and then, everything will be okay. maybe janine, since you're both going to, i believe. exactly. are we good to begin? all right. just the ten after. good good. came out like that. like thank you. good afternoon. and welcome to the meeting of the arts commission on monday, march 4th, 2024. i'm now calling the meeting to order. um commissioner. secretary dhaliwal

to call the roll. uh, president collins is absent. vice president shiota present. commissioner beltran is on her way. commissioner benavides is absent. commissioner brunzell here. commissioner carney here. commissioner ferris here. commissioner hakimi is on our way. commissioner liu is absent. commissioner mccoy present. commissioner mosley present. commissioner rothschild here. commissioner schnur here. commissioner shelby present. commissioner. streicher. present ex-officio. sue diamond is absent. we have quorum for today's meeting. also for the record, director of cultural affairs ralph remington. uh, deputy director of programs alex leifheit are in attendance. thank you. um, are there any agenda changes. okay. seeing none. uh, now for some public

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forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests. we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. as a department dedicated to promoting a diverse and equitable arts and culture environment in san francisco, we are committed to supporting the traditional and contemporary evolution of the american indian community. i'm now calling on item number two. um, i'm going to remind commissioners to say your name after you respond to a motion. um, i'm going to ask for a motion to approve february 5th, 2020 four minutes. um, do i have a motion? so moved, commissioner streicher, second commissioner shelby, thank you so much. uh do i have public

comment on item two? approval. for those joining in person, please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we are currently on item two. as a reminder, your time will start when you begin speaking, you will see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes. for those calling in with accommodation requests, please raise your hand by pressing asterisk three. i'm requesting comments from those who are in person. is there anyone who would like to make a public comment on the current agenda items. i see no hand raise for public remote comment. i see no in person requests for public comments. public comment is now closed. thank you so much . um, is there any commissioner discussion or comments on item number two? great seeing none. um, we have a motion to approve the february fifth, 2020 four minutes and a second. um i would

like to get a final motion. all those in favor say aye. yay! i all opposed say nay. thank you. the motion passes unanimously. um, i'm now going to call item number three, which is general public comment. is there any public comment on item three? general public comment. for those joining in person, please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we are currently on item three. as a reminder, your time will start when you begin speaking, you will see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes. for those calling in with accommodation requests, please raise your hand by pressing asterisk three. i am requesting comments from those who are in person. is there anyone who would like to make a public comment on the current agenda items. i see no hand raised for public remote comment

. i see no in-person request for public comments. public comment is now closed. thank you so much . um, i am now calling item four, which is the director's report and giving the floor over to director of cultural affairs ralph remington. thank you, vice president shiota. uh, good afternoon, commissioners. um, i hope you're all doing well. uh, it's hard to believe that a new month is already upon us. uh, february was a whirlwind, uh, month, uh, full of lunar new year and black history month. so and i hope you had a chance to go out and experience some of the wonderful and uniquely, uh, san francisco cultural events that took place throughout the month. uh on screen, as you can see, we are sharing a photo of mayor breed with all of the black and asian, uh, department heads commission and city leaders that we took last month. um march is women's history month, and i'd like to take a moment to share a preview of our recent social media that features the work of several

phenomenal artists that we have worked with recently, including the works of yumi ho and her installation at chinatown. rose pak station. uh, many fine, uh, and her art on market street poster series poster featuring artist ruth asawa and avatars, the artist who's beautiful and vibrant murals are currently on view along evans avenue at sfpuc, uh, southeast treatment facility. uh i also wanted to share a sneak preview of an upcoming post that we have planned for international women's day on march 8th that will honor doctor maya angelou and offer a preview of lava thomas's sculpture that will be unveiled later this fall. uh, before before i begin my report, i'd also like to take a moment to share an update that staff have been working to find alternative meeting locations for all regularly scheduled. committee meetings, which include the civic design review, community investment executive

and visual arts committees. uh, starting later this month, we will be moving committee meeting locations from room 125 and the war memorial veterans building to hearing rooms in city hall. uh staff are working to match existing dates and times as closely as possible, but some adjustments to the current committee meeting schedule may be required. uh program staff will be in touch. soon with details, so please be on the lookout for that. uh, please reach out to the commission. secretary dhaliwal. uh, should you have any questions about those those things? uh, to start off this month's report, i'd like to share a few highlights from some recent events this past month. on february 17th, i attended the sf symphony's lunar new year of the dragon concert, which is one of the many programs the arts commission sponsors as part of our partnership with with sf symphony. on february 22nd, i had the opportunity to join president collins and lewis watts, coauthor of harlem of the

west and professor emeritus and uc santa cruz art department, in a virtual black history month uh panel that was celebrated, i'm sorry, hosted by the department of human resources, where discussed, uh, where we discussed past, present and future of black artists in san francisco. so, uh, i'd also like to thank lauren roe for helping to put all that together with us. uh, our air analyst, lauren roe. so thank you for that. uh, on february 24th, i attended the chinese lunar new year parade to usher in the year of the dragon. on february 27th. i attended the third annual recreation and parks department black heritage celebration luncheon. uh, on february 28th, i had a chance to stop by the mission cultural center for latino arts to help kick off the first of our cultural services allocation planning committee, a community open houses, and also on february 28th, i attended the 10th annual san francisco black

history month closing ceremony at city hall, hosted by state comptroller malia cohen, mayor london breed supervisor shamann walton and district attorney brooke jenkins. um, and as you all know, i started the, uh, black history month off with the opening. celebration where i gave the keynote address. uh, so some community investments updates. uh ccep update as mentioned briefly earlier in my report this last week, the community investments team hosted five community open house sessions, uh, for in person and one virtual session. the in-person open. houses were held in different communities around san francisco to ensure that we are capturing voices that are representative of our city's diverse constituents. i'd like to thank our partner organization, city college san francisco chinatown, north beach center, mission cultural center, uh, southeast community center, and youth art exchange for helping us host these sessions.

