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Organized and consequently is inarticulate and suffers at budget times. The most insects and our greatest biodiversity lies in our grasslands, but they are declining due to inadequate staffing. By far the greatest wildlife support is provided by locally native plants because they evolve together, but few of them can be found in nurseries. We need a large nursery to propagate the individual plants. Brett park has a nursery and it should be fostered for the whole city. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Thank you very much, supervisors, for your actions to improve the biodiversity throughout the city. I am a board member of the sutro stewards and i can see how effective it has been to have a collaboration among the many interested parties who want to have wildlife in the city. Weve had a wonderful collaboration with ucsf and were working to improve the biodiversity of the local lands. They are im speaking in support of the implementation efforts to make this citys biodiversity a high priority. I thank you again for your efforts. Hello, i want to thank you, supervisors, for this opportunity. Ive been working with the Natural Resource group of rec and park as a volunteer as well as working on the beaches in San Francisco to help its biodiversity. I agree with all the speakers before we, so i wont get into any of that. But i would like to share with you two things of concern. If youre going to proceed with this biodiversity plan, with this vision, there should be a Natural Resource manager overseeing their efforts. The other concern that i would have is that when the term open space is being used, pope space just means public property. It doesnt have any protections unless it is protected or conserved open space. With that said, the possibility of this measure e within San Francisco for Affordable Housing coming up or any other governing body in the future could actually take open space, public property, unless its protected, and use it for housing or other uses. So thats a concern of mine. One other concern that i have within that distinction of open space, theres park lands. As it sits now, parkland couldnt be used for housing, when, in fact, it could be if it was transferred to another department within this city. Please keep that in mind while moving forward with this effort. Just with regard to to the last speakers comment, you cannot transfer parkland under the chart of the city and county of San Francisco, so that is truly protected lands. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, speakers. Im really happy to be present while this biodiversity resolution is being presented and supported. I am a native plant nursery manager for literacy for environmental justice. Were an organization in the bayview district. One of the messages i want to get across is a lot of this work is already happening, but we need your support. Its not an issue of not having the money, but an issue of priority. Were using terms like crisis. I like to move away from fear and more towards love. To me the above part is the solution of this biodiversity resolution. One thing that working with biodiversity and Habitat Restoration does is it connects us to ourselves and to our local environment. It gives us a sense of place. This is something that is direly needed in this age of Digital Technology and service myopic closedin way of relating. This opens up eyes, hearts, minds, and something that brings happiness and solves this crisis that were facing. My organization does workforce development. We hire local youth. We address the inequity and access to open space by providing jobs to youth to grow these native plants. The solutions are here and we need your help and this is a great start. Thank you very much. Thank you. If there are any other speakers, if you would line up. I am here on my own behalf, here in full support of biodiversity, especially the resolution sponsored by the noted environmentalist. That being said, there are actions by the mta and the Planning Department that seem inconsistent, even contradictory with these goals. The Planning Department seems to determined to pave over open space, especially rear yard open space. It appears there are areas where it is still needed to walk the talk. Thank you. Supervisor haney. First of all, thank you, supervisors, for bringing this forward. I really appreciate the i did hear a bit in here some focus on both the port and then central soma and around the freeways. My district has a lack of inadequate open space. It also has a lot of publicly owned land by us or the state or other entities. So i really do hope there is a priority in thinking about equity and the opportunity in those areas, particularly around the freeways and around the port throughout the tenderloin. Two things i wanted to also flag to see if Treasure Island was a part of this strategy or how youre thinking about the Treasure Island open space. Also in district space in particular and some other areas as well, there is a lot of privatepublic open spaces. Those are ones where i think there is some opportunity if we were to bring some ways to better utilize that space and think about the biodiversity in those spaces, there is some rooftop gardens and things like that that i think are underutilized. So i wanted to flag those things and that my district is in support of this strategy. I would like to thank everyone for their prejtss