in terms of serving constituents within our program, all of the programs at the art commission engage in cultural response of programming that includes language access. we contract artists through our program and the students served in our youth development areas. all of our materials are translated, we focus specifically on emigration and indigenous populations with the native fund of $96,000. the cultural center offers programming in manhattan -- multiple languages throughout the city. our summer employment opportunities include 250 use employees, approximately 177 will be employed throughout our city grantees and -- you can see the breakdown here of the

cultural center and youth employment and their partnership with organizations like horizons unlimited. we are restructuring the organization significantly. the controller's review recommended improving the climate of classification and duties. it surveyed staff to determine the is very low employee morale due to the lack of promoting lines and this budget reflects a lot of changes to make that correction and this has been developed with our labor union partners and shop stewards. the corrective action you're seeing is to stabilize the organization. we are requesting substitution to report lines the agency. we need an opportunity for staff to grow and have the appropriate mid-level management duty. we are requesting for temporary positions be made permanent.

one of these positions was filled with somebody with 10- year -- 10 years of seniority. we have eliminated five temporary positions for savings and we look at deficiencies in the agency so that we can do this effectively with a balanced budget. all of these positions are filled. >> on the point about the temporary positions -- that seems to have them longstanding, why were they temporary to begin with? >> they have been through all our programs. many of them were in the community arts and education program as for the rationale as to why they existed, i would suspect it was to expedite the hiring process, but it did not have a long-term, sustainable place, so we are trying to correct that. >> were these all upward

substitutions? did people receive a raise? help us understand what these substitutions were. >> i will defer to my deputy director to speak about that. >> we did create promoted of lines in two of our programs that did not have them -- so most of the substitutions are equal to ensure the employees are doing the same work at the same classification and are represented with the same contract. >> so if i understand what you're saying, they resulted in no additional cost to the city? >> correct. >> if you could share that information with us off line, that would be helpful. >> there are eight of those positions that would be moving

into new positions as part of that correction. talking about how these would support our neighbor and our infrastructure, we are pleased to see his budget recommendation includes the greatest investment in our arts and capital in the neighborhood in several years. this is critical as we see organizations struggle with capitalization and for artists who continue to have to see places elsewhere to work to do to a lack of space. we're thrilled to see these recommendations in the budget. this budget includes a new roof, very much needed at the latinos center for cultural arts. this would see electrical and replacement as well as a new roof at cellmark.

these have been much needed capital improvements. to front -- to funds that have been obtained in prior years -- we are currently in the process for rate renovations at the bayview opera house, including new bathrooms and landscaping that will build greater access. in have a new commitment from the public utilities commission for an investment in our community arts and education program here. we will be working with them that is -- in key neighborhoods for a total of $600,000. the budget addresses a pending move to the veterans of war memorial. this would be critical for storage for the civic art collection. we were highlighted in the new york times for issues facing our civic art collection long- term preservation and this is

part of the solution to make sure have museum great storage for the works we want in the community but need a place to be pure -- conserve it. that will be in the basement of the veterans' war memorial and include administrative offices as well as a public programming space that we hope to work with nonprofits and local artists to build greater activation and partnership with other arts nonprofits and a much-needed programming space in the city. we continue to build on our central market partnership and we hope to expand that in the new invest in neighborhoods initiative by replicating those efforts most successful in central market throughout the corridors in the city. that is through the art and storefront program, activating vacant spaces and other programming and activation in public space.

this budget shows a preservation of all grants for the community arts organization and we will be making no cuts to our community partners. one thing not reflected in our budget, the mayor's office of disability has committed 2.4 million to match this in 2014. with that, i will open up to any questions. supervisor wiener: thank you for the presentation and all the great work. i want to compliment you -- for the civic design review report. improving the process in the past, we have had some situation where the arts commission has become involved late in the process and made some sometimes

