Will be absent today. Directors announcements . Good afternoon. I would like to mention the Mission Moratorium which of course did not move forward yesterday. What i wanted to let you know is that we are continuing and will continue and i made this commitment on behalf of the department that we will continue to do our work in the mission 2020 plan which we have been working for some time with a series of neighborhood groups to work towards stabilizing the demographics of that neighborhood while the neighborhood is growing. Its something that we have committed to and the mayor has committed to and committed the staff over the next year to make that plan a reality. Its a Land Use Plan and not a zoning plan per say but a plan that tries to stabilize the mission through tenant, counseling, eviction control, acquisition of sites for Affordable Housing, acquisition for existing buildings for rent control buildings to maintain existing house. So it is kind of a new ground for us in many ways but we are working directly with the neighborhood organizations to make it happen and for your benefit and the benefit of the public, i want to recap, in spite of moratorium that well continue with that work. The second thing is that tim reminds me that you will probably be interested in major piece of work we are doing out of Affordable Housing which is the Affordable Housing bonus program. The mayor and supervisor tang introduced legislation at the end of september which is a program to both no. 1 to reflect the requirement understate law that we have to allow for provisional density if they provide Affordable Housing on site even though that law has been in the book in the 70s and there was a recent court case that pushed us in that direction as well and secondly it provides additional interview for middle income for development that provides up to 30 onsite affordable and middle income housing. That program is moving forward. There is a third hearing informational hearing and it goes back to the Planning Commission for tentative action and to the board as well. Weve also made an offer to all the supervisors that we would go out to their districts to make further presentations on this as well. Well be happy to come here if you are interested in hearing in that program. It has the potential of 5,000 units across the city. A very Exciting Program that we are really optimistic about and we hope it gets to the board during the next quarter next year. Commissioner johnck . I would really appreciate a presentation. If there is nothing further commissioners we can move to item 2. Review of past events at the Planning Commission commission, staff report announcements. No formal announcement as far as the Planning Commission but a number of items to make you aware of from last week. One is you probably know that prop j passed which is a fund to provide Financial Support to legacy businesses and there is a role for the Historic Preservation commission in that ordinance. We are working with supervisor campos office and we will have an overview of the program before you shortly so we can start figuring out how that program is going to operate most importantly here at the commission and as you know there is some overlap with the legacy business registry that is being managed currently by the office of Small Business to have a better understanding of how people would apply and how they would become eligible and what sort of criteria this commission would like to use in providing recommendations to the board of supervisors as far as which businesses are eligible for the use of the funds and that item will be a budget line item and the amount of the pool will likely change from year to year, but there is Additional Information that well have supervisor campos to present at the next hearing. The staff had an annual retreat at the swedish american hall. Thats to the swedes and Enrique Landa fosh providing a space to meet and talk about the preservation over the last year and the type of work weve been doing and looking forward on planning for the future and what sort of staffing issues or process related issues that we would like to improve or expand upon. We did have a really interesting presentation by a window contractor from the peninsula who talked to us about everything from very low end to very high end windows, how their manufactured, how they are installed and the pros and cons of each and that was very helpful for the staff in understanding sort of the needs of homeowners and the types of recommendations that we give based on preservation requirements under the secretary of interior standards. We talked a lot about core values and core values meaning the core values of the Preservation Team and sort of the first steps in putting together our own Mission Statement about how we want to approach preservation given the amount of development happening in the city over the last few years and that our Preservation Team has grown from only 10 years ago being handful of people around 45 to now almost 20. So there has been a lot of growing there and a lot of great policies that have come out of that team. But we were looking at how we interact with the department internally and how we interact with the preservation and how we communicate with the city s shared preservation goals. So more on that as we continue to develop and discuss the teams core values. One thing i did want to point out from the retreat that i always find helpful is sharing with the team how many permits or entitlements are received on an annual basis and what came out of that is as we know there is more permit activity but surprisingly the numbers downtown have quadrupled and just as many downtown as for the rest of the city and we have two Preservation Planners working to get through that backlog and responding to people in a meaningful way. It did show there is still a huge need for support and the teams were especially downtown. So well be working on our next years budgeting efforts to find ways to alleviate some of that backlog there. Also i wanted to mention that the board of supervisors