Rafael Mandelman

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San Francisco Board of Supervisors · BOS Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting - Sep 01, 2026 · 1 Sep 2026 meeting

We're scaling up with our

contracts.

We're working with our uh colleagues in public works to s to um get a uh increase the capacity for implementing contracts and Crop E funds this program.

We do have some vacancies and some of those things are out of side our control but we're making wins despite our vacancies in increasing our capacity.

We're also grouping our tree

tree pruning in a more logistically streamlined way, which is going to build in operational efficiencies.

And we hope to make the next pass of street tree pruning closer to a five year range.

And we are are pretty confident about all the work that's going into it will lead to that result.

And you have additional resources for new planting that you have not had over the last few years.

For planting, we have been we have sought out state and federal funds for um grants.

Um we have a twelve million dollar inflation reduction act grant for tree planting.

We just qualified an RFP to uh through a competitive process to a service provider who is starting to plan uh

a couple thousand of those trees.

There's gonna be thirty five hundred trees total.

Public Works already planted five hundred.

So we are aggressively seeking additional outside resources to increase our tree planting goals to get closer to the goals that are set by the climate action plan.

And in fact we have a new workforce development grant that um has th the it's in in the process of being signed today.

That is going to be focused on filling 2,000 vacant tree planting sites.

I know that there has been a big demand for this backlog of vacant tree planting sites to be filled.

It's really hard to do it one at a time, so we put in a lot of work and planning to thoughtfully put uh work with economies of scales to plant 2,000 over the next two years.

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