:47:46 NEGOTIATED IN THE MARKET OCTAVIA BETTER NEIGHBORHOODS
01:47:50 PLAN OVER 1617 YEARS AGO WAS WE GAVE AWAY GREENSPACE FOR HIGHER
01:47:56 DENSITY. >> WHAT THAT MEANT WAS WE WERE
01:48:00 GOING TO HAVE LIVING ALLEYS THAT NEVER CAME TO FRUITION.
01:48:04 IT WAS A FAILED PROJECT BECAUSE IN PART WE COULDN'T PLANT
01:48:08 PLANTS ON THE NARROW SIDEWALKS IN THE ALLEYWAYS.
01:48:11 WE TRIED OUR BEST TO WORK WITH BUFF ON THAT AND THERE WERE
01:48:18 REALLY ROADBLOCKS WHICH DISTRICT SIX IS REALLY WORKING
01:48:19 HARD TO REMOVE. BUT I'D LIKE TO OFF A
01:48:23 SUGGESTION IN TERMS OF HOW YOU CAN CREATE GREEN IN THE ALLEYS.
01:48:26 AND THAT IS USING THE CONCEPT OF CHICANES WHICH IS YOU MOVE
01:48:30 THE PARKING TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET MID-BLOCK AND YOU
01:48:34 BRING IT BACK IN ON IVY STREET THE 300 BLOCK THEY ACTUALLY PUT
01:48:38 STEEL BOLLARDS INTO THE PAVEMENT TO ALLOW A TREE TO BE
01:48:44 THERE NOT IMPEDING THE SIDEWALK AT ALL.
01:48:45 BUT IT'S YOU HAVE TO DO WHAT YOU SHOULD DO TO CHANGE THE
01:48:49 MOVES AND ALSO SLOWS DOWN THE TRAFFIC.
01:48:52 >> THE OTHER ISSUE THAT I THINK IS COMING UP ON THIS IDEA OF
01:48:56 SAFETY WHICH THIS DEPARTMENT THIS COMMITTEE IS ALSO FOR IS
01:49:00 WHEN YOU GET PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND ONTO THE
01:49:04 STREETS TO PLANT, TO WATER, TO TALK TO EACH OTHER, YOU
01:49:11 ACTUALLY INCREASE SAFETY AND THAT'S THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
01:49:12 >> I DON'T CARE WHERE YOU LIVE THE MINUTE YOU GET OUT OF YOUR
01:49:15 OUT OF YOUR OWN PERSONAL SPACE AND TALK TO SOMEBODY ON THE
01:49:19 STREET SUDDENLY IT FEELS SAFER AND WE'VE CERTAINLY SEEN THAT
01:49:23 IN HAYES VALLEY. IT WAS DEATH VALLEY BEFORE
01:49:26 AND HAVING THIS IDEA OF PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER AND WE WOULD
01:49:30 GARDEN ALL OVER THE CITY, ALL OVER OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND TO
01:49:32 HAVE THAT AVAILABLE TO TO RESIDENTS IS A GREAT WAY TO D
01:49:40 SOMETHING BETTER AND BE SAFE. >> THANK YOU.
01:49:41 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> HELLO, MY NAME IS CATALINA.
01:49:47 I AM WITH THE TRANSGENDER CULTURAL DISTRICT WHICH TEARS
01:49:51 BETWEEN DISTRICT FIVE AND DISTRICT SIX.
01:49:54 THAT WAS QUITE A THOROUGH PRESENTATION.
01:49:55 I FEEL LIKE I KNOW A LOT ABOUT HORTICULTURE.
01:49:58 I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT WE'VE WORKED IN RELATIONSHIP TO
01:50:02 FRIENDS AT THE URBAN FOREST AND PUBLIC WORKS FOR THE PAST
01:50:05 TWO YEARS TO PLANT TREES WITHIN DISTRICT FIVE IN DISTRICT
01:50:07 MOSTLY IN DISTRICT FIVE AND AS A RESULT OF LIKE URBAN HEATING
01:50:13 BUT ALSO FAMILIES AND DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THESE
01:50:17 TWO DISTRICTS WHICH I WORK IN LIVE IN BUT ALSO HAVE FUN
01:50:21 IN IS REALLY IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE MORE DEVELOPMENT OF
01:50:25 GREENERY BECAUSE AS AN ARTS AND CULTURAL DISTRICT IT'S ALSO
01:50:32 REALLY IMPORTANT TO HAVE BEAUTIFICATION EFFORTS THAT
01:50:33 SPAN JUST THE PHYSICAL ART TREES THEMSELVES ADD TO THE
01:50:41 BEAUTIFICATION AND UM OF THE DISTRICT.