a big shout out to our amazing cultural investment, uh, community investments team and including denise pate, uh, director of community investments, and debbie ng, senior program officer, along with our consulting ams for organizing and facilitating our open houses. if you have not done so already, please be sure to take and help spread help us spread the word about our brief four question survey that is open through march 11th and is available in english, spanish, filipino and chinese. uh, some gallery updates. uh, reminder that covid section eight harry dodge and alicia mccarthy is currently on view at the sfac main gallery, uh, through april 27th. also i just wanted to note that our exhibition on the ground floor of city hall, a public voice publica, is a temporary, uh, down through the, uh, april 3rd, 2024 uh, banners located in the north light court

are still up. um, the exhibition will be extended through sept tember 27th, 2024. here's some public art updates. a reminder that we have three open public art opportunities still available for artists to apply for. uh, treasure island water resource recovery facility applications for this rfq are due march 11th. uh treasure island uh city side park applications for this rfp are due march 15th, and mission bay school public art project. uh, that's applications for this rfq are due march 18th. uh, some hrc updates. notes. we are thrilled, uh, to announce and welcome the newest staff member to our team, jen atwood. uh, who recently joined the community investments team. a few weeks ago as our new program officer. in this role, jen will manage our art vendor program. prior to joining the arts commission, jen was a

program officer for the massachusetts cultural council, a state arts agency, and was a state affiliate for the national . endowment for the humanities with mass humanities. uh, jen has a bachelor of arts in drama from san francisco state university and a master of arts in, uh, management from carnegie mellon university. we welcome jen. and jen is, um, if you remember, uh, and tricky was promoted and that vacancy was left open and this is, uh, their, uh, their new replacement . so, uh, welcome, jen. uh other announcements, um, a reminder for commissioners, please remember to complete your annual form 700. our favor fit form 700. filing and ethics and sunshine ordinance training declaration, which are due next month on april 2nd. we just love that. please reach out to commissioner secretary dhaliwal, should you have any questions or

need any assistance. uh, also, uh, general reminder that tomorrow, march 5th, is voting day. um, the big ones coming in november. but this is big two. they're all big, but just get ready. just get yourselves educated. and, uh, all the folks watching, please vote. uh please be sure to get to the polls, submit your ballots. if you have not had a chance to do so already so you can get one of the new i voted stickers, which i sat on that panel for the selection for that. so it's, uh, it's actually a great. choice, i think. and congratulations to the artists, hollis kallas for that. um yeah. it's over 650 designs were submitted with over 3000 votes out of nearly 10,000 local artists. uh, hollis kallas was announced as the contest winner. um, and her design incorporates several classic san francisco motifs, including the golden gate bridge, uh sutro tower, uh california poppies, a

sea lion, and the city's iconic wild parrot. so, so that is, uh, that's pretty cool. so we congratulate hollis and the city with getting that and with that, that concludes the director's report for march 4th, uh, full commission meeting. i'd be happy to take any questions you may have. is it great? any commissioner comments or questions? all right. seeing none. uh, is there any public comment on item four? um, the director report for those joining in person, please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment comment information card. we are currently on item four. as a reminder, your time will start when you begin speaking, you will see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes. for those calling in with accommodation requests, please raise your hand by pressing asterisk three. i'm requesting comments from those who are in person. is there

anyone who would like to make a public comment on the current agenda item? i see no hand raised for public remote comment. i see no in-person request for public comments. public comment is now closed. thank you so much. i'm now calling for item five, which is committee reports and committee matters. um, i'm going to first call item five, sub item one, which is the civic design committee report. and uh, and the mic to the committee chair, commissioner kimberly striker, to present. thank you. um, february. the committee saw a number of projects ranging in scale from a new conceptual design for terminal three at sfo to a plan for sidewalk plaques in north beach. we looked at a new operation structure and streetscape plan at the puc southeast plant, which we passed at phase one. we approved the southeast health care buildings renovation with a single small project review. we also approved

the san francisco a little italy honor walk sidewalk plaque plan in a single phase review. i'd like to call your attention to the two last projects. the first is chinatown public health center renovation, which we passed at phase three. it included a small entry garden, new signage, redesign of the part of the facade and windows, and entry signage in particular, there was comment on the presence and placement of the bronze dragon sculpture that was a prominent feature of the original design and one of the arts commission's earliest approved art projects. vigorous engagement of the architect from the city's bureau of architecture, cd-r commissioners , visual arts commissioners, staff, as well as local community led to a decision to remove the dragon new artwork will be will be created at the corner of the buildings entrance. the project was approved at phase three. last,

i'd like to point out that good design comes in small scales and different types of projects, including this small electrical station proposed adjacent to a small pump station for the puc. the project is perfect in scale and simplicity. in form and materials. it form relates to its function as an electrical building adjacent to an existing pump station, and there is humor . if you can see the glass block that spells out h2o on the existing um pump station building, we'll see what the electrical building comes up with. sockets, electrical sockets, electric sockets, electrical sockets. okay, wasn't clear to me. there we go. so so bravo to the bureau of architecture and architects for having some projects so that concludes my report. unless there's comment from any of my colleagues. um. seeing no

questions or comments, um, is there any public discussion, uh, or public comment on item 5.1 for those joining in person, please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we are currently on item 5.1. as a reminder, your time will start when you begin speaking. you will see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes. for those calling in with accommodation requests, please raise your hand by pressing asterisk three. i'm requesting comments from those who are in person. is there anyone who would like to make a public comment on the current agenda item? i see no hand raised for public remote comment . i see no in-person request for public comment. public comment is now closed. thank you so much. i'm calling item five, sub item two, which is the community investments committee report. and as chair i will present the february 20th, 2024 community investments committee report.

