it about the work that shows the eclectic mission district, as well as serving the mission. those are the types of things that i feel build one brava is . >> yeah. >> yeah. yeah. yeah. okay. i'm okay. i'm doing better. i am 98% okay. >> yeah, that'll be great. we are ready to start. >> good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of the san francisco arts commission on monday, march 3rd, 2025.

>> i'm calling this meeting to order and i will ask for the meeting to begin by a call of the roll by our commission secretary mr. monroes dhaliwal. >> thank you, president collins president vice president show that is absent commissioner beltran. present commissioner benevides present commissioner brownsville here. >> commissioner carney present commissioner ferris. >> commissioner hakimi here. commissioner lew present. commissioner mosley is absent. commissioner rothschild present . >> commissioner schnapper here. commissioner shelby present. >> commissioner walker. present script for me. commissioner so will be arriving shortly. >> we have quorum for today's meeting also for the record director of cultural affairs ralph remington. deputy director of programs evan glenn. deputy director of finance and administration sara hollenbeck are all in attendance but mr. collins,

thank you. >> i'd like to start by announcing and acknowledging that this is the last meeting of commissioner abbey snares membership on the commission for meeting no, no. >> oh no official i'll make a motion to and and i'm making i'm making this announcement so that it will give others time to devote a little bit more thought to what we will bring up later on in the agenda when we can provide our own personal testimonies as to commissioner snares absolutely unprecedented and brilliant service to this commission and to our city and now may ask for any agenda changes no agenda changes.

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to the agenda if they are one page in length if they are longer than one page the arts commission will make such documents available for public inspection and copying. please note correspondence submitted to the arts commission will not be read aloud during the meeting. names and addresses included in these submittals will be public submittals. submittals may be made anonymously. written comments pertaining to this meeting should be submitted to art info at s.f. carport by 5 p.m. before the date of the meeting to ensure comments are shared with commissioners ahead of the meeting. if you need to request a reasonable accommodation under the ada or need to request language assistance you must contact the commission secretary at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting at artist info at s.f. carport. our office will make every effort to accommodate all requests. president collins please proceed with the meeting when you are ready. >> thank you. i would like to start the meeting by reading our land acknowledgment statement. the san francisco arts commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the roma materials

colony who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula area. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions the raw materials alone have never ceded lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the roma to community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. as a department dedicated to promoting a diverse and equitable arts and culture environment in san francisco, we are committed to supporting the traditional and contemporary evolution of the american indian community. i now like to call agenda item

number two agenda item number two is the approved rule of minutes. so we need discussion and a possible motion. i would like the motion first would please make a motion say what your name is and make the motion and the second accordingly please commissioner snare i call the motion. >> commissioner belcher and second you're making the motion. thank you very much. and so now i'm going to call for any public comment on the approval of the minutes for those. >> oh yes. is there any public comment? for those joining in-person please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. >> we are currently on item two. as a reminder your time will start when you begin speaking. you will see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes. i'm requesting comments from those who are in person. >> is there anyone we'd like to make a public comment on the current agenda item you know

request for public comment public comment is now closed. >> thank you. is there any commissioner discussion or comments on the approval requested? >> seeing none may i ask for the final motion? all those in favor i. >> i opposed. motion passes unanimously. i'm now calling on agenda item number three agenda item number three is general public comment. this item allows members of the public to comment generally on matters within the committee's purview as well as to suggest new agenda items for the committee and commissions consideration. and is there any public comment on agenda item number three? >> please watch just for those joining in-person please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information we are currently on item three. as a reminder your time will start when you begin speaking you will see a visual timer on

the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes. hi. thank you. >> once you begin speaking your time will start. thank you. hello. my name is masako takahashi. i'm from the takahashi foundation. i'm here to beg you to please save the truth asawa art installation it's block long. it's named osaka way. it's been there for decades, is falling apart and needs fixing in the name of which the city is has a project going on now that is calling it the buchanan mall stripping away its japanese identity, replacing ruth souers designs her sculpted benches for example the origami lantern urns are being moved. we had to fight for them keeping those benches. the only thing they have remaining is the fountains which you may know as the origami fountains. they're featured on the san

francisco promotional material and your website. they want to make it look like an ordinary shopping mall and it was originally mandated by the city to be designed to make a mark of a japantown because the rest of it along with the whole fillmore district 35 square blocks as you all probably know were raised that way. my family had to move out. we we grew up on post street in buchanan where the buchanan mall is so i have a lot of emotional ties to the area and we were personal friends of ruth asawa and her husband al lanier. so as you may know, if you've been to the area it is now called osaka way it has ruth asawa origami fountains which have not been working for decades and the family has been fighting to get them to work. the city has a budget now to get them to work but along with

the plans to get the fountains to work somehow they redesigned the whole mall and they're calling it the buchanan mall and it no longer has the old timey japanese flourishes that that ruth asawa put in there to obey the mandate and her the urban designer rei ry okamoto who is much awarded urban designer, city planner and architect who chose ruth asawa to be the artist in this in the project please look it up you might find it under buchanan mall rather than japan town or osaka way because as i say they've changed the name and now you can see their most recent photographs. i hope you do take a look at them and you will see how these huge massive cement planters dotted about the area are going to obstruct the flow of

traffic. they're going to destroy the design of the ruth asawa mall and that's what i'm really torn up about because is an intact beautiful or installation the way it is now it just needs fixing up. >> it will become a world class commercial area if the city just fix it up please. >> your time is up. thank you. thank you. i have more to say about it but i have an article in the nikki bay times newspaper right now or please takahashi your foundation you can email me. >> thank you. thank you. >> any additional public comments for none public comment is now closed. thank you. i'm now calling agenda item number for general sorry agenda item number four is the directors report. i'm introducing the director of cultural affairs mr. ralph remington.

good afternoon commissioners. i hope you had a wonderful february celebrating lunar new year and black history month and to start off this this month's report i'd like to share a few highlights from some some recent events. on february 6th we held an opening reception for ceremonies rituals to self a group exhibition at sfa sea main gallery curated by pj albertina apollo carpio featuring works of five artists. the exhibition draws upon the life and writings of celebrated writer editor and activist asics hempel and reflects on the vital themes present in hemphill's life and writing desire, defiance, kinship and ritual. the exhibition will be on view through may 3rd, 2025. on february 26th i attended the black history month closing ceremony at city hall hosted by supervisor shaman walton.

california state controller malia cohen and district attorney brooke jenkins. >> this year's theme focused on honoring african-american labor contributions. on february 27th i attended the opening of a de new exhibition paul mccartney photographs 1963 to 64 eyes of the storm or 2025 annual convening took place on thursday, february 20th in the herbst theater. we were honored to welcome over 200 arts community members to our first in-person convening since 2019. i was joined by mayor daniel lurie, commission president chuck collins and sfa deputy directors and program directors to present an overview of the agency's work over the past few years and shared a preview of what's in store for them for the year. what's in store for the year ahead? >> excuse me.

the evening featured a reading and spoken word performance by author london pink me and we honored our recent artistic legacy grant awardees were dessa jones, la portia nostra, guillermo gomez penya for 2023 and theater of union yuriko doi 2022 and recognize past awardees and blumenthal abdi skywatchers 2021 and joanna haygood from zach koseff 2020. if you did not get a chance to join us for the convening, a recording of the livestream is available on our website. >> a recap of the annual convening featuring links to photos, presentation deck and the live stream recording will be shared in our upcoming newsletter so please be on the lookout for that. at the convening we were all so thrilled to share our f y 20 2324 annual report which is also now available on our

website. the program updates highlighted in this report are a testament to our shared dedication to our mission of championing the arts in san francisco, some upcoming events and reminders this week as part of our ongoing strategic planning work. we'd like to invite members of the arts of the arts community to share their feedback and join us for our upcoming arts community open houses in-person on tuesday, march 4th, wednesday, march 5th and virtually on friday march 7th. >> at the annual convening we were thrilled to officially launch our arts community public survey. this survey should take about ten minutes to complete and will remain open until 11:59 p.m. or march or monday march 31st. we would greatly appreciate your help in sharing information about the open houses and survey to your networks to make sure we hear from as many voices as possible.

>> commissioners have been tagged on social media posts about these opportunities so please help to reshare and a reminder that our next constitutional conversations is scheduled to take place on tuesday march 18th. >> the second town hall session will be focused on the reconstruction amendments and their impacts on immigration and liberation amendments 1314 and 15. >> we are excited to welcome as panelists president collins carolina roundabout fernandez, director of galleries and public programs mark harris artist mary stevens arts director and administrator of insight consultants and george rivas, executive director of the san francisco office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs. details on how to rsvp to reserve your seat can be found on our website. >> some community investment updates grant application review panels are well underway

and going well for the community investments program. there are 15 distinct panels held january to april 9th ninth 20 2575 panelists will review a total of 502 applications representing four grant categories. >> panels for arts impact endowment grant applications featuring updated 2024 to 2029 cultural services allocation plan recommends sessions are now completed. cultural equity initiatives grant application panels will be completed in mid-march and san francisco art is grant panels are anticipated to wrap up in april. >> funding recommendations will be presented to the community investments committee in april and to the full commission for final approval in may for upcoming panel meeting schedules including links to view upcoming meetings and to view recordings of past panels. please visit s.f. arts commission dawgs grants or our

website calendar. some gallery updates. a reminder that in addition to our new exhibition currently on view opening at the sfa see main gallery ceremonies rituals to self. we also have on view at city hall metaphors a recent times a dialog of the personal, the political and the cultural. >> an exhibition produced in partnership with photo alliance . >> the exhibition features 20 works from photo alliance's insight insight 2020 portfolio from 2023 alongside work by 23 artists that respond to themes present in the portfolio metaphors of recent times will be on view in the north light court and on the ground floor of city hall through june 20th, 20 25. some public art updates. last week public art staff issued a request for qualifications for the 2026 art on market street poster series . now and then living memories

the 2026 art on market poster series will focus on previously unrecorded newly unearthed and unconventional san francisco histories. the project intersects with the continued work of sfx melling grant funded shaping legacy program. >> the deadline to submit qualifications of the 2026 art on market street opportunity is april seventh 2020 five by 11:59 p.m.. also a reminder that the deadline to submit qualifications for the san francisco main library temporary mural project is today march 3rd by 11:59 p.m.. >> the selected artists will partner with the association the romans of saloni in the creation of a temporary vinyl mural that conveys the importance of intergenerational knowledge and wisdom sharing from an indigenous perspective . some h.r. updates. we are thrilled to share that we are hiring a community investment senior program officer under direction from

