and the arts is in the middle. this is a view of the gym looking past of the garden area. the central quad, central hub where we hope the life of the school will happen all the stiem. and looking back toward the central quad. the floorplan where we have a division of the 7th grade, 8th grade. we have a library and computer rooms and small theater, music, storage for musical instruments, it's going to be an exciting building. just for your reference, the entire project is hard to digest these numbers. to build a school like this is $500 a

square foot. you construct it and design it is $55 million. it's provided by the voters of san francisco and all of us who understand how important quality education is in san francisco. it's going to be a great building. we're going to have solar panels on the roof and collecting rain water. it's going to be a flagship not only for everything we do academically in the district but everything we want to do in terms of sustainable environments and practical construction that makes sense in the school environment that we're in. it should be a great opportunity in every way. sense we have started the plan, obviously the district adopted the stem science technology engineer, and math initiative, that piece is in sort of full throttle of what does it mean

and what will it mean at this school if opening day is set for august 2015 that means by the previous march or february 2014, the district needs its full marketing enrollment strategy in place. that probably means the principal. that means s a core curriculum and that planning has begun to happen. the superintendent is putting those pieces of the puzzle in place but when you run the clock backward when you realize to put 256 and some seventh graders in that school, nine months previous to that, everybody has no know what they're enrolling for and six or eight months previous to

that, the curriculum and everything needs to be established. so all of those pieces are sort of in motion. the piece that is most sort of undefined yet are -- who our partners will be so in order for the wellness center to be successful, we have a design, we have rooms, what we don't have is a dental chair, we don't have medical equipment and dentist and doctors so that partnership has -- that conversation has begun but that partnership hadn't been forged. and that's on the table as well. okay. >> thank you so much mr. golden. supervisor yee. >> real quick question. i couldn't -- hi, mr. golden. >> quick question. i couldn't tell from the diagrams whether

or not if one had to have from one building to another, can you get to one building to another while going outside? because i'm thinking in terms of whether sometimes it's going to be pouring. >> and the answer to your question is most of the time the answer is you can. i think to get to the science and technology building, i'm not sure if there's a cover all the way, i don't think so. so at some point like a lot of our schools you probably have to make a dash in bad weather, but these are little school kids and they're tough. >> and so if you like to take two minutes, we can show you the video. are you interested in. >> let's see the video. >> i don't have questions. i think it is really cool.

because my time on the school board and i don't remember the last time we build -- car michael might have been the last two schools built, but this is exciting and it's really interesting to see some of the different ways that you -- i guess i wasn't apart of the conceptualize process. [brief pause to switch captioners]

community, members wanted in a school, and there were actually a huge number of those things in some way shape or form that got incorporated in terms of where the building should be and the sense of place and the kinds of things that are

happening. >> we feel like in general, this has been an amazing collaborativive process. there are things happening in this building that are not happening any place else in a middle school that require, the academic side of the house to partner with the facilities side in a way that usually doesn't happen and i think that design is incredibly important, but we can, we as architects can do the most beautiful building in the world and we need a great teachers and principal and we need the district to commit all of the direct funds to make this school a success and if all of that happens, i actually think that the kids will come. let me show you the video, it

is kind of fun and see if it moves. this video is two giga byte so it takes a lot of computer power to make it go. >> so you are flying around on silver, and you are swinging around on the driveway that would take you to the wellness center, if you just want to go to the wellness center. and you are looking back into the hub on the playground, swinging around the gym, and you are pretty high up on the hill, passing what are the science wing and the 5, 6, and 7th grade science classroom and now you are coming down on revere and off the science classrooms on to where the green garden are and the tanks on the back are to collect the

rain water to irrigate the fields and do the things that we need. we are swinging back down the multipurpose room which has windows that open on a spectacular view of bay, classrooms below, the library and the front door. >> wow. >> what? >> and 65 percent of the schools powered by solar on the roof which is pretty much the maximum amount of solar panels that you can put and we are going to own the solar. i can't have everything. any way so that is kind of where we are and i am happy to come back any time, for those of you that don't know the old willie brown is gone, golden gone and it is now sort of growing, nice grass and weeds and waiting for us to start.

