Fewer. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk please make sure to silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Any speaker cards to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items to be acted on today will appear on the november 12 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Item 1 is the transfer of 1419 bryant street and 1215 street known as the citys Animal Shelter incurred under the jurisdiction of the acc to the mta. The floor is yours. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. I am the Deputy Director of the real estate division. Before you is the transfer of two propertyies, 120015 street and currently used as an office and Animal Shelter and 1419 bryant street under the jurisdiction and former use by the San Francisco municipal use Transportation Agency for 0. Currently the 15 street site is not adequate for a. C. C. s uses. It has 29,000 square rentable feet, while the bryant Street Property has 3300 square feet and would be upgraded to increased to approximately 44,000 square feet by adding a second floor in the existing building structure. Sfmta currently has two sites right near the 15 street parcel, including the maintenance facility. Both departments desire the exchange and entered into discussions in 2016. Appraisals were obtained and the former director of property determined the fair market value was the same of each based on the appraisals. Review appraisals were also performed. An m. O. V. Was drafted and finalized and taken to the commission. A general plan referral was obtained. An exemption from Environmental Review was obtained for the acc project at bryants site in 2016. We ask for your positive recommendation, and i have people from sfmta and acc here with me if you have any questions. So ive looked at the packet. Colleagues, do you have any questions . Not yet. So ive read the packet and im comfortable with this. This may be some questions. You just referenced the fact that the mta owns land near 120015th across the street and i believe directly across 15th as well. I was wondering if what the mta ooess plans are and whether there can be some consolidation there, whether you want to abandon any of that. Im not sure what you use that little triangle to the south for, but there is a building on it as i recall. I think its like a metal shed kind of building that does not in the supervisors opinion have any historical value, but i could be wrong. Thats going to lead me to my next question about 23a, but we can get to that in a minute. Im the manager of real estate for the sfmta. I have with me today also our longrange acid development developer. In terms of our future intent when we initiate this jurisdictional transfer, we plan on relocating our Parking Enforcement group into this new site. So that would become the new headquarters for our Parking Enforcement function. And then Everything Else around it in terms of our yard and our existing parking lot and our nonrevenue vehicle area will remain as it is. That is pretty much where we are right now. I can add, im from the sfmta now, i can add a couple of comments to what jason said. One, the small structure that you alluded to thats to the south of 15 street, thats for tire service for the vehicles. Its a freestanding structure, but part of the flin facility. We have looked at a couple of options to expand the footprint of the site. We worked with public works to do some different test fits. There is a very large drainage culverts that make building on to treat street difficult. For currently for animal control there is a dog run. You mean on the other side of the fence . Yes, thats correct. Technically i think it was part of the right of way and is above that drainage culvert. If you have a passive use, its easy to obviously locate that there. Did that answer all of your questions . Im trying to figure out if you have longterm, viable, efficient plans for the rest of that site, given that you could actually potentially abandon that little piece of 15th that nobody uses goes to nowhere. And we believe that again, we played with a number of concepts with public works, but we believe the Square Footage and i know the total mentioned was a little under 15,000. Either renovating or building a new structure would be adequate for enforcements needs. We dont see a pressing need to enapproach further into the right of way thats there. And as to the bryant site, the overhead power folks went where . They went to our burke warehouse on burke avenue. It was a pretty significant Capital Improvement project that we did. Now theyre in a central warehouse for various functions. Relative to the chapter 23a considerations as to whether or not or why it is not surplus, anything you want to say on the record about that . The only thing that i would say is that we currently our Enforcement Division is in a number of leases. So its essentially been our policy to try and move our functions into permanent sites that are under the jurisdiction of the sfmta, so this is in line with that. Theyre a little bit scattered all over the place. So its a proper place to give them a proper facility in a place that would work better. Youll be getting out of those leases when . When these would be placed in service. Were looking at public works evaluating a number of scenarios. Renovation is one option or construction is another. It is a historic resource. So part of the Environmental Review path will have a better sense as to the timetable. But i would say approximately to put a number on it, maybe starting construction 2022, 2021. Its a vastly different project if you scrape it and start all over than retrofit it . Thats exactly right. Were evaluating the pros and cons. Any members of the public that want to speak on this interjurisdictional exchange between two city departments. Seeing none and given the fair market value is the same and no money is exchanged, i will close