the director of culture of community investment. >> the senior program officer will work with the community investments team to administer an estimated $15 million in arts impact endowment cultural equity initiative and other special grants. >> this position will lead new and existing initiatives to foster cultural equity and grantmaking including increased technical assistance to communities historically underrepresented and slac grant applications and awards. professional development workshops for san francisco artists and arts organizations. the deadline to apply for this opportunity is friday, march 21st, 2025 by 11:59 p.m. and as this will be commissioner abby shares final full commission meeting. i want to recognize her for her nearly 12 years of service on the arts commission. she joined june 12, 2013 and we

will have a much longer and much more extended period of things later on in our in our agenda. but i just want to say thank you abbie, for everything you've done for me personally as a point of personal privilege and also for the arts commission obviously for the 12 years of service that you've given. so it's just exemplary and you couldn't have been a better commissioner. so i just want to thank you for that. and with that this concludes the directors report for the march 3rd full commission meeting and i'm happy to take any questions that you may have. >> are there comments or discussion by members of the commission on the directors? >> this is commissioner frenzel . one i just want to say thank you for the convening. it was amazing. i was so glad i could be there and it was worked with my schedule. i hope this will return to an annual event as it normally an annual thing. so those of you who haven't

been to one it really is an amazing thing. it's really wonderful as a commissioner to kind of see the scope of all of our work and and then see so many people there celebrating arts in san francisco. so thank you for that and i know it's probably a tremendous amount of staff work. i don't know you know anyhow, thank you. thank you for putting it together. >> that was yeah, thank you, commissioner brazile and yes, a lot of staff work into it. committee of the whole comms team alissa mann rise and veronica i mean everybody up and down the line worked tirelessly to to help put that on and and those people that i mentioned and even more if those folks didn't work working at the top of their capacity we would never have been able to to to get something like that done so the full credit goes to the team but thank you and then i have a just a question about the new position where i thought we were in a hiring freeze in the city. >> so i'm confused by that

position. >> so so we are we were right. we are. but those what what what they did at first was they wanted to pause everyone to see what was being asked them what was it and and for our ask we are ready you know we have a hotel tax and so we pay for our position so we're not getting any money against the budget and that's not the general fund and so it's largely general fund the positions that they're really looking at because those have budget impacts. >> thanks for i think that's very helpful for the public to really understand that so that we know that there is that different funding stream. thank you. commissioner beltran speaking again. i would also like to echo commissioner randall's thanks to the team as well executive director about the convening i unfortunately teaching exactly

during that time period so i wasn't able to make it but i have made it to the ones in the past when they were annual before and they are just they're so essential i think in terms of both getting the word out to the public and especially recognizing the work of the commission and they're celebratory and they're always a lot of fun and i'm so sorry to have missed it but i also wanted to express my deep sadness yes, genuinely sadness about the departure of commissioner barnier who has many incredible and dear friend and colleague and support on the commission and she was actually a commissioner when i was serving as president and she became my vice president for several years and i was so honored to serve along with her and i will really, really miss you. we're going to save our comments about commissioner

share until later. that's fine. >> thank you. go ahead. yeah. commissioner walker here i want to thank you all staff and director remington for the convening. i was there and it was really well received. >> i also i appreciate that we're having some community open houses i think wednesday and friday if you can find the public of those days and that's available if you have questions about all of these these programs that we have at our commission and at the arts commission come and also weigh in if there's something we're not doing that you'd like to see. i mean we really need to respond and help the community to move forward. so that's the goal. so can you remind folks of when those open houses are this week? >> so as stated earlier in my

report this week as part of our ongoing strategic planning work, we'd like to invite members of the arts community to share their feedback and join us for our upcoming arts community open houses in person on tuesday, march 4th, wednesday, march 5th and virtually on friday, march 7th. >> thank you and again thank staff and then and then fill out the survey to the arts community public survey in may you just start can i use this one? >> oh i see. that was dangerous. so i just i mean i just want to say that this was my first convening and i just wanted to sincerely thank you not only as a commissioner i got to actually seen one place all the work that was done because we do these and i you kind of move on and you forget the scale of work that was done. but also one of the things i've always encountered people has ask me what do you do as a commissioner and i can never

explain to them exactly what we do. it's really hard because of the scale of work that we do and this was really because we serve the public and this was a wonderful way to let the public know how we're serving them. and i just really thought and you guys did an extraordinary work everybody on a panel so i just might thank you sincerely and giving me i'll put you to explain what we do. >> thank you, commissioner jamie and i will say that that again i a team deserves the full credit. >> our directors from our our divisions you know, from the galleries to public art to community investments and our deputy directors evan glen and and sara hollenbeck and and obviously commas comms team with edward tom and tyra finnell now added to the mix they've they were performing at the top of their capacity and and that's what made the whole engine work so thank you so much for recognizing it

and the second comment i had the constitution conversations i had the privilege of sitting on the first one. i can't imagine how important now these conversations are so i hope that you get a lot more people attending these conversations. thank thank you. we need to have those conversations at a very pivotal moment in our country and worldwide. >> so thank you. please encourage all your friends and neighbors to to attend constitutional conversations if they're able. >> shelby yeah. commissioner shelby i just want to pile on the convening was amazing. it was powerful and it like on the commissioners have mentioned to hear all the work described in one place not only to you know, those who work on the commission but also to the public couldn't have been clearer, couldn't have been more proud as a commissioner for the work that staff has done and that our leadership continues to do. and so i just wanted to the

comments were very powerful. thank you. >> ralph remington grew up there preaching and president collins i was taking notes and that was very powerful statements and just overall representation of the commission. so i've been to a number of the convenings i'm available to play bass your because i've heard in the past i used to open them up with the in the past with a little bit of bass and then but the well you're booked with me right now the young lady that did the reading though that was amazing amazing it was really amazing. >> so i just wanted to add that they are there any other comments by the members of the commission? >> well, i just like to add and pile on also a tour de force especially in consideration of our pause

during the pandemic and the amount of work looking at the five legacy awardees is that we only literally had time to acknowledge and in the fullness three of them but the other two that were i'm going to say on the bench that are immense in terms of their impact i'm so happy that we can do this now on an annual basis because it allows us in that space actually to ask that awardee a more fulsome even performance. and so i just really respect that there was a backlog here but to see what has been shown in terms of just the artistry on the stage in that same moment that the commissioner shelby's talking about only enlivens it with a real a real depth to it. so just look at the bench and that's what the warriors wish they had on their team right now those those five

awardees were just you know, at a level at which only san francisco can really express itself that way. and i also want to thank staff and also you know, coming in for director pate who had a loss and in their family and to see the staff come together and to fill that spot with with dignity and acknowledgment and respect is seeing, you know, the depth of team that our director has really built. so i want to thank you also director remington for your leadership. are there any now public comments on the directors report? >> for those joining in-person please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we are currently on item four as a reminder your time will start when you begin speaking you will see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes and requesting comments from those who are in person is there anyone who'd like to make a public comment on the current agenda item? see no request for public

comment. public comment is now closed. thank you. i'm now calling agenda item number five. these are the committee reports and committee matters for discussion. the first item that i'm going to call is five point item 5.1 which is the civic design review report and i am introducing the inimitable chair abby snare to present the report on the civic design review committee. thank you president collins we met on february 24th and we had one project it was the final design and of the park at 11th and natoma that has now been named the rachel sullivan park. >> so i want to talk about this project in particular because from the very beginning of their concept when they presented their concept and then through phase one, two

and three they just did everything right. and i think that for the future for kdr if you want to see an example of the right way to present your project to the commission, this is the way to do it. so they addressed several things like design revisions, revisions from the phase two review in particular. what's interesting is we got involved with this early on so that the artist jennifer woolford who was selected is doing an art fence at the part the faces 11th and was able to get involved with them early on so it worked to incorporate the design of the art with the design and planning of the park and again once we get to work together as opposed to after the fact i always think the results are are usually spectacular.

so i really encourage that to always happen. they also as a result decided that this multi-use core that you see here with the sunburst on that's just a placeholder and the artist who was doing the fence is also going to be doing the art that will work on the multi court pavement. so we're very excited to see where that's going to go. they will be working directly with the project team on it but they've set up the parameters and we reviewed and passed that as well. there were a few other things they shared updates to the project including there's a second egress on natoma street and that some of the seawalls need to be replaced with benches due to cost. so that was a few of the different things they also showed us a complete landscape plan so in all the different landscape that's going to go in there, the different trees and shrubs and bushes and we

did have a question about the rolling fence at the opening of how that would interact with the art fence and we were told that it will where the opening is will be clear it will be open so that as it's rolled back it won't be in conflict and we also were told that the team would make sure that they use tamper proof hardware to secure the fence and all kinds of things for anti-graffiti and stuff as well. so as you can see they've they've created what i particularly like about this one is that they created for this community something that works. this community is really interesting cross-section of all different kinds of people, all different ages, all different diversities and i really feel that they have a little something there for everybody from the little dog area in the front to the children's play area to the multipurpose court that can be

used in all kinds of different ways and the and you can use the backboard of the building that's going to be there as well. so i really feel that this is just a wonderful example of what can be done in our city and really thinking carefully about the community, what the community's needs are and then coming up with the design that reflects that so well and so thoughtfully designed and taken care of anyway. so i think this shows you the different parts to this design the design aspect which is finished and approved by us now and i will leave it at that since we only had the one project for this meeting and open it up for any comments or questions from commissioners . >> okay. yeah i would make a comment. you know often when you're working at a grand scale you can make these big grand

gestures, right? i mean the art here is fitting this remarkable space a tight urban space and as you said it's accessible to all right. >> so the values that we have as a city accessibility for all our sitting here and you know, at some point we're going to be able to and i think we already can just have, you know, a whole tour of like what does it mean to be, you know, for all in san francisco? and this is a beautiful example because you know, tight spaces are often hard to program. >> yeah. okay. yeah. >> okay, great. are there any other commissioner comments seeing no more commissioner comments is there any public comment on the civic design review review report for those joining in-person please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we are currently in item 5.1 as a reminder your time will start when you begin speaking you see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes the requesting

comments from those who are in person. so anyone would like to make a public comment on the current agenda item. hi. >> hi again. i don't know who is going to be replacing you at you sound in an irreplaceable irreplaceable . >> i just wanted to add that the takahashi foundation is offering $1 million to follow up on our request to rehab to please restore this wonderful work of art that is already globally invaluable and instead please don't allow them to destroy it. please look into it. it's called osaka way but the project is called they are calling it the buchanan mall so i think that might be the way you could look up what their plans are and you'll see the pictures for yourself so you'll see why i am so alarmed when if any of you have been there you know, it's charming, it's appealing. it's used in san francisco

promo the way it is so okay. the cobblestones need to be flattened for wheelchair access. of course. okay. please get the fountains to work and restore how charming it is and it's japanese flourishes are what make it japantown. that was the idea. like when you go to chinatown you know you're there because of the architectural flourishes so please don't take them away. don't put you know, big cement plant or benches anyway, restore it please restoration it's also i imagine cheaper than having to redesign the whole thing. >> but anyway please thank you. thank you. any additional comments? >> seeing none public comment is now closed. thank you. i'm now introducing susan chair susie ferris to present the report on the visual arts committee.

