Have gotten from the Police Department on the demographics of crime victims and hatemotivated crime really did emphasize, or reinforce the concerns in the Chinese Community that they were increasingly victims of certain types of crime in the city, and also assaults. I think the most striking statistic from the initial data that we got from the Police Department was how African Americans are overwhelmingly, disproportionately victims of violent crimes, homicide, Sexual Assault and assault. Thank you for your work on this, especially supervisor walton and i look forward to supporting this effort moving forward. Thank you. Supervisor walton, would you like to make a motion to forward this to the full board with positive recommendation . Definitely, and add language and amendments specific to d. V. At the full board. Great. Take that without objection. Good. We have been joined by supervisor mar, here for the fourth item. Agenda item number 4, oh, excuse me hearing to examine the planting, removal and maintenance of trees on public sites in San Francisco. Great. Supervisor mar. Your hearing. Thank you for allowing us to hold this hearing today and cosponsoring it as well. And we are here to talk about trees in San Francisco. How many we have, how we are taking care of them, and when and why we are removing them, and more importantly, how many we are planting. At 13. 7 , San Franciscos urban canopy is the smallest of any major city in the United States. We set Ambitious Goals to expand the canopy yet last year we removed twice as many trees as planted, reducing the street tree canopy by nearly 2,500 ministries. With the recent addition of the street tree s. F. Program, dramatic changes in how we manage the street trees, and nine years remaining to make dramatic reductions in Greenhouse Gas emissions we have no time to spare. And i want to be clear at the outset of this hearing, when we talk about trees, we are not just talking about decorations or accessories or amenities, nice to have, which they are. We are talking about infrastructure, Green Infrastructure. To cap tower and sequester carbon, a tree. Earlier this year declared a state of emergency on the climate crisis, thank you supervisor mandelman, and urban canopy is a glaring blind spot to reduce Greenhouse Gasses and combat Climate Change. Combat Climate Change. Id like to welcome our first presenters, peter bradstou and jen from the department of environment. Sorry about that. Im from environment and jen jackson had to go. She had another engagement given the break for the alarm. And so thanks for calling this hearing. This is obviously a really important topic. Just briefly, who i am about the department of environment. Im a coordinator at the department providing Staff Support to the urban council and our department, as you know, provides a role of convener for many of the city departments and, of course, youll hear about the ontheground work later. The one place in the code where theres an actual definition of the term urban forest, trees on streets and public rights of way and the jurisdiction of the department of public works. And so, this is important because, actually, this part of the urban forest was subject of phase one of the urban forest master plan, which was pas passa few years ago. But thinking more broadly, if you look at the environment code, actually, which created the urban Forestry Council, that ordinance sets out kind of a broader scope of authority for the urban Forestry Council including trees on private lands. You dont have this in handout form, do you, the presentation . Oh, goodness, i dont. I totally neglected to do that. My bad . Environment and no paper, wasnt thinking. [ laughter ] ok, so the point of this slide is just to say that the urban forest is larger than, obviously, just the public realm of that which is in the jurisdiction of public works and, of course, includes private properties and parks and open spaces and trees all over the city. Trees are no everywhere and we steward other lands in the city which are remnants of San Franciscos natural ecosystem, such as bernell hill. And so, indeed, urban forestry and ecological restoration and all of these activities of managing plants, managing trees and planting new trees, all important aspects of our citys Climate Action strategy and so, withizero, 80, 100 roots, roots symbolizes Climate Mitigation and adaptation. And so the other thing i wanted to say about that was just simply, obviously, trees and other plants store and sequester carbon and, in fact, these are three trees other than streets that do a good job of that and this is one of the, you know, Main Services that trees provide within the city is storing and sequestering carbon but there are many other services that trees provide. Ill just go over those one by one. Even supervisor mar covered this presentation already. So obviously great for mitigating the heat island effect that cities create with our concrete and asphalt all over the place and trees provide really important shade and Energy Savings for buildings, especially our days, we have hotter days in San Francisco as projected with Climate Change. And also for storm water capture. So evergreen trees and broadleaf evergreen trees will capture a lot of rainfall and, thus, reduce