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lting from a in a 2.2 percent increase to the contract in 2015-2016 which is set to be unanimous listed 3 percent in 2015-2016 on november 15, 2014, the budget analyst joined. >> the have you ever known pales in comparison and submitted a new request to the fiscal year 2015-2016 contracted to become effective october 2015 this colorado lo la results in a 50 thousand plus e.r. 2.44 increase to their $2 million $60,000 contract in 2015-2016 and would substantially be annual listed to $650,000 plus in 2016-2017 slide 8 shows the budget and
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budget analyst contract amounts it was a 2.3 percent cola i wanted to present it, it's entirety and the prior year approved amount slide 8 or 9 shows the contract amount from 2006 7 to 2016 you see in fiscal year 2003 and 4 to excuse me. fiscal year 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 amounts include the cola previously approved by the board but as you can see 0304 approximately $1.7 million and reduced down to $20 million
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we've kept it stable for several years until last year when we approved the cola increase or the year before i think it was annual listed in the current year final slide shows the outstanding items i want to make sure that the new committee had an opportunity to review and consider the departments graft budget as we presented it to a different committee in addition to the general fund appropriation for lafco and the cola increase for the budget analyst that concludes my presentation. unless you have further questions >> that's correct madam clerk
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colleagues, i welcome questions or comments i'll say the cola for the budget analyst mr. rose and the team i'm very much okay. i know that you know their subject to outside rents as everybody is and had a massive increase in terms of their rents for the office space and they do an invaluable service and the lafco i'm on to it but we need clarity and the different rules and to me that has to come a discussion i want to continue right now and commissioner chan. >> thank you. i i would say say for the 3 items the outstanding items we've proposed madam clerk i think that most likely probably outside of our budget and finance our colleagues want to weigh in so if there's a way to including include the decision for all members that's would be best.
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>> thank you supervisor katie tang here's any recommendation if i can make one because the property budget we're submitting today moves to the controller and the mire the final decision will not have to be made until june if it pleas the committee we'll submittal those to the mayor and controller and have this conversation over the next couple of months and in june make the decision at this time. >> it's imperfect fine and if we continue those discussions certainly i'll do my best and supervisor mar. >> thank you for recommending that that gives us enough time to get clarity from mr. breed for the cca and non-cca activity i think from one of our last presentations the youth
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commission staffing is excellent and the cola to the budget analyst is longs awe awaited i appreciate it and strongly support our budget. >> thank you, supervisor. >> thanks very much madam clerk why not open this up to public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues can i i'd like to continue this item to the call of the chair and bring it up if we need to can i have a motion. >> so moved. >> motion by supervisor tang we'll take that without objection. madam clerk, any other business before this committee? >> no, mr. chair. >> thanks everyone we're adjourned
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>> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's.
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she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle it is a great educational tool. since then we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. >> that has really expanded the
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program out. it is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. why would an artist when to come here? >> mainly, access to the materials. we also give them a lot of support. when they start, it is an empty studio. they go out to the public area and -- we call it the big store. they go out shopping take the materials that, and get to work. it is kind of like a reprieve so they can really focus on their body of work. >> when you are talking about recology, do you have the only sculpture garden at the top? >> it is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. it is the only kind of structured, artist program. weit is beautiful.
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a lot of the plants you see were pulled out of the garbage, and we use our compost to transplant them. the pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility, adults and children. we talk about recycling and conservation. they can meet the artists. >> fantastic. let's go meet some of your current artists. here we are with lauren. can you tell us how long have been here so far and what you're working on? >> we started our residency on june 1, so we came into the studio then and spent most of the first couple weeks just digging around in the trash. i am continuing my body of work kind of making these hand- embroidered objects from our day-to-day life. >> can you describe some of the
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things you have been making here? this is amazing. >> i think i started a lot of my work about the qualities of light is in the weight. i have been thinking a lot about things floating through the air. it is also very windy down here. there is a piece of sheet music up there that i have embroidered third. there is a pamphlet about hearing dea -- nearing death. this is a dead rabbit. this is what i am working on now. this is a greeting card that i found, making it embroidered. it is for a very special friend. >> while we were looking at this, i glanced down and this is amazing and it is on top of a book it is ridiculous and amazing. >> i am interested in the serendipity of these still life
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compositions. when he got to the garbage and to see the arrangement of objects that is completely spontaneous. it is probably one of the least thought of compositions. people are getting rid of this stuff. it holds no real value to them, because they're disposing of it. >> we're here in another recology studio with abel. what attracted you to apply for this special program? >> who would not want to come to the dump? but is the first question. for me being in a situation that you're not comfortable in has always been the best. >> what materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here? >> there are a lot of books. that is one of the thing that hits me the most. books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. also being a graphic designer going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has
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also been part of my work. of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. >> job mr. some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. -- taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. >> the first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. it was actually a poster. it was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. in terms of the flatwork i work with a lot of cloddish. so being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. >> how do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the three-dimensional? maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. >> everything is in the process of becoming. things are never said or settled.