thank you president collins i am giving the visual arts committee report for wednesday february 19th. firstly i'd like to start by thanking commissioner shiner who was kind enough to step in as the chair of the meeting that day. although i was in attendance i was under the weather and my voice wasn't quite there. so thank you so much abbi, for chairing not meeting and being the voice for us. so we covered many things and i'd like to start with slide number one. we have here the public art project plan for courtyard for connector c, c for c at san francisco international airport which is part of the larger terminal three west modern modernization project. and this was presented there are three art opportunities on departure level two at the federal inspection services art wall you can see them pictured here in the slide the fist glass art wall and the wheelchair lounge the fis art

world opportunity is for tile glass or other durable material approximately ten feet tall by 150ft wide in the corridor between the international terminal and terminal three the fisa glass art while opportunity is for translucent glass or other durable translucent material wall area approximately 12ft high by 72ft wide in a connector connector corridor for arriving international travel travelers with direct access to the customs hall and the international terminal. and the third opportunity which is still in development is for either an integrated wall work or a large scale two d purchases for a wall area approximately 16ft by 14ft. and again you can see all three of these opportunities here. they really are extensive especially those corridor connectors. they give the opportunity to give people coming and going to

san francisco kind of a a window into our art and culture as they're arriving and or as they're leaving. the glass wall is meant to be translucent so as to allow light to shine through and still create a light well on the other side as well. so we're looking forward to seeing these projects develop. all right. slide number two we had the selected posters for the first installment of the 2025 art on market street poster series. the 2025 series will highlight past poster projects through the lens of people, places and things that reflect historical events. notable individuals, everyday people, art and architecture that are significant to san francisco's cultural and physical landscape. ten posters spanning from 1994 to 2021 show a diverse city of individuals and subjects were selected for for this first installment people a graphic designer created a frame to

give the series a consistent look and a qr code will be embedded in the lower portion of the poster that will link to a web page with more information on each work. additionally, actually before i moved to 2026 just really want to take a moment for people to look at some of the examples that we have. this again is a retrospective from 1994 to 2021 the ongoing art on market street poster series has been such a vibrant and successful project in san francisco it is so accessible. people standing at the bus stops can see these can read, these can learn about san francisco history and it is such an eclectic mix of things that make san francisco so amazing. so we also approved the project plan for 2026 art on market street poster series. the 2026 series titled now and then living memories will focus on previously unrecorded, newly unearthed and unconventional san

francisco histories. the name of the series is taken from a 1013 essay by writer, historian and activist rebecca solnit in which she argues for more history not less. artists are encouraged to use primary sources such as libraries, archives, oral histories, historical societies ,museums, public records etc. to create a cohesive series uncovering overlooked histories and memorializing new histories. both the 2025 and 2026 are mark art on market street poster series. themes intersect with the continued work of shaping legacy program by calling attention to underage presented communities and overlooked histories. i do just want to mention as well this first slide that we are seeing the 2025 market art on market poster series will be the last that is led by amazing staff member sfa staff member

craig cooper and it will now be in new hands and i'm sorry i'm forgetting the name of our paris. thank you. paris coates will be taking over the project and we look forward to this ongoing series. so just saying thank you to marcus for the amazing work that he's done over the last many years on this series. all right. and then going to slide number three, the hunters point shipyard phase. we reviewed the ownership of eight war artworks at hunter's point shipyard from the office of community investment and infrastructure o.c. i to the san francisco arts commission oci, a state authorized local entity serving as the successor to the former san francisco redevelopment agency s.f. f a is working with the rectory rec and parks department and the san francisco arts commission to transfer ownership and maintenance of the hunter point hunters point shipyard phase one parks and public

artworks to the city and county of san francisco. the eight artworks you see in this slide were commissioned in 20 i'm sorry in 2009 by sfr a and installed in 2015 the accept the acceptance of these artworks is still contingent on the joint community facilities agreement currently in development between s.f. ac, our pd and aoc i and you can see the nine artworks here and i commend staff for the future work they will be doing on keeping this work. i know that is an ongoing project that the city is sorely in need of to make sure that our work stay beautiful. and lastly slide number four we reviewed jesse schlesinger's completed artwork pacific transit is as installed. i know a little yeah. this artwork is installed in two locations in the city's outer sunset neighborhood. one group of seven sculptures is located near the northwest corner of juda street and 43rd

avenue bordering the far out west community garden the second grouping of three sculptures is located at judah and and the lower great highway across from the new two train terminus and fronting the art deco restrooms and pathways to ocean beach. the work is composed of concrete pedestals supporting organic forms cast in bronze from found objects or carved from stone quarried in the sand in the california foothills each object bears traces of movement and transformation like waves tossed driftwood or stone washed from the mountains ,the sculptures scaled to the pedestrian experience range in size from 4 to 7ft tall and one to 1.5ft wide and with that and just give another shout out that is an eight year project i believe that was in process for eight years a really, really happy for the city for the outer sunset to finally see

those installed so calling for any commissioner discussion and comments this is commissioner beltran. >> i just wanted to make a comment about the artist jerry barish who if you could go back to that slide of his work who who did the bighorn and i am more than thrilled that he's finally in our collection. >> he's a longtime san francisco artist who got his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the art institute. but more importantly he started in the late 80s making art from found objects on the beach, plastic on the beach debris. so he's the ultimate sustainable artist but even more so his journey was really interesting until like maybe 20 years ago he says he sustained his art career by having a bail bondsman business across the criminal building on seventh street dairy bearish bail bonds . >> yes. and he's just such a wonderful

inspiration and model as an artist who you know, did everything he could to sustain his career including having that support his career for many, many years and now he is full time as a sculptor and i couldn't be more thrilled to have his work in my collection our our collection my my personal city of san francisco collection commissioner regarding the artwork in the new terminal connector sfo since we're doing working and civic design review on the new united terminal three redo and the terminal c43 connector to the international terminal i went i flew to lax wednesday rather than my usual burbank to see how their connections work and this artwork is so much better. lax is woefully behind us in terms of artwork so bravo for that and we look forward to that. >> thank you.

>> i know that this meeting yeah i'm just going to comment on on that that i say it almost every time we address work that is going at sfo that san francisco's international airport or san francisco's airport has one of the best art collections in the world and can rival any modern art gallery or museum in the world. you're i have a quick question if you can go back to the slide that has the it all the art i think there is yeah no the next one yeah the one that's the bottom middle who is that. >> it doesn't have a title on it arrow on the left bottom left. >> oh marian coleman yeah okay thank you that way. >> that's helpful.

are there any other comments or discussion from the commission seeing them have any public comment please? i just want to state a reminder to please keep comments related to the current item being presented. thank you for those shown in in person please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we are currently in item 5.2. as a reminder your panel will start when you begin speaking you'll see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes requesting comments from those who are in person. is there anyone like to make a public comment on the current agenda item? see no request for public comment. public comment is now closed. public comment is now closed on item number five i'm calling now item number six which is the re evolution temporary installation at embarcadero plaza. discussion and possible motion we have a discussion and possible motion to amend resolution number 090624402 to

change the location time period of installation and project sponsors so that the revised motion reads as follows. motion to approve the temporary installation of a 48 foot tall sculpture by marco conran in type cochran untitled e revolution fabricated by glass from steel rods and tubing with two layers of geodesic triangles and covered by stainless steel mesh to be installed in embarcadero plaza from mid-march 2025 to early march 2026. the installation is sponsored by the shivangi foundation.

no corrections please. >> pending final approval by the department of recreation and park, i'm now introducing dana ketchum. >> there's dana high who is the deputy director of property management permits and reservations of the department of recreation and parks and shannon reilly, ceo and co-founder of building committee. >> welcome. >> hello commissioners. first i have to say having watched your prior discussions of all the collaboration between the recreation and parks department and you and all the great art we are being able to bring to a parks just made me so happy. i see all the back and side of it. i don't see your side of it. it was really inspiring to see. >> anyway, i am here to present a proposal to to install this statute and barker darrow plaza you all saw it several months ago at union square and as we

got to the nitty gritty of installing it at union square over a garage we ran into some challenges. the intent had been it was going to be where the christmas tree is placed which is supported but the christmas tree comes down in a very different way and as we worked with the structural engineers we decided we didn't feel comfortable. it was very close but we weren't comfortable. but we are excited now to bring it to embark adero plaza where we have done a full assessment it doesn't endanger bart which is underground. we have full sign off on this location as being able to work. we think it helps to revitalize downtown very supported with our iwd and and the merchants down there to bring this amazing piece of art. i'm going to let shannon present on the artwork and then

i'm available for any questions . >> hello. thank you commissioner. thank you dana for your support. i just press this button here. my name is shannon. as mentioned. where do i point this right here things. >> i'm the founder and ceo of building 180 which is a san francisco based women led art organization. we focus on large scale sculpture and murals. many of you in this room may know us from paint the void, which is our community arm. we're responsible for placing over 250 murals in san francisco and most recently over painting over 500 utility boxes bringing beauty to our streets we imagine reimagine

public spaces. we believe art fosters connection and discovery and we build big. we are here today to speak about revolution or our evolution by artist in sculpture and activist marco cochrane. we're hoping to place her as dana mentioned at embarcadero plaza for a temporary installation. our evolution is a 45 foot tall sculpture. she's made of steel and she is modeled after collaborator and artist deja solis. she is the third sculpture of a series named bliss dance all of monumental woman. the first sculpture shows deja dancing. it's titled bliss. she's in her bliss the second sculpture also tall shows her it's titled truth is beauty. it shows her standing tall reaching to the sky, embracing her height that is one of her tallest qualities. and this third and final sculpture is called our evolution or revolution where

she stands strong, resilient and empowered. she from the artists words and from ours she's a symbol of strength the feminine of reason ,feminine strength of resilience and empowerment. and we believe that she would be beautifully placed on a park at our plaza at daytime she shines. she's made of steel, she shines in the sun and she actually has six motors within her chest that allow her to breathe. we ask bystanders to come to look at her standing at her strength, to stand with her and to just be and to just breathe at night she is illuminated by led lights. we have four lights on poles in the surrounding area that will be projected onto her. there's also a lights in at heart center that breathes and flickers as if she when she's breathing. we're proposing also that she breathes for one hour a day