rather significant change request to progress -- projects that have undergone the design process and i know that has caused some issues and you are committed to getting the commission involved earlier so that if there are issues to be worked out, they can be worked out up front, so thank you for considering improvements to the process. i want to know if you have any comment on that? >> thank you for that. the civic design review committee of our commission just approved some draft guidelines to take out to our community partners at recreation and park. you and in the supervisors' interest in giving feedback to that, our goal is to be a good city partner and our challenge at design review is balancing timeline and budget with a long- term vision of what would be a 50-year aesthetic benefit to the neighborhood as well as being responsive to committee in put

and having the response time properly so that the input is making its way to civic design review at the right time in the process. we hope this will address some of those challenges and we invite the back as they continue to involve -- continue to evolve through the process. supervisor chu: for the puc investment, the $600,000, what is the connection between their work and the work being proposed by the $600,000? >> the scope of work is currently in negotiation. now that the puc building has opened to great public fanfare, we will be looking to getting into a new position for a liaison to the community and the arts commission. we will be working with them to develop a scope of work appropriate in community arts. one of the things we have discussed included a focus on the bay view neighborhood for

some of their upcoming development. i believe their interest is to align with their strategy and where their development will be happening. those neighborhoods received the appropriate education program. this would include used development programming in the art that we have yet to define what that looks like. our planning process will align how we're going to work as to agencies in that arena. supervisor chu: i think that the needle more -- i think that may need a little more fleshing out. i would like to better understand what the connection is, especially since we know our water rates will be exponentially growing. i want to make sure it's the correct connection to what they are funding. >> i certainly understand. these dollars are the art in richmond dollars that are mandated. just to clarify, -- are to

enrichment dollars there mandated. this does not influence those rates. >> thank you very much. in terms of the arts complexes, we have had a lot of questions around the city's maintenance of these locations. we have arts facilities centers in various parts of our neighborhoods and i imagine there is programming that goes on there. at some point, i would like us to understand what kind of value we are adding. are we simply just providing a facility where people are going to use the space? i would like to understand what it is because they're very large capital and investments. we are not necessarily maintain them the way we ought to end if we are not, what's the value of having the centers? that would be longer-term conversation. >> it will certainly be part of our strategic planning process and i think the capital investments in this budget will be a great stride to our

maintenance and appropriate support for those centers. supervisor chu: i believe there is no budget analyst report for this. would you have anything to the presentation? >> nothing additional. supervisor chu: colleagues, if there are no questions, i would like to thank the director and given there are no recommendations, we will not require you to come back next week, but we like to follow up of some of the outstanding questions. >> thank you for your time and thank you to the mayor's budget office at the comptroller's office has been so generous with their time helping us come to corrections and improve the organization. supervisor chu: our next department is the fine arts museum. i would like to recognize the board of trustees who is here with us. i know the board of trustees played a major role in stepping in with the passing of mr. buchanan.

we do miss john and his energy, but we want to thank the board of trustees for stepping in. >> good morning. i'm the chief administrative and financial officer of the fine arts museum of san francisco. i'm here with our board president. we want to extend our appreciation to the city and county of san francisco for its continued support. i also want to thank the budget analyst and mayor's office as well as the collaboration of other city departments. for those of you not familiar with the fine art museum of san francisco, let me briefly describe our organization. we are comprised of two museums -- the young museum established in 1895, rebuilt and reopened in 2005 and located in golden

gate park. and the california palace of the legion of honor, established in 1924 and located in lincoln park. the fine arts museums maintain a very close relationship with the city and county of san francisco. 95% of our work is owned by the city. the land on which each museum is located along the to the city. each museum the location is a property of the city. the museum's a ploy 544 full- time and part-time employees. in fiscal year 2012, the museum's anticipate nearly 1.6 million visitors, of which 72% enter for free. our mission is to bring to all san franciscans the highest quality art throughout the world. we provide the only opportunity for thousands of visitors to come face-to-face with great works of art from london, paris, vienna and beyond. our special exhibitions represent an ongoing major

financial investment by the museum's. in the summer of 2011, the museum's presented a picasso program from paris. 335 visitors came, of which 73% were outside the city and county. in the spring of 2012, the museum presented the fashion world of jean-paul gautier from the sidewalk to the catwalk. this unique exhibition has drawn 135,000 visitors. this fiscal year finished with a victorian of an art exhibition organized in collaboration with the victoria and albert museum in london. for fiscal year 2013, the fine arts museum will continue a tradition of excellence with presentations of the william s. paley collection, a taste for modernism, and in january of

