entering middle school. next year. they cannot build trust and form necessary bonds required for a successful student-teacher partnership with substitute teachers. they have begun to solve -- c. crimes. parents have begun to transfer their students out of this school. from front -- for a president -- present but more will follow. this is an issue that affects every school community in our district. we are concerned about our families leaving the district schools for charters or private schools. this will, most certainly can't be increased if we do not do what is necessary to higher quality teachers to educate our students. we must move with urgency and purpose to make these changes and retain our families and district schools. we have the right to a quality education for our students and numbers are committed to solutions. we aren't willing to work with the district and local educational institutions and universities to recruit qualified teachers that we

desperately need. thank you. >> good evening. i have been a parent in munro elementary school for eight years and a spanish -- in the spanish immersion program. i have seen the school change from a diverse and supportive community to a cold and unwelcoming environment. we have had four principles over the short periods. each new administrator has made changes and cause disruption. this current year is especially hard because only two of the 11 teachers in the spanish immersion program are still's teachers at the school. through all these changes, i have been able to take comfort in the fact that i knew the teachers in the classroom that worked hard and had earned my trust. last year, our current principal spoke about the problem of kids underperforming in the spanish immersion program. her plan was to break up the combination classes into separate grade level classes. consequently creating one large class and two smaller classes. she told me she would have two

teachers in the classroom with a larger amount of kids. it seemed like a reasonable plan to me. at the end of the year, we learn to know none of the immersion teachers where returning this year and the decision to change a class structure moved forward to. had 40 kids matriculate into the fifth-grade class and despite what the principal told me last year, only one teacher was being hired to teach that class. it is not surprising to me that the class was the only class not able to find a permanent teacher by the start of the school year. sadly, this plan was hurting the very kids that it was supposed to help. our kids are being undervalued and shortchanged. munro parents are not recognized as male partners and making rational and sensible school improvements that are sustainable. our school needs to be held accountable. any serious plan moving forward has to include hiring two bilingual certified teachers for that many kids. the district must support parents and children with an immediate plan to keep our

classroom safe and sane. our kids learning and thriving and parents are appreciated and valued. thank you for your time. 's. >> [speaking spanish] >> good evening. my name is jessica ortega and i am the mother of a fifth-grader at monro. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: i'm here because i am very concerned and i realize that there are parents of other ethnicities that are just as concerned, not just latino parents in what is happening. [speaking spanish]

>> voice of translator: as the other parents mentioned, we have gone through at least three principles and this has caused the school to become unbalanced and uncontrolled. the current principal lacks a proper work ethic and has not been able to handle the problems that we are facing. [speaking spanish]

>> voice of translator: i also want to express that this has also caused an emotional imbalance in both the parents and the children. it has been two weeks that we have been without a teacher and the people who have been sent, lack professional ethics and human kindness. i think that the academic portion is one part of its, by the other part is the emotional aspects that we have not focused on. [speaking spanish]

>> voice of translator: another thing that the principle has allowed is a fact that there are more than 40 children in the classroom. he comes from the musee from new york and the laws are different there. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: i appreciate all of you and i respectfully ask and hope that you will find a quick resolution to these problems because they are affecting all of the kids. a lot of my child friends are moving to other schools and i don't want to have to do that to

him in his last grade at elementary school. >> good evening. my name is peter. my daughter is a fifth-grade student at munro elementary school. i am here to sound the alarm in regards to the situation that has quickly spiraled out of control under the guidance of the principal. the school year started on the 20th of august, absent of not one but 20 bilingual teachers we were promised. let me be clear. forty-one fifth-grade students started the year in an overcrowded room without a single qualified teacher.

