identify and recommend business process and prevents and communicate and coordinate with the production of housing in san francisco. thank you. do you have any questions? i'm available. colleagues, any questions or comments? >> using none, there is no b.l.a. report on this. let's open this up for public comment. any members of the public like to comment on item number three? seeing none, public comments now closed. i'd like to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. thank you very much. thank you. madame clerk, please call item number four. >> hearing to consider the release of reserved funds to the arts commission placed on the budgets and finance committee reserve in the amount of $2.6 million to administer grants in the areas of arts education, affordable space, core support for organizations and support for individual artists. >> thank you very much. and today we have mr. tom decane from the arts commission here. welcome. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you so much for hearing our item this morning.

i'm pleased to announce the reserve of $2 30i6 million for the arts impact endowment. voter aproved proposition e last november with 75% approval, which restores the hotel tax nexus to arts and culture funding in san francisco. thank you so much for all of your support. in the measure, it included $9 million approximately new funding for arts and culture, including a new arts impact endowment to be jointly administered between grants for the arts. and i have my colleagues here, matthew guedeau and jason blackwell. the arts impact endowment required a five-year allocation plan which is a needs assessment based similar to the children's needs assessment. in the winter and spring of 2019 we engaged over 3500

residents of san francisco as well as visitors and had various input into what the new arts impact endowment should support. here you see some of the statistics in terms of who we engaged across the city through focus groups, city-wide survey and a city-wide town hall at the veterans building. we had very clear outcomes of prioritis that actually mirrored the polling of proposition e. number one was arts education and youth arts to what is affordability of space and support for more affordable space in the city. core support for arts organizations and affordable housing and supports for artists, individual artists. so the cultural services allocational plan was approved by the arts commission on march 4. consequence subsequently was approved by the city administrator naomi kelly with this breakdown. we're requesting the approval today of $2.6 million with these percentage breakdowns in these four core areas. all the funding would be granltzed out through

competitive grant making through an r.f.p. process jointly administered by grants for arts and the arts commission. in these areas, just to highlight about what the recommendations have been from community engagement, including a two-day working group which meant in may of 2019, so a new grant category to support intergenerational learning, connecting young people with intergenerational learning, supporting the extension of current teaching artist residency grants to support traditional general residence. right now we're focused on creative writing but we would expand that work. creating a new grant to support creative pathways for youth up to age 24 and providing opportunities to bring constituents together to further conversation an innovation approaches to supporting youth in the arts. on affordable space and infrastructure, we know ownership is the best way to keep arts organizations in the city. so, we would continue our work in supporting pathways to ownership through partnerships with groups like the community art stabilization trust. here you see the cass partnership which is a great

model of how we can acquire permanently dierdre stricted and affordable cultural use. as well t new grant categoris for cohorts of organizations and individuals who want to foster new partnerships around shared cultural space and while it's providing technicals nance needs assessments and financial planning and other issues that would help support ownership structures. we'll expand on grant for the arts programs that support capacity building for long-term sustainability through core operate and support and capacity building and we would continue our work supporting individual artists across arts disciplines including a new art market program which we surveyed your offices to see who might be interested. learning institute to offer various capacity building and business development support opportunities for individual artists and then support through cultural maxes to make sure that we're reaching all parts of the city through this new fund. i'm open to any questions you might have and help answer as well. >> thank you very much. let's see.

we have a b.l.a. report on this. thank you. the proposed hearing releases $2.6 million on budgets and finance committee reserve for art programs. these were placed on reserves during the 1920 budget review, pending the finalization of the cultural services allocation plan and recommendations from the working group. our understanding that those conditions have now been met. we sort of summarized the spending allocations in exhibit one on page 16 of our report and recommend approval. thank you very much. i agree. open this up for public comment. any members of the public like to comment on item number four? seeing none, public sxhenlts now closed. so, this does not need a full recommendation from the full board, just an approval for release of funds so i'd like to actually make that motion that we release the funds and also

that every -- all of our colleagues actually review the -- what would you call it, mr. duschene that you called it? >> the cultural allocation services plan. >> yes. it is very good reading and people should be looking at that. so i just wanted to make a motion to release these funds. we can take that without objection. thank you very much, colleagues. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> could we please file this hearing? >> yes. let's do. thank you. could you call item number five? >> hearing to consider the review and approval of the budget guidelines for the board of supervisors for fiscal year 2020 to 2021 and 2021 to 2022. >> i'd like to make a motion to continue this item to january 8, but i'll take public comment. any members of the public would like to comment on item number five. seeing none, public sxhenlts now closed. i'd like to make a motion to move this meeting, continue it to the meeting of january 8. thank you very much.

we can take that without objection. madame clerk. you got any other business before us today? >> no further business. >> that's great. we're adjourned. shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine

in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. it harkens back to supporting

local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. i think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, it's very important that you do so.

