and thank you, commissioners, and thank you to director ram and kelly and anmarie. thanks for your consideration. president olague: thank you. >> you're welcome. >> thank you, president olague and commissioners. i served as the art task force that presented to you in 2006 and in that process we looked at the various programs and specifically the 1% art on site program and made recommendations that i believe all of which are included in the recommendations and the amendments from the planning commission. and i want to applaud the planning department for actually getting the arms around this great program. back in 2006 when we asked to see the benefit of the program and we know what art we have and a program that supports our artists and supports the public in viewing of the art and to make that experience available. and the art task force strongly recommended expanding the program citywide and in the south and why they were not able to have those experiences in their neighborhood and the addition of expanding beyond the c3 district and support a city wide program for

. >> thank you, commissioners, anmarie rodgers, and as you know, this ordinance has been introduce bid two parties, both the mayor and board president chu and i would like first to turn the microphone to representatives of their offices to make a few statements why they felt the need to introduce this ordinance from the mayor and board president chiu. first we have jason elliott from the office of the mayor. >> commissioners, jason elliott, mayor's legislative director. thank you very much for holding this hearing. today we are proud to be co-sponsors of this legislation along with president david chiu. i think there has been some very good recommendations that have come from planning staff there contained in this report and i have to say we agree with most, if not all, of them, and it's not a disagreement but we need some more conversation and new issues that need consideration. let me say as far as we are concerned with this legislation that was motivated by the success of the 100% art program and how the downtown gallery has turned into such an asset for the city and looking to do m

in section two of the recommendations, this is, again, through the data and some of the details as anmarie recalled the public process and the physical limitation and the 5% discount to agree that our office work through 2a, b, and c. and we were unclear and i appreciate the clarity now on recommendation three, which is removing the arts commission review. if the arts commission and planning staff have agreed on recommendation number three, then i think we would agree as well. we would like to note it and have the board consider that issue at land user to full board at some point just to note it, but we were unclear that that consensus had been reached and glad to hear that happened and if that consensus is reached, we would go along with that. i will allow cat to add anything. >> i don't have that much to add. i know jason summarized it, but supervisor chiu is open to the recommendation about expanding this and he was very interested in what the planning commission has to sayn't an it and very interested in doing appropriate outreach if that is your direction. >> if you have any questions