firstly, it is worth noting the school is holding a meeting tonight to discuss this exact topic. most parents are not able to attach both meetings and many are there tonight to and are desperate to hear of any news or progress. my daughter has been a student at munro since kindergarten. it is a small school with a grunt -- great sense of community. we are grateful for the wonderful teachers that have worked tirelessly educating and shaping our daughter's future. in fact, they are sorely missed. the past seven days of schooling has been a disaster by all accounts. the third substitute teacher started this week. the overcrowded class has been reduced by some parents are choosing to take their child elsewhere. i feel ashamed that there is an element of release -- relief and hearing this terrible news. the fifth-grade students at munro elementary are being monumentally failed. i will repeat that. the fifth-grade students at munro elementary have been monumentally failed to. the communication has been disgraceful. there was no e-mail, no letter or phone call to even prepare us for the possibility of what was to unfold. we were told by our children on the first day. no one knew where no one cared. the principal is negotiating alternatives from a position. for adjusting -- suggesting a english speaking teacher with a

spanish-speaking aid is not enough. the majority of students are behind great level -- grade level and slipping quickly. trust has been broken and confidence is gone. sadly, our children are paying the price for the negligence. hopefully the union school district hears our cause of distress. the alarm bells are sounding. thank you. [applause] >> my name is danny kim. for 20 years, i was an educator. for the past six years, i have been a parent to just want to love my kids go to munro. and my son is in this fifth-grade class. for the past couple of years, he has experienced bullying. but the saving grace for my son has been wonderful educators that have worked with him and his classmates to create a safe environment. that has been why we have trusted our school and the people who care for our kids. when my son came back this year,

there was no teacher. on the first day, the sub made fun of him and another girl. the girl threw a pencil at his eye and and at that point, we knew that in that particular environment to, my son would not be safe. we are not just talking about learning, we're talking about safety. for my son, that meant i needed to pull him out and do what i needed to do as a father. that is what i did. i have given a lot to this district. he really is sad that it has come to this. my daughter is still at the school. i am glad for that. in in this case, my son has expressed the cost of that. why am here today is because i support my fellow parents and the community at munro that something has to be done. thank you. [speaking spanish]

>> voice of translator: good evening. my name is jasmine ortiz and i am also a mother of a student at munro. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: when the meeting started, i listened as they discussed renaming a school after our former mayor derek [speaking spanish]. >> voice of translator: i i heard a member of the board mention that when you walk into that school, you can feel the love and the joy in that school. unfortunately, that's not happening at my child's school.

[speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] he was really excited -- >> voice of translator: he was really excited about seeing his friends from the previous year at exciting about meeting his teacher and excited about his last year and his promotion. [speaking spanish]

>> voice of translator: as you have heard before for the reasons stated, a lot of parents have pulled their children from the school. one of those children was my child's best friend and my son is very sad he won't be able to celebrate his graduation with him. he doesn't want to go to school. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: thank you for listening to me. i want us to find a solution. i want us to find a teacher that would treat our children with the love because that is important to them. he has been learning everything.

he has realized that munro was not welcoming to them. the school was dirty when they started. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: there was still posterboard and torn pieces of paper from the previous year, this year. thank you, very much. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: good evening. my name is benito ortiz. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: my son is also in the fifth-grade.

he is the third one, third-generation at munro. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: i remember in previous years, it has always been a great school. there was even some renovations done. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: i want to be direct. this problem started to watch when years. [speaking spanish] >> voice of translator: my son was bullied and the teachers and the staff and administrators have not been doing a good job. [speaking spanish]

>> voice of translator: and i ask you to look at all the people who were here tonight. obviously something is wrong at this time that u.s. representatives look and find what is wrong. >> good evening. i want to thank the families who came out tonight. my name is rosemary and i'm a long-term -- long time. a community member. i've been there since 2002 with two current students that while they are and i started a fourth and fifth grade class. my daughter is an alarming of lowell at a recent college -- college graduate. i lived what what blocks from this quality advocate for services for the families and

residents of district 11. the students are representative and our working class immigrant community. a community that relies heavily on education to improve lives and education of children. these families are considerate, respectful and supportive of their children's education and the schools that they attempt. it is an understatement to say this administration, the current administration is committing a grave disservice to the community. families and our students and our staff. families in this situation are experiencing unnecessary tension , frustration and sadness with the time lost at work that they have had to take off. hurrying here overwork after cleaning houses. sleepless nights, a lack of structure. and the one place where many people look for structure in the classroom. last year the administration disregarded community input throughout the academic year and failed to call for a single community meeting prior to submitting the budget. which i addressed or informed the district about.