2013, a girl with a parole hearing, paintings featuring 35 dutch masterpieces. the centerpiece of the show is that of premier's girl with the parole hearing. often called the dutch morley said. in november of 2012, the legion of honor will present royal treasures from the louvre. many of the pieces in the exposition have never left the louvre, much less france. impressionist on theit will celn francisco's mounting of the america's cup. the fine arts museum as continue to identify and has secured equally superb exhibitions through fiscal year 2014. during the past fiscal year, the

education program of the museum serve approximately 250,000 persons, including 58,000 k-12 students. we had the young and art festival with the san francisco unified school district with over 1500 students who displayed their to visual art and 800 students performed as part of the festival. the museum continues to hire over 70 district high school students each year to teach in our museum ambassador program. this year marks our eighth season of friday nights, and the number of artists and collaborating partners continue to increas and represent the diverse cultural landscape of the san francisco bay area. next week, the community is encouraged to celebrate their inner frida, a fashion event presented by partnership with the consulate general of mexico in san francisco and the mexican museum. we expect 35 attendees and an average of 2,000 attendees each

friday night. our educational programs provide bilingual partnerships with their multi-cultural community. the fine arts museums continue to offer access day for visitors with disabilities. this past monday, 211 visitors toward the gaultier exhibition. there were 25 hearing appear attendees who were led by a deaf gallery lecturer using american sign language. a popular activity is art slam, a presentation of art with 240 artists with disabilities. the event attracts 1000 disabled visitors and guests. fiscal year 2011-2012, we initiated and are already expanding a program of gallery sessions for visitors with early stage alzheimer's.

programs such as access days and open house of brought over 12,000 disabled visitors to the museum in the past three years. i am looking forward over the next three to five years, the fine arts museums face several key challenges and/or opportunities. one, maintaining and elevating the quality of our programs and exhibitions to sustain the great public interest we have generated. two, the opportunity to maintain and make the much- needed repairs of both museum facilities -- thank you very much. and third, to continue to expand the accessibility and availability of our artistic assets to the broadest segment of the general public. do you have any questions? supervisor chu: thank you very much for your presentation. supervisor kim? supervisor kim: thank you. i know in the budget analyst report, there was a discussion about what is currently going on

with security guards and around the discussion of your permanent security guards -- you know, the report said 32% are often off on any given day given sick leave and vacation. i was hoping you can discuss that challenge. >> sure. since january, we have appointed hour director of facilities and operations to manage our security staff, and she has implemented several cost-savings scheduling , as well as encouraging our security staff to be present at work. as of july 1, our new scheduling will be implemented, which also encompasses taking the 27 security guards that were at 35 hours per week that are now reinstated to 40 hours per week and working them into the schedule, which should help

alleviate the overtime and temporary staffing. supervisor kim: ok, so one kind of way that is being addressed is with the change in the labor agreement, which is that some of the overtime was due to the fact that working at 35-hour week, you would often extend your day basically to work 40 hours a week. the contract will take care of that over time. i know there has also been some issues around your ability to hire temporary which might be more cost-effective than overtime. will this be addressed by the new labor agreement? >> yes. there has been a discussion of the side agreements with the union that in the past of not allow us to staff temporary security guards in positions such as the doors as well as other locations in the museum. hopefully we have addressed that

and we will be a will tohire temporary security to those position posts. supervisor kim: i know you're increasing your request of the general fund, a 22% more than last year. how much of that is related to the new labor agreement? >> pretty much all of it. supervisor kim: the full $1.3 million? >> there is also capital projects money. supervisor kim: i am curious about the breakdown between capital apartments in the labor agreement. >> $639,000 of that is capital projects. we have note -- we have one new position at least requested. supervisor kim: so the remaining is for the new negotiated labor agreement. >> as well as a marginal increase in our insurance on the art. supervisor kim: thank you. supervisor chu: thank you very much.