unanimously approved the University Ladies home at the board of supervisors hearing. There is one more read at the next hearing but this legislation was an ordinance sponsored by supervisor campos and we dont see any reason why that wont move forward. That will likely be our newest individual landmark. There is additional legislation that will be sponsored by supervisor kims office. Its a filipino Cultural Heritage district in the mission district. This is a policy outlined in the west soma area plan along with an lgbt social and Cultural Heritage. Both are picked up in the central soma draft area which will be coming to you in the next year. The supervisor wants to get a head start on this particularly because there is a number of folks in the community that wanted to see some momentum behind developing a district. So we are working closely with supervisor kims office. I just wanted to make you aware of it in case you hear any murmuring about it. The Architectural Heritage is working with the board of supervisors and the community and we are working with a model that has worked in the past very well. We are looking at ways to put a little bit more teeth into that legislation, well be checking with you once its formally introduced and referred back to the department. That concludes my comments and my report. Thanks. Commissioner johns . Was that this presentation on the film . It was not. I will be happy to talk to the fellow and see if he would be willing to present before this body. Well, if you would, i think that would be a great idea particularly, not only could we have the advantage of it, but if it was as good as you indicate, then, shouldnt that be available on our website or someway so that people who are involved in this as part of their business or because they are a homeowner that wants to spruce up the place could have the advantage of in of that. I think that would be wonderful. We are working on a final script for our next Youtube Video for the Planning Department and it will be on the window replacement standards for this city. There is certainly more information we can add to that script based on this presentation we had last week. Commissioner johnck . I wanted to comment on the commission and this filipino district. There were great presentations at the theatre. There is quite significant camaraderie and collaboration among the arts in San Francisco arts, opera and theatre for holistic participation. It was quite an insight into filipino history. My street in San Francisco, they were the first people there when it was built, when the homes were built in the early 1900s or late 19th century. I havent checked to see whether its still on but i would encourage staff to look into that playwright; the author. I thought it was really inspirational. I enjoyed the opportunity and hearing from each individual person about the values and the look back and what stood out. I just got a lot out of it and learned a lot and enjoyed meeting a lot of folks who dont always appear at the commission meeting. I thought it was very well done. Thank you. Commissioners, if there is nothing further we can move on to commission matters item 3, president s reports and announcements. The only report i had was that commissioner johnck and i did attend the retreat. I thought it was very well done and enlightening. The other item i wanted to bring up is the idea of a Holiday Gathering after our hearing of the 16th of december. Its something we can think about and discuss. I wont be here for the subsequent hearing. Commissioner hyland will chair the meeting but maybe something we can start considering. Very good, commissioners. Item 4, consideration of adoption of draft minutes for Historic Preservation commission for october 21, 2015. Do i have corrections or comments. . I have one comment. It should be University Mound. And then i was wondering on page 4 or 5 of the brt. Did we draft that letter . Im not sure what 049 means . That was the comment letter. The comment letter was 049 . Thats the letter. As we issue motions, we assign them a number. So maybe it could say letter 049 was commission comments. If a member of the public is looking at this, they wont understand what that means. Sure. And then in a similar fashion for the Architectural Review Committee minutes. Is there a separate, i know the planning does often more of a detailed summary. This one just says reviewed and commented. In this case we actually commented that we felt the museum met the standards. So shouldnt it say that in the minutes . It should be issuing a letter to that as well and we can add that to the minutes. I think it would be helpful to have that. If a member of the public wants to know what happened. We can review and comment and say it was terrible. Very good, commissioners. Does any member of the public wish to comment on the draft minutes of october 21st . Seeing and hearing none, well go back to the commission to close Public Comment. Move to approve as amended. Second. Thank you, commissioners on that motion to adopt those minutes as they have been amended. Commissioner hasz, commissioner johns, commissioner johnck, commissioner wolfram. Yes. That matter takes us to item 5. I met with project sponsor in front of 15th street that is going to be aired today. Commissioner hyland . Two items that i also had communications with the Property Owner and sponsors. I did not meet with them but they will be here after this hearing. The other thing, i was at a presentation with a few of director rams staff from the pavement and parks group and they were at the prototype festival as well as what that group is doing outside of the neighborhood like at ocean and persia. I thought that presentation at least half of the presentation of whats happening in the neighborhood is a topic we can bring as to the Cultural Heritage committee. Commissioner johnck . The reason i was absent last time is because i was speaking at a presentation in havana, georgia. I was looking at proactive tools for identifying Historic Resources and archaeology and improvements around the united states. It was quite general but i did focus on the great seawall here in San Francisco and did a lot with the engineering at the port. I have highlights and will be sharing it with the working group and staff to see if it has some legs and some ideas. I talked more about the potential opportunity for looking at the seawall for historic tax credits. The pier is at the building on top and it was very well received and i was very impressed with the Historic Preservation in savannah. We are quite prolific and well done. I just wanted to bring that to the attention of the commission. Thank you, seeing no other comment, well move on. That will place us on the next regular item 6. 