01:50:45 THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
01:50:48 >> NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. CAN I GET THOSE FIVE SECONDS
01:50:56 BACK TO START AND YOU CAN BEGIN.
01:50:59 THANKS. YEAH.
01:51:03 IN 2014 WE SET STREET TRUE GOALS FOR OURSELVES AND THAT
01:51:05 WAS 12 YEARS AGO AND SINCE 2017 WE HAVE NOT NET GAINED A SINGLE
01:51:09 STREET TREE. IN FACT WE'VE LOST HUNDREDS.
01:51:10 JOSH CLIPPED D10 RESIDENT FORMER VICE CHAIR OF THE URBAN
01:51:14 FORESTRY COUNCIL. CO-FOUNDER OF MISSION VERDI
01:51:17 WHICH IS A COMMUNITY TREE WATERING PROJECT RECOVERING
01:51:18 GOVERNMENT LAWYER AND VOLUNTEER PLANTING LEADER WITH FYFE FOR
01:51:22 MORE THAN SIX YEARS. AND IT'S THIS LAST STRAW THAT
01:51:23 HELPED ME REALIZE IT'S JUST IMPORTANT TO PROTECT TREES AS
01:51:26 IT IS TO PLANT THEM. WHAT GOODS PLANTING A TREE IF
01:51:29 IT DISAPPEARS AND IS NOT REPLACED FOR YEARS?
01:51:32 IN PROTECTING TREES I'VE WORKED HARDER IN COMMUNITIES
01:51:36 AND DISTRICT SIX SPECIFICALLY THAN ALMOST ANY OTHER DISTRICT
01:51:37 INCLUDING IN CITY PROJECTS THAT TOUT HOW MANY TREES THEY'RE
01:51:41 GOING TO PLANT. WHILE GLOSSING OVER HOW MANY
01:51:44 THEY INTEND TO REMOVE IN DEVELOPMENT NEIGHBORHOODS
01:51:45 LIKE SO MUCH TREES ARE SEEN AS SOMETHING TO GET OUT OF THE WAY
01:51:49 TO WIPE A SITE CLEAN AND SIMPLY PLANT AFTER CONSTRUCTION
01:51:52 ALTHOUGH THAT ONLY LASTS NOW THAT 251211 HAS PASSED.
01:51:55 EVEN WORSE I PLANTED TREES IN D6 ONLY TO SEE THEM CUT DOWN
01:51:58 A FEW YEARS LATER FOR DEVELOPMENT.
01:52:02 >> ANY PART OF AN EQUITY PLAN IS NOT COMPLETE WITHOUT TREE
01:52:05 PRESERVATION AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT BASED ON A DECADE OF
01:52:07 ENGAGEMENT AROUND TREES AND D6 THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN.
01:52:10 AND NOT ONLY DOES THIS THE NEXT ACT EXACERBATE INEQUITY OF TREE
01:52:14 CANOPY IT PLACES AN ADDITIONAL BURDEN ON AN ALREADY
01:52:18 UNDERSERVED COMMUNITY TO MUSTER THE ENERGY TO FIGHT BACK.
01:52:21 GOOD LUCK DOING THAT UNDER THE NEW APPEAL TIMELINES.
01:52:24 ADDITIONALLY IN SOMA WHERE PUBLIC RIGHT OF PUBLIC RIGHT OF
01:52:25 WAY SPACE IS AT A PREMIUM. YOU'VE GOT TO GET CREATIVE
01:52:29 BECAUSE IF YOU SIMPLY APPLY POLICY WITHOUT CONSIDERING
01:52:32 EQUITY OUTCOMES THAT IS A FAILED POLICY.
01:52:33 I PERSONALLY NEGOTIATED A $25,000 CAPITAL INVESTMENT FOR
01:52:37 ONE SUCH CREATIVE SOLUTION THAT'S BEEN LINGERING WITH
01:52:40 PUBLIC WORKS SINCE 2022. I'D LOVE TO TELL YOU ABOUT IT.
