in my part of town. this notion about taking large projects and saying let's try to capture some value there for the arts facilities and activities in those neighborhoods is critical as far as helping to improve the creative economy in this parts of town so expanding this beyond the district is critical. thank you for those amendments. >jintao are there members of the public who wish to speak? thank you for your leadership. >> i would like to thank president tchiu and the mayor. i have been involved in art since i moved to the goodman building. i am working with -- i am a member of the central market

tenderloin area cac looking at how do we revitalize mid market and this is an exciting way to do that. activating market street is one of the things we can do. i brought my 8-year-old son to market street when they opened a sculptures across from each other and he brought his best friend and they were so excited by the people that were out on the streets so brilliant dancing. he walked into the area and thought it was a museum and played with an audio-video synthesizer. i was having dinner six months earlier at the old pashtun cafe and i walked out the door and noticed all these young people in six straight for the first two blocks. when i turned the corner there was the luggage story gallery with 300 people on the street standing around talking. they had an art opening. the idea that we could use this money for capital improvements and group places like the luggage store and activate public space with these events

is one of the things that will make a huge difference in mid market and throughout the downtown and neighborhoods. i would say that the office of economic and workforce development has done a lot of surveys of everyone from low- income to high-income residents and there is a common agreement on the need to create more arts and cultural activities in mid market so people feel more comfortable going down there, shopping at the stores, going to the art galleries, eating in restaurants. this is a win-win. i endorse and support the amendments that are presented today. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. i am volunteering for representing the arts and rezoning in western soma. i wna want to thank you for coming up with modifications that has helped us sponsored our

district. maintaining the focus and continuing to expand funding and available options on the mid- market would be fantastic. we have done everything we can to continue to represent for their creative communities in this area. i was encouraged that this could be expanded to a city-wide policy. there are no opportunities for community actions for new developments that could go toward the arts or community centers. we have heard testimonies these are essential resources within san francisco. i am overjoyed to hear there is some consideration and it is still huge. i hope there will be opportunities to reevaluate. it is a compromise of this point. basically within the framework of this it will help balance essential needs and continue maintaining the san francisco as the city of arts and i am hoping this process is approved.

thank you. >> i am here to support the amendment. i was not present at the planning commission but i am told it was represented by large developers. there were no smaller developers. i do appreciate the amendments here today. the difference between a small builder and large builder is not that much. i yard of concrete for a small addition is the same year that goes into a high-rise. the primary difference is access to capital. and construction lending especially below $20 million is difficult to get. our builders have no vehicle or mechanism to carry such a load. unemployment is over 30%. many smaller projects are approved. they do not cancel out.

smaller builders -- we support the legislation, especially with a threshold of 75,000 square feet per building and to respond to your comments earlier about what is -- that is the mistake was made that we were adding up the number of floors. a typical site of 100 by 150 would create 75,000 square feet. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. if you could speak up on the left -- line up on the left-hand side. >> that afternoon. this is almost a kumbaya moment. it is a hit but it is such a great thing for the city.

i appreciate the work that has gone into this. let's move ahead. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. are there any members of the public that wish to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor wiener: i did have a question that needed quantifying. i understand the sales force company is planning a huge building in mission bay. it looks like it is 2 million square feet. i am wondering how much would be contributed to public art or never had a start from a project like that. just some general idea. i am appreciative of the smaller developers and thank you for explaining a lot. that is helpful. for big projects, how much would come in for public art? >> the amount of the fee, i cannot quantify that.

is 1% of the construction costs for a building of that size. as you know, construction costs fluctuate. i have records, i do not think that have them with me about how much we have gotten from the past 1% approval. >> it sounds like this expansion of a city-wide process to make sure there is are in every neighborhood would make sure that the bayview hunters point and other areas can get the kind of our that the downtown and other spots have received. >> to some degree. we just did an informal and loose cal looking at a pipeline of the project. there is very few projects that are outside of the area. there is an area, eight or less than 10.

