new developments are contributing toward a green ear city. secondly it will ensure billboard owners are not destroying existing trees to advertise. homeowners really no one is allowed to destroy a healthy tree in order to protect or to improve a view. but what we're seeing at times is that billboard companies will quote unquote prune a tree next to a billboard and destroy it in the process in order to have better visibility for their tree. >> i would like to remind everyone this is a hearing it's important we listen to each other please turn off all your cell phones we can't allow any side conversations >> this legislation will require billboard companies to not destroy trees secondly it will require when any street tree maintenance is performed within 150 feet of a billboard the owner will have to obtain a permit for maintenance this will give dpw the ability to track the work for appropriate arborist and hold a billboard company accountable if they destroy a tree. finally it will strengthen the requirements for street tree protection to dpw

generate funds that can be used for many projects that expand housing and eare newable resources and also ways to green our city and actually take had burden off property owners in other ways if they had to pay for managing trees and other parts of the forest close to thrair property. i look forward to your support and consideration as this moves through the public process and this is just the staurt so my office will reach out to many of the stack holders across san francisco to talk about this proposed tax. thank you >> thank you supervisor avalos. president breed uare next jrshz colleagues today supervisor cohen and i have a in amemoriam for jiarichardtion born may 18, 1955 and moved to california in 1960. he attended high school at sake railroad heart and part sthof west coast basket ball champ. jiawent to dioblow valley and transferred to cal stateese bay. he found [inaudible] hieroglyphics perturnty with [inaudible] later became known as jiaand friends. he has given back to the community working at african american culture complex where i sunch as the director and help to create programs that kept people

those are customers including the city their highlighted in the green there and again, this is a testament to the water use efficiency this is chuchd thought our water ear in terms of the storage hetch hetchy as of yesterday was 92 percent full at the same time the trade off has dropped to an extremely low level i'll talk about that but the jest is the system is working the way it is intended to we scarce water for the sake of storing water in the hetch hetchy that's a really good

those are customers including the city their highlighted in the green there and again, this is a testament to the water use efficiency this is chuchd thought our water ear in terms of the storage hetch hetchy as of yesterday was 92 percent full at the same time the trade off has dropped to an extremely low level i'll talk about that but the jest is the system is working the way it is intended to we scarce water for the sake of storing water in the hetch hetchy that's a really good thing and chris tall springs it looks absolutely full that's because we operate water in the bay area just in case there is an interruption in the hetch hetchy so people driving on the integrate think the drought is over but the water bank is way way down in captivity as though an extend drought. >> it did that come up. >> i think i made reprehensive to drive home that point yes, it looks at full but as opposed to a metrology reason. >> doesn't we have to pit water in the water bank. >> i'll show you a couple of slides what future looks like and our plan to put water in the water bank it comes up this year as we operate but every year we draw on it it gets lower and lower only