>> welcome to the arts commission meeting i'm calling the meeting to order by the call of the roll. >> president. >> present >> vice president is ab dent. mitchell beltran is absent. commissioner bennavidezis absent. >> here. >> commissioner ferris is under way. >> commissioner lieu. >> here. >> commissioner. >> present. >> commissioner ross is absent. >> commissioner stair. >> here. >> commissioner shelby. we have quorum for today's meeting, also for the record, deputy deputy sarah and deputy director of program are in attendance. >> are there any xhaiz to the

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i embarrassed by self by not doing so so i stand guilty of the crime. the arts commission acknowledges that on the homed lands of ramaytush ohlone, as the indigenous stewards of this land, they have never seeded, lost nor forgotten their responsibility as care takers of this place as well as for all people who reside on their traditional territory. as guest, we recognize that we benefit from working on their homeland. we wish to pay their respects by acknowledging our elders and by affirming their soverne

rights as people. environment in san francisco, we are committed to supporting the traditional and con temporary revolution of the american indian community. i wrote like to call agenda item number 2 which is approval of minutes, to amay the may 6, 2024, minutes. i would like to get a motion please give your name when you're making the motion or seconding. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. may is now have any public comment on agenda number 2, the approval of minutes? >> for those in-person, please proceed to the podium and fill out the item card. we're currently on item 2. you'll see a visual timer on the podium and will get a

20-second warning before your time is up. i see no request for public comment, public comment is now closed. >> thank you, is there any commissioner or comment on this agenda item approval of minutes? seeing none, i'm going to ask for a final motion, all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed nay? motion carries unanimously. i'm now calling on agenda item number 3, which is general public comment. this item allows members of the public to comment generally on matters within the committee's per view as well as to suggest new agenda items for the committee's consideration. is there any public comment on this agenda item number 3. >> for those joining in-person, please proceed to the podium and fill out the public comment

card. we're currently on item 3. you'll receive a 30-second audible warning when your time is almost up. is there anybody that would like to make a comment. >> welcome. item 3 and your timer will start when you begin speaking. >> speaker: good afternoon, i'm michael i live in san francisco with my spouse and my three-year-old daughter behind me. we're trying to instill love for arts. i'm a member of my union board of governors and have represented our members in negotiation wz both the ap ra and symphony. two months ago, i commented here for profit corporations rather than arts organizations. due to this corporation, no

longer seen as assets but rather as liabilities. today i ask you this, what would an arts organization with the same issues as boeing look like? what is the artistic equivalent of door flying off in the air. since i last spoke in front of this commission, more local media have picked up on what is happening in the symphony. this he have called for the opening of their books, and pamphleting outside of the hall before and after programs. for context, the symphony have made their plans clear to not only educational and out reach program but it's core subscription here. my request is that you push the organizations that you support to have stakeholder presence on their boards.

i'm going to reaffirm the request to request that the funds that you're going to approve today come with the conditions of oversight that can be gained by board representation that include labor level stakeholders. there is precedence for this where union are compose reand arts are funded by the state. their boards also include a few seats for arts workers. tht request aligned with two state values of this commission, those are artist seeing artist as intig ral to seeing people in san francisco work and play and accountable and data driven decision making. this is not the time to ask musicians to shoulder the burden and with your support we can support the cuts that are pushing musicians in other metropolitan areas. and as i love labor songs so

i'm going to leave you with this, i don't want your millions, mr., i don't want your diamond ring, all i want is the right to live mr., give me back my job again. thank you for your support. >> is there any further comment? >> seeing none, public comment is now closed. >> thank you. >> i'm now calling item number 4 director. ralph. >> thank you, president collins, good afternoon, commissioners. i always like when public comment are creative, i

appreciate that. june is here and i would like to wish everybody a safe and happy start to prief month. i would like to congratulate president collins to being appointed to the white house. congratulations president collins. on may 9th, 10, and 12, co dance theater presented the people's palace with city hall architecture, that featured aerialist and performers suspended in the area flying through the rotunda and the architecture. i was able to attend the may

10th kfms. with our very own it was something to be seen, so if you didn't see this once in a lifetime thing. but there will be further opportunities as we join who run saco will be performing all over again. i remember a production that she did, at the legendary now that was fantastic. so she is always diligent finding these site specific and unorthodox locations for folks

to expand creativity. and another shout out to commissioner shelby for this incredible composition. [applause] on may 11th, we celebrated the opening of buena park. mayor london breed was in attendance, along with representing from the treasure island development authority and commissioners and staff. the first exhibit you're ated by care will i na, director of galleries and public programs. so we would like to give a big shout out to caro will i na for her first curated exhibition. i would like to also thank our

main gallery team for all of their work in putting this together. on may 29th, i attended the opening night performance which i sat behind and gene her husband. it was an amazing performance, i department recommend everybody go see, one of those once in a lifetime events, because you will not quite see a production like this. it's an tra production, it's over 3 hours long but you don't feel it because there are intermission and 55-minute acts, so you don't feel the time but you will never see anything like this. three actors playing dozens of characters on stage. >> 37. >> 37, thank you, commissioner

multiple decades. and obviously, the incident, the debacle that happened in the 2008 financial crisis when they dissolves. but it takes us through not only through, not only through our what happens with layman in the layman's brothers but subsequently what happened with our country and how our country grew, evolved and got us to the point where we are now and some of the issues that we're wrestling with. i would encourage everybody to go and see it. and i don't usually take a lot of time talking about the productions. my practice i will say that this is one, this one is extraordinary. and it's, it comes to us from the national theater.

so you want to check it out, a national thaet ner london england, so check it out. you will not be sorry. tonight, i'm attending, arts, the city of arts and lecture serious. whoever wrote the novel is very popular now, because it was now adopted into american fiction, that won some awards including some oscars, first of all,er%backer everest book and courts jefferson will be there as well. so he's there, i'm going to go see his lecture tonight and on thursday, carol walker, will be attending, at the arts and lectures, masterful artist that we have black artist that has done amazing things all over

this country, one of the most probably striking public art pieces that she did was in the domino sugar factory in new york. and kind of a miami figurer and sugar to make commentary on african existence today as well as the way we were used to cultivate sugar, that was powerful. and she will be on there in thursday and alonso will be at the symphony on friday, so i'll be attending that as well. i encourage you all to see any and/or all of those events, they're worth checking out. also, reminder that this january 8th, we'll celebrate the juneteenth day parade. the festivities will begin at

