so dpw said okay, this tree is down, we better get rid of all these trees. so arborist legate noted by dpw this was premature and lacking in basic observations in data. that's a pretty harsh thing to say to an arborist who ispaid to observe and use data . next slide please. let's see. most of the complaints that buff post had to do with the trunks of the trees and unfortunately you can see here the trunk of the tree is burie under papers . little bricks that fell on the tree well. leggett said you can't condemn a tree without looking at. it's like if you have a problem with your foot and you go to the doctor and he gives you a diagnosis and you take off you shoes, what kind of diagnosis is that ?this is comparable. we can't see the place where they're objecting to the tree. there's a bunch of terms like no ground layer, large diamond is not an indication, reverse taper, standing water is an issue. so basically the tree inspection wasfaulty . they didn't inspect all the trees and pretty much just sent up to flair and said we've got to get rid of all these tre

work than when he came in because he has got extra side visits, extra inspections and the folks at dpw and it's been an amazing team and everyone from dph, mta, police, every single agency that comes before this board well represents them and lastly, the planning department staff and their amazing work ask diligence pursue to the planning goals and the cases that come before you have been worked on for years and i'm trying in a couple weeks to understand it and to present it to you and i couldn't do that if it wasn't based on the excellent work of all our staff. cory teague, our amazing zoning administrator who i believe that i'm happy and proud he is the zoning administrator. i think we're all in really good hands with him. the executive assistant who has been behind the scenes there for hearings supporting me which was the zoning administrator and supporting our work on the board of appeals and we've been a lot through the years and i'm going to miss them and lastly, tina tam, you are an incredible hands with tina. tina, i had taken over from tina in 2007. she was doing the board of

the urban forest plan recommends within five years of the class publication the dpw should develop awide strategy to develop gaps in tree coverage for a long-term three tree management plan to formalize a maintenance strategy and plan for the succession or the succession of trees. however six years after the urban forest plan was adopted the department has still not yet developed recommended long-term street tree management plan and just completed the planting strategy after the completion of our audit fieldwork the distribution of the city's urban canopy and its benefits will remain unevenly distributed across different neighborhoods without a targetedincrease in street fleet treeplanting to focus on underserved neighborhoods guided by a formal planning strategy so this area we recommended the director of public works work with partner agencies including the urban forestry council , friends of the urban forest and planning department for the planning department department of the environment . to develop a citywide street tree management plan and the management plan increasing the st

work than when he came in because he has got extra side visits, extra inspections and the folks at dpw and it's been an amazing team and everyone from dph, mta, police, every single agency that comes before this board well represents them and lastly, the planning department staff and their amazing work ask diligence pursue to the planning goals and the cases that come before you have been worked on for years and i'm trying in a couple weeks to understand it and to present it to you and i couldn't do that if it wasn't based on the excellent work of all our staff. cory teague, our amazing zoning administrator who i believe that i'm happy and proud he is the zoning administrator. i think we're all in really good hands with him. the executive assistant who has been behind the scenes there for hearings supporting me which was the zoning administrator and supporting our work on the board of appeals and we've been a lot through the years and i'm going to miss them and lastly, tina tam, you are an incredible hands with tina. tina, i had taken over from tina in 2007. she was doing the board of

so that the fire department, the sfmta, dpw, the mayor's office on disability, we're all aware of what the issues are. that every jurisdiction has with a particular site. our strategy moving forward is to communicate with sites that need to undertake some modifications in a coordinated fashion. so, you know, in the old days what might happen to a parklet sponsor, the fire department comes one day and slaps a notice on your window and then maybe dpw comes a couple of days later and does the same thing. you might have communication from the m.t.a. and all those are to make your site safe and accessible. we know that is distressing to operators and it's not going to help all of us get the outcome that we want, which is a safe and accessible parklet site. so shortly, folks will start to receive notices and get a single packet. it will be developed, a cover sheet that explains what issue needs to be tackled. what are most urgent and which can wait until july. we're trying to equip all parklet sponsors, in particular, with all the information they'll need to make decisions. some parklet spon

so dpw said okay, this tree is down, we better get rid of all these trees.st legate noted by dpw this was premature and lacking in basic observations in data. that's a pretty harsh thing to say to an arborist who ispaid to observe and use data . next slide please. let's see. most of the complaints that buff post had to do with the trunks of the trees and unfortunately you can see here the trunk of the tree is burie under papers . little bricks that fell on the tree well. leggett said you can't condemn a tree without looking at. it's like if you have a problem with your foot and you go to the doctor and he gives you a diagnosis and you take off you shoes, what kind of diagnosis is that ?this is comparable. we can't see the place where they're objecting to the tree. there's a bunch of terms like no ground layer, large diamond is not an indication, reverse taper, standing water is an issue. so basically the tree inspection wasfaulty . they didn't inspect all the trees and pretty much just sent up to flair and said we've got to get rid of all these trees so that

