after last night's event that was held by brooke jenkins, artist attorney or state comptroller malia cohen and our district ten supervisor sherman walton with mayor lurie present as well. and just wanted to wish everyone a glorious time that we've had celebrating our communities in their full diversity here in san francisco and look forward to our meeting today. thank you, president item five is the general public comments before we begin i'd like to note this portion of the agenda is not intended for debate or discussion with the commissioner or staff. please simply state your business for the matter you wish the commission or staff to be aware of. it is not appropriate for commissioners to engage in a debate or respondent issue is not properly set in a publicly notice meeting agenda. if you have questions or would like to bring a matter to the commission's attention please send your communication via email to us f h a public comment at s.f. dawg. >> with that being said i'll start with the written speaker cards and we have maxine jones first i'd like to come up and you'll have two minute

california state controller malia cohen and district attorney brooke jenkins. >> this year's theme focused on honoring african-american labor contributions. on february 27th i attended the opening of a de new exhibition paul mccartney photographs 1963 to 64 eyes of the storm or 2025 annual convening took place on thursday, february 20th in the herbst theater. we were honored to welcome over 200 arts community members to our first in-person convening since 2019. i was joined by mayor daniel lurie, commission president chuck collins and sfa deputy directors and program directors to present an overview of the agency's work over the past few years and shared a preview of what's in store for them for the year. what's in store for the year ahead? >> excuse me. the evening featured a reading and spoken word performance by author london pink me and we honored our recent artistic legacy grant awardees were dessa jones, la portia nostra, guillermo gomez penya for 2023 and theater of union yuriko doi 2022 and recognize past awardees and blumenthal abdi skywatchers 2021 and joanna haygood from zach ko