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the san francisco arts commission nominating committee meeting this morning at 10:00 am., monday, november 18, 2024. >> i'm. >> i'd like to call the meeting to order. >> %vm, commission secretarye roll, please. we have u 2k34i8z here. >> commissioner shelbyommissie quorum. >> for the record have director of culture affairs ralph and sarah and deputy director evanff >> any agenda changes. >> no changes now for public comment city hall, 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place, san francisco, ca 94102 this is

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to read the r078d r078d unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush (rah-my-toosh) ohlone (o-lon-ee) who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional acknowledging the ancestor ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. environment in san francisco, we are committed to supporting th traditional and contemporary evolution of the american indian community. >> i'm now calling item 2 on

the agenda general public commentcomment on item two general public comment? >> in person plead to the podium and we're ot will st you begin speaking and receive a 30-second accountable warning. >> any public comment on the current agenda item? >> seeing none, for public comment public comment is closed. >> great i'm now calling item 3 nomination for the president and vice president for the commission. >> and to get us started um, d to solicit suggestions from

fellow commissioners who the president and the vice president of theion should be and thank you, commissioner shelby and about the leadership for the commissions we can have feedback as well as some other suggestions or comments i'll work to find a way to compile and prepare ero for their future consideration and gratitude for brenzel and before we get to the discussi i could ■6 get a motion to approve president collins president and vice ■ws/president. >> so moved. >> k340ir8d. >> second commissioner shelby.

>> wonderful or comments from my fellow in th members? >> does the discussion include our gathering. >> yeah. if you have anything to share with regarding the nominations you're welcomej to o that. >> um, only about the share. ions i have nothing to >> i have a lot to share outside of that what i gather n >> okay. >> i will share that was okay.ly support for those commissioners vice president shiota president collins to be retained. >> ok. great. >> the only thing i want to say i'm grateful for the process tha was talk to the commissioners and

find out what they're thinking about i appreciate that i think that president collins and an honor to serve on the commission and i very much appreciate how they run thes and how they welcome comments or then help all the commissioner for helping us do what we're very much look forwa their hopefully continued service in those roles the other thing is i believe that into timeframe will serve in hiv in the meantime, folks i believe understand. hose >> nothing like that a to share the comments because

some of it is about nomination but some about how we feel if they want to continue overstretched i think other things. >> right. >> i think my sense comments about sort ofission op going go into the i'm going to set up time to talk to president collins and pass along the feedback but we share that feedback directly withm, think that is that's that open invitation to do that. >> i right way to do it and share with them share >> right and share with me and > ■o get the same sheet of music. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> the comments you have all well, i got comments from different commissioners than

commissioner shelby i would focus having configurations with president collins we that but f of you to get(unintelligible). >> i think that seems like the. >> i mean the one thing we've gotten good feedback from the commissioners about how is witht is universal and i will share with with that does that satisfy. >> yeah. >> the great leadership i - i know i've been on the commission 11 years and really good shape as far as the leadership our direction with the future holds and were a lot of really good comments about how we can do better. >> yeah. yeah. >> good. >> great. anything else i

thinkeed to ask for public comment any public comment on item number 3, of the nomination or commen. >> no public is present public comment is closed. >> all right. el motion and seconded i think i'm going to call for the vote. >> all in favor, say "aye." >> aye. >> in the meantime, president collins to the position of esident and vice president of president for next year. >> aye. >> aye. >> and the and calling for item 4 for adjournment. this meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned]. (music).

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san francisco most famous that as many of 15 tusand commuters pass through that each gay. >> one of the ings that one has to keep in mind regarding san francisco is how youn the city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the gold gvrush. there was a small+ spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in rest and repair their ships but atk0 any given time three hundred people in san

francisco. and tn the gold rush happened. by ■@182948 individuals we are here to start new life. >> by 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and town in search of gold leavingips bed had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long■+ pi■s. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built

and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picki up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the but by the late 1880s we needed something better than the ferry building. a bond;f■c issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco t wa building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring■+ architect an in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so

proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the o how and was not completed and killed. but it greater claim and beme fully operational before and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but market street was built up frerve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals■ and mission street u to nob hill and the fisherman's area. then the earthquake hit in 190 six the ferry

building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. and 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running anduildings had to highland during after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a■■ dennis herrera devastation of a cable car they were a messrz the streets were torn up and really, really hav they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of riggedetting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to to run and

2 was controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical top this. >> take 10 years for the city to rebuild. ferry use was increasing for a international exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was t the uppel of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or

had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide thats what page brown wanted to to be a gathering place in that ferry building hay day the busiest translation placen the■á world how people got around transit and the city is on in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our international exposition 18 million living in san francisco and that was to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after thethquake and 22 different fero alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and i

by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and san francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what we're supposed to be more than two pp without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke r off their masks and getting from two woul >> the way the ferry building was originally built the lower level with the natural light wa6 used for take it off lunge storage. the second floor was

where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and we're talking about over 40 thousand people one of building a pedestrian bridge with the%■> ferry building and embarcadero on market street was in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have;v s francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. as the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach

san fransco. and aomobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry result marin and other roots varnished. the dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was■] using the ferry that was novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. take the care ferry and to san francisco and spend the day or a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. >> when the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the■íower level so that was a major stay and end up

center is nownother way of little the ferry stopped having >> what happened in the 40 and 50's because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a trade center and wnt the philly idea objective never gotten dow towers a trade center in a towet was a part of ferry building and completely impractical.f

the cars the tower administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united states. so they had an plan the for major freeway systems to go throughout san francisco. and so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the san francisco saw human services agency happening 200 thgh city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great freeo no where. which cut us off from the

ferry building and ourre line and created in■t1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. and that was the renaissance of ferry building. >> that land was developedor a new ferry building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didn't want- that ■fs when a plan was developed for the liquor store. >> the san fisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almo nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of r waterfront and it mo

around the bay and plans for more so think investment iign t future and feel that by making a reli once the ferry building will be there to surface. >> úw'

>> good morning, this meetingual come to order. welcome to the december 5, 2024 regular meeting of the government aut and oversight committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i'm supervisor preston joined by supervisor connie chan. and the commitee clerk is monique crayton and we are staffed today by sfvtv calina mendoza. thank you for staffing the meeting. >> public comment will be taken on each item on the agenda. when your item comes up and public comment is called line up to speak on