2015005887 des consideration to recommend to the board of supervisors the landmark designation. Are we not doing that today . We are. That is item 7. Oh, okay. I have an older calendar. Im sorry. Presenter good afternoon, commissioners. John Landers Department staff. Its to present the landmark designation of 9092 Second Street located on the northwest corner and south of market neighborhood. The building was placed on the landmark Designation Program may 12shgs 2015. Its in direct association with the 1906 earthquake and fire t disaster of the rebuilding that followed is the most significant event. The fire destroyed many city blocks and left more than the citys population homeless. The unique survivor of the fires. While the rest of the south market was reduced to ashes. Within the entire burned district it was the only building to survive without anyone inside or outside fighting to save it. With this, commissioners, i would like to ask your indulgence to share a slide show that will give you a better idea of the south of market in the hours following the earthquake. The burdette building was located in many prominent areas and loud allowed us to follow the progress of the fire on a minute by minute bases. On the morning of the quake, the fire broke out from south of market. You can see numerous fires on the south of market while the area north of market remained untouched. Right now i would like to focus on two fires in the vicinity of the burdette building on tomb a street and the chinese laundry on Howard Street near third. You can see a cluster of buildings that include the examiners building, and just to the east is the palace hotel. Also nearby on the north side of mission between new montgomery and second is the burdette building. This gives you a view of what they looked like prior to the disaster. The building is on the lower right. These buildings were exactly 1 block away from the intersection of third and mission. This is third and mission at 9 15 a. M. On the right is the air son building. Its going to be gutted after this photo was taken. This is something. Those of you looking down third street towards mission, the arrow is pointing to the building. Im going to keep that arrow in place so you can follow the progress as the fire is moving. This is just a few minutes later. Now the building is smoldering and the fire has gone closer to market and burning the Winchester Motel here and the photographer is snapshoting and you can see the building about to collapse. On the right is the base of the mccalll building and the building examiner. This is another photo taken a few minutes afterwards. The fire is now burning north into market street. A little bit closer on top to the right you might see Something Like this at this point the military is already patrolling market street. As we focus on this building here you can see photographers are actively taking photos, the wall is collapsed and we can see firefighters in place trying to stop the blaze. They found water and they have abandoned the scene and they have gone further west to help fight a fire in the vicinity of the emerald implore yum. San franciscans are beginning to realize how terrible this disaster is and going towards the outline of the city. Further west we can see the dome of the building is on fire and of course the mighty palace hotel. When the fire got into the first building the flames flew out of it and you can see the fire raging south of market. That is a Quarter Master supply dpoet depot. We are very close to the building at this point. Here is the scene prior to 3 00 p. M. On april 18th. We can see the palace hotel and again i will come back to the crossly building. The fire just left the crossly. The fire was so hot it melted the building. Adjacent to that is a small 3 story house called the wilcox house. This is done in 1895 and its in the location of the burdette building. When the earthquake struck, the wilcox house collapsed completely. There were several photographers on hand and people began to search for survivors and a lucky few people were rescued from this. Around 3 00 p. M. The flames were getting close and this is the hotel that began to burn. The palace hotel had 600,000 gallons of water in the basement and 600 gallons of tanks on the roof. But they couldnt stop the flames. Here we see the grant hotel south of market which is starting to smolder. Just a few minutes later the hotel burst into flames. Right after that time the fire reaching the burdette building and across the street is a building completely engulfed. We cant say why this burdette building survived. The manager of the saloon said he stayed longer to see this catch fire and never see it again. This is the crossly building. Again is on the same block of the burdette building. The palace hotel was gutted and would have to be demolished. And then we have an idea of the entirety of the burn district with an area pointing to the location. Thats nearly 500 city blocks and about 28,000 buildings were destroyed. But within all of those again, only one building survived without anybody defending it from inside and out. Here we can see it from a distance. This photo was taken near second and folsom street. It was remarked upon on our local press. It was amazing that it had survived. They are advertising corrugated piles of concrete. This is the place where you can actually get a meal during rebuilding. Here are