access to people who didn't have previous access. so i appreciate he took that to heart and previous captains - i'd asked every capita and they would come once a year by the captain comes quarterly. thank you for restating the terry value neighborhood team it's definitely restored some of the - there was a lot of anxieties in my community as after several shoovts there were low staffing and they were going to take them away but they were restated and i heard oh, from the community members they feel a lot better having them in the

community. and lastly, i wanted to make sure i have the flyers for the national light out and you're able to come and oh, one last thing. this is the second time - if you could make the next year's commission meeting closer to the o m i we have a lot of great schools so, please come and a thank you for your compute i know you've been out thereably for years and i know it's made an impact (clapping) >> i also wanted to thank you for coming to those meetings we've seen you at other meetings across the city. i i know when we were looking at the tazer debate and i

appreciate you're continuing to be engaged. so thank you >> sorry to interrupt. >> last time the most talked about what the terrific neighborhood team and there were a lot of people in the audience who voiced their opinions about the team shipping in size so i'm happy to see the team back in place. >> i'm jackie battle and i want to let you know there's a personal side of this group. we had a young man killed at argue facilitate in february. they came out and checked open us emotionally. i had no idea about the

abrogates but he came out and checked open staff and sergeant and thank you for coming out and just checking on us emotionally. they weren't there trying to interrogate us. thank you >> thank you for running such a great program. >> good evening commissioners chief sir, ladies and gentlemen. i'm ronnie sing i'm the assigned district attorney i hopefully want to show my great preparation for chief sir, for your collaboration on going on projects but especially the project of the neighborhood prosecution team.

last year at this time i got a call on woodside where i was assigned as a special unit prosecutor and asked me well, actually he give him an identify i couldn't refuse. he asked me to be a member of the prosecution unit. i talked to my husband who's a sergeant in the sheriff's department both san francisco kids born and raids i went to lincoln also the other high school in this district and i was nervous i was apprehend i didn't know how i'd be received and the minute i walked in captain alumni embraced the

program and embraced me as a prosecutor and since thin it's been a growing collaboration of both offices and the community. i attend all the meetings. i've gotten to know all the group and mary has taken me under here wing and schools me. and every time there is an issue captain alumni comes to us for input. every time there's an investigation that t m t is working on they tap into the resources of the police department. i was one of the presents at the s r os and they come to me for juvenile offenders. but i'll say captain alumni is way too humble and the entire staff at carrville is absolutely unparalleled and believes at the

cower that community police increases community engagement, prevents crime and improves the quality of life for the entire city so i greatly appreciate the chief opening their doors there are 5 of us prosecutors who work with you to help keep this an amazing and save city (clapping) >> it appears that public comment is now closed. commissioners. >> thank you that was amazing and i can't tell you how we take what we get here and apply it to the discussions we have and we evaluate the data from the occ

we this is almost like parenting but i feel the pride that my fellow commissioners have to be able to see captain alumni and see you guys through the eye' d of those communities members is powerful. you don't have to always have to think of things >> i also want to thank you for your comments. i've taken extensive notes one thing i've heard is there are no current plans to move captain alumni so - we recognize the job he's doing we're proud of him and want to thank captain alumni

and all the folks of the terryville station. keep on with the improvements you're making and keep the doors open to the community you serve. thank you you're doing a good job. >> i came in late and apologize but this has been a special community meeting. it's we have to go to the community and hear from all of you what's really george that in terms of safety and law enforcement in your community and were you work and play and do business and inexact. this was an incredible evening to hear from the zoo and the collaboration across the board and certainly highlighting the terrific work our chef and

director do as well as captain alumni and all the folks. i know at the carrville station. and you know the da person here as well speaker, you know, the collaboration of working together really makes a difference and you know it's nice to go to bed at night know our animals will save too. so thank you all very much. this is a terrific experience and for us all to learn from. thank you >> dr. marshall. >> great job captain alumni it all starts with the chief. there's a reason we pass his name on to the mayor and the mayor picked him. he knows what's best you're only

as good as the people at the top. so keep it rolling; right? >> i have to tell you dr. marshall and i are veterans the commission. we'd hold a meetings in the neighborhood. we wonder was the dream meeting i think this is it. we were engaged and have the district attorney's office involved. we've had meetings where the community didn't want to keep the captain or the officers. and to hear this what we're heard tonight the collaboration of what everyone's done and the

captain who's a quiet man and the officers bringing christmas gifts to somebody or visiting a park where someone been killed and to hear about the dedication. i hope i hear and i think this credit goes to the men and women in the plod police department. we've had meetings where we needed to be leaving early >> this meeting was so good eaten neil liked it (clapping). >> you guys going got do go into closed session saw ladies and gentlemen we're going to go into closed session and the

meeting is confident so we'll could be and close the meeting afterwardsch. >> public comment. oh, we're back in open session we have a quorum mr. president. >> i'm the quorum. vote to elect whether or not to vote the items section 6.223 >> i move not to disclose. >> second. >> any public comment? hearing none please call the next item >> item 8 adjourn. i move to adjourn. it's unanimous 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 tne

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 comer