um, our first item that we went over in committee was the fiscal year 24 special project grants. um, the community investments committee recommended the approval of three project grants totaling 87,500, funded by the board of supervisor webex, which are included in the consent calendar today. uh, the second was the cultural center. grants and amendments, and the community investments committee recommended the approval of 200,000. in capital planning grants to somarts cultural center. um somarts is, uh, needing relocation planning, and it's to be utilized for the evaluation of different site opportunities relative to somarts operational and program needs. um there was a staff report and director of community investments, denise pate reported on the arts exchange held on february 1st, 2024, and coast, hosted by sfac and

gerbode foundation. this event provided opportunity for arts funders to gather, to share ideas and network. 26 attendees representing 14 funding agencies were present. director pate also introduced the team's new program. officer jen atwood, who will manage the san francisco's artist grant category. art vendor market, and art vendor advisory committee. me jen comes from the mass humanities program in northampton, massachusetts and starts us. she started on february 20th. director pate noted that the open program associate position received 370 applications in reviews are in progress, and the team hopes to have a program associates start in late march, and the cultural services allocation plan. the csab community engagement process is moving forward. several open houses with community partners were held

this month, as mentioned by director remington and the ccep will guide the next five years of funding for the arts impact endowment. and that ends my report. is there any community discussion or comments. thank you. seeing none, is there any public comment on item 5.2? for those showing in in person, please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we are currently on item 5.2. as a reminder, your time will start when you begin speaking, you will see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes. for those calling in with accommodation requests, please raise your hand by pressing asterisk three. i'm requesting comments from those who are in person. is there anyone who would like to make a public comment on the current agenda item? um. do i go ahead? hi thank you for having me. sorry, i'm new. to having doing this in person. my name is

shelley asgari. i am an artist and educator and living in the bay area, working in the bay area as both for about 20 years. um in regards to the item about soma arts, um, i wanted to suggest or provide a suggestion of yerba buena center for the arts being a location to consider. um, as. yeah as a potential future location for summer arts. um, and i can elaborate a little bit on that at the moment. yerba buena center for the arts has been shut for about three weeks. i i am one of the eight artists. well, one of the 30 artists in the exhibition and one of the eight who had a peaceful event. uh, art protest event in their, uh, and we've been censored and further silenced and there are a lot of complicated relationships that are, um. yeah worth looking into. so being that it's been a

public location, a space for public art, for the city, it's been completely shut down. we've had no messaging on it about it at all. we've been further silenced and censored regarding our works. and i just wanted to offer that up as something to consider. as as a space that could potentially support some arts or be moved over as a space to nurture public activation and freedom of expression and artistic expression. thank you. thank you. are there any additional public comments? yeah um, you have three minutes to state your public comment and i will start the time once you begin speaking. okay. great hi, i'm paz g. i'm an artist. um i would like to second what colette asghari just spoke to about about, um, why ybca being

a potential space for, for other, um, art organizations to partner with, with um, i'm one of the artists that was that participated in a love letter to gaza. that's the name of our protest. um and we experienced censorship from the museum when we chose to speak on the genocide happening in palestine. uh, and i. truly believe that ybca can be this space for the people right now. it's being run by a ceo who who has appointed a board full of very close friends and colleagues of her husband. and i think it. this is an opportunity, like talking about somarts finding a new space. it's an opportunity for the museum to be, um, you used as a space for san francisco people and community, um, to kind of reflect our values right now. it's certainly not that. and

we're really concerned about about the leadership of this space. so yeah, i just want to second with sholeh, asgari said. and and, you know, really try to utilize ybca as, as what it's been it's been this place that, you know, represents the community, represents our politics, has taken a stance, um, publicly before. right. you know, they were like black lives matter movement. they were there , um, women, life, freedom as well. and they're currently not taking a stance on the genocide. and palestine when, um, many of their artists are asking them to. so we're being silenced. and i think this would be a great opportunity, uh, for sfac to help push, uh, this space to partner with, you know, places like somarts that do actually take artists into consideration and not silence us. thank you.

any additional comments? yes uh, again, you have three minutes, and i will start your time. once you begin speaking. okay. thank you. hi my name is jd. i'm representing malayan movement. uh, we're a filipino human rights organization and we're part of a campaign that basically involves filipinos standing with palestine. and we did want to echo the concerns of sholeh and paz, that they were bringing up, um, this is just downright censorship. what is happening at ybca? it's unconstitutional. and i think it's just yeah, it's important to have of some kind of agenda or item, like addressing what is happening there, because i don't think it's fair for anyone to be silenced, especially when all that people are really advocating for is peace. and um, on top of that, another topic like having to do with filipino artists that were involved with

that installation, there was a banca or a boat that was part of the exhibit at um. not only is does it have a lot of value, but by by making the move to. i also do want to note that i am working on limited information from somebody who who was organizing. i wasn't actively part of like this, but, um, i'll do my best to recall what it was. it was a banca that was part of, um, indigenous culture, and it was part of the exhibit or i believe, standing in solidarity with the exhibit of a love letter to palestine. um, it's being moved right now. well, i from what i know, many art installations are being moved and it's without the consent of the artists. if there is an agreement for artists to be there in the first place, i think artists should have a voice in whether or not their art should be moved out of a

place. and on top of that, there are a lot of traditions that may be being broken by by people who aren't consented to touch this art, especially this banca, and putting their hands on it is just breaking a lot of boundaries. and i think it's important to consider that, um, that's all about i have as much as i have to say thank you. i welcome, uh, again. you have three minutes, and i will start your time once you start beginning. thank you. hi i'm michael mersereau. i am, uh, i was part of the action. uh to for the protest that that was at ybca. i'm also a local artist. uh, i've lived in a san francisco for some time. uh, not anymore, but i do work at the asian art museum and have been part of a lot of cultural events sponsored by the san francisco arts commission as well. so i just wanted to acknowledge that.

but, uh, i want to also support the idea of somarts, uh, taking, uh, finding a venue with in, in, uh, ybca. uh, i think the ybca has shown itself not able to represent the community and not able to even be relevant within art itself by not reflecting back, uh, the own artist that they picked. so. i just wanted to say, like, giving it to a place where actually artists can be in a horizontal organization and work together and actually be be transparent also with where funds are going, how people are being funded and like how close and compromised right now, the leadership is there and it's time for a group of people to come in who care and are sincere and want to have the arts thrive in san francisco and also internationally. thank you.

