dpw in my view, and of course, again, mr. buck is responsible for my view. i'll throw you under the bus, sorry chris. it's there are thousands of holes in the ground where there used to be trees and d.p.w. really needs to make those thousand holes a priority first and for most and in your orientation, add d.p.w. and in this retraining i hope the word priority is utilized in conjunction with the word tree. and that is where it starts. it's a change in culture. if we were talking about the fact that we're killing girls or squirrels or eagles, sitting in trees, my god, all hell would break loose. trees are they give us a lot the fresh air we breathe so, really, i want to encourage you both to carry back to your leadership the real need for using the word priority in in all and also, when there's a d.p.w. construction team or an outside contractor acting on behalf of the b.p. w. that contractor also have a priority aligned to a tree as their number one priority and at least equal with every other priority that they might have in that day. that's the only way we'

clip coming back as many times as possible until dpw chose to prioritize trees and make this checklist and get organized in the making sure that the 100 trees empty in the city of san francisco and they're filled and that unfort accidents that have occurred as we've heard redundantly tonight will stop occurring. there's no reason for it if you prioritize and organize it and make sure it's done right. >> we'll hear from vice president honda. >> one question, chris. is the six trees that were removed, where was the exact location those were removed at? >> um, chris, with public works. so, they were on haze and octavia. so this is the intersection of hayes and octavia and i don't have the exact but they were at the corner within a block. >> there were businesses that are specific to where businesses are a employing for permits for street usage? >> yes, so the only work that was performed was on that two and a half block that was heard last night. that was the work that was performed. right in that immediate area. >> and then, you know, i want to echo my fellow commission swig in regards t

hsh, dpw and the rest of the asoc team. and then in addition, the additional ems that are coming online. >> so i just want to make you and the committee aware, there's not enough personnel in the hot team right now to handle the capacity they have first and foremost. second, none of those entities besides the fire department is a 24-hour operation and many of them, not even a seven-day-a-week operation and that would have to change immediately. and also, that would require -- >> it would have to change by -- so when does the -- so half of the fiscal year is over in january and it would have to change by january. >> so all of those people would have to be hired to build a capacity to handle that volume of work by january. and here's what i'm saying and just for your consideration and board's consideration. i understand what you're saying. i just urge us to be very thoughtful about the transition. look, if it's ta taken off our plate and we don't have the workload, that would be great and i think that's what your desire is, b

and the second thing i'd like to say is i've been following fbi investigation of dpw and other departmentssan francisco and i would like to reiterate that there be transparency and strict oversight over any exemption that's granted. thank you very much. last thing i want to say, i'm very jealous that certain people got to take a robin deangelo work shop. i'm reading her book now. thank you. bye. >> thank you, caller, very much for your comments. next caller, please go ahead. >> (caller): hi there. i'm chris. i'm a resident of san francisco. although the ordinance is a good step in the right direction, we're the city of san francisco and we hold ourselves to high environmental and equity sense. i want to answer -- to work with supervisor mandelman to make the following changes to the ordinance. one. please make the process more transparent to the public and ensure that any exemptions are exclusively decided on the basis of the public interest. frankly through the ongoing corruption throughout various city departments, san franciscoans have lost faiths in their government. the currently prop

we have planning and dpw and puc and for whoever i'm forgetting here, i'm sorry. but a big thank you to everyone who is a part of this permitting process that we have and it is very appreciated. again, thank you, president mccarthy, for mentioning that g aboumentioning aboutopening ford all consistors are looked at. so thank you. >> presiden >> it looks like we have one more caller for this item. i'll leave it up to you to accept it because we had the wrong access code posted. >> please. >> john, go ahead. >> speaker: hello, commissioners. i'm an architect local in san francisco and i just wanted to also thank everyone that's been involved with reorganizing the permitting system, and i appreciate all of the effort and it's obvious there's been a lot of work put into it. but i just wanted to also convey some of my frustration with the process in addition to a lo. there were particular requirements in formatting and software and so there has been a bit of an investment on our part to serve our clients and make sure -- and go through -- jump through hoops on our side

