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] pointing them out because should a question be posed i don't know the answer to one of them

>> i think other staff are saying mr. wong is not done >> i feel we covered a lot of this already in this conversation that just ensued. we do look forward to receiving the results of the san francisco foundation research project that is getting underway and we'll be happy to work with you on steps going forward to kaess this >> thank you so much. >> okay, supervisor yee your name is still on the roster is that left over? we'll open to public comment. hold on a second. if anyone wishes to comant please step forward. you have 2 minutes and if you would like to comment line up [inaudible] >> this guy is talking about [inaudible] >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon budget and finance and please give them grants for the arts. give it is a great brand new start. give them please a grant, for the arts [singing [. please give them grants the arts, give it straight from the art. please give them grants for the arts. please give them a great brand new start. please give them grants for the arts, give it straight from

wong. >> thank you, mr. franklin. i have two comments. one of them is when we deploy the first phase of the new bart cars, i think it may get very confusing when you have two older existing cars with two doors and the new cars with three doors. i can't really picture how people can actually navigate to figure out which door and you know even with signage, announcements, it's very hard to picture that. so, i know we brought it up at the task force the bart accessibility task force. i'm still really confused at how we are going to manage that or bart will manage that. the second one, i attended the loop, it was wonderful. you can hear everything through the head set it's just a good technology. those are my comments oovment briefly we are going to be indicating displaying on the platforms whether it's a new or old train and creating a symbol by it to be tied to the marking on the flat form. so there will be an audio, visual, a color coding tie in between the designated cars and the cars will have a symbol. it will be a green bike symbol or

wong? >> yes, just to respond to mr. grace's comment. you know, you are certainly invited to the muni advisory committee. that's how we find out other information about the future buses and the trains that is coming out too. so we can invite you to those meetings and it's held on every third thursday of the month from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at 1 south van ness avenue. i can get your information, i think i got your contact information. i can send you the information about when the next meeting is. okay? >> thank you. so we are going to item no. 13. to adjourn. thank you everyone for being here today and have a nice weekend. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> i was just driving around minding my own business... when it came out of nowhere. suddenly, there were lights all around me. i'm like "they're coming for me!" yeah, it was crazy. i just never thought they'd find me. not out here. it doesn't matter where you drive. if you don't buckle up you will get caught. cops are cracking down all across the country. click it or ticket. ♪ from coast to

wong, do you have any other clarification here? >> mr. chair, it is our department requested the department of mayors' office of housing to provide our office with a copy of all the actions previously taken by employees of the city and there were no list provided. therefore, our office requested that the department remove that language so that the board is approving the amendments without that language. it's a standard request from the clerk of the board. >> supervisor tang. >> thank you. so for example, regarding the portion that says authorizing collection of fees, to ratifying and approving any action with a note and a project, so it seems these are pretty subsequent items removing from this, do we need to remove anything else from the rest of the resolution? i understand that potentially there may be other items coming before the board related to this. >> this will be the final action before the board. >> this is the final action. okay. so i guess from the city attorney, is there anything else from this that we would need to remove? >

wong? >> yes, just to respond to mr. grace's comment. you know, you are certainly invited to the muni advisory committee. that's how we find out other information about the future buses and the trains that is coming out too. so we can invite you to those meetings and it's held on every third thursday of the month from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at 1 south van ness avenue. i can get your information, i think i got your contact information. i can send you the information about when the next meeting is. okay? >> thank you. so we are going to item no. 13. to adjourn. thank you everyone for being here today and have a nice weekend. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> watching. >> ever wonder about programs the city is working on to make san francisco the best place to live and work we bring shine won our city department and the people making them happy what happened next sf oh san francisco known for it's looks at and history and beauty this place arts has it all but it's city government is pretty unique in fact, san francisco city departments are fil

want to thank the clerk of the committee linda wong as well as members of sfgtv covering this meeting. madam clerk do we have any announcements? >> yes mr. chair. please silent all cell phones and electronic devices and speaker cards and items part the file should be submitted to the clerk and items will be on the april 28 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you madam clerk. so colleagues today we have two hearings and the first is by supervisor mar and we will ask him to do that. madam clerk can you call number one. >> item 1 is a establishing a permanent annualized non-profit cost-of-doing business increase and having the office of the controller to report. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you mr. chairman. i made a commitment to move through the first hearing as quickly as possible. i know we have a controller's report and lots of speakers from the city so colleagues last year we passed a resolution at the board to prioritize approval of a submittal appropriation for non-profit organizations up to the amount of $3.4 million during the fiscal year 2014-15 to fund a very small cost-of-doing business alidation for c