. >> thank you commissioners and president hondaand appellants . i think we're getting there in terms of what was done and said at the hearing back in 2018. it's definitely a lot of information to recover. out of respect for all the appellants it might require all 35 minutes whatever it takes. i'm going to go ahead and share my screen. so we're going to get into the details we've been talking about but i want to step back for a moment for those commissioners that may not hav used this live a couple of years ago . it's just going to be a couple of minutes about ficus trees but this is a ficus tree on th left in this image . ficus trees were not prone to enhance or maintain sound structure decades and years ago. we've seen a lot of ficus failures in the last 10 years. so to address these ficus failures, we wanted to understand should there be a lessening and how strict and tight we are in our decision-making process when we approve a tree for removal we've always had high standards not to remove trees that are relatively healthy so you'll hear us tal

. >> thank you commissioners and president hondaand appellants .e're getting there in terms of what was done and said at the hearing back in 2018. it's definitely a lot of information to recover. out of respect for all the appellants it might require all 35 minutes whatever it takes. i'm going to go ahead and share my screen. so we're going to get into the details we've been talking about but i want to step back for a moment for those commissioners that may not hav used this live a couple of years ago . it's just going to be a couple of minutes about ficus trees but this is a ficus tree on th left in this image . ficus trees were not prone to enhance or maintain sound structure decades and years ago. we've seen a lot of ficus failures in the last 10 years. so to address these ficus failures, we wanted to understand should there be a lessening and how strict and tight we are in our decision-making process when we approve a tree for removal we've always had high standards not to remove trees that are relatively healthy so you'll hear us talk about th

. >> thank you commissioners and president hondaand appellants . i think we're getting there in terms of what was done and said at the hearing back in 2018. it's definitely a lot of information to recover. out of respect for all the appellants it might require all 35 minutes whatever it takes. i'm going to go ahead and share my screen. so we're going to get into the details we've been talking about but i want to step back for a moment for those commissioners that may not hav used this live a couple of years ago . it's just going to be a couple of minutes about ficus trees but this is a ficus tree on th left in this image . ficus trees were not prone to enhance or maintain sound structure decades and years ago. we've seen a lot of ficus failures in the last 10 years. so to address these ficus failures, we wanted to understand should there be a lessening and how strict and tight we are in our decision-making process when we approve a tree for removal we've always had high standards not to remove trees that are relatively healthy so you'll hear us tal