urban runoff. And obviously, through foe foe photosynthesis trees creat creae oxygen and take pollutants out of the year. The california buckeye for the butterfly, tree can provide habitat for our native critters. And just to focus on the quality of life aspect that trees provide, so obviously traffic calming and again, pedestrian and bicycle safety, really kind of a nature connection in the built environment and as supervisor mar pointed out, really contributing to Better Mental Health and physical health in the city. And so in summary, trees can provide services for both people and wildlife in the built environment and these benefits need to be enjoyed by every person in San Francisco in every neighborhood and because as we know, the communities are most vulnerable to the effects of Climate Change that are happening now, already announcemenand ithink with thatt over to dan flanagan who will talk about the council. Thank you, supervisor mar, for holding this hearing. I am the chair of the urban Forest Council and im also the executive director of the friends of the urban forest, which i think you all probably know already. I also took a different look at how i wanted to talk to you today and ill repeat some of the things. You did capture a lot of things about urban forestry and forgive me if i repeat some of them, but i like to start with a simple quote by al gore who says the best Available Technology pulling Carbon Monoxide from the air is called a tree and it was in a to newspaper article this year. Its a good article and i recommend you all look at it. I think we have a roadmap for what to do about trees in San Francisco. In 2015, we di the forest urban council, ufc, and public works and they came up with a comprehensive plan and it was three parts. The first part was for street trees. The second part was for park trees and the last part is for backyard trees and green buildings. And now, the recommendation for the first part, which is the only part thats been finalized was maximize the benefit of urban trees and thats something that we can do now because with the passage of prop e, now a city can control what type of species tree we want to put in the streets of San Francisco. And we want to look very carefully about planting large trees, trees that can capture large amounts of co2 as possible. The second was to grow the population by half, 50 . We were thinking in those days we would grow it by half and now more like 40 or 35 . And the third one because we have made progress . Ill talk about that later. Establishing a fund for citywide Street Tree Maintenance Program and we start that off with the street tree sf and prop e. The last one was to manage street trees throughout the entire life cycle and when you have a tree come down, instead of chipping it, lets use some of the wood in turn fir furnitu. It was the first time weve done that in the city. We found out, actually, for years we thought we had 105,000 street trees and now we have 124,000, almost 125,000 street trees but in that process, we learned we asked the people doing the survey how many opportunities do we have to plant new trees in the city all throughout the city. And we came up with a number of about 40,000 trees. Now that number would be probably reduced when youre looking at underground utilities, et cetera. So i think you still have about 35,000 street trees you could put in the city. So one of the big things we did was we passed prop e back in 2016 and we got 78. 6 of the vote and think that drove home the reality that this city really cares about trees. And they really want to put money towards taking care of our trees. And we are now the only city in the United States and probably the world that has a dedicated Funding Source for the care of our street trees and an additional 45 to 30,000 trees and that money is put aside in perpetuity and will grow according to the size of the budget in perpetuity also. And the most important thing is, and we have to remind everybody because the population forgets, this money comes into play after the tree is established. So a tree has to be established for three years and then prop e takes care of the tree. So thats the gap that were all talking about. And so right now, that budget gap is, you have dedicated Funding Source which is 23 million. Is it 23 million for prop e . Yeah, 23 million. Well, whatever. 20 toward planting. But the only dedicated funding we have currently for planting trees is 2. 3 million. So that is what we need to Pay Attention to. And you folks, we need help in that tremendously. Now, weve been talking about trees planted, trees removed and it shows you that obviously were removing more trees now and were cutting were not planting as many trees and supervisor mar mentioned that. It looks bad on the surface. But im going to take a controversial point of view. This is an example of us managing our urban forest for the first nam time in a long ti. Were dealing with 40 years of deferred maintenance and i think public works is doing an excellent job of going out there. They identified 12,000 trees in our survey that need to be removed because they were dangerous. They would prune some of those trees. There were 8400 trees that need to be removed and they have removed about 4,000 of those in the