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[gavel] good afternoon everybody welcome to our budget and finance committee for friday, june 24, 2016. My name is mark farrell im chairing this brief committee joined by supervisor katie tang and norman yee and scott weiner i want to thank our clerk of the committee that your young as well as the jackson from sfgov tv per covering todays media mr. Card any announcements . Please sounds all cell phones and electronic devices. Thank you mr. Card. With that please call items number one and two ite...

Estimated expenditures for the departments of the city county of san fern as of may 31, 2016 and for fys ending in june 30, 2016 and june 30, 18. And item number 3, proposed annual salary ordinances enumerating positions speaker colleagues were in budget discussions. So we will go into recess. And we will yeah, well reconvene at 1 30. All right. Thanks, okay, welcome back to recess for our budget and finance meeting for the San Francisco board of supervisors for thursday, june 23, 2016. Its 2you...

The western slope but we are dry across the front range and eastern plains. A few showers several through to the west this morning. Mesa county all the way towards the nuclear area. A light rain to get us going and temperatures will get to the low 80s once again today and we will have a lot of sunshine in denver. We will talk about the rest of the state in the moment in a moment. Watching cones out there this morning. We have been watching on 285 is they do work at c4 70. No flashing lights, tha...

Smithsonian museums, including the inkwell used by president lincoln to sign the emancipation proclamation. This is just under one hour. The committee will come to order. David skorton, i would like to welcome you to todays hearing. I appreciate you joining us this morning to share your vision for the future of the smithsonian and to discuss your Budget Priorities for the fiscal year 2017. The members and staff are also grateful you brought some interesting historical items for show and tell. It...

History of the smithsonian. At one time it was included by the national trust, one of the most endangered Historic Sites me United States. It was closed in 2004 for renovation, and it was spring, almost 10 years later that they mentioned they would use it for shortterm exhibits. Could you update the committee on how you see the arts and industry buildings on your campus. The current condition of the building, and when will you finally be able to host events . Is the challenge still adequate plum...

The construction is now nearly complete. Construction of the African American museum and the proposed repairs to the national air and space museum are illustrative of the very real challenges the subcommittee faces. Both increasing demand for and shrinking supply of federal dollars to address many legitimate priorities. For this reason, it is essential that the smithsonian outlined and clearly communicate its highest and greatest priorities. Every member of the subcommittee would like to support...

Office Will Champion and were working on several the recommendations in the report including increasing fees for you Community Facilities and the identification for city owned buildings and Affordable Housing developments and drafting the midmarket special use district which will hopefully come to the board shortly ill, calling for a hearing in september and after the city departments are looked at long term recommendations in the first round of the applications to be funded. We side have a pres...

For local activity that brings tourist and our nonprofits the Great Services that show San Francisco to be the camp pact city it really is that. In, you know, ill let the tom and bryan chiu make their presentation i want to make a designation between the source of funding for the nonprofit the nonprofit part of the supplemental that was driven around nexus for tax revenue were doing it for the need is high and the artists side i talked talked to artists in larger organizations, you know, over es...

The Bauhaus School was founded in one thousand nine hundred nineteen and next year will markets first centennial what better time to retrace its footsteps through berlin how did the bauhaus quite possibly historys most influential Modernist School shaped germanys capital. Bauhaus and what was that like and whats still remains thats what i want to find out today through arts architecture and chocolate. Also on the show a locals recommendations for cork and ireland. Our viewer video will take us o...

I know it says of peace at the heart of the capital im in berlin visiting the bauhaus. One reason why its so quiet right now is that the museum is closed for renovation. The Bauhaus School was founded in one thousand nine hundred nineteen and next year will markets first centennial what better time to retrace its footsteps through berlin how did the bauhaus quite possibly historys most influential Modernist School shaped germanys capital. Bauhaus and what was that like and what still remains tha...