probably around sunset to ask viewers to come daily and take a moment of silence or restoration or pause and be with her every day. >> this is the artist marco cochran. he's a sculptor and an activist. he was born in venice, italy but at an early age it moved to northern california. he's now resides in petaluma. the artwork was built in petaluma and will be traveling from petaluma petaluma to come here. he for 25 years has been a sculptor of clay and metal and in 2007 he visited burning man and saw a larger than life sculpture and really felt that by presenting sculpture this large you can shift perspective and see things in a different way and so he brought his first of the series bliss dance to burning man and revolution was brought there in 2015. since then it's toured the united states most recently was in miami and now we're hoping to bring her to embarcadero

plaza. to me embarcadero plaza is quite a significant beautiful place in san francisco. it's along the waterfront. it welcomes folks from market street. it welcomes people from the ferry building. and to me the city represents not only strength and beauty and my home but it also is going through this moment of revitalization. and i think what better a symbol to have this powerful, resilient transformational artwork right there and a pivotal point in downtown and a pedestal point where you're welcomed into the city. we also know that this artwork at its feet will be placed by the surrounding artists and vendors who are part of the arts commission down there and we know that there will be a little displacement of a few of the artists. i think she takes up her footprint will take up around 2 or 3 of those artists spaces i've worked with dana and crafted with rack and park

how we could reposition some of those artists and not only can we keep all the artists there but we've actually crafted space to make five more locations for artists and i think that that just hones in on two to me and to the artists and what the city represents is celebrating art, creativity, progressive values and beauty especially during a time of change and restoration. >> here's a little bit of more specifications about the installation. i also have our design engineer stockhausen with me and our fiscal sponsor illuminate ben davis in case there's any more questions. but she is she's a 45 foot sculpture. her base is two feet tall so to combine together she's 47ft. she weighs about 32,000 pounds. her base is 23ft in diameter. her installation takes about five days. the first day is really unloading the the trucks, setting up and staging everything. >> the second day we bring in a

70 ton train crane excuse me and we place all of the body parts up together and by the end of the day she's she's fully erected and risen on the third day we're really just building the base and then doing a lot of the testing around the lighting and the breathing apparatus. so we do that for 2 or 3 days so the full installation should take 4 to 5 days. we also bring in a bucket list an italian tailor that's a little bit more specifications on the installation. >> that's sort of all i have to present. i can leave you here some of support we are working with downtown s.f. like i mentioned illuminate with the rack and park and we're very hopeful to bring her to our city. >> i will open it up for any questions. thank you very much, mr. riley and also ms.. ketchum. >> thank you. it's good to see you. are there any comments by the commission?

>> any discussion? hi, miss. >> oh, thank you. >> thank you. >> i so couple of comments i want to ask initially when this was brought to us at union square i believe that the merchant president was here and they present it to us. >> that's important for the union square because it's really suffering post-covid and they present this as an opportunity to bring actually people to that location and that was a strong point for me. i didn't personally feel that this statue belonged over there necessarily. i was a bit concerned with the backlash of because it's a bit convenient controversial. we already know that because of you know it's a naked large naked woman up there. so it's going to bring some controversy and one of my concerns was are they also ready for the backlash and they said there basically they said it was worth for them because it will bring people over there.

so i'm a big i'm part of actually the converse about the rebirth of downtown. i'm very i'm very committed to doing that. but my question i intended union square didn't work because it was the study wasn't done properly before even bringing it to us i guess now they're telling us as in hold because of the location would have not. >> so the question now i have is coming now to them back there which i personally think is a better location for this sculpture because of where it stands. right. but that's a question i have again first of all, the embarcadero is not as as not as bad as union square right now. so when you present to us as bringing people on i'm not canvas as much as the union square that's that's i just want to point that out because i think that brought more people over there. >> but the second question is are we ready for the controversy over there too? i'm not sure if that's a question for b or regen park, but i'm ready. i think that's what she's here for is to bring up important questions. >> i'll let dana look i have to

say that embarcadero plaza suffers just as much as union square many empty storefronts the vibrant the woods helped fund some restart in in that area but it's an area of intense concentration that actually we're doing right now and this was an awesome opera tunity to do that it used to be one of the busiest more vibrant places. >> it is not that anymore. so we've done we put some park paddle in there temporarily lee to try and bring activation and we're very excited about this s.f. travel has supported this and feels that this just brings light to san francisco. i think it's a pretty majestic location and we are working on another option at union square and there's some other things going on day to day activations. we're working on all of those

so we're pretty excited about this location and yes, it can be controversial. i understand. let me correct myself i didn't mean to say that's not impacted embarcadero. >> i want to say that we actually have put artwork in the market that we actually work in few projects on the embarcadero. on the embarcadero? yes. so we're very mindful of that. i totally agree that art is especially on that but i you answered my question. i want to make sure eunice square is also dealt with. so i want to know in substantive what because you present that as that and i just want to make sure that, you know, square is also being considered right? >> well, we we have if we have some other things going on, we have there's a grant funded iwd activations six days a week bringing all sorts of different activities into the plaza. it's been pretty exciting to watch and i know that shannon is working with marissa to find another spectacular piece of art to try and bring to that

space. >> thank you. thank you. are there any other comments by the commission? commissioner beltran snare and oh they're quite yeah oh keep going. >> commissioner bell okay. yes i wanted to echo the commissioner hakimi's concerns. it's just that everywhere that this has been proposed the fact that is a very, very large woman who doesn't have any clothes on that was created by a man automatically, you know invites controversy in terms of its reception by the public. my my concern is actually something that hasn't been brought up and that is that when i was doing some research on this motion, i noticed that this sculpture has actually been for sale for a very long time by sotheby's dot com and i'm concerned that it actually gives an unfair advantage as a commercial showcase for an artist's work

that the city doesn't sort of equally afford to other artists particularly so can we simply ask the city attorney to provide some advice that we don't need to go down that but so far if you're raising that point then why don't we ask for the city attorney to help to advise us on that and to make that report to staff? >> thank you. and then i just wanted to add one other thing and that is that you know, as as the commission that commissions and purchases and showcases public art, one of the things that we do which has not really been done because it's not an official commission from our commission is that we see pretty extensive public comment about the effect of the statue on the community, on the public i noticed that we got two emails but i'm curious about you know what the rest of the public i don't know if we've gone through that process of

what the rest of the public sort of feels in terms of their feedback. >> yes. thank you, commissioner beltran and i fully agree with everything you said. i was in vc committee for a long time but last year i was very sick so i was not able to see how this was being approved . i think that i agree with everything you're saying. i think it will be it will be really up until just now that it's already being approved. but i think it would be very advantageous is to get the community opinion on this. >> thank you. thank you, mr. benevides hello . mine's completely different. my question would be more the excitement about putting it together and with the other two organizations you mentioned i think was union square and there was the association would be great to do some kind

of documentation so that we could promote it in our like videos or things. but if you get release from those other two or somebody pays to have that done would be exciting. having this size put together because i think there's documentary about the christmas show when the first was done and it really helps promote that area really well. so with mine is completely different what they were saying so snare hi my actually my question is more a structural one just because of some of the issues that we're run into at union square. my question is because it's over where the where the money and and and part is underneath there. so i just want to make sure that we will and won't run into similar situations and it's structurally sound where it's going to be a place that we have looked fully into that with jeffrey lew from dpw who

is the master and keeper of everything including the biggest concern was bart and whether we were in a bart zone and there was any concern in that weight limitation has been looked at and fully vetted. we also will have we have structural engineering reports on the stability of the statute . there will be structural engineers monitoring to make sure it gets put together. right because you can have that report but if it isn't put together right. so we're on top of all of that. >> thank you. thank you. okay. now i may have commissioners walker so and brings together to be an order that's fine. >> sorry. >> i think we could do that, commissioner walker i love these temporary art projects because i do think that they all have a ten a capacity to really push us including the

protest of it or the the offense it might take. i think they all do that. i mean i appreciate art that way and i, i appreciate that we have temporary exhibition sites that do this and i hope that we can use it as a learning tool that we hear the folks that are objecting and there may be offense taken that we hear that and learn from it and i'm sure i'm assuming there's no intention of that. but we have we all have wounds as humans and one of the things i really appreciate about art and i mean i don't even mean to trivialize this is that it does allow for us to have conversations and push the envelope and quite frankly we need to be doing that dramatic rally right now on all levels. so i mean i support these

temporary things and i also think it's really important to hear the the community input. i appreciate that you responded to the artists who are being displaced. their business is being displaced and i hope that we really can lift them up in this as well. i think these art experiences even if you know, we you know, have issues with them, bring people to our businesses and art can do that in a way that nothing else can and that's what i really want to support right now is listening to the community and the community coming in and talking to us about how important it is for them in those ways including our public comment that i can't respond to. but we are looking at thank you know and thank you commissioner walker lou beltran and benevides we well we hope to document it and that will be something that we do and i agree with you and i do know it's controversial. i think if you know, i think there's a lot of controversy like you're saying that comes with any form of artwork.

it brings up wounds. it brings up healing. it is it is a creative remedy a sculptor, a collaborator with a woman and with due diligence, you know, the artist is a huge feminist and has a lot of statements behind why this exists. it's to empower women. it's to speak about the fact that only 8% of sculptures in the united states of america are women. there are more in san francisco but just around 20% in. it's asking us to look past the fact that she's naked to not even ask that question and to to ask the question why aren't there more women in the world and how do we how do we embrace this and stand with her and stand together and stand in unity? >> there are no real provocative private parts, you know, shown i guess you can see her bellybutton but it looks it looks more like she has a leotard on. yeah, but it's up to the viewer and it can be controversial and i agree with you. we were asking to to change our perspective and to start conversation and offer perspective because we do need that in my opinion right now. >> so you know a qr code with

sort of the ability to have that conversation and talk about those things from the artists working together on that. >> yes. and then somebody else i forget who had asked about daily activation pins. oh yes. and we're hoping to do that in the form of similar to union square. i was i was for fronting a lot of those activations yoga artist talks, community movements. so brainstorming there with downtown s.f. with local property owners and the ferry building in port is also in support. >> thank you commissioner so yeah thank you for the presentation and i wanted to ask you one more time how heavy is this sculpture the sculpture itself is 16,000 pounds and then the weighted base is comprised of eight 2,000 pound steel plates and some i-beams so it's around 32,000 pounds distributed around a 23 foot diameter. so i know that dana have mentioned hi dana.

