There is no public process as it exist tooz the ish United States of the grants. I think that is part of the challenge and why there are so many complaint in the Art Community in yeneral and also people quhoo decided to put toort their own dta and their on report to make it clear to the sate that there is a problem here and we want to be a part of to try to make it better. No one want to see anything change significantly for the arts in San Francisco regardless of a size of a institution, but no one is entitled to this money, this is public money that should go through a public process and should be equitablely distributed throughout San Francisco in order to provide the maximum use of these funds in a way that is fair. When people get left out especially when you look at the dat at that shows we are constantly underfunding minority groups and underfunding lgbt and womens group, it is cleary problem and that is what we want to do, we want to figure out a solution on how to fish and mov
Oppose today divided and im excited about the future and thankful the work aba is doing and the Arts Alliance is supportive of their work any other members of the public wish to comment on this item . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Supervisor mar i want to thank everyone for coming to speak. It is beginning of everyone coming toorkt to think about how we build in strategies for cultural equity within the arts for the city. Seattles office of art and culture is already doing it. There are many places to look from your Community Trust mpt i think we should be looking at key documents and what Fred Blackwell and tar eroamo from the San Francisco Foundation Im pleased they are vaurfbed so we can look at a broader analysis and best practices. Im interersed in long term structural changes as recommended by the arts task force a few years ago and as president breed menshzed thmpt short term budget issue is ponchtd, but the longer term building of cultural equity and social justice [ina
Core part of our mission to s to provide on going and stable support and historically we have been very hezitants to cut fund toog groups when they havent done anything wrong. Never mind the 3 of the largest 6, [inaudible] are the largest sector. [inaudible] are responsible for serving a vast majority of the audience members that go out to performing arts events and in addition theythose 3 organizations over the past 30 years have raised themselves hundreds of millions of dollars to make Capital Improvements on the [inaudible] moore mooreial and city hall which are city assets. Not only have they invested that degree of money in city assuts, but on top of that pay rent to the the sate and a share of concession sales for all those reasons we feel their funding is justified, however your point regarding the size of the grant in comparison to the others is well taken, but that is just a little of what dpoes into our thinking of maintaining those grants. Zrkss supervisor wiener thank you v
Making investment in the art to see how we can make the difference and it acknowledges and comes up with solution we should invest in the arts its a Model Program but and if those issues of inequality are addressed we should fund them more theres a lot of Art Commission and theyve been doing a fanatic job in funding the city and ab boo makes significant contributions for the arts commissions that as a result culture Economic Program so i want to thank you, again so much for letting this conversation happen. Thats correct very much thank you. Next speaker, please. 50u im kevin the scombrgd a former grand maker and whole a lot of other things im here to talk about an experience American People an individual artist for the last 12 of 11 years scrapped together my fund to make videos and other cultural event last year, i received the public funding the culture Equality Fund and in the amount of 10,000 this grant completely changed how i viewed my progress and allowed me to get to now heigh
More theres a lot of Art Commission and theyve been doing a fanatic job in funding the city and ab boo makes significant contributions for the arts commissions that as a result culture Economic Program so i want to thank you, again so much for letting this conversation happen. Thats correct very much thank you. Next speaker, please. 50u im kevin the scombrgd a former grand maker and whole a lot of other things im here to talk about an experience American People an individual artist for the last 12 of 11 years scrapped together my fund to make videos and other cultural event last year, i received the public funding the culture Equality Fund and in the amount of 10,000 this grant completely changed how i viewed my progress and allowed me to get to now heights this program has been in existence within the recommendation of alba the Arts Coalition incision an increase of one thousand dollars that allows meaningful and thought fund for the artist you here are hear from a lot of small and La