carnes, the appellant in 19 -- 081. >> welcome back. >> good evening. my name is lance carnes, i'm in north each resident. the reason i am here of healing the 16th street phase one removal order. my north beach neighborhood, and several others in the city have been hit with orders on most trees order for removal are ficus. this first side shows, sorry, the different neighborhoods that have been hit. we heard from the main library tonight you north beach you heard last week the tonight is 16th street phase one. i will come back to this side. the one i was researching, bureau of urban forestry in their handling of street trees come i found a database that said a 2017 tree survey which shows the 16th street phase, ficus needing routine pruned, certainly not a removal. the survey was done by a contract between the city of san francisco, at a cost of $500,000 one happy outcome was funding 20,000 more trees than previously thought. on the foot about the condition that san francisco urban forest management that lost 20,000 trees. on this slide, here's a compari

many of those plots shown by appellant carnes, where i live come have been completed. we have pruned thousands of trees across the city. we've earned 23,000, we have removed several thousand. we are working on those authorities, across the city, including my own neighborhood. i understand, you know, with one of the appellant's brief, let's back up one more moment. one of the other things the plan recommended, which public works has executed is to fund a complete tree census. so we know how many trees we have. it turns out we have 125,000 street trees, we were up by 20,000. the arbor pro census was critical, great information. $500,000 to do that report is great. there's a lot of accident rate worked. it is tremendous. that is what allowed us to get proposition e passed with a mandate. are you going to say that i should take a third parties assess of a ficus tree, someone who may be lives in southern california, best, i've been doing this for 20 years my five years of an advocate. if waterpipe are breaking across the city, and in one month, 15 out of 20 pipe rates are a