as well >> supervisor yee any other comments >> wonder if there are questions for [inaudible] or mrs. nagle i see none. cary shulman coulden be here, but from grants from the art is con wong >> as mr. wong is being set up i know our city attorney probably has advice for us about hotel tax fund resources and how the city allocates those resources and i'm wondering if mr. [inaudible] could give a comment about that >> sure. [inaudible] the office advised the board a cual years ago about various law suits involving the hotel tax. the specific answer for arts funding is the hotel tax isn't specifically allocated for arts funding. that funding comes from the general fund and as howard mentioned the amount of the fundsing is a discretionary decision for the board and mayor. it is based on a large number of factors including the amount of revenue coming into the general fund >> thank you mr. wong >> thank you for having me. good afternoon supervisors and chairman. my name is con wong and senior program manager for grants the arts. i would like to acknowledge a few of my colleagues here. [inaudible

the board may wish to request [inaudible] evaluate to specific times in the future >> thank you mr. nagle. are there any questions colleagues? supervisor yee >> the table that looks at the overlap between the 2 funding sources, you said 35-48 percent dependent on which you would have both >> correct >> i don't know if you were able to do a deeper analysis of those particular ones that had both, what percentage were-would they fit into had cal t categories? >> i think what this is showing or what is not maybe clear is the cultural equity grants a lot of times there are specific categories of funds and men a are received for racial minority groups. the point of this is that the cultural equity grantees are racial minorities or other underrepresented groups and so they are also receiving grants for the arts funds >> so the majority would be sort of mixed ethnic group >> the cultural equity grants, those criteria are part of their mission for many different sources of funds >> i look at the numbers in terms of total amount was 13 million or something 2 years back >> it was 11-last year was 11

. >> good afternoon, mr. nagl you have been critical of the bush administration and to a lesser extent the obama administration. one of the largest criticisms that u.s. policy has gotten we have supportses throughout the middle east dictators for the sake of temporary security but that sort of fostered the rise of political islam and radical islam. given what -- say the failure of the arab spring and just about every country except few near -- tunisia, what do you recommend going forward for the united states in terms of policy and do we support the rise of democracy and who they might elect or go for temporary security and go with the devil you know? >> super complicated. there's no one answer -- there's no one fits all as answer there so were democracy to emerge in saudi arabia, hang on to your hats right and the most radical islamic country population in the world the number one funder of al qaeda, the source of 15 of the 19 september 11th september 11th hijackers and they've gotten more radicalized since them.