. >> afternoon i'm dan flanagan with the executive director of the friends of urban forest and with the urban forest council i think many great points have been made i want to make the point this was a cooperative effort between a lot of city departments and also friends of urban forest in addition to the urban forest council this is the product of many many months of work and is really overdue because the city is

. >> afternoon i'm dan flanagan with the executive director of the friends of urban forest and with the urban forest council i think many great points have been made i want to make the point this was a cooperative effort between a lot of city departments and also friends of urban forest in addition to the urban forest council this is the product of many many months of work and is really overdue because the city is in desperate need of as supervisor wiener seven hundred we need a road map in dealing with the street trees one of the most important recommends is the sustainable funding source for street trees in san francisco history of street trees in san francisco is very long and very 2r0ub8d because it supervisors - board of directors has given money prefixing and taken away money this is not the way to take care of urban trees they need to be taken care of i strongly recommend the supervisors endorse this plan. >> thank you. >> john i'm on the board of friends of urban forest and want to thank you for having this hearing and urge you to approve this plan and recommended to the board o