reminder thatsafety, you know, t people, particularly people of color is very much needed. the few be have left is not going to solve any of our problems. i hope you bear that in mind when you are making decisions. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you very much. alexandra, i do not know if you want to add anything. >> thanks to the funding, we are

looking to offer services to this community that is already underserved, and i personally feel awful but i was there that evening and saw the attack on mia. my obligation to respond to this community and demonstrate that we are going to say no to hate, no to violence, especially in the city in san francisco, the mission district, and this attack occurred one block away from my agency where we serve anywhere from 10 to 20 girls. i felt personally obligated to respond, and things to you and thanks to the city of san francisco helping us to

continue the services that we offer, we will call on the community to come and demonstrate period the people in the human rights of transgendered and immigrants. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. note president -- president chu: it is now 4:00. madam clerk, could you please call the special items? 15 through 18? madam clerk: item number 15, a

hearing of persons interested in objecting to the decision of the planning commission's purview 17, 2011, conditional use authorization. item number 16, a motion approving the decision by the planning commission. item number 17, emotion disapproving the decision of the planning commission, and item number 18, a motion directing the clerk of the board to prepare findings. president chu: these will be continued. madam clerk: today's meeting will be adjourned on behalf of supervisor chu for -- on behalf of supervisor cohen -- on behalf of supervisor farrell -- on behalf of supervisor of a los --

-- supervisor avalos -- on behalf of president chu, supervisor mar, and supervisor weiner. president chu: madam clerk, is there any more business for today? madam clerk: no. president chu: we are adjourned for today. [gavel]

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>> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of

graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws

as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. let's go over and take a look at that. here we are in a smaller space. project gallery. >> artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. >> i noticed a lot of artists

doing really site-specific work. >> this is a pile of balloons, something that is so familiar, like a child's balloon. in this proportion, suddenly, it becomes something out of a dream. >> or a nightmare. >> may be a nightmare. >> this one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. >> this is made out of puffy paint. often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. she has made all these lines of paint. >> for the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of? >> i'm not telling. >> ah, a secret. >> this silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire.

their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. >> this is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now. you have a more established artists alongside and emerging artists. is that something important to you as well? >> very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. now let's look at other aspects of electric works operation. let's go to the bookstore. >> ok. >> in all seriousness, here we are in your store. this is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. it has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. >> this was the project for the berkeley art museum. it was -- this is from william

wiley's retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song, 270 people put on the cat. >> it is not just a bookstore. it is a store. can you talk us through some of your favorites? >> these are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. >> these pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. >> we do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. they are probably not for prime time. >> you sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. >> let's go. >> before we go into the print

shop, i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. what are we standing in front of? >> this is william wiley, only one earth. this is a print edition. there are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. this is really an art object. there we go. >> besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited edition? >> there is the slot machine. if you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. >> what about work? >> the right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. the cab of count dracula with 20

lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. really special. >> let's move on to the print shop. >> ok. the core of what we do is making things. this is an example. this is a print project that will be a fund-raiser for the contemporary music players. we decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. >> so nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell, and the profits, they can keep. >> the return on investment is usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. this is for the bio reserve in

mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. >> you also make prints for the artists that you represent. over here are some large prints by a phenomenal artist. >> he writes these beautiful things. anyone who has told you paradise is a book of rules is -- has only appeared through the windows. this is from all over coffee. we are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. >> thank you very much for showing us around today. i really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation and also to share with our "culturewire" team.

>supervisor cohen: welcome to te meeting of the joint city and district select. joining me is supervisor avalos. supervisor chu will be joining us later. and i have commissioner fewer and commissioner maufas from

the schoo. all right. madame clerk, do we have any announcements? no announcements. can you please read item number one? >> the hearing of the san francisco unified school district summer school program. supervisor cohen: this is going to be a hearing. i am grateful for the members of the audience, i am looking forward to hearing what they have to tell us about the summer school program. who will be presenting first? >> this one? good afternoon, a supervisor chair cohen.

i'm a director -- the director. we thought the city would present the city services first. i am here to start the conversation. i have other city partners at the table. we have the director of the san francisco rec and park department. we have the city librarian and a director of inter-agency planning. and of course, we have staff that is much more knowledgeable than i am. i will figure out how to do this. as we all know, summer school, summer needs, summer services

are always great. particularly for this summer school, we are looking at public schools and in much earlier than before, perhaps a week or two earlier. the last day will be may 27. school will start again august 15. as a response to that, the city has gotten together and put together -- and one thing i want to call your attention to is on march 19, the san francisco unified school district along with dcys will be hosting our sixth annual summer resource fair.

the san francisco examiner put it on again this year. we had approximately 200 summer school because of the larger venue, we will have more participants. we can advertise this event with our parents in this city. the parents that are listening

or watching today, if you want to find out about any type of parent related services or activities, they are looking for an after-school program or an after-school program and even just ideas on the weekend. it's called sfkids.org . we are proud of the web site because it is run by parents and it is used by parents. i use it myself. for those that do not have access to the internet, please go to 311. the city of blood all of our information -- uploads all of

your information to 311. diving right in, some of the programs that we have available for children and families, we have year-long child-care services for our children. and we've jointly fund all of the child-care programs with the human services agency. there are 22 child care sites with approximately 1400 slots available. clearly, this is not enough for all of our child care needs in the city, but it is at least something. you can go to 311 to learn more. families can learn about

different subsidized child-care slots. we have another joint program for families. they are called family resource centers. we have 23 family resource centers. we have 19 centers in neighborhoods in san francisco, and four that are population based. people that [unintelligible]

4000 young people will receive summer began programs as well as harry specialized targeted for working families. they have to run eight hours of programming through the day. it is a supporter of of our working families in this city. i am not sure if this is clearer on the slide, but you can see the breakdown of programs from

5-10 year-old. there is a cluster of services in the highest neighborhoods in the city. we provide opportunities for young people to join in a campaign to fight for a cause or learn about philanthropy. as well as some of our beacon programs throughout the city. we have main programs as well as youth works. we hope that young people will

be able to apply for a summer slots in these programs. i am sure that director ginsburg will talk a little bit about it. these are programs specific to young people wanting to learn about a career in their recreation field. we have other funding where there are more year-long programs that have already joined the program and will most likely continue in those programs perhaps with intensive summer projects or a combination of some type of event during the summer. -- culmination of some typ eoe f event during the summer. young people, particularly

disadvantaged young people that are not engaged in a simulated way when they break from school will have a decrease in academic performance once they go back to school. we want to make sure that our programs are going to provide all of that stimulation you would need in terms of keeping them academically engaged and having different opportunities for them to learn both fund things -- fun things and things that will connect when they go back to school. we are hosting a summer learning day in the city where we hope to ask our community-based organizations to provide -- could go to training and provide a showcase or opportunity to show how young people will be able to engage in all of these different types of

services. another area we are trying to improve in terms of quality is developing quality assessment. this is the second year we are finding specific programs. we will be able to tell a different data-driven story of how the programs are performing in terms of summer services. and finally, once again, in partnership with other city departments, they will have these professional development days. we are asking staff to come and learn all of the skills.

san francisco is lucky enough to have a grant from the usda to provide summer lunch. this is the first year they will be hosting a summer lunch program. given the change in the school district's calendar, it will run nine weeks. we are now making a nine week program. we are excited that we will have the opportunity to provide summer launched throughout the city. we're looking to provide summer lunch at 85 different sites throughout the city. we have served