Public Comment and make a motion to send this item with recommendation without objection. Clerk item 2 is the hearing on the implementation efforts to make biodiversity a citywide priority. This has been brought to us by supervisor fewer who has joined us. Thank you, chair peskin, for scheduling this hearing. I introduced a resolution to prioritize these goals for the city of San Francisco in partnership with sf planning. Biodiversity is since the accident for a thriving ecosystem upon which we depend on food, health, and clean water. This must be part of the strategy to address Climate Change. In urban areas we do not always prioritize our Natural Environment or think about how to preserve and nurture ecological sustainability. In my neighborhood we are surrounded by natural borders. While not all neighborhoods are surrounded by the same green and open space, we should be working in all districts to ensure that biodiversity and Environmental Protection for the benefit and enjoyment of all our communities. Over the last few years there were policies developed that pertain to the conservation of Natural Resources and supporting biodiversity in San Francisco. There is currently an Interagency Working Group which includes biologically rich ecosystems, community and ecological stewardship, ecological planning and design and resilience in a living city. Many agencies have worked opt on the resolution which the board of supervisor passed for making a biodiversity policy real in San Francisco. The resolution calls for an Interagency Working Group and an implementation report on the establishment of local biodiversity as a citywide policy. It is at todays hearing that we are pleased to receive this report. If i may, chair, call on the next speaker. The hearing is all yours. Go for it. I would like to call up debbie rafel, the director of San Francisco government. Thank you, chair, and members of the committee for welcoming us today to talk about this incredible important issue that feels timely, considering what is on item 3 in your agenda. Clearly in this time of Climate Crisis and impacts of Climate Change, thinking about what possibility we have for Natural Solutions and valuing our natural ecosystems could not be more important. The biodiversity crisis that we are in is clearly on us right now. I am going to spend just a couple minutes reminding us of that global context. Then im going to turn it over to two of my colleagues. They will talk about the follow up that city agencies have been working on since the board of supervisors adopted this last year. They will be followed by comments from city agencies who are bringing to you firstperson stories of their commitment and their experience. So this is important because it puts San Francisco in a global context. These red areas on the map are considered biodiversity hot spots. 2. 4 of the planet accounts for over 50 of the species. The red on this map are areas which are considered key for biodiversity and yet threatened. Less than 30 of the species are still in existence in everywhere you see red on this map. Clearly if you look at north america and the united states, california has an opportunity and an obligation to treasure and take action to preserve its biodiversity. This crisis is obviously not just on those areas in red. We are approaching a mass extinction that we have not seen since the last mass extinction, which was 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs went extinct. We expect to lose 2 million species. In the 19th century, the u. S. Has lost 30 of its birds. If you go into california, this is a picture of a monarch butterfly, just since the passing of this resolution, they have decreased by 85 . The resolution and the work that it entails and San Franciscos response. So clearly this is not an issue that is unique to San Francisco. Scientists and activists, conservationists around the world are saying to us nature needs half. What that means is we need to make sure that half of the worlds surface, whether its water or land, is preserved and supported for the habitat that is needed. Now, how does that mean in a city like San Francisco, a deep urban environment like we are . What opportunities do we have for a Nature Needs Half Movement . Starting with our natural areas and what youre going to hear in item 3 are our parks, the natural areas, the green spaces we have in the city need our attention. In addition, we need to look at creative ways to increase our biodiversity by looking at green roofs and looking at vertical or narrow parks, streets, plazas, any opportunity we have to rip up concrete and support habitat. I want to end with this concept which is very familiar to you in the board of supervisors. Our Climate Action strategy, 080100 roots. I find most of the time when i come before the group im talking about 080100. 80 trips out of cars, 100 Renewal Energy giving off diesel and natural gas and gasoline as well. A big part of our strategy is the lower part, the part that says we must support biodiversitied, we must support open and green spaces, not only in our 7mile border, but also managed in the city and county of San Francisco. Once we do think of roots as part of our Climate Action strategy, we absorb stormwater runoff, we cool our neighborhoods, we improve air quality. The list goes on and on. So 080100 roots is our strategy. Today im pleased that we will be focusing on the roots part. So with that as a response to the call and the detail of the resolution, im going to turn it over to peter to take it from here. Thank you very much, debbie. Good afternoon, everyone, supervisors, peter brasto from the department of the environment. Im going to tell you a little bit about the nuts and bolts of the resolution and what we did with the different departments. And just overall ill say just following up on what debbie said about roots and greening. This resolution is not just about getting more