. >> i think next up, we're going to hear from carla short and nick crawford from the bureau of urban forestry and dpw. >> good afternoon and thank you, supervisor. while we're getting our presentation set up, i would like to put in a plug for incentive to protecting trees on private property. it's not under the jurisdiction of public works, but we were all at the board late the other night and i think if we have more incentives for developers and other folks to protect sick, relevant key important trees on their property, that might make projects like the project that was discussed the other day more palatable to people and i think that developer should get credit which is protecting 11 important trees and we should look at ways to incentivize that which the urban council will do and send your way. >> there's an inherent intention for pushing more and more density which pushes into the rear yard and takes away entire sites. >> so figuring out what could that balance be. we can't protect everything and i think the transit locations is essential, but if there are really individual tree

and i know nick will talk about funding and community partners. >> hello. thank you, nicholas crawford, bureau of urban forestry. so we are giving you the cost of planting and establishing a tree, about $500 to purchase the tree and the labor to put it in the ground with staking. and then for the next three years, that $500 a year to establish that costing $1500. if you break that down into per visit, if you're making 52 visits in a year, it comes out to $10 per visit and we're cog g a lot of that. the hesitation on our part, we don't want to plant a tree if we don't have a program in place to water it. and currently our watering staff is maxed out as many trees as we can water as they take trees off the list as there's room to add more trees. as we talked about, we have a goal from the urban forest plan to plant 50,000 new trees and you can imagine what that will cost if we have to plant and water those. so here is a graphic of what we're doing. internally, we have our staff watering 1,182 trees per week. and annually, it's about 60,000 visits and then a contractor who is doing anothe