past two years. This is something were moving through in the next couple of years. So in about three or four years and actually public works is working very carefully on this right now and seriously, about trying to scope out what needs to be removed in the next couple of years. And they will be doing that and the good news is, we can do that with prop of e money. Were very lucky to do that. These are trees that desperately need to be removed because people within takin werent takr years. But the problem is, do we have the money to replace those . So one effort driving factors in public works is equitable distribution of our canopy. Now, this is a map that was produced by it planning doesnt and it really shows you there are parts of the city where the canopy is very, very small. In general, we have a small canopy to begin with. Now one of the things i like talking about, which i get a lot of grief for, is that im from the east coast. Many of us are from the east coast and your experience in the city is those city its were carved out of forests. And those cities have urban forestry, they have trees in their d. N. A. This city was planted on grasslands and sand downs. Dune. I said look at the booklet car chase, seven minutes on youtube. Watch it. There are no trees in the early 80s. And somebody went back and did that and there are trees now. With the passage of prop e, its becoming embedded in our d. N. A. That trees are really important, because we have 78. 6 of the population that have voted to say we need to put money to take care of them and most of those people dont realize we havent put any money to planting trees. And its becoming more and more important that we plant trees because were losing more trees. And thats the major message i want to send to you today. In the next couple of years, we have to look at funding mechanisms for planting trees in sanfrancisco. Weve declared a Climate Emergency and there will be a lot of talking today and youve mentioned, trees are probably the best way not the best way, but one of the best ways to adapt to a changing climate. And im not going to talk about benefit of trees. Everyone will be talking about that today but it beaut beautife city and it calms people down to look at greenery. Here are the key things. We need to replace trees and we need new trees. The replacement trees will be a big thing Going Forward and the natural atransitionion to an urban forest is 4 and we will need to replace trees for the foreseeable future, but again, i go back to it and we need to equalize a canopy and that is in many parts of the city and not fair. Its an issue of social justice and thats what were doing right now. Were trying to plant as many trees as possible. I have to call out supervisor safaye. I think he planted 2,000 trees in his district over past couple of years and he goes door to door and ive seen him do that trying to convince people they need trees in front of their home. And i wish each one of you would do the same. It would be great. So we have an urban forest plan and there are two more parts. The second part is park tree. I hope soon that the parks will be able to complete their phase of the urban forest plan. Now, its clear that our parks were built and planted over 100 years ago and many of the trees that you have in those parks are sinessing right now. We have them in parks and backyards and backyards have a lot of the cappy and theyre forward stress because of the infill and this is the third rail of urban forestry because you come against bouncing Community Interest versus property rights, but its something we have to Pay Attention to. Actually, the urban Forest Council is doing a study of the best practises of how to protect backyard trees and well be hopefully having findings in the very near future. So i really believe we are on the cusp of taking the city, San Francisco had the absolute worse tree policy possible before 2016 and we can become a leader of tree management in the United States. Right now we have our first piece with prop e and i know public works, friends in the forest, we get countless calls of how did you do this . This is unique and we need to continue to work on this and now we need a dedicated Funding Source to do the planting, which is absolutely and we need to have equality in where we want. In conclusion, secure planting funds for the new trees to equalize our canopy and protect the trees we currently have. That has to be Planning Department has to be very diligent in talking to people and developers and realize that our Green Infrastructure, a 30yearold tree is really important. Weve already invested a ton of time in that tree to take it down without doing a workaround. Youve lost all that opportunity for that tree to grow for another 20 years and third, secure funds for restocking our parks and four, invest in detail technology to manage all of our street trees. Public works has started work wig thworkingwith the departmenf technology. We need for data and we need to understand what our forestry is doing so we can make decisions Going Forward is lastly, protect the backyard trees. So thank you very much and basically, i want to go back to what al gore said, its really simple. This is not rocket science. We need to plant trees and we need to take