the jaded durden from the dpw says there needs to be neighborhood by in, we work hard to keep the cities with the sweeping but we can't do it alone. we need residents, schools, business owners, nonprofits, everybody hands down to help clean our city. mayor london breed herself stepped in picking up trash, the mayor, saying it will be a matter of will to clean the tenderloin, and that will be a concerted effort. part of why we're here is to make sure we're going to change this. we're going to turn this around, but it's going to require a lot of work and a lot of patients, organizers say. well this is the first time they brought together city crews, private companies and private citizens to help clean up the tenderloin. it won't be the last. they say they're already beginning plans for the next big clean and they say they hope it's a plan that starts here in the tenderloin and spreads throughout the city in san francisco, christian captain ktvu. fox two news. san francisco police officer has died of covid 19, officials say. 47 year old officer jack nice, passed away over the weekend source

money, free meals, even a tractor to the former dpw director. also a watch that a contractor pled guilty to bribery charges andadmitted to giving as an attempt to influence officials action . also free tickets to live performance events. those can be gifts that are given from a restricted source to an individual. sometimes through a city department that can create similar ethics problems. i think it's also helpful to frame how gifts are currently regulated. there regulated under state law and san francisco law. the state law is pretty much confined to disclosure and a limit. these rules only apply if you are a 400 filing so if you are an official, a commissioner, department head or an employee wasbeen designated by the department as someone , and present roughly of the city workforce. if you are a form 700 filing state law requires you to disclose gifts and it's also limits you to only accepting $520 of total in gifts from a recordable sourceduring a calendar year. that's pretty much the extent of how state law regulates gifts. you can think of

the jaded durden from the dpw says there needs to be neighborhood by in, we work hard to keep the citiesone. we need residents, schools, business owners, nonprofits, everybody hands down to help clean our city. mayor london breed herself stepped in picking up trash, the mayor, saying it will be a matter of will to clean the tenderloin, and that will be a concerted effort part of why we're here is to make sure we're going to change this. we're going to turn this around, but it's going to require a lot of work and a lot of patients, organizers say. well this is the first time they brought together city crews, private companies and private citizens to help clean up the tenderloin. it won't be the last. they say they're already beginning plans for the next big clean and they say they hope it's a plan that starts here in the tenderloin and spreads throughout the city in san francisco, christian captain ktvu. fox two news. crews were busy on the peninsula today repairing a broken water main in belmont. it was at ralston avenue in twin pines lane. the water flooded the streets, but no other dam

dpw's own evaluation said most of the trees around the library should be fine with proper maintenanceing the basis all get down to maintenance of our city trees as an independent arborist has toldus. it's a shame if all these trees need to be removed if they were not better maintained . library management as referred to as agreed to keep these trees in place after the 2019 hearing. they saw the value to the community and library patrons and they wanted them maintained and as has always been spoken more trees are needed in san francisco over all plus there's such an unequal distribution with 13 percent of the city covered intrees san francisco has little treecover when compared to other major us cities . los angeles has a tree canopy of 21 percent . seattle and portland 30 percent but in san francisco not only are trees scarce they also are unequally distributed across the city and in the tenderloin where these trees are located trees cover two percent of the area approximately two percent compared to 13 percent and the western addition and parts of pacific heights and 27 percent in gl

i also just want to jump back to the dpw sub accounts that the park alliance and also on the record make it clear the parks alliance is never receiving any fees on those accounts. those accounts predated definitely myself being on the board but also almost every single employee that is currently at the parksalliance . there's also a lot of things to make more clear and i'm happy to do that if you're interested on the process of how those were reimbursed. so i think there was a comment earlier that mister new lou asked for a check and he got to check and that isnot the case . that this was ... it went through a process including 2 sign offs from the department. i think we will stop there because i thought maybe supervisor peskin had a question. >> can you just clarify one thing for me on the issue of the sub accounts just beyond public works and looking at the park and rec or any department. have those directives been requested and not produced? or other sub counselors? >> the city has all the information from our accounts with the department of public works . we have not been requested t