any additional comments? yes. um, again, we're on item 5.2. you will have three minutes to state your public comment and i will start your time once you begin speaking. got it. hi everyone. longtime arts commission patron, first time podium speaker. my name is justin carter. i'm an artist and, uh, community member here in the bay area. and formerly actually was, um, have exhibited work at ybca and was a recipient of the ybca 100 award a couple of years ago, also part of the ybca public imagination fellowship program. so i have deep roots in the ybca community and also, um, you know, consider myself a great, you know, like, i was i was a great lover of webex work and, um, things that they've done in the past and was really inspired by things that they've done before. but um, seeing what's happening with the artists there now and seeing how the administration is handling it, um, how they handled the

requests for putting these works in and what they've done afterwards is just like is really frustrating, um, and really saddening to me to see, um, what's happening here at this organization. and um, i guess, yeah, i want to support the comments that have been made previously about finding some other way, some other group, some arts to move in, some other place to, uh, be accountable to the community, to the artists, to the people of the city. um, i feel that the work they're doing now no longer here, um, is reflecting us and no longer is serving the purpose of what art can serve to challenge, to grow, to express complicated ideas, and to be a space for people to do that, that like radically joyful, excitedly, amazingly. and i feel like seeing the work that the artists were doing, the requests they were making, the things that they put in, they've

been painted as, as, um, agitators as divisive. as all these different things. and just seeing the way those statements have been played out, i feel like i can't i can no longer trust what they're doing. um, and i can't trust where they're coming from. and just, just want to find a space that does support, uh, radical engagement or just love and joy, things like that. so, um, yeah, that's my comment. thank you all for your work. have any additional public comment? yes um, again, three minutes to. okay and i'll start. thank you. do you give like a one minute warning? uh, 32nd warning. thank you. great thank you. um, my name is kate rhodes. um, i'm an artist. i live in oakland, but i work here in san francisco at all gallery. um, and i'm also, um, a painting professor at mills, uh, which is left of mills over there in

oakland. um, i also was a professor at sfai. r.i.p. um, and so, uh, just as a, as an artist who's worked with the arts commission as a, as a, um, uh, artist who's, you know, done public art with you guys. i've served on selection panels, um, with commissioners. um, none of you here, sadly. you all look super fun to panel with. or did i know? maybe i did, and i forgot. i'm sorry. um, anyhow, um, so i'm i, i have a lot of faith in the arts commission. and what you do, and i and i just wanted to come here as someone who's worked so much with the arts commission to just add my voices to the time is right there. okay. really good to add my voice to the chorus of artists speaking out against censorship at ybca. um, you

know, the commission doesn't want to, you know, work with organized nations that don't support artists. you don't want to work with organizations that silence artists, especially on on issues that are i'm sure, very important to many of us. so, um, i would just, you know, beg you all to, you know, stay with the spirit of the commission, the spirit of supporting creativity and voices that are under represented, um, and you know, stand against genocide and for a free palestine and, and in the demands that the artists put out to the ybca, they also asked the ybca to sign onto the palestine an academic and cultural boycott of israel. and i just want to also extend that request out to all of you to think about for the arts commission. um, if you want to talk to me about doing that, we did it at the co-op studio where i'm a member real time and space and our community came to us with an enormous

amount of love and a sense of belonging. that organization that they put their faith into turned around and said, i'm going to i'm going to put that faith right back into you artists. and i'm going to support you when you have something to say, because maybe you see things differently than i do. and that's what art is all about. so anyway, if you want to give me a call, you can call me (419) 351-6606. i'd be happy to talk to any of you about the process of signing on to the pacbi. thank you all so much for letting us talk. i know this is not the norm and i mean to be off the items and whatever that stuff is. um, where artists. i'm an artist. i'm got out of the bathtub to be here. thank you so much. any additional public comment again? three minutes to state your public comment and i'll start the time when you start. thank you. hi, i'm shanti kumar. um, i'm also an artist in the east bay. i teach beading

workshops and i'm actively engaged in our artist community. um, i feel that it's very important that ybca, um, considers moving to the soma location. um i want to stand in solidarity with palestine and, um, do not support this genocide happening. um, and i also think that if ybca does continue to stand, i highly suggest you reassessing your funding of them. um as artists, we cannot stand behind genocide. um we're seeing land acknowledgments, and i think that there's a lot of cognitive dissonance happening. um from a lot of committees and, and i encourage you all to reassess. yes. thank you. are there any in person public

comments. i see no hand raised for public remote comment. um no. and i public comment. yes. yeah, yeah. okay hi there. and so my name is jose figueroa and i am currently part of the bay area now show at ybca. and i stand in solidarity with my fellow artists that are expressing themselves and their views. and i believe that this san francisco is well known as a pillar of free speech. and like supporting human rights and life. and so i just want to i wanted to just put my $0.02 here. i'm very like appalled at ybca not only like not working along the side, the artists they chose to represent as bay area now part recipients, but also because of closing their doors

after a peaceful protest and that i was at an end recording and documenting and it's just a shame that then the art like this is not serving the community of san francisco. and by shutting their doors and so i just wanted to say that i believe that that's not what public funding is for. like, if you have a space such and, and a pedestal of that nature to close it and without acknowledging the fact that, well, this is a beacon of expression and, well, i don't think i support that. any other additional in-person public comments. okay. uh i see no additional in-person requests for public comment. public comment is now closed. thank you

so much. um, and i really just want to say to everybody that showed up in person, thank you very much. um, we appreciate the time you and the passion and the care that you put into your comments. so thank you. um, i'm now going to call item five, which is sub item three. the visual arts committee report. and i'm going to introduce uh, committee chair, commissioner susie ferris to prevent to present the visual arts committee report. thanks thank you. vice president shioda. i'd like to give the visual arts committee report for february 21st, 2024. um, we oversaw several things. uh, three that i'm going to bring to our attention. first is the chinatown branch library. the project plan for the china chinatown branch library renovation, public art project was presented. the artwork opportunity will be a wall mounted two dimensional artwork integrated into five arch niches located along the west wall of