we are going to start the foundation and some of the grading fairly soon and we will be in full construction in the next 6 or 7 months as soon as we finish the design with the state architect. everything is in place and we are ready to go and money is in place and all that we need is partners thank you. >> thank you so much mr. golden, at this time we will open up for public comment. >> seeing none and public comment is closed >> so, would we like to file this item? or continue it? >> by the fall we will be in construction. >> this fall? >> we will be doing the grading and the foundations probably not the main building quite that fast. it is really at your pleasure whenever you like. >> okay.

so why don't we take a motion to file it, if we want to requestion ... rerequest a hearing. >> if you wanted to file and bring it back have the academic side of the house to come and give the present that presentation that i am not qualified to give. >> i did realize that we want to talk about the curriculum but that was not in the actual awarding of the hearing request and we will file this item and do another hearing request on the other side. but mr. golden, thank you so much, this is very exciting. >> my pleasure. >> and i am really excited for the city and the south east sector and seeing no further comments, we have a motion to file this item and we can do that without objection >> madam clerk are there any other items or announcements? >> seeing none, meeting is adjourned. thank you to everybody. >> thank you, norman. >> thank you.

good afternoon and thank you for coming. i'm delighted to announce that our first

effort is unleashed upon the world. [ applause ] . it's only been two-and-a-half years since the moment of conception of this idea. it's an amazing tribute to our community. it reached three levels of impossibility, of getting a permit and designing it and putting it on this structure and the impossibility of getting it funded. it really is a tribute to so many and a lot of faces that i'm looking at this room tonight. it comes down to as always people. i'm going through a few moments here to give a real thanks to people who made this night and the next two years possible. i'm going to list a couple of company names, but i want to

think of them as members of our community that made this project possible. that included, bloomberg, guchie, it includes the partners, magazine, california home and design, magazine, aluminum illuminary sponsors and the folks tonight. and, you know that first level of impossibility. i'm going to list some agency names. it comes down to a lot of people in this room to make it possible. my first phone call in this project was to cal trans. in cal trans working

together with the bay area with the mayor's office here in the county of san francisco and coast guard, official wild life, all of these came together to find a way when typically the system is designed to say no, people found a way to say yes to this project. the arts commission, this collusion support from the san franciscmuseum of modern art. i apologize for the folks i will be missing because this is a cast of a thousand that made this happen. we certainly love our lawyers in this process. morrison who helped it become a very established and professional way in getting the

contract involved in getting this project to an amazing legal footing. the technology network in san jose who made this a crucial project. i want to call out a thanks to or tactical team. we know how to make it small, not over 150 feet in the air. we have a studio, zone engineering and i have to say thanks to hmr who has been a rock star and directly one of the reasons this is happening. an extremely talented project. thank you all. i also want to just take a moment to really acknowledge that while leo and i have done a lot of things m in this

world, we would not be able to do it alone. there is only one person responsible for this project and that is executive director of the arts. luminarias. i can go on and on. i think i will throughout the night. do know that she's a special person and this entire community owes her a debt of gratitude. i want to thank leo and his family for bringing the level of artistic integrity for this work that somehow slipped through the progress of a work of contemporary art parallel in

art history. it has everything to do with leo and our interpretations with our discussion and that one minute that transformed how people will be receiving this project and how i can make this happen and lieutenant governor will join us at the ceremony at the bay light.org. i really want to thank our mayor who is a visionary in his own right and common good and who i had the pleasure of working with other projects and he's making this city better every single day. people should know that mayor embraced this team, this project ma way that had nothing to do with really -- even, it

was a matter of passion, a personal desire to see the work of art radiant and shine in our community it was an amazing gift. mayor lee, we owe you a great debt of gratitude. thank you so much. [ applause ] >> thank you. welcome everybody to the building in san francisco. gosh, your vision, i have been living with this vision for almost two years now ever since our city engineer said, come with me to this event and you are going to be surprised how we can turn infrastructure to a piece of art. i have worked with so many projects with roads and buildings that we oftentimes

cannot lift this heavy piece of metal or holes in the ground an construction and not be able to see the work of art that contributes to this city and future. amy, thank you for your incredible leadership on this. i met you first at this event here but was immediately sold on the possibility that we can unleash art in the most creative way. this is in fact a beacon for our arts community, for a world class city and it has the ability to attract some $50 million of contributions to our economic vitality a huge base of fans that will visit our city. there is going to be 150 million visitors, i think it's going to be $97 million

