each of these forms that makes it move ever so slightly. and it is beating like a heart. if-0 when as of the forces of nature moving around us every second. >> shadow patterns reflect the shapes of the hanging sculptures. the new terminal also features a children's play areas. both of the market the exploratory n.y. -- exploratorium. the offer travelers of all ages a playful oasis. using high quality plywood, they created henches shaped like a bird wings that double as musical instruments. serving as a backdrop is a mural featuring images of local birds

and san francisco's famous skyline. >> in the line between that is so natural, you can see birds and be in complete wilderness. i really like that about this. you could maybe get a little snapshot of what they are expecting. >> it is an interactive, keck sculpture that is interacted with by the visitor. >> they are a lot about and they fall down the belt. it moves the belt up, and if you turn that faster, the butterflies fall in the move of words. >> the art reflect the commission's commitment to acquiring the best work from the

bay area and beyond. in addition to the five new commissions, 20 artworks that were already in the airport collection were reinstalled. some of which were historically cited in the terminal. it includes major sculptures by the international artists. as a collection, these art works tell the story of the vibrant arts scene in the early 1960's through the mid-1980s's. the illustrate san francisco's cultural center and a place of innovation that is recognized and the love throughout the world. one of the highlights is a series of three left tapestries. they are on view after being in storage for 20 years. these tapestries representing various gardens. from his years of living in san francisco.

hydrangeas, chrysanthemums, and whilst dahlias in rich, deep shades as they make their way to the baggage area. they can access behind-the- scenes information and interviews with the artist through an audio to work. it features archival audio as well as interviews with living artists. he can be accessed on site by dialing the telephone numbers located near the artwork or by visiting the commission's web site. the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culture. for more information, visit

>> hello. welcome to the regular meeting of the budget and finance subcommittee meeting. my name is karimen chu. joined by ross mirkairmi and supervisor jane kim. our clerk is victor young. do we have announcements today? >> if you wish to speak during public comment, submit the card and present them to myself. please provide a copy to the clerk. items not appearing today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we will lose quorum if we don't take a quick recess. the mayor will be announcing the police chief and i believe a number of folks will be on hand for that announcement. so what i'd like to do before i

call our agenda items is to take a brief recess. we'll say that we will return roughly around 10:20 or so. that probably will be enough time, i imagine. , before we are -- we return. so if we can we'll just take a brief recess, roughly about 10, 20 minutes and we'll be back. thank you. supervisor chu: i thank everybody for their patience as we watch the new chief get sworn in. we want to say congratulations to chief suhr. if we can call item number one. >> resolution approving the execution of lease number 11-0049 with cargo warehouse and support office space in building 648 at san francisco international airport. supervisor chu: thank you very

much. i believe we have kathy white from the airport. >> good morning, chair chu, vice chair mirk reama. we are trying -- mirkarimi. the new lease would carry a term of five years from may 5, 2011, to may 5 -- may 4, 2016. the lease is for a total scare footage of 2,608 of cargo space, ramp space at the airport. this is the exact same space that the airline currently has with us. there has been some reconfiguration from cargo space to office space but the scare footage remains the same. under the proposed lease, the asi anna airlines would pay a rental rate of $it 2 per square foot for a total of $800,000.

as the budget analyst report it is a rent reduction of approximately $94,000 a year. we saw a similar rent reduction when the committee approved our cargo lease with china airlines. we'll see this as things come before you where at the end of a few 10-year leases, particularly with some of our cargo tenants and the cargo market is substantially different. much smaller than it was a year ago. so the new lower rental rate is the result of a negotiation between airport staff and the airlines. and we feel that it is a fair market rate. supervisor chu: ok. let's go to the budget analyst report. >> madam chair, members of the committee, debra newman. as she indicated and as shown in our report on page 4, table

2, the current lease with asi anna airlines is at a rate -- asiana airlines it is a result the $943,146 per year under the new lease. although the square footage would remain the same, the rental rate per square foot will go down to $21.40 so there will be a total of annual estimated revenue of $849,000 or a reduction of $94,037 per year. however, because of the airport's residual rate setting methodology that there will not result in any budgetary shortfall overall for the airport because the cost will be reallocated and rerecommend approval of the proposed lease. supervisor chu: why don't we open this up for public comment? are there any members of the

comment who would like to speak on item number one? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we move this item forward with recommendation? we'll do that without objection. thank you very much. item number 2, please. >> item number two, ordinance appropriating $6,995,000 of loan funding from the california department of boating and waterways to the renovation of west harbor of san francisco, arena yacht harbor for fiscal year 2010-2011. supervisor chu: thank you. i believe we have katie from the recreation department. >> thank you, commissioners. i'm here this morning to ask for your approval of a sublamental appropriation in the amount of $6.9 million which is the final installment of a $23.5 million loan that the city is receiving from the california department of ++ --