the result of having failed to communicate and collaborate with the families and the stop has created a current situation of an unsafe and overcrowded and ineffective learning environments. the situation is not only completely chaotic but especially disruptive to the children and their families causing numerous inconveniences and moving children to other schools across town and losing friendships made over the last five years and disappointment and that public school. my husband and i really want to continue your currently, we are told to support staff pops and from time to time but they are finding the situation incredibly difficult to control or instruct they are, intern, snapping at and punishing and sometimes criticizing our children for something that is not their fault. this set up that she has set up is not working for us. our efforts as parents to support the administration initially allowed us to go into the classroom but then told us we weren't allowed. >> thank you. >> she continues to tell us we can assist and it tells us we can't. and puts up pneumatic --

numerous obstacles. >> good evening. i want to start by reiterating something that i think the board president said that you all have equity priorities. this is an equity priority right now, right here. if you want a project for the week or the month or the year, here we are. i am a long time munro parents. my daughters in the seventh grade and my son is in the fifth-grade. the difference in their experiences has been dramatic. not only is my son a former foster youth who has been repeatedly failed by adults and public institution, but he it has now been failed by his school. despite being on the southeast side of the city and full of immigrant families, families have done a great job at educating children. many of whom, like my son have high needs. today i cannot say that this is true. we do not educate our students the same anymore.

we have lost all of our veteran spanish-speaking teachers. we can't seem to keep a principal and we are putting the lives of our children at risk. they have no teacher, and all order has been lost. i feel quite certain that if this was clarendon or another school or any westside school, any of the fancy schools, that everybody wants to go to, this would never be tolerated. we are not a rich school but we are equally, if not more committed to demanding the same quality of education as students from those westside schools and we will not be ignored. our principal talks a lot about the spanish-speaking kids in our school who are mostly in spanish immersion and how they have the lowest test scores in all areas. if things continue as is, they will surely worsen. this is a high need population and for seven days, we have had three subs, 40 enrolled students in total chaos in the classroom, which i have witnessed. nothing about what i witnessed is acceptable and you are

elected representatives who have the power to do something. at a minimum, we are asking for two certified teachers as promised by the principal and extra support staff or the fifth-grade spanish immersion class. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. thank you to all of the parents that came out for it munro. we appreciate your presence and your input. our next item is section g. i believe that is all of our public speakers. our next item is section g. the special order of business. we have not tonight. section h. is a discussion of educational issues. we have not tonight. section i is consent calendar items are moved. we have none. section jay is the introduction of proposals to committee. altogether, we have four policies. the public and board comment on proposal. if anyone has signed up, which i have no cards at this time,.

ok. all right. susan solomon. come on up. >> thank you. this is in relation to the policy for prior authorization to use personal belongings at school and reimbursement if they get lost or stolen. i just wanted to make sure that the board knows that there is a contract provision and both the search to vacated unclassified contract that says the following this is article 14.4.5 active certificate and 15.2.6 at classifieds. the district shall reimburse a teacher or a pair just a educator for damages or theft resulting from attack, assault of physical threats, robbery or vandalism when said damage or

theft occurs in the line of duty , including supervision without fault of the teacher. it is possible that i am misreading the policy, but it seems to me that this policy will only provide reimbursement if the personal belonging is being directly used for instruction. the contract doesn't specify that it is a belonging that is being used for instruction. thank you. >> thank you. item two is board policy 3350. and play travel expenses and work policy. item three is board policy 5148, childcare and development at preschool early childhood education. can i hear a motion and a second for first reading?

