Of money to plant trees so in the interest of planting trees go to corporations and sexy to plant trees but the problem to maintain it not only now but forever for the life cycle of a tree so the problem weve had and hopefully la wont have the same problem well go ahead and and plant a lot of trees but not have the money to take care of them so some of the funding in terms of the long unsustainable sustainable funding well also be able to put together another sources to the original Planning Department and friends of the urban forest dont a phenomenal job maintaining the trees for the first 3 years of their life then the question what happens after that a thats where the city has to step in or not have the longevity. I love the history and the contention of what San Francisco looked like before the heave developments but as the history of the founding of the friends of urban forestry to what we have today and what a great document and the phases youve laid out to plan for a greater mor
Happens but the money for the care and maintenance of trees has horrifying in the city come hard to come by its hard to compete in the budget process so three years ago when we were informed by the department of public works that the Relinquishment Program was going to be started we identified the fact this is exactly the worst thing we could be doing as a city the city should be taking back all the responsibility for the street trees thats the best practice not only in california but throughout the United States for all the reasons that have been stated its much more efficient and done much better and not fair to release trees back to homeowners that dont have the money this was 3 minutes wow, that was fast the friends of the urban forestry have been working extremely hard with the partners and supervisors to maintain the level of the questions on and perhaps in 2016 have a solution for the voters of San Francisco. Thank you mr. Flanagan. Chair and supervisors kers ton San Francisco b
Maintain it not only now but forever for the life cycle of a tree so the problem weve had and hopefully la wont have the same problem well go ahead and and plant a lot of trees but not have the money to take care of them so some of the funding in terms of the long unsustainable sustainable funding well also be able to put together another sources to the original Planning Department and friends of the urban forest dont a phenomenal job maintaining the trees for the first 3 years of their life then the question what happens after that a thats where the city has to step in or not have the longevity. I love the history and the contention of what San Francisco looked like before the heave developments but as the history of the founding of the friends of urban forestry to what we have today and what a great document and the phases youve laid out to plan for a greater more trees lined San Francisco that are really appreciated so thank you, supervisor. Great, thank you mr. Shall i colleagues i
From the Planning Department for the urban master plan. Good afternoon, everyone. Supervisors im john sway with the planning staff and the manager of the citys urban forest plan i want to give you an update and copy for the supervisors so the urban forest plan a joint effort between the Planning Department and the rec and Park Department as well as work with the friends of the urban forest and the urban Forestry Council the goal to figure out a way to manage the cities trees and grow our urban forestry so the plan will be taking place in 3 phases the first phase before i is the centralizing weve completed he earlier this year and we expect to be moving on to phase 2 regarding trees in the parks and third phase that addresses trees on backyards we have longer budget for street consensus for 12 though street trees and the urn policy document and the vision for the urban forestry plan to develop a healthy sustained urban forest for the city of San Francisco im going to highlight two of th
Of the street trees actually, they first started as a committee with the cable cars we joined with the committee with the chamber of commerce and started the citywide Tree Planting program in San Francisco youve got 60 years of advocates saying we want to help us to get more trees in San Francisco and the department of public works is saying we cant maintain the 3rd of street trees and well meeting only 50 percent of gallows and the dpw is saying well increase our tree common place by 50 percent and this mayor has not shown leadership but we need vision and our advocates will support you san franciscans have said over and over they have the trees in the neighborhood we want to see leadership forward on 24 so, please continue those talks and lets give the city the departments and the people of San Francisco and the advocates the leadership they need in order to move forward now is the time it cant get worse. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is susan