the library historic reading room. you can see in the picture there. it's quite a substantial space. any remaining artwork budget may go to the purchase of 2d artworks to be installed on the available interior walls of the library. the project goal is to include work that provides an uplifting and inspiring atmosphere for library users and staff. creative use. the existing architecture features of the space um is an expression of the chinatown neighborhood culture. history identity and values, and provides a community benefit which includes providing opportunities for artists with meaningful, meaningful connection to chinatown. next, we have the chinatown public health center renovation. um, as my fellow commissioner, uh, kimberly striker mentioned, we also had a very robust conversation about this, uh, project. the project plan for the chinatown public health center renovation was also

presented. the art opportunities proposed for the renovation. chinatown public health center are one exterior wall art wall opportunity, uh, which you can see is at the corner in yellow one exterior. uh pardon? um, three interior art wall opportunity arches, which are in the waiting rooms. you can see in the center pictures. there and a 2d artwork for purchase program to be installed in interior corridors of the building. the project goals for these public art opportunities include providing a welcoming stress free and therapeutic atmosphere for the cp hc clients and staff. being an expression of the chinatown neighborhood culture, identity and values. acting as a way finder for clients to identify and locate patient registration waiting areas, and providing a community benefit which includes providing opportunity for artists with a

meaningful connection to chinatown. the chinatown artist registry rfq, which includes public art opportunities for chinatown branch library, chinatown public health center, and portsmouth square, is anticipated to be issued in april 2024 and open for two months. we encourage all artists to apply, especially those with meaningful connections to chinatown, um, and lastly, we have the 2024 art on market street poster series. the final designs by jesse hernandez for the art on market street poster series, um are pictured. jesse hernandez is a concord based indigenous artist whose work highlights the strength, resilience and beauty of the indigenous american cultures and aims to preserve and shine a light on native traditions through a contemporary esthetic. for his series, hernandez created a series of six unique posters showcasing showcasing animals of significant, important importance in bay area indigenous culture and utilizing

the animals traditional names and the dialects of the local area. languages included are. chochenyo. rumsen coastal miwok. and mutsun. among the animals represented are the eagle, coyote, bear, hawk, deer and otter. the so we are very excited for all of these projects and i'd like to open it up for any commissioner discussion or comments. um, i don't see any commissioner questions or comments. all right. thanks. i'm going to see is there any public comment on item 5.3 for those showing in in person, please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we are currently on item 5.3. as a reminder, your time will start when you begin speaking, you will see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes. for those calling in

with accommodation requests, please raise your hand by pressing district three. i am requesting comments from those who are in person. is there anyone who would like to make a public comment on the current agenda items? i see no hand raised for public remote comment. i see no in-person requests for public comments. public comment is now closed. thank you. um, we're going to move on to item six, which is the public art program and civic art collection in fiscal year 2023. annual report and the civic art collection and public program director mary chu and senior registrar allison cummings will present. so very pleased to be here today to provide a presentation of the fiscal year 2023 work of the civic art collection and the public art program. so just to

start off. i'm going to give an overview of the work that was completed, approved during fiscal year 2023, um, for design and for commissioning. and of course, the work that was completed and installed. so just to start off with a summary of the art expenditures for that year, you can see this is the direct public art investments as well as the direct collection investments to an equal to a program invest in including staff, um, staff, expenses of just over 6 million. and you can see that the largest expense line items are artwork, design and fabrication, which is the artist contracts the purchases, loans and fabrication as well as the art handling and site costs, and this has been consistent with the figures that we see in past years. next uh, this is a list of new commissions and purchases that were approved that fiscal year 2023. you can see, um, our art on market

street poster series is of note are the 11 commissions for the south 49 south venice video wall. um, so really pleased to be able to have the opportunity to work with artists who work as with the medium of video. um, and then you can see on the right hand side a number of artwork purchases that were completed for the southeast community center, as well as the alameda creek watershed center. those are both puc projects. next so just to show some images of those new commissions, this is the video wall at 49 south venice. we hope to, um, this spring have an opening and invite all commissioners to see these videos on this wall. um, of course we approve the commission of mark sasaki's artwork. permanent work at ocean beach next, and also at india basin shoreline. the artwork by christine mays. um, so just to talk a little bit about the

demographics of the artists that were selected for commissions for that year, a note that that the artists complete voluntary demographic survey as part of their application. and so they self-identify both gender and race, um, in accordance with state law, we cannot not use either race or gender when selecting or awarding contracts. the funding amounts that are listed are based on artist fees, not the total project budgets. to allow for a more even comparison and projects include new site specific commissions and purchases. as mentioned, approved by resolution in fiscal year of 23. and so this shows commissions and purchases by gender. you can see that while the number power of commissions, the majority of the number of commissions were awarded to artists who identify as male, the majority of dollars went to artists who identify as female. next by race and ethnicity. you can see that for the percentage

of commissions total commissions, the majority went to artists who identify as black african american, latinx, and asian american or asian uh. similarly, the dollar amount the three highest. if you don't count the preferred not to answer, go to the same categories. next for new commissions and purchases by geography fauci, you can see that the vast dollar amount, as well as the number of commissions went to san francisco artists who live, um, live in san francisco. so, um, and then you can see, um, the number of bay area artists as well as california next. and so just a review of artworks that were approved as installed by the commission in fiscal year 2023. it was quite a productive year with many long terme projects completing. so it was very exciting. um, so i'll just go through these relatively quickly because of course, you have already seen all of these, um, as you've approved their installations. so you'll see

that there is a suite of artworks that were installed at the southeast health center. here you can see this one by ramiken oysters, a textile piece in the lobby, a series of four quilts by william rhodes. uh, and also, uh, a series of works by ron saunders that were photographs, photographic imagery that was translated into into the glass partitions that were part of the architecture of that site. so there were two of these that, um, ron completed. um, of course, the southeast community center really very, very proud of the, uh, just the whole collection of artworks that the southeast community center, um, of course, you have mildred howard's, uh, piece, sculptural piece. um, on the exterior, you have kenyatta um, ac hinkle's artwork navigating historical present at the alex pitcher community room, which i hear is very, very well used. it's rented out almost all the time for, you know, events for