>> moved. >> second. >> thank you. unless i hear otherwise from council, we will be sending these policies to the rules policy and legislative committee ok. thank you. section k.'s proposal for immediate action and suspension of the rule. there are none tonight. section l is our board member process reports. appointment of commissioners to committee. at this time, we would like to announce that all of the board committees will remain the same. we made a leadership decision to keep the committees in the same order because of the transition of board members which will occur in january and new appointments will be made in january. so just to reiterate the current

committees and their chairs, buildings and grounds and services, i will continue to chair with matt haney. curriculum and program commissioner norton will chair with commissioner cook. rules policy and legislation, commissioner sanchez will chair with commissioner cook and commissioner ross say. the ad hoc committee on student assignments will be chaired with commissioner haney and commissioner norton. personal matters, labour relations and affordability, the vice president will chair with commissioner sanchez and commissioner norton. and the ad hoc school district city college joint committee will continue to be chaired by myself and trustee, alex randolph. we will be with commissioner haney and commissioner norton and trustee selby. and the city college oversight committee will actually josh i

currently am on but i have resigned from it. and commissioner cook and the vice president -- vice president cook will be taking that position as soon as we transition over. that will be the committees going forward. please let us know if you have any questions. item two, standing committees. we have no meetings that have taken place as a last board meeting except for buildings and grounds and we announced all of the action items on the apps. forge, two membership organizations. does anyone have any updates on that? and the other reports by board members? vice president cook. >> i just wanted to wish everyone a happy first week of the year and on friday, i have been presuming my friday morning

school sight visits. i would like to thank the tenderloin community school of san francisco and the chinese immersion school for welcoming me. i will be attending other schools this friday. also, on the first day of school , i attended wallenberg high school and another elementary school. i would like to thank them for welcoming me. the last thing is i'm a proud member of the san francisco mentor for success program. and my student is in the western indigestion. i got him a fortnight backpack to start the school year. apparently it grows in the dark which i did not know until he told me. if you are not into the program, i encourage you to participate. >> any others? i too want to thank hillcrest and francisco even though the superintendent sounded like he

went by himself like he was generous to let me join him. i want to thank both of those school communities for allowing us to be there on the first day of school. i also just wanted to welcome our new deputy superintendent two has disappeared. see how special she is. i just want to welcome her to our group and -- there she is. [laughter] you have cheesecake in your teeth? yeah. [applause] >> welcome and congratulations on your new role. i'm looking forward to working with you. any other announcements by board members? ok. calendar of committee meetings. are there any upcoming meetings to announce. >> rules committee will be meeting on thursday, september 6 th at 6:00 pm. >> other meetings?

anything scheduled at this time? no. section m. is other informational items. we have no reports tonight. it is a memorial adjournment. there is no memorial adjournment tonight. at this time, will take public comments for those who have submitted speaker cards for close session items. we have none this evening. section o.'s closed sessions of the board will go into closed session. we will be back.

>> they get the authority at the district to be omitted. section q. is adjournment. this meeting is adjourned. thank you.

>> good morning, everyone.

this meeting will come to order. welcome the meeting of the rules committee. i'm chair of the committee safai. to my left is committee members supervisor catherin stephanie an peskin. our clerk today is victor young. helping us from sfgovtv are michael and matt. and before we start, mr. clerk, do you have any announcements. >> clerk: silence all cellphones. speaker cards and copies of documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items will be september 18th unless otherwise stated. >> please call item number 1. >> if you can call item 2

together. >> clerk: item number one and two. item 1 is ordinance of the administrative code to modify the civic design review feed from a deposit of 2,500 plus the time and material cost to a flat fee of $12,800 per project. set a timeline for fee payment described the method for determining fees for projects involving multiple structures and described circumstance that may qualify for waiver or reduction. ordinance of the administrative code to charge a fee for organizing traveling exhibits. >> thank you, mr. clerk. i'd like to hand it over to my colleagues, supervisor peskin and we are joined by deputy district or and c.f.o. of cultural affairs rebeca.

>> thank you, supervisor safai and scheduling these items consistent with long-standing board policy in the case of item 1. this is so the arts commission can recoup their costs for civic design review, which fee has not been updated for many, many years. item number 2 is actually a new authorization, which would allow the arts commission to charge a fee for organizing traveling exhibitions. i want to thank supervisor brown for her co sponsorship of both matters and ask ms. rebeca krill to give a. >> good morning, supervisors, thank you for the opportunity to be here and present on these items today. thank you supervisor peskin and supervisor brown for introducing and sponsoring these ordinances

on the department's behalf. so as supervisor peskin stated, the first item is our civic design review fee. as a way of introduction, civic design review is a charter mandated responsibility of the arts commission. the committee is a subset of our commissioners made up of architects and landscape designers and they ensure the estheticses of the built environment of our projects on city and county property. the commissioners are all volunteers. the fee recoops the cost of the staff time, the administrative support for the committee. it's staffed by two part-time staff. so one f.t.e. this is just to ensure the cost keeps pace with the increases and salary and benefits. do you want me to move onto the second item? do you have any questions. the second item is a new program that we're really excited about.

