San Francisco Public Works Annual Report - Fiscal Year 2017-18 | Page 32

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Public Works celebrated the rollout of
StreetTreeSF, a voter-backed initiative that
places the maintenance of all street trees under
City care.
Thanks to the overwhelming support of San
Francisco voters, the City now has sustainable
funding – a $19 million set-aside from the City’s
General Fund that will allow Public Works to
care for the City’s nearly 125,000 street trees
and fix tree-related sidewalk damage. The
change went into effect July 1.
The stable funding under StreetTreeSF provides
Public Works – for the first time – the ability
to put San Francisco’s street trees on a regular
pruning cycle, based on their species and
condition. This is a real game changer that will
allow our urban forest to thrive.