sidewalk again the speeds we've not been planting in the city since the late 90s due to the stem flurdz at&t's and the dame to the sidewalk we are not seeking the permit with your just trying to be consistent how we handle all cases so the trees would pruned but a certain amount of risk with the species you'll set auditors up for a lot of pruning there's other concerned but that's you know my feedback on the matter. >> a question mr. buck is if there's a significant reduction of canopy does that reduce the potential stem failure. >> yes reducing the overall size and weight of the canopy reduce the likelihood of failure why not just prune them that's one option to address the potential stem failures you're not changing anything else structurally with the trees that's the challenge added public works we saesdz a lot of fikdz trees and felt they were pretty good we've walked away and had them fail there's a potential of liability especially, if increase an injury or accident and the person harmed property wise or personal injury will hire an arborist to evaluate the if i could and see if thos

evaluated the two ficus trees both trees had poor structure at the time of the hearing due to an going health of the ficus and the limb flurdz we were finalizing the guidelines guidelines which were going to be issued so the same day of the hearing on november 24th-hour public works issued titled tree removal. ficus the orders outlines the concerned about the species pattern of flurdz and have large mature ficus adjacent to 580 hayes street with the stems with the bark are prone to experiencing large limb failures they have poor structure with limbs that included the barbara total of 6 photos i'll put on the overhead this image is subject tree number one and what i wanted to point out on this image on the rhetoric the main litter to the right has 3 items with points of told them and two main stems with the attachment was constituent with the bark the stems in the rear has a indicator and two stems attached below that plant i believe that's a poor attachment and this is close up image of that union as you can see there's a indicator with decay within that wound and two pogsdz of the stem extend this is the rear tree number on