supervisor chu: let's go to the member. >> it would appropriate $6,995 loan from the california department of boating and waterways to the recreational and park departments. this would complete the $23,495,000 loan in addition at a 4.5% interest rate. interest is calculated at $222,583 or a cost to rec and park of $46 million. it is estimated to make increasing amounts of loan payments, increasing up to $1.4 million annually over a total of 35 years. as katie indicated, the rec-park department would repay the employee posed state loan from the west harbor operations from the marina yacht harbor fund. and given the state requirements, the proposed cash flow analysis that is shown on page 9 of our report does indicate that the recognize

park department would be able to complete the loan as indicated and note that the board of supervisors previously approved a 37% rate increase in the rental rate in the west harbor which are anticipated to begin in fiscal year 2012-2013 when the project would be completed and with the rent increases, the birth rental rate increases, they are projected to be sufficient funds to meet the state's debt obligation under the proposed loan agreement and we therefore recommend approval of the proposed supplemental. supervisor chu: thank you very much. why don't we go to public comment on this item? are there any members of the public who wish to comment on item number 2? seeing none, public comment is closed. ok, we have a motion to send the item forward with recommendation and also a second and we'll do that without objection. thank you very much. item number three, please.

>> item number three, resolution authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing to accept and expand an economic development initiative special projects grant from u.s. department of housing and urban development in the total amount of $750,000 to assist with the redevelopment of the sunydale housing site into a mixed housing community. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we have amy from the mayor's office for this item. >> thank you, chairman chu. supervisor mirkirimi and supervisor kim. i am director of the mayor's office of housing and i would like to ask for your approval today of an extend of $750,000 of an economic development initiative grant from the department of housing and urban development. this grant would be for the sunydale revitalization project which is one of the five active hope f.s. sites that exists

today. hope f.s. is the program where the city is revitalizing one of the most distressed housing sites into mixed income communities. sunydale had been working with the mayor's office of housing for the last three years to preprayer pour the revitalization process. they are at the point which they have completed the master planning process and are working towards completing their entitlements by summer 2012. sunydale currently is a 785 unit public housing development which once revitalized is planning to be a 1,700 unit project which will actually have 25 square feet of life center, a 15,000 square foot neighborhood serving retail component and a 15,000 square foot community serving retail which will serve for job training and resident services for existing residents on the site. we ask for approval because the city financing is very important to the overall

project as it is a very large and ambitious effort to revitalize this project. especially during these very difficult times. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you very much for your presentation. this item does not have a budget analyst report with it so why don't we go directly to public comments. are there any members of the public who wish to speak on item number 3? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor mirkarimi: motion to accept with recommendation. supervisor chu: ok, we have a motion to accept this item with recommendation. we will do that without objection. thank you. do we have any other items before us? >> that completes the subcommittee agenda. supervisor chu: thank you. we are adjourned.

>> 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.

>> welcome to "culture wire." on this episode, we explore what it means to the aged, in today's society -- what it means to be chicana in today's society. chica chic features an array of artwork by five leading chicana artists that addresses a range of issues such as integration, sustainability, and integration. using a distinct visual approach, each of the artist's response to the shifting needs of their communities in ways that offer unique perspectives and multiple points of entry. >> the exhibition is to bring together the voices of a new generation chicana artists, all

of whom reference the works of the civil-rights movement in their works, but they are also responding to a new cultural concerns and new cultural circumstances. >> the works in the show include a large canvas depicting a woman washing the beach with her hair at the u.s./mexican border. the painting encourages the viewer to engage with the current debates over immigration and the politics of women and labor. influenced by the campaigns of the chicano civil rights movement, this oakland artist is a print maker whose work has helped and sustainability with the immigrant community as well as other current sociopolitical issues. this print-based work draws on appropriated agricultural worker manuals and high fashion labels to satirically address class issues, cultural identities, and

consumerism. >> angelica -- her father was an agricultural worker, so she has drawn a lot from the materials the agricultural department sends to agricultural workers, referencing the depiction of farm workers and some of the information about pesticide application. >> mitzi combines a variety of media, including embroidery, to create artifacts of mexican, chicano, pop culture. she greets immensely detailed drawings of celebrities on the same platform of her friends and families. her work combines elements of chicano portraiture and low writer art, rendered in upon new art style, or intricate drawings on handkerchiefs, also -- often associated with prison art. her portrait of three girls is among several of original posters by the exhibition

artists, which are on view at various bart stations as part of a public campaign funded by the national endowment of the arts. from the outset, the curator felt it was important for the exhibition to have a public art components of the work could reach the widest possible audience. more than just a promotion, the posters connect the work of these powerful artists with new audiences, including the vital chicano and latino community. images can be found in bart stations located in san for cisco and oakland. >> it is enormously exciting for me personally and for the institution. the poster with up right after new year's, and i remember very vividly -- i am a regular rider, and i went into the station and saw the first poster i had seen, it was incredibly exciting. it is satisfying to know that ro