celebrate arbor day and celebrate our magnificent urban forest with mayor lee, supervisor avalos, dpw and rec & park. it is no surprise that trees are essential to creating truly sustainable communities. there are a whole host of benefits that come from having a robust urban forest. everything from air quality, climate change, they are pretty to look at. the department of the environment is committed to working with our partners to help improve the size and health of our urban forest. we are providing staff support to the urban forestry council that helped put together a guide for san franciscans and that one to prune their trees. this is the tree pruning guide available at the department of environment move. it is very helpful for folks that are taking care of their own trees. i also want to mention the department of the environment also created a local carbon funds. the increase carbon emissions and investor back in local projects that help offset the carbon emissions. in district 11, we are doing a tree-planting activity. i wanted to thank all of you. i wanted to thank to of my staff of ab

i want to thank bob hayden, who has been essential as well as many of the conditions today, dpw, rec and park, the airport, all of those who have seized this opportunity, so i wanted to thank the assemblywoman as well as the leadership to see that we become the electric vehicle capital in the u.s. >> that concludes our event for today. we're going to be available for questions, so thank you for coming. >> hello. you're watching the show that explores san francisco's love affair with food. there are at least 18 farmers markets in san francisco alone, providing fresh and affordable to year-round. this is a great resource that does not break the bank. to show just how easy it can be to do just that, we have come up with something called the farmers' market challenge. we find someone who loves to cook, give them $20, and challenge them to create a delicious meal from ingredients found right here in the farmer's market. who did we find for today's challenge? >> today with regard to made a pot greater thanchapino. >> you only have $20 to spend. >> i know peter it is going to be tough, but i th

i want to thank bob hayden, who has been essential as well as many of the conditions today, dpw, rec and park, the airport, all of those who have seized this opportunity, so i wanted to thank the assemblywoman as well as the leadership to see that we become the electric vehicle capital in the u.s. >> that concludes our event for today. we're going to be available for questions, so thank you for coming. supervisor wiener: welcome, everyone. i will call this meeting to order. this is the san francisco transportation finance committee. i'm the chairman and to my left is commissioner carmen chu, to my right is vice chair erik mar, and i expect the others will be here shortly. why don't we call item no. 2? >> approved of the march 13, 2012 meeting. >> is there any public comment on item number two? can we take that without objection? we will defer item #3 until the appropriate person is here. could you call item no. 4? >> recommend authorizing the executive director to execute a memorandum of agreement with the san francisco municipal transportation agency and planning department in the amoun

i want to thank bob hayden, who has been essential as well as many of the conditions today, dpw, rec and park, the airport, all of those who have seized this opportunity, so i wanted to thank the assemblywoman as well as the leadership to see that we become the electric vehicle capital in the u.s. >> that concludes our event for today. we're going to be available for questions, so thank you for coming. there is really, only one boy... one girl... one tree... one forest... one deep, dancing ocean... one mountain calling... one handful of sand through our fingers... one endless sky overhead... and one simple way to care for it all. please visit earthshare.org and learn how the world's leading environmental groups are working together under one name. earth share. one environment...

and infrastructure as well. dpw, street cleaning, street repair, capital investments, our rec and park. it is all funded by the general fund -- well, mostly. where do we get our money from? generally, from everybody here, from the residence. we get most of our money from our taxes, so property taxes, business taxes from the business community, payroll taxes from the business community, hotel taxes. visitors to the city help us maintain the city by contributing to hotel taxes. so the bulk of the revenue comes from tax as we all pay. we also get a lot of money from the federal government and state government. they support, in a very large part, our health and human services agency and our department of public health, but they also support our public safety and other components. finally, we also get revenue from you all in another form, when you make a payment for a service or a payment for a class or if you go to pay a permit or planning fee because you have renovations on your home. that money also comes back to the city. those are that the components of where we get our money. the probl

dpw project. commissioner farrell: so right now there are no plans to take these parking spots away as part of the plan? i have been coordinating and spending time with rec and park about the harbor renovation and how that is affecting surrounding neighborhoods. especially the people that use the facility, the parking spots around their impact our neighborhoods in a big way. i just want to make sure there is coordination going on here and there is no separate needed to take these with i was not aware of. >> there has not been any decision. i will bring your comments back to public-works that and recreation and park department's staff. commissioner avalos: when the byrne also station was shut down, what was the original plan for that? now we are looking at fitting it into our long-term plan of our muni system. just background information. >> i actually do not know if -- i assume it was intended to be reenergize when it was damaged in 2005. i can find out more details -- commissioner avalos: basically, it was a plan to restore the substation and make it work with the system so that it would be part of that extension. i know this allocation is not emblemati