some photos during the rebuilding. The burdette building in addition to its significance with the 1906 fire is also architecturally significant. There are no other buildings that survived prior to 1906. This photo was taken about 1929. This photo was taken quite recently. You can see the burdette building still retains more than sufficient integrity with the association of the 1906 earthquake and fire. On july 1st, this Commission Adopted the resolution 748 to adopt the landmark designation and there was no opposition to the designation. The department received a letter from gloria yee, of the Marital Trust from the Residuary Trust and stated her opposition to landmark and challenge on demolitions and create restrictions on how the building maybe altered. The building currently has an altered rating of four in the conservation district. As such this commission is responsible for any review of the project. Should the hc approve article 10 landmark designation, several procedures exist to determine this. It will not create a substantial change and creating the process. The building currently has an active enforcement case for interior demolition. The Department Staff recommended to the board of supervisors that designation of 9092 Second Street under the articles of the code. This concludes my presentation. Any comments . Excellent presentation. Does any member of the public wish to comment on this item . Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner pearlman . Thank you. That was a wonderful presentation. You know most of us im sure have seen hundreds and hundreds of photographs, but by putting them to together in that way to get a sense of the impending do you mean was excellent. I just want to comment on the fact that we know it was the only building that survived there, but the public would never know and im wondering, i know we are going to talk about the Plaque Program. For a building like this, its so critical because otherwise people are going to say, well, it seems like a typical ordinary building in that neighborhood, why would it be a landmark m in San Francisco. Im hoping through the Plaque Program, obviously this is jumping the gun, but through the Plaque Program, the fact have its existence i think its a very very interesting piece of San Francisco history. So, im hoping that will happen. Commissioner johnck . The enforcement order against the changes that are being made, how is that going . Whats it for . Preservation staff. Im not typically handeling the case right now. We havent had any communication from our last hearing. I will defer to mr. Frye to see if he has any additional thoughts. Tim frye, Department Staff. They did notice interior work occurring without a permit. They are gutting the ground floor, commercial spaces. That work has stopped. But i dont believe any permits have been filed to date to bring the work into compliance. But we are keeping an eye on it. Thank you. Commissioner hyland . Perhaps staff can write a letter to gloria yee that the entitlement review process would be the same as a landmark. Its in the conservation structure. Prior to both hearings, we did send a letter to the Property Owners to that matter that it was not going to be treated different than if it was a landmark today. I would like to thank you for a very well done landmark and Great Research and great reading. Thank you very much for that. Thank you very much. Its a joy as i said we dont normally have so many photos and so much information. I agree with commissioner pearlman. It has a great chance for interpretation because we have so much documentation of the fire. I would like to see that and perhaps portions of this slide will live on. Do i have a motion . I will motion to move forward this recommendation. To recommend to the board of supervisors. City clerk thank you, on that motion to adopt the recommendation to board of supervisors to adopt that landmark designation. Commissioner john, commissioner johnck, commissioner wolfram, commissioner hyland. That item passes. We are now at the next item for informational presentation. Presenter good afternoon. Department staff. Im here for a presentation for the historic program. I would like to present for the Historic Plaque Program and updates on other programs such as banners and website will be provided at a later date. Staff would like to ask staff for direction for a program and article 10 landmark buildings. The apc expressed interest in the landmark and planning code to have plaques displayed with the owners consent. And would allow the Department Staff to implement a Plaque Program and exploring funding option. This Code Amendment may take 3 6 months to complete. However the department is prepared to develop a Pilot Program to begin work as soon as possible. To be eligible to display a plaque the property must be designated as an article 10 individual landmark. The project would be volunteer and would require the Property Owner to submit an affidavit to installing the plaque. The owner would be responsible for installing the plaque according to specific instruction. If the plaque is stolen, the owner must notify the staff. Staff is responsible for verifying the status of the property, conducting a site visit and conducting the mounting location and communicating with the Property Owner. Funding for the program will come from the annual budget cycle or as a small fee added to Building Permits or entitlements by the review project. The department will report on additional Funding Options at such hearing. As previously shared, the plaque will be round with city of San FranciscoHistoric Preservation at the bottom and the name and date of designation. The city logo will be at the bottom. The department has explored the use of either a 16 or 18inch plaque. Here are photographs showing the plaque size in relationship to the building. The swedish american hall. I also have templates to help visualize. The complete actual size of the plaque. Pricing for an 18inch plaque is from 600 to 900 and 18inch bronze plaque has been recommended by the company that will work