with native plants so i want to encourage everyone to plant local native plants. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi there. my name is mary ellen hanible. i'm a long time resident of san francisco and a journalist and author. i was the writer on the map that peter showed of nature in the city. i'm very excited about this resolution and this idea. one of the things i've learned as a writer on this subject is that one thing nature needs to persist is connecttivety. plants and animals need each other in relationship and they also need space across space -- to be able to move across space to go from one place to another to renew their genetic inheritance of others with of their own kind and to rest and

reproduce. so what are some of the things in the way of saving nature today, which is under seeing in a dire way, connectivity. the lack of connectivity among human institutions is one of the big problems. so we have all of these incredible achievements in san francisco to bring banative species to integrate new exotic species and to create more and more beautiful nature that characterize our beautiful city. we have all of these different agencies that don't know what each other are doing and they don't coordinate with each other. >> [bell ringing] >> so this is a way to amplify nature. >> thank you. >> beckie evans on behalf of the sierra club. we support this resolution. it's pleasing

to be here and see the cooperation of the people from the different city departments vm i'm impressed by the fact that the san francisco children's program have a swath of san francisco's public open space that was under to guidance of the federal government. i hope you will support this. i think it's a good start. we've got a way to go and i think it's a good thing for the department of environment and the city to be doing during this incredible time of pressure on our public lands. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. board of supervisors and fellow citizens, my name is ryan tachiana, the youth programs organizer from environmental justice. the bio diversity of our city is related to the well being of all living organisms including us. bio diversity is the foundation of

the ecosystem services that clean the air we breathe, protect our homes from rising sea levels and provide a healthier tomorrow for a children and future generations. it's important more than ever to connect the people of san francisco to our city's natural wonders and educate our communities about the values of biodiversity. i support our bio diversity resolution and i appreciate the city investing in a healthier tomorrow. thank you. >> thank you very much. i'll call an up can -- call a couple of names. greg, lou, jake. i believe i called bob hall also. hi, bob. come on up. >> bob hall here. passionate san francisco enthusiast and wildlife enthusiast. across the united states city managers always look to san francisco to lead on tough issues. san francisco is a no excuses, can-do city. we lead on public

healthcare, we led on gay marriage and san francisco is the first and only city in the united states where all residents have access to a park within a 10-minute walk. now we must lead on protecting the foundation of life. no sweat, right? although concerned about athletes to species, diversity tend to focus on large species such as bald eagles, threats to the bio diversity of small organisms are the same or of greater importance. small organisms are often more specialized and adapted to certain plant species and habitats than are the large animals and therefore they are more susceptible to extension. we need policies that protect them. species support biological protection and regulation through the food chain in a variety of ways such

as adding to the soil fertility, pollination, plant growth and waste decomposition. the more deverse a system is the more stable it is. >> [bell ringing] >> so i encourage you to adopt these great policies that you're putting forward today and please make san francisco proud and have all the other cities look at us again as a leader. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is greg gar. i have lived in san francisco all my life. i volunteer in the parks and open spaces to battle the weeds that are displacing our native plant communities. it's important to realize that this planet is the only place in the universe that we are aware of where life exists. bio

diversity is the barometer that determines how healthy this planet is. we don't want to lose this precious planet and the life it has produced but as things are going if you look at the history of the bay area which is the micro causism of the entire plant we've gone from one of the richest ebbing -- eco systems to a remanence of what existed 250 years ago where there was mountain bears, grizzly lions, a much larger bay that has much -- much of it has been filled in. the tidal marshes have been destroyed. now we are aware of how to restore these areas. it's very spiritually reward ing to go out and restore an area and see the

butterflies and the birds return. in san francisco we have the natural areas program, we have the national park service and the -- >> [bell ringing] >> -- and there's so many opportunities to get involved in stewarding the land. i hope you support this bio diversity resolution. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello. any -- my name is lou springer. i'm a proud partner of many of the city's efforts restoring bio diversity throughout the city. i'm here to read a letter on behalf of our chief executive officer, jean frasier. i'm writing on behalf oh the city in strong support of the city bio diversity resolution. it is a bio diversity hot spot within the city of san francisco and a member of the united nations the

bio spear reserve. the trust shares the city's goals of preserving the city's diverse biological resources and partner with the city on a number of efforts in support of stewardship. the trust also recognizes there's a great urgency to address the loss of bio diversity as much of san francisco's natural remaining heritage is threatened. we will support existing bio diversity by providing a unified vision. enhancing inner agency collaboration, completing a survey of current work of bio diversity and strategies going forward to increase efforts, collaboration partnership. articulating a commitment through commission resolutions or presentations and outlining a specific frame work for the department of the environment to convene the departments on a regular lbasis to move forward.