i also just want to jump back to the dpw sub accounts that the park alliance and also on the record make it clear the parks alliance is never receiving any fees on those accounts. those accounts predated definitely myself being on the board but also almost every single employee that is currently at the parksalliance . there's also a lot of things to make more clear and i'm happy to do that if you're interested on the process of how those were reimbursed. so i think there was a comment earlier that mister new lou asked for a check and he got to check and that isnot the case . that this was ... it went through a process including 2 sign offs from the department. i think we will stop there because i thought maybe supervisor peskin had a question. >> can you just clarify one thing for me on the issue of the sub accounts just beyond public works and looking at the park and rec or any department. have those directives been requested and not produced? or other sub counselors? >> the city has all the information from our accounts with the department of public works . we have not been requested t

carla and the dpw team, very appreciative of all the response and rachel gordon and katie fung so myrd very supportive in every single way. i wouldn't have been able to pull this off without them. for those who don't know the community benefit districts are the public-private partnerships the bridge between the city and the property owners and merchants of the wharf. thank you very much we appreciate it. we are open, come down, eat some clam chowder and buy some crab this winter and we appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> thank you, randall. i think everyone heard just how collaborative this project was. we heard from all of our sister agencies, we heard from the community and i think that's why the project was so successful. we were able to work throughout the covid pandemic to deliver the project almost two years to the day. we're two days after the two-year mark here today. with that, we are going to have a ribbon cutting so if we can get our ribbon ready and our giant scissors, please come up and join us. five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] >> all right. >

and mar ordinance de-appropriating $71,365 previously appropriated to the department of public works (dpw) and $69,209 previously appropriated to the city planning department (cpc), and re-appropriating $140,574 to the department of public works for a safety needs assessment at buena vista horace mann k-8 community school in fiscal year >> the board excuse me from voting because i live 500 feet within the property and request to be excused. >> supervisor: thank you. motion made by supervisor peskin to excuse supervisor mandell. . madame clerk. >> clerk: on the motion to excuse supervisor mandelman from item 9. supervisor mar. aye. supervisor melgar, aye. supervisor preston, aye. supervisor ronin, aye. supervisor safai, aye. supervisor stefani, aye. supervisor walton. aye. supervisor chan, aye. supervisor haney, aye. there are 10 ayes. >> supervisor: supervisor mandelman is excused from item number 9. supervisor ronin. >> we're voting to re-appropriate to perform a third-party inspection of the horace mann facility and i'm sorry i wasn't hear for the first reading. thank you to supervisor

i think i remember folks from dpw -- if we are quarterbacking this process, how are we making contact with these folks -- and note my sports metaphor. it is very rare and won't happen often. i'm glad that was caught on camera. >> so we are sending out written communications to shared spaces owners about all issues that these issues that are going to require a correction now or july 1st. all three agencies are going out together to do joint site visits to as many shared spaces as we can. the best way to talk through the problems is for the people who have the safety for a live conversations on the street with the shared spaces owner to operate in real life and motivated to have the permit extend. and we're making sure written communication goes out as well. >> thank you so much. >> great. directors, are there any further questions or comments for the director? seeing none, i will open up to public comment. this is an opportunity for members of the public to comment on the director's report and any of the questions or answers provided back to directors. if you are on the line and would

so dpw said okay, this tree is down, we better get rid of all these trees. so arborist legate noted by dpw this was premature and lacking in basic observations in data. that's a pretty harsh thing to say to an arborist who ispaid to observe and use data . next slide please. let's see. most of the complaints that buff post had to do with the trunks of the trees and unfortunately you can see here the trunk of the tree is burie under papers . little bricks that fell on the tree well. leggett said you can't condemn a tree without looking at. it's like if you have a problem with your foot and you go to the doctor and he gives you a diagnosis and you take off you shoes, what kind of diagnosis is that ?this is comparable. we can't see the place where they're objecting to the tree. there's a bunch of terms like no ground layer, large diamond is not an indication, reverse taper, standing water is an issue. so basically the tree inspection wasfaulty . they didn't inspect all the trees and pretty much just sent up to flair and said we've got to get rid of all these tre

money, free meals, even a tractor to the former dpw director. also a watch that a contractor pled guilty to bribery charges andadmitted to giving as an attempt to influence officials action . also free tickets to live performance events. those can be gifts that are given from a restricted source to an individual. sometimes through a city department that can create similar ethics problems. i think it's also helpful to frame how gifts are currently regulated. there regulated under state law and san francisco law. the state law is pretty much confined to disclosure and a limit. these rules only apply if you are a 400 filing so if you are an official, a commissioner, department head or an employee wasbeen designated by the department as someone , and present roughly of the city workforce. if you are a form 700 filing state law requires you to disclose gifts and it's also limits you to only accepting $520 of total in gifts from a recordable sourceduring a calendar year. that's pretty much the extent of how state law regulates gifts. you can think of