birthday parties and for kind of work events as well. so it's great to hear the use um, in the main center as well, where the administrative offices are, there's a piece by philip hua said the six founders of the southeast community center. and then, of course, this really robust 2d collection, um, of, uh , framed paintings and photographs and prints that are located throughout the hallways of the southeast community center, uh, there is also actually director remington mentioned earlier today this project, which is a series of four construction barricade murals along the southeast wastewater treatment plant, this one that was installed in fiscal year 23 as nancy cato giammarese journey. uh, we also completed this artwork by michael bartalos , which is an integrated fence design for fire station 49 called serving the city and of

course, now you'll see a number of works. so we're completed for central subway, rose park station, um, two artworks by yumi ho based on her, um, woodcut piece or her paper cut pieces that she creates, um, installed in metal and large scale. uh, we have an artwork by clare rojas also at rose park station. tile tile, mosaic mural. and then we have an integrated artwork by hue and starkweather for the roof deck at union square market street station and the over 100 foot tall roxy pain steel artwork called node, which you may have seen through different from different parts and different views of the city. we have a piece that was completed by alicia mccarthy for the international airport. um, of course, this piece we worked, um, for yerba buena island treasure at at yerba buena

island for the treasure island development authority, point of infinity for hiroshi sugimoto. um, exciting that this park is opening up soon to the public. and so you'll all be able to go and see this work and then we have our art on market street poster series comics 2.0. and, you know, commissioner for artists to do artworks for that series. and then cat henge, which you may have all seen at patricia's green, a temporary project. um, and of course, we also have our street smarts program in which we worked with an artist to create this work. this is a work that's funded by dia. it's a program that's funded by dpw in an effort to deter continuing graffiti that happens on private property. and i am now happy to turn it over to our senior manager here for the civic art collection, allison cummings. thanks, mary. good afternoon. commissioners

always excited, um, to talk about the collection and talk about the good work. uh, and follow mary's beautiful pictures with graphs. i promise there's some pictures later. so so i'm just here to report out on the activities around the civic art collection and its care. and i start off with a little evaluation of our capital allocation over the years. so this is about 24 years data, uh, showing the allocations that we've received over this period of time. and you can see where the pandemic happened right. as we're reaching that lovely pinnacle there of about an allocation from the general fund, from the capital allocation of about $900,000, uh, we dropped to about 100 in the following year. and we've been working our way back. and of course, this is to point out, you'll notice we've got a dip in 24. we anticipate another dip. you may have heard we have a budget deficit, but we continue

our advocacy. so since the pandemic, well, i'll start by saying we have, uh, we estimate we have about a $1.8 million annual need for care of the civic art collection. obviously, we don't we don't receive that at and we deal with a lot of deferred maintenance and increased deferred maintenance. um, we have what we anticipate, anticipate should the pandemic not have happened about a $2.3 million deficit at that, we've had to manage through, uh, since the pandemic. um, we're working right now. we had a cpc capital meeting this morning, uh, with with the office of resilience and capital planning to build awareness around the value of restoring our previous funding levels and right size, our future allocations. so more to come on that through the city's budget process and here i'm explaining that there are two sort of main buckets that we use

to care for the collection. the first is our capital funds that i was just talking about. um, these tend to be need to be spent within the fiscal year or can hold over for larger projects. but this is money and money out. um and then secondarily other funds, various other sources, um for collections this can include up to 10% allocation from art enrichment, set asides, um, uh, other projects work orders from other departments, add backs, donations and grants, and you can see in the last five year history, um, these are our expenditures from this fiscal year, fy 23. uh, we totaled out at 518,000. you'll see that's a significant difference from fy 1920, where we were at about 1.4 million. next okay. last graph. uh, this is where we spend our money in fiscal year 23. and this is a the pie is pretty consistent annually. you can look past through these reports, but essentially we're spending half, anywhere from a half to

about two thirds on conservation and relocation. and then we have other expenditures around storage, art handling, vandalism, abatement, um, which shifts sort of annually, but pretty consistent. next slide and a few project highlights. we do large scale and small scale conservation projects to care for the collection. this was the diamond heights safety wall project. that was a project that was actually funded from an ad back from supervisor mandelson's office, and we worked in close conjunction with dpw to, uh, restore this redwood sculpture. and then an example of something from our two dimensional collection. this is the beach at tomales bay by connie smith. seagull, a piece that we had cleaned for the first time. obviously um, given the picture, it's since been reframed and it now hangs in five, two, five golden gate very close to the head of the puc's office. next slide. we do relocations. this is, uh, sentinels by aristides demetrios. it's located at city

college. um main campus. it's being relocated to a different area of that campus because they are building a new student success center. it's actually being relocated to a, um, a more prominent spot. so we're excited about that. next we do conservation assessments. this is an assessment that was completed for the department of public health for the chinatown public health center project at the dragon sculpture next. and then, of course, vandalism abatement, the perennial problem we did 29 treatment projects this year. um, highlights are we sort of have our usual players, um, within our monuments. we had some vandalism at sfo in the glass wall. the sarah cain, and then we have a new project that is a new usual suspect. we're calling him the illuminated sculptures on van ness and, and, uh, geary are just there's they're they're struggling. it's a very active area, but it's on

our radar now. and we treat it regularly. um, next slide. we do have emergency removals. this is two years in a row now where we've sustained pretty significant storm damage. um, and i think this is here to stay in terms of our new weather patterns and wind events. uh, this is a pepe ozan sculpture that was damaged by a tree that fell on caltrans property. the piece is currently in storage. we're waiting to conserve and reinstall it. uh, next, some non , uh, collection related, uh, physical collection related stuff. monuments and memorials advisory committee completed their report, which you're all familiar with, which effectively changed. uh the arts collections guidelines to incorporate their recommendations. next and a few more numbers for you. um, there were 55 artworks completed and commissions and purchases during this time frame. we created 930

archive record cards. um, we relocated 45 artworks within different areas, including several here in city hall. uh, we responded to 62 research and photo requests, and we did all this without a project manager for eight months in fy 23, we did add new staff in december of 2022, and a new project manager in april 2023. and we are up and running. that's it. back to mary . thank you allison, and just a couple of kind of looking forward points. we are continuing to actively um, continue active conservation and sorry, we're going to we're continuing our active conservation and maintenance projects utilizing a triage approach that takes into account our current funding levels. um, allison had just mentioned the monuments and memorials advisory committee. we are taking that