thank you so much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> jake thig speaking for the local chapter of the california native plant society. i'm glad to see san francisco once again in the lead on questions of the environment. even though the public is rather vague on what bio diversity is, the actual fact is they're all in favor of it. variety is the spice of life as everyone knows. the current issue of the guardian of london has this on the front page. it's a major story. this week. the economist is just like it sounds, a business paper. they're paying attention to this too. they recognize the

-- what is at stake. it is titled a crisis in the natural word, major study reveals how run away resource exploitation threatens water and food security for billions. human destruction of nature is rapidly eroding the world's capacity to provide food, water and security to billions of people according to the most comprehensive bio diversity study in more than a decade. such as the rate of decline and risks posed by bio diversity loss should be considered -- >> [bell ringing] >> on the same scale of those of climate change noted the authors. among the major findings are the exploitable fisheries of the world, the asian pacific is on course to decline to zero by 2048. so on.

it goes on much more. thank you. >> i will call up two more names. kelly trahan and orie heartenstein and then we have nadine will. >> each day i have the privilege of serving library patrons who care deeply for the environment. the library is proud to support this bio diversity policy and the vision to connect all san francisco residents to nature and inspire stewardship. it's impressive but we know it faces significant challenges. the library's vision includes the provision of free and equal access to information for our diverse

community. as part of this vision the library is excited to continue our partnership with the department of environment to bring information to the public and to provide conservation to come. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> hello. good afternoon. my name is orie. i'm an intern with the san francisco department of viefrmeenvironmen hyperwith my cointern to politic the two minutes. >> sure. >> thank you. i'm very proud to see the city taking this policy in consideration considering the current administration that we have and even hearing you-all speak of that as well and recognizing that. san francisco serves an

example nationally and globally so i'm really happy to see that and i'm sure the world as well. so thank you. >> thank you. >> and i just wanted to quote a native american proverb that says, we aren't inheriting this land from our ancest secestors are borrowing it from our children. so just think about it. i think we need to do better. thank you. >> thank you very much. other public speakers? >> hello. my name is nadine wild, the executive director of the thorn foundation. we have a partner of the environment. we are concerned this bio diversity resolution will threaten public safety unless amended. we would

be grateful if the committee could please consider four small amendments. one, please add a one to one tree replacement rate. right now any trees failed under this policy will fall through the cracks causing deforestation and climate change. climate change is the number one threat to bio diversity. two, please add back the urban forest plan. it was in the original resolution twice, other plans like green connections are still in but the urban forest plan was deleted. please add it back as trees are our best defense against climate change. three, please ensure that this will not lead to any tier one pesticide use. applications increased 411% last year. it was because of bio diversity policies just like this one. other cities like seattle and portland have

pesticide free parks where san francisco is falling further behind. these pesticides are poisoning our children, our land and our bio diversity including monarch butterflies. four -- >> [bell ringing] >> please add back plants on page three. the environment commission wanted to make sure this was not just about native plants. they voted to include non-native, noninvasive plants. this phrase hand become deleted and the agenda has become narrow. it mentioned native plants six times on four pages. this is overly prescriptive and -- >> [bell ringing] >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. and anastasia glintenterisha. >> i doesn't matter. first i

brought two letters from san francisco forest alliance. you may have received them by e-mail or maybe not. you might have not read them. i don't know. please include it in the meeting minutes. i'm here to oppose this resolution. the main reason is because bio diversity in the city of san francisco is totally completely in separately connected to highly toxic herbicides. those are herbicides. those things kill plants and there's absolutely no need, no possible need to use them. this book was published in october of last year. i only started reading it recently. it's called killer of cancer and corruption of science. it only talks about round up and this round up was just used on march 7th in mount davidson. it was a very toxic herbicides.

the herbicides are used all the time. all the time. last year the use was up by 50%. they were used in mount davidson 17 times, in glen park 30 times and people just have no idea that it is done. like i tell people and they have no clue. those who knows are only those who have dogs and walk all the time and pay attention to all the signs. it's total unacceptable and has to be banned. it can no go. >> [bell ringing] >> it's too much. they cannot be used as the last resort. they are not appropriate. they are used from carpet so it

should be banned. please stop the stupidity and please do -- >> thank you very much. anymore public comments? seeing none. public comment is now closed. >>

