. >> you're watching san francisco rising with chris manors. today's special guest is mary chu. >> hi. i'm chris manors, and you're rising on san francisco rising. the show that's focused on rebuilding, reimagining, and restarting our city. our guest today is mary chu, and she's here to talk with us about art and the san francisco art commission. well come, miss chu. >> thanks for having me. >> it's great to have you. let's talk about art in the city and how art installations are funded. >> the arts committee was funded in 1932 and support civic review, design investments and art galleries. projects we have are funded by the city's art enrichment ordinance which provides 2% of construction costs for public art. >> so art is tied to construction. there's been a great deal in the southwest of the city. can you talk about some of the projects there? >> sure. our city has some exciting projected in the bayview-hunters point coming up. one artist created a photo collage. in the picture pavilion, one artist formed a collage of her one-year residency

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for san francisco t.v., i'm chris manors. thanks for watching. >> ladies and gentlemen, the esteemed guests, welcome. to introduce our program today, i'm honored to introduce greg of the saloni people who worked to preserve his heritage for over three decades and he's the culture director, the people indigenous to the san francisco peninsula, mr. castro, welcome. [applause] >> [foreign language] greetings to everyone. welcome to the ramaytush homeland. this area

for sfgov tv i'm chris manors. thanks for watching. >> when i first started painting it was difficult to get my foot in the door and contractors and mostly men would have a bad attitude towards me or not want to answer my questions or not include me and after you prove yourself, which i have done, i don't face that obstacle as much anymore. ♪♪♪ my name is nita riccardi, i'm a painter for the city of san francisco and i have my own business as a painting contractor since 1994 called winning colors. my mother was kind of resistant. none of my brothers were painter. i went to college to be a chiropractor and i couldn't imagine being in an office all day. i dropped out of college to become a painter. >> we have been friends for about 15-20 years. we both decided that maybe i could work for her and so she hired me as a painter. she was always very kind. i wasn't actually a painter when she hired me and that was pretty cool but gave me an opportunity to learn the trade with her company. i went on to different job opportu

for sfgov tv i'm chris manors. thanks for watching. morning. we're going to go ahead and get started. hi, everyone. welcome welcome. my name is tamika moss and i have the pleasure of serving as your emc for today's program. thank you. it's such a pleasure to see so many familiar faces, and only a special person like joaquin torres would bring us out in the rain to celebrate your inauguration. i'm so excited to welcome you all to today's ceremony, actually reflecting the assessor recorders first full term. um and so we're so excited to have you all with us, um i had started all home and organization that's working on homelessness and housing, security and economic security for our regions, most vulnerable neighbors and one of the reasons that i started. that organization was the belief that the status quo was not okay. that it was going to take everyone in our community to double down and figure out how to solve our region's most complex problems that it's gonna take innovation. it's going to take breaking down silos building across sectors. and

manor. our reporter paul hawkins is there on the ground . paul, this is on the ground. paul, this is chrisrris. his constituency . what's the story ? constituency. what's the story? so the story is nigel, constituency. what's the story? so the story is nigel , that we so the story is nigel, that we are just outside highgate house manor hotel was it was a couple of years ago. the house has been closed for a couple of years because the family run owners couldn't make it survive as a business through covid they business through covid now they offloaded company offloaded it to another company and as we understand it, is the local creighton parish council understanding and the home office are planning to put 400 asylum seekers, 400 migrants in this 87 on suite, bedroom , this 87 on suite, bedroom, former hotel, possibly this 87 on suite, bedroom, former hotel , possibly towards former hotel, possibly towards the end of this month. now, this came to the attention of the of the local parish council in in crete and some nine miles north of norfolk . last month . they've of norfolk. last month. the

manor. our reporter paul hawkins is there on the ground . paul, this is on the ground. paul, this is chrisrris. his constituency . what's the story ? constituency. what's the story? so the story is nigel, constituency. what's the story? so the story is nigel , that we so the story is nigel, that we are just outside highgate house manor hotel was it was a couple of years ago. the house has been closed for a couple of years because the family run owners couldn't make it survive as a business through covid they business through covid now they offloaded company offloaded it to another company and as we understand it, is the local creighton parish council understanding and the home office are planning to put 400 asylum seekers, 400 migrants in this 87 on suite, bedroom , this 87 on suite, bedroom, former hotel, possibly this 87 on suite, bedroom, former hotel , possibly towards former hotel, possibly towards the end of this month. now, this came to the attention of the of the local parish council in in crete and some nine miles north of norfolk . last month . they've of norfolk. last month. the

manor hotel in a small village by way. have a look at that. if you're looking on tv, to be honest with you, it looks exactly how it sounds local. chris. they've been up in arms about it. oh yeah. northampton just so i know, julie says , why not let it know, julie says, why not let it be used for our own people needing a respite between hospital home? it will help with nhs and we'll be able to help our own . the government our own. the government has already help out already said they will help out with those needing with funds for those needing help. shouldn't to help. it shouldn't to the migrants as views alliance says. i live newquay and we have a hotel full of migrants on the sea from which i totally disagree with. we've not only got homeless here in my town, but families that have no of their own because is no their own because there is no affordable. why are the local councils not meeting the needs of locals first? now i to just pick up on something you've said because i completely get what you're saying but all too often and there's been cases like this up and down the country the home office will they think wording office will