as commissioner rosenberg said, i'm going to read deetje boler's brief. she says -- oh, and i should say that miss boler is a long-time friend of the library. she's been active in working for the library as a friend of the library for 30 years, she told me. it is said that st. francis talked to the birds. maybe, maybe not, but what is certain that no one will be able to talk or even listen to the birds if the presently proposed removal of the groev of 19 trees that harbor then is allows to proceed. as will be shown such an attack on the city of st. francis is not only undesirable but it is also unnecessary, wasteful to the environment, costly to the city and demoralizing to the public. to begin with, in 1994, there was no library in this location nor even these trees, just a parking lot and a one-story office building. in is 996 -- in 1994, the main library was moved from its original location, which the art museum now occupies into this new construction at the corner of grove and hyde streets, at the southeast corner of the civic center, centrally located