today and thank you for the Public Comment that came out. I really want to give a shout tout to sf environment for all the hard work theyre doing, getting us to work as a team to meet our biodiversity needs and goals. I just want to commend everyone and also our city departments for working together. I just have a few comments and questions. One of my comments is that i notice that on this group that was not included and when were talking about access and equity, i think that we cant forget about our older and disabled adults and their access to the environment and what were doing about that. I would love to see them on the list. Also we need to coordinate with ggnra and the trust, but want to make sure that were all working with them in my neighborhood in each of the surrounding areas for my district. Also i wanted to know, are we also including Community Gardens and the effort around Community Gardens . Are we looking for more Community Gardens as we get more and more dense and people have less and less space in their back yards. I think thats a way for people to relate to nature and have an experience themselves or volunteer groups at the golden gate park. I went on a tour with the friends of wood oaklands. I am impressed with what they are doij. They emailed me with two suggestions and one is to increase the budget of the San Francisco Recreation Parks Department National Resources division which we heard in the Public Comment today and actually direct rec and park to foster policy to increase productive collaboration and material collaboration among our pd divisions and nrd as it pertains to San Francisco about the plan that the board passed in 2018. I love the idea of the friends of the urban forest centering on back yards because in my district i have so many backyards that have been concreted over. I think there is an opportunity to capture actually some of those homeowners that we have an influx of new homeowners as people who have aged out of their homes. This is an opportunity to bring up their responsibility as homeowners to add to our biodiversity. Also, i know there used to be plant displays along the beltway and in my neighborhood that you can actually look at plants that trees that you may want to plant. They have plaquards on them. I moved there in 1959. Full transparency, it was a long time ago, but i thought that idea was really good because you can actually see the trees and how you think is an example of which tree you can request and you have a recommendation of trees that are native to San Francisco. And then i just want to say about the pollinated gardens. Theres one in the belt way now. I think theres excellent and would love to see more and about our education and awareness. I think it is about education and youre absolutely right. I am having a lot of and a lot of Community Meetings about this contention between cars and bicycles and our vision zero. I think there is more education about what we can do individually in our responsibility to actually help reverse whats happening in our climate, that everyone has a responsibility but everyone actually can do something. In my neighborhood we are trying to put bike racks in. It has been a contentious conversation. Many people in my neighborhood own two or three cars. Thats not sustainable. I think the education part of it would help all of us who are trying to look at a larger, global goal of keeping our planet safe and trying to repair it. I love this report and feel like youve got a lot of work on it and i feel the departments are working together. I also wanted to say i think private companies such as ecology should be at the table, we should be discussing it with them. Do they have a biodiversity policy. I think were all so interconnected here and our borders of San Francisco are finite but actually not finite, that we are interacting all the time to other entities. Thank you again to my colleagues on the board for holding this hearing. Thank you, supervisor fewer. Would you like us to continue this to the call of the chair or file the item . I believe i would like to file in item. Okay. I will make a motion to file the item and well take that without objection. Madam clerk, could you please read item 4 out of order. Clerk item had is the rooulgts renaming one block that runs parallel to 6 and 7 street and perpendicular to jeff adossi way. Today i am introducing a resolution to rename one street. I want to thank ten of my colleagues who are cosponsors for their support in honoring jeffs legacy. I also want to thank the hundreds of people that submitted letters in support of the name change and for those who signed our petition in support of jeff adachi way. I want to thank the residents who participated actively with us, either attending the meetings or responding to us over email and engaging with my office. I want to thank my chief of staff for her hard work on this. I recognize there are a lot of people who are here to speak on this, so i wont say too much about this. What i do want to say is we miss jeff every day. We miss him and his joy and who he was as a person and his friendship. We also miss the advocacy and the hard work and the fearlessness that he brought to his work every day. He was for six years as public defender, he transformed that office into a National Model for public defender work and also became a National Voice for racial justice. The street that we are going to be renaming is one that he walked on