dana had mentioned that a you have a structural engineer on board with all that sounds really great. >> can you speak a little bit about you know we have a lot of climate resiliency issues that we have face right now. it's global. >> this sculpture had been temporarily been installed in looks like burning man and some other places and otherwise is a shorter amount of time of installed and so this one year proposed to be install for a year. how do you address potential seismic and when that type of thing i'm seeing 2,000 pound of steel wobbling around here. so we spend a lot of time on these all these temporary installations worrying about seismic and especially wind and ensuring they're safe. if you can remember the bunnies that were outside civic center they were like our sail ready to take off and the structural

engineers run it by. there's actually very specific standard that as to when resilin and that is applied to these statutes because obviously it's very important. patricia's green this reminds me a little of some of the things we've done at patricia's green i feel like we may have had a naked lady there once with gel and it was hindu naked woman yes, i remember that and and we spend a lot of time we also worry about tipping. this one's not a tipper but those are all the safety concerns and we've had the structural engineers report vetted by dpw not just relying on one engineer and thank you for i just want to make sure that everyone in the public listen here that so they have a sense of reassurance. yes. and another part i want to touch on is that you have to figure it out. the deaccession and then how do

you bring back the plaza the way it is? >> so it's just a base installed on the plaza itself and when it's done it will be removed. i have to say at this point we will be permanently in it for six months and and and may extend it for another six months. i just wanted to be clear about that. we have the super bowl coming next year and some of you may have remembered what embarcadero plaza looked like for that. i don't expect the same but we want to have flexibility to do what the city needs to do as part of holiday activations and things like that. so we're committed to six months and then we'll be making a determination as the year goes on. >> thank you. >> hello stockhausen i'm the design engineer, worked with marco for about 15 years.

one thing to correct she was actually built on treasure island. we built her on treasure island back when you could build art on treasure island. that said on the on the installation and the steel bases that are the counterweight that are underneath we first set down plywood that's a marine rated plywood that the metal then sits on so when she comes up you just sweep and it's like she was never there so there's no penetrations in the ground, there's no marking, there's nothing at all and we've set her up in multiple different locations and again one of her sisters is over in san leandro just off the bart stop and when she went in there was i think one article and a couple of people that didn't like it and she's been beloved ever since. >> thanks. i think you in addition to that it has been this piece in particular has been in miami for over a year about a year. so it has had long term placement as well. >> thank you. thank you for your questions. commissioner brendel my first question is why this didn't go

to the visual arts committee to sort of think through first before it came here. >> so it's just one question i don't know what the process is and i'm curious it's one of the parts of the resolution ask us we're also approving a foundation a foundation i'm not familiar with. i don't know if that's a detail that we need to know anything about but it just i was just curious who the foundation is. you talked about welcoming and i wondered why the the statue was not facing the ferry terminal that you know, that you made a big deal about welcoming and i was surprised it wasn't turned the other way . >> i didn't understand breathing and i don't understand how the sculpture breathes. that's just i would love to maybe maybe everybody in this room completely understands that and i'm the only one. >> so if that's true, please skate by me. and then have you thought about climbing because i know we have a we have a statue in patricia

green and they've had to deal with the climbing issue and i wonder if we have thought about that here. those are all my questions whoever wants to answer them or not. >> yeah, no good questions i can answer both as burning man if i'm sure everybody here has heard of most of the people out there climb everything. so every piece of art that we've ever had to take out there it's something you have to think about extensively her skin when you come up to touch it is almost is smooth that you can't i'm a extensive rock climber and mountaineer. you literally cannot get a fingernail on to the screws that hold the stainless skin on and the breathing. there are 35 different panels hinges with electric motors and linkages that everything from her waist as she stands she'll breathe and within that her solar plexus e she actually who thank you i'm sorry that yeah let's let's see you've answered the question.

yeah that's fine thank you commissioner shelby mine is quick and i just wanted to say thank you for the presentation. i wanted to ask about the artists that were being displaced and if if they were satisfied with their replacement i guess on where they're going to be moved to in this area. >> this is a feed artist. yes. yeah we have we are working the details through with them but there's four stations and we found spaces off to the side. we believe that this actually will draw more people to the area. there is you know there is one artist it's like my favorite spot and that's where i want to be and you know we're working with him we you know, to make it to to make it work as best as we can for everyone. >> okay. thank you, commissioner ferris thank you, president collins i just had a quick question also about the vendors, the street

artists. is there a plan to incorporate the street artists into the opening event and or any other event that celebrates the statue as well as having the street artist present at the time? >> that's nice. that's a great idea. we haven't thought about that yet but we certainly can they will be welcome. there should be lots of people around but i agree emphasizing that this is art set amongst art. >> it it ought to be a theme. so thank you for that thought. i'm also in charge of planning the event so i'll make sure that we do that if approved. and i also he didn't answer the said see brandy foundation is sponsoring this. >> okay. is that a change from who is sponsoring it? >> it's the same funder but union square alliance was the permit holder previously. >> thank you. okay thank you very much for all of this wonderful comment by the commission. i am now asking for a motion to approve item number six our evolution and temporary

installation at embarcadero plaza. i'm asking for a motion and a second. >> may i ask a question because the excuse once the motion is made then you can have a question on the motion. >> so moved commissioner schnur second question commissioner franzel i think we just heard that it's a six month but the motion that's printed is a one year and i'm curious about the timing differential. >> that's because we're asking you to approve it for a year and we're looking at other activity is it might be impacted so the rec and park commission will ultimately make a decision of how long it will be in that space. we've done similar things at other times that way they don't have to come back so much as i love to see you all. >> thank you. is there any public comment on this agenda item six for those

joining in-person, please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we are currently on item six as a reminder your time will start when you begin speaking you'll see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes. i'm requesting comments from those who are in person is there anyone we'd like to make a public comment on the current agenda item c no request for public comment public comment is now closed. >> i am now asking for the final motion to approve this consent items or is this this particular matter? >> what was that? sorry because this this item thank you. >> we're approving this this one yeah separate single consent agenda it's on the consent agenda. it's a separate you don't see what i see strip just confusing right and so yes this is agenda item number six all those in favor i i i'm moving to abstain

pending feedback from the city attorney on the commercial advantage given to the artist. >> yes would you like to address that if okay nay a motion carries thank you for okay okay i don't know i don't calendar yeah well we might not but now on the consent course no say nine that's nine and we're on seven. >> i just want to make sure that i know because this is a missed i'm sorry as i'm just getting my own paperwork there but it gives director mccabe a chance to get to the podium.

okay. i'm now introducing agenda item number seven and i'm introducing the director and chief curator of the san francisco airport museum, jennifer mccabe. >> welcome to our commission. thank you so much. good afternoon, commissioners. thank you to president collins and director remington for the invitation and to present to you today you have a packed schedule. i am going to do a patrick couture style presentation so it's 20 slides 20s each. i'm hoping not to bore you but i wanted to i'm new in my role. i started last november so i wanted to give you a bit of an introduction to who i am. so i moved with my family just two months ago after being away from san francisco for 12 years. we're a family of four now. our youngest is enzo. he's 11, looses 15. she was born in san francisco. we had a strong desire to

return to the bay area not only because of our deep roots here but because our teen ager is transgender and we were hoping and knowing we would find a more inclusive environment here . >> my husband is who he also is our morales. he's a curator, an artist educator. he graduated from sfa. i he was born and raised on the us-mexico border. so much of his work interrogates issues of the border like the image on the left is a failed border crossing. he also had a gallery for a long time in the mission called queens nails annex and he's worked with local gallerist wendy norris for over a decade . for myself, i studied at san francisco state university with feminist scholar whitney chadwick who wrote the book women art and society. and that feminist spirit has really stuck with me ever since my master's thesis looked at three women artists originally from the middle east. there's got to emerge shirin neshat and shahzia saikia are

also worth noting i worked for artist catherine wagner as a studio manager my first full time job in the arts was at new langton arts which instilled in me a love of working with artists. artists were on the board, artists were on the staff. we did all kinds of creative interdisciplinary events music, poetry, video performance. on the right you see a chef roasting a pig on folsom street, you name it we did it my first i was going to mention my first curatorial project was with tony labat and iconic professor at sfa i we did a catalog and exhibition so i went on to become director chief curator at the museum of craft and folk art on nearby boyne island and here i brought my love of working with artists to the challenge of expanding the notion of craft and folk art. we worked with contemporary artists often local like claire rojas who the image on the right shows an installation of floor to ceiling paintings that she did that were influenced by folk practice of quilt making.

also seen here she's performing on the top left to a packed house and we did a collaboration with etsy called craft bar that we had to expand out into your about an island it was so popular every month when i moved to arizona i'm almost done with this part of it. when i moved to arizona i poured myself into my dissertation which looked at performative women artists from the 1970s and 80s and their influence and impact on the generations that followed. i was director chief curator at the scottsdale museum of contemporary art for eight years and i worked with so for the exhibition i included historic works from the 70s and 80s but also brought in that contemporary spirit and worked with local s.f. artist on a teresa fernandez whose painting is on the top right paired with artists like marina abramovic on the bottom right or lotty rosenfeld chilean artist another s.f. shout out to barbara starr stanwyck or solomon who i did

an exhibition with her and her paired her with her daughter nellie king solomon and and a palm desert based artist philip k smith did a large scale light based installation with him and finally my most recent exhibition opened last year in london called trans feminisms. it was curated by four four curators seen three of us on the left here but also with maura riley who's a new york based curator, did a feminist show in 2007 at the brooklyn museum called global feminism so it was a bit of a revisit to that thematic and it opened over the course of an entire year over five chapters at the gallery seen here in mimosa house. >> so that brings me to san francisco and a museum that sits within an airport things that i love about the sfo museum are the exhibitions but also most assuredly the partnership with the arts commission and the incredible public artworks at the airport . the facilities are incredible

and just the model of a museum within an enterprise department of the city is very unique. the program started in 1980. it was a collaboration with the d young and the legion of honor and the concept was brainchild of curator elsa cameron who noted stunning murals like those of diego rivera were seen in the airport in mexico city and she just asked the question why couldn't we do that here in san francisco the mission is to delight, engage and inspire a global audience. we've been in credit accredited by the american alliance of museums since 1999 and we retain the distinction of being the only accredited museum in an airport. in short, we produce temporary exhibitions across the airport. we manage an aviation museum and library. we manage our public our public art collection. we host rotating video arts programs, photo shows, student shows and education programs. so from the kind of modest beginnings of a single