01:52:43 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS
01:52:46 . >> NEXT SPEAKER.
01:52:50 >> HELLO, MY NAME IS STU COLLINS.
01:52:52 I LIVE IN DISTRICT SIX RIGHT OUTSIDE THE NEW JEAN FRIEND REC
01:52:54 CENTER. I WANT TO SPEAK TO TWO THINGS.
01:52:57 >> ONE I WAS ONE OF THE LOCAL CHAMPIONS THAT COORDINATED WITH
01:53:02 DPW FOR ONE OF THE TREE PLANTING PROJECTS LAST YEAR OR
01:53:04 EARLIER THIS YEAR AND WE PLANTED AROUND TWO 1820 TREES
01:53:07 IN THAT VICINITY AND IT WAS THE EXAMPLE OF WHAT DAVID BROUGHT
01:53:14 UP FOR. CAN WE DO A SCALED PLANTING
01:53:17 IN ONE AREA THAT'S AN EFFICIENT USE OF RESOURCES AND IT'S A
01:53:19 TYPE OF SOLUTION THAT WE NEED TO BE PURSUING MORE OF SO THAT
01:53:22 THE MACHINE OF DPW CAN GET TREES IN THE GROUND.
01:53:26 >> BUT I WANT TO CALL IT ONE THING I ASKED FOR THAT PROJECT
01:53:27 OF CAN I GET MORE TREES ON HARRIET STREET?
01:53:30 MY STREET. THE ANSWER EVENTUALLY WAS THERE
01:53:33 WILL BE ZERO MORE TREES ON HARRIET STREET BUT WE'LL PUT
01:53:34 TREES NEARBY WISER ON HARRIET STREET.
01:53:37 THE SIDEWALKS ARE TOO NARROW. HARRIET STREET IS THE DOORMAT
01:53:41 OF THE JEAN FRIEND REC CENTER. THIS GIANT FLAGSHIP REC CENTER
01:53:45 THAT SAN FRANCISCO JUST OPENED. WHEN THOSE TREES AGE OUT
01:53:49 AND DIE THEY WILL BE NOT REPLACED AND WE WILL HAVE A
01:53:53 CONCRETE WELCOME MAT TO JEAN FRIEND REC CENTER.
01:53:56 >> AND THAT'S UNDER THE CURRENT POLICY.
01:53:57 SO I THINK WE COULD ALL AGREE THAT'S LIKE A UNDESIRABLE
01:54:01 OUTCOME AND SO WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO CHANGE THE
01:54:04 POLICY. MAYBE IT'S THE NARROW STREETS
01:54:05 POLICY. MAYBE IT'S PUTTING IN CHICANES.
01:54:09 >> I'D LIKE TO OUTLINE JUST FROM WHAT I'VE HEARD TODAY WHAT
01:54:12 NEEDS TO HAPPEN BECAUSE THIS IS HARD AND THE CITY CAN DO HARD
01:54:15 THINGS. THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS I'D
01:54:16 LIKE TO SEE YOU SET OR EXPECT TREE COUNT GOALS AND HOLD DPW
01:54:23 ACCOUNTABLE THAT OR AT LEAST ASK THE QUESTIONS.
01:54:24 I'D LIKE YOU TO FIND NONVOLATILE FUNDING SO THAT DPW
01:54:27 CAN SET UP THE MACHINE OF PLANTING WHICH THEY CAN'T WITH
01:54:31 VOLATILE GRANT FUNDING. MEANWHILE DPW NEEDS TO PURSUE
01:54:35 MORE BLOCK PLANTINGS IDENTIFYING LOCALS THAT CAN
01:54:38 WORK WITH IT. UPDATE THE WORK ORDER SYSTEM
01:54:42 SUPERVISOR DORSEY SPOKE ABOUT THAT WORK WITH LOCAL CBDS ON
01:54:45 THE WATERING PART. THIS IS A HUGE ADVANTAGE CBD'S
01:54:47 HAVE THAT WE'VE DISCOVERED IN SOME OF WEST THAT ISN'T
01:54:51 BEING USED ELSEWHERE. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS
01:54:54 AND CHICANES PLEASE PUT IN CHICANES THAT'S THE SOLUTION
01:54:55 TOO. THANK YOU.
01:54:57 >> NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE USE THE WOLF VISION SEARCH.