>> now it is time to introduce our two emcees, our two little elves, sam and jess. where are you? >> hi, everyone. >> don't you all look great. we are so excited to be here. >> we are so excited. it is my very first tree lighting ever. >> we are from the north pole official tree lighting committee my name is pippin i have been working for santa for 313 years. and today, this is blue's very first christmas tree lighting. it is anybody else first christmas tree lighting?

>> oh, my gosh. >> your first one, too. this will be so exciting. are you ready? [cheers and applause] >> before we start anything, we have to do our -- >> if you want to do stretches with us, you can go ahead and stand up and follow along. we have to do our stretches to prepare for the christmas tree lighting. you can go ahead and stand up or adjust to it while you are sitting down. whatever works for you. >> here we go. snowflake. stir the cocoa. stir the cocoa. stir the cocoa. candy canes. toboggan. finally, sugarplum fairy.

>> christmas. that was good. we are all warmed up. >> you guys were great. i feel ready. do you feel ready? wonderful. before we begin tonight, a big thank you to the civic centre c.b.d. off the grid and the parks department parks department for planning tonight 's event. [cheering] and to our artistic director and his amazing lineup of performers [cheering] >> and a big special thank you to the christmas fair. the christmas fair runs every weekend now until december 22nd at the palace. >> enter the winding lanes of victorian london and immerse yourself in the world of music calls, theatres, pubs, dance parties and charming shops overflowing with holiday

treasures. discover holiday revelry for the imagination of charles dickens and the saucy world of the victorian stage. >> it is a fantastic journey back in time celebrating the most magical time of the year. >> christmas! >> oh, boy. >> i'm so excited. are you? >> yes. >> all right. >> wow. it is really pretty here. >> it is. >> it sure is. where are we? >> we are in beautiful san francisco. it might not be as snowy and white as the north pole, but it seems like people around here get into the holiday spirit. in fact,, hit it. [♪] [singing]

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[singing] >> thank you. >> wow. >> thank you so much. how do you say we get this party started? >> i think we should. >> it is time to introduce our very first performer tonight. >> get ready. the tap dancing christmas tree will show us some moves. over the past 29 years, the tap dancing christmas trees have performed in america's holiday parade, the nile parade, the napa valley parade, the hollywood christmas parade, and will be returning once again to the palm springs festival of lights parade. their fifth appearance in may see's parade in new york in 2016 featured them with the muppets.

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>> wow. wasn't that phenomenal? let's give it another round of applause for the christmas tree tappers. >> they can really dance. >> before we keep going tonight, we would like to give a big special thank you to tonight's sponsor. redwood credit. they have a beautiful new branch a few blocks away from here. >> and we have a number of redwood folks here tonight, as well as the bank's mascot. thank you for sponsoring tonight 's festivities, especially santa's maker village >> and our next acts are the poet athletes of america scores. >> these students usually come to civic centre in their soccer jerseys to play in their weekly soccer game, but not today. today they are wearing their finest holiday sweaters. they made them themselves. our young poets come from america's scores program.

the civic centre plaza is there home-field. >> they usually play for gold, but tonight is all about poetry and spreading christmas joy. >> please welcome america scores [cheers and applause] >> my name is elin and i am from reading elementary.

>> my name is hannah and i'm also a fourth-grader. >> my name is jordan and i am in the fifth grade. we are poets from reading elementary. [cheers and applause] >> we wrote personification poems. >> it is a type of figurative language. >> it is when writers turn non human beings into life forms. >> with these poems, we become emotion. >> two emotion say or do if they were human? >> let us show you. >> i am guilts. i wonder if people will ever forgive themselves. i hear your regrets and your

doubts. i see you hiding your tears behind a fake smile. >> i am sorrow. i wonder if i can be cured like the flu. i hear your tears dripping on the floor as loud as ocean waves crashing onto the shore. i see you trying to -- i hang on to your heart. >> i am empathy. i wonder what would happen if i did not exist. i hear with -- whispers but feel them for myself so you don't have to. >> i am guilts. i keep you up at night. i pretend to be fine but i am not. i feel your embarrassment coursing down your veins. i touch your sorrow across your heart. i worry if i will be forgotten. i cry for you. >> i am sorrow. i feel your misery every second. i touch the broken heart in your

