with the budget analyst, and we will defer to you if you would like a more detailed presentation. ghraib >> perhaps you could pass out those handouts. good >> i provide a written summary. >> if you could provide a summary, that would be great, and just to give some indication of where the department is changing because there is growth and the department, and we would like to know what that refers to your good parts the mayor's office rose by $15 million. good a majority of thought is due to redevelopment. the remaining growth is under $600,000, and that is driven by two things. one is the increasing cost of benefits as well as the end

utilization of the benefit fund. the board of supervisors included $300,000 in last year's budget for the transition fund. good to the mayor's office use those funds to fill vacant positions, which had previously been held vacant for salary savings. give with regards to the $600,000 increase not related to the redevelopment agency, how much of this is it is related to general wage and furloughs versus new position is? >> it is a little over $100,000, and the remainder isla adjustmes to interest and savings. good >> $450,000 in new positions and 150 related to

general increases and other things. supervisor kim: last year this was recommended as a way for the mayor's office to hire his or her own staffing while we may be transitioning staff that may be leaving, and it was recommended because we were not anticipating an administration change for several terms, such as the one that might come before us this past january, so i know the board has set aside $300,000 so the mayor could retain staffing will keeping existing ones, so now instead of transitioning

people, it turns out to be an additional staff. of i was hoping you could address that. >> perhaps there was a difference in understanding about the funds. i think the mayor's office understanding is the those funds are able to be used to manage the transition but that they would be included in an ongoing way and the budget, so that is what is being included in your good over the last several years the mayor's office has held several positions vacant in order to reduce the impact on the general fund, and this was a way of providing a new administration the opportunity to staff at the level it felt was appropriate. >> i completely understand the

need for adequate staffing. ghraib i do want to clarify this was purely because we were anticipating a very different administration. in no way was it characterize for staffing next year. good i do not have an issue with this. i understand we made many cuts. i would not want to characterize the request last year has been framed that way. i know it is temporary. good >> on a few other high- level matters, the mayor's office includes the mayor's office of housing, and state and federal funding continues to fluctuate. there has been a decrease of 48% in home funding your year that

is obscured somewhat by the absorption. on job creation and summer employment, we have summer interns that our grant school age, and they will generate 836 new units in affordable housing and 800 new construction jobs. i am happy to answer any further questions. >> i do not think there are any other further questions. i thing many understood this to be a transition. i do not know if we spoke about whether we expected to be analyzed or not. that was my understanding there

was a transition. why don't we go to the budget analyst report them ? >> as i understand, the mayor's office does concur with our recommendations. they recommend reductions thin 1213 of $44,000.987. your they will allow a significant increase of the department's budget, and we recommend closing out 12,485 encumbrances to the general funds. the recommendations total 35.765. they are ongoing savings and would allow for substantial increase in budget.

>> thank you very much. you folks are also in agreement with them. good liketo a have a motion to e recommendations on the general budget as well as project close out? we have that motion, and we can do that without objection. let's move to the next apartment, the ethics commission during goo. >> you are receiving a one-page summary of our budget request. i apologize for not having a power point presentation, but i cannot afford juaone.

>> at this point we are happy it is just one page. >> funding for a fix is relatively stable -- for ethics is relatively stable, and the majority of our funding is staffing. we have one major program under way in terms of trying to convert to a program where we do all the electronic filing, which we hope is going to save staff time and money. i will be testifying tomorrow. give we have high hopes for this. there is a relatively minor change in our fte level. in terms of internes and job creation, it is not something we have a budget for, although we

do have talented intern's. we do offer services in spanish, cantonese, and mandarin. i do want to point out there was a lot of paperwork going around that indicated we have $4 million in revenue expected for the year, which is not the case. i think everybody is working on the same page as far as that goes, but i have to say we spend so much time going back and forth we never had a discussion about recommended cuts, so i did not learn about the proposed cuts until the close of business on friday, so we have not had much discussion on those. i oppose those cuts and with all the drama i can create, and i am willing to have those

discussions as necessary. good >> thank you very much. and we are not in trauma, but why don't we ask the budget analyst to provide your report? a wax our budget has totaled $59,000. they are ongoing savings. in 1314 it has totaled 80,000. they are savings. goowe will work with the departt and report back to you in next week. goo>> if there are no questions, we'll look forward to seeing you for a drama-free presentation. our final department, department of elections.

>> good evening, supervisors stere. for our budget, the main cause drivers will be free elections region will be free elections. -- will be three elections. you can see about half of our cause is a professional services. git is pretty consistent through time. as far as revenue is concerned we will have reimbursements for

the school district elections. good we are seeing such a large increase for the fiscal year. >> the increase from 1213 to 1314 is for an additional election democrats for the revenue? -- >> for the revenue? we have won election. it is a presidential election, so the costs are higher for th at. >> when you have an additional election you are paying for additional violencballots as wes

temporary salaries? >> our costs are fairly consistent. it all depends on the election cycle. the you have questions on the pie charts? for revenue we have more chances for reimbursement. that is why you are seeing a higher total your ego -- a higher total. the contract who retires at 2014. good and we will watch that as we move forward. also our lease runs out in 2014

, so that is something we will have to of a conversation about as we go forward. i would like to replicate that in the future. onob creation, every election we get around 1300 high school students, and we are very fortunate that school districts and teachers work with us. good they received a small stipend. as far as summer employment is concerned, we have interests throughout the year -- intern's throughout the year. goowe have been doing this for about 10 years.