>> so we don't have any parks that are "pesticide free"? >> well, we don't have them denoted as such, but if you look at pesticide use in the city, it's almost half had not had any herbicide use since 2010. so the staff have done a really good job of minimizing use. >> there's different ways of talking about the pesticide use, and those cities that have pesticide free parks, then they don't have a whole bunch of parks that don't have those restrictions. what i said was i don't care if there's a playground, you

cannot use pesticides. so because we have so many parks, we just make them all have the same requirements. you can see that most of the parks regardless do not. >> and the answer was -- was sufficient -- sufficient. >> yeah. >> no, i just know sometimes the public feels safer knowing this named park will never get pesticide, but i understand the approach that you've taken, and the answer satisfies me. thank you. okay. supervisor safai? >> i just want to go back to my original request of page four, line eight, and i just want to ask the city attorney and department of environment if you can work on some language between now -- >> i actually have some language. do you want me to offer it now or to be cleaner, do you want to wait? >> supervisor safai: sure. >> we would let me know -- and let me know, supervisor, if

this clarifies: pursuant of opportunities to enhance native biodiversity on city owned lands unless those lands are mandated to another city use. >> supervisor safai: i think that reads a lot better. >> yeah. that gets rid of the whole middle part. >> thank you. and did your city attorney get that or would you like it in writing. >> actually, if you could get it to me. >> satisfy. >> all right. so seeing no questions, comments, maybe we can get a motion on item four? first, a motion to amend. >> supervisor safai: i'd like to make a motion to amend as proposed by the department of environment read into the record, page 4, line eight through ten. >> okay. we'll do that without objection, and then, on the amended item? >> supervisor safai: and send this item to the full board wi

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sustainable future . >> san francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e city's land area more than all the parks combined they're far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is

the core of our program we have in the public right-of-way meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here

at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do

here. >> there's a very full program that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact pavement to parks at sfgovtv.org test text1 underline >> let's gather, let's gather round. we are going to have a very

quick joyous program today, happy passover, happy easter, happy extravaganza, happy reopening of the koret children's playground. >> i -- i am here with my dear friend and partner drew becker of the san francisco parks alliance and we are your emcees today. drew, you want to say a few words? >> thank you, easter bunny. no, very happy to be here, it is, you know, it's a happy day here in golden gate park and koret playground and excited to be a part of it and the outpouring to get the playground back open. thank you so much, thank you for being a member of the parks alliance and for loving your park. back to you, phil. >> heart of the matter, a lot of people that stepped up to get the playground reopened and no

way we were going to keep kids off it. but today the true, true, true heroes are the young, young men and women in orange today. the young kids from stepping preschool, you can clap for yourselves. who kicked this all off on their own by raising $283.17 in lemonade and donuts out there on irving street and presented it to our beloved mayor lee and said please fix our playground. and the rest was history. so, a big round of applause to stones. [applause] all right. of wonderful speakers who have led and made sure the project happened. drew and i have made a personal promise to the mayor of san francisco whose schedule is filled with parades and community events and all kinds of things today that we would be brief, which is not something that comes naturally to us.

>> so, that means under an hour here. >> yes, no, yes. so, what drew and i, are you ready to go? what drew and i thought we would rather than a long boring speech, i offer mr. mayor, an welcome to koret children's playground fixed up, children ready, let's play. because of your, your loving generosity. forget to tip your waiters, i'll week. mr. becker. >> so, phil called me about this like last night and said i want you to do an haiku, i thought it very sweet, here i go. ashes, ashes sad. children playing happy face, playground back. >> well done. all right. and without further ado, my great honor to introduce the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, mark farrell.

[applause] >> thank you, mr. ginsberg. i don't have an haiku for you today, sorry about that. i want to say thank you to stepping stones preschool, to kids, you are awesome. this is so amazing to the future city. you know, when this playground burnt down, it captured the imagination of our city, and so thankful for everyone who stepped up, i really want to pay mayor, ed lee, who made this a priority, here in san francisco, before he passed away, it was without his support this would not have happened at all. and so a huge, how about a round of applause for his leadership in this. you know, my wife is here today, we have been taking our three kids here to this playground of their birth, and to see it rebuilt, to see the kids back on the concrete slide is amazing, and what's also amazing, though, i think we need to recognize, what a legendary playground this is and