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the sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages and vice versa. it becomes a part of something else. there's always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. at the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. >> thank you so much for allowing "culturewire" to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. is there anything you like our viewers to know? >> we have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. everybody is welcome to come out. we have food. sometimes we have gains and bands. it is great time. from june to september we accept applications from bay area artists. we encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. we want as many artists from the
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bay area out here so they can have the same experience. >> how many artists to do your host here? >> 6 artist a year and we receive about 108 applications. very competitive. >> but everyone should be encouraged to apply. thank you again for hosting us. >> thank you for including us in "culturewire." ♪ >> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david
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constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes.
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>> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground
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swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the
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million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future?
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>> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and
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you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early
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technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an
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occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for >> we'll be seated and get going. we have a special announcement courtesy of the warriors. the laundry list of people to announce. anita shu, crist stan son. board of supervisors, norman yee. scott wiener, cindy wu,
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phil tang, wane young and shou young and norman fung. when you get a list like this, i would like to say if there is anyone i didn't acknowledge, i would like you to raise your hand and i would be happy to welcome you. one of our friends rick quan is here. good to see you here, rick. the honorable mayor of san francisco and the cousin david lee is here. [ applause ] >> one of the most ferocious players on the court, one of the most genteel and fun guys off the court. damon green. [ cheers and applause ] his nickname is the senator which is
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why i have him separated from ed lee because when you talk about election results, i don't want to have two politicians together. one of the rising stars as he is. [ cheers and applause ] and a man who continues to dominate the nba from seattle to all star weekend to years in the league office in phoenix and now the president of the warriors, lebron james business, rick welch. [ cheers and applause ] now, events like this are always important to the warriors because there is two baseball teams in the bay area. there is two football teams in the bay area, but there is one basketball team and this is the one team. we are the bay area's team. you think about it whether it be
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from napa and sonoma all the way down to fresno to sacramento and tahoe, san jose, oakland and san francisco, our new home. this is really something where millions and millions of people come together for one squad. this happens to be at 36 and 6, the best team in the nba. [ cheers and applause ] we always say about coming to a warrior game and the crowd with this collective bay area molestation lestation mojo that our players feel it and if you were there friday night to see clay thompson to go from 37 and a quarter. i know we are worried about the san andreas fault but that
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building levi taetd on its own. it's so important to the warriors. if you think of san francisco with the largest population of chinese outside of mainland china. it becomes a key part of who our fan base is and we reach out to our fan base of all races, carried, ethnicity. really for china this is a place where we the warriors have traveled. harris and damion has traveled. i have traveled with the olympics. it really shows you how the nba can be identified on a global bases. what i found out in china is that every city in china must have a basketball court.
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that's by state law. no matter where you are in beijing, shanghai, places the warriors have visited or the agricultural areas there is always a basketball and always someone like tramd green is. we have an account for the very first team to get involved with social media, internationally in china. it's important to us. we have a special unveiling today that links the warriors specifically with something very special in the chinese new years. >> let's hear from eric welch. >> let's hear it for bob. [ applause ] . >> we are going to have some fun today but i want to do something a little
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serious from the beginning. we are at the betty young recreation center and we are known for the history with the warriors and you need to know who betty was. she was a flight attendant who took off from a flight from boston. the first flight that hit the world trade center building and somehow during that flight she had the presence of mind to be the one communicating to the people on the ground what was happening, who had been the perpetrators of this horrible event and showed so much strength and courage. she was born in san francisco, she grew up here in chinatown and she's a true american hero. it's important that you remember that. thank you. [ applause ] >> is her sister here? where
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is she? right there. stand up. thank you very much for being here today. thank you. [ applause ] >> so today we are here to recognize and to celebrate the importance of the chinese community to the golden state warriors, how about that. is that worth a round of applause? we are the bay area's team and i'm sure you know that three of the five largest asian communities in the united states are right here in the bay area, in san francisco, oakland and in san jose. you may or may not know that this today's nba 20 percent of the players on our nba rosters come from outside of the united states. no more important than in the history of -- has opened a whole new area
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of basketball and interest in the nba in china and everybody will forever be indebted to yaw to keep people's mind in china to enjoy the nba and basketball more than ever before. in the last four 4 years we have staged that the warriors are asian heritage night and we have a special celebration for chinese new year. we would like to think of ourselves as innovators, we like to think of new things. not all of them work, but we would like to try them and we want to make everything a better experience. and we have a team to introduce the short sleeve jerseys. that's coming up in just a moment. today is an at some point to celebrate our relationship with the