better and the material is more durable and will age better. The Outreach Program includes mailing to Property Owners to individual article landmark buildings. The mailing will encourage them to participate in the program in addition the Plaque Program details will appear on the departments website. Other outreach ideas include the plaque ceremony for the first plaque request received. Next in concurrence with the department of building inspection to determine if there is a fee. The finance team to develop a budget and identifying Funding Sources and working with the City Attorney to prepare legislation to amend the code. It may also be possible to again the Program Immediately and follow up with a Code Amendment. Staff would like to ask the commission to provide for further direction on the content and structure of the program. Im happy to answer any questions. Thank you, mr. Frye . Commissioners, tim frye Department Staff. To add a couple comments to ms. Fergusons great presentation. We did talk to our finance team and we are really excited because the pricing came out much lower than we had anticipated. So we can fully fund this Pilot Program if the Commission Finds this outline or framework that weve provided for you acceptable. So it looks like you know there was some question about who would be responsible for the plaques and the maintenance of the plaques, but it looks like while there may be a larger cost to incur at the beginning because we have almost 280 landmarks, that would slowly start to trickle down and we would likely would only see handful of these every year given the commission designates around, right now we are at about 5 landmarks a year and its a nominal cost and we have the staff to handle it. We are throwing out 25. We would certainly notify all landmarks of the program and that this is a Pilot Program and take the first 25 on a first come first served bases. Great. Commissioners, questions . Comments . Commissioner pearlman . I like the idea if there are new landmarks particularly if they are self initiated like the University Mound like the fee whatever is the 1,000 fee that its a requirement then that the plaque is part of the designation. Could that be part of the legislation . Not exactly. It would have to be a voluntary program. But the affidavit would be very clear about who is responsible for the plaque in terms of its Installation Maintenance and notifying the department if its lost, damaged or stolen. What we anticipate the legislation or the amendment to article 10 to read as is it basically allows, it puts the responsibility back on this commission and the department that we will have a viable Plaque Program. The funding of it, though and you know will come from the Department Staff, but we felt that making it mandatory especially if its being installed on private property has some implications that we would like to avoid and thats why we feel its important to make it a voluntary program. For instance on the burdette building you have an owner who was not interested in the landmark but to have requirements and restrictions to have on that agreement. This seems like a minor thing relative to the fact that, i understand that if someone wants their building to be land marked, they will probably be happy to have a plaque so this may not be an issue to it at all. It seems it should be a tighter connection especially if you are back to buildings that were land marked 30 or 40 years ago. So it maybe hard at this point to get people to do that. So, just a i dont know how other commissioners feel about that. We have a number of folks inquire with us on an annual basis about the Plaque Program. I feel the 25 will go very quickly. Commissioner johns . Several times i have mentioned programs that were discussed in san diego last year that have to do with Something Like walking tours or not really plaques, but about stories and buildings that can be triggered. For owners that are not interested in the plaque is something that can be easily solved by having a description that would otherwise go in a plaque into one of these electronic devices. Thank you. Commissioner johnck . So, the Pilot Program, you are going to send a letter to all the owners of the landmarks, the complete set. Sit going to be a first come first serve . That would be the best way to start out the program. We may also start, i have a feeling as commissioner pearlman pointed out, the first that will respond. We know the hall is very eager, the tavern, Mission High School and they ended up in stalling their own plaque but we know they would like a city plaque. Have we tested the issue of the size. How about the twin peaks tavern, its all glass. I dont know if we tested this plaque design on other potential landmarks . We havent but that will be a challenge to work with the Property Owner to figure out an area accessible by the public that also doesnt damage historic fabric. There may be different methods of installation but something well talk to the manufacture about and maybe there is a way to adhere it to the glass rather than adhering it to the masonry. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Well bring it back to the commission. I think it a great program. Im very supportive of it. Do you want us to weigh in on the size . Yes, it would be helpful. It seems there is a recommendation for the larger size for visibility. I have one comment which i think city of San FranciscoHistoric Preservation commission, the letter size is really big. My i eye goes right to that. Maybe it can be a thinner font and not quite so bold. Like if the city is this big and the commission is much bigger. Not to be humble or modest but it feels like my eyes went there first. Its more like a graphic thing. Thats my two 0. 