jackson west. after that, we will move to public comment. >> members of the board, mr. elsbernd, mr. tim, i applied for an appointment to the sunshine ordinance taskforce last year. i am interested in seat 11 as a member of the public. i was educated in media production, i have primarily worked in technology although over the past five years as a self-employed journalist. in terms of any political background, i am politically independent, i am not a member of any party or any organization. my commitment to the issue is one of someone who has spent a lot of time in interest cruising databases including the website. sometimes in frustration. while i have not worked through the sunshine ordinance process, i have experienced filings and requests on the federal level. in terms of the time commitment. i do work as a startup in san francisco, i am flexible in terms of where i can work and otherwise for a fairer consideration as i think there would to a thorough job. >> >> we will be open now for public comment. >> i am a san francisco resident and i would like to speak on beha

. >> i would like to speak in support of jackson west. he cares a lot about open government and has the intersection of experience and technology and journalism naturally falls in the area of where the sunshine is concerned. having the connections to the committee on, people who want to see people working in city hall, i think he would do great job and we should let him. >> i am urging you to please take a [singing] good candidate for the task force and they up our city life. you give us hope for a better day and light up our night and make it better, all the way. it cannot be wrong. keep the task force strong. please line up our sunshine task force, light. >> thank you. are there any other speakers? seeing 9, public comment is closed. i see at least two of our sunshine task force. i would like to think of the applicants who applied for these seats. it is great to see there is such been an interest in transparency and the open government processes. it is good to see some and citizens who are interested in serving on our task force. we wou

interested in abstraction and was engaged in dialogue with the guggenheim about bringing the jackson pollack showed to the west coast. the original price for the painting, $750. are directors thought that was too much of a stretch before the board of trustees, so she convinced them to reduce the price to firefighter dollars. it was just -- to $500. it was what was needed to persuade the board. it is a very subjective history of art. it has been very much shaped by the individuals involved with the museum over the years. in 1935, would start with the gallery with works that came in through albert bender, one of our founding trusties. when we opened our doors in 1935, 181 of the 186 pieces in our permanent collection had been gifted. >> what are the names that pop out as the museum evolved? >> we have another gallery that looks at the theories that the museum has since the late 1980's. we focus on a particular aspect of that program that developed under one of art curators. he arrived in 1989 and was especially interested in artists. >> are some of the highlights? >> one of the aspects of the museum program that

moved from a very small facility at 110 north franklin to a much, much larger building at 444 west jackson. when i came back, there were, not only were there the agricultural markets, but there was a gold futures contract that was doing enormous volume, there were, i think, fife currency contracts -- five currency contracts that were each doing very well, and within the first year that e had come back, they has introduced a treasury bills contract which was kind of the precursor for the euro dollar contract that came along in 1982. >> so who were some of the big traders and personalities on the floor when you came back? >> well, when i came back there were, i think, you know, there were some certainly big traders. i think, you know, the cattle market was, certainly, being dominated by refco and tom kiter kit -- dittmer. i remember the rumors would go across the floor, dittmer's buying cattle, and people would try to coat tail him. there were, remember in the hogs and bellies, joel greenberg was a real big player as well, and i remember joel greenberg actually moved into the treasury bill p

i speak of my grandmother, olive jackson, who came from jamaica, west indies, and with her husband albert went to panama and helped build in the teeming woods and forests of that era, fighting against malaria and mosquitoes and diseases and were part of building the panama canal. how my family -- grandmother kept the family together and gave birth to her first son an survived to be able to make it here to the united states and had children born in south carolina and made their way up and finally got to brooklyn, new york, and a part of the history of this country. she kept the family together. let me just call a roll if you don't mind, of some of the women from texas, please note there are many others, like mrs. johnson, the wife of lyndon baines johnson, who was so much involved in the beautification of texas, her daughter, lucy baynes johnson, her other daughter, linda robb johnson, and one who spoke about she would not see the constitution declined or diminished and that she believed that even though it did not include her when it started that this constitution means we the people, tha

west coast. to work with established artist. we've started careers. and we've gotten two grammies nominated and for the artist ÷oker jr. recording mix. historic jacksonhere behind the scenes and seeing behind the scenes very cool to see you in the studio there+ now, you are 18. 2bout how long have you been involved with music. >> well, my whole life pretty much ever since i was a little baby my dad would take me into this drumming room and rush like stuff like that. and he was taking my little hand ando ú&l that stuff. i kind of got me into music and i picked up guitar in like 7th grade. >> so you always knew this is what you wanted to do? >> music, exactly the thing i really know. >> how does this mentoring program come about, how did you and tyler meet and ho+did you decide this was going to be the first person to do this program? >> a very good friend of mine invited me to a special event, it was kind of abcure it was for a bently tour. and that christmas we metate letter's parents bob and gina, 2ud from there we moved on to time, we lost contact with each other and the paw layou have to come to the next event which was the rolls royce tour, that