Susceptible to inspects, the red beetle, et cetera. Overall hort science found our urban forest to be relatively healthy an only recommending a very small number of trees to be removed. Because nobody likes to see one of our big, beautiful, Majestic Trees removed, but after expensive study these were deem to be atrisk of failure. So i thought some context would be helpful. There was no Public Comment and with that well entertain a motion. So moved. Moved and seconded. All those in favor . A. So moved. We are now on item 10, Park Maintenance standards report. Good morning commissioners, general manager ginsburg. My name is Steve Rockwell a Senior Administrative analyst in operations and i have the privilege of coordinating the departments park evaluation program. I believe you will be really pleased with this years controllers report. We have had some upanddowns in some of the park scores, but largely, we have been able to remedy some of the lowestscoring historically lowscoring parks a
It back over to steve to give you more details and talk a little bit about what department is doing and is planning to do to respond to some of our recommendations. So overall scores this year were incredibly consistent over last year. They did go up from 88. 3 on average last year to 88. 4 this year. So that is pretty consistent and generally pretty highscoring. In terms of look at longer term, going back to the beginning of the parks program, you can see that the overall trend park scores have improved and then this also just breaks down for you you can see kind of orderly how the park scores vary. Some of that is just variances by season and to be expected. Again, this can just show you the average over last year is very consistent. This chart here shows you some the distribution of the scores across the city. So the red there is parks below 80 . The yellow is parks between i believe its 80 and 90 . And then the green there is parks scoring above 90 . And so overall the distribution
Again they have been very stable. The changes since the last year are fairly small. And over the time you can see that the department is has really different focus to the area s where there is high use, the gardens, restrooms, athletic fields have improved. There are low use areas, wider in acreage and harder to maintain, but also, it reflects the park evaluation process itself. And something that were working on. The open space is only graded on a single score. And as a result, it can vary in its score greatly from evaluator to evaluator and from time to time this. Kind of oscillation is part of what happens in a park evaluation. Partly its due to the season in which an evaluator goes out. When we have more people in the parks its harder to keep up with them and when an evaluator goes out, they could arrive before maintenance has occurred and those things will change the nature of the score. We consider this always a snapshot evaluation. So these rankings are ways to average together
Rating of 9 as the threshold for actually abating the tree meaning removing the tree. So in Golden Gate Park, and we did this citywide, in Golden Gate Park. There were 336 trees overall with a ranking of 9 or above and among those 126 were Monterey Pines and 78 were monterey cyprus and the rest blue gums. From there, hort science gave us the recommendation to remove a number of the trees. Its worth noting that Monterey Pines were the Largest Group and two reasons for this. First Monterey Pines in Golden Gate Park are what hort science refers to as largely overmature in development, which means that they are really old. Which renders the tree for susceptible to inspects, the red beetle, et cetera. Overall hort science found our urban forest to be relatively healthy an only recommending a very small number of trees to be removed. Because nobody likes to see one of our big, beautiful, Majestic Trees removed, but after expensive study these were deem to be atrisk of failure. So i thought s
Didnt mince word talking about the meeting many mexico. This is kind of a diplomatic amateur hour by donald trump. What are the odds, matt, that he has been telling the American Public for months now were building a wall and mexico is going to pay for it, but that did not come up in the meeting. I find that kind of ridiculous. All this as a new usa today poll out show iing if trump wan to chip away clintons lead, he has a long way to go. Were covering all the angles on the campaign trail. Also to mexico city, we want to begin with katy tur, who was at trumps speech in ohio. Joins me on the phone as shes driving off to next event in cincinnati. Trump stirred the spot this morning. I want to play for everybody that conversation. The line last week, youre softeningeni softening on immigration. Then the plan last night. Wheres the softening . It is softening. We do it in a very humane way. Were going to see with the people that are in the country. Obviously, i want to get the gang members