city of san francisco. standing with some other guys earlier today also born and raised san francisco kids and we came here when we were little and remember the slide and the cardboard and getting some air off of some of the jumps. but what an amazing place this is. look, parks are the heart and soul of our city. we are all about. we have such amazing leaders ginsberg. thanks so much to the parks alliance and drew, congratulations to everybody. happy easter, happy passover, have a great weekend, everyone. >> thank you, mayor. give it up for mayor farrell again. next up, we could not do this would you tell us the leadership of the rec and park commission and here representing them is commissioner alan lowe. thanks, drew. also want to thank our general who really brought us together but really the stepping stone kids to tell us old folks

hey, let's get this fixed. this is a great example of the city coming together in a time of need and just getting it fixed and done. of the recreation and park commission, thank you san francisco to save our recreation sports as well as the parks alliance and the koret foundation, and also thank mayor lee who is looking at us from heaven saying well, we got it done. thank you. >> thank you, alan. i also want to give a very, very special shout out, i see some folks in uniform today, both the san francisco fire department and the san francisco police department were immediately on when actually this all went down, and reminder of how important you all are, and how much, how hard you work to campaign our city safe. and this would have been a lot worse without the amazing quick response of the san francisco fire department. so thank you very much, very

[applause] and then just so you all know, on that other side of the fence, san francisco fire department is locked into a fierce battle with the san francisco police department and the san francisco recreation park department, it is our version of top chef, name show, it is the barbecue competition of the year, and it is very serious business. so i invite everybody to come get a taste of the fire department, police department park department barbecuing and then vote for the parks department, ok? we -- things like this happen and unexpectedly and you know, like it -- it's hard to kind of make a half a million dollars lift and get this fixed as fast as we wanted to do it, so we need supporters, friends, supporters. koret foundation, truly amazing. this is the koret children's

playground, so the foundations caring investment and support in created it at the outset, and what is so amazing is that when this came down, and we said we needed a little help, koret said we are here, and that's what they do city in so many different ways and we are so anita freedman, for your support. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. i'm anita freedman, as phil said, the volunteer president of the koret foundation, and we have here also our professional leadership, danielle foreman and her family. where is danielle? and it's because this foundation is one of the largest philanthropic foundations in san francisco and we believe in children, believe in families, in san francisco, we believe in bringing them all together in wonderful places like this to make san francisco one of the best, one of the

wonderful places for families and children in the world. and that's our commitment to san francisco and i know it's all of commitment, too. now, i personally remember having been here one of the first times, who remembers what if you -- if you know, you get a genius point. ok. i happen to have here, happen to have here tickets, the ticket i bought here for a free ride on the carousel when we dedicated the carousel. ok? phil, can i use this still? >> you can. >> i came here with my family, my son joseph, who was two and a my son adam, who was six months, and aaron, my third son is here someplace, he was but not a physical form yet, and now they play here, we came here on

this day we dedicated this and granddaughter margo and granddaughter nava, so my family as all of your families understand how important it is to the life of the city to have resources like this. so, thank you, thank you for leadership. thank you for making this happen. thanks to all of you and now let's play. [applause] much, anita. yes, that is still valid, there is no question in my mind that as anita noted, parks are so important to san francisco, the first city in the united states of america, 100% of us live in ten minutes walk of a park and over the last ten years, in capital investment all over the city, and that is in large part, because san francisco loves their parks and also the political leadership in the past

generation. and there has been no bigger park champion than our next president of the board of supervisors, london breed. >> good morning, everybody. i am so excited to be here today. i grew up in san francisco and one of the highlights of my life was when we took our annual field trip in school to this playground. and we would always try to find cardboard so we could slide down that slide. so, mayor mark farrell and i later, we are going to get some cardboard and slide down that slide. know, i just want to say when this park was vandalized last year, when makes me love san francisco so much is how so many people came together, to raise money for the purposes of making sure that we got this done and we got it done quickly for our young people. and i just want to say how proud

of the kids from stepping stones preschool. [applause] i remember last year when they visited mayor lee to present a check to the city after doing a lemonade stand and raising money and what amazing young people to just step up and want to help and do all that they can. i mean, how amazing is that. i'm so proud of each and every one of you for everything that you did. you are the future of this city and you are going to make sure that this playground is here for generations to come. thank you to the parks alliance, thank you to the koret foundation for not only helping to renovate the playground in the past but chipping in right away when we needed additional money to get it done quickly, thank you to phil ginsberg for leading the effort. i call him mr. parks. everything he does is ensure that our playgrounds and our parks are safe, that they are