report and acting upon it. with the funding that we receive from the mellon grant. um, we are embarking this year on the agency's largest strategic plan, and we had heard from the strategic plan consultants earlier at the at the full commission. um, there is also development that's starting again at sfo, which commissioner striker just presented upon. um, and so there are going to be a number of new commissions, which is exciting for us to embark on for sfo. and as allison mentioned earlier, with the cpc meeting, we had continuing to build awareness around the value of consistent and robust collections care funding and to support efforts to reestablish at pre-pandemic thresholds. and just a note to say that all of this amazing, amazing work could not happen, of course, without our incredible staff, both public art project managers, our public art program associates, and our collection staff. so really wanted to give a big shout out to the staff that's making this all all of this work

possible. thank you. commissioners. happy to answer any questions. if anyone has any . thank you. any commissioner comments. questions yeah. um, i just want to second your shout out to the staff and mention at visual arts, they actually got a standing ovation. um, thank you for the work that you guys all do. it's amazing to get to see this, uh, you know, an end of year report and all the amazing work that gets added to our city. so thank you to the staff and everybody who works on these things and make them make them manifest. thank you. yeah. um, i also wanted to just say that i'm so impressed. i love when you do this every year. and we see just everything that's been accomplished, both in terms of the art that we have worked on and that's getting out there to the public. and also so the conservation efforts so hats off to both you, mary and allison. you guys are rock stars and you do an incredible, incredible job. and the staff is amazing.

and i just wanted to congratulate you and thank you for just doing an outstanding job. thank. um, any other commissioners thank you. and i love that you're doing with a big smile today. a lot of work. it's so interesting to see. i haven't been on visual arts. um, in, in in a bit and to see something that i saw eight years ago or six years ago. and now finally get installed and see it in place is really phenomenal. so thanks for sticking with it. thanks for all the hard work. thanks for this. you know, doing it with no project manager and little money. yeah thank you. thank you commissioners. thank you. um, any other commissioner comments or questions? one one

last comment, allison. we love seeing the graphs. just fyi. they're so good. they are so informative. and it really is, um, it's helpful for us to see how the budget gets allocated and you know, how you guys are creative and make the budgets that we have each year work. so thank you. yeah. and i think that a lot of i'm going to say the newer commissioners maybe don't. and even the public don't understand. and that the civic art collection is so big and so there's the artwork itself. but then there's the ongoing maintenance. it's all of the things that come along with, um, owning a piece of artwork. so thank you. um commissioner brunzell, did you have something? oh, okay. i wasn't sure. all right. is there any public comment on this item? item six. for those joining in person, please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we are currently on item six. as a reminder, your time will start

when you begin speaking, you will see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes. for those calling in with accommodation requests, please raise your hand by pressing asterisk three. i am requesting comments from those who are in person. is there anyone who would like to make a public comment on the current agenda item? i see no hands raised for public remote comment . i see no in-person request for public comment. public comment is now closed. thank you. um, i'm now calling on item seven, which is the consent calendar. is there any commissioner withdrawals or recusals today? all right. seeing none, we will take all the consent items. and, um, i'd like to remind commissioners to say your name after they, uh, after you respond to a motion. um, and i'm asking for a motion to approve the consent calendar. items as commissioner hakimi. so moved, commissioner schneier, a second

thank you so much. is there any public comment on item seven on the consent calendar? for those joining in person, please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we are currently on item seven. as a reminder, your time will start when you begin speaking, you'll see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes. for those calling in with accommodation requests, please raise your hand by pressing asterisk three. i'm requesting comments for those who are in person. is there anyone who would like to make a public comment on the current agenda item? as i see no hand raised for public remote comment and i see no in person requests for public comment. public comment is now closed. thank you. we have a first and a second. um, i'm asking for a final motion to approve the consent calendar. all those in favor say aye. excuse me. just a moment, please. commissioner rothchild, i believe that you will need to recuse yourself from part of the, uh, calendar from the cdr committee. um, cdr

is it on this one, though? okay. which number is it that would be the sfo discussion. oh, okay. uh uh, what is the process for recusing myself for that particular one? you simply say that you need to recuse yourself. and why that? okay, our employer is shared by the presenters. okay i'm sorry. can you step outside? okay i don't actually see. i don't see it on here. isn't that on the consent calendar? item number one, i it's not listed. what what item number is it. that would be item one. oh, it's the city meeting. yes oh i see it's not it's not a motion to approve something. right. okay. right got it. okay uh, this is, uh, commissioner rothschild. i recused myself from the civic design review

committee meeting minutes relative to the sfo project. okay, so. so with the consent calendar, uh, if you. yeah, we'll have, um, commissioner rothschild, if you can. yeah yeah. it wasn't an action item. it was just the minutes. yeah. just minutes. you just got just. thank you. all right, well, in terms of the consent calendar, we will will be taking everything on the consent calendar except for 7.1. um. other way around. other

other way around. oh. thank you. you're you're right. all right. so we will be taking everything on. yeah. everything on the consent calendar on at this round, except that we just the one one now. thank you. right okay. so we call her back to do everything else. perfect. there you go. all right. so we are now taking item 7.1 for the consent calendar. um. do i have a second? do i have to take a first and a second? second motion. commissioner brenzel. so moved, commissioner hakimi, second. thank you. is there any public comment on just the item? 7.1 uh, for those joining in person, please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public information card. we are currently on item seven. um uh uh, yes. as seven. as a reminder, time will start. when you begin speaking, you will see a visual timer on the podium and

receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes. for those calling in with accommodation requests, please raise your hand by pressing asterisked three. i'm requesting comments from those who are in person. is there anyone who would like to make a public comment on the current agenda item? i see no hand raised for public remote comment. i see no in-person request for public comment. public comment is now closed. thank you so we have a first and a second for item 7.1 on the consent calendar only. um, i'm going to take a final roll call. all those in favor? yay! yay i, i any opposed seeing none. uh, we that motion passes passes unanimously. thank you. and commissioner. commissioner rothschild is coming back into the room. go. got it. all right. we are now taking, uh, the

