Organized and consequently is inarticulate and suffers at budget times. The most insects and our greatest biodiversity lies in our grasslands, but they are declining due to inadequate staffing. By far the greatest wildlife support is provided by locally native plants because they evolve together, but few of them can be found in nurseries. We need a large nursery to propagate the individual plants. Brett park has a nursery and it should be fostered for the whole city. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Thank you very much, supervisors, for your actions to improve the biodiversity throughout the city. I am a board member of the sutro stewards and i can see how effective it has been to have a collaboration among the many interested parties who want to have wildlife in the city. Weve had a wonderful collaboration with ucsf and were working to improve the biodiversity of the local lands. They are im speaking in support of the implementation efforts to make this citys biodiversity a hig
Thank you very much. You got a lot going on. People are all over the place. Ranking member has an adhering and chairwoman has a science hearing and people will come and go. Forgive us for that. Welcome. What do we have today . For our second panel we have Catherine Lehman is the chair of the u. S. Commission on civil rights and president obama appointed her to a sixyear term on december 15, 2016. The 16. The commission unanimously confirmed the president designation to chair the commission on december 28, 2016. She also serves as a cabinet of California Governor Gavin Newsom where she has been Legal Affairs secretary since january, 2019. She served as assistant secretary for civil rights at the barman of education until 2017. Welcome. Michael waldman is president of the nyu school of law and nonpartisan law and policy institute that focuses on improving systems of democracy and justice and that rentacenter is a leading National Voice and voting righ rights, money and politics, criminal
Lesshuman, lessenvironmentally connected city. So we want to work through that. We already talked about the actual local and native plant supply. The last one staffing and resources really focused on collaboration. We really in a lot of our work, we want to really acknowledge and build into our work plans that collaboration costs money and not lose sight of that. Finally, our next steps, we are going to be working very specifically on applying the social equity lens to our work plans for the next couple of years. Were also going to be interfacing with stakeholders, including other departments and any other stakeholders that you might recommend about these key initiatives, ways they can be successful and other ideas. One of the great things from your resolution and it set us up in this practical way as we head into our own work plans to be integrating this work and looking to solve for the longterm maintenance and stewardship challenges. We thank you again for your attention. Unless you
Biologist. We have a large constituency as athletic field, playgrounds, and swimming pools, but it is not organized and consequently is inarticulate and suffers at budget times. The most insects and our greatest biodiversity lies in our grasslands, but they are declining due to inadequate staffing. By far the greatest wildlife support is provided by locally native plants because they evolve together, but few of them can be found in nurseries. We need a large nursery to propagate the individual plants. Brett park has a nursery and it should be fostered for the whole city. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Thank you very much, supervisors, for your actions to improve the biodiversity throughout the city. I am a board member of the sutro stewards and i can see how effective it has been to have a collaboration among the many interested parties who want to have wildlife in the city. Weve had a wonderful collaboration with ucsf and were working to improve the biodiversity of the local
Scape landscaping and the right type of that into our environments. This is important to us and were excited to dig into that. Also cityowned land as well as privatesector projects, were taking a look at all our current codes and thinking about how can we require more greening and the right types of greening and how can we provide really clear tools, so that as one of your constituents gets an infraction because theyve paved over their front yard and they need to have half of that front yard be permeable and 25 be landscaped. This is a picture of a golf course where we have a lot of areas in and around where we need people to stand and walk where we can be transitioning into ecosystem restoration. Finally, this is a twopart initiative that is, one, this idea of the bioregional park which is centred around twin peaks bit integrates several different disparate pieces and represents native lands that are looking to be cojoined. This is a tenyear Grassroots Efforts that has been evolving.