exhibition gallery, the program has expanded throughout the terminals and today we operate more than 25 sites throughout those airport terminals including 14 galleries. one of those is the aviation museum which is in the international terminal. i'm not sure if you've been there but we actually have a permanent collection of over 160,000 objects that we care for. >> most recently we installed six panels from the aids memorial quilt. it's a heartfelt, beautiful reminder of the ongoing epidemic. it was last shown in 1996 on the national mall and upcoming we are looking ahead to the women of afrofuturism looking to the black women visionaries like katherine johnson who worked with nassau and octavia butler, the science fiction writer. but featuring artwork by oakland based filmmaker and artist celia peters, a boston based artist patrice gaskins alongside fashion local fashion designer, a fantasy artist i don't have to remind

you that the public collection of artwork is 165 pieces throughout the airport so i included this map not so that you could read it but just as a reminder that we have it on our website you can download it upon your next visit to the airport and find out what you're missing and then we're going to do some technology swap. and i just put this small clip because it's a beautiful example of how we work together. >> our videographer at the museum produced a short video. >> this is a tiny social media clip. hi, my name is craig calderwood. i'm i like to say i'm like a really hard core hobbyist. that's like what it feels like for me as an artist several

this kind of goes hand in the artist with oh it was such an important part of our work is taking care of the artworks and so here's one of our staff recently cleaning the jacob hashimoto infinite gateway of time and circumstances the title and it sits above the dining room in the grand hyatt hotel. so this work had to be done over several months during the night on a on a scissor lift that had to go through tight corridors and then very recently a collaborative effort between the arts commission sfo museum. what's an active image? >> thank you and preservation arts revolves being this installation by merge conceptual design rewire thing and cleaning it again happening at night and it's extraordinary

know what they do. oops sorry carolina okay last slide. so looking ahead terminal three west modernization project last year sfo launched that project a $2.6 billion construction project to renovate 650,000ft2 of half of terminal three. it includes includes a seismic retrofit expanded security passenger amenities is set to open fall 2027 and it's providing 14 plus opportunities for art. so we're really thrilled to be partnering with arts commission on two major new commissions along with relocation and hopefully purchase opportunities. i just wanted to let you know that i brought you all a tote bag with some current publications in it. so if you feel if you feel compelled compelled please do take one. happy to take any questions and i look forward to future conversations with all of you. >> thank you. i'm going to reserve my

comments until other members of the commission so benevides beltran snare thank you first of all, commissioner benevides amazing i'm over 2 million miler and sometimes my flights miss it and i get the whole tour. i'll walk for 2 or 3 hours and it's there's nowhere in the world that has what we have it's incredible makes us so special and i'm so glad you're here. and i just wanted to say this is what i love about our city. >> it's so perfect and of course all the people are coming from hawaii or asia are upset because they have a three hour layover and i'm just walking around missing my flight. >> but it is just so heartwarming to know that you're here and the work that's gone in the pieces are incredible. it's just not watching the louis vuitton logo. it's just like it's really opens your mind to think about how spectacular it is.

>> anyway, thank you. the staff is beyond dedicated commissioner boylston here first of all, jennifer, so awesome to see you back. thank you. i've known jennifer and julio for like a couple of decades. i actually co-founded the city start city studio youth arts program at the art institute with julio like eight years ago. >> yes. yeah. so and then you disappeared to that other state and now you're back and your whole you and your whole family is such a treasure and such an asset to have back in the city and particularly in your role. i just wanted to say two quick anecdotes. one is that i gave my students an assignment to go to to see a museum and one of my students said i'm traveling next weekend. can i go see the sfo art collection? >> so it's known and i was that's that's a perfect solution and i find i've had to travel frequently lately

and last night i literally flew in from denver and went down the escalator through the craig calderwood and pulled out my phone and took a video. >> so i am a tourist in my own city when especially when it comes to the museum i'm so thrilled that you're here. >> thank you high commissioner schneier here i also wanted to say over the years the projects that we have done with at sfo the working with the staff there has been an absolute delight and pleasure. everyone is not just they are so experienced and knowledgeable and so you can just get to work together and share the ideas and come up with the different ways of going about things and it's just i just it's a love fest with you guys. >> that's all i've got to say. it's just we happy to be here. >> thank you. director mccabe, thank you so much for coming here with this presentation. we really appreciate it

and obviously our relationship with the sfo is cherished and we we look forward to doing great things in the future as you're there and establishing your vision around it. we look forward to excitedly look forward to working with you. >> likewise. thank you. you know orchids, flowers, roses you know essential to our strategic plan is creating strength behind our cultural economy and the relationship between our airport our port are central. you know, to our success. it's a circular economy but at its foundation is this cultural infrastructure and there could be no clear statement then the importance of our airport as a defining piece of the way that we are going to advance our fiscal our fiscal health in the city.

so not only do you have that responsibility but within that responsibility is as you were saying is the enterprise and you know, building on that and that art is really centered in economic success and it's visible at our airport. this is the place where people first come to our city. your your role and your responsibilities are really deeply, deeply appreciated. i had a chance to visit the infrastructure year of the museum just after the election and it was for me a place of healing just to see the the place where you do all of your work if you haven't been there there's going to be an opportunity that our directors are going to talk about. we can't go there in mass but it's important to understand that you know, the airport museum stands up its own shows . it does not it does not

subcontract its work. it is tsa approved and it is it has the infrastructure, the cultural infrastructure to really support this big vision. so i think that the the relationship between the arts commission and the airport is one of the most important dyadic relationships right now in driving our strategic plan which is to really strengthen our cultural economy. >> so i'm so pleased, you know, director mccabe that you're with us. i mean it's a godsend. thank you. i look forward to only strengthening our partnership as well. so the mission i just wanted to just add director make him looking forward to working with you and in partnership with you. i have had the pleasure of getting a tour with concessionaire. it was magnificent. >> i hate airports. i'm always late. >> i'm san francisco. i go extra early and i look forward to coming back home

and i'm proud to show it off. but i also want to point out your resumé, your diversity of experience and what you present what you've done is such an important i'm for us to be partnering with somebody like you to have that vision to make sure that we continue and even expanded beyond what we've done so far. so looking forward to seeing the curation that you're going to be doing. thank you so much. my card is in the bag too so you can reach out for the behind the scenes tour any time . >> are there any other comments or questions? no. i just want to say really quickly here here to what my fellow commissioners have just said very, very excited that you're in this position and i wanted to thank you for the part of the presentation where we got a view into the care of the work something that i don't think about i think a lot of us don't think about but right that work would get dusty, it would not look amazing and it's something that we talk about with the arts commission. how do we upkeep the amazing work that is in our care and so

that's such a huge part. thank your staff for for doing that for the city. >> thank you. you know, before we you know once the work is there definitely and we know that the alicia the piece that was just you know very very complex piece but also there's the ability to move things around right and so there is a beautiful menu that is not even seen and i love the energy with with our department and with your department to really imagine that this is not just in that wall but how things can move and in fact reimagining you know, their importance over time. thank you any further comments and seeing none? are there any public comments on director mccabe's please for those joining in-person please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. >> we are currently on item seven. i feel like i came to the right place to talk about this and go excuse me i'm sorry is it

related to the current item or i just wanted to say please don't allow san francisco to be an art world. you don't it it will be horrible for the world to see san francisco destroy this art work of ruth as ours. >> block art and design which appreciate your comments. >> you are not in order in this. i'm sorry i thought he was asking for public comment on this item. >> thank you. thank you. >> is there any additional comments seen on public comment is now close. >> thank you. we have no action to take on this report so i'm now moving to agenda item number eight which is the san francisco arts commission galleries summer 2025 exhibition and i am introducing the director of galleries and public programs catalina around fernandez thank

you. good afternoon commissioners. it's good to see you on this very windy day. >> i'll be presenting the artists of our upcoming summer 2025 exhibition in the main gallery last summer i was pleased to present the curators of our first two exhibitions in 2025 and i'm excited to share the list of artists for our upcoming exhibition opening may 20th 22nd co-curated by elena gros and leila weaver about the exhibition in service tension explores the messiness, messiness and complexity of the query body and interpolation of surface tension which signifies a resistant relationship between between two surfaces. the title suggests a playful interrogation of sex penetration and power. the exhibition themes considers abstraction as an esthetic tool for traveling masculinity

within dynamics and sexual desire about the artist salamat to too a baby is a trans nigerian-american chef and multimedia artist working in food film and photography, sculpture and installation. his work centers on community activism african diasporic culinary tradition and black trans liberation. next we have ricky dwyer. ricky dwyer is an artist from the san francisco bay area currently working in brooklyn. his practice considers the intersection of material industry and the somatic. his work acknowledges drapery as the reigning renegotiation that things never fall the same way twice. >> next we have sandra ibarra who sometimes works under the

alias of lachica. boom is an oakland based artist from the us-mexico border of el paso. juarez. ibarra works across performance video and sculpture to address objection and joy and the borders between proper and the improper racialized gender and subjects. >> next sasha kelly is an oakland based multidisciplinary artist using visual arts and publishing and social engagement to explore explored topics of intimacy collective archives and collaboration with black brown and communities. >> tiana nakia mclaurin is a visual artist, filmmaker, filmmaker and curator whose work explores the critiques issues that at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and social commentary clouding interdisciplinary approach.

traverses documentary film experimental video sculpture and sound installation. and last artist autumn wallace is a visual artist who works across media to create paintings and sculptures that examine human sexuality, gender and the black femme experience. about the curators. as i mentioned, this exhibition is co-curated elena grose is an interdisciplinary writer, curator and culture critic living in oakland, california. she specializes in representation of identity in fine art photography and popular media. her research has been centered around conceptual and material abstraction of the body in the work of black, moderate and contemporary artists. moore's most recently in, artistic and literary histories of the late 20th century. elena is the coeditor along with julie julia answer of outright the speeches that

shaped lgbtq literary culture. winner of the 2020 lambda literary award for lgbtq anthologies and lila weaver is an artist writer and curator based in oakland, california. through film, through film and architecture they examine the performative elements connected to systems of belonging presenting in black gender variant and embodiment. their research across disciplines explore religion, black ecological symbols and colloquial languages, transnational blackness and practices of collectives. weaver has worked with princeton university lewis center for the arts, the warriors institute of contemporary art's mcevoy foundation, berkeley art museum ,the kitchen and the museum of african diaspora. their lecture at stanford

university thank you and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> are there any commissioner discussions or questions or comments on this report? >> may i? >> i just may i just i wanted to actually caroline i just wanted to tell you this weekend i went to a new residency at minnesota called machen and it was a pop up that they brought. they're starting their residency as for this one community. >> and i just wanted to thank you personally because about half of the artists that were represented were actually last year in our galleries. >> so just wanted to thank you because you're going out there and finding them and giving in the platforms. you're having an impact. we're having an impact. so i just want to personally thank you for what you're doing. thank you. commissioner hakimi. i look forward to this and you want to thank you. >> any other commissioner comments seeing none.