01:55:10 >> MY NAME IS SHAWN AUCKLAND. I LIVE IN SOUTH OF MARKET.
01:55:14 THE PHOTOS ON PUBLIC WORKS FIRST TWO SLIDES WERE TAKEN ON
01:55:17 MY STREET AT A PLANTING I HELPED ORGANIZE.
01:55:20 WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR THOSE TREES. THEY HAPPEN BECAUSE NEIGHBOR OR
01:55:22 NEIGHBORS ORGANIZE FOR OVER A YEAR AND OUR CBD PAYS FOR THE
01:55:25 WATER. MOST BLOCKS CAN'T DO THAT.
01:55:28 WHAT YOU'RE SEEING NOW ON THE SCREEN ARE EMPTY TREE WELLS.
01:55:30 RESIDENTS HAVE REPORTED TO 311 SOUTH OF MARKET HAS 2.7% TREE
01:55:35 CANOPY THE LOWEST IN THE CITY TIED WITH THE TENDERLOIN.
01:55:40 A NEIGHBOR SENT YOU THIS WEEK IN YOUR FILE A PHOTO OF HER
01:55:44 CHILD WALKING TO SCHOOL ON LINCOLN STREET WHERE MANY EMPTY
01:55:45 TREE WELLS ARE FULL OF TRASH AND SOME HAVE BEEN PAVED OVER.
01:55:49 LINKEDIN IS A RESIDENTIAL ALLEY WHEREUBLIC WORKS ORDER 187246
01:55:55 CONTINUES TO BAR PLANTING. A YEAR AGO DIRECTOR SHORT
01:55:56 COMMITTED TO AN EQUITY PLAN. THIS YEAR THERE IS NO PLAN.
01:56:02 IN MARCH THE DEPARTMENT CONFIRMED IT HAS NO CANOPY
01:56:03 TARGETS FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AS YOU HEARD TODAY AND NO
01:56:06 TIMELINE NOT EVEN FOR TREE COUNTS.
01:56:10 CASE BY CASE AS WE HEARD TODAY IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU DON'T
01:56:14 HAVE A PLAN. LOW CANOPY NEIGHBORHOODS ARE
01:56:15 HARDER TO PLANT. OBVIOUSLY IF THEY WEREN'T
01:56:18 THEY'D ALREADY HAVE TREES BUT WE PLANT THERE ANYWAY BECAUSE
01:56:22 IT'S WORTH IT. THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS WORTH IT.
01:56:23 THE RESIDENTS ARE WORTH IT. REVISE THE ORDER SO TREES CAN
01:56:26 REACH ALLEYS LIKE LANGTON. SO I'M ASKING THE COMMITTEE TO
01:56:30 ACTUALLY KEEP THIS HEARING FILE OPEN.
01:56:31 CONTINUE IT. RETURN IN 90 DAYS AND ASK THE
01:56:34 DEPARTMENT FOR EITHER CANOPY TARGETS OR TREE COUNT TARGETS
01:56:38 AND A DECISION ON 187246. THAT ORDER THAT GOT ME TREES ON
01:56:45 MY BLOCK OUTSIDE MY HOUSE FOR BEING VOCAL BUT THERE ARE 450
01:56:49 OTHER BLOCKS IN SAN FRANCISCO WITH SIMILAR WIDTHS THAT ARE
01:56:53 NOT ENTITLED TO THOSE TREES. I THANK YOU ALSO SUPERVISOR
01:56:54 DORSEY FOR CALLING THIS HEARING AND FOR BEING A CHAMPION ON
01:56:58 THIS ISSUE. I APPRECIATE IT.
01:56:58 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
01:57:01 NEXT SPEAKER. >> HI, MY NAME'S MURRAY
01:57:08 SORENSON. I'M WITH KEVIN QUATRO.
01:57:12 PEOPLE HAVE SAID A LOT OF REALLY GREAT THINGS.
01:57:13 I DON'T HAVE A LOT TO ADD BUT I WOULD SAY MAKE IT HARDER TO
01:57:17 TAKE OUT A TREE AND MAKE IT EASIER TO PLANT A TREE.
