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
Like an earthquake. We worry about extending awss and cobenefit pipeline to the west side and putting in cisterns. We dont have this conversation around the park merceds. If we want to impose upon ourselves something that is more strings get than the state imposes upon us with the resulting impacts to surroundings Property Owners or future development, is there away we can model the risk and derm whether or not this is not worth our time and money and we should do what we continue to do which is cisterns and expansion of awss and new intake man folds on port property or something we will look back at when there is a huge fire that burns down half of district 11. We will say we were not concentrating on the wrong things or not enough things. I know you cant predict fire. Can you model fire out of the relatively small handfuls of the recand park. They have wasted the afternoon because you are not a problem. I am having a problem. University of california are great partners. Is there a wa
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
Jeremy. Good afternoon, i am jeremy spits with San Francisco public works government affairs. Thank you for calling this hears. A brief overview and then turn it over to our assistant superattendant with the bureau of human forest tree and the Deputy Director of operations if you have any questions. Public works is committed to fire safety and has a long history of partnering with the Fire Department. We are committed to greening San Francisco and positively impacting climate predictions. It includes rightofway and street trees and not many undeveloped parcels. We have proactive Maintenance Plans and work with the Fire Department to address areas of concern even on private property. We have quick reactive response when hazards are brought to our attention. As i mentioned. We have very little space near homes or residential areas. Our main areas of responsibility include medians and scattered parcels throughout the city such as along the boulevard and the areas around brotherhood bay an