i'm susan millhouse, here as a san francisco resident and i'm here to support maintaining the $20 million allocated for the repair and restoration for the old mint. we've had speakers talking about restoring the mint because of its historical significance. i would like to say that i would like to restore it for the activation that it can provide not only to the mint plaza, which is next door, but the surrounding neighborhood and greater san francisco city as well. supervisor kim's amendment to reduce $5 million severely jeopardizes the plans and reactivate the historic, beautiful building. to restate and keep it short -- i'm here to support keeping the $20 million currently allocated under the central soma plan and even to increase it. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm aaron highland, 26-year resident of the castro as well as the vice president of historic preservation commission. president wolfram spoke for the commission, but i thought it was important to give background on why we thought it was important to in crease the funding from $20 million to $50 million. t

cynthia gomez, anthony vercamp, mike buehler, andrew wolfram, cindy heightsman, jonathan haber, and susan millhouse. >> thank you to the committee. i'm anita denz, d-e-n-z. i'm here to represent the victoria alliance of san francisco. we're the city's oldest, all-volunteer, nonprofit organization dedicated to historic preservation. founded in 1973, we protested the destruction of the paris dome and went on to see that. we've raised and awarded $400,000 in grant-worthy projects. many went to fine arts, windmills of golden gate park. when it comes to the old mint, we're fashion at about this historical landmark of the city. we've endowed it with $23,000 in grants over the years. most recently in 2014, we were able to repaint the two historic receiving rooms, cashier's room and receiving room. we had some pushback from the office of economic work force development about this because they were taken over stewardship, but we persisted and the rooms are glorious today and the city and their events contractor, nonplus ultra, has benefited greatly from these rooms. the alliance has held many meetings at th

cynthia gomez, anthony vercamp, mike buehler, andrew wolfram, cindy heightsman, jonathan haber, and susan millhouse. >> thank you to the committee. i'm anita denz, d-e-n-z. i'm here to