it's part of our gallery's program. we have gallery that we run across the street and the veteran's war memorial building. this would allow us to recoup the cost of traveling exhibitions from the gallery program and allow broader exposure to the emerging san francisco and bay artists we work with. i'm happy to answer any questions you have. >> supervisor yee. >> just a quick question. on the first item, it's basically cost recovery. i mean -- >> correct, it's just the staff time. >> and on the second item, who do you charge the fee to? i mean, it wasn't clear with me? >> sure, thank you for the question. we're anticipating one or two exhibitions a year with travel. it would really depend on interest in demand and we're envisioning private art gallery in another city in the country,

or even potentially international opportunities. but not here in the city. i wanted to clarify that point. >> so the request would come from some elsewhere for us to bring some exhibit to them. >> right. >> got it. >> exactly, so right now we have a sanctuary city exhibit, maybe another sanctuary city in the country would be interested in hosting that exhibit. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> i have a question. on the second one, so can you just give a little bit more background. what happens now? there's traveling exhibitions with no fee? >> the exhibitions do travel. it's a new program and we were talking with the city attorney about the program and about what a contract might look like. we were informed that we don't currently have the legislative authority to recoup the cost for such a program. that's why we're here. >> i was curious, i was just we've been doing these for free? >> we haven't, no. >> no cost recovery.

[laughter] supervisor peskin, anything else? >> i would be delighted if this body would send this to the full board with recommendations. >> great. >> we'll open up for public comment. if we have any other questions, we'll call you back up. >> please, proceed. >> supervisors, as you fully understand, this is a special meeting. such meetings inconvenience the citizens of san francisco. i've seen one of the persons who was trying to explain to you that, you know, they just have this exhibits and that is the arts commission, which is one of the most nefarious departments in the city and county of san

francisco. we have a issue in the bayview and directly linked to the art commission. the supervisors have not paid attention to. this matter will come before you in a special manner. supervisors, we are living in very difficult times. and when you pass some sort of consensus to have such special meetings giving breaks to the developers, taking item 1 and 2, one is all about money and trying to rob us on such issues, then you know, what you are jeopardizing democracy. i represent the first people of this area. but i also have done due diligence by attending your meetings. you have these meetings at 10:00 in the morning and most of us

who earn a living have to work, rush to this meetings, for you to rubber stamp and say they'll have no questions against art commissions and this developers. this rogue developers who are returninruining our city. i'll be following the other deliberations intently. thank you very much for your time. >> any other members of the public that wish to comment on this item, please come forward. public comment is closed. we have a motion on items 1 and 2? >> i make a motion to pass item 1 and 2 out of the committee with positive recommendations to the board. >> without objection. thank you supervisor peskin. >> thank you, colleagues. we're going to take item 5 quickly out of order so we can spend time on items number 3 and 4. mr. clerk, please call item number 5. >> clerk: item number 5 is an ordinance, many of the administrative code to modify the daily use fee to engage in

film production to the film rebate program through 2028 to correspondingly increase the authorized funding cap for the film rebate project accounts from $4 million to $14 million and to add the administrative penalties for violation of requirements of film commission programs. >> great. thank you mr. clerk. i'm going to hand it over to supervisor stfani, whose item this is. >> thank you for being here. this is actually exciting for me. when i was an aid to supervisor peer we put fourth the film rebate program. it's been in existence since. when i was a aid to supervisor ferell, we extended the program several times. that's what we're doing here today. it's set to sun jet in june of 2019. the program is capped right now at $4 million in terms of the rebates our film productions get back. and these amendments would extend the sunset date through