a quick clarification. in terms of salaries in mandatory fringe, it went up by just over $1 million, and i imagine that is because of the addition of the hours for the museum guards and standard increases in fringe benefits. >> as well as union agreements, mou's. >supervisor chu: and no other new positions? >> correct. supervisor chu: it looks like there is an additional $600 investment in the capital projects. can you speak to that? >> yes, that is improvements and repairs on our legion route, as well as rebuilding our boilers and chillers. the following year, we have another additional $800,000 which will continue to address the legion roof as well as masonry, and additional boiler and chiller work. >supervisor chu: compared to the fiscal 12-year, ic admission revenues is expected to go down

by $700,000. i am trying to understand -- is that something the museum is concerned with? do we expect this trend to continue? is it cyclical? >> it is cyclical. it is based on our exhibition two the number i submitted for this coming fiscal year may be conservative, but we were not hitting our budgeted number for the current fiscal year. supervisor chu: do you expect this trend to continue or with the exhibits do you think there will be an increase in admissions? >> for the next fiscal year, the line of exhibitions we have slated should be very helpful to our admissions revenue. and the following year, although i cannot say what we have got wind up, is another exciting exhibition here which i believe will probably push our admissions revenue higher. supervisor chu: ok, thank you very much. is there anything you would add to the presentation?

>> no, i think he might be curious about the director search. we have a committee the comprises 25% of the board, a very diverse committee in every way. we have, i think, seven finalists. the search is going to be suspended over the summer because it is summer and i cannot find part of my committee. they're all on vacation in various places. many of them are very young and they have little children and off they go. starting labor day we will the bringing in the final candidates, and i hope we have a new director by the full board meeting which is the end of october. we're scheduling wonderful exhibitions. as it was said, a couple of them we cannot announce yet because we have not signed papers, but they will be the blockbuster kind of shows. i hope our revenue will be back up, and we're all very excited

about it. supervisor chu: thank you. thank you for that update. and we want to thank the board of trustees for stepping in during this difficult time. thank you. to the budget analyst, i believe there are no recommendations. is there anything, mr. rose, that he would add to the presentation? mr. rose? is there anything you would add? >> no, there is not, madam chair. we have no recommendations, but we're happy to respond to questions. supervisor chu: ok, great. no questions and no recommendations. thank you for your presentation and for being here. we will not need you to come back next week. thank you. our next department is the academy of science. >> -- others from the city.

i am greg fairing tin, and i have a great pleasure of being the head of the california academy of sciences. it is a pleasure to talk to you today. i come on behalf of about 38,000 fish, because the aquarium, that is our partnership with the city, also a dozen or two pangolins, 400 full-time equivalents, 11 city engineers that we love, particularly the head of our city engineers jimmy kirk. we love him so much we hope he will work there forever. if you can influence him on that, we hope you will. and i am here on behalf of one of san francisco's all those cultural institutions, about 160 years old, and at the same time, one of san francisco's young as having been reinvented over the last four or five years. we're still reinventing ourselves. our goal is simple, to be the best institution of its sort in the nation, and then take over the world. san francisco deserves no less. this year, we will have welcomed

the about dollars -- 1.4 million visitors to the academy, and one of the wonderful aspects is the breadth of ages of people that come to the academy. i used to talk about birth to death, but that is a donor, so we say it is everything from birth to the journeeternity. infants to nightlife. we had pride night life. and all the way to very old people like them to museums. it really is the people's academy of sciences. within that context, the part that you in the city have been wonderful partners in since 1923, of course, is the aquarium, which is, if we have to identify one single attraction that is most popular in the institution, it is the aquarium. everyone loves the living world and the fish, and everyone loves the new aquarium.

artnership which we appreciate very much. you might be interested that generally the budget of the institution, 60% of our budget is money we earn from membership sales, to get cells, and other sources. about 35% of our budget comes from our best friends. that is, our supporters and donors between the annual reminders that we give them about why they should be generous. and about 5% from the city, which we appreciate very much. of course, we would like a larger, but we appreciate it very much. one thing we have a reputation for, besides being a the most-- coolest place in town in terms of science, life, and sustainability, we also have a reputation for printing money.