01:57:24 >> IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S LOTS OF EXCUSES WHY THEY'RE NOT
01:57:27 REPLANTING TREES AS WE'VE SEEN WITH THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER
01:57:33 IN THE MISSION. HAD WE NOT BEEN ABLE TO APPEAL
01:57:41 WE WOULD HAVE LOST A LOT OF TREES ON 24TH STREET AND IT WAS
01:57:44 ONLY BECAUSE OF MISSION VERDI KEVIN DE QUATTRO BANDED
01:57:48 TOGETHER TO FIGHT THE CITY AND THEN THE.
01:57:52 >> AND THEN WHEN THEY FINALLY DID TAKE DOWN TREES THE CITY
01:57:56 SAID WELL WE'LL PLANT TREES BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO WATER THEM.
01:58:00 >> YOU GUYS HAVE TO DO THAT. SO THAT'S WHEN WE ORGANIZED
01:58:03 JOSH AND KENDRA ORGANIZED TREE WATERING WHICH PEOPLE ALL OVER
01:58:08 THE CITY NOW HAVE REACHED OUT TO THEM TO DO.
01:58:12 IT WASN'T DPW WAS IT WAS MISSION VERDI PEOPLE ESPECIALLY
01:58:19 IN THE MISSION I WANT TO SAY BECAUSE WE'RE SURROUNDED BY TWO
01:58:22 MAJOR TRAFFIC CORRIDORS WE HAVE CESAR CHAVEZ AND MISSION STREET
01:58:29 AND BEHIND WE HAVE GENERAL THAT HAS WATER ONE RUNNING BEHIND
01:58:33 IT. >> PLEASE HELP US KEEP OUR
01:58:37 TREES AND PLEASE PLANT MORE. >> THANK YOU.
01:58:40 NEXT SPEAKER. GOOD MORNING.
01:58:50 GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS LANCE CARDS.
01:58:51 I LIVE IN DISTRICT THREE AND I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THE
01:58:58 CITY TREE POLICIES FOR PROBABLY ABOUT 8 OR 10 YEARS AND I WHEN
01:59:04 I FIRST BEGAN FOLLOWING THE POLICIES THE MANAGEMENT OF THE
01:59:08 BUREAU OF URBAN FORESTRY WAS A PRETTY SHADY CROWD.
01:59:13 DID IT REALLY? THEY WEREN'T VERY EFFECTIVE.
01:59:16 I HAVE TO HAND IT TO DAVID MOORE AND HIS STAFF.
01:59:20 SUZANNE IS URBAN FORESTER. THEY'RE DOING A GREAT JOB AND I
01:59:23 CONTACTED THEM EARLY THIS YEAR AND ASKED, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S
01:59:28 GOING ON WITH DISTRICT THREE? THEY SAID, OH, WE'RE GOING TO
01:59:33 PLANT 100 TREES IN DISTRICT THREE AND WE SAID TERRIFIC.
01:59:37 AND I LOOKED AT MY MAP OF THE TREES IN DISTRICT THREE.
01:59:42 THE TREE WAS I DIDN'T SEE 100 SO I SAID WELL I CAN SEND SOME
01:59:45 APP OR SOMETHING AND THEY DID. >> AFTER THEY PLANTED THE TREES
01:59:49 I SUGGESTED WE GET TOGETHER AND TAKE A WALK AROUND THE
01:59:53 NEIGHBORHOOD AND SEE WHAT IT'S DONE AND BOY THEY WERE THEY
01:59:57 WERE CRACKERJACK. THEY HAD THE URBAN FORESTER
02:00:00 THERE. THEY HAD DAVID AND WE HAD A
02:00:05 JOURNALIST AND THERE WERE FIVE PEOPLE THERE THAT KNEW TREES.
02:00:08 IT WAS REALLY EDUCATIONAL. SO IF YOU EVER WANT TO KNOW
02:00:12 WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR DISTRICT, ASK DAVID OR HIS
02:00:15 STAFF TO ORGANIZE A WALK. SO I THINK THE OTHER THINGS
02:00:22 THAT WERE MENTIONED TODAY WERE MISSION VERY DAY.
02:00:25 THE CHI CHI VENTURE QUATTRO WAS VERY, VERY SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM
02:00:33 AND LET'S SEE WHAT ELSE CAN I PUT IN.
02:00:38 AS FAR AS DISTRICT SIX GOES I'VE BEEN DOWN THERE A FEW
02:00:41 TIMES TO HELP OUT WITH THAT. THEY PUT IN SOME BIKE LANES ONE
02:00:45 TIME TO TAKE OUT TREES AND IT'S A IT'S A VERY DIFFICULT AREA TO
02:00:49 MANAGE. >> TREE WISE.
