We call this meeting to order. And i apologize for my voice. Please call the roll. Good afternoon. This is the meeting of the San Francisco commission on the environment. The date is monday, november 25, 2019 and it a special meeting. The date is november 25, 2019, and the time is 5 05 p. M. A note to the public that the ringing of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting so please turn your devices off. Theres also going to be Public Comment on every item as well as an opportunity for general Public Comment for items that arent on the agenda. And general Public Comment is item number 4. We ask that you fill out a speaker card at the table there and hand them to me, and ill hand them to the president and the president will call folks in the order we receive them. You have the right to speak anonymously, so well call up folks after we have received the speaker cards if you would like to speak anonymously. Item 1, call to order and
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
We are going to hopefully move pretty quickly through Opening Statements because were going to be called to the floor before too long for a long series of votes, and i really want to hear our witnesses. You know, the American People often skeptical of what is dash of what this government do for them, and i am just, i feel so proud and so lucky to be on the subcommittee because the kinds of things were talking about today are about saving lives. Were actually going to make a difference in the lives of every day americans. I appreciate so much our witnesses for being here today. Were going to consider seven bills that a protecting consumers, and yes, saving lives. This subcommittees vice chair, for example, tony cardenas, introduced the safe sleep act of 2019 which would ban inclined sleep products. You know, i wrote to the chairman of the Consumer Products Safety Commission, chairman burkle, and people asking to recall this rock and play which gracefully she did. But there are other inc
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