is there any public comment on the summer 2025 exhibition report? >> for those joining in-person please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. we are currently on item eight. as a reminder your time will start when you begin speaking. you will see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes. and requesting comments from those who are in person. is there anyone like to make a public comment on the current agenda item seeing no request for public comment. public comment is now closed. thank you. i'm now calling agenda item number nine which is the consent calendar. i'm asking for any withdrawals or recusals at this time from members of the commission. everyone has had a chance to review. i'm seeing a lot of bobbing wonderful. i had and so there are there any other comments or discussions on the consent

count? >> this is the time that you always take just a little extra time just to make sure that please is more of a comment. >> i just noticed that number six of it is a living lesbian legend and this is extraordinary to be here because this is actually a permanent piece that's going to go into what's in the castro. and i just want to recognize how big of a deal this is and all the organ and more cd and the castro culture district that really made this happen. we've never had anything like that in that neighborhood so uplifting the lesbian women and giving them a visibility looking forward to it. >> thank you, beto. you know, but it shows is that some things take time to mature, right? >> mm hmm. are there any other comments on commissioner beltran? >> thank you, president collins. i just wanted a very brief

comment on motion number ten or agenda item number ten of this motion and that is i can't say how thrilled i am. i believe this is the first s.f. usd public new public school in how many years? >> happy anyhow first the first ever been able to do yeah so yeah this is and this is the first partnership that we've had with the san francisco unified school district for this beautiful new school that's going to be right in mission bay which we sorely need in that neighborhood. >> so i just wanted to call that out now i appreciate all these comments. one of the things that's a little bit difficult from the chair is remember that the consent calendar is really not really for discussion unless there is a problem and i appreciate very much appreciate these comments because they kind of laud the great work that's going on and i'm going to spend less time even talking about my concern here.

>> well, just i will follow up on that though, president collins to say like in the future if you want to talk about something that's on the consent agenda, pull it off, ask for it to be pulled off and then we can talk about it all day and night. but we have to pull it off. >> we can't talk about it while it's in the consent agenda. >> okay. that's really just an incursion. it's not anything other than that. so now i'm going to ask for a motion in the second to the motion to approve the consent calendar. >> commissioner walker moved to approve commissioner brendel second thank you. we've already have the discussion and so may i ask for any public comment on the consent calendar? >> for those joining in-person please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public information card. we're currently on item nine as a reminder your time will start when you begin speaking we'll see a visual timer on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes closing comments from those who are in person is there anyone like to make a public comment on the current

agenda item he no request for public comment public comment is now closed. >> thank you. may i have call for the final motion? all those in favor i opposed motion carries unanimously now take your breath because i know that people are going to want to make comments and then the item number ten and this is new business and announcements this allows us to have any discussion on current administrative budgetary legislative and programing developments and announcements . and so i'm first going to ask for any commissioner comments or discussions on agenda item number ten a thank you president collins commissioner beltran speaking and i am also now very cognizant of the advice that we got from the city attorney that we are not to be talking about any items that might benefit us personally but i'm not going to do that. >> i'm going to call out that i hope all of you make it to the

amy sherald exhibition at the san francisco museum of modern art which is closing on march 9th. it is really just phenomenal. it's quite amazing and i've actually gone to it now seven times. i know it sounds crazy but that's because i've taken my classes from state on seven different field trips to see that show but yes, please do not miss it. it is really, you know, just incredible phenomenal. and then our our local favorite also wayne thibeault who passed a couple of years ago they the two young is opening his show on march 22nd also this month so that's very exciting. and then one of my favorite artists and also a friend of mine isaac julian is opening his exhibition on of them also at the de young. >> so i hope that you put that all on your calendars. we would when one of you come in on the upcoming april art

fair anybody just make sure that's on calendar this is a nice kind of punctuation in april there will be a substantial art fair that broadens the scope of what's going on. the other is that the air program at the san francisco art institute i mean sorry the san francisco museum of modern art is able to count how many times a person has seen a show. >> oh wow. and so be careful because you are now considered a hyper influencer. >> you always were commissioned or i have announcement maybe that for me it's poignant but i think it's relevant to san francisco in the arts community and that a week ago music director michael tilson thomas released a public statement about where he is and he many of you know he's been struggling with cancer

diagnosis for the last three years and i just want to read the final paragraph of his note because i think it's really beautiful and he says a coda is a musical element at the end of a composition that brings the whole piece to a conclusion. a coda can vary greatly in length. my life's coda is generous and rich life is precious and he has had such an incredible important impact on the arts in san francisco, in the country and the world and he is planning to make his final public appearance in san francisco in next month at the symphony and you know, just very poignant and what an incredible artist and creator we share so i have been patiently sitting here and waiting to say my word to farewell commissioner schneller

i wonder if this is the appropriate time definitely in order. may i? okay, so good afternoon. i'm going to want to make sure that it's in the record right? so this is my due respect to my fellow commissioner schneier. so many things i learned from you. good afternoon everyone. it is truly an honor to be here today and celebrating incredible service of commissioner schneller over the past 12 years she has been a steadfast advocate for public art architecture and the betterment of our civic spaces a voice of both reasons and passion. i've had the privilege of serving alongside her during many hours at the civic design review committee. time and again i witness her unwavering commitment to justice and fairness values she not only spoke about but embody in every decision she made.

her ability to balance bold ideas with thoughtful considerations has left a lasting imprint on the projects with touch and the people with served. but beyond her professional brilliance is shinners strength and humor that will be irreplaceable. she brought warmth and wit into every meeting reminding us that while the work is serious, the spirit of collaboration can and should be full of heart. >> though this marks the end of her chapter with the arts commission i have no doubt this is not a farewell but a see you soon. i look forward to collaborating with her in other courts in other capacities and continuing to learn from her remarkable leadership. thank you commissioner schneller for your dedication, your passion and your friendship. you will be deeply missed here

but your impact will resonate for years to come. >> i'm a jump in and i have to hug. oh, you got a hug? go ahead. got it. i'll give it. >> i also want to thank commissioner schneller who i've had the pleasure of serving with now for 12 years. as we joined around the same time and i'll just say because we all know how effective and important she has been to this commission. but i do want to comment how passionate she also is about music and how at least early on she shared a lot of her knowledge about music primarily through her son and and just interested in the music that i

think there's two musicians on this commission now too. >> and just her knowledge and their excitement and just sharing that with me and just the knowledge of of working with her. so thank you. i'm not sure where are you going but i'm hanging around but i thank you. >> i have a both my father was a musician and so you know my son is a musician so i do come by it on this. >> i get a hug, don't i? >> this is commissioner brendel . i have to unfortunately have to excuse myself but thank you, commissioner sharon, it's been wonderful to work with you and well, i hope our paths cross again many times. >> thank you. the commissioner this is commissioner beltran and i simply want to echo all of the other prior comments with my deepest thanks. i have to say that one of the most memorable things that happened to me during my

serving on this commission was that reflects her collegiality and friendship is that commissioner actually invited all of the commissioners to her home and we had an amazing dinner there and we were able to see her set back and her husband's esthetic and just be together as a community, you know, celebrating the work that we did and that really moved me and i will really miss you. >> so let me read into the record just so that we have this this is a part of the record, abby said. and cheniere is an architectural photographer with over 40 years of experience. >> her photography has been published in architect magazine architectural digest and architectural record. she has had showings of her work at various galleries and museums following her bfa from the rhode island school of design.

risley. abby co-founded the first woman owned professional architectural photography studio in chicago for 16 years. she photograph architecture and interiors for a national and international clientele. in 1997, abby relocated thank god to san francisco where she consulted for the design community in digital imaging. abby transitioned from her consulting practice in 205 to focus on her photography and community involvement in the arts. she was appointed to the commission in 2013 serving on the visual arts committee and the civic design review committee. >> i believe that you're also on community investment. yeah, i've been there we go. i thought so. um and abby has served and st ah so all four of those

and also on the executive committee abby has served on the board of a.c.t. for 15 years until fairly recently and is also this is very important i think it tells a lot. she is the past chair of the a.c.t., mfa conservancy conservatory board you know that's that's where you really getting into the future of the artist and she's currently a trustee of cch as well as a part of s.f. advocacy for the national museum of women artists. this is an all star. this is us. this is a real treasure. it's kind of hard for people to know for you to absorb the immensity of the you know of the admiration that we have for you. abby but i know that in many times i have called upon you, you know, for your sage advice, your wisdom and also for your humor because sometimes you know, it's it's we have to maintain a decorum in what we

do as we acquit our responsibility. but i also remember taking the oath of office with abby under under mayor lee and in the oath of office we pledge to support the constitution of the united states. and i think that there can be no more important time than we understand our oath of office is a sacred vow to something larger and you represent that because our freedom of expression is absolutely central to our ability to negotiate this democracy. you are an amazing person, abby. i love you and i'm going to miss you in this seat. but i am not letting you go. >> i'm up piece you've got time. well, you know in our in our culture we talk about now it's about to get baptist you know and break it down and i knew

this was coming and i was so sad but i didn't realize it was coming today otherwise. god bless you lydia and chuck for preparing something. i am not prepared for you to leave in so many ways. you were such a welcoming force when i joined the commission trying to find my way as a new commissioner and i credit you and you know some of our veteran commissioners here jd and marcus with really helping us new commissioners learn how to be commissioners learn you know and with the help of our our great city attorneys as well like what we're supposed to be doing in this role and i can't thank you enough for how welcoming you were when i joined it was a daunting group to join because you guys are stellar. abby you are stellar and i had to pinch myself for probably the first the whole first year to think i was fortunate enough to sit amongst these amazing

people that i get to do some amazing work with and i can't thank you enough as jd mentioned and i believe it was for our former directors good party that you invited us into your home and and i was that was my first year i believe maybe second year as a commissioner and i was still very green and and realizing what a community and what a family cfc is the commissioners, the staff because of the important work that we're doing because of how much we love our city and really feeling welcomed by you and shepherded and mentored by you and i can't thank you enough for that. so thank you abby and i know we're all going to miss you as a person as well as your expertise is on our commission and at our meetings asking those poignant questions. you know, when we're sitting there and we're we're thinking about these projects that are