green, but from green to biodiverse. We want our landscapes, gardens, et cetera, to be functional for Climate Resilience and we want them to support wildlife habitat. Overall the resolution did two things. One was to elevate biodiversity as a citywide priority and the second is to set up an interagency collaboration, as you heard from supervisor fewers terrific introduction. So ill talk more about that in a moment. For example oh, ive got to go to the next slide. There we go. One of the things projects like this, are what the resolution promotes. Places like this new linear park in central soma neighborhood which will be planted with local native plants and gardens so folks can connect on their lunch hour. Among our core goals and principles in this work, the 2018 biodiversity resolution calls out an equity and nature connection, equitiability in folks connecting to nature as one of our top priorities. Everyone in San Francisco should have the opportunity to connect to nature every day. And i should say that this work of equity and nature connection and of conservation, regulation restoration and stewardship of the citys areas has been going on. In fact, the resolution highlights this legacy and really calls upon us to expand upon this work. Okay. So again, core to the resolution was the direction for these 15 different city agencies to collaborate together. So weve been doing that ever since weve been doing that since the resolution in 2018, but we got clear direction from the resolution for all 15 to Work Together and to do so on a monthly basis and to proceed through initiatives, which ill talk about. Weve built a Strong Network of biodiversity champions, representatives from the different departments who are enthusiastic about implementing this work. Really, i would say this robust interagency collaboration is someone of the more impressive outcomes of the resolution. Among the actual resolved clauses of the resolution speaking in resolution speak, the departments were asked to make public commitments of how they propose to implement the citys biodiversity vision. So youll see on page 4 of the report thats in your packet, that they had several choices in order to do that. Some many drafted a memo or authored a memo to their leadership. One department made a presentation at their commission with all kinds of materials and it was really well received. That was at the library. And some libraries passed their own resolutions. That was at the port and the airport and of course the Planning Department. Youll hear from lisa fisher later. Another key part of the resolution was us, the department of environment, me, drafting bachl a way to accumulate data and information from all the different departments. So we sent out basically a form, if you will, to all 15 departments and they sent it back to us. We created a compendium of information about what departments are doing now, what theyve done in the past, and what they might propose to do in the future in terms of implementing our biodiversity vision. So im going to talk about a few of kind of our current collaborative efforts, and then lisa is going to talk about some of the proposed new initiatives. So this is a list of four among many things that obviously many of our departments do, but were calling this out specifically because we wanted to highlight these things as collaborations among the departments. So the Planning Department and the department of environment created this plant finder. Its a way to give the public as well as city agencies an easy way to build plant lists to plan habitat in the built environment. Were continuing to perfect that and want to make sure thats working with everybody and everybody buys into how it works so we can make a goto resource for all things plant in San Francisco. Also our department and the Planning Department have worked together what we have called our biodiversity design guidelines. Theyre in a draft form right now and weve been vetting them with a couple of Different Developers from the private sector to see how they could be implemented. As we go forward here with our Department Colleagues, we want to strengthen them and bring them to fru sissing to be something that will be a key tool in implementing bio divedi landscapes. Third to last. Biodiversity training. We have been delivering a beta training to our Department Colleagues over the last couple of years. This is something thats really key in terms of making sure all the employees and the different departments are on the same page in terms of what their understanding is and what tools we have to do it together. Well be expanding that and really trying to up our level of commitment to deliver that training to all the different departments. Finally, well continue meeting as a group and taking what youll hear about today and working on those and bringing them back again in even more developed form. I think that was everything i was going to say. Im going to invite lisa to talk about new initiatives and shes going to mention challenges and next steps. Thank you, peter. Hello, supervisors. Good afternoon. Thank you so much for all your support in the last i guess now year and a half and also your attention today. We hope that this presentation and our memo gives you all a lot of great talking points for the narratives you might be having with your own constituents when you hair we need better flood protection or safer places for our kids to play, this idea of integrating more greening can happen throughout our city. Im from the Planning Department. I lead the resilience and sustainability departments. Im part of the core agencies working on all of this. Really with other folks in the room helping to knit these two issues together and deliver on the cobenefits all of that can provide. I only have a few more minutes with you all. So were going to go through the top ideas of key initiatives. As mentioned, these came from the