2028 and increase the program account not to exceed $14 million based on what we've been funding in the past. there are so many great union jobs. showcases our city. we can always do more but this is what we have and you do such a great job i want to turn the floor over to you. >> thank you. good morning supervisors and thank you for considering this extension today. and thank you supervisors stafani today for introducing this today. sim susana robins. the executive district or of the san francisco film commission. the theme in san francisco rebate program was created in 2006 in order to increase the amount of production that was based in san francisco and make it competitive, at a time when much production was leaving san francisco and california in general due to generous incentives from canada and elsewhere. since then, we've had 27 productions use the rebate program creating thousands of

jobs, spending millions of dollars locally and increasing the visibility of san francisco to tourists worldwide. this program is essential to attracting longer-term productions to san francisco and making filming in the city more cost effective. these longer-term productions provide consecutive months of jobs to local crews and local actors who work as independent contractors and benefit from this longer term production shooting in the city. since 2006, the city has rebated 5,522,876 to productions. these productions have hired 15,000 local crew and actors who are members often of local 16, teamsters 2685 and sag. they have 'em employed 196 first source hires who work as production assistance on the set or in the office getting experience to help them move on

to other film productions. many of the hires come from access education and employment for low income youth, youth of color and young women. the productions have paid $21 million to wages in local san francisco crews and background actors. and spent more than $61 million on goods and services which is location fees, office supplies, lumber props, wardrobe, security, et cetera. for ever dollar that the city has rebated since 2006, productions have spent $15.12 locally. these productions not only provide local jobs and local spending, but increase the visibility of san francisco worldwide bringing more tourism to our city. rebate of productions include milk, trauma, hemming way and

gelhorn, lou jasman, hbo's looking, netflix sensei and hulu chance. without this program, these productions would not have chosen to base in san francisco. they would have shot in other locations. they would have filmed just a handful of days here and then just edited it so that it looked like the whole production was filmed in san francisco. so today we're asking for an extension of the program to junn allocation of $1 million a year. we're asking for this longer term than in the past because we want to be competitive and we know that it's important for producers to know they can count on our incentive when they budget for productions. they budget two years in advance and having this longer term will provide assurance and stability for producers who are considering basing their productions here. also, it will allow our film office to work on productions at hand rather than spending considerable amount of time and

also funds with the city attorney's office doing all the legislation in order to request an extension every four years. i would like to read you a quote from kimberley parker who is a producer who used our program. the film is called the last black man in san francisco and it was directed by a fifth generation san francisco an joe talbot. she wrote, the seeing a san francisco program is a vital corner stone of the local film community. it creates jobs in the city and keeps productions in san francisco, which otherwise would move to vancouver or l.a. as a resident of san francisco, i see a widening gap between the have and the have nots which is larger than any city i've lived in and i say this as an ex new yorker, supporting the scene in san francisco rebate programs means supporting the middle-class. people don't realize that film is largely a blue collar industry. film jobs require no college free and no pedestrian agree, just training and hard work.

the below the line crew makes up film workers and below the line means everyone from a production assistant getting coffee to a camera assistant in charge of the gear to teamsters drives. support these jobs. it is important in a city that fewer can afford. by supporting the rebate program you are supporting struggling workers and helping to make the city stronger. please grant the extension on this program. so i hope you understand the importance of the program and will support this today. >> supervisor yee. >> you mentioned that since 2006, is that since the program started that it's been 27? >> it's hard to hear you. >> it's been 27 productions, i guess? >> 27 productions have use of programs since 2006. >> so i'm just curious, the 12

years prior, maybe you don't have this information, if you do, the 12 years prior to 2006, do you know how many small and middle size productions we had in san francisco? they're not 12-year periods? >> prior to the rebate program? >> yes. >> i actually don't have that number with you i can tell you because i used to work in the industry and the i worked all the time and in the 2000s when incentives started in other states and countries, it was when in general, production started leaving california, which is why my predecessor helped create this program to help bring productions back. >> ok. it makes sense. i'm trying to figure out what motivated us to do this and if

you can't get information. it's not going to change my decision today. it's just for curiosity's sake. in the 90s, how many productions did we really have? >> if you can give me information on how many productions were shot in san francisco prior to 2006, especially when there was -- when we had more productions in the 90s. if you have that information you could give to my office. >> i would be happy to. our data base, i'm not sure goes back all the way to the 90s but i will present you whatever i can. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> supervisor stefani.

