great partner city bank they hold the accounts for the students we're joined by bob did gloriously dwrshgs director of public works for community depth and the joseph for the region and we'll celebrate this without their hard work thank you very much (clapping.) and city bank started accident mravm policeman that made the families into the formal financial system and city bank is trshtd to the financial education component of kindergarten to college insuring this isn't just angle accountants resource but having that with the financial education to families know how tow to save we want to make sure the children safe their, their economic success i want you to hear about this program from a

parent i'm pleased to introduce the parents of two children to the monroe elementary charles your experience about kindergarten to college. >> thank you jose cisneros my wife sabrina works at monroe my children in second grade and my daughter in kindergarten we're proud today to represent this vibrant and diverse community family to be striving to have their children go to college frequently the first generations to go to college i appreciated how to work are these to make that a reaching of arraignment for all children general public comment start for our family and outline e all families whether we begin to plan for college or not kiddie college is getting

our children to college at the starting line for dlej this may find us with their matching program incentivizing and rewarded benchmark amounts we have friends with kids in college we recognize the college funding that if placed we know how much college cost and the 20 years since mooifrns e my wife and i went to college any college costs 2 and a half times we wonder what the cost of college that will be for our children we want to make sure we can do all we can to insure if college viable for them we appreciate how they partner with the san francisco ethics commission in the community to make that more tangible to our children and all children in the city

beyond financial backing at katie credulous that is very generous it give us the opportunity to talk about college with our children that is why we're saving for college we know from research we wanted to talk to our children about college having them know that college is in their future increases the likelihood of kids in college we appreciate how college gives us the resources we know friends my wife and i went to rival university they know how the songs but they know we began savings cologne for their cologne so we're grateful for the sunset they've got of the future for them and we're grateful far the assurance and this program provides our children and all children in the

city and now it's my pleasure to introduce our wanting of our school board emily. >> (clapping.) thank you so much ken you and your family are an example of what pa makes our school so great i want to thank the president for being here more monroe it is a gem in our school system i wanted to share one parent's review of the school and incredible bunch of devoted loving intelligent people run monroe my son is lucky to get here he gets to be surrounding by university and learn in a nurturing environment thanks to the staff at monroe you had a wonderful, wonderful job (clapping.) and i want to ask the boy and girl how many of you got to

visit city bank? >> great and how many of you have piggy banks our putting money into we really want to acknowledge the strong partnership with city bank and lucky to have innovative leader honorable exam of publics unify heard from jose cisneros and this is a remained over a hundred its we can't thank you jose cisneros enough he's not going as the purchase man (laughter). >> and this incredible partnership railroads our cologne boundary culture that is very much is part of our vision vision 2025 i'm shortly here from the house leader napping nancy pelosi who was the first

woman speaker of house (clapping.) and remains one of the most influential woman in american politics today, i'm so proud here exceptional granddaughter is among our san francisco students through a very strong partnership with mayor ed lee and middle-income and the school board the school district has by a preponderance from the initiatives through the mayor excluding the mayor's middle grade and circling the schools that brought in inbe prientdz amount of benefits through city bank it is with great appreciation and introduce our next speaker it is mayor ed lee our education mayor with a capita e. >> mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.)

thank you, dr. well, you know learning and earning cvs have often been the very secrets to success and certainly for san francisco but you know with formal mayor naichl jose brought to us made it less secret and plentiful to the families we knew more challenged than other families and make sure they will be successful in the city as well so with the person in the true partnership are city bank and our treasurer and school board and government with our private seefshth we've made earning and learning less secret and the a foundation of our success this is why the kindergarten to college program is to attractive i've had the providential of traveling to national meetings and the mayor's conference to introduce this to other mayors