02:00:52 THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
02:00:56 >> NEXT SPEAKER. >> GOOD MORNING CHAIR SOUDER
02:01:06 AND SUPERVISORS PETER PAPADOPOULOS AND TODAY I'M HERE
02:01:08 WITH THE ARCHIVE INTEGRATOR LATINO CULTURAL DISTRICT.
02:01:11 FIRST OF ALL WE THANK SUPERVISOR DORSEY FOR HOLDING
02:01:15 THIS HEARING AND THE STAFF FOR THEIR THOUGHTFUL AND TO BE
02:01:19 HONEST ENLIGHTENING PRESENTATION ABOUT SOME KEY
02:01:20 ISSUES. SO I THINK WE'D LIKE TO FOCUS
02:01:25 ON TWO THINGS GIVEN ALL THE DISCUSSION AND THE PROBING
02:01:26 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. WHICH IS NUMBER ONE TO PICK UP
02:01:30 ON SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD'S POINT ABOUT HOW DO WE KNOW EXACTLY
02:01:34 WHERE THIS FUNDING IS BEING SPENT WHEN WE GET OUR ADOPT A
02:01:39 TREE FUNDING PARTICULARLY NOW THAT A LOT MORE FOLKS WE
02:01:42 IMAGINE ARE GOING TO OPT OUT? AND ALSO THIS ISSUE OF IS IT
02:01:48 IN THE EQUITY GEOGRAPHIES? IS IT CLOSE?
02:01:49 AND I KNOW SUPERVISOR DORSEY DID A LOT OF PROBING AND BACK
02:01:53 AND FORTH THERE BECAUSE WE KNOW THERE'S REALLY A HANDFUL OF
02:01:57 NEIGHBORHOODS THERE'S A LARGE HANDFUL OF NEIGHBORHOODS MOST
02:02:01 OF YOURS AND THE MISSION THAT BUILD 85% OF THE HOUSING.
02:02:07 AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT FUNDING IS BEING
02:02:08 CONCENTRATED IN THOSE PLACES. >> AND WHILE THE MISSION
02:02:12 THANKFULLY HAS BEEN PRIORITIZED ,IT DOES SEEM MORE A STAFF
02:02:16 INITIATIVE AND RECOGNITION. SO WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE
02:02:20 SOMETHING MORE FORMAL PUT IN PLACE BECAUSE NEITHER OF THE
02:02:26 TWO SETS OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MAPS REALLY QUITE COVER
02:02:27 THE MISSION INCLUDING THE LATINO CULTURAL DISTRICT.
02:02:34 >> SO TO THAT END WE WOULD BE HUGE SUPPORTERS OF THIS
02:02:35 SOFTWARE IDEA. SUPERVISOR DORSEY IN THAT
02:02:38 DISCUSSION YOU ALL HAD WE'D LOVE TO SEE WE'VE BEEN TALKING
02:02:41 ABOUT JUST LIKE WE HAVE A HOUSING INVENTORY REPORT AND A
02:02:43 YEARLY PUBLICATION AND A DASHBOARD SO THAT WE COULD
02:02:46 SIMPLY LOG ON AND SEE HOW THE PROGRESS IS GOING
02:02:50 AND UNDERSTANDING ALL THOSE SHORTAGES.
02:02:53 THAT SOUNDS LIKE A TON OF SHORTAGES.
02:02:54 SO AGAIN, THAT SOUNDS LIKE A FUNDING ISSUE AS MUCH AS
02:02:57 ANYTHING. LASTLY MENTIONED BY MY PEER
02:03:01 FROM THE DISTRICT THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS AND THANK YOU.
02:03:05 NEXT SPEAKER. >> GOOD MORNING.
02:03:12 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CALLING THIS HEARING.
02:03:16 >> THIS IS ELLEN. SO DO FROM A MID-MARKET
02:03:17 COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT. I LISTENED TO THE ENTIRE
02:03:21 PRESENTATION AND WITH GREAT INTEREST JUST BROUGHT A COUPLE
02:03:28 OF PICTURES HERE FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.