11:30 and parade will travel down culminating the festival. also happening bright and early on june 8th, will be the insulation of the pink triangle on twin peeks, which was created and organized each year by our very own commissioner patrick. hundreds of video --volunteers will be around to help with this instation. the celebration will take place at 10:30 am, called hatred of the past which shows how long lgbtq community has come. celebration happening at june 29th, this year's pride theme is beacon of hope. and i will say, just, everybody

should be aware that we live in some dark times right now just look out for your friends and neighbors as we're going through these celebrations, there is some nastiness in the air right now that we want to guard against. please watch out for your friends and neighbors and yourself as you attend events this month. and unfortunately, i'm sad that i have to make an announcement like that, or even, express a sentiment in that way, there is a hardness, a coarseness in the country right now that i've never seen in my 61 years on this planet. just watch out for your friends and family, i want everybody to make it through. finally, i would like to share that on june 13th, mayor london

breed will be at the moore gallery where she will show her thoughts. and some community updates. we'll hear a presentation on cultural allocation plan. i would like to thank all the staff along with our consultant ams planning and research for all of their hard work on this project. and we look forward to sharing the recommendations with you all. thank you. and some gallery updates, as mentioned briefly earlier, practice of local knowledge, a group exhibition, and movement and memory is now at the main gallery. they feature the work of four artist.

and mitchel, local knowledge will be on view through august 17th, 2024. and also a reminder that a public voice, is on view at city hall downstairs on the ground floor and the north light court through september 27, 2024. i would like to share that the gallery team with recreation and parks have extended the deadline for the india basis artist rfq opportunity. the purpose is to identify two san francisco base artist to be part of our arts and resident program to research with the india water park project and shoreline park project. the deadline for rfq are due by 5 am friday. later this month, some public

art update on june 18th. a culp you're by british artist price. will be installed along the embarcadero promenade at pier 1. it will be on view for a period of six months with a possible extension. we're work width port to finalize details for an unveiling events so please be on the look out for that information. and up hr updates, we welcomed two new staff members chrisian weaver as our new program associates. welcome, if you can please stand up. great. and some other announcements, a budget update on wednesday june

129ing the budget and appropriations will hear the first round of presentations, on thursday, june 20th and friday the budget and appropriations will hold with a focus on budget and legislative analyst. and wednesday june 26, 2024 will be the final day of budget deliberation as budget and appropriations committee. we will report back to the commission as the budget deliberations unfold. and with that, this concludes the director's report. i'll be happy to take any questions that anybody may have? >> any questions or comments by members of the commission? >> thank you, i just wanted also say that, the lean-in trilogy is definitely worth going to? it's one of the best theater pieces i've seen, it's that

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>> thank you, commissioners. >> is there any public comment? for those in-person, please proceed to the comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we are currently on item 4? as a reminder, your time will start when we are speaking. i'm requesting comment frz those in-person, is there anyone that would like to make a public comment on the current agenda items? i see no request for public comment? . public comment is now closed. >> i now would like to call agenda item number 5. these are committee reports for discussion, i'm calling first agenda item number 5, item 1, civic design review report and i'm introducing our new

committee chair, abby to present the civic design review report. >> thank you, president colins. >> the may 209ing design committee reviewed four projects and we gave two projects their final approvals so those are the ones i'm going to talk about. the treasure island whitewater resource fas iltd, we approved phase 3. this project came for its final approval after many design changes that received a positive response from the committee. the project team responded to previous commissioner comments at the concern safety. the final solution that would maintain was to use a less reflective glass did you still slightly tinted. they incorporate a pattern which aids in bird safety, so you still get the trans parnt

see and trans lucentcy. also responded to the previous concern about wildlife access to the wetland area through the fencing and the team explained that the opening to the gap allow for a variety of size to pass through underneath and over. and i have to say, this project started out at the very mundane and feel that this is going to be really spectacular. one of the things too is that the art project for all of these white walls here, there is going to be a mural on all of them and in the session, we urge that the artist cover the full wall. so you can imagine, a full

imagery that travels through. this is a wonderful example of what would be a mundane building being thought out, and the art component being ibt --integral to the design of the building and we're happy to see it at this point. and the the team, we also looked at japan town renovation. this is a post phase, they we had already approved stuff. but the project team explained the changes being made and the are all being slightly modified. and the adding an additional and to inscaling down and moving the flag pools to

decrease congestion so they wanted to bring them front and center. the design is to make a more grand gallery and this design does that very well. the two facade makes the entry less intimidated and lieu for better flow. from the plaza view, the entry is one continued surface rather than a step surface and the eternal will stay in the same location as opposed in the original. i just think, it's always been the theory side if you enter down, by the plaza it's been promoting and this is just going to be the entry write which is that much more exciting. and that completes my report. >> when this last came to the

commission, there was some question about the lighting. can you update us on that? >> yeah, i think basically that aspect of of it, was and i think commissioner carnie was the one that got involved i may have him speak for that aspect. >> we were hoping that they would turn it something like like quite tower, i live in that neighborhood and it really would have been an important thing to do. but they said they could not get enough lights in, but they will review the lightings but we thought that would be an art project in itself, that would, really make it known out of the whole area. so there will be some lighting. >> right, part of the issue is structurely. so they are definitely, they heard us and they do what we

can within the existing structure. and what they show is spaces like this are never complete. you raise the issue of lighting and made significant contributions, it's just the bay bridge, it will be back. >> i like that. thank you. >> very few have a piece of architecture there, they just need to light up. >> yeah. >> are there

we believe in this one artist, having multiple artist on those services would be interesting but difficult to manage. are there any other questions on this agenda item? seeing none, is there any public comment on this agenda item 5.1? >> for those joining in-person, please proceed with the public

podium and fill out the public comment card. you'll receive a 30-second audible warning. is there anyone that would like to mack a public comment on the current agenda items? i see no request for public comment, public comment is now closed. initial arts report. >> thank

we reviewed to do a significant increase for the assembly member office, the san francisco recreation and parks department to supervisor aaron peskin's and the arts commission. there are now two art opportunity for the square, a culp you're opportunity for a human sculpture to be located at the corner entrance washington street, and art opportunity, wall opportunity for approximately 606 square feet on the large interior wall of the clubhouse and exterior wall from the entrance from the plaza. again, this is such a great opportunity and for those that don't know, the oldest square in san francisco.

next we have temporary art project. finally we reviewed, sculpture title talking heads, near polish stainless steel, by 7 feet 6 inches by oweg, will be exhibited for a period of one year pending approval from the rec and park departments. so, that's our report unless there are any questions. >> thank you, are there any questions or comments from members of the commission? >> commissioners snare here, i just want to say, that with ports square, we were really, very disappointed originally

because we could do more. the fact that they came together so we can do some really nice public art in this beautiful renovation, we are just thrilled about it. >> i would like to make a comment, last wiebesinger allison were in san francisco and here for o ryan press, allison is doing a book. so it's interesting to see what they're doing, but also the the airport so. we're strong when it comes to our family. thank you. >> any other comments from the commission. seeing none, is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> for those in-person, please proceed to the public comment and fill out the public comment information part. we're kurpt leon 5.2.