care of trees that we already have. And i think now is the time for trees. Thank you very much. Mr. Flanagan, thank you so much for the presentation and for all of your leadership on these important issue. I had a few questions about some of your slides. Theres that one that you showed the chart on tree removal, which went up significantly in the past year and then Tree Planting has declined. So therefore, think in the past year, there was a loss, a net loss of 2500 street trees in sanfrancisco. And i was just wanting to know so you explained the reason for the increase in tree removal is thats because now dpw has a real Street Tree Maintenance Program, removing the trees that are not healthy and removed for various reasons but what was the reason for the decline in Tree Plantings . Because i said, what is our dedicated Funding Source for street Tree Planting . I i think it was a gas tax and thats the only money the city has available for planting trees. Now were luckying at friends urban forest. We got a cal fire grant and were focusing on the southeast and western parts of the city and were really fighting to try to get funding to plant trees. And thank god, you all heard me talking last spring when i said we need money for planting to replace trees and i am so proud of the board of supervisors for putting 2 billion into the budget, but that is just a drop in the bucket. It cost 2,000 to plant a tree in San Francisco and establish it for three years and 500,000 to pu 500 ayear to water it fors and you have to water it for 12 months a year and thats expensive and thats the money were looking for. Urban forest plan calls for planting about 6,000 trees. We actually are working closely with public works right now to get our handle around exactly how many trees we need to plant to start growing our urban forest. And i think the public works will have some information about that now and in the future, well have firm numbers. Thank you so much. These statistics or numbers that youre citing, thats around removal and streetTree Planting. Do we have the number do we track on an annual basis the number of trees removed and trees planted urban Forest Council has a report every year and we go to a bunch of all of the people that manage trees in the city and that report is available to you all. I think it was published awhile back. I would say we need better data and thats the most important thing. And thats why we need to work with the department of technology so we can start tracking the trees were losing, how well the trees are going and that way we can choose better trees for the streets of San Francisco. Thank you. Just one more question. So the urban forest plan thank you for the work and everybody that worked on that. So you mentioned that is part one and theres part two focusing on the parks, trees and parks in open spaces and part three on trees and private property and green buildings. Yes. So where are things at working on part two and part three of the urban forest strategy . Well, the urban Forest Council europeane urban three ae studying the best practises at how to protect backyard trees. But these studies cost money and i think park and rec will speak more eloquently on the subject. Is that, you know, they need funding in order to conduct a really robust urban forest plan for parks and that is really important Going Forward and you know as a council, weve been waiting for that to happen. We love to support that effort in any way possible. Supervisor stephanie. Thank you, chair and thank you, dan, for your presentation and i just want to get clear on how supervisors can better work with you to get more planning. You mentioned supervisor safaye and i went back through my Text Messages and on september 8th, i sent a message, dan, we need to get Tree Plantings in d2, asap. How can we make that happen and we talked about shooting dates back and forth. I said i want to engage the community as well. I said everything we can plan with the community here, i know the impediments, because we know the impediments to the maintenance and everything but would love to get people engaged. And then ive been trying to gee trees in district two, as you know, and ive not been told to knock on peoples doors to do that and i would do that in a heartbeat. But youve expressed to me that theres been one of the reasons why i havent been able to get trees in district two is because theres been some not layoffs, but people leaving and that has been you described this as the bane of your existence and i cant get trees until district 2 until q3 and q4. Ive been begging and to say almost otherwise i mean, thats not the case. If you can explain how to get more trees because ive been pushing and asking, how to get my community involved, how to get trees and sending pictures on union street, webster street and all over and locating places where they can go and i havent been able to get them in. If you can describe and have meeting to describe how that happens, i would love to hear. So right now ill speak for the friends in the forest urban council. We have funding from calfar to plant in the southeast of the city 2,000 trees and thats only in disadvantaged areas and then areas next to disadvantaged area. We have funding to plant 600 trees from public works, ok . And that is the limit of the number of trees that we can plant. And so, right now, its true. You hit me at a bad time. We have four planting managers, and one went into hospital and one went to morin. And we got cut in half and we had to cut back the last two months as we were rehiring. We have lots of parts of the city that we have to people want trees and youre not the own oneonly one but but if the f supervisors could give public works enough money, we could be planting or they could be planting but its a question of funding Going Forward. We are a tiny nonprofit that we are stretched very thin and we are basically planting the majority of the street trees right now in San Francisco. And i have to say that the southeast of the city is taking priority right now because they have the lowest canopy is you have one of the highest. I want to plant trees in your district and i live in your psychiatric andistrict and i wam there. We will try our hardest to do that. Ok, and im willing to do Community Fundraisers for trees. So its not just about getting people together to find out where they go. But i think that we can do fundraisers without having that. That is music to my ears. Great. Because im always trying to raise money for tree. Lets get together and do that. Ok. I just want to follow up a little bit can i stop no. [ laughter ] i forgot one of the most important things i wanted to say. I was in new york city last year asking them, how do you feel with the trees and they have one of the best tree Management Systems doing. Going. I said where do you get your money for trees . They said we stopped getting money out of the general fund because everybody is completing out of the general fund and its hard to get money. All are through funding. I met with kelly kirk patrick and said we have to look at financing our Green Infrastructure through bond funding. Im not coming up with solutions but im giving you ideas to the scope of the problem and i think supervisor stephanie is a good example of the problem. You have people who want tree expostrees and we cant meet the demand. Now you can go. [ laughter ] i would also point out as members of the budget committee, vice chair stephanie and i were able, along with our colleagues, to get an additional Million Dollars this year, which is leaves us 8 million short of what we need. It was deeply appreciated. And you were going we were talking about the street tree census and 50 versus why not 50 . Is that based on the additional investment of where the possible locations for trees would go . Yes. And so the goal at this point, at least in terms of street trees, not including parks or puc or any of that but in terms of street trees, the idea would be and probably, you know, since were losing ground, there might be 40,000 opportunity sites and Something Like that is what we were trying to find. The idea is we want to fully stock our streets and thats a number that we have to go ground truth, actually. When we did the survey, we didnt look at one part of the city where the potential planting sites were. So we had 40,000 without that part of the city and so, ive a little debate with public works and i think 40 is possible. But they know that we get disallowed with a lot of trees because of underground utilities. Thats a maximum of what might be possible on the streets. Yes. But there are other place. And thats a lot of money. Because 40,000 trees times 2,000 per tree. Which turns into Something Like 80 million. But we were doing that over 20 years. Ok. So for our 5 million a year, more than that. Yes. Theyll come back with the numbers. My guess, if you are 2 million, if we had about 8 million, we could be planting more tree. We need to find 8 million a year. Thats a big budget. Thank you. So one thing that will happen this afternoon is, because of our hourlong loss of time earlier, were going to be doing Musical Chairs up here, where at 1 00, i have to go to a meeting. And so, supervisor mar will be appointed to the committee at that point and so that we can make sure we keep our quorum. Although, at 1 30, supervisor walton needs to take off. So well be gone before that. And then vice chair stephanie has to be out of here by 2 00. I can come back. So well keep the hearing going but it will be folks up here that will be moving around to keep it going. Thank you. Thank you, dan. I think next up, were going to hear from carla short and Nick Crawford from the bureau of urban forestry and dpw. Good afternoon and thank you, supervisor. While were getting our presentation set up, i would like to put in a plug for incentive to protecting trees on private property. Its not under the jurisdiction of public works, but we were all at the board late the other night and i think if we have more incentives for developers and other folks to protect sick, relevant key Important Trees on their property, that might make projects like the project that was discussed the other day more palatable to people and i think that developer should get credit which is protecting 11 Important Trees and we should look at ways to incentivize that which the urban council will do and send your way. Theres an inherent intention for pushing more and more density which pushes into the rear yard and takes away entire sites. So figuring