Department Level surveys. We asked the departments what are folks doing, where are the opportunities, where do the products exist where we can be amplifying greening and where we turn more paving in a lang time. Its the biodiversity crisis that we need to do our best practices the first time around, or its more stuff to retrofit down the line. Im going to go through the ideas that the agencies came up with together. First of all within native plant production. In part because of your production and this city wide elevating this idea and this vision, we have had a lot of success working with the Major Development projects on incorporating california and local native plants into the open space projects as well as working with the colleagues on cityled projects and other open spaces. We are going to need a lot more plants. We feel the city has an opportunity to take ownership of this. We really especially see the opportunity in a lot of our currently vacant or underutilized sites, whether it a future development site. Were looking at this in central soma, for example, and these native plant nurseries are opportunities to provide neighborhood beautification as well as workforce development. And also pollinating the areas across the city and where we have projects going on to redevelop parks, plazas, and amplify the streets and sidewalks. You may think of civic center plaza. Other areas where we can have these areas that connect folks. What actually is habitat supportive greening. By the city taking a lead in integrating these in different areas in the city, they serve as tetsing beds for which species work the best in which microclimates for our city. We can then share this with our private Sector Development partners. Weve been inspired about work in los angeles about incorporating native plants and healthy landscapes into our Affordable Housing areas. Equity is a huge focus of this work and how do we get landing scape landscaping and the right type of that into our environments. This is important to us and were excited to dig into that. Also cityowned land as well as privatesector projects, were taking a look at all our current codes and thinking about how can we require more greening and the right types of greening and how can we provide really clear tools, so that as one of your constituents gets an infraction because theyve paved over their front yard and they need to have half of that front yard be permeable and 25 be landscaped. This is a picture of a golf course where we have a lot of areas in and around where we need people to stand and walk where we can be transitioning into ecosystem restoration. Finally, this is a twopart initiative that is, one, this idea of the bioregional park which is centred around twin peaks bit integrates several different disparate pieces and represents native lands that are looking to be cojoined. This is a tenyear Grassroots Efforts that has been evolving. One of the recent additions is the crosstown trail. Its connecting through the city connecting a lot of small parks and open spaces up over tin peaks and ending up down in presidio and lands end and connecting nature in this unique way and how can we create new and restored habitat pieces in and around this area. So i have two more slides. One is really about the key challenges and one to let you know the immediate and next steps. As we searched internally as 15 departments as we continued to meet monthly and share what we found in those surveys. Kind of these four challenges are the ones that keep rising to the top. We find them across our work plans and projects and also in conversations we have with private developers. Were going to be digging into those specifically and figuring out through these key initiatives how we can start to solve for those. The first two are really about the project design and implementation. How do we have enough staff. How do we have the right design tools. How do we have in our plojt line items actual plantings, which are cheaper per square foot than plantings. There is this maintenance piece and a lot of times different projects go from one department to the next. One person gets funding to design it, another person gets funding to maintain it. Nobody gets funding in between. Its creating these bulletproof spaces. Its a lot easier to clean concrete, maybe, but at the end we end up with a much warmer and lesshuman, lessenvironmentally connected city. So we want to work through that. We already talked about the actual local and native plant supply. The last one staffing and resources really focused on collaboration. We really in a lot of our work, we want to really acknowledge and build into our work plans that collaboration costs money and not lose sight of that. Finally, our next steps, we are going to be working very specifically on applying the social equity lens to our work plans for the next couple of years. Were also going to be interfacing with stakeholders, including other departments and any other stakeholders that you might recommend about these key initiatives, ways they can be successful and other ideas. One of the great things from your resolution and it set us up in this practical way as we head into our own work plans to be integrating this work and looking to solve for the longterm maintenance and stewardship challenges. We thank you again for your attention. Unless you have any immediate questions, i would like to call up our colleague from the port, but also were happy to take immediate questions. Thank you, lisa. I dont see any questions, but i do want to acknowledge supervisor mandalman has joined us. Im here to convey the ports enthusiastic support for the biodiversity work that has been initiated in the last year and a half. On march 26 of this year, the Port Commission unanimously adopted its own biodiversity resolution that reflects the goals set forth in the citywide resolution, but also tailored towards the particular ways that the