>> just to add a little history, when we first passed the film rebate program it was very union-driven and i remember working with local 16. at the time it was basically a cry to keep our jobs, you know. we really need to keep our jobs here in san francisco. they were going elsewhere. vancouver has a great film rebate program so does north carolina and so many other people or industries or jurisdictions have film rebate programs and so we were trying to stay competitive so we can keep those jobs here in the bay area in most importantly san francisco. ever time we renewed it we never have had a problem. >> [ please stand by[.

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when we come back to the arts commission, we're going to do a thing at city hall called this

week at city hall, filming. what really goes on at city hall. i call it silly hall, but we're going to let our viewers see what's going on here at city hall. and london -- i mean, the mayor comes from the fillmore no more. we're going to point a new star in the city by the bay, 'cause she represents us. we're going to put san francisco on the map. you think l.a. was bad, we're going to make it happen right here by the bay. we've got so much history. a lot of it's good, and a lot of it's bad, but the word has to be put out there in the city by the bay. and i'm getting ready to have a governor that used to be the mayor here. you all better get ready and smell the coffee, because case is going to be on the case, and he's getting ready to roll out community stanassistance servi

enterprise. >> thank you. good morning, supervisors. my name is jim beaumont. i represent all the film technicians that work below the line, and i just want to state that the film rebait program in the past has been extremely helpful to my members. it's created a lot of jobs. it didn't only create jobs for my members. there's also a large contingent of independent film makers here in the city, and it allows them to stay here in the city also. i would just like to thank you for your time and consideration in this program. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. claudine chang, i was a member of the san francisco film commission. so this has been done by the office of san francisco economic and workforce

development on the economic benefit of remaining in the city and you're all very familiar with it. i just would like to focus a few minutes on the impact after the filming is done because when we talk about benefits in terms of taxes, in terms of fees, and what's good for the citizens in terms of wages, our local talents, the truth of the matter is that after the crew is gone, now, we are seeing even more impact because people from around the world will go see sins of san francisco where these movie theaters are on tv, they want to come visit. this is an amazing long-term impact that don't always get documented. last year, the l.a. times published an article talked about how la la land boosted the city's profile worldwide, raising the prospect of new tourists coming to experience everything l.a. has to offer,

and this idea is no different for san francisco. this year, we celebrate the 50th movie of bullitt, the movie with steve mcqueen. when people see it from all around the world, they will see at that time, the pioneer filming of cops chasing down the streets of san francisco. it's so exciting. i mean, everybody come to san francisco would want to go see those iconic scenes they saw on t. t.v and movies. so the importance of films has economic and tourist benefits. in the state of california alone, six counties have such rebait programs. i urge we continue this so that san francisco can remain competitive in this, in the

filming world so that our city and residents can benefit. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you, commissioner. next speaker. miss desmond, i didn't see you in the back when i started talking about the work we had begun. >> yes. joanne desmond. i've been working with ahsha on the city i represent. this has made a great impact on the lives that they lead, their ability to send their children to school in san francisco. these jobs provide them with health care and with a pension, and we would appreciate all consideration in keeping this program going. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you so much. next speaker. >> hi, supervisors. frank simeon. i'm the theaterical director.

one thing i've learned in the few years that i've been at the screen actors guild is it's not easy to be an actor. they do suffer, but unfortunately because of t thenent -- fortunately because of the incentive there's been more work since the 90's, and our members are acting members appreciated enormously, and they would love that to continue. i might mention that in the last 12 months, 3,304 union actors have been employed in the city and county of san francisco, and, of course, many nonunion actors have also been employed. and we need that to continue. thank you very much.

>> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> supervisors, this is san francisco, and the one of the things that you have to pay attention to is the films that are made in san francisco, this is the land of the ohlone. the ohlone lived here for 15,000 years, carbon dated remains and artifacts, and mr. chan, you can make all the faces you want to. you have to study a little bit of anthropology. but since i'm talking about films, we need to look at this industry having in mind what a digital world gives us in terms of opportunities. so you all should