out what could that balance be. We cant protect everything and i think the transit locations is essential, but if there are really individual trees that might be worse trying to work around, i think we should be looking at that. So ill give a brief overview of where we are and then my colleagues will jump in with where were headed. So as you have heard, our program cares for San Franciscos roughly 125,000 street trees and repairs sidewalks damaged by tree roots. And so, brief history of the urban forestry policy, prior to street tree sf, Property Owners were responsible for maintaining the majority of street trees and Property Owners were responsible for then replacing those trees if they were removed. So its important to recognise that while it seems like we are both can we get the overhead . Its important to recognise that we as a city are removing homore trees historically and te city didnt bear the responsibility and with the passage of street tree sf were suddenly responsible for maintaining all of these trees and then planting replacement trees. This is a good thing. Were very proud of it. As you heard from dan, its a gamechanger in San Francisco, but what it does mean is that we have a lot of trees that are both being removed and we need to get some dedicated funding to replant them, as well as grow the urban forest. And just quickly, as i go into what were calling our unintended success, its important to recognize why we dont have dedicated funding for Tree Planting. And some of you may know this. But quickly, when we were looking at how to fund a tree Maintenance Program, we were initially looking at a parcel tax. To keep the cost per parcel down, we should focus on just operations and maintenance, because thats the hardest things to fundraise for and supervisor stephanie has offered to do funding and i think you would have a harper time to do fundraisers to maintain a tree. That was a strategic decision. Had we known it would get switched into a setaside, we would have absolutely tried to get funding for planting built into that set aside. So its not that we didnt expect to remove and replace trees, we knew that. So even though were calling this unintended consequences of success, were well within the projected mortality. Over the last two years weve removed 2 of street tree population, which is a reasonable number. Now we have more trees that need to be removed over the next few years but we are focusing on Public Safety issues. So trees that are dead, in severe decline our structurally unsound. Cacan i just Say Something quick about the fundraiser for maintenance . There was a situation in my neighborhood where a tree was set to come down because the public works would not be able to maintain it and we were able to contact the Property Owner and they said that they would maintain it and so now we saved that tree. So there are other ways. It might not be a fundraiser, but this tree was slated to come down because public works said they couldnt mai maintain it at would be too big. But if the Property Owner would maintain it, it would be fine and we were able to save that tree. But i dont think people know thats an option. And i would say in most cases, its not. Were focusing on removing trees that are dead, in severe decline or really structurally unsound. So were not looking at removing trees that we cant maintain. Certainly that could have been an issue in the past, but we have a funded Maintenance Program now and i think the challenge is that historically we didnt and theres a lot of deferred maintenance and structural issues that may have been corrected in the trees had been properly maintained all along. But in many cases, if we identify a tree as needing to come down, its not that we want a Property Owner to take it on because well have liability and they will have liability. If we identify it that it needs to come down, we look at mitigating through other options. We are removing more trees in the last two years than historically. As noted, that is because we are responsible for so many more trees and proportionally, its a reasonable percentage of the urban forest. Unfortunately, we have areas where many trees were planted all together and if that row of trees happens to be, for example, a problematic species that has a lot of structural problems, we can end up with clusters of trees that are coming out at once. Excuse me. What was that last map you showed . Sorry. That was just showing where these removals have been taking place. So it is throughout the city, where systematically working our way through the city and were not trying to remove trees only in one part of the city, working systematically and were trying to address what we call the worst first, which is trying to address Public Safety concerns before anything else. So, unfortunately, it does mean that when were addressing the worst first, were removing trees in the early years of the program. But our belief and hope is that as we plant new replacement trees and as we properly maintain them over the course of their life, we will have healthier, more mature trees with a longer life span because theyve been properly maintained. The neighborhood impacts can be great there happen to be a cluster of freeze tha trees thae same species and starting to finesse