their choice. voters wishing to vote for qualified write-in candidate can write it in on the line provided. and they must complete the arrow pointing to their choice. keep in mind, it voters should select a different candidate for each of the three columns of the ranked choice ballot card. if the voters elect the same candidate in more than one column, his or her vote for that candidate will count only once. also, a voter's second choice will be counted only if his or her first choice candidate has been eliminated. and a voter's third choice will be counted only if both his or her first and second choice candidates have been eliminated. we have talked about how to mark the ranked choice ballot. now let's look at how ranked choice of voting works. initially, every first choice

vote is a candidate. any candidate that receives a majority, more than 50% of the first choice to vote, is determined to be the winner. if no candidate receives more than 50% of the first choice votes, a process of eliminating candidates and transferring votes begins. first, the candidate who received the fewest numbers of first choice votes is eliminated from the race. second, voters who selected the eliminated candidate as their first choice will have their vote to transfer to their second choice. there, all the votes are recounted. fourth, if any candidate receives more than 50% of the votes, he/she is declared the winner. if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, the process of eliminating candidates and transferring votes is repeated until one candidate has a winning majority. now let's look at an example of

an election using ranked choice of voting. in this example, we have three candidates. candidate a, b, and c. after all the first choice votes are counted, none of the three candidates has received more than 50%, or a majority of the first choice vote cast. candidate a g-205% ofb the votes% received 40%. and c received 35% of the boats. because no candidate received a majority, the candidate who received the fewest number of first choice votes, a candidate a, is eliminated from the race. voters to pick a candidate a as their first choice candidate will have their but transferred to their second choice. and the voters to pick and a, 15% chose candidate b as their second choice, and 10% chose c as their second choice.

these votes are then applied to b and c, and the votes are recounted. candidate b now has 55% of the votes. candidate c as 45%. candidate b has more than 50% of the votes and is determined as the winner. >> thank you for watching. we hope you have ranked choice learned ranked choice of voting and was elected. you have seen the ballot, learned how to market, and learned how the voting process works. if you have any further questions about ranked choice voting, please contact us at department of elections, city hall, room 48, 1 dr. carlton be good lit place, sentences go, california, 94102. or 415-554-4375. visit our website,

www.sfelections.org. >> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids.

they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. >> that has really expanded the program out. it is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of

interesting artists in gauging here. why would an artist when to come here? >> mainly, access to the materials. we also give them a lot of support. when they start, it is an empty studio. they go out to the public area and -- we call it the big store. they go out shopping, take the materials that, and get to work. it is kind of like a reprieve, so they can really focus on their body of work. >> when you are talking about recology, do you have the only sculpture garden at the top? >> it is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. it is the only kind of structured, artist program. weit is beautiful. a lot of the plants you see were pulled out of the garbage, and

we use our compost to transplant them. the pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility, adults and children. we talk about recycling and conservation. they can meet the artists. >> fantastic. let's go meet some of your current artists. here we are with lauren. can you tell us how long have been here so far and what you're working on? >> we started our residency on june 1, so we came into the studio then and spent most of the first couple weeks just digging around in the trash. i am continuing my body of work, kind of making these hand- embroidered objects from our day-to-day life. >> can you describe some of the things you have been making here? this is amazing. >> i think i started a lot of my

work about the qualities of light is in the weight. i have been thinking a lot about things floating through the air. it is also very windy down here. there is a piece of sheet music up there that i have embroidered third. there is a pamphlet about hearing dea -- nearing death. this is a dead rabbit. this is what i am working on now. this is a greeting card that i found, making it embroidered. it is for a very special friend. >> while we were looking at this, i glanced down and this is amazing, and it is on top of a book, it is ridiculous and amazing. >> i am interested in the serendipity of these still life compositions. when he got to the garbage and to see the arrangement of objects that is completely spontaneous.

