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Board advances charter amendment to shift street-tree maintenance to city, sets baseline funding
Summary
After months of negotiations, supervisors advanced a charter amendment to return responsibility for street trees, sidewalks and related liability to the city and to establish dedicated funding; the board continued final drafting and set a committee hearing for July 28.
Supervisors on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors moved forward July 26 with a charter amendment that would return responsibility for street-tree maintenance, sidewalk repairs tied to trees, and related liability to the city and establish a dedicated baseline fund for the work.
The measure, led by Supervisor Scott Wiener and co-sponsored by Supervisor Eric Mar and others, would amend the San Francisco municipal charter to have the city assume maintenance and create a special fund. Wiener told colleagues “trees matter,” and described a baseline funding level of $19,000,000 that staff and advocates developed with the Department of Public Works and the…
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