SF Board of Supervisors City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee Meeting

Agenda [pdf]

1. Accept and Expend Grant – 17th and Folsom Street Park Project – $2,700,000

2. Cooperative Agreement – San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District

3. Hearing – Street Tree Program

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