Public access. Over 2,000 pages of the documents the eir never addresses the impact of confining the public to trails. There are lots of comments about this during consultation on the draft but no response from planning. Eve inen in the response memoes they never address this ground of our appeal. Small. Rpd smalled the signs in the natural areas in 2015. Do they mean we cant walk off trail . The ramp says off trail access isnt allowed in ma 1 and 2. The signs indicate this applies to all the natural areas and last weekend i had the opportunity to watch lisa wayne leading a Walking Group in mclaren park and fielding questions from a grup of 30 people. When asked of the intent of the sign the least sensitive areas will be off limits. This means the plan asks us to give a quarter of our park land in the city to this program instead of parks wealver a few trails to walk through the areas where we used to play, picnic and explore. These maps show two things, they show trail closures and fe
Er conference with Legal Counsel regarding existing litigation matter, and conference with Legal Counsel and Real Property negotiator. Executive session. Seconds. Er all in favor, say aye. Er oppose . Ed madam secretary . Pledge of allegiance. pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised the the use of cell phones and Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting, please be advised the chair may remove the order of the person any person of the ridging of, pager or sound electronic device, please remember that a member of the public have up to three minutes unless the Committee Adopts the shooter period. Is there any public items on any items not listed on the agenda . Going once, going twice, Public Comment is closed. Next item . 9a, executive directors report. Good afternoon, president adams, vicepresident brandon,
Quality of life issue. I urge you not to allow the forest to be destroyed by mismanagement, dont allow trail tooz be closeed restricting access to parks stop the use of poison in the parks and vote to snd the eir back to planning deparchlt. Thank you. Thank you for the comments. Next speaker, please. Commissioners, my name is vick malhone a resident of mera loma park and want to underlying concepts that might be influencing how this whole remodeling of the eco system is going on. The conspt of restructuring a ekey system to a prior time may appeal to personal vanity but challenges realty. Applying the label Invasive Species sumes there is a no baseline or eco system populated by non native species. Is this realty . Who defines what constitute said a eco system. What date was choseen. 10 million or 5 thousand years ago or yesterday . We are dealing with a artificial contruckt here and obvious the definition of a native habitat is artificial construct and simply a guess. It also implies
Directors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Madam clerk will you call number one. Number one is waiver of banner fee for banners of 300 from it is Mayors Office and the shop and dine in the 49 campaign. Thank you very much. We have oewd up here. Good morning supervisors. My name is Mary Ann Thompson and project manager for the mayors mayors the opposite and office of economic and Workforce Development. Shop and dine in the 49 is our campaign here in San Francisco. Soft launch in 2014, very well received by local merchants by merchant door oors and in particular Small Businesses. The program has expanded in 2015 to include a very robust website, very significant outreach which included 300 banners, 500 interiors muni cards and exterior cards andad bias in all of the San Francisco newspapers and a decorated cable car and a map. This local campaign is a project that has many stakeholders, in particular our stakeholders are the Merchant Association and it is corridors. T
Today, but to take care of up to 150,000 trees which would then give us an opportunity to expand our streetscape scape population by 50 over a period of years and to have the resources to take care of those trees and the sidewalks and assume liability. The funds will be funded in two ways. First, it sets a baseline in place, which is the average of what of the inadequate amount San Francisco has spent over the last 10 years. We havethe city spending on street trees has ranged over last 10 years from about 6 million to about 10 million so that this sets aside the average. About 8 million a year. Then, creates a modest and progressive parcel tax where overwhelmingly Property Owners will pay about 35 a year, the condo owner will pay 29. 50. A single typical singlefamily home or small permanent building will pay about 35. Larger buildings will pay more and large commercial buildings will pay significantly more good so it is a progressive parcel tax. The parcel tax is conditioned on the cit