port can implement biodiversity on our property. That is both on land, open space that the port owns, and also in working with our private Development Partners to see that biodiversity is incorporated into the really extensive, new urban development that were undertaking to the greatest extent possible. The port has worked to cultivate partnerships with the golden gate society and the department of recreation and parks and lots of local organizations in our southern waterfront area where the primary open spaces are. The natural areas are small and unique in the opportunity they provide to promote Public Engagement and equitable access to nature, and thats something that our Port Commissions are really committed to and enthusiastic about working on as we implement the biodiversity resolution at the port thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am here on behalf of the recreation and parks department. We too would like to voice our support for this resolution and to thank the board and the department of the environment and the Planning Department for passing and implementing citywide biodiversity vision which aligns very closely with key aspects of rec and parks departments longstanding commitment to biodiversity and also the public. Biodiversity is a core initiative. Biodiversity conservation and also promoting citizen stuartship of ecological resources. Our Core Department values that are included in numerous of our initiatives and policies. This is also enshrined in many of our guiding documents, including our Mission Statement as well as our Strategic Plan, which tells us that we must increase biodiversity and also to increase eco literacy of park users and park staff. The third document is our Natural ResourcesManagement Plan which has numerous goals that include promoting biodiversity, restoring native flora and fauna, promoting soil and water conservation, Climate Change resiliency and also environmental justice. A few highlights quickly of rec and park departments work in this realm. The roots in the 080100. And also our stewardship work. Rec and park departments natural areas includes 32 natural areas, over 1,000 areas of the city across 32 different parks. These are managed on an ongoing basis through the Natural Resources division. We had numerous ecological stewardship initiatives, including the volunteer program which on most recent count had over 200,000 volunteer hours from the public. Also many friends of groups that we aligned very closely with, groups such as Youth Stewardship Program which get youth from all over the city out into green spaces and involved in ecological initiatives. The San Francisco children in Nature Initiative and the list goes on and on. We have many, many things that we do in this realm pm also prioritizing sustainable and native landscaping in new infrastructure, parks, Capital Improvements that were making is a very strong focus in our capital and planning division. We really have worked for a long time in many ways to protect San Franciscos diverse biological resources and were proud to support this initiative. Thank you. Thank you, spencer. Supervisor fewer. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Seeing no comments from my colleagues, so im going to call some cards that ive gotten. Greg i think mr. Brasseau may want to add one thing. If i may add jennifer from public works to come up. Absolutely. Hi, thank you, ill keep this brief so we can get to the Public Comments. Just as everyone else, i would really like to reinforce public works to recognize the success of this initiative and to thank the supervisors on this and to peter for bringing us together on a monthly basis. What i want to share is the power of bringing these groups together that we could be much more effective working together towards the public goal. We design, implement, and maintain latin scapes all over the city. We have had a vested interest in the land use. Some of the projects weve created has been ongoing. New projects that we have in the works including the Southeast Community center with the San Francisco public utility commission, which has a focus on plants, but also nature play children. Also the rec park tries to integrate native plants into childrens everyday lives. Something thats been in our agenda is the sunset boulevard master plan. I would like to thank supervisor marr for his support on that project. The planting master plan for the boulevard, but creates a corridor. We brought together an Amazing Group of partners. It was amazing to bring all of these groups together and to see what the power of that effort includes. Thank you to everybody and we support this initiative. Thank you very much. Lets open it up for Public Comment now. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im a native san franciscan and for the last 20 years ive been doing Habitat Restoration starting in the presidio and with the Natural Resources division as a volunteer. For me theres nothing more spiritually rewarding than to do Habitat Restoration and to watch biodiversity return to areas that were degraded or were concrete. For instance, at fredrick and aruelo street in 2010 we established a street park. We had the concrete removed from the traffic island and we planted all San Francisco native plants which we propagated at the former hank recycling center. Now we have seven species of butterflies and nesting sparrows in that traffic island. Its very rewarding to see this happen. It makes life worth living. We have to be reminded many times that this planet is the only place we are aware of in the entire universe that has life on it. Its a very special place and we need to treat it with great respect. I would like to mention a few action items that i would like to see possibly happen since i work in Golden Gate Park every day. The key is our parking lot should be removed and returned to parkland. There are 500 people waiting to get a