it is probably one of the least thought of compositions. people are getting rid of this stuff. it holds no real value to them, because they're disposing of it. >> we're here in another recology studio with abel. what attracted you to apply for this special program? >> who would not want to come to the dump? but is the first question. for me, being in a situation that you're not comfortable in has always been the best. >> what materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here? >> there are a lot of books. that is one of the thing that hits me the most. books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything

like that. >> job mr. some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. -- taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. >> the first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. it was actually a poster. it was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. in terms of the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. so being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. >> how do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the three-dimensional? maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. >> everything is in the process of becoming. things are never said or settled. the sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa.

it becomes a part of something else. there's always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. at the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. >> thank you so much for allowing "culturewire" to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. is there anything you like our viewers to know? >> we have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. everybody is welcome to come out. we have food. sometimes we have gains and bands. it is great time. from june to september, we accept applications from bay area artists. we encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. we want as many artists from the bay area out here so they can have the same experience. >> how many artists to do your

host here? >> 6 artist a year, and we receive about 108 applications. very competitive. >> but everyone should be encouraged to apply. thank you again for hosting us. >> thank you for including us in "culturewire." ♪

>> " yes 08 so. this company represents yet again another successful recruitment it be well and attraction of our city to manufacturing. i want to congratulate robyn and catherine or air decision to locate here. it is about 20,000 square feet, and the hope is that the next three years, they will grow with our help and with the help of a good, strong economy i in the city, that they will grow from the 20,000 square foot starting blocks to hopefully about 60,000 square feet i in the next three years.

heath ceramics is now based out of sausalito, but i know robin will give you a story about the family and how they occur over about eight years ago, but for them to come here at this time and to make a go at it is a wonderful story for our city. we have been recruiting companies like this to actually did manufacturing right here in our city. you are going to see actually clay being manufactured right here to produce this type of beautiful setting. this kind kyle you will see -- this kind of tile you will see. you will also see their be aware, which is world renowned, and it has been sold to places like slanted york -- door and

some other fine eating establishments in the bay area. garrett orr is well known. the sausalito plant will continue manufacturing back, but the new tile, and decorative ceramic will be manufactured here from the actual making of the clay to developing orders here to actually sending it out and delivery right here. you are standing in between which would be trucked out and delivered here. this is a great manufacturing plant. it will all potentially about 34 employees that will be here. they are all making great salaries and will have a great health insurance benefits and 401 (k) matching funds. that is a great addition to our work force. so an important at the actual

manufacturing is based instead francisco. i would say that our city because it you -- our city is so important because in games, you are manufacturing here. biotech, you are manufacturing here. we have done a lot to invite companies that want to manufacture here, especially for this type of entry where i think the workforce is even more absurd. you're going to have people here that can really work with their hands, work with the design firms that the heath company has attracted to it a buy, high class both dinner wear as well as ceramics. i am so glad to welcome them here to santa and cisco, right on the northeast sector of the mission area, right eye in the heart of where a lot of other manufacturing the car going on as well.

congratulationst to sfmade. katie has been working really hard with our office of economic and workforce development to attract businesses of this nature. it is really nice to have a manufacturing plant who will make these grants. thank you very much but locating here. i hope it's not a risk for you. i hope you are going to tell us about how mrs. heath started her career. the body as she started on clay street. robin, please, come on up. >> thanks for coming.

i do not do a press conference every day, so my remarks are a little more prepared. we came by it in thousand three. it has spent eight years now. we found an iconic company that has april by an agent or design aflac manufacturing but it's of reinvigoration. our goal has been and remains to return design back to its important role i american manufacturing and life. we want to set an example for other companies to assure the possibilities, and that is why we're here today doing what we're doing at plan to do over the next many decades. as we look to expand our factory and bring more to our customers, san francisco west always where we edition -- where we envision would look next. it was here that even if he

created her first product in the late 1940's. we found possibility where we did not expect it. we communicated our vision for a space that could allow us to create, and of a common share, and. and experience -- and curate and experience. here we are to celebrate that realization. kate understood our language, believed i and our company, and connected us with a building owner willing to support our vision. you guys are all back there somewhere. you guys should come on up. as we grow as a company, we remain committed to local manufacturing. as a delivery van works behind