on a near daily basis since he started at the Public Defenders Office in 1987. It is a fitting way that we will honor jeff and his legacy. It will be a place where attorneys and others for decades and decades to come will be able to loom up and be reminded of the example that he set for all of us. I want to also thank the many folks who are here from the Public Defenders Office for their incredible work and support of this effort. I also want to recognize jeffs wife and jeffs family. Again, to thank the many folks who came out to speak on this and contacted us to support this. I also want to recognize that there were many folks who believed that this is an important thing for us to do, not just because of who jeff was and what he represented to the criminal defense community, but also how important it is that we elevate heroes in our community, particularly that represent the full diversity of San Francisco. The japan kneesjapanaseamerica and asianamerican community has been part of this. Unfortunately, there are few places in which we recognize and honor and celebrate the leadership of asianamerican leaders in our communities. As much as this is about jeff, which it is, it is also about making sure that a Community Gets recognition. I want to thank those from various japanesearn organizations that have spoken out in support of us taking this step. So there are no amendments that i have. Just as we did hear this once before in land use and we did make the change that we had discussed at that meeting, which is that this will be the one block between brandon and bryant that would be named jeff adachi way. We would have both names before becoming solely jeff adachi way. This is something our city does. There are many different blocks around the city that have this arrangement. Just right out here in front of city hall we have one name for one block. This would be similar. This is a hugely important block for the legacy that jeff represented across from the hall of justice. With that, chair peskin may want to open it up to Public Comment. Should we start with the public defender . Several years ago i was coming back from court after a hotly contested trial, which fortunately had a good result. Jeff met me in the hallway. I was flying out of the country the next day to do some International Human rights work in india. Jeff had with him this book about the legal system in india and the empire, almost uncannily the right gesture at the right time. While he was really proud of the work we did in the courtroom and what we accomplished, to me that gesture said volumes and was a thick read, not just about him as a civil rights hero but as a civil rights hero. When we think about human rights, if i had to instill jeffs philosophy to just a few words, it was is the level of representation that youre providing to this client the level of representation that you would want if a loved one of yours were facing charges . If its not, you need to raise the level. I can think of so better ethic for our staff to be reminded of as we go across that alley on the way to court to 850 bryant to do battle for our clients and their families. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is alex limeau. I am an attorney speaking today to represent the opinions of the residents and the property of owners of gillbert who are unanimous in the strong opposition to renaming their street and instead suggest to rename the public defenders building. Out of the 28 fronting properties, 23 responded to the letter. All of the residents opposed the renaming of their street. Furthermore, public works received a petition to keep the name. 18 of the residents also submitted signed declarations suggesting instead renaming the Public Defenders Office building in dedication of jeff adachi. The primary reason the residents opposed the name change is it imposes a significant expense. Every Property Owner would be forced to engage in a very timeconsuming process to update legal documents and in some cases be forced to obtain lawyers to update wills and other documents with real expenses. I note that those appearing today in support of this name change, none are residents of gilbert street who will have to pay this price. We urge the board not to ride rough shot over the residents of this street. Renames the building does not carry any of these down sides. And it will ensure his legacy continues. Thank you. Go ahead, next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is gregory mendez. I am here as a citizen of San Francisco. I fully support the comments just made by the attorney who spoke to you a few moments ago. I park on gilbert street and have for the last 19 years. I am well acquainted with the woman who i rent my parking space from, and she has told me many times how she would have to suffer the burdens of this name change. I fully agree that naming the public defender building after mr. Adachi would be wholly appropriate and, frankly, would not be a burden on anyone. I would also point out that its my belief, and i know this from contact with San Francisco Police Department officers, that the circumstances that brought about the tragic and terrible demise of mr. Adachi was not all together clear to the public. Im well aware of what actually happened, and i believe that naming a street for mr. Adachi is actually in furtherance of that effort by this city to conceal what actually happened. He deserved to be recognized for his fine work. Theres no question about that, but certainly not by naming this street after him. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im christopher holland. I as well represent several of the businesses and Property Owners on gillbert street. The cost factor in changing their biographic information is too much. I new jeff adachi. He was seven or eight years behind me and became an attorney in 1985, a public defender for 18 or 20 years. As we know, he became the head public defender in 2002, all the way up until february when he died. The guy was a fearless advocate and he has a wonderful staff, i guess about 100 deputy public defenders underneath him and i see them regularly in court. Theyve done extremely well. They are fearless advocates themselves, all trained under jeff adachi. Jeff adachi did a lot of good work and he did the immigrants in this city postconviction release, the motions that he brought to protect the immigrants. And what i dont think mr. Haney, you have sat back and looked why would they name a back street socalled alleyway after jeff adachi . Wouldnt it be more appropriate to name 5557 street in memory of jeff adachi . Thats kind of degrading besides the cost factor, and i dont think anybodys looked at that alternative. We know the hall of justice was named after Thomas Cahill and i think it was 1995. Youve mentioned thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisor haney. My name is vilasco win. I am a deputy public defender in San Francisco and i have been for over 15 years. More importantly, i am a San Francisco resident and a father of two. I am here in support of the name change, in particular because jeff adachis legacy has inspired and motivated me as a father and a San Francisco resident. I am also an artist, writer, and comedian. One thing that jeff has always imprinted on my life is that we can always find better, we can always love each other and respect. This is still a city full of hope for peace, justice, and art. Thank you very much, supervisors. Next speaker, please. Thank you. Im a spokeswoman for the Public Defenders Office. On behalf of the Department Today and with respect to our neighborhoods, we support the renaming of gilbert street to jeff adachi way and we thank you for proposing this. Jeff adachi left a mark on this city and having his name outside would be a reminder of his fight for civil and human rights. He recreated what a Public Defenders Office could be, a frontline Legal Organization that built practices at a high level. Were the understood dogfight for the rights of the over 20,000 indigent clients who become part of the San Francisco incarceral system every year. Were also a watchdog making sure that Law Enforcement is being held accountable. Under the leadership of the new leader, we will fight against the new challenges. We will not shy away from the National Conversations around racial justice, immigrant justice, youth justice and police accountability. Jeff adachi changed the definition of what a public defender can be. He said we all have to be public defenders now to make sure that we defend our own humanity. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is kevin epps. Im a lifelong resident of San Francisco, a community activist, father of three, currently from bayview hunters point. I want to echo my unwavering support on behalf of myself and my community for changing the jeff adachi changing the street to jeff adachi name to honor his legacy and his commitment to serving communities of color and Minorities Community in a fair and just way. He was such an inspiration to so many and something of this magnitude would honor his legacy and go forward and wide in ensuring that people remember his contributions to the city of San Francisco as well as his fight for fairness in the criminal justice system. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. Ive had the honor of serving alongside jeff adachi as a fellow public defender and under his leadership when he was chief attorney and then our head. Ive been there for 22 years. I wanted to give a little bit of a background of our presence there on gilbert location. Before we moved to the location where we are currently on 557 street, we were in the hall of justice. In the mid1980s we moved our location to where we are now, partly because we wanted to have a place that was safe. Gilbert street is our back yard. Each day our attorneys back to and from the hall of scwlus on gilbert alley. We chat there with other community folks. Over the years, weve seen many other businesses and buildings come and go, but we have been a steady presence there on gilbert alley. When we first moved into the building we shared a space with the sheriffs department. We are now the sole proprietors of that building. The persons most responsible for the presence and growth of our office is jeff adachi. I urge the board to adopt this measure. Its not the only fitting that the right thing to do to remember and pay tribute to a man who was a leader and protecting the rights of san francisc franciscans and fighting for the rights of those in our community. I am Rebecca Young from the Public Defenders Office. I want to read a statement from a former manager of the misdemeanor unit. By the time jeff died he mentored two generations of public defenders and transformed them into proud fighters for social and racial justice. Though ungulfed by the demands of his work, he made time for those below