you'll see a visual timing and receive a visual audio warning. is there anyone that would like to make a public comment on the current agenda items? i see no request for public comment, public comment is now closed. >> thank you, i'm now call agenda now 5 pub item number 1. which is executive report. i will now present the may 22, 2024 report. we started off with remington report to symphony to support one free outdoor concerts and 12 outdoor performance during each of the symphony 2023 and 24-25 seasons. deputy director programs

presented up doubts on the cultural services allocation plan, for 2024-2029 which you will hear similar presentation today. deputy director life height moved into giving a fair presentation on the culture center grants. she dove into the detail in the grants which were proved. we also approved the cultural center lease and operating agreements with the african-american complex, the bay view and commission cultural center for latino arts. to extend approval. closing out our meeting, senior

equity sandrau provided racial equity updates which sparks a robust conversation. we're delight today have analyst presenting here today at the full commission meeting. we look forward to that. and that completes the executive committee report. are there any commissioner comments or discussion on the executive committee report. seeing none, is there any public comment? on this agenda item number 5.3? >> for joining in-person, please proceed with the public comment podium and fill out a public comment card. seoul you will receive a 30-second audible item. is there anyone that would like to make a public comment on the current agenda items? i see no request for public comment, public comment is now closed.

now calling number 5, sub item number 5 which is the market manager agreement. and we have a discussion and possible motion to approve a service contract with costless maintenance services company inc, to contribute to provide an site management for the embarcadero vendor market for 5 years beginning july 1, 2024 through june 30, 2029 and to author the direct of culture affairs to enter into a personal service contract not to exceed 182,000, and now i'm introducing senior program manager to present this item. >> thank you, so much commissioner collins. it's pretty straightforward, i don't know if you need more information but just a little bit of the background. the market manager is the

liason and city staff, we have been working with costless maintenance, you know, we prefer to fsh by their a co name. they're the most resent and we feel confident working with them. i have jennifer with me who actually ran the rfp process. it's pretty straightforward. >> since you're here, do you want to give us a background. some commissioners have not been around long. so the art vendor or street program is a program that is existed since 197 2, it's mandated. and created by arts after this, the art vendors themselves responded to a situation where,

the merchants and the folks selling on the street were in a clash and the police were being used to kind of you, know, put artist in jail for trying to sell art work and they've been selling their art work on the street since then. the arts commission, while this program is managed under the police code, is designated as authority for reviewing and approving the licenses. that's what jennifer is now doing as the new program officer. she and tom, intake the license and approve, and then we have a separate kind of panel called the advisory committee that meets every quarter and reviews application and approves them. subsequently, the majority of those artist fell at the embarcadero plaza because there is some oversight needed, we have this liason, who is a go

between the artist and the staff. they also help manage things like if there are rec and arts events and artist needs to make a move. they do a lot between different agencies as well as people who maybe need help. that's a little bit about the market manager and a little bit about the program. >> are there any commissions questions or discussion on this matter? seeing none, this is a report so we have no action to take. >> it is an action. >> so we need to approve. will you please which the motion to approve the agreement. >> so moved, commissioner cher. >> second. >> thank you very much. is there any public comment on agenda item 5.3? >> for those joining in-person, please proceed to the podium

and pill out a public comment card. we're on item 5.3.4. i'm asking comments from those in-person. is there anyone that would like to make a public comment on the current agenda items? public comment is now closed. >> thank you, and now i will ask for a final motion to approve this matter all those this favor? >> aye. >> opposed? motion carries, unanimously. i am now calling on agenda item number 5.6. we have a discussion and possible motion to approve the proposed cultural allocation plan for 2024-2029. and i'm going to introduce the

following to present. the direct of, and ams planning and research bill blaikz and lauren franco. thank you again. as you know, we've been working closely to allocation plan and to develop recommendations for the 2024-2029 plan. over the past four months, we've come up with a set of recommendation to guide our work over the next five years. i want to thank the community investment staff and ams planning and research for all of their hard work on this project. it's my pleasure to introduce the staff from ams planning and research, bill blake, west coast director and lauren research lead and project manager who are here to present

the cultural sevensers allocation plan. bill. >> thank you, director remmington, it's a pleasure to be here to present this plan. the a is the most important, so it leads to five years of continued action utilizing the impact endowment. i like to thank the commitment and staff that worked with us throughout the process. deputy director was part of that and debbie ing was the fantastic project manager who kept the trains running on time and they needed to run on time so we appreciate all of your great work and keeping it altogether. i'm down from sacramento, we work in the realm of arts and culture.

i think we started in october or something like that. so we're going to walk you through what we did, there we go. i've got to get my screens together here. first, i want to talk about what our scope of work was, what our charge was and responding to your rfp. if you're rfp was issued by the commission, we undertook a three-phase process to evaluation the evaluation endowment fund anding to develop a strategy and approach for the coming five-year period of 2024 through 2029. the first phase was to evaluate and look back, which included of course, the year spent responding to the covid-19 pandemic. in this phase, we worked with fsc data and information, we

interviewed stakeholders and funding recipients and we surveyed grant he's --grantees and impact the funds had made on their organization and those they serve. the second to investigate sw how they can be deployed to address these needs. and finally in the third phase, we worked with staff to develop recommendations for the new, cultural allocation plan, csap that we'll be discussing with you today tha. was our scope. now i'm going to hand it over to lauren franco who will go through the review of the first five years.

>> thanks bill. i'm lauren and we're going to go through this first, the first review of the first five years the arts and en lawment. prop b dedicated, hotel tax to arts and culture. and allocated into five areas. that piece is the one we're talking about is the arts impact endowment. it was 2.5 million dollars base line. it's to address needs in the arts community. proposition e also called for the distribution of endowment funds to be determined by a

service allocation plan, that's the cdap which is to be prepared with community input every five years. the first was approved in 2019 and the second c zap. the final to tower impact areas, the top four impacted areas every year. accord to go percentage with a room of minor variance but this

was the recommendation for this five-years for evaluating. ultimate' our evaluation found that this model was not particularly suited for the dramatic sh*ift and needs that were caused by the pandemic. this was a very fixed model and it didn't shift well. additionally, initiatives were the percentages were applied, so the post pandemic when things went back to following these percentages, the percentages made it difficult to take into account the make up of each poll. the arts impact first grant cycle was intended to begin in 2020 meaning it was immediately disrupted by covid-19.