us, our ceramics are still made by in sausalito since 1948. today, we at san francisco to that phrase, but the honesty and spirit of the deficit remains true. our new location in a neighborhood known granite act allows us to connect with the community and bring our products into their homes and lives. we believe in building community, and we are achieving back not only through a job creation by nca manufacturing -- but in seeing manufacturing as a way to enhance the environment. we seek to create create a court introducing crack years--- introducing crafters ina new

and positive way. we will have others up as create to remain true to our values and make business decisions with community and mine. i cannot emphasize that an. we are proud to be employee more than 200 today. we are helping to reinvigorate the city at a court for artists and manufacturing, and we thank mayor lee and supervisor kim, could not be here today, for creating an environment that supports local business. also, thank you to the owners of the building or working with us to transform the space and share our vision. also want to thank alison kelly from pacific ventures as well as

vince and rob from new resource bank whose belief by the benefit of small business made this project entirely possible. of course, a grateful they still everything kate has done and will continue ice together today -- greg poe thanks for everything case has done and will continue in bringing us together today. harv>> i also want to recognize mark, the original founder of the bid and that having -- visiion of having sfmade. it started with the been that we could reconnect the sector we have here and over time help san

francisco reclaim its rightful place as a home for partisan scale manufacturing, and i thank reaching a 215 member companies who collectively right now already currently employed close to 3000 people across companies just like heath, we are beginning to realize that been. when we started, bebop was less that we would be looking to the outside to bring lots of companies into the city -- the though was less that we would be looking into the outside. we wanted to start with what we had indigenously grown and help companies better connect with each other and back into the resources the city had available to it. what we did not and to stand with the power and amplification that would really happen when we started to make this connections -- what we did not understand. when we look at what has

happened to bring the company back to its roots, back to where it came from, it really is this power up community. the of the word, whether it is thinking of races like pacific community banter, but that's a long history of bringing senior business advisory capacity to businesses as well as equity investment, looking at b source bank, which was created and added i in san francisco not so long ago with someone who was able to step forward and see the possibility eyewitness bashan that other banks may not have been able to realize so quickly. i recognize the owners of the building, the family who has a history of being incubators of small business, and the city itself, the office of economic workforce development, the planning department, the

building department -- we have this asset because we are small, tightly connected, and can make things happen i in relatively short time that other cities cannot. i want to conners and princess the. i want to honor heath and the power of what we are creating together. -- i want to honor san francisco. we will see there will be other companies starting and growing here and coming back to the city following in heath's footsteps. thank you to be mayor, the city, and ito -- and to heath. [applause] >> thank you. congratulations, everyone. i want to put that down before something happens. it is still tile.

questions? >> [inaudible] >> we will put the ceramic tile in the subway, too. make it artistically beautiful. in fact, i think that would be a great place, write >> -- great place, right? central subway is still going through. we are on our way strongly to make sure we get people and the grant agreement by the end of the year. every step of approval has been there. the bid for the, part have already been bid our -- out. they are under budget. very good for our city. and the others >> >> [inaudible]

-- any others? >> [inaudible] >> one of the things i want to clarify is we have a number of locations. the original location i in sausalito will stay there. we have the very building in san francisco. we also have a location and los angeles. we are really a california company. this move to separate cisco is another opportunity to be exciting things in another part of california -- this move to san francisco. we ran out of space in sausalito. our business has done very well. we have grown from 24 people eight years ago to over 100 people today. many of the original employees still work there. about 15 from the original 24. the best i've retired -- the rest had retired. san francisco is a creative

community, and we believe if you are going to be created based and manufacturing, you should do that in a creative place. if you want to make fiber products, you should do that i and -- if you want to make vibrant products, you should do that in a vibrant place. >> looking at the product here, imagine what we're arguing with a company like twitter, for example. in the benefit, they will want beautiful spaces. they will want in a beta ibm -- innovative ideas. this ain't castigation. every renovation that goes on in midmarket -- they will all of the most beautiful things to