we will have about 1000 workers at the polls. if everything is translated in at least chinese and spanish. we do not rely on an on-line translator. gall of our documents are translated online. we work closely with the media to get the word out in activities. we have 26 people we have go through the certification process, and they serve as points of contact for the chinese and spanish-speaking community, and we have year round dedicated phone lines.

we have a plan in place for how we would inform people on the cancellation or some sort of impact to the process. did the department is in agreement with recommendations. >> wonderful. given that the department is in agreement, is there anything you wish to add? but nothing. >> do we have a motion to except the recommendations? we have that motion. give we will do that without objection. thank you. we will not require you to come back to reagan we have heard all of the budgets for the most part your give we need to take a couple of items and move them

forward. give with regards to item 5 n- seven, -- and item 7, do we have a motion to continue those on the 20th? >> we have a motion. >> item 8 through twelve, we have heard about them but we cannot act until we have heard public comment. do we have a motion to continue item 8 and 12 on friday. we have a motion. finally, there is a technical adjustment you have submitted to us. generally we simply accept them, but can you speak on that? >> i am submitting first technical adjustment.

it includes violence in for a number of departments, correcting some projects to allow the planning committee to reflect capital projects, updating the expenditure and support of housing for city programs curi. this is what the director mentioned earlier this morning, and reducing attrition to reflect current staffing levels in the apartment, and correcting some attrition-related entries in the sheriff's office. did the overall cost is zero in the first year and $90,000 in the second year. we are continuing to work with apartments to ensure we have correctly captured everything in the budget, and we will likely

introduced a second technical adjustment next week you're good >> -- next week. >> these items we have heard. there is no action on the board for that item, so we have heard all the items. i believe we have no other items before us. >> item 5 and 6 are continued on june 20. >> we took a motion to continue on the 20th, and if i can ask to reason that, do we have a motion to reason that both -- rescind that vote. if we can continue item seven on the 22nd. gwe have got that motion and wil do that without objection. >> that completes the agenda.

>> we are adjourned.

>>. touring england was a time when robert as mentors were being challenged by a quickly growing middle-class.

for endeavour's crew of new artists began to assert themselves, offering new definitions of the athletics of arts and beauty. over 180 objects of avant-garde design and art from the victorian england has been collected inside the legion of honor snoot exhibition, it's the cold of the ec. -- the cult of beauty. >> there was this group of artists that were not only revolutionaries in their artistic expression but also in their personal lives and their interest in democratizing art in introducing beauty into the growing middle-class. >> one of the inspirations for the victorian avant-garde was the industrial revolution. quality household goods were now being mass-produced. artists responded by either creating elaborate unique court or by embracing technology and

trying to share a beautiful creations with as many people as possible. >> william morris was in a difficult position, because he wanted the middle-class to be able to acquire really beautifully made objects. but the piece is that he actually made, you know, took so much handcrafting that there were quite expensive. i think he would have been pleased to know that there are things like restoration hardware anne craig and bare all that tried to make available to the middle-class -- and crate and barrel that tried to make these things available to the middle class. >> over 60 lenders contributed art and craft to the exhibition. one of the partners is london's victoria and albert museum, which has been collecting the finest examples of victorian craft since queen victoria herself attended the groundbreaking ceremony. the artist of the victorian avant-garde believe that every

object could contain an expression of beauty. the attention given when creating a towering sculpture should be the same as when creating a simple cottage gate. they embraced arts for arts own sake. whether in the curl of a flower or a stray lot of unpin hair. surprisingly, sensuality returned to public view during the victorian era. albert moore and others were inspired by ancient greek sculptures and found new uses in modern times. >> many of these paintings are large. when you get close to them, they seem to wrap you in this luscious colors. there's a great sensuality to the paintings, even though there's nothing sexual going on in the pictures. the artists just took delight in luxurious fabrics and colors and beautiful women. >> symphony in white is a life-

size portrait of the immense stress of james wisler. it is featured prominently in the exhibition. harmony in gray and green was an of socially judged as a disagreeable presentation of a disagreeable young lady. the first public reaction of this series was so divisive that led to court proceedings. today, they hang in london's tate gallery. walking to the exhibition, you might be distracted by objects that seem to modern war appeared to be at least art deco era. forward thinking victorian artists emerged the economical ambitions of 18th-century cottage's style furniture with the asymmetrical design elements of japanese art that was introduced to london in 1862. >> so you come out with these very beautiful and sleek design worms that the artist combined

-- a design forms. very modern. our visitors are really surprised that so many of the works at a very modern feel to them. >> they believe that no object needed to be considered worthless or low class. each thing, existing in its own place, was the best thing for its place. and what first seems to be idle showiness, shows the richness of today and yesterday. >> it is exciting to have a project you have worked on for so long coming in know, come to your own museum. and museum curators are among the luckiest professionals, because we get to share with tens of thousands of people the things that give us enjoy and the things that explain to our visitors the relationship between art and society.

art is not just a frivolous, you know, sidebar. it is a very important expression of culture and morals. this particular moment, the artists were interested in community. >> san francisco is the exclusive american host for the cult of beauty exhibition. the legion of honor is website has more information about the artists and tips for planning your visit. learn more at the website. thank you for watching