Rafael Mandelman

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24,303 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 1 Sep

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But can you talk a little bit about why you and she believe that?

Thank you for answering asking that question.

I'd be glad to answer that.

With a hundred twenty five thousand street trees that have never been managed as a population before.

Or some of them at all.

There's a lot of backlog of the you know, in a forest the trees don't need to be pruned.

They all grow up because there's trees on every side, so they grow towards the sun.

They don't have branches that go like this.

In a city, they're single trees and they grow like this.

So they need to be headed back.

They could have crossing limbs.

They could have branches growing into a building or into a muni line.

And all these things that are very complicated with all of our very complicated infrastructure around them.

The first pass around all the trees is going to identify a lot of trees with irreparable defects because they hadn't been maintained.

We haven't done any mitigating measures for so many years.

They may have been added to a list of tree removals.

Then just the amount of work that has to go through the

First pass of tree pruning slows down the process.

By the end of this calendar year, we expect to complete the first round of street tree pruning through Street Tree SF, which we're very proud of.

I also want to say that we've added an assistant superintendent, Charlie Murphy, who is at the helm of the inspection unit and the arborist unit.

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