(applause) >>> hello, my name is samantha leo and i work for the san francisco museum of modern art. >>> good morning, andrea morgan from s.f. noma. >> we're here today to ask you to increase the fund for the arts and [speaker not understood] arts commission. artists and arts and cultural organizations, we're all struggling to keep up with the cost of living in the city ~ and we're losing what makes san francisco the vibrant cultural community that it is. s.f. noma is providing more than 1500 jobs in the bay area. when it opens in 2016, the museum will go to support 1200 jobs annually, 350 more than [speaker not understood]. in the meantime, s.f. noma is collaborating to reach hundreds of thousands of people. we're funding museums well beyond the building and collaborating with the contemporary jewish museum, the fine arts museum, the asian arts museum, yerba buena center for the arts, and museum of african diaspora and college for the arts. >>> [speaker not understood] arts education to school children that reach every public school in the city. at s.f. noma we have a partnership wi