due to age or a species with problematic structure. We clearly feel a need for replacement plantings. And we you will hear from my colleague about how we are going to prioritize where both new trees get planted and particularly were focusing replacement plantings where theres a great need like a number of trees have been removed all in one area. As we heard from the supervisor at the beginning of the area, San Francisco does have one of the smallest tree canopies of any major u. S. City. Clearly, it is our goal to secure funding to both replace trees that were removing and to grow the urban forest responsibly. And ill hand it over to john sway, my colleague, who will talk about our Canopy Growth strategy. Good afternoon. Im john sway with the bureau of urban forestry and i would like to give you a quick overview in tems of our planting and Canopy Growth strategy. And basically, its been mentioned a number of times, but the city does have an adopted urban forest plan adopted by the board of supervisors in 2015, and one of the primary goals of that plan was to grow the urban forest. Height this was focused on street trees, that was the focus of the plan to grow the street tree population. And to back up to some of the previous conversations about the tremendous benefits these trees provide, this is the calculation analysis we did of the benefits that the 125,000 street trees in San Francisco friday and so in terms of carbon benefits, 175 Million Pounds of carbon are currently stored in the citys street trees and this is the equivalent to the carbon release through the burning of 86 Million Pounds of coal or 180,000barrels of oil. The trees are also a very important part of our storm water mitigation in San Francisco, over hundreds of millions of gallons of storm water are diverted from the sewer system each year. In terms of Public Health, we have 36,000 atmospheric pounds of polutants that are removed by the city street trees. We say trees are one of the few pieces of City Infrastructure that increase in value as they age over time. So our trees ar our estimated replacement value is 200 million. So we have a 200 million Capital Asset and as this diagram shows, when you have a small tree, as the canopy continues to grow over the years, all of the benefits on the previous slide expand as the to tree matures. And so, in terms of our planting strategy, we know we have an unequal distribution of greening and trees in the city of sanfrancisco. This map shows the distribution of street trees with the lighter areas have street trees and darker green with more street trees and our planting plan will focus on kind of equalizing more of the street key canopies in these neighborhoods. We dont want to ignore the areas that are already green. So if there is a request for green there, we want to prioritize but it will be bringing up the sections of southeast, south of market and outer sunset. In wry cell phone forwe know weg more heat and we know certain populations are more vulnerable to that and we would be liking to plant more shade trees in those neighborhoods and then to address Public Health and air quality issues, we want to focus the street Tree Plantings on the freeway network and high traffic areas to contribute to air pollution removal. And so were in the process of developing the Tree Replacement and Expansion Strategy and we would love to come back and share that document with you in the new year, to continue the discussion. And i know nick will talk about funding and community partners. Hello. Thank you, nicholas crawford, bureau of urban forestry. So we are giving you the cost of planting and establishing a tree, about 500 to purchase the tree and the labor to put it in the ground with staking. And then for the next three years, that 500 a year to establish that costing 1500. If you break that down into per visit, if youre making 52 visits in a year, it comes out to 10 per visit and were cog g a lot of that. The hesitation on our part, we dont want to plant a tree if we dont have a program in place to water it. And currently our watering staff is maxed out as many trees as we can water as they take trees off the list as theres room to add more trees. As we talked about, we have a goal from the urban forest plan to plant 50,000 new trees and you can imagine what that will cost if we have to plant and water those. So here is a graphic of what were doing. Internally, we have our staff watering 1,182 trees per week. And annually, its about 60,000 visits and then a contractor who is doing another 1800 trees a week for a combined total of 155,000 tree watering visits per year. So in terms of what we do in our bureau of watering, its a huge chunk of our activist. Tuft. Activity. Can i ask a question. How is it decided which trees are watered by a dpw staff versus a contractor . Sure. We have some trees that are clustered together tha and if wd more contractors, we could have more trees watered by them, but we want to use our inhouse to the fullest capacity and currently we have better pricing internally, having our city staff watering. But at this current moment, we have a tree watering and planting contract that folks are bidding on and were hoping to have good pricing, good people in the pool to continue that effort. But were