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."

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supervisor kim: good afternoon, and welcome to the rules committee for thursday, september 15. i am joined by supervisor farrell and supervisor elsbernd. madame clerk, are there any announcements?

think the. please call item no. 1? >> item number one, reappointment, entertainment commission, audrey joseph. item number two, motion rejecting the mayor's nomination for reappointment of audrey joseph to the entertainment commission. supervisor kim: thank you. if you could please, to the microphone. we ask all applicants and to speak about your experience relating to the commission which you are nominated or applying for. then we will go to public comment. thank you so much for being here. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am honored to stand in front of you today as the nominee for the entertainment commission. i am a county member and i have a lot of institutional knowledge with regard to the commission.

my lifetime experience is in all aspects of the constituency. the entertainment commission it is unique in that everyone involved has a seat at the table. we have police representatives and industry representatives. but my skills span not only nightclubs but festivals, recording music, lighting, sound, and the logistics of the industry and all of its moving parts. i have worked hard on the commission to contribute and support the modification which enabled the entertainment commission to to a better job. i assisted in drafting a law that required security plans. i helped institute the castro business plan, which allowed businesses to come into compliance without penalty.

and i was part of the north beach airport. the thing i am most proud of is that i helped ensure a positive and collaborative relationship with the san francisco police department and entertainment commission. going forward, my goals are to implement modern technology to better manage entertainment and its relationship to the city, in both sound technology and social networking. this past summer, we saw the least amount of violence that is nightclub-related in memory, and i hope to help set the standard going forward. and i am here to answer your questions. supervisor kim: thank you. i want to reiterate that i heard the statement from the staff of the entertainment commission, and i congratulate all of the clubs and your work on the commission to ensure that we had a violence-free summer at our nightclubs. that is a huge accomplishment

and something that we want to continue. any follow-up questions? all right, thank you so much for your service on the commission. at this time, we opened up for public comment. if you would like to speak on this item, please line up. we are giving to minutes. hi. >> good afternoon, i am richard, the metro division commander from the police department. i have been in that role since may 18 this year. in that capacity, i am the department liaison to the entertainment committee and the entertainment commission. the chief asked me to stop by today and make myself available should you have questions about the workings of the relationship between the police department and the commission, and also to weigh and specifically with regard to commissioner joseph and our interactions with her. i will move on with a couple of bullet points, and i will speak

from my now four months of this job. it is my personal views. i can say the commissioner brings a great deal of venue and security experience to our work together. the amount of leadership is interesting. my first meeting there, i was given a couple of instructions. they were good instructions and good advice, but i would say that she is a trainer. from her advice, we joined in with them and the entertainment commission and the nighttime entertainment community for an entertainment some that that was bringing in all of the police districts that have had entertainment issues and breaking off into groups with industry folks. out of that came recommendation strongly supported by commissioner joseph to have a focus on security, nighttime security at these venues. following that, we had 60

members, 60 folks who provide security at inched handed venues, with the hope -- with the help of joslin kaine and commissioner joseph, we brought them together and talked about training and cross training, things they could learn from them and things that are from us. if i could have 15 more seconds? commissioner joseph asked in the middle of that, could we train? it had always been a dicey area. in truth, we had figured out that we to collaborate and that has been a driving force. we both support commissioner joseph and say the relationship is good and we have had a violence-free summer, and we will continue working with that and the industry groups. also, since we are on tv, and the people interested in safety

and public safety issues -- and the people interested in safety and public safety issues in town can follow us online, and we will keep you apprised of what is going on around town so you can manage those risks. we appreciate the support from the entertainment commission. supervisor kim: thank you for taking the time being here today. i'd love to learn more about how the summer was so successful. thank you. next speaker, please? >> good afternoon, supervisors. by name is steven lee, general manager and one of the general partners at blass cat. audrey joseph and i have been friends since the mid-1980s. i am a club owner now, 12 years. i knew audrey when she used to do my balloon drops. she used to be in the decorating

business, so as a person who knows what is going on and entertainment, she has been in the field as long as i have. as far as industry representatives, she is probably the most knowledgeable person, and probably the one that we go to when we have issues, and she always gives us very interesting advice, or i get yelled at or whatever, but she is the backbone. as a club representative, i would definitely have audrey joseph still on the board. supervisor kim: thank you. i also wanted to acknowledge the security, speaking about that time safety. i know you have done a lot to keep our neighborhood safe at south of market, and i appreciate and recognize his work. >> walter was our head of

security for seven years and passed away unexpectedly. thank you. it supervisor kim: thank you. >> hello, i am the director of pride. i have worked with audrey personally since 2006 through pride, most recently on this year's pride event. over the six years we have known each other, she is extremely committed to the community, very in tune with the various needs of the community and how to strike the correct balance of those needs. we all know sometimes safety and entertainment are not always the best, but i know that audrey understands the intricacies and the needs of this community, as well as the community diversity. i think that skill set, along with her historical knowledge, is one of the things that makes her unique and one of the reasons why her tenure on the commission has been so successful. i want to offer my personal endorsement.

she has been tremendously helpful to the community. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> i am tom murphy, co-chair of the efficacy committee for the recording academy. it has been over two years since we have been actively involved with the entertainment commission, and i just want to take this time to the acknowledged that all agree brings a unique combination -- audrey brings a unique combination of depth of experience and ways to improve the entire acta system, a balanced with the ability to listen to all of the various constituent groups. and listen constructively to hear what all of the different audiences needs are. she provides a great deal of leadership and balance to the commission, and i look forward to her continued presence in the commission.

