From the Planning Department for the urban master plan. Good afternoon, everyone. Supervisors im john sway with the planning staff and the manager of the citys urban forest plan i want to give you an update and copy for the supervisors so the urban forest plan a joint effort between the Planning Department and the rec and Park Department as well as work with the friends of the urban forest and the urban Forestry Council the goal to figure out a way to manage the cities trees and grow our urban forestry so the plan will be taking place in 3 phases the first phase before i is the centralizing weve completed he earlier this year and we expect to be moving on to phase 2 regarding trees in the parks and third phase that addresses trees on backyards we have longer budget for street consensus for 12 though street trees and the urn policy document and the vision for the urban forestry plan to develop a healthy sustained urban forest for the city of San Francisco im going to highlight two of th
Of the street trees actually, they first started as a committee with the cable cars we joined with the committee with the chamber of commerce and started the citywide Tree Planting program in San Francisco youve got 60 years of advocates saying we want to help us to get more trees in San Francisco and the department of public works is saying we cant maintain the 3rd of street trees and well meeting only 50 percent of gallows and the dpw is saying well increase our tree common place by 50 percent and this mayor has not shown leadership but we need vision and our advocates will support you san franciscans have said over and over they have the trees in the neighborhood we want to see leadership forward on 24 so, please continue those talks and lets give the city the departments and the people of San Francisco and the advocates the leadership they need in order to move forward now is the time it cant get worse. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is susan
Money but were able to allocate that to other agencies. Other agencies part of the city budget for whatever it might be are having to spend money stay great cost per tree because they dont have the inhouse staff. Thats valid. Hi carla when our talking about transferring trees back to other agency when was that transfer made. It was done in fiscal year 20132014 and after we transferred trees to residential owners or homeowners. Yeah. Its concurly we identified the trees adjacent to other city agencies but were continuing to transfer trees to adjacent Property Owners and presumably if we come across other tree that is a city agencies responsible well transfer that. When the trees are transferred and accident homeowners are unable to pay is there some kind of a special program for a senior new tree owner. Weve investigated this and worked with we have a program for sidewalk repairs for low income Property Owners it is a loan program but very if i people take advantage of this to qualify f
Last christmas i gave you my heart and the very next day, you gave it away. And, after a wait of 36 christmasses whams festive classic finally tops the uk singles charts. This is bbc news. The headlines the us senate has over ridden Donald Trumps president ial veto for the first time, just weeks before he leaves office. The Republican Controlled Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve a defence bill mr trump had blocked. The legislation restricts his welcome to our viewers on pbs powers as commander in chief in america and around and is seen as a rebuke the globe. First, the republican controlled us senate to the president. Has overturned President Trumps veto of a 740 billion defence bill, handing the republican the United States has now president the first veto defeat recorded more than 20 million of his presidency weeks cases of covid 19, before he leaves office. Doubling the number in less than two months. Johns Hopkins University says nearly 350,000 americans have died with the vir
Last christmas i gave you my heart but the very next day you gaveit heart but the very next day you gave it away. And, after a wait of 36 christmasses whams festive classic finally tops the uk singles charts. The republican controlled us senate has overturned President Trumps veto of a 740 billion defense bill, handing the republican president the first veto defeat of his presidency weeks before he leaves office. Two thirds of the senators voting, having voted in the affirmative, the bill, on reconsideration, has passed. The objections of the president of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr trump had criticised a clause that would lead to the removal of the names of confederate generals from us military bases. The move is seen as a humiliating rebuke of the president. Evelyn farkas is a former Deputy Assistant secretary of defense in the 0bama administration. I asked her what she thought about this vote. Well, i think it shows a couple of things. First of all, obvious