they pivoted quickly to provide pandemic relief through the relief fund in partnership with cultural innovation and continued to experiment with new program design after that, you can see in this chart that yellow line for fiscal year 20 is the arts fund, it's the whole amount for that year. we found that it to be more responsive. the program design allows for more flexible grant making. over its first five years, the endowment has distributed 9.2 million through ten different programs funding nearly 1,000 individual artist and over 200 organizations. so the bars are showing how much was awarded in each fiscal year and the colors rin indicated how much was distributed. so as i said, that first is the artist relief fund. you can see there was a

reopening safely also about pandemic needs is the peach color in fiscal 21 and then in fiscal 2 23* --23 you can see the shift in blew that was post pandemic funding. >> is it okay to ask a question? i'm interrupt for a one second. fiscal 22, does not seem to show here. >> nothing was awarded in fiscal 22. >> thanks. >> funds were distributed but perhaps not awarded. >> thanks. >> one of the reasons that they were able to reach so many grantees was because the over 1100 sub grantee by 7 different grant partners. so those programs are shown here in chronological order moving from the top to bottom,

they all representative a sub grantee partner. three of the programs provided rapid response emergency funding for either the pandemic or the winter storms at the end of 2022. these partnerships helped distribute more quickly than damage grants can typically be processed which was key to designing experimental funding. partners were also expose today liability risk that were challenging. also made the public less aware. in our stakeholder interviews, we found that although some of the stakeholders were aware of the programs listed here, very few of them other than city staff members realized that those programs were connected to the impact endowment. finally, we found there was a

strong reason to learning more and stakeholders were eager to understand the impact is having in the arts community. and i'm going to turn it over to bill to introduce our community engagement section. >> thank you. thanks. okay, so moving into the second phase of our work, after we had put the previous five years, given our analysis and begin to go put forward into the new phase, let me get my notes. ams collaborated with community partners to facilitate three open houses at city colleges, china town northbeach center. the center for latino arts and the southeast community center. promotion al partners included the san francisco lawn moore

which promoted a house that was hosted on zoom. additional youth hosted a youth group at their location in the mission. provide written materials in english, spanish, taglog and traditional xhien he's at all of these events. we had excellent participation at all of these sessions. some of you may have had an opportunity to attend at least one of them. the feedback was very thoughtful and constructive and respectful. and most importantly to one another. these sessions were designed to allow multiple opportunities and methods of communication to express needs and performances. clock wise these photos were

taken at the cultural center at youth exchange and at the southeast community center in bay view, we spared you a photo of the screen. lauren is going to walk you through what we learned from this and how we took it forward. >> thank you. >> so at the community meetings, the in-person community meetings. the first thing that was using input that we conducted during the the evaluation that we just went through, we worked with and developed a list of need in san francisco's arts community. at the open houses, we invited participants to discuss the areas of need and also to brainstorm and share the ideas of what they need and to vote on what they felt the arts

community worked. so what we're seeing here are the results of the voting at all of the open houses. across the meetings, the two areas of need that consistent received the most votes were the ones we call resilience and growth and sustaining on going initiative. the resilience and growth to maintain activities and building financial stability and security. well initiatives was defined for funding for existing arts and culture programs and other creative work that needs support to continue to thrive. group discussions, at the open houses centered on things relating to the costs of living such as affordable housing. we heard a strong emphasis on preservation that is maintaining the arts, artist and arts work that'ser are already here and being priced out of the city. you can see the emphasis on the

voting which favors the resilience and growth and supporting work that is already happening, that is already here. along the same lines, community members spoke about the importance of displacement of small budget organization that's have long hifpts and deep culture roots and also about the need to keep artist in san francisco. at youth art exchange, we spoke to high school students from multiple schools and lead through a exercise. we began with the arts that each of them practiced and moved to mapping the people in place that's support the arts that they make such as the teachers, their peers, schools, independent organizations and nonprofit, et cetera. once we build out that framework we ask them to identify which areas of the system had the greatest needs for additional funds. we heard from them, that the

teachers need a lot of fund anding aware of challenges facing artist in san francisco. we spoke about classes with teach thaerz are stretched too thin, that they were able to support the students properly and arts teachers disrupting their learning when they had to be replaced. we also learned a lot of interest from art student to artist. so in addition to the open houses, to extend the reach of our community engagement process, we also developed a four-question community survey. like the open houses, the

survey asked participant to choose what they saw as the top three areas of greatest needs out of the list of 7 and also provided sfais to write in thoughts of additional area also some input. we also included options of identity to provide information on who was being reached by the survey. the fsa provide you through additional channels and materials through their partner organization so they can promote it more broadly. in addition, they brought qr codes and paper copies to the survey to community events. as you can see, we received just about 700 responses from all across all of san francisco and extending into the rest of the bay area. in total 80 percent of the responses came from san francisco based on that zip code based from 6% from oakland with the rest based on other

bay cities. the results of the survey were similar to the open house voting as you can see in this chart. the same two areas of need received the most votes. as you can see here in on going initiative actually rose to the top. the third most popular choice was new creative opportunities, another area of problematic funding. other initiatives that need resources taken off the ground. also similar to the open house voting, there was limited support from the survey at the arts impact endowment, you can see it down there it's the last out of the 7. this mirrored our earlier interview and those interviews

stakeholders expressed appreciation for the emergency relief that the arts endowment had provided but hesitant to make it an explicit priority of the fund. and now i'm going to turn it over to bill to begin our recommendations. >> thank you. so we had our first phase of looking back at the first five years and second phase of really listening to the arts community of our needs, so how do we put that together? we made some recommendations. and brought those back to the staff committee that then gave us feedback and we had a feedback and hung them to what is now in the csap. based on the input received during the community process, ams recommends that aie, support resilience growth and new creative opportunities by connecting them to a single

theme keeping artist in san francisco. in addition to being the most prominent big themed that emerged, it is clear that this idea represents a persistent need that will remain relevant to san francisco's arts community throughout the length of this guidance. although the amounts allocated to the aie, are not large enough to provide--to large such as affordable housing and health scale to artist. they can support for individual artist work in the city. by designing aias, to support the larger of goal of interactive the displacement artist, the arts commission will address the needs the community has expressed and create a more cohesive narrative of the intention and its impact.

lauren is going to walk you through the next phase of the recommendation which is the guiding principals. >> thank you. in addition to this theme, the over arching theme, we recommend using these principles outlined. when designing or administrative programs. these guidelines are based on feedback and community impact. we heard at the open houses that racial and social justice, rather than just a specific area of need which will continue the emphasis that they already place on racial and social justice. we saw that the flexibility of the endowment was very beneficial for staff and that that should not be lost. we heard, that the focus of and

we saw that regranting had more funding. you can see on one of our right there and that the community wants to know more about what is happening with the font. within the framework of the csap theme, we're recommending that the endowment adopt these three broad areas of need which were identified during the community engagement process as channels through which the funds will be allocated. so responsive to changing circumstances and the sizes of applicant pools, we recommend that allocation to each channel be informed by the number of applicants and the overall need in the pool and aimed to distribute no less than 10 percent of available funds through each of these channels each year but without a fix

percentage. so now i'm going to walk you through, a little bit more about what is included in each of these funding channels. so first a sustaining on going initiatives. as we've already described, this includes program funding. the focus will be on work that individuals and organizations are already doing particular work that they're struggling to find or maintain enough funding for to keep afloat. this includes events that recur as well as continuous on going activities. the channel has no eliminations on our genre or type of work aside from the work to have it on going. for example, the education program fall into this channel. second, we have resilience and growth. this is the broadest khal en.

it's--channel. it's meant to build stability and capacity. this will range from equipment to professional department to staff retention to workforce development. it's appropriate for overhead costs including salaries or supplies but it's different from unrestricted fund when needs should be identified. it's not meant to be fully unrestricted. and finally, we have new creative opportunities. this man he will is the foot side of on going initiative, also intended to program for project specific funding but in this case, the work must be new. this could include one off project and pilot programs. we can think of the other two channels as sustaining the roots 689.