thank you. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. murphy. are there any other public speakers at this time? seeing none, public, is now closed. bridget public comment is now closed. any comments? i am proud to support the reappointment of audrey joseph, and i know speaking with many venue owners and district 6 they highly regard your advocacy and promotion and also your balance in communicating with neighbors and working with sfpd to ensure that we are promoting safe night life that is fully in compliance. i appreciate all of your work in district 6. that is the one i am most intimately knowledgeable of. i want to recognize that joslin is here from the entertainment commission. thank you for all of your work on that. colleagues, we have a motion to move forward item number one. i believe that we tabled by the

number two? all right, so i believe that we can do this without opposition. thank you very much, mr. joseph. madam clerk, item three? >> item three, appointment, veteran affairs commission, hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending january 31, 2014, to the veterans affairs commission. there is one apartment. >> i am deborah dacumos, and i this retired in november, 2010, after over 30 years and the army. i joined the reserves, and i have been in the reserves ever since. my unit is still deployed. they are in afghanistan as we speak. this is their second deployment. i am very, very -- i know, very emotional as far as being able

to support the veterans. one of my soldiers will be veterans, i want to be there for them. my mission of being on the commission is hopefully to work with the departments and have a project of the arts. we are in the veterans building, and we have the war memorial. my vision is having music, dance, the library, workshops, to be a venue for our veterans to express their emotions. that is one way that i feel would be a good way, even for the families, to actually come in with their children and work together and heal the wounds they have. and hopefully have that in the veterans building. that is a vision i have. the other thing i have done,

when i was in the military, is actually working with san francisco's medical response system. i want to utilize the skills and knowledge of our veterans to be part of that system in the city. we were actually talking about the civic center. maybe that is something we can put together. those are our missions. supervisor kim: thank you so much for the presentation, and also for some of your great ideas for the commission. are there any questions for colleagues? at this time, we will open up for public comment. please step up. two minutes. good to see you here today. >> hi, supervisors. in stephen, commissioner and secretary to the veterans affairs commission. i have been in support of the appointment of colonel dacum

os to this commission since i found out about her qualifications and availability. particularly, when i found that she is a resident of san francisco. she meets every qualification, and her background is astoundingly perfect for our commission in that she has seasoned experience, 20-year career in the healing area, starting as a nurse in the army and working her way up to colonel, all sorts of administrative areas, and at the same time she has a great connection with the number of veterans. she has those folks who are deployed, worked with junger veterans in her command who have served -- with junger veterans in her command who have served, and she has great communication skills with them.

that particularly is what she brings to this commission. also, after coming only to two meetings, she put her finger directly on an important issue. she said the issue is access to the building and competition with performing arts in an e- mail to me. that access and that issue being a tidal wave that is coming up in the next few years, happening right now, which is the attention for space on a permanent basis with in the war memorial veterans building. what she brings, in particular, is an attitude and feeling that the building is big, there is space enough for both communities, and to reach out and make connections between the veterans community and the arts community and make it an accommodation rather than a battle. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you,

commissioner. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is wallace, and i am a past president of the veterans affairs commission, and i am proud to be a commissioner. i am the only korean war veteran on the commission presently. i wanted to say that the commission, and its 28 year history, has always had a problem getting women veterans to apply for the commission. we have a mandate that we must have three women. those watching this on tv in city hall or in the room here, if you know of women veterans, please get them to get their applications in. we have had two openings, one for one and a half years, the other four two years. in the history of the commission, there have only been for asian americans on the commission. this candidate will be the fifth

asian placed on the commission. she will be the third filipino- american on the commission, and she will be the first filipino- american on the commission. i did not come here today because of that information. i came here today to support this highly qualified american veteran who will be a tremendous asset and great addition to the commission. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you, commissioner, for being here. is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public, it is now closed. any questions from colleagues? supervisor elsbernd: thank you for coming forward and applying. we have had a lack of women applicants, and thank you for your service in the military and coming forward and i look forward to working together for years to come.

i would be happy to make a motion to move forward. supervisor kim: great, i wanted to add my appreciation for a plan for this position. i know it is challenging to find women representatives to the veterans commission, and it seems like he will bring a lot of energy and great ideas. i note it is a huge concern for our city as our young soldiers are coming back from their current operations going on in the middle east that they come back to a city where they find housing and jobs. we know many veterans often end up homeless, and we want as much as possible to be proactive about soldiers coming back. we appreciate all of your thoughts, and thank you so much for applying, and i'm happy to support this. supervisor elsbernd: it will not be a committee report. that is a motion to move forward with recommendations. supervisor kim: we have a motion

to move forward with recommendations. thank you so much. madam clerk, can you please call item 4? >> item four, hearing to consider appointing four members, terms ending november 19, 2012, to the bicycle advisory committee. supervisor kim: we reached out to all of the applicants and only one could make it today. we like to continue this item to ensure the directive, but we want mr. tilles to comment. or he is not here today. he was the only appointee to confirm. ok. i guess we will open up for public comment on this item, then. seeing none, it is now closed. colleagues, i am more than happy to continue this item. i realize you may be familiar with your appointees, if you

would like to move them forward. i believe that all of them are rhee appointments -- are reappointments to the seats. i feel comfortable knowing -- ok, great. so we have a motion to move all four applicants for to come up with recommendation. i believe we can do that without opposition. they have all been nominated by their district supervisor and are currently members of the bicycle advisory committee and will be continuing on to another term. so we do that without opposition. thank you. madam clerk, item five? a>> item five, hearing to consider appointing four members, terms ending july 17, 2013, to the reentry council. but there are four seats, 15