not to exceed $11.50 million among other things to refinance various capital facilities owned by brandeis hillel day school and other matters related thei reto. >> good morning. i am with the controller's office. the item is an approval to issue $11.50 million by california enterprise development authority for brandeis hillel school. there is no fiscal impact to the city and the city is not responsible. chairperson avalos: thank you. any comments or questions? we will have public comment on item one. seeing no one come forward, we will close public comment. a motion from supervisor mirkarimi without objection. it will go to the full board with recommendation. >> item 2, approving the issuance of tax-exempt revenue obligations by the california enterprise development authority not to exceed $8 million among other things to refinance various capital facilities owned by the urban school of san francisco. supervisor mirkarimi: i brought this item forward. it is a straightforward matter. for the urban school revenue organizations it will be used to refinance, construct, and equip the urban sch

. >> wanted to pick brandeis university? >> i started at mit and then decided i wanted to be a singer and to the conservatory of music and my voice teacher left, so i left. i ended up at brandeis and then went to summer school. i ended up graduating with my class at brandeis. the reason i went to brandeis was because i could study economics and music which was the interest of my life. >> when did you decide you wanted to make a career of this business of the arts? >> i had the idea in undergraduate school. had a thesis on productions, which they were not doing at the time. i did this thesis which made economic sense. i got interested in the managerial site of the arts, but it was really not a career back in in arts management. it was not anything you could say that you wanted to start here and move your way up. it was a career that people fell into a rather than plan for. i did not start immediately in arts management. >> >> compare today as to when you were growing up, do we have more arts or less? >> over the past years, t

. >> college came, brandeis university, why did you pick that? >> i went to four undergraduate schools. i had a very checkered career. i started mit, then decided i wanted to be a singer and went to new york's conservatory of music, my voice teacher left, so i left, then i ended up at brandeis, but went to tufts for summer school and it was a hodgepodge of an undergraduate education, but ended graduating with my class at brandeis. the reason i went to brandeis was because i could study both economics and music, which were the two big interests in my life. >> when did you decide you wanted to make a career out of dealing with all of this business of the arts? >> i really had that idea in my senior year at undergraduate school. i did a thesis, an economics thesis, about why opera companies should share productions, the sets and costumes of productions, which they weren't doing at the time, but which they now do very frequently and i did this thesis, which said this made economic sense. and i really got interested in the managerial side of the arts,

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