Brick suite swig and bobby wilson get to my left is debbie City Attorney Tom Hollander will provide with the board with any legal advice tonight. At the controls was carried and im Cindy Goldstein the boards executive director. Were also joined tonight by the city dept. Who have before the board this evening. Hes with the San Francisco dept. Of pub. Works bureau of mapping and were also joined by christoph urban forrester with San Francisco purpose urban forrester and the board request to turn off or sounds all phones or other Electronic Devices so they will not disturb the proceedings could please carry on conversations in the hallway. The boards presentation are as follows. Each respondents are given 7 min. And 3 min. For rebuttal. People affiliated with these parties must conclude their comments within the 7 or 3 min. Period. Members of the public not affiliated with the parties of up to 3 min. Each to address the board with no rebuttal. Please speak into the end of the microphone.
Good monering, welcome to Rule Committee meeting of march 10, 2016. Im katy tang and to the right is malia cohen and the right is eric mar. We would like to thank sf gov tv [inaudible] herb and [inaudible] josh alexander. Any announcements . Please silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices [inaudible] submit today the clerk. Items will appear on the march 22, march [inaudible] thank you very much. Will you please call item one, hearing appoint one mb tern to childcare planning and advisory council. There is one seat. Thank you, if we can have mrs. Candice wong. Good morning, my name is candice wong. Im currently the applying for reappointment to districtly advisory council. I have experience on [inaudible] business side and [inaudible] working at the low Income Investment fund of california director Child Development program. I have been there for 10 years so continue to serve the city in the capacity of Early Childhood education and proud the work we have done over the last 2 dec
There are one hundred and 5 thousand trees in San Francisco and the estimate of the city where we dont have a good consensus of centralizing because theyre not planted with a permit and in addition areas like sunset that are like park and Inventory Data on the trees is not one hundred percent accurate so currently thats our estimate after having transferred just over 6 thousand trees to Property Owners about 70 thousands are the maintenance of the adjacent Property Owners we anticipate after the program puc will continue to maintain 189 or 18 thousand 6 hundred trees located in public mediums or areas adjacent to public lands for Property Owners to take care of the property trees we have not inspected the trees because we dont have the resources and supervisor wiener there are a number of trees we were not able to transfer because theyve been neglected because of our inability to prune them we have to fix the sidewalks before transferring them to the prove or disprove we transferred 3
Private tree thats what it comes down to again, im really annexed initiated im having to waste my time and money to appeal that this is not reasonable im willing to put another tree back but doughnut want to keep a tree that costs media and the city liability and cause me to spend a lot more money on maintaining it and the sidewalk thank you. Ive got a question youre willing to replace what are you willing to replace it with. The arborists told me a sustainable laparoreign that didnt have as deep of a root system and unfortunately with the new Zealand Christmas tree it has invafg root system. Thank you. Thank you. Can we hear from the department . Good evening, commissioners Carol Department of public works representing the urban forestry if i could have the overhead just like to show a photograph the tree in question in the the new zealand commissioned tree the location is a climatic condition in San Francisco but this tree looks at fantastic i know the species sometimes gets a Bad Re
Exemption for that. Theres no exemption for that at the time. Thanks. Ill quickly go over the process that is outlined in the public works so article 16 to transfer the maintenance to the adjacent Property Owners but outlines the steps so prior to the transfer of trees the are tree needs to be inspected theres no immediate maintenance required we have to post a notice on the tree and provide information for tree care and address concerns and have a public hearing as requested by someone that has received a street tree so, now some of the challenges for the tree transfer we have many Property Owners that are unwilling to care for their trees theyre facing maintenance and some of the trees are large trees maintained by the city tend to be healthy and larger so if we are transferring those trees in many cases are transferring robust trees to Property Owners one of the biggest concerns of the concerns of qualify of cares and the destruction of trees and loss the efficiency of scale by havi