--like initiative. there are no restrictions on genre or type of work. and, to conclude bill is going to explain the final piece which are the metrics for evaluating this administration. >> thanks lauren. finally, how do we evaluate the success of this and a little selfishly we're thinking five years from now or somebody will come in and need to determine, did it work did it meet its objectives and goals. and the metrics shown here, are intend today help fsa staff and guide recommendations for the next five years.

not successful impact of funding when that happened. that's the last page of our report and the last page of this deck other than to say, thank you, and thank you so staff and commissioners again. i think i'm now head to go deputy director. >> thank you. >> thank you, and good afternoon, commissioner deputy program. so thank you so much for sustained attention on our journey for the last nine months to evaluate program and look to the future of the arts impact endowment. with your approval pending, we hope to develop and design guidelines and the program evaluation tools for these investments this summer to release in the early fall so that community members can understand the purpose of these

funds and if eligible access these resources and any of us are happy to take your suggestions or feedback as well. >> are there any commissioner discussion on this? >> i do have one question of commissioner, please. >> well, i would direct this to ms. franco. for the arts exchange that, what was defining as the arts? >> what were they defining as the arts? like i said, we did a mapping exercise so they were all art students themselves and we began with art that they practice. so i think we designed that world in terms of all the art that they can think about so we had a long list of different genre sxz bands that they were in and graffiti art and nick

saying recording studio stuff, there was just a long list of sort of practices that they were themselves in. and participating around. >> so you felt that it was representative of arts, not just visual arts. >> yes. >> creative practices >> we really were impressed being able to assemble this, they came from multiple schools. and variety of musicians and even some literary art some writers. >> i emphasize this, in the mythology, you talking about, new work, that's one of the things that we're talking about. and of course want to make sure that young people feel and in the breath of their practice an ability to practice. often they don't have the voice

that other organizations have. >> yeah, absolutely. and they were, like we said, they were interested in in their own pathways, we had some dance students talking about how can i get an inter ship, how can i move on with a dancer and other things were really equipment, they're saying like art studios are not as nice as some of the other art studios. how can we get more equipment for these projects. i think they were very in tune with sort of supply, supplies they needed. >> commissioner? >> can i just ask along the lines of where you were going, your thread there. how does that work in terms of sf u.s. d? these were from public schools, yes? >> uh-huh. >> how does that work between the arts, distributing funds and sf u.s. d and their budgets.

>> so these funds, the endowment would not be used directly for a school. the way, not for the sfusd, the way that they would impact these students potentially is, if they may be work with a nonprofit organization that can apply. and also, this is going to last for five years, they're in high school now. so we were talking to them as individual artist applying for this, after they leave school, when they, you know, they're old enough to receive a grant. >> and with their interest into higher education in terms of art, schools and things like that? >> yeah, i think, many of these students were very interested in either higher education or pathways. >> exactly. and asking for information to know about different nonprofits that they may be able to learn. >> yeah, some of them are already working with different

nonprofits, that's some of the space that they were familiar with. >> great. >> sure. i have several questions, the grants of the arts were referenced and maybe just a question. this is more the arts commission funds, not the grants for the art or is it tore both? >> so the grants for the arts have some, some i think nominal investment in the endowment. the money as you saw, in, way back at the beginning, the arts impact is separate from the money that goes to grants from the arts and also separate, for the funding. so the grants for the arts, had some numbers on our oversight committee. >> i see. >> so we were, we were in discussion with members with staff members. >> so the csap is focused on

this lower stream. >> yeah. >> just one. >> that's my clarifying question. >> and we had staff from both members contributing. >> yeah. >> just for clarity about grants for the arts, at the time that the legislation was passed, you know, the arts commission and grants for the arts were working closely together on that legislation and they played a large role in implementation of the initial plan. however moving forward, the arts impact endowment is under the authority and administration of the arts commission and we tried to work together with grants for the arts to coordinate. this fund is arts commission dollars and programs. >> thank you for the clarification. i'm sorry i forgot your name, you mentioned evaluation in

five years. with those five evaluation criteria, is there any plan to do evaluation annually as we go along? >> yes and that's part of the presentation. what they have to do from here. they would use that to evaluate. >> are there any--. >> i have some logitical questions. you kept mentioning stakeholders, who qualifies for stakeholder? >> you can just give me few examples. >> absolutely.

some stakeholders were past grantees, other members of staff, were past grantee recipients mostly. we certainly have the list somewhere. able to to beat communities also, yes. >> so i just want to make sure that different communities. >> yes, yeah. exactly so representatives from different nonprofits that had been very active in promoting prop e even if they were not past grant he's are people that we interviewed. >> yeah, so i open house, are

very important, first of all thank you for your work. but i love the details. >> of course, yeah. >> so, you had open houses which i think is essential because that's where people come down and share their feedback in which you create this plans, these recommendations. so i noticed that your open houses was one in china town. >> yes. >> and east, was there any fender loin or bay view or any of those neighborhoods or those communities? >> so the south view is in the bay view. >> okay, i want to make sure that. >> not in penner --person but the zoom meeting was open to every one. as we do these things, we're reaching the communities that desperately need our attention,

absolutely. and a lot on their, to their i love that about them, they're very organized but not everybody is. >> uh-huh. >> and not everybody have a voice, i want to make sure that implementation, those communities, i know they're not going to be in these open spaces. so is question, i have, i really appreciate that you said working on keeping the artist in san francisco, conclusion. i also said in your recommendation that bipoc communities should be especially in the black communities and native american, my question is, i was looking at it, i didn't see the organizations, middle eastern, out of the people that you work with?

