[gavel]. Good afternoon. Like to call to order the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, february 25, 2020. Roll call, please. [roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Very good. Commissioners, you have before you are the minutes of february 11. Are there any additions or corrections . Ill move approval. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes of february 11 . All those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. At this time, id like to call for a general Public Comment. Clerk madam president , we need to hear oh, im sorry. Thats okay. Clerk its been a long day. Shake the sand out of your shoes. General Public Comment, item 4. Members of the public may address the commission on items that are within the commissions jurisdiction but not on the agenda. Beiokay. I have six speaker cards. Bill collins. Bill collins for pacifica. First, id like to thank the commissioners for serving and particularly you, president caen, for your years
[gavel]. Good afternoon. Like to call to order the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, february 25, 2020. Roll call, please. [roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Very good. Commissioners, you have before you are the minutes of february 11. Are there any additions or corrections . Ill move approval. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes of february 11 . All those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. At this time, id like to call for a general Public Comment. Clerk madam president , we need to hear oh, im sorry. Thats okay. Clerk its been a long day. Shake the sand out of your shoes. General Public Comment, item 4. Members of the public may address the commission on items that are within the commissions jurisdiction but not on the agenda. Beiokay. I have six speaker cards. Bill collins. Bill collins for pacifica. First, id like to thank the commissioners for serving and particularly you, president caen, for your years
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
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
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