consent calendar. um, every thing on the consent calendar, except for item 7.1. um, do i have a motion? so moves. commissioner junior second commissioner, striker. thank you. um, is there any public comment on the consent calendar? uh every item except 7.1 for those showing in in person, please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we are currently on item seven. as a reminder, your time will start when you begin speaking, you'll see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes. for those calling in with accommodation requests, please raise your hand by pressing asterisk three. i see no hand raised for remote public comment and i see no in-person request for public comment. public comment is now closed. thank you. we have a first and a second for, um, the consent calendar. everything except item 7.1. um, i'm calling for a final roll call. all those in favor? aye. any opposed? consent

calendar. uh, passes unanimously. thank you. um, i'm now going to move on to item eight, which is new business and announcements. um, anyone have any new business or announcements? um i'm curious about something. um, regarding the commissioner. the commissioner? sorry. um regarding the comments that we heard earlier about why bca is that some can't talk about it. we can't. okay. yeah. it's not on the agenda, so. okay. yeah thank you. yeah, but okay. but definitely research. or new business and announcements. yeah. i just wanted to nobody is commissioner. so month of march is a special march. i mean special month for me. um, because it's obviously women's history month. that's a big deal

for me personally, but also, aside from being my birthday month, uh. it also is the month in which the iranians and the persians celebrate nowruz, which is the equinox beginning of spring. um, so i just wanted to let you know, on the 19th of this month, the norouz we celebrate for 13 days, and it doesn't. it's more than just iranians. there's actually about 7 or 8 other countries actually celebrate, and people that celebrate the ethnicities celebrated with us. i think 300 million people celebrate. um, and so the thing about it, every year we have an event in the in the city hall. um, so this year on the 22nd, we will have a friday, 22nd of march will be a public celebration of nowruz, which you all are invited, but also we have our gala at the evening. so you know, just wanted to let you know there's going to be some fun stuff going on and good food. so anyhow, i just wanted to let you know that . thank you, thank you. um. oh

yeah. commissioner brendel, um, i was at a city event earlier this month, and i was chatting with some of the good people at sf gov tv. by the way, thank you for all the work that you do in broadcasting our meetings. i know they're there, but they told me about something that i hadn't heard about, which was called city canvas, which is a um, i think it's part of the, uh , sf gov tv's youtube channel. and they put out, um, programs about artists in san francisco. and i just thought that was really interesting. i didn't know about it. i didn't know if my fellow commissioners knew about it. um, but it's called city canvas. it's on the youtube channel of sf gov tv, and they do arts programing. and i was, um, nodding head, but yes, so he knew about it. but i didn't know if you all knew about it. i thought i'd mention it to you. and i went and checked out a couple of the, um, the pieces there. i thought they were really interesting. so i just lift it up for your

consideration. thank you so much . is there any other questions? comments yes. seeing none. is there any public comment on item eight for those joining in person, please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we are currently on item eight. as a reminder, your time will start when you begin speaking. you will see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes. for those calling in with accommodation requests, please raise your hand by pressing asterisk three. i'm requesting comments from those who are in person. is there anyone who would like to make a public comment on the current agenda item? i see no hand raised for public remote comment as well as no in-person request for public comments. public comment is now closed. thank you so much. i'm now moving on to item nine, which is adjournment. this meeting is adjourned. thank you

>> i'm connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the richmond.

>> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with san francisco state. and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad district supervisor. [music] we have great neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the

neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. we have the legacy business program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s. >> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years and became the breakfast staple. we specialize in breakfast, brunch come lunch now. i love this neighborhood. i grew up here. and it feels like home.

i walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. you say hello you talk and joke. has that familiar environment that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else. there are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay housed our small business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our communities can take root, stay and thrive. >> i'm proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond. everyone loch its we got farmer's market every sunday there. the you see really business at the noaa. ice cream at toy folks and going

to chop for book like green apple. and that's when you like the deal is pizza place haall families love. you will see a lot of great chinese shops that is readily available for everyone. >> and that is just thein are richmond there is more to do in the richmond. what is love is the theatre. >> i mean adam and with my wife jamie, own little company called cinema sf we operate the balboa theatre. the vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement. >> balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this outer richmond neighborhood since then. and close on the heels the 4 star opens since 1913. >> when you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world

has to be left behind. but you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made for you. that is a special experience to very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying. it is a shared human experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and artist presented to you. >> a shared experience is the most precious. and the popcorn. [laughter]. at the balboa especially, we stroif to have movies for people of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings, for families and kids. this is for everybody of all ages. >> what is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants.

belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that there are also a huge population of rush wrans and ukrainian immigrants they stay united you am see that the support they lend to each other as a community. and cinderella bakery is another legacy business. if you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. the first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. you will see the unity in the richmond i'm so proud of our immigrant community in the rich monthed. >> my dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because of the restaurant. has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this country. when he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed

that is why we are here part of our legacy and san francisco history and like to keep it going for years to come. >> another moment i'm proud to be supporting the richmond and the only asian american woman elect in the office and as an immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades. you see it is my ability to represent especially the asian-american community. in my case the chinese speaking elders in our community that really can allow me to communicate with them directly. i'm program director of adult day centers. i have been here for 7 years i love to help the communities and help and the people with disability. i foal a connection with them.

i am anim grant i love helping our community and new immigrants and improvements. >> if you want nature, richmond is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park. >> i love the outer richmond. for me this is the single best neighborhood in san francisco. everybody knows each other. people have been living here forever. it is young and old. the ocean is really near by. and so there is that out doors ocean vibe to it. there are places to seat golden gate bridge it is amazing. businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. houses get passed down generation to generation. it has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at

the same time. it's got a unique flavor i don't see in other neighborhoods j. it is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. we believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. it is passing on kinds knows. that's when richmond is about that we are together at once. welcome to the richmond. [music]

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