>> sorry, were they represented in the open houses? >> yes, i know you distribute online too. part of it is people commenting online but that's through the organization that's are embedded in these communities. i want to know was there, or actual represent the native community american community. >> so we did, you've got the thing? i was going to say, i know the percentage of native american respond on the was larger than the percentage of native american population in san francisco. i know that it's not a large number and absolute terms since there were 700 responders. we did what we could to reach that population. >> hi, good afternoon. i want to thank you all for

your time and questions. just additional detail is in the plan, thank you so much commissioner hakimi. we have the stakeholders list on page 24 if you want to take a look at that later. just to take a look back, we knew that with the time and the resources and that this is the first community engagement that the agency is going to be doing. we're still going to be additional with shaping agency as well as strategic plan, we would have liked to do more open houses. we would like to have more time to do more sur vague. i feel like this was a robust effort to focus on on this impact fund which is one area that the agency and organization is focused on. so this is really really good feedback as far as want to go have more additional out reach

and that's something that we would have loved as well. this is part of a larger continuum that the agency is going to be focus odd followed by a number of very large initiative that the organization as a whole is going to be taking on. we do appreciate that. >> my own input in there, if you can be mindful of being sure that you're fill-in the missing organization that were not on that. and making sure that they get a chance to be part of it. from the communities that they work with, they don't have access unless somebody tells me and somebody is within the community. >> absolutely. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> i would like to call on commissioner, i mean, director remington for a little clarity. >> thank you, president collins. thank you for all comments and for the presentation as well and all the staff work involved

and ams on all of this. just to let everybody know too, this is just the first step in a long process because we have a big strategic plan that we're now and this is our first crack at all of this and getting our muscle back after having no muscle during could vid. covid so we we're ramping back up and we're in the, just in the ging of a two-year process in all comment sxz suggestions are welcome. >> i would like to underscore that, and i hear you commissioner. the art of this is suggestive, what we're going to be aware is all of the input, the communities that we're concerned about just by being around here for a long time, we used to not have any affected out reach into our chinese

communities, right? we were not multi lingual, we were a jill in agile in things like that. so each phase gives us more on the channels in order to get this distribution but i also want to say, that during the pandemic, things were suspended. and in that sense, of the emergency powers because in many ways, allocation al formula were set aside because of the emergency that was present. so we're now building that back up. mindful that even during that period of time, that we try to make substantial end roads into the community xeshl that were very vul terrible. all of your suggestions, please keep them and make sure that we hand them to our director. are there any other comments from the members of the commission. >> i would like to make a

comment, i do like the idea of maintaining flexibility as this survey, this information keeps coming in. i think it will be helpful to all communities. >> are there any other questions. now i would like to have a motion to approve this item number 6, cultural services allocation plan for 2024-2025. a motion? >> so moved. >> commissioner shelby. >> commissioner hakimi seconded it. >> thank you. we have a motion, we have a made and second. do we have any public comment on this item number 6? >> for those in-person please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out card. we're currently on item 6. as a reminder your time will begin when you start speaking.

i'm requesting comments from in-person. is there anyone that would like a public comment. seeing no public for comment, public comment is now closed. >> thank you i'm going to ask for a final motion, all those in favor aye. >> aye. >> opposed? motion carries unanimously. i'm now calling agenda item number 7, which is the racial equity update, i'm introducing senior racial equity engagement analyst sandra, did i give you enough time to get here? >> thank you. thank you. good afternoon commissioners. happy to see you this june as we celebrate all things that

are happening this month, pride, juneteenth my birthday, so i just wanted to say, this is equity updates for the month of june as you know, we are, i based on racial equity action plan, we report to you all, ever quarter. and almost monthly to the executive report. to executive committee so for those on the committee, you heard this a few times. thank you for your patience and attention to that. so i will run through a couple of slides. and so, recently, as part of equity plan, we have an annual report that we submit as part of the legislation for the city wide efforts for every one to understand what each department is doing. so i did the progress report in

may, so that's last month, and so, the, this is just a basic update that we provide and it's really the entire city provides it, they're not looking for a lot. they're actually looking for a couple of slides which is also consolidated so every department submits a number of slides so. they ask a come of questions what is the racial he quit that your department has learned and implemented last year? and what is the practice that will be a priority for the upcoming year? so the next slide. so prior to talking about the progress report, i did want to share the racial equity staff survey that we, that we had this is a climate survey that looks at how staff are feeling about some of the progress ma tha* we're making. and so again, this is part of the equity action plan to that

we have to conduct an annual survey. so the survey was available for us on staff from february to march of this year and 36 responses which is about 100 percent of the staff which is great. and i do want to thank the race equity team for nudging staff to do* submit this. this also provides some of the basis of information that we want to think about as we move forward. so just a little bit, bit of the highlights. from that survey, everybody believes it's valuable and discuss the racial equity in our work. three out of the four means equity tool and framework in making budget decisions. there is the continued need for quitity train anding tools that can be applied to our work and

i'm not for getting you all as well. because commissioners are important decision makers and part of the action plan to be able to provide some training for and with you all. we have run into a couple of things just like basic standards of commission issues of not being able to have you altogether in one room without like the plan and public meeting type of stuff. and lastly we're looking at how leadership can increase and formalize about we directly engage with community when we talk about racial equity. so we use some of the information from the racial equity survey to look at at the progress report on what we want to focus on.

we're working hard at hiring recruitment. so as you see we've had a lot of new hires. we've been able to refine a number of new things. so this is really looking at different organizations, particularly and things like that. looking at different avenues opportunities so they also get our job vacancies. every interview has a racial equity question. so we ask them how they're understanding, how they use it in the past and what has been

really great is they have come together and brought a lot of questions together that now the city can use. we always have something to ask. and interview process as well. and we also developed a appraisal so we have biannual check tiffs which also includes. so people are suppose to identify what they do in work. and then the second section of looking cultural belonging, i'm happy that we have a race equity team which is staff members so different representatives from the staff. i'm never alone but sometimes it's lonesome having 20 do this

racial equity work. so they're able to speak and racial equity through even their staff meetings. which work on different sections and i'm really hoping that it will, not hoping but that we'll be able to take the action plan and show you the different accomplishments in a fun and informative way in the near future as we work hard on that. so what we're talking about in the future is basically what we've talked about in the previous section, what we've learned from that. and i've talked to a number of times about this but in this upcoming year, we're really looking at community engagement. and we're thinking about how identifying the communities of

working artist and different pop lations that are not considered. what is considered a artist, culturally as well. wraoef seen that people have identified and cultural work may be the kind of art that we give grants to. for us it's undering the barriers and equity. and i think we have a really strong staff that understand what is happening out in the community. so we're really trying to craft a community engagement plan. another thing is what is good about our work is racial equity have had different kinds of metrics of identifying different communities that the

whole city has not necessarily considered. we have a lot of resources out there to see and cross out there to really talk about how we approach communities who are under service under funded. and so, one of the key things that we're also doing is really consolidating all of our racial equity list, not just list but our community list. so when we're doing things and talking about art galleries to our vendors that we're actually addressing our a contacting all the people that are constituents, right? >> that's it. and then so, so this is another internal aspects.