garden spot at the Golden Gate Park community garden. That parking lot is a horrible eye sore good afternoon. Im the lawn policy leader for the earth center. Id like to express my gratitude as well to the committee, San Francisco environment, and the Interagency Working Group for your combined efforts to promote healthy biodiversity in San Francisco as a priority. Members of the board, with due respect to the other significant issues that come before this committee, protecting our biodiverse ecosystems is the most important. Climate change and the destruction of our environment is the greatest existential threat humanity has ever faced. Time is of the essence if we hope to preserve the environment that is so precious to this city. We would urge the board to loosen the purse strings, to provide the support necessary to employ qualified staff to study, monitor, and quult elevate local native plant production. Unfortunately, money, board resolutions, and interagency cooperation is not going to be enough to solve this problem. Every person in this room likely resides that treating nature as a commodity to be solved is an old paradigm that has failed us. Because the health and welfare of the citys residents is dependant on the Natural Environment, the board must do more. Its time to grant legal rights to nature. If corporations can have legal standing, why not the Natural Environment. In providing Legal Protection to the Natural Environment, we would urge the city to join tens of municipalities across the nation as well as several municipalities who have granted legal rights to nature to enable our biodiverse thank you. I volunteer in the natural areas. Thank you for supporting the citys biodiversity policy. Its a great start, but there are some barriers to a successful implementation. Im hoping our supervisors can help remove some of them. Number one, gardenready local ready plants are in short supply. Rec and parks supply some, but most of their supply is not native plants. The presidio has a model nursery that the city should try to replicate. There are landscaping gardens that can act as a demonstration for planners. Right now a master plan doesnt really exist. Number three, a Biodiversity Baseline needs to be established along with yearly goals and metrics to track success. An inventory of all the species in the city would help you monitor the rise or decline of priority species, map habitat change, and target threats. An houferl assessment of the city will help you target places like degraded open spaces and sterile wide yards. Create a biodiversity handbook for land managers, policy makers, conservationalists and others. Number five ws the city needs a naturalist to help the public understand biodiversity a little better. Thank you for addressing all these obstacles and i hope you continue pressing for better biodiversity. Thank you, supervisors. I am the president of the california native plan society. First, a thank you for bringing the biodiversity resolution forward. A big thank you to your staff for such a fine report on the progress on the policyies. Naturally our robust Human Development has caused degradable action. The percentage of indigenous plants here now are among the lowest in any city in america. Meanwhile, the landscaping continues to introduce exotic plants at a feverish pace. As a naturalist, its sobering to see these poor planting decisions. The good news is that many of the problems weve caused are relatively easy to fix. Simply switch to planting the nearly 500 beautiful indigenous plant species to exist here. Lets invest some resources into this movement and watch the returns come in. Hire some naturalists. Work in appreciation of our Natural Heritage into the city staff and school curriculum. Its a lot of fun. At its core, you are in the business of community happiness. Experience in local nature has proven to increase happiness. Lets celebrate our unique Natural Heritage weve been given. Thank you for listening. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im a board member and a field trip leader for golden gate autobahn society. Im speaking to show support for the resolution. One thing ive learned is about how birds have an incredible way of capturing peoples attention. Once people have tuned in these beautiful animals, they cant turn away from the environmental challenges they face and the human activity that causes it. The biodiversity of birds is remarkable. Over 500 species has been reported here, but that species richness is completely dependant on native plants. Native plants have a long evolutionary history and they provide food and shelter as well as support insects that many of the birds rely on. Many birds have seen frightening declines. Cityscapes need to be part of the solution if species are to survive the major challenges of habitat loss and Climate Change. For the migrators and the locals, the ability to adopt to all these changes will be on their ability to find food. I am the head of the urban chair forest council. As the chair of the urban forest council, i would like to inform you that we just finished our Strategic Plan we spent the last couple months foflg on that and our top priority is as follows. Develop a policy for the urban forest with respect to biodiversity, tree species pallet, availability, and Climate Change. We also decided that we need to expand our focus on backyard trees and park trees. We plan to use the focus of biodiversity on looking at those other areas. Now, when it comes to street trees, we have to acknowledge the fact that there are other issues that biodiversity may not be the determining factor of the trees that we put in the streets of San Francisco because of the way they interact with sidewalks and the public. But with Everything Else that were doing, we will be looking at the lens of biodiversity and how we approach backyard trees and park trees. In addition to that, as chairman of the