him. He was trained in the struggle for social justice. His detractors said that he was a force. He was at times deeply unpopular for his beliefs. Some want to sully his legacy, but no one can diminish or eradicate his accomplishments. Before he died he created a nationwide movement for passion and advocacy that changed not only the publics perception of public defenders but changed how they were perceived themselves. So committed was he to the fight for justice that in his spare time he produced documentaries. It is only fitting that a portion of the street be named after him because the way to justice will always be both literally and figuratively jeff has way. And strong and farreaching from gilbert alley all the way over to Juvenile Hall and into our Magic Program. Right before jeff died, he reached out to supervisor safai or vice versa to create another Magic Program in supervisor safais office. So i urge you to rename it. Jeff saved so many lives over cost. Thank you. Hi. Supervisors, i am a native of San Francisco chinatown and now im in upper mission. I want to say this weekend i celebrated day of the dead, and whats so sad is jeffs picture is among many of my friends and family who has passed away. And jeff has been a person i went to undergrad with at u. C. Berkeley. Back in those days he had the makeup of what he was today even then. He was working for affirmative action and we were all part of that. It was great to see 40 years later, we all continued to do that kind of work. So important for us to carry that legacy. With your commissions, your land use committee, he does embrace some of these commissions including Affordable Housing when we discussed about how to get back. Included also in his nontraditional way as a public defender he deals with immigrant rights, something that your other public defenders did not include, all the ancillary rights that are not included usually, but how to sustain what comes about. With that i support the changing of the name. Just please, understand he would love to have the public defender named after him, but i think equally in the alley where a lot of issues are hidden, he would be proud of that as well. I am retired from San Francisco city and county public health. I am a homeowner and resident of San Francisco, and i am here to support the changing of the name. Jeff was a friend but, more importantly, he was a colleague. I worked in the Health Department and worked in the neighborhoods with the highest disparity and outcome and jeff was always there. As a Public Servant for 30 years, its hard work. To have that symbol to show as a Public Servant we have to maintain our humanity and also give back humanity to people that is given away. For us seeing that and all the Public Servants seeing that will have an impact. I do appreciate people who brought up these other issues and i hope other issues are addressed with the changing. Good to see you. Next speaker, please. I pretty much grew up here and im in support of changing the name of gilbert to jeff adachi way. Like the Opening Statement about jeffs work, i dont want to go further with that and with the previous speaker here as we are now, jeff is really doing great work when he is here. Im here in support of changing the street to jeff adachi. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you so much. Im a member of the board of directors of the San Francisco japaneseamerican citizens league, the Civil Rights Organization which was founded in 1929. Jeff was also a president of the San Francisco chapter. Im here to support the renaming of gilbert street to jeff adachi way. I understand that some have expressed the inconvenience of such a change, however, all over the city such changes have been made and i know it takes a bit of time to adjust. Jeff adachi did not think, not for a moment, of his time and work as an inconvenience. He worked tirelessly for civil rights and for the underserved. His voice was a voice for justice in this city. He mentored and inspired and shared his position with so many that his name will remind future generations that a good fight is worth having. Through his tireless efforts, he lifted burdens. Please consider jeff adachi way. Jeff dedicated his life and career to public service. It is an honor and a welldeserved honor. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, im a lawyer in San Francisco, a private lawyer. My office is on Boardman Place which is right next to gilbert. I wish my street was up for this renaming, but i want to support the renaming of gilbert as jeff adachi way. I think it will show that this city values public defenders, values the office, as an important institution. I think it will not of course memorialize jeff himself, but it will be a very loud statement against mass incarceration which is a very significant problem in this country. Over 2 Million People in america are in prison and i think that will be a statement against mass incarceration. So i urge the board to adopt the resolution. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. My name is bill groziano. We have a property on brandon and our side is gilbert. Im disappointed in the District Attorney lawyers not wanting the public defenders building named. We just changed the name of the t line station in china town rose pak and we put harvey milks name at the airport. I wonder why we dont do something more relevant of renaming the public defenders building. Every public defender who works in that building. Every client who needs the service of the public defender, when they go in that building with a plaque explaining what he accomplish accomplished, that would be the way to honor him. Next speaker, please. I am a former president of the Japanese Citizens League San Francisco chapter. I support the name change. The years that i served, i had the privilege of working with jeff when he first came on the board. There wasnt anything that came up about civil rights that he did not introduce or carry through to see what would happen and carried it and made it a cause that the entire board supported. Looking at where he started in the community in San Francisco to this particular point in time, i think it appropriate and the sort of thing that i think the city can and should do. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im resident minister at the buddi Buddist Church of San Francisco. Im here to represent everyone who agrees with me. And i thank supervisor haney for his initiative to present this opportunity for us to recognize mr. Jeff adachis full career serving the people of San Francisco as the conscience of the city. He demonstrated that as something not based on political pressure or popularity. For that reason, im supporting this resolution to support the name change to not necessarily jeff adachi way, but the way of jeff adachi. Good afternoon. I am a deputy public defender. Jeff swore me in as a member of the bar on my 30th birthday and every day i walk up jeff adachi way i hope it will be called i think of him and the inspiration he has given me. It is true that jeff had his critics. What courageous leader doesnt. He had flaws, what human being doesnt . Even his detractors cant deny his practice. His office was the place to be if you wanted to be a great attorney. Jeff adachi made our office the standard across the country the standard for young public defenders. He taught us to be proud and he spread that message from sea to shining sea. This is why gilbert street must be renamed jeff adachi way. It is a humble honor San Francisco can bestow on one of its legends. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Jeff adachi is my hero. Please rename the street. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. I voted for the Public Defenders Office and signed a petition to have it there in the 1980s and it was the mayor who developed the idea of getting it out of the hall of justice and putting it in its private location at 5557 street. Everything you heard or most of the people who have spoken are from the Public Defenders Office. The problem with this proposal is that its changing when jeff adachi could ied, there was a huge photo of him and several flower arrangements around the front door. The proposal was to change the tribute from the front door to the back door. Why are you doing that, supervisor haney . Why dont you leave his legacy at the front door where it started out . Its very, very visible to all the traffic that goes up 7th street, especially in the morning because of bryant street. Everybody would see his name there. Why are you sticking him at the back entrance. He deserves more than that, doesnt he, supervisor haney . I think thats the wrong thing. Its near the hall of justice. Whats important is he was a service to the criminal justice system, not that he walked across gilbert street to get to the hall of justice which is going to be demolished in a few years. The Police Department already moved because of mesothelioma and lung cancer. Seeing no other members of the public who want to speak on number 4, Public Comment is closed. When we first heard this in committ committee, we heard a lot of folks on the block of gilbert to the south of bryant. I want to acknowledge that supervisor haney listened to those folks. Those are mostly newer condo buildings. The proposal before us today is to have the block between gilbert and bryant and the hall of justice and branon be jeff adachi way. If you go down that block there are some empty parking lots. Yes, there are some residences, but very few. I think that supervisor haney has come up with a solemnonic compromise and has listened to the preponderance of the constituents in his area. I am more than happy to support the name change and appropriately honor mr. Adachi. With regard to the notion of naming a building after him, i have to say that this came from the community, from his family, and from his staff and colleagues. Far be it from me to secondguess his friends and family and beloved colleagues. So i am most inclined to listen to them, and with that, i will hand it over to supervisor haney. Supervisor safai. I know supervisor haney has some remarks to close out. I understand, having gone through a changing of property. We too have a will and trust and theres a number of different documents and it can be an inconvenience. I think a fiveyear transition period provides for a very fair balance. I think one thing we could do is monitor the situation and have people come back and present their costs to us. For the purposes of honoring someone that dedicated his life and actually gave his life to this city, i think its a really honorable way. I really appreciate all the public defenders who came out and all the members of the public who have kochl out and have come out in the past and have sent letters and have contacted the office individually even if they couldnt be here today, there is