contribution to our committee already scaled by our travel association. so part of it is economics, but i actual, without even having those numbers in front of me knew that this was going to excite us. i actually know that when we unveil this tonight, the feeling that i'm going to be having, is we just won another world series because it's going to bring that kind of excitement into city. and to have this timed in a way in which we have just finished the 75th anniversary of the celebration of the bay bridge, we have opened the auditorium and on our bay for the first time we have just finished the world series and the 55 sealing

on our bay is a celebration for san francisco and this incredible rebounds that this city is experiencing can really only be complimented by the arts, because allows the arts to celebrate all the other things that we are trying to do economically to be covered, i think is an incredible cap on our future on what we can experience and exemplify to the rest of the world. this leaves me to an appreciation to the artist that he has not only visualized what 25,000 led lights can do but discovered a fashion in which will not see the same pattern at any time experience. this is kind that have innovation that we are experiencing in san francisco that creativeness, that we've always wanted to have from our

arts community to us with all the other things that we are doing in struggling everyday and sometimes there are good stories but art has always been an inspiration to me. you can imagine anything you want in these lights. the artist will say that leo has always said it and documented in so many other interviews to give yourself a chance to work with these 25,000 light is. to me it's the mustache. it will be for every child in us, the ability to celebrate, to see what's good and what we have done here, but i think it will be the beacon for world class to happen here in san francisco. i look forward to -- we talked about this being a 2-year commitment.

but we all know with the success this has, we are already and i will predict that people, including myself will want this to be on going certainly during my lifetime. [ applause ] >> so i have every expectation we'll about be right there hand in hand celebrating with you to create even more art in the city. by the way, it's budget time, so tom in the art commission, you have done very well with the opening of this timing with everybody else that we have the proper level of art to be creative, to bless us with all the things that are so positive and to exemplify the arts community for what it's done. with that, i would like to introduce our artist leo

villa real. >> thank you so much. i'm beyond thrilled to be here today. this has been an incredible 2-and-a-half years from the initial idea when ben davis asked me to consider the bridge and how it can be turned into a canvas and having thought about it and created an assimilation on the computer, animation that so many people saw and were inspired to get behind and enabled to happen. so many people to thank, but certainly folks at cal trans and mayor's office, governors office. there were so many hoops we had to jump through. getting the permit was one of

the miracles. i thank you for believing in public art and helping us get this done. amy has been amazing, our executive art director. [ applause ] amy was able to shepherd this impossible project through all the intricacies, i'm in incredibly grateful for her help, grateful for his efforts in another monumental task. he's raised $6 million of our $8 million. this project is an incredible gift by our pat patrons through the city. this is an incredible piece. you don't have to buy a ticket. it's there and available. a

very universal quality, it has some response to it. it's operating on a very primal level. i think we the technical team that put this piece up has been remarkable. zad and zoon has been a lifesaver. incredible individual who has never said no to me. everything is always been possible and bringing the team together to actually install this work. to make a photo shop simulation and 3d animation project. it was in incredibly inspiring. i

went out there on a cloudy day and it was incredible magic that was happening. i knew this was going to be fine if i can channel the interaction of all these systems into my work. so i'm very grateful for everyone who helps install this piece. we had lane closures. everything happened from 5 a.m. there were hundreds of thousands of cars and the contractors installing this 550 feet over the water. incredibly challenging work but here we are. i would like to thank my team and studio, everyone helping, our lead programmer, transit for helping with all

our networking, there is a lot of behind-the-scenes of help that nobody will know about, we have computers, wireless connections, i want to thank timothy child's who helps us invent this custom clip which we used to hang these lights on the bridge. there was a lot of behind-the-scenes that's it's taken to bring this work to a reality. i guess our patrons are also, that's a whole other -- unleashing generosity in the way that we have just really bologna way blown -- away. incredible innovation at work and thankful to phillips for their equipment and standing behind they are technology and

helping us achieve what we have done i guess we are here and ready to punch the button on the computer. we are using a laptop tonight and it's going to go on at 9:00. i'm just incredibly grateful and keep pinching myself that this is happening. i'm incredibly overwhelmed that this is happening and i'm eager to share this work with all of you. thank you.