ed friends of the living forest, we will be hoping to be launching a new project in the fall no, spring of this year where we want to be selling california native trees to homeowners to put in their backyard. In addition to that we have a robust urban forest understory in terms of planting gardens. Weve placed 100,000 square feet of discreet in the last ten years and 80 of those gardens have native california plants. Thank you very much. Hello, im the executive director of the speed fund. We are a Small Organization that has been supporting grassroots [ indiscernible ] official statement, raising the profile and priority of San Franciscos own indigenous nature and biodiversity. Thank you. As a funder, we understand that our society has many problems that need to be solved and the needed solutions often end up having to compete for the funding that they need. Given the worrying trajectory of our planets biodiversity and the interrelated biodiversity as weve been reminded today, we think the resources should be top of the priority list for San Francisco. As a zero waste and energy conservation, San Francisco can be a national and an International Environmental leader in eke logical ecological protection. Our foundation will continue to make our small contributions to the citys ecological health. We urge the citys government to add resources where they are needed to achieve the biodiversity vision. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im here for two organizations. One is chair of sf urban riders and were the local Mountain Bike advocacy group. We work on trails primarily, but adjacent to trails is all the environment. We take care of that and do native Habitat Restoration. One of the more recent things is i met a birder. There are birds that havent been here since 2015. I was certainly surprised to see a map i worked on on a board presentation. Of course i would just like to recognize all the amazing work in the city departments all the gross roots organizations that are not here. These bring people into nature to many parts of the city they have never seen before im really glad to see the idea of signing it. The thing that strikes me is that maintenance is always an issue. Many of the projects have been funded by the city, but theyre Capital Funds and allow us to start things, but maintenance is a concern. The continued support from the city supports the biodiversity. Good afternoon, supervisors. We wanted to thank supervisor fewer for sponsoring this hearing and for bringing this issue forward. Biodiversity is critical. Were in an ecological crisis, not just a Climate Crisis. Hearing the talks about there is not enough money, i dont think this city has a budget problem. I think we have an accounting problem. Everyone who has looked and said, okay, what if a dollar spent planting a tree, what does that mean for the city . Everyone who has looked at it found 5 back in terms of direct City Services and savings. These could be things like Stormwater Management and supporting local health, clean water and health, happiness, preventing runoff and so on. To say that theres not enough money to green the city, every little city is looking at their own silo. If you look at the whole system, greening makes terrific sense. Two ideas that we love, this twin peaks park. There is enough land to create this park where urban people could have this experience of natural lakes, views from hilltops. Lets make that happen. District 8, its in district 8 and 7. The waterfront is another huge opportunity we should look at how other cities are addressing it. Restoring oyster beds and wetlands. We could have a much more sustainable waterfront if we change our approach. Thank you. Im the associate director of Natural Resources at the presia trust. Here on behalf of the trust, we strongly support this policy and wanted to highlight specifically a collaboration between our federal agency and the city on measuring and monitoring biodiversity and the city. An initiative we started with collaboration between department of the environment, California Academy of sciences, and the trust. We recognize that a lot of knees works how do we know if were successful in we in the trust are trying to tie our success as an organization to the results of the Habitat Restoration and stewardship work through specific targets of species that we hope to see as part of this. We want to highlight that as i list numb number 6 on this as it is an important feature of us Going Forward protecting biodiversity and recognizing what we have as well as how were going to preserve it. Thank you. Im a california naturalist. One thing i would really like to see is more education and awareness to our public. I think the public loves our wildlife and nature and like to see whales and sea lions. My neighborhood people complained that trees are being planted and new bike racks being put up because it affects the way they live. I would like to see awareness from the government to preserve the beauty that we have here. I think a lot of citizens dont realize that we need to do some work to preserve what we have. So my point is about education awareness and get that out on the buses or wherever you need to go. This presentation was really great for the 100 people in the room. What about the other 800,000 transients who come through the city, get their jobs, but dont realize the work we have to do. Thank you and i appreciate you coming today and that is all i have to say. I was a recreation park gardener and supervisor and for 29 years have led volunteers every wednesday in support of Natural Resource division staff. We average most of those years 1,000 donated hours per year. I have experience on how Natural Systems work, and im thankful the city has chosen to place a high value on the biological diversity. I am pleased with the Foundation Laid where we need to go and stating the problems of which there will be many. I have to