02:03:31 >> ARE YOU ABLE TO SEE. >> YES MRS. SADLY ONE OF THE
02:03:40 EARLY TREES PLANTED ON MINA AT SIXTH STREET FIRST PART OF A
02:03:44 SIXTH STREET GREEN UNIFICATION PROJECT AND IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
02:03:51 . AND SADLY YOU CAN SEE THAT IT
02:03:55 HASN'T SURVIVED. I THINK IT'S LESS THAN A YEAR
02:03:58 OLD. >> I WAS SADDENED TO HEAR ABOUT
02:04:02 A THIRD OF THE SUNNI-ARAB TREE DIDN'T MAKE IT IN THE URBAN
02:04:06 FORESTRY PROJECT. I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT A
02:04:10 SUCCESSFUL EXAMPLE OF HOW A TREE CAN BE GIVEN A CHANCE OF
02:04:14 SURVIVABILITY. AND THIS IS A TREE THAT IS ON
02:04:20 THE 10TH STREET THAT WAS A PART OF A NIEMEYER DEVELOPMENT.
02:04:25 YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS TREE HAS BEEN PLANTED WITH A WITH A
02:04:29 LITTLE CONCRETE LEDGE THAT PROTECTS NOT ONLY FROM WIND YOU
02:04:33 KNOW YOU KNOW, A VEHICLE BUT ALSO FROM DOGS URINATE ON THE
02:04:41 SIDE OF THE FENCE. >> I'VE GOT TREES GIVEN A
02:04:44 CHANCE TO SURVIVE. SO I THINK I WOULD ENCOURAGE
02:04:48 EVERY DEPARTMENT TO REALLY CONSIDER SOLUTIONS THAT WILL
02:04:52 EVEN IF IT'S A FEW LESS TREES, IF THEY HAVE MORE CHANCE TO
02:04:56 SURVIVING IN THE LONG RUN I THINK THE CITY WILL BE BETTER
02:05:00 OFF. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
02:05:02 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. DO WE HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL
02:05:06 PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS ITEM? >> MR. CHAIR, THAT COMPLETES
02:05:11 PUBLIC COMMENT OR PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW CLOSED.
02:05:14 >> AND SUPERVISOR DORSEY, THANK YOU.
02:05:18 THANK YOU CHAIR SORTER. I WANT TO THANK PUBLIC WORKS
02:05:22 FOR BEING HERE TODAY. THANKS ESPECIALLY TO MR. MOORE
02:05:25 FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND FOR THE ROBUST AND INFORMATIVE Q&A.
02:05:29 I THINK THE UPSIDE OF YOUR JOB AS THE SUPERINTENDENT FOR OUR
02:05:36 URBAN FORESTRY EFFORTS IS THAT YOU GET TO WORK ON SOMETHING
02:05:39 THAT A LOT OF SAN FRANCISCANS CARE ABOUT.
02:05:41 OBVIOUSLY THE DOWNSIDE IS YOU WORK ON SOMETHING A LOT OF SAN
02:05:44 FRANCISCANS CARE ABOUT AND YOU KNOW THAT THAT MEANS THAT
02:05:48 THERE'S GOING TO BE QUESTIONS AND HEARINGS.
02:05:51 BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR ENGAGEMENT NOT JUST HERE AT
02:05:54 THIS HEARING BUT WITH MY OFFICE AND MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITIES
02:05:58 . YOU DID A GREAT JOB AND I JUST
02:05:59 WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. I WILL LEAVE THIS HEARING
02:06:02 BETTER INFORMED THAN WHEN IT STARTED AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT
02:06:05 HEARINGS SHOULD BE. SO LET'S KEEP THE CONVERSATION
02:06:09 AND THE WORK GOING AND LET'S MAKE SURE THAT WE AS BOARD OF
02:06:13 SUPERVISORS ARE COGNIZANT THAT WE HAVE TO DO OUR PART TO
02:06:17 ENSURE THAT THE BUREAU OF URBAN FORESTRY HAS THE RESOURCES IT
02:06:18 NEEDS TO MEET OUR RESIDENTS EXPECTATIONS.
