. Oo sfoo we are live again rules committee, and we can on to item no. 6 . Oo. Item 6, hearing to determine seats on the Forestry Council. There are 6 seats and 6 applicants. Great. Thank you everyone for hanging in with us on a fairly long meeting. Were going to take things out of order this time just for one applicant who i believe has to leave soon and other people might have to leave for her and thats meg loman are we live . Okay. Glass of water real quick. Imspeaking on behalf of meg loman, who could not make it here. We had another commitment. We have incredibly luck to have meg loman applying for a position on the urban Forestry Council. One of the objectives i have had as chair is getting the best minds in urban forestry on to the council and she clearly ticks off that box. If you have looked at her application, and i dont think anyone has competed with her in terms of length of a cv, 13 pages was quite impressive. She brings enormous background, not only in scientific inquiry
With the work of your department, we are putting in hundreds of trees but what are your thoughts how we can move forward on preserving our trees, expanding our trees in the face of what our current policy is . One of the things ironically i spent the last two days, six hours worth of focus groups that we at friends of the urban forested and paid for. One of the things the public is interested in and are they concerned about the tree canopy and trees and expanding the canopy and we also spoke a great deal about the urban forest plan. What we discovered in the process we had home owners with trees, home owners without trees and renters. We were surprised at how the renters really werent that interested in trees. But they are very interested in the damage that trees do to sidewalks. And so one of the recommendations from the urban forest plan is that we have a dedicated Funding Source for the care and maintenance of street trees that also means the city would take back the liability for d