body and it feels like a cracked phone -- bone. i worried you will abandon me just like grief. i cry because you might replace me. >> i am empathy. i see your cries as powerful as the ocean. i feel like i will absorb it. i hear laughs seeping into the air and you breathe me in. i want tears but smiles as well. >> i am guilts. i fester in your body, spreading slowly and control your being. i will not stop you from feeling me. i try to tried to stay but i can't. >> i am sorrow. i know you don't like me, but try to understand me. i say you should focus on sadness as much as happiness. i dream i am loved by you. i try to make myself part of your life. >> i am empathy. i care even when you don't. i feel your pain through the

toughest times. my hands trembled when you are disappointed and my heart bursts when you are excited. my eyes widen and people grow when you feel love. >> i hope you remember me, but secretly i want you to let me go so you are free. >> i understand that you don't like me, but i will always be with you. i am sorrow and i want you to know that you need me to feel alive. i touch your sorrow and try to transform it into happiness. i cry every time you lie. i am empathy. i understand how you feel and i know how you feel and hope you depend on me for everything. >> we are love and we live inside each other and each of you. >> emotions make you feel deeply and we make your hearts fuller. happy holidays. we wish you to embrace this. love, the season, and spread us all around. thank you.

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[singing] [indiscernible] >> the twin going -- twinkling lights on the tree type of lights. >> they filled our streets. >> once we get hit, let the fiesta begins. >> food and family, culture, everybody wins. [speaking spanish] >> those are the lyrics to the city jingle. >> can you hear it? can you hear our song? >> it sounds like babies laughing and joining along. [indiscernible] >> bay bridge to golden gate. everyone saying our song. can you hear us?

>> like the sound of cars honking. >> from one block to the next, we sing with everyone from everywhere. [indiscernible] whether you wear an apron, a brown hat or a hardhat. >> come on and sing with us. the city jingle will have you jingling and mingling. >> can you hear it? >> it is pretty catchy. [indiscernible] >> the city jingle makes you move. >> can you hear it? you can. sing-along. this city jingle can never go wrong.

[cheers and applause] >> let's give another big round of applause. they play soccer and write poems how cool is that? >> all right. they are hosting an event this friday. all are welcome. for more info or to rsvp, go to their website. >> and now we are pleased to introduce six fabulous performers from move school. the theatre education program. they perform a medley of timeless holiday classics by -- classics by ervin burling. >> i love that one.

>> now playing through december 22nd at the gateway theatre. >> welcome to the stage... [cheers and applause] [♪] [singing] [singing]

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>> let's give another big round of applause for moon school. [cheers and applause]. >> weren't they wonderful? >> they were so wonderful. i love all of those songs. >> our next act has appeared on national and international television. they have toured internationally to england, argentina, and mexico. >> ages seven, 10, 11, and 13. here they are. the most musically talented siblings, stars aligned!

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>> all right, it is a very, very special time of night. are we ready? >> i think we are ready. oh, boy. >> time to light the christmas tree? >> are you ready to light the christmas tree? [cheering]. >> we have to get some special guests up here tonight. are special guests include phil ginsberg, general manager of the san francisco recreation and parks department, naomi campbell >> and walking torres. and our san francisco mayor, london breed. [cheers and applause] [♪] [indiscernible]

>> all right, everyone. it is time for a christmas countdown. here we go. loud and proud. >> we have to get our special christmas tree lighting plunger. >> it is my first time. i forgot about the plunger. >> thank you so much. >> don't drop it, don't drop it. >> there we go. >> for you, miss mayor. [cheers and applause]. >> all right. let's get a countdown started from five,. >> here we go. do you want to come up and help? >> we need some people to help the mayor. >> come on up. >> oh, boy. we are all here. we are ready. >> you have to help me now. are you ready? >> are we starting from 10? >> we've got it.

let's do it. >> countdown from 10. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] [♪] >> thank you so much for all your help. thank you for so much for all your help, everyone. hi, how are you? >> mary christmas to you! >> the new friday farmer his

market is in the u.n. plaza. it features the best of san francisco. grab fresh foods and veggies from the heart of the farmers' market. shop from marker -- local vendors. engage in free diy craft sessions and grab lunch representing cuisine from around the world. [♪] >> we offer 60 varieties of organic fruit and 30 varieties of conventional. one of our best sellers so sellers is our manager in. it is super sweet. we sell 600 pounds a week. one of the things they like about the market as i get to see my regulars on a weekly basis. i get to meet their families and kids and it is really good to be here. san francisco won my heart. >> one of our vegetables that is very popular is kale. a lot of people go for dino kale our mission is to make sure we have access for everybody to get organic foods, no matter your financial status.