hsh, dpw and the rest of the asoc team. and then in addition, the additional ems that are coming online. >> so i just want to make you and the committee aware, there's not enough personnel in the hot team right now to handle the capacity they have first and foremost. second, none of those entities besides the fire department is a 24-hour operation and many of them, not even a seven-day-a-week operation and that would have to change immediately. and also, that would require -- >> it would have to change by -- so when does the -- so half of the fiscal year is over in january and it would have to change by january. >> so all of those people would have to be hired to build a capacity to handle that volume of work by january. and here's what i'm saying and just for your consideration and board's consideration. i understand what you're saying. i just urge us to be very thoughtful about the transition. look, if it's ta taken off our plate and we don't have the workload, that would be great and i think that's what your desire is, b

and the second thing i'd like to say is i've been following fbi investigation of dpw and other departmentssan francisco and i would like to reiterate that there be transparency and strict oversight over any exemption that's granted. thank you very much. last thing i want to say, i'm very jealous that certain people got to take a robin deangelo work shop. i'm reading her book now. thank you. bye. >> thank you, caller, very much for your comments. next caller, please go ahead. >> (caller): hi there. i'm chris. i'm a resident of san francisco. although the ordinance is a good step in the right direction, we're the city of san francisco and we hold ourselves to high environmental and equity sense. i want to answer -- to work with supervisor mandelman to make the following changes to the ordinance. one. please make the process more transparent to the public and ensure that any exemptions are exclusively decided on the basis of the public interest. frankly through the ongoing corruption throughout various city departments, san franciscoans have lost faiths in their government. the currently prop

hsh, dpw and the rest of the asoc team. and then in addition, the additional ems that are coming online. >> so i just want to make you and the committee aware, there's not enough personnel in the hot team right now to handle the capacity they have first and foremost. second, none of those entities besides the fire department is a 24-hour operation and many of them, not even a seven-day-a-week operation and that would have to change immediately. and also, that would require -- >> it would have to change by -- so when does the -- so half of the fiscal year is over in january and it would have to change by january. >> so all of those people would have to be hired to build a capacity to handle that volume of work by january. and here's what i'm saying and just for your consideration and board's consideration. i understand what you're saying. i just urge us to be very thoughtful about the transition. look, if it's ta taken off our plate and we don't have the workload, that would be great and i think that's what your desire is, b

i do not likely that's the authority you want to go in once you get the building permit if you need dpwmbrooechl into the public right-of-way you have to get an encroachment permit other agencies is applicable excuse me. are sfmta, police, bay area, bayview and osha, etc. >> lastly we wanted to make sure that some of the best advise we can give people not in the trades or everyday business of getting permits getting plans doing construction prepare yourself we have a lot of resources at the dbi website you can contact the planning department on the first story of the planning department the planning department there it is more than happy to answer questions and an information desk for building at 1660 mission manned 7 hours a day actually 6 between the hours of 9 and 4 with an hour off for lunch 6 hours a day at the desk ask code questions and if we can't say answer the question or don't have the information we'll find you the information also, we have printed materials we make available to the public all you have to do a ask for that that www.sf dbi.org right up there and we've got a l

clip coming back as many times as possible until dpw chose to prioritize trees and make this checklist and get organized in the making sure that the 100 trees empty in the city of san francisco and they're filled and that unfort accidents that have occurred as we've heard redundantly tonight will stop occurring. there's no reason for it if you prioritize and organize it and make sure it's done right. >> we'll hear from vice president honda. >> one question, chris. is the six trees that were removed, where was the exact location those were removed at? >> um, chris, with public works. so, they were on haze and octavia. so this is the intersection of hayes and octavia and i don't have the exact but they were at the corner within a block. >> there were businesses that are specific to where businesses are a employing for permits for street usage? >> yes, so the only work that was performed was on that two and a half block that was heard last night. that was the work that was performed. right in that immediate area. >> and then, you know, i want to echo my fellow commission swig in regards t