at the tenure of justin s clarion thomas by his many written opinions. [applause] good evening, everyone and welcome to the new york historical society. i am louise new york historical president and ceo and i m thrilled to see all of you and her beautiful auditorium this evening. tonight s program the life and turbulent times of chief justice john roberts of the speaker series. ias always i like to think is tremendous support which is enabled us to bring so many fine speakers to the stage. [applause] i would also like to recognize and take a number of trustees who have joined us this evening, barry barnett, judy berkowitz, susan, pat, suzanne, joe, jean inside. i would like to think each and every one of you and michael westberg, how to do not appear on a list. in any event, i would like to thank each and every one of you for joining us this evening and for all the work that you do on behalf of new york historical. and i should say leading up to our we can with history in jus
the recording secretary of the government committee, of which i am the chair, and i don t think you can find, as previous people have said, a harder worker, someone who is more tenacious, disciplined, tireless, a self-starter. she is a great researcher and writer. and so i come cap in hand to ask you to reappoint her and one of the great things here, too, is that she is experienced, this is a reappointment and so you don t have to have somebody come in and learn on the job. thank you. thank you very much. next speaker, please. good afternoon, supervisors, catherine howard, landscape architect. i do have some experience with tree issues in san francisco, having worked with friends of the music concourse to protect the historic hundred-year-old trees in front of the band shell when the garage project threatened them. i ve known miss hillson and her work for many years. i am on the open space coalition. in our monthly meetings we sit through a lot of meetings, many of them e
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 weren t 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 lia
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 weren t 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 lia
putting in a lot of trees and 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 weren t 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 th