>> we make greeting cards, invitations, enamel pins, and we do workshops. i am participating in this market because it is a great opportunity for local makers to sell to a really diverse community of people in san francisco. >> they partnered with the market here and invited us to come out and reach out to the public. we are going to do a full event of workshops where you get to arrange your own bouquet. we will teach you all the tricks and techniques and you will be able to take home a bouquet of your own. you. [♪] >> we really are wanting to bring opportunities to the community to introduce these local makers to a larger audience. >> this is my own pakistani recipe. it goes with rice, chicken, lamb we have a very delicious drink. we have a lots of variety of foods. [♪] >> we do lots of different

curries. we do three different types of wontons. >> spring rolls, too. that's right. >> it is really great they are bringing out local artists from around the city to participate and really help us making our business more successful. >> my name is andrea, i work as a coordinator for the city attorney's office in san francisco. a lot of it is working with the public and trying to address their public records request and trying to get the information for their office. i double majored in political

science and always tried to combine both of those majors. i ended up doing a combination of doing a lot of communication for government. i thought it would connect both of my studies and what was i was interested in and show case some of the work that government is doing. >> i work for the transportation agency known as muni and i'm a senior work supervisor. >> i first started as a non-profit and came to san francisco and started to work and i realized i needed to work with people. this opportunity came up by way of an executive fellowship. they had a program at mta to work in workforce development type project and i definitely jumped on that. i didn't know this was something that i wanted to do. all i knew is that i wanted to

help people and i wanted to empower others. >> the environment that i grew up that a lot of women were just stay-at-home moms. it wasn't that they didn't have work, but it was cheaper to stay home and watch the kids instead of paying pricey day care centers. >> my mom came from el salvador during the civil war. she worked very hard. when she came here and limited in english, she had to do a service job. when i was born and she had other kids, it was difficult for her to work because it was more expensive for her to be able to continue to work in a job that didn't pay well instead of staying at home and being able to take care of us. >> there isn't much support or

advocacy for black women to come in and help them do their jobs. there also aren't very many role models and it can be very intimidating and sometimes you feel uncomfortable and unsure of yourself and those are the reasons exactly why you need to do it. when i first had the opportunity, i thought that's not for me. my previous role was a project manager for a biotech start up. i thought how do i go from technology to working in government. thinking i didn't know about my skills, how am i going to fit in and doing that kind of work. thinking you have to know everything is not what people expect have you, but they expect you to ask questions when you don't know and that's important. >> my mom was diagnosed with cancer. that was really difficult. she encouraged me to go to

school because in case anything happened i would be able to protect myself. i wanted to be in oncology. i thought going to school it would set me for the trajectory and prepare me for my life. >> we need the hardships to some of the things that are going to ultimately be your strength in the future. there is no way to map that out and no way to tell those things. you have to do things on your own and you have to experience and figure out life. >> you don't have to know what you are going to do for the rest of your life when you are in college or high school because there are so many things to do. i would encourage you to try to do everything that you are remotely interested. it's the best time to do it. being a young woman with so many opportunities, just go for it and try

everything. >> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's elected assessor. when i meet with seniors in the community, they're thinking about the future. some want to down size or move to a new neighborhood that's closer to family, but they also worry that making such a change will increase their property taxes. that's why i want to share with you a property tax saving program called proposition 60. so how does this work? prop 60 was passed in 1986 to

allow seniors who are 55 years and older to keep their prop 13 value, even when they move into a new home. under prop 13 law, property growth is limited to 2% growth a year. but when ownership changes the law requires that we reassess the value to new market value. compared to your existing home, which was benefited from the -- which has benefited from the prop 13 growth limit on taxable value, the new limit on the replacement home would likely be higher. that's where prop 60 comes in. prop 60 recognizes that seniors on fixed income may not be able to afford higher taxes so it allows them to carryover their existing prop 13 value to their new home which means seniors can continue to pay their prop 13 tax values as if they had never moved.

remember, the prop 60 is a one time tax benefit, and the property value must be equal to or below around your replacement home. if you plan to purchase your new home before selling your existing home, please make sure that your new home is at the same price or cheaper than your existing home. this means that if your existing home is worth $1 million in market value, your new home must be $1 million or below. if you're looking to purchase and sell within a year, were you nur home must not be at a value that is worth more than 105% of your exist egging home. which means if you sell your old home for $1 million, and you buy a home within one year, your new home should not be worth more than $1.15 million.

if you sell your existing home at $1 million and buy a replacement between year one and two, it should be no more than $1.1 million. know that your ability to participate in this program expires after two years. you will not be able to receive prop 60 tax benefits if you cannot make the purchase within two years. so benefit from this tax savings program, you have to apply. just download the prop 60 form from our website and submit it to our office. for more, visit our website, sfassessor.org,

>> will the clerk please take the roll. [roll call] >> clerk: at this time, we ask that you silence all cell phones and sound-producing devices. >> thank you. next up on the agenda is approve of the november 6, 2019 agenda. do i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> do i have a second? >> second. >> any