limited in what we can do internally and trying to do as many as we can. But that decisionmaking process is usually what makes sense in clustering them for a contractor and theyre not traversing the city. We have a large enough system that it covers much of the city and we can easily add trees tour existing routes internally. So you guys, in terms of deciding whether a tree is watered by you or staff versus a contractor, is it dependent on what the location of the tree is . We have a package that a contractor is doing and that they bid on a certain package of trees that they could handle, that theyre equipment could take on. And then, our crews do the rest of the trees that were planting. Can i ask a question . Are there any other innovative ways to come up with tree watering programs through our neighborhood associations or the School District . If a school can adopt some trees that are in front of the school and they could water it after told . It seems like there should be other ways to get at that. I mean, if you can enter into an mou with a nonprofit or 501 c3, and there are so many in any district. Im trying to think of ways to get trees more quickly. If theres innovative ways to get at that rather than public works in the contractor. Certainly we could plant more trees if other people were able to water them and the challenge with that is, its really cut and dried. If we plant the tree and put it on our watering list and it happens in sync like that, it takes a ton of staff overhead and it takes my time and other peoples time to coordinate that and make sure theyre in town when we plant this so they can water immediately. And if they go out of town, they make arrangements because if you miss a couple of week, two and a half years could be wasted. Plus the cost of planting it. So in situations like what youre describing, if you have a large frontage and youve got causcustodial staff, it becomesa part of the system, but it gets difficult to make sure that people follow through on that and realize the responsibility is not just for the first year but the full three years. Thats been our challenges in implementing it. Thank you. To continue with the funding aspect, as we mentioned we have funding for planting new trees and also funding for replacement trees and these dollars come from different sources, but theyre earmarked for these purposes. We have nonprofit partners as heard from dan and also a grant recipient of Climate Action now and these are ways that we can amplify our impact and make use of volunteer efforts and their community input. We can do more with what we have and one thing were working on is an rfq for our database. If we have a more robust database, it will help us to analyze what we have and spend less staff time dealing with systems and have to data centrally located and so San Franciscos public works has been pain tainting and removing trees but we want it to be known as people who are also planting and establishing trees. Thanks for your time. Thank you. Yeah, maybe we could go to the next presentation from rec and park and danny kern and eric anderson. Good afternoon, supervisor mar and supervisor stephanie. Pleased to be here on this particular subject. Eric will be setting up our presentation and could we have the handouts . Yes, we have hard copies. While hes setting up here, our presentation is basically to give you an overview of your urban forestry operations and our challenges, our resources and our strategies to do the work they were currently doing. So to sort of set the context for rec and park, we have an estimated 131,000 trees on our parkland, which given the previous numbers that were briefed in this briefing constitutes about 20 of the citys urban forest being on parkland. Our parkland in the city is about 3,500 acres. The two properties outside of the city, sharp park and camp mather bring us up to 4,200 acres and were focused on the 3500 acres of parkland in San Francisco for this briefing. And our resources, we have to do our work are right here and our arborist crews and we have a forestation crew with 12 gardeners. If addition to fte, our budget to do the work here oops, wait a minute. There we go. Iin our Capital Budget we havee work and in the general obligation bond, fund balance from the 2012 bond program, we have 2. 2 million for capital work, in our capital renovation projects throughout our parks. And the challenges that we have, that these are resource resourct are dedicated to, its already been mentioned here in this briefing and we have an aging canopy and the majority of our large species were planted up to and over 100 years ago. And in our unpai unmaintained on space, we have, due to decisions that were made decades ago, rightly or wrongly, we have evenaged monocultures and theyre now in decline together. And also, as everything does, we do deal with a couple of specific deas disease or pathogs and the three largest species within our parkland urban canopy or monterey cypress, the pine are subject to a disease that weve been working with here, pine pitch canker and so that is something were dealing with own ouonour pine trees and the ongog hazard assessments in litigation in that trees in public parks, we maintain them so that they present no hazard or mitigate the marylan