02. I agree on the larger size. Its a great program. I support it. I just want to say as far as the first come first serve, make sure you put that in the letter. If they dont respond within 24 hours. [ laughter ]. I think its great. Okay. I think that is our final item, right . City clerk thats a wrap. This hearing is adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] hi. I am cory with San Francisco and were doing stay safe and were going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. Were here at the urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco and joined by carla, the Deputy Director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why its important to San Francisco. As you know the bay area as 63 chance of having a major earthquake and its serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in San Francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us . Part of what it means is that potentially 25 of San Franciscos building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people cant stay in their homes after an earthquake. They may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we dont want that to happen. We want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. Thats right so that means the Housing Needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former Building Official knows better than anybody the code says if an earthquake happens it wont kill you but doesnt necessarily say that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what that might mean and you know because you built this house were in now and this shows what its like to be in a place safe enough to stay. Its not going to be perfect. There maybe cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit. Whats it going to take to get the Housing Stock up to this standard . We spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are very vulnerable buildings. Very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. And time to. Retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. What do they need . Do they need information . Do they need incentives . Mandates . Thats a good question. I think it starts with information. People think that New Buildings are earthquake proof and dont understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake . Is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured . So developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in San Francisco and the houses over garages we need information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. We want the system and not just mandate everybody. Thats right. I hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. As youre fixing your knowledge youre adding to the city wide resiliency. What does that mean . Thats a great question. What spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasnt recovered the building stock. Its not a good situation. I think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. How do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95 of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. We dont lose our work force. We dont lose the people that make San Francisco so special. We keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because its so interdependent. So that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and thank you very much for joining music herb theatre,open rehearsal. Listen to the rehearsal. I think it is fun for them, they see our work process, our discussions, the decisions we make. It is good for us. We kind of behavior little bit when we have people in the audience. Msk music we are rehearsing for our most expensive tour; plus two concerts here. We are proud that the growth of the orchestra, and how it is expanded and it is being accepted. My ambition when i came on as music director here it was evident we needed absolutely excellent work. Also evident to me that i thought everyone should know that. This was my purpose. And after we opened, which was a spectacular opening concert about five weeks after that the economy completely crashed. My plan and im absolutely dogmatic about my plans were delayed slightly. I would say that in this very difficult timefor the arts and everyone, especially the arts, its phenomenal how new century has grown where many unfortunate organizations have stopped. During this period we got ourselves on National Radio presence; we started touring, releasing cds, a dvd. We continue to tour. Reputation grows and grows and grows and it has never stopped going forward. Msk music the bay area knows the orchestra. You maybe take things for granted a little bit. That is simply not the case will go on the road. The audiences go crazy. They dont see vitality like this on stage. We are capable of conveying joy when we play. Msk music any performance that we do, that a program, that will be something on the program that you havent heard before. String orchestra repertoire is pretty small. I used to be boxed into small repertoire. I kept constantly looking for new repertoire and commissioning new arrangements. If you look at the first of the program you have very early, young vibrant mendelson; fabulous opener and then you have this fabulous concerto written for us in the orchestra. Is our gift. Msk music and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. The most challenging of all. String orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section, now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. The challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. I cant tell you how aware i am of the audience. Not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. I have been doing this for a long time. I kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. There is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note. And that is our encore on tour. By the way. I am proud to play it, we are from San Francisco. We are going to play that piece no matter where we are. Good Af Commission will come to order and the secretary will call the roll. Commissioner [inaudible] commissioner chow, present. Commissioner chung, present. Commissioner [inaudible] the second item is approval the minutes of october 20, 2015 motion to approve motion for approval is fl is a second . So moved. Thats the second. Are there any corrections to the minutes of october 20 . Hearing no correctionsthere were just misspelling of words under the presenters