across the country with city bank they ask how do you have a bank account for families that simply enroll in kindergarten and a promise is made their kids have that opportunity to go to college well, i think we take lessons from most apartment just like i was 31 years ago when we had our kids we made a promise for our family our kids go to college we started that 3wk9 on the day did he they were born the same sentiment in our city embracing the families and city first, this city for families we've work hard to expand and make sure that got matching incentives you should see the incentives created it more than a fifty-dollar start when kids enroll in the lunch program

they, in fact, the parents put melon into the account so it grows like something is earned and this is why it is so valuable to teach those values right now you we're doing everything we can to make sure that families are groping up here and qatar spoke lontd about his family i went and recruited him nancy pelosi on our ssi he will help obvious advise all the advocates in the city how to make those partnerships work (clapping.) as active parents engage we have universal preschool restore exploring and after-school programs as dr. murase we're working with involvement with with private sectors and the

benioff's and all the 2 thousand 4 hundred technical company cooling even good snacks and crossing guard phenomenon the principal i know that principal a is on his list when copies visit and say make sure we never ask the plans and teachers to reach into adhere pockets when we need something into make those campuses successful education is a huge thing i have a great pleasure of introducing something on the helm of an innovate movement to make sure that college is variable and education a great partner under is less secrets to connect and more in our democratic values we have an open agenda to make all

of our families across the country successful i'll introduce democratic leader nancy pelosi (clapping.) thank you, thank you very much mr. mayor when president of the school board emily murase she introduced him as an education mayor and the e mayor the housing and the jobs mayor and the list goes on the mayor for keeping families in san francisco with affordable housing and job opportunities and education education education i want to thank him for his leadership and acknowledge i think the kids want to get back to class i want to talk about the beauty of the mix of the diverse class the beauty of the behavior are they not well

boofrd alonzo to the speeches matthew we call him rocket i want to tell you one thing i got this package of letters from the third grader one the questions says i want to know what gongs at the capital do you play spokesman in the rooms (laughter) do you play parking control officer could man, i love parties that kind of thing in any effecting event one day to welcome you to the capital remember when i said all the beautiful smiles i'll should that picture to president obama and say this started in san francisco i'm going to college with a big smile on our face.

>> thank you to jose cisneros his imagination to create something wonderful for you (clapping.) have a great day in school i'll talk about when you go two but i think you've been beautifully boofrd we'll try to follow our lead in that regard (laughter) the principal solace knows how to time things with his students he says i want them to go back to class (laughter). >> (inaudible). >> well congratulations for your leadership of monroe elementary school and our hospitality letting us in today to make that point thank you and emily thank you for your leadership on the school board in terms of implementing this important initiative i'm going to hold this up this the rabble

kindergarten to college to jose cisneros a leader the person you saw the connection between the nationalistcy that's what we're teaching those kids they in turn will be dealing with their siblings and the parents the connection between the competent to have the resources to college and the incentive to have to study is so thank god kids we've changed that and set a model for the nation so thank you for this initiative a national admission more importantly ever personal sixth to every single child that was made clear by your wonderful presentation so where's the competition oh, i see the big game every night laura

(laughter) but you've spoken well, from the families prospective and congratulations to you on our future involvement in terms of are nevertheless, of the city's the mayor said private-public in time partnerships to make that with work work and the private side of city bank thank you for your important role those kids having the confidence saying i'm going to college is a beautiful statement that the mayor said about everything in our future in addition to that is important 0 our country the most important investment in the people a family da can make in their children people talk about the cost of education the fact nothing's bring more money to the treasurer than the investment in education that's the investment and it reduces it

the earliest child education higher post grad education learning this is a start and since having the key a new way to open that door to college for those young kids it is remarkable i'm telling you the kids i'm taking the picture of those smiling to show the president and bring that brochure as well and i thank you, again, for all of you for your leadership and representing san francisco because ideas come forth here and people act on them we have dreams and plans that's what makes it special the private-public in time partnering helps and the joy of the children so thank you, mr. mayor and thank you, principal