sorry, all the slides look like, i tried to put pictures in there. so this last one is recently, it's really about what we want to focus on in terms of our training. so as mentioned in our, in our racial equity action plan, in our racial equity. we really want to consolidate, we want to do an analysis of the framework. one of the things that president collins had mentioned, it's a valid question, why don't we have, three out of four people have used tools. so why isn't it four out of four? what happened the evolution from racial equity, the past

four years since 2020 is that things have evolved and we want to go back and understand what folks are using, that's another great suggestion by staff, we didn't ask anyone what they are actually doing. because there are so many great tools out there, we want to make sure that we're using something that is standardize and that everybody understand it and for me particularly, what is applicable to the arts and culture sector. and i believe that's it. so just in the future, what we're looking at is the race equity plan assessment. we're working with the team and staff to take as much, to identify all of those accomplishments from the reach out equity plan and try to put it in a format that we can share with you all by the end

of summer and second, the second phase of the racial equity action plan will focus on external community engagement. we're in the workforce and in the second phase we're in the community engagement. thank you. >> thank you very much, we all look forward to these quarterly reports. and for those in the executive committee, i feel like we can never get enough. are there any comments from members of the commission? commissioner ferris. >> firstly, happy birthday month, and secondly thank you for what you're doing, it came up in conversation when i was talking about this in other departments, and i was so proud to talk about the work that you

do to further racial equity and inclusion. so yeah, thank you. i just wanted to say happy birthday and thank you for the work na you're doing. >> any other comments or discussion? >> yes, commissioner, i just want to say thank you, i personally see the impact in the last two years that i've been on this commission and i want to thank all the staff for sphere heading this, i'm seeing it on the ground, so thank you. >> no further comments from the commission. is there any public comment? no, we have a motion, no motion on this one. so public comment on this agenda item. >> for those joining in-person, please proceed to the public comment podium. we are currently on item 7. as a reminder your time will start when you begin speaking.

i'm requesting comments from those in-person. is there anyone that would like to make a public comment. i see no public comment. public comment is now closed. >> i'm now calling agenda item number 8, and the action. we're going to take all the consent items together except sub submit 3 and 91, commissioner renso will need to recuse himself. are there any other recusal or withdrawal from the consent calendar? no, i do want to note that in in consent calendar, an action that was needed in order to clarify the jurisdiction for the civic design, i just want to make sure, this is an important matter that we don't

want to skip over, it's significant. >> sure thank you. item number 5 is the motion to approve number 1, exempt from civic design review volving only modification or additions to speak such as street lights and signage. who's estimated construction costs rund a million dollars and number 2 to authorize the director of culture affairs to determine with project between 1 million and 5 million to street structure smaller than 500 square feet, whether administrative or single phase review is necessary. and to three, consistent with return to the future cdr meeting of approval. so this is, a big deal in terms

of the fact that, we always, reviewed everything and we we're trying to streamline and be more efficient with the review process. so some of the smaller things like a plaque in the sidewalk and things like that, it's, easy enough for staff when these things come through to take a quick look and make sure, the most important thing which we're working on is to come up with the guidelines so staff has it and can look through almost like a checklist and say yes or no and so our director can also make a decision on the 1 to 5 million if he feels something is important that comes through for us. but the hope is to streamline, the work we do so that we can really focus on the larger projects that really do need our review process. >> thank you. are there any other, matters, any other recusal?

>> i had a question, i apologize, because this is new to me, this is first time i'm vote ago on this. on item 91, i have a question, it says 9,800 to 9 million 500 for the symphony, can i ask what that fund is. >> this is something that we do every year and it, so i will ask director to provide clarification. >> yes, i will call to the podium our c.f.o. sarah hollenbeck. deputy director of finance. >> good afternoon, commissioner. it was what is the source of funding for this pavement from the symphony.

and the answer is from the symphony park and directed to the charter. >> thank you very much. >> so this goes back to the historic arts in san francisco. are there any further questions on the consent calendar? may i have a motion to approve the consent calendar with the exception of sub item number 3 and 91. >> moved. >> commissioner snear second. >> thank you, is there any public comments? >> for those wanting to comment, we're currently on item 8. as a reminder your time will start when you begin speaking. you'll receive a 30-second audible warning. i'm requesting anybody in-person, is there anybody

that would like to make a public comment. i see no request for public comment. public comment is now closed. >> thank you. now may i have a motion to approve the consent calendar with those exceptions all those in favor. >> aye. >> aye. >> opposed? motion carries unanimously. and now may i ask commissioner brenzo so state why his recusal. >> i'm request recusal for 3 and 91 because i'm an employee of the san francisco symphony. >> thank you. thank you. now you're going to go to the corner. so now we are going ask for a motion to approve the consent calendar, may i have a motion please? >> so moved, commissioner?

>> second. >> is there any further discussion on these matters? seeing none, may i ask for public comment on sub item 3 and 91. >> for those comment be in-person, come to the podium and fill out a public card. as a reminder your time will start when you begin speaking. is there anyone that would like to make a public comment? i see no request for public comment. public skoment now closed. >> thank you very much. and now may i have a call for the motion all those in favor aye. >> aye. >> opposed nay, motion unanimously approved. and we'll ask commissioner to return to the room and now move

to agenda item number 9. this is which is announcements. first asking for my commissioner discussion or comments on agenda item number 9, new business or announcements? commissioner, are you? commissioner shelby, please. >> oh yeah, i just wanted to announce a couple of things. one is, we start our festival this year. on june 159ing the day before fathers day and we go to june third, if somebody is interested please reach out or have any questions, i want to mention that and also tomorrow at sf jazz, we have our season opener event, with director

terrance. and my quartet will be playing as part of that event. >> yeah. >> sure why not. as most of you know, my family started a new restaurant down the mission, if you come, i'd love to see you there. but also want to talk about a nonprofit part of our project. and we actually have documentary about our project and where it comes from, where it's coming from. so this week we're going to find out if we win or not, so if we do, we'll separate together. preserving the culture that's

the point. >> i say you should win it, that is the most, the restaurant is fantastic. >> nice. >> i just want to express appreciation for looking at the iranian person disaspra and you're bringing new things to our attention. >> thank you, thank you, we're trying to change the conversations. >> always nice. i would also like to mention that the art of noise, at sf moment is a tour deforce, chris becker is the curater, it's

extremely imaginative. just the poster art that is there and also the technology and design room that helps you to just, invite all of what joseph becker has done with his tour deforce has taken over the moment. anything else? please, commissioner. >> thank you, too director remmington for plugging the triangle. this is it, so it's up there on the hill as a reminder and warning to try and prevent it from happening again. >> thank you. are there any other commissioner comments? is there any public comment on this agenda item number 9?

new business and announcements? >> for those joining in-person, please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we're currently on item number 9. see a visual time. i'm requesting comments from those in-person. i see no request for public comment. public comment is now closed. >> thank you, so this item is closed. so item number 10 is a very moment for the commission, we do this annually. we bear witness for people who we lost during this six-month period, i'm going to ask for commissioner to take over at one point when we get to marcia.