02:06:22 I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE DISTRICT SIX RESIDENTS
02:06:25 AND ADVOCATES WHO HAVE PUT A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT INTO
02:06:28 RESEARCHING THESE ISSUES. SEAN AUCKLAND ESPECIALLY FOR
02:06:32 YOUR WORK FOR BEING DETAIL ORIENTED AND HIGHLY EFFECTIVE
02:06:36 AND PUSHING GREATER TREE EQUITY ACROSS OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
02:06:40 THANK YOU TO THE SOUTHWEST CBD FOR THE SUPPORT YOU'RE OFFERING
02:06:41 TO THIS EFFORT TO ALL THE CBDS. I THINK WE HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR
02:06:47 FROM PUBLIC WORKS AS WELL AS FROM THE COMMUNITY HOW
02:06:49 IMPORTANT THAT SUPPORT IS TO BE A PARTNER WITH OUR CITY
02:06:52 DEPARTMENTS TO EXPAND OUR URBAN FOREST.
02:06:56 AND TO THAT POINT LET'S ALSO THANK THE FRIENDS OF THE URBAN
02:07:00 FOREST FOR EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO.
02:07:01 THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY HAS REALLY HELPED MOVE THIS CONVERSATION
02:07:04 FORWARD AND IT REMAINS FOR US THE CITY GOVERNMENT TO ENSURE
02:07:07 THAT WE ARE DELIVERING ON THEIR EFFORTS.
02:07:09 SO THANK YOU AS WELL TO EVERYONE WHO TOOK THE TIME TO
02:07:12 PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT TODAY. HEARING DIRECTLY FROM RESIDENTS
02:07:16 IS A REALLY AN IMPORTANT PART OF UNDERSTANDING WHERE OUR CITY
02:07:17 POLICIES ARE WORKING AND WHERE THEY'RE NOT AND WHERE THERE MAY
02:07:20 BE GAPS. AND FINALLY THANK YOU TO CHAIR
02:07:23 SARTOR FOR SCHEDULING THIS HEARING AND THANK YOU TO MY
02:07:27 COLLEAGUES ON THIS COMMITTEE FOR SOME EXCELLENT QUESTIONS
02:07:30 AND FOR GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE WHAT I
02:07:32 THINK WAS A VERY INFORMATIVE LIVE DISCUSSION TODAY.
02:07:35 I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THE DEPARTMENT'S WILLINGNESS TO
02:07:39 CONTINUE WORKING WITH WITH MY OFFICE AND I KNOW OTHER
02:07:40 OFFICERS ON THESE ISSUES. >> I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING
02:07:44 THE CONVERSATION PROCEDURALLY. WE DID HEAR A COMMUNITY REQUEST
02:07:48 TO CONTINUE THIS HEARING TO THE CALL OF THE CHAIR TO REVISIT
02:07:52 THESE ISSUES. I'M INCLINED TO AGREE AGREE.
02:07:55 SO I WOULD RESPECTFULLY ASK THAT WE CONTINUE THIS HEARING
02:07:59 TO THE CALL OF THE CHAIR SO THAT WE CAN REVISIT IT TO THE
02:08:02 AT THE CHAIR'S CHOOSING. >> THANK YOU SUPERVISOR
02:08:06 AND GIVING THOSE COMMENTS. THANKS FOR EVERYONE FOR YOUR
02:08:07 ENGAGEMENT TODAY. I WILL ALSO MENTION THAT WE ARE
02:08:10 EXPECTING A TREE MAINTENANCE HEARING LATER THIS FALL COMING
02:08:14 FROM SUPERVISOR ONE WHICH I LOOK FORWARD TO AND I HOPE THAT
02:08:17 WE'LL HAVE A CONTINUATION OF THIS CONVERSATION.
02:08:21 BUT I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THAT WE DO CONTINUE THIS ITEM TO THE
02:08:25 CALL THE CHAIR. >> YES.
02:08:29 >> AND ON THE MOTION TO CONTINUE THIS HEARING TO THE
02:08:30 CALL OF THE CHAIR MEMBER WANG MEMBER WANG AI VICE CHAIR
02:08:34 MAHMUD VICE-CHAIRMAN WOOD I CHAIR SLAUGHTER CHAIR SLAUGHTER
02:08:38 I HAVE THREE EYES. >> THANK YOU MADAM CLERK AND IT
02:08:44 WILL BE CONTINUED TO THE CALL THE CHAIR.
02:08:45 ARE THERE ANY MORE ITEMS BEFORE US TODAY?
02:08:48 >> MR. CHAIR THAT COMPLETES OUR MEETING AGENDA.
02:08:49 THANK YOU. THE MEETING IS NOW ADJOURNED