To generate extra income. People who want kids to move out so they want them to get their jobs to pay their own rent. That means that we have to continue to invest in these communities. We have to get out thereinto the community, and i have to tell you i am overwhelmed buyer the number of people here and so appreciative of the different city departments and agencies and the Public Sector folks. I just talked to a gentleman who got hired on the spot. That makes me feel real good. [applause. ] when we talk about income and equality, when we talk about the achievement gap in the public schools, when we talk about all these things, this is just one small way to do something about it. Today we are changing o how we o business in San Francisco. We are changing how we do business in San Francisco. I want to just leave you with one last thing. When the door is open for you, dont shut it behind you. Open the door for the next person. When you are in those Job Opportunities and you hear about so
Challenges, our overall goal, were trying to move toward is be able to sustain a 15year tree management cycle. We want to do tree management maintenance on each parked tree in maintained open space on a 15year schedule. And we are attempting to do that through, basically, three strategy approaches here and we do have our daytoday tree maintenance. Our tree crews who do the daytoday tree maintenance and our reactive resource to get out and take care of things in realtime, as tree issues occur. And we do tree assessments each year. We use a thirdparty contractor. Hortscience is our city provider and contractor. We do usually six tree assessments on six we do six assessments on six Park Properties per year and from those assessments, we take the recommendations and they then compromise the work plan for either tree crews or contract work to accomplish those maintenance actions on our park trees. And as nicholas pointed out, a very important point for us is that we are in a joint rfp with
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
Tree or limb failures. So our strategies with these resources in tackling those challenges, our overall goal, were trying to move toward is be able to sustain a 15year tree management cycle. We want to do tree management maintenance on each parked tree in maintained open space on a 15year schedule. And we are attempting to do that through, basically, three strategy approaches here and we do have our daytoday tree maintenance. Our tree crews who do the daytoday tree maintenance and our reactive resource to get out and take care of things in realtime, as tree issues occur. And we do tree assessments each year. We use a thirdparty contractor. Hortscience is our city provider and contractor. We do usually six tree assessments on six we do six assessments on six Park Properties per year and from those assessments, we take the recommendations and they then compromise the work plan for either tree crews or contract work to accomplish those maintenance actions on our park trees. And as nichola
Forth, and fifth grade next year bring them out and if you have middle school kids, we are starting a team for middle school. You know why . Why . Because we are . Bayview united. Thats right. Shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco. By supporting local Services Within our neighborhoods, we help San Francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . My name is ray behr. I am the owner of chief plus. Its a destination Specialty Foods store, and its also a Corner Grocery store, as well. We call it cheese plus because theres a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. From fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. You can have a casual meeting if you want to. Its a Real Community gathering place. What makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, its a great pedestrian street. Theres people out an