Like to make Public Comment. You do not have to. Our process is that i will call any of the names from the blue cards first and then well ask for any additional Public Comment. So everyone can comment. When you make Public Comment, please address your comments to the commission, and in order to allow equal time for all, neither the commission, nor staff will answer any questions during Public Comment but they may the commission may ask staff to respond after Public Comment. One last thing, you will have three minutes, commissioner buell. Three minutes. If you have an item that is not on calendar, but falls under the jurisdiction of the recreation and park commission, you may speak under item 4, general Public Comment and continued again on item 12. With that, we are on the president s report. Thank you. Let me start by saying, gung hay fat choy, happy new year to all of you. The only item i have is that this month, i gave the zoo management people the option to submit a written report
Under the jurisdiction of the recreation and park commission, you may speak under item 4, general Public Comment and continued again on item 12. With that, we are on the president s report. Thank you. Let me start by saying, gung hay fat choy, happy new year to all of you. The only item i have is that this month, i gave the zoo management people the option to submit a written report inasmuch as the senior staff for scheduling reasons werent available to give a personal presentation. But it made me think back to the way we schedule those reports, and hauling everybody down from the zoo once a month, we already have a Zoo Committee and three members of this commission sit on it. Prior to 2008, there were no monthly reports presented to the commission, and i think was due to some issues at the zoo, that the commission took a more active role in what was going on. So what i am going to recommend is that we still get public presentations quarterly from the senior staff at the zoo. And that
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. Oo sfoo we are live again rules committee, and we can on to item no. 6 . Oo. Item 6, hearing to determine seats on the Forestry Council. There are 6 seats and 6 applicants. Great. Thank you everyone for hanging in with us on a fairly long meeting. Were going to take things out of order this time just for one applicant who i believe has to leave soon and other people might have to leave for her and thats meg loman are we live . Okay. Glass of water real quick. Imspeaking on behalf of meg loman, who could not make it here. We had another commitment. We have incredibly luck to have meg loman applying for a position on the urban Forestry Council. One of the objectives i have had as chair is getting the best minds in urban forestry on to the council and she clearly ticks off that box. If you have looked at her application, and i dont think anyone has competed with her in terms of length of a cv, 13 pages was quite impressive. She brings enormous background, not only in scientific inquiry
With the work of your department, we are putting in hundreds of trees but what are your thoughts how we can move forward on preserving our trees, expanding our trees in the face of what our current policy is . One of the things ironically i spent the last two days, six hours worth of focus groups that we at friends of the urban forested and paid for. One of the things the public is interested in and are they concerned about the tree canopy and trees and expanding the canopy and we also spoke a great deal about the urban forest plan. What we discovered in the process we had home owners with trees, home owners without trees and renters. We were surprised at how the renters really werent that interested in trees. But they are very interested in the damage that trees do to sidewalks. And so one of the recommendations from the urban forest plan is that we have a dedicated Funding Source for the care and maintenance of street trees that also means the city would take back the liability for d