solace and madam president murray race and thank you dad for (laughter) sharing our family story with us and making other parents proud thank you very much (clapping.) a >> do you want to do it here? >> yeah. >> i was wondering i'm not real familiar (inaudible). >> sure. >> be happy to. >> sure. >> (inaudible). >> we'll work on that (laughter) so we start this program 5 years ago the city launched a number

of empowerment programs to help 9 low income folks and keep their money save connected people who didn't have bank account to rely right hand the cashiers check and ongoing financial education programs we want to reach out and support our youth we were spurred on if a child groups it builds ass prirgz and helps them get to college we work hard with the scapegoated with our partner city bank to make that successful question build it from the ground up every year we get a set of information and listing all this kindergarten and the demographic information to open a account affordable

health care ensue kids enter kindergarten and a few weeks later we open up on account in the child's name and we tell that family here's our 6th district at large and account card and id number and here's how to make deposits and go online and go online the city has put an initial amount of $50 the child has money saved for the college education we know that $50 is not going to pay for college but find a way for the child to be successful and offer incentives to match the savings we'll match dollar for dollar up to the first $100 and match the steady saves every month for six months in a row another account and participating families

savings over $1.3 million that's family money not city or matching incentives that is all family money and half of the families are families ref fry and reduced april's lunch programs so we know we're reaching families across the income spectrum in the security guard and finding a way to save there is a cost to the city i'm pleased to have the city leaders success the city pays for the administration of the program we have a great kc staff manage an incredible program with an incredibly small amount of people but have great partners the city's cost is $650,000 a year to fund the kc program we add to this private money some donations in city bank to make

the program a reality it is every income kindergarten in the security guard that's correct. >> from the stand point sorry. >> (inaudible). >> yeah. >> well, i wanted to go to the point you asked on the back end the college end our focus on making college more affordable the initiative to contain the cost of college education while we put more money out there we don't want it to be used for other purposes more opportunities available for that young people that's why we're fighting the fight when we put u cut the pell grant and increase the interest you see initiatives to under those there the pell grants but also to incentivizes

states to do more important higher education and when federal money comes along not to underwrite but to do more important the kids in terms of what the treasurers cisneros a long time ago which i went to college and initiative to encourage families to start bank account but it wasn't automatic the way it is and families trying to reach for the hardest ones to reach it the other ones had bank accounts to it is not a decision to make to do it is done now they take it from there so it is really quite a beautiful thing and again, you'll secure a lot during the presidential campaigns about college education to add

community college for the college as well to it is a budget we say you increase the deficit if you don't invest in education to, in fact, there's a loss so we're again at the other end when this model travels there the country it could create an approach where the federal government can participate as a parent and at left or level we're not at that part yet thank you to jose cisneros for education in our country once again san francisco is leading the way. >> there are initiatives that we're having congress to have features the program in terms of

assistance to state predicated states containing the cost of education in terms of cost of education it just being frugal just fiscally sound in how the institutions are run i'm not christ the institutions we're getting more back for the students for that initiatives that reduce the cost of student loans or initiatives we've had in the congress for a while we're proud that is part of the initiative that is a good initiative more things we've been working on for a while which is proposing the next idea others that want to go further the consent of money the $350,000 berry new sanders says

the cost for the country has already been we want to make that affordable and have qualify of the education and have public-private partnerships do their really understand that we have to pay the bill at the end of the day and go into many anything we do for education enhances our country aspirations the people the conceiveness of the people in the world i've seen the invests in education all do more to bring money to the treasury we need to know what it means for people to reach their aspirations and education innovation begins in the classroom and have it is all succeed beautifully this way

