Activist local to purchase this property which they did in this case. Ivy house was the first pub to be purchased through the community right to bid program and funding came from a variety of sources including a grant for about twothirds of the purchase value from the Architectural Heritage fund, other grants and then 371 individual shares purchased by members of the community. And this program has been particularly popular for addressing pubs to which many are tlentsdz threatened with closure. The next one is in buenos aires. This is for the restaurants program. The difference being that the program was introduced by the city. Its an official designation of the program to recognize bars, cafes, billiard halls for architecture has rendered them worthy of preservation. These businesses are eligible to receive grants for conservation project and like the window Decal Program and businesses are promoted actively by the administration of culture and Nonprofit Group to increase patron ackno
In the process. Lets make a list and do it in a rational way. In that before we go to the september 17th meeting and talk about this again we weigh out what resources are available for a project. Is there someone involved to help this move forward. We did this before and we had commissioner alumni martinez here and did this before as we figure out how to get this off the list and which have the resources on a volunteer basis from the public. Eye i would suggest we add it to the list and not add additional staff time. Would you mind if we move to september. Fine. Thank you. With that well close for these two items and if we could then, because we have a conflict. I make a motion to recuse commissioner pearlman. Second. There is a motion and a second. Commissioner hyland, yes, commissioner johnck, yes, john, yes, commissioner matsuda, pearlman, commissioner hasz, that passes 70. We heard and did not comment on the 199 carl situation. Do we have any questions for staff at this time . Seei
Out how to get this off the list and which have the resources on a volunteer basis from the public. Eye i would suggest we add it to the list and not add additional staff time. Would you mind if we move to september. Fine. Thank you. With that well close for these two items and if we could then, because we have a conflict. I make a motion to recuse commissioner pearlman. Second. There is a motion and a second. Commissioner hyland, yes, commissioner johnck, yes, john, yes, commissioner matsuda, pearlman, commissioner hasz, that passes 70. We heard and did not comment on the 199 carl situation. Do we have any questions for staff at this time . Seeing none. Public comment on 199 carl . Seeing none, well close public comment. And commissioners, i imagine well do the same, well wait for recommendation from staff. I think thats a great idea. One comment while it looks like a lovely house, in terms of the priorities established in terms of trying to find resources less recognized or in other
Viewpoint. The they first thing we want to do is hear you sing. Lets take a look at this. The gay mens chorus of washington. Beautiful. Executive director, do you sing with the chorus . I dont actually. No no. Do you sing at all . No. I play the violin though. So you are, we mentioned 250 voices strong and youve got quite a reputation in the nations capital, a very busy season. Tell us about the performance we were watching. That was the iconic alleluia song. Whats cool about it, its used in churches. It was used in shrek the movie conferences for raising awareness. It very much speaks to what we do in terms of trying to sing for all communities issues that feel like they need a voice. Youve been around. The adult chorus has been around, as we mentioned, for 34 seasons. Youve got a new chorus. Paul, you are codirector. Thats correct purchase tell us about it. We started the chorus, it came to vision last year after one of our School Visits. We have a School Visit Program thats about 10
Citys law cannot violate the higher state law. Regardless, this city is taking this legal action which will have a Significant Impact. Although, the city is also proposing to change the location of many of these stops. That is not just information collection, thats moving the desk chairs around. The courts have construed ceqa exemptions very narrowly which in the cast ak lake got leveled in an earthquake and they said we are going to do a ceqa exemption and build higher and the courts said you cant do a ceqa exemption because you are not building it the way it was. Once you go outside the narrow scope of the exemption, the exemption doesnt apply anymore. Here the city is changing the law and changing the location of the stops, transit, weve got transit engineer tom bror hard who says those changes alone will increase the number of shuttles, increase amount of traffic, increased amount of pedestrian impacts because many operators dont want to operate illegally. But they will operate onc