supervisor kim: seeing none, the meeting is journed.

ok, seeing none, general public comment is closed and the meeting is at journed. >> tnk you. [meeting adjourned at 8:45 eastern time.] . . . . . . . . . . . >> san francisco is home to a renowned civic art collection that includes a comic works -- iconic works by local and national artists integrated into our public buildings and six basis. the arts commission has struggled to take care of the priceless collection because of limited resources. in an effort to gather more funding for the maintenance of the collection, the art commission has joined forces with the san francisco art dealers association to establish art care, a new initiative that provides a way for the public to get involved. the director of public affairs recently met with the founder and liquor -- local gallery owner to check out the first art care project. ♪ >> many san franciscans are not aware that there is a civic art collection of numbers almost 4000 works of art. preserving the collection and maintaining it is something being addressed by a new program called art care. it is a way for citizens to partici

supervisor kim: seeing none, the meeting is journed. supervisor kim: good morning and welcome to the special rules supervisor committee. we have just one event today. today i am joined by supervisor johsean elsbernd. are klerk today is linour clerk. could you please call item no. 1. >> item number one, ordinance amending the students go campaign and government section. it is capping the amount of public matching funds. i believe we have the department head for the ethics commission here to speak to us today. >> good morning, supervisors. on june 27 the supreme court issued a decision, which struck down arizona's public finance law, in particular because having reached certain thresholds public candidates get additional public funds in response to independent expenditures. the supreme court did not actually issue a ruling on whether public financing is and of itself constitutional. in san francisco -- san francisco's program is not identical to arizona. there is a similarity where independent expenditures or other canid expenditures exce

supervisor kim: seeing none, the meeting is journed. >> i want to thank everyone for coming. we aren't trying to do a lot to restore the luster of the uptown historic district. in the past couple of years we have installed the store? . we have a landmark sidewalk program that we want to institute. we also want to restore some of the historic advertising signs, which developed the neighborhood's character. in order to get this money, there is a challenge grant program. when we applied for this grant, the person in charge of the program was ultimately a cao named ed lee. so the mayor had to decide whether or not to fund this project, so i am glad that he did. we had support and additional financial support from the people that run the organization. jon dugan as well. you can see that great historic pedestrian lighting, which we only have on taylor street and a small part of golden gate. i did not know this, but when he was a cao, ed lee got those installed on taylor street. the mayor also has a plan that would restore 135 historic street lights to the tenderloin. that is an inc

ok, seeing none, general public comment is closed and the meeting is at journed. >> thank you. [meeting adjourned at 8:45 eastern time.] . . . . . . . >> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would

>> younow, i talked before about music being this never ending journ but also a never ending mystery. the bottom of it. i think the perfect music is probably silence. as musians, all we really do is you create a rather beautiful or all made frame for tt perfection which is silence. some of my favorite artists, we use silence very carefully and very artistically. miles davis forxample. knew the value of the measure of not playing. so what it didn't play washis eloquent as what he did play. i think that's a lesson i've always tried to learn. >> charlie: playwrights like harold understand how to use pauses in silence too, same thing. >> and beckett. >> charlie: and beckett. take a look at this. this is englishman in new york. here it is. ♪ >> charlie: so ar you coming back to new york more now if you've got a son in school here. >> i have a son in school mere. >> charlie: he will be grabbing more of your time. >> for the next couple years because my youngest is in school here. we've lived in the city for a long time. we had an apartment for over 25 years so i feel at home here. i am an e

the small study published in the journ diabetes care suggests that light yoga may help people with typewo diabetes lose some weight and control bleu blood sugar levels and experts say while is should not replace other vigorous forms of exercise, it should be added to the mix. those are some of the day's top medical stories. terrell brown. >>> a celebration of gay proud this weekend in oakland. that family focus was evident throughout downtown oakland yesterday. there was a kid friendly play area. and information booth about adoption services for gay couples. plus resources for gay and lesbian children. who suffer from bullying. >> we have our cutesy little bracelets so the kids can wear them to school and show their support. >> health and well-being were part of the event. volunteers of america offered free rapid testing of hiv, with results available in just 20 minutes. organizers say people are more likely to get tested at an event like this, than they are at at hospital, because they have to pay for it at the hospital. >>> well, today marks the last day in the 25th annual burningman

it hasn't yet led to any charges but there was a complaint against him by a young journ journalist who to rape her eight years ago. and the prosecutor here is looking at that complaint and trying to decide whether or not charges will be late on that. he'll probably be interviewed by the prosecutor to get his side of the story within the next few days. >> jim bitterman, thank you. >>> quarter past the hour now. katt williams is explaining himself but don't get it twisted with an apology. this is all over an anti-mexican rant at a comedy show in phoenix. he did his explaining to me. >> i love mexican-americans but i love america overall. >> some of the things williams said being called borderline hate speech. the complete interview after the break. stay with me on this cnn sunday morning. thanks to the venture card from capital one, we get double miles on every purchase, so me and my lads earned a trip to san francisco twice as fast! we get double miles every time we use our card... i'll take these two... ...no matter what we're buying. ...and all of those. and since double miles add up