coming across our table, it's always really awesome to hear you cut to the chase and get to some of those really important questions where it's like oh yeah, that was a good question and how are we going to go on without those questions asked? i mean we're all going to have to up our game to make sure that we're not missing those important things that you were able to catch and have an eye on. so thank you abby and thank you for doing the work that you did for our city. thank you personally for being a mentor to me as a commissioner and yeah and i will see you on the west side and i'm looking forward to find you know, excuses to hang out and to do work together. oh, may i? >> oh yeah. oh, you go first. okay. thank you. commissioner lu here. i just want to express my gratitude and my respect and also my best wishes for abby. thank you so much for being here and thank you so much for

your mentorship and thank you so much for your intuition. i think it's remarkable. i remember there was a time when we are working on a very difficult project and abby called me. i literally was just getting off the plane and asked me to make sure to look at the paperwork and i remember how much it was deeply important to the community and abby sadat and catch two things that often get missed. we had a long day like we had long discussions on those projects and i cannot thank you enough for how much you taught me about integrity and the importance we get the chance we have the opportunity to speak for the community this is this

is not only valuable for me personally. i want to make sure that i thank you for the work you do for our community. if it's not because of that call it's going to be a very different reality and i thank you for the work you do from the bottom of my heart and i'm going to get you a hug. >> final word. >> i'm going to i'm going to wait for the hugs commission. i just wanted to say that today ironically is my third anniversary. so i got here three years ago. >> so it's kind of crazy how time goes by and so i just took it out of my speech because i was going to say that when i joined you were the very first person your welcoming and the way you took me under your arm

and tried to teach me to navigate my way through a very complicated commission forever. i'm grateful for that. but more than anything else, what i have loved about you and i continue to appreciate is that you're both in community as much as you are in this commission. everywhere i go you were there and that means a lot for the people that we show up and people represent. i just want i appreciate and you taught me to keep doing that so thank you for that was a major learning lesson from me and i will continue to be doing that. i foresee more in everywhere that we go to you know just to finish this you know abby, if there if there is something that's been consistent in these comments is that you do the work, you do the work but also you have affected the culture of this commission and the culture is something that we can hold on to because you've

influence that you even know oh i'm sorry commissioner carney commissioner streicher, i have so much enjoyed working with you. >> you really put a lot into khedr as he mentioned, you really do the work and i really appreciate that. it's a hard thing to do and you are a hard act to follow and you're everyplace simple. earlier you mentioned regarding the museum at sfo a love fest. >> this is a love fest for you. >> you're you're cherished and of course now the mike is your all right so i know this is running late so i'll try not to keep it too long but i do want to thank everybody for your wonderful heartfelt comments. it really does mean a lot to me. it's been a long journey over the 12 years and i've learned so much here and feel like

we've been able as a group to have accomplished a lot. so i'm really pleased and proud for that and i'm not you know i'm still around as you know, as as you mentioned, i'm very involved in the arts in this city, in this community and i always will be. that's never going to go away. so there are projects and things that will happen from time to time and i hope that i get to see you guys when all those different events and projects happen and all the projects we worked on when the openings happen i want to get an invite. >> you'll still be on the invite list. good. thank you. i appreciate that. i did want to say though for the newer commissioners in particular for those of us who have been here for a while and i really the institutional memory of commissioner shelby, president collins, commissioner beltran this is just

and commissioner and vice president scherer who's not here but i think it's absolutely essential to use that resource for and for newer commissioners coming on and be involved and get involved if you feel like if you feel like you're rubber stamping and that's all you're doing, you're not doing your job, there are ways to be involved and get involved here and know what's going on and it is so rewarding to do that. >> so i just ask everybody to remember that and stay involved and be involved and thank you all. i've had an incredible experience and a wonderful time here and it's very special and i do plan to see a lot of you going forward in different ways and capacities and i just thought i would mention that since i won't be on the commission any more and i

believe that lauren currie will back me up on this, i can now be considered to be on panels again, right? >> yes. >> great. okay. and i will leave it at that. and just a reminder that commissioner senior has two more meetings so this is just her last full commission meeting why we did it? >> no, no, no, no. is okay. >> all right. is there any public comment on this agenda item number ten for those joining in person, please proceed to the public comment podium and fill out the public comment information card. >> we are currently on item ten as a reminder your time will start when you begin speaking you'll see a visual time on the podium and receive a 32nd audible warning before your time concludes and of course any comments from those who are in person? >> is there anyone i'd like to make a public comment on the current agenda item. >> first item is you have a public comment are

commissioners thank you. i'm so glad there are commissioners. please don't let san francisco be a laughingstock in the art community. don't let them destroy the ruth asawa osaka way project please. thank you. thank you for letting me bust in like this. i didn't know any other way to make anybody even aware of this project going on. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. >> any additional public comments being none public comment is now closed. that brings us to the last item which is adjournment. >> we are adjourned. thank you. >> it's going to be commissioner. can we do a photo a group photo? >> oh, wonderful. thank you. yeah order a

roll call place president stacey here vice president ah say commissioner jam da here commissioner level aroney here you have a quorum and i understand commissioner rza is running a few minutes late but will be joining us. >> that's correct. >> thank you. before calling the first item i'd like to announce that the san francisco public utilities commission acknowledges that it owns and are stewards of the unceded lands located within the ethno historic territory of the motjeka aloni tribe and other familial descendants of the historic federally recognized mission san jose verona band of alameda county.

the s.f. puc also recognizes that every citizen residing within the greater bay bay area has and continues to benefit from the use and occupation of the mohawk moloney tribe's aboriginal lands since before and after the san francisco public utilities commission founding in 1932 it is vitally important that we not only recognize the history of the tribal lands on which we reside but also we acknowledge and honor the fact that the mount moloney people have established a working partnership with the s.f. puc and are productive and flourishing members within the many greater san francisco bay area communities today. >> could you call the next item please? item three approval of the minutes of february 11th 2025. >> commissioners any comments or corrections to the minutes?

no. no thank you. >> public comment please. remote callers please raise your hand if you wish to provide comment on number three. >> are there any members of the public present who wish to provide comment? >> seeing none. moderator are there any college who have their hand raised? >> ms. linear there are no callers who wish to be recognized. >> thank you. >> commissioners, could i have a motion in a second to approve the minutes of february 11th? >> motion to approve. seconded. thank you. president stacy i. commissioner jammed our i. >> commissioner pepperoni. i. item passes general public comment. item four. members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda and the commission values civic engagement and encourages respectful communication at the

public meeting. we ask that all public comment be made in a civil and courteous manner and that you refrain from the use of profanity. thank you. >> remote callers please raise your hand if you wish to provide comment on item four. are there any members of the public present who wish to comment on this item? seeing none. moderator are there any college who have their hand raised? >> ms. linear there is one caller with the hands raised. >> thank you. caller your line has been unmuted. you have two minutes. >> thank you. this is peter direct buyer policy director for the wyoming river trust. the chaos in washington d.c. should remind us how important checks and balances are. republicans in congress are afraid to stand up to trump even when the policies hurt their constituents and i'm sure many will eventually pay a price. for a long time the lack of checks and balances at the u.s. has harmed both the environment and rate payers.

information is controlled and distorted by staff leading to poor decision making. commissioner requests have been ignored but there are no consequences. our simple public records act requests get denied based on attorney client communications even though they have nothing to do with legal issues. even official commission resolutions get ignored by staff. i've mentioned in the past two resolutions in 2019 and 2020 directing staff to work with the irrigation districts to incorporate biological growth and adaptive management into the twomey river voluntary agreement. no discussions have ever taken place and staff appears to be getting away with ignoring directives from the commission. from my research it appears that the commission has never officially adopted the assigned route. you've simply been told it's policy you don't know how likely the desired drought is to occur because you haven't asked. how can you make a risk assessment without this key information? how can you justify the alternate water supply plan?

you don't know how lower than projected water will impact rates because staff won't tell you. jamie asked but never got a response. she was then replaced. the national marine fisheries service commissioned a peer review of the tommy river volunteer agreement but panned the science behind the fish models. but the spc never responded. it appears that science doesn't matter. yes, you see. please step up as leaders and serve as a check and balance against staff. >> thank you very much. thank you for your comment. the scenario there are no more callers in the queue. >> thank you. item five report of the general manager. thank you, madam secretary. item five is local community workers and small business report ben poole and wendy macey will be presenting if i

can please have the slides. so good afternoon commissioner casey and commissioners. my name is ben poole and i'm the director of workforce and program services there. >> backwards right. okay. good morning. give us some key facts that are you guys that you are if i go forward. okay. again, i'm going to start over. my name is ben poole. i'm the director of workforce and economic program services here at the puc. and today i have the privilege of presenting with the chief people officer wendy massey. but before she presents i want i'm here to talk a little bit about some of the worker and small business outcomes that have been achieved on

other projects and the ways in which these things are accomplished. before i dive into data which will be on the slides, i want to briefly contextualize that data and the work that the agency does in the contractors do to achieve it. >> first let me say that the work of the group that i manage is focused on workers. so small individuals jobs, right? which is the workforce in that title and then economic which is means small businesses or contractors and contracts, right? those are the sort of like two pieces of the title or the name of our group. and so that's really where we focus, right? we focus on the on workers that can be on our construction projects or professional services contracts and on and on small businesses that can be on those projects as well. >> we do that through affirmative programing so we have a project labor agreement which means that on our capital construction projects all of the workers are unionized. we have a contractors assistance center which is

focused on helping small businesses access our contracting opportunities. and we have project pull program which is focused on youth opportunities and the sort of next opportunity for civil service staff which is actually on the commission on the agenda later if it comes up . and then we focus really those impacts on the agency's capital plan, right? we focus on our capital projects and and our capital work and we have achieved some outcomes that i will show you briefly. but i think the other thing about our work within the agency and on our capital plan and on these programs is that while we are going to tell a good story, i think there is always opportunity to do more and to do a little bit better and always to be called in by the folks that we are impacting with our services to have those outcomes. >> the final thing that we do with our work is that we liaise with other city departments that are really the ones responsible for performing compliance of their various laws on our projects. so the office of economic

workforce development has a local hiring requirement. the contract mine division has the local business enterprise r o b requirements and we it is with their help and then the resources of the agency and with the workforce training program services division that we're able to achieve. i think some of the outcomes that we're going to show you today. so before i get into the data, let me just say that all of this data is from the end of the calendar year 2024. so it's through december 31st, 2024 and we're going to start by focusing on the sewer system improvement program overall and not because it's anything special but it is the single largest part of the agency's overall capital plan and it is we have the best historical data on it. >> so the first slide that we're focused on we're focused on workers and individuals, right? and this aligns to the the city's local hiring requirements and the project labor agreement that we administer. so what you'll see is that the history of the of the sewer system improvement program