Us to go and sell the program to the whole city. We need jobs and a break on their energy bills and that kind of thing. You need to be able to adopt in the lower income communities such as much solar as highincome communities. So that buildout piece is important and i think we need a hearing about that either at lafco or the board. I want to chime in on public bank. That, if you look at what is happening in greece right now, it becomes really clear that the Global Private financing and Banking System is becoming so incredibly powerful that they can literally hijack a country and go against the will of over 60 of the voters in that country. Lets not forget back during when gerry ford was president and president ford basically said, sorry, so we need to be able to protect ourselves in the case that the global banks become even more powerful and even start trying to leverage San Francisco. We need to figure out a way to have a public bank available, so we can avoid the kind of thing that
Your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item reaches the medium. You can speak up to 3 minutes. I have no speakers cards. Does any member of the public wish to speak, please come forward. You have three minutes. 3 minutes. This is general Public Comment on nonagenda items. Seeing none, we will close general Public Comment. City clerk this brings us to item no. One. Department matters. Tim frye, the directors report is included in your packet. Im available for questions. Seeing none, item 2. Review of past events and Planning Commission staff report and announcements. Tim frye again. Department staff. One item to share with you. In the audience today are members of the department of the internship summer program. I want to on your behalf and our behalf welcome them. They are part of a 12week program that began june 1st and until august 21st. 15 are in college, nine in high school. Its quite a competitive program. There were 460 applicants this year. We were
Item 1 hearing hearing to consider the release of reserved funds, Arts Commission to build out the secure basement Storage Space and related location costs for the citys civic Art Collection. Great. We have tom mckinney here. Good morning supervisors. As you know it will move to the Veterans Building in september of this year and our request is for the release of reserve funds for 50,000 to complete the move of the Art Collection to the war memorial. We are glad that the Capitol Planning Committee has allocated a historic amount for the Art Collection and afford us to the opportunity to properly store the citys civic Art Collection and by many artists. This is where the documentation for the civic Art Collection is stored as well as any works that are coming through for conservation and care so i have our senior registrar here alice coming to answer questions and we appreciate youre considering this item. Thank you. Mr. Rose can we go to the report on item 1. Yes mr. Chairman and membe