(laughter) maybe time for one more and everybody needs to get back to school. >> (inaudible). >> well, first of all, let me say i don't know if any one of us can express our they to kate it is a sad life beautiful and all the prospects of the future of this person insufficient funds out so how we treat and value every single leave is important to us in san francisco and california and in our country kate steinle law says you have a 5 year minimum sentence for re-entry into the country that didn't really

address the prop at hand the person perpetrate of that tragedy spent a long time in jail and the 5 mandate minimum didn't add to what we need a better communication amongst the intermits whether the immigration service or law enforcement we should be putting focus judges come to me over time in congress when necessary come in inform their appropriations they say give us appropriations we don't need a mandatory sentence but the discretion to address the case my climate change in this case i don't see i think we can do something but more than that and

i support the sanctuary city i think that this horrific crime as terrible as it is is not a reflective of the sanctuary city to do the answer the comprehensive immigration reform this will address some of the issues and the minimum sentence of re-entry to the country and secondly, we have to have background checks in how people are access to firearms this is a background checks whether or not that into have stopped this it stopped millions on the books but now extend to other things online sales and those kinds of that emerged with the advances in technology so there is plenty

we can do and shouldn't just think about it but having mandatory sentence of re-entry what seasoned happened in san francisco i'm sorry mayor. >> i happen to agree i'm focused specifically on the circumstances as well as to what agencies did in discussing to bring somebody back that didn't have to be brought back that's another area to come to an agreement and again i don't think that those cases law the way i've read it addresses that circumstance but i'm very much for more communication among the law enforcement agencies in my opinion is less to do with sanctuary city and more to do with communication among the law

enforcement you can't have a good communication if an agency device spot to communicate we need to correct that locally as well as regionally. >> (inaudible). >> well, we made the discovery the memorandum with an the sheriff's department prevented people from communicating once you start it, it is a sleep slop not to communicate this is wrong when we are engaged with people with a criminal record history you've got to have more communication of the circumstances around that i'm a true believer that communication will help people to understand what we face today. >> (inaudible). >> yeah. you know, i think that

is the private claim and again, i take this position officially on behalf of the city the people of san francisco in those circumstances need more communication a good policy for all law enforcement officials. >> thank

>> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world

should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents

artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. let's go over and take a look at that. here we are in a smaller space. project gallery. >> artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. >> i noticed a lot of artists doing really site-specific work. >> this is a pile of balloons, something that is so familiar, like a child's balloon.

in this proportion, suddenly, it becomes something out of a dream. >> or a nightmare. >> may be a nightmare. >> this one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. >> this is made out of puffy paint. often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. she has made all these lines of paint. >> for the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of? >> i'm not telling. >> ah, a secret. >> this silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. >> this is a nice juxtaposition

you have going on right now. you have a more established artists alongside and emerging artists. is that something important to you as well? >> very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. now let's look at other aspects of electric works operation. let's go to the bookstore. >> ok. >> in all seriousness, here we are in your store. this is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. it has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. >> this was the project for the berkeley art museum. it was -- this is from william wiley's retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song, 270 people put on the cat. >> it is not just a bookstore. it is a store.

can you talk us through some of your favorites? >> these are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. >> these pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. >> we do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. they are probably not for prime time. >> you sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. >> let's go. >> before we go into the print shop, i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. what are we standing in front of?

>> this is william wiley, only one earth. this is a print edition. there are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. this is really an art object. there we go. >> besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited edition? >> there is the slot machine. if you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. >> what about work? >> the right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. the cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined

with beaver fur. really special. >> let's move on to the print shop. >> ok. the core of what we do is making things. this is an example. this is a print project that will be a fund-raiser for the contemporary music players. we decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. >> so nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell, and the profits, they can keep. >> the return on investment is usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. this is for the bio reserve in mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. >> you also make prints for the artists that you represent. over here are some large prints

by a phenomenal artist. >> he writes these beautiful things. anyone who has told you paradise is a book of rules is -- has only appeared through the windows. this is from all over coffee. we are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. >> thank you very much for showing us around today. i really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation and also to share with our "culturewire" team. . >> good evening and welcome to the september 16, 2015 meeting of the san francisco berd of appeals. the presiding officer this evening will be the board's vice president, dairl honda. he