>> thank you. supervisor wiener: are there, answer questions? comments or questions? we have a number of amendments. can we take those without objection? there because of the first three amendments are technical amendments. we could vote on those today and move this out of committee. the issue around city-wide, the city-wide arts be is something we would have to sit. we would hold over until the next meeting which is two weeks from today. supervisor wiener: can we take the amendments without objection? supervisor chiu: you can take the amendments however you wish. the three -- i was explaining the three non-substantive amendments. >> you're asking us to take all

of them? since we do not have the language for the city wide, how that works? >> we know -- the president has distributed a proposal for what the amendment would do. this language is going to be incorporated each place in the document where it describes public artwork and it would be expanded to citywide at 75,000 square feet. if the committee wants to move that amendment today, we can true that up within the document and have it available for -- to be noticed for next week over the next meeting. supervisor wiener: would all the -- [inaudible] deryk rove did the arts

commission consider this as well -- did the arts commission consider this a while? >> i am constantly would-be -- it would be contrary not to support the expansion of an arts requirement. supervisor wiener: does the mayor's office as a co-sponsor have a position on it? >> i addressed the committee and said the mayor was supportive of the amendments be made i was referring to the amendments we had of the text of the legislation we have received and that did not include the expansion of city-wide fee even at the 75,000 sq. ft. lo newble or any level. at this point i am prepared to extend the mayor support on the legislation i was given with the three amendments. the conversation around a city- wide phoebe is a good

conversation ran out. we heard in natomas support -- unanimous support. there is some appetite for that among some folks were peña attention to this issue. i just saw the database of projects in the pipeline that qualify. i am not prepared to talk about that yet. i am learning about it. >> it is not that the mayor is opposed. what we could do move this so it gets incorporated in and we get two weeks to confer on this issue and for the mayor to take a position? >> sure. >> expanding the city wide means

there will not need to be an official fee published so you will need to wait three weeks in order to facilitate getting an ad in the newspaper. supervisor wiener: that gives plenty of time for discussion. supervisor chiu: it is my and standing from planning staff -- understanding from planning staff that the language of a proposed for the expansion, there are no projects that you are aware of that would fall into that category, is that right? >> faris eight out of -- >> this is a spread sheet that has developed some of the projects change as we go through the review process. it is a window, a snapshot into what the possibility could do. at of the 81 projects i have there would be eight projects

that would qualify as above 75,000 square feet. supervisor chiu: where are those? >> largely south of market. supervisor chiu: one thing i will mention. this program was structured around the time of the downtown plan was developed in the mid- 1980's. the number of large buildings that we may have an interest in seeing art be associated with has been expanded. the thinking around a city-wide requirement is to get at that. what would make sense is if we could take these amendments knowing that over three weeks we will continue to have conversations with the stakeholders to hammer the specific details. i am considering changes but it is important to consider the city-wide perspective given how the buildings are run and how our city is growing. supervisor wiener: can we take the amendments without objection?

we have a motion to continue this for three weeks. is there any objection? thank you. please call the last item. >> item 3. amending ordinance 1061 to change the official sidewalk width of mason street. >> their afternoon. -- good afternoon. in this case, it is a proposed widening of the sidewalk at the southeast corner of mason street at the intersection of mason street and washington street. this is part of the work that is being done currently at the chinatown recreational center that is under construction. the design team doing the review process determined it would be appropriate to widen the sidewalk in to the southeast corner to reduce the crossing

distance on mason st. to provide better pedestrian safety or the proposed center. the department has reviewed it. it went through the planning department and city agencies have determined it is satisfied. >> looks like it is across the street from the cable car museum. i am looking at the google maps. it looks to be a street on a hilly area but is a narrow street. is that the major -- >> this is on mason st. on the opposite corner of the rec center. you cannot put anything in front of the rec center because that

is where the cable car turns. you could not sure in the sidewalk. supervisor wiener: any questions? is there anyone from the public who would like to speak? public comment is closed. let's move this without objection. thank you. is there any other business? >> there are no further matters. seeing none, meeting is adjourned. thank you.

>> 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.

>> of the meeting of the entertainment commission for the city and county of san francisco. >> hyde? newlin? cavellini indicated that he may be here. he is trying to do some work scheduling. >> item #one is public comment. members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public within the jurisdiction of the commission. members of the public