eileen volk and i am a sunset park resident and they're a lot of people that are here today in solidarity with the vanness communities supporting their appeal. the city's approach towards street trees have become a panic. on the other hand the city will be proposing a tech totax preserve street tees in the november ballot do and that it will be to maintain a healthy street trees including those on vanness. thank you he created >>thank you my name is al manas. i ask that you respectfully reject this tree permit. take into this consideration that this project has grown from tens of millions of dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars. this project is an insufficient use of hundreds of millions of dollars of tax dollars for a modest improvement. because the city has a budget deficit the project sponsor is issuing hundreds of millions of dollars of additional new bond debt in order to pay for a like this. projectalthough we already pay for additional sales tax for this project the city is preparing a ballot measure toadd a new sales tax and why not try the express option first we could impl