we recognize philanthropist who are recently passed away. we have a number of folks that we would like to acknowledge, recognize and celebrate in memoriam in month. the first is rev. cecile williams who passed away on april 22, 2024, at the age of 94. the memory of cecile williams, the arts commission would like to share a post that featured rev. williams in the 2017 art on market street series, summer of love trading cards.

solomon who spear headed the colorful super graphic of 1970s and 60s, passed away at the age of 95 in graphic design landscape architecture and her books and drawings she threads the immediate needle between the rational and the playful. claire eyes ike the former executive director of san francisco arts commission, and accomplished leader in the arts community in san francisco and abroad, claire a generous loving and exuberant free spirit open minded with a range of interest passed away on december 31, after a long and fulfilling life of love, community, work and philanthropy. david johnson, iconic san francisco refound photographer and civil rights advocate

passed away on may 1, 2024 in his home in marin county, david johnson was 97 years old, recognized as one of the most important photographers to document the joys squ struggles of decades of san francisco's story, history, focusing his camera on everyday life with special emphasis on the black community. david lee micener passed away peacefully on april 21, 2024. david extensive musical career included roles as a choral conducter, music director, opera and musical performer, tenor soloist and choral artist. he worked also as a certified piano technician and was known for his volunteer work with the

aids ministries and reconciling ministries. dorian mcgee known as duran da da passed away on january 159ing at the age of 59, a cherished berkeley artist with muirals and digital arts celebrated black culture and heritage reflected his lifelong commitment to amplifying voices. hairy parker, who's visionary transformed the landscape passed away on january 13th at the age of 84. left behind enduring culture, sur arrived by his beloved wife, children, adorning grandchildren and a host of colleagues and admirers who will continue to honor his legacy.

when i saw walter hood at the unveiling at the sugimoto, we both recall hairy parker. as you know, at the new young all of that landscape was done by walter hood. and it was him that took on this type of work and wanted to express his condolences in this meeting. jackie passed away as a public servant and community leader, jackie promoted excellence, excess ability enduring and nurturing mother and grandmother and wise and

inspiration life partner and i believe a member of this commission. jeff curtis, a luminated dance and advocate for excess ability in the performing arts passed away on the 11th of march, 2024 throughout his illustrious career, curtis continually pushed boundaries inviting audiences to experience dance in transformative ways. just this weekend we lost joe sam and if you're interested in a more extensive of joe, go into the moab website on their posting today, about joe sam's life. it's a beautiful statement and shows the extent of his brilliance. he was a mix, completely self educator, installation artist

and passed away on june 1. his work explored oesh justice utilizing, to powerful lehigh light black lives against the truth of history. joshua coffee a local bay area artist who's bright animal murals adorned homes in san francisco passed away on december 20th, 2023 at the age of 47. beyond his distributions, cofi was a champion of san francisco artist community.

>> marchia passed away in san francisco at 69. impact transcended her achievement leading enduring imprint on the community she served and on the countless lifes she touched. at her memorial colleagues spoke and there were some wonderful quotes. remains a role model to architects taking a better stand. she never backed down in her commitment to sustainable design and through her tireless work successful elevated the definition of great design to include the protection to our natural environment but her work was not finished she had just handed it over to us, be kind will not sacrifice results, we must continue to step up as feyserlessly as she did.

and we can go to nancy quick stone a celebrated painter passed away on november 17, at 2024. cap curing the beauty will be recommended fondly. gray pat lands esteem muralist passed away on april 15, 2024 at age 74. patland leaves behind a lasting legacy of inspiration and activism, remembered on the artistic landscape and beyond. robert henry johnson a beloved dancer and playwright, passed at age 54, worked in the bay area for decades teaching a generation of black artist and

astonishing fluid, he seems to everiless lea simulate any dance style and transform any movement that he approached. steven goldstein, a luminary figure in the bay area, passed away on november 25, 20 24. marked by his dedication and selfless service will be remembered fondly. qc chan a water artist passed at the age of 84, was the founding principal of tc chan and chokeser architects. had over 50 years of experience with all fas et cetera of arbitration tra*ij range froming project to construction as well as programming and photography.

and that includes our contribute to memoriam. >> are there any commissioner comments. >> we lost two titans in our community, and pretty resent, one is gale bobson who's vocalist and a dear friend and she, is the mother of two really incredible musicians. she was married to smith bobson senior who was a big musician in our community. recently transitioned she was 81. and also, one of the great legend of our time, calvin keys, guitar player. he was born february 6, 1942

and passed away february 14, 2024. i want to shine light on them both colleagues and both defining musicians in the bay area for calvin keys forever. important leaders and teachers and influential artist. thank you. anybody else? commissioner harris? >> thank you president collins. i want to add somebody who was not in our community. she was my best friend and i knew her since i was four years and loved san francisco more than anybody. i want to acknowledge her, trina died at 49 on may 12th. >> i just wanted to emphasize

robert henry johnson. if you can imagine a person with more fluidity. >> baptist that you saw on the steps, that was for robert johnson, he was suppose to be a big part of this. >> anyway, you can never, say enough about this delicate and vulnerable soul. any other comments before we? >> i'll mention that robert henry was probably the reason i moved here in 1996, i met him in 95 and i was lao* like i need to go to san francisco. and he was a dear friend, he

had a key to my apartment, the whole nine yards, i was close to his mother. we honored him last year but we can honor him every year. >> and he owns the corral theater. any other comments? nothing? any public comment on in memoriam? >> for those joining in-person please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the information card. we're currently on item 10. as a we minder your time will start when you begin speaking. requesting anybody in-person that would like to make a public comment? i see no requests for public comment. public skoment now closed. >> that brings us to agenda number 11, adjournment. thank you.

(laughter). >> hi, i'm pilipinas chi chai mateo and am the artist here.

i'm current working on a title meaning together and the reason why i choose that theme because celebrating the legacy of some of the latin tennis especially with the power that put us together as formed when he come together and before us putting for our recognition and housing. but through our art culture and we see that today which we're together and it is always a hope for the generations after us. >> here in this district where we revising the languages and culture but in yes or no answer

why we do this i get to see kids come out of this kind mr. ryu rattle where they came from and we are here. such an honor to be part of this legacy of togetherness and those opportunities have painting a mural such as this but teaching different skwashgs and learning more about my culture i thought i already knew but so much more to this is beautiful we have so much to give each other and we're also willing to work

>> hello and welcome to the tuesday, june 4, 2024 hybrid virtual meeting of the entertainment commission i'm ben bleiman i'm the president. we will start with announcements. >> good evening. we want to start with a land acknowledgment. [ramaytush ohlone land acknowledgment]