clean, and that they are fun for kids all over this city. what a wonderful event. thank you all each and every one of you for being here today. [applause] >> thank you, president breed. dressed in green today for parks. we go. next up, it takes a village to and we have another great partner to help bring this play ground back to life. san francisco, sports and recreation, tricia weaver moss. >> good morning. mayor farrell and commissioner lowe, and everybody here on behalf of san francisco for sports and recreation, i'm thrilled to be able to support the reopening of this historic park. historic playground. i would like to thank phil ginsberg and drew becker, and commissioner lowe and everybody at the parks department and the

parks alliance and the parks commission for making our park system in san francisco one of the greatest in the country. we are really the envy of the nation. i would also like to thank our partner, alexandria real estate, here today for their extremely generous donation to this project. am i on here? ok, a little close to the mic. thanks, alexandria. especially like to thank my colleague, david brentlinger, for his enormous effort to lead the improvement of public spaces around the city of which this is one. thank you very much, david brentlinger. you know, our organization, san francisco for sports and recreation, genesis in court advocacy. but my colleagues had the

opportunity to have literally thousands of personal conversations with people from san francisco, every walk of life, every age, to every corner of the city and when we learned in those conversations is there is a real yearning among city dwellers for even better parks. not just better tennis courts, which what we were initially interested in, but better pools, and better basketball courts, recreation centers. and most importantly, so, we learned that public spaces in general, places to play in general, but particularly playgrounds and the koret playground in particular, are really the heart of the city. and indeed, little children breathed new life into this playground with their grassroots advocacy. and without them, getting the ball rolling, who knows how long it would have taken our diverse

group of project sponsors to come together to get this going. so, with that, let's have some fun, enjoy the park, and have a great day. >> thank you, trisha. >> before we bring up the stars conclude our program, just a few additional thanks. first of all, acknowledge derek brown from the mayor's office neighborhood services is here, comes to every park event, lends a hand. i want to thank my own team, lisa, nathan, david, here, our superintendent of golden gate park, my capital division, karen ruppert here, and the folks who managed the project, this is truly a team effort and you can tell by the fact that no kid is listening to us at this point. just how special it is. all right. the stars of the show are stepping stone preschool, what i would like to do is gather all

the kids and bring up lizbeth and mary, come on up. and where is j.p.? so you know how you know who j.p. is, j.p. was the guy with the cash or check? >> cash. >> it was cash. it was cold hard cash. >> it was bitcoin, phil. >> that stepping stones presented to mayor lee, $283. so, j.p. you were telling me about your lemonade salesmanship. what was your strategy? >> like we, i guess like we just wanted to raise money for like the children's playground. and lend a hand. >> right on. like, what was it like meeting mayor lee? >> it was like to meet mayor lee, so we needed to fix the

playground. >> well, you guys proud that you did it? >> yes. >> right on. well, i want to say a big, big thank you on behalf of the recreation and parks department to you guys, and i want to present this certificate to stones on this day because this doesn't happen without you guys, and then i would love mary and lizbeth to say a few words and selfish personal note, my daughter, turns 18 tomorrow, went to stepping stones preschool. >> on behalf of all our parents and the stepping stone families, we are so happy you are here today. this -- this whole experience is really kind of part of what stepping stones is all about. the children came here on their weekly outing to the ca ro you -- carousel park we call it,

and it was burnt down and upset. and instead of the punitive measure on the bad people they came up with a fix. a lot of talk what to do, lemonade stand is what they did, and turned basically a bad situation to something amazing. and it just so happened this they had already scheduled a field trip to city hall and so our amazing director, could not be here today, called them and said hey, can you have someone show up in a suit so that the kids can hand over the money and so ed lee came down, which was amazing. >> fabulous. >> rest is history. >> our team, and one picture and then let's have usually it's the kids saying screaming out and saying thank you, we'll have a picture with the mayor and president breed and everybody here. let's move this. we'll come around the picture

on three, i'll have the adults say thank you, stepping stones. or thank you kids. thank you kids. stones kids on three. all right, everybody gather in. let's go, come on, come on, everybody gather in. all right, on three, thank you stepping stones kids. 1, 2, 3. thank you stepping stones kids! [applause] thanks for coming out, everybody. enjoy your day. the playground is open. come to extravaganza, taste the barbecue and vote for the parks department. wa-hoo! cc1 test message cc1 test message cc1 test message

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