a significant ground swell of support for this action. So i look to supervisor haney and his leadership and appreciate the neighbors that came out. I think theres still work that can be done with the district supervisor. I know that hes open to that. Ultimately, i think this is a nice honor for an individual that, as i said, gave so much to this city. This is something that his friends and families think will be an appropriate honor. There is something powerful about having a public street name after jeff, something that really belongs to all of us, his legacy was, yes, and a huge part of that was the Public Defenders Office, but its even beyond that. To have one of the streets that we have in our city a public space designated for him for people who are walking by and seeing it and going to and from court i think is especially powerful, especially in light of the fact that jeffs friends and families and colleagues are in support of it. I want to thank everyone who came out today and spoke on this and was contacted. I love always to hear stories of jeff and new stories. I want to appreciate meno and the story that he shared. There are so many ways that jeff set an example and inspired and mentored people. Supervisor safai, i definitely am i do understand that theres some inconvenience with changing addresses. So i would to the residents or the Property Owners who are here and concerned about that, we definitely would work with you to figure out the best way to do that, whether thats Legal Assistance or ways that it can be done in the most expeditious way possible. There is a fiveyear time period. Thre might be able to provide some other support. Thank you to all colleagues about this support of the resolution. I would ask that we move it to the board with a positive recommendation. Motion made with supervisor haney. We will take that without objection and send it to the full board without objection. Clerk item 3 is a hearing on wildfire prevention and Management Practices for land owned by each internet and requesting the Fire Department and other agencies to report. Thank you, ms. Major. We are joined by our board president yee who is the primary sponsor of this timely item. The floor is yours. Okay. Thanks, colleagues, for putting this on the agenda. I called this hearing today because its clear that we need to be prepared for the impacts of Climate Change in our city. There has been a stark difference in this years wildfires versus in the past. This year no one died. All the News Coverage have noted that what made the difference was learning from the past and using the best and most promising practices. Climate change is real. Again, i get the sense that the climate is dryer for longer periods of time and, more recently, when that wind was blown around, it felt like you couldnt walk around with that went. So the wind feels more powerful. We need to make sure that we are prepared for the changes that will increase the risk of wildfires. We should have a comprehensive understanding about what the city is doing to prevent wildfires in our undeveloped or underdeveloped areas because the objective should be to prevent as much as possible wildfires in our city. We had areas around San Francisco where i should define these maces as small, urban forests. And were we need to be proactive not just reactive. Im looking forward to hearing from the departments. We should also be aware of promising practices that exist but that our city is not yet using. We want to know why. I want to thank the representatives that we have from city departments that own and control underdeveloped land that is with the department of public works. Public utilities commission, rec and park and the Fire Department and our fire martial. I want to welcome our neighbors ucsf and Presidio Trust for sharing your expertise with us. I want to thank my colleagues once again for cosponsoring and for our support. I see that there might be some opening remarks from supervisor mandelman. One of the great things about San Francisco is that we have so many beautiful parks and open spaces, but in light of the citys history and in light of recent events in california with these horrific wildfires, i hear regularly from my constituents about their concerns. I want to thank you were preside president yee, for calling this hearing and what the city is it going to do to address these issues and what were to do to ensure our residents theyre going to be safe. So i want to start with our guests, and i really want to thank all of you for our patience, waiting close to two hours to give you an opportunity to really let us know whats happening with your departments. So first i would like to have up from ucsf Mark Freeberg the executive director of the office of the environment, health, and safety for ucsf. Come on up. For the clerk we have hard copies. Thank you. Its a pleasure to be here. I am Mark Freeberg. I am at ucsf where i am the executive director of the office of the environment, health, and safety. I am here today with several colleagues from other departments of ucsf that are involved in overseeing the open space reserve which is really the focus of our attention here today. So this slide shows a couple maps. First on the left just a general location of the mount sitro open reserve. Mount sitro is located under the sitro tower tv antenna and right about in the middle of the city where you see the green hexagon. The right map is a closeup of the