Were looking at removing barriers for oguests and proud o be part of mayor breeds museum for all. We offer 3 to all ebt and wic card holders and extend that to medical recipients as well but well take it one step further. The program will be offered year round not just this summer. And we recognize were a major transaction and employer to the city especially on the west side. Over 60 of our employees live in the city and represent our citys diverse population. To encourage our staff to walk the walk on sustainability, we do provide additional pay and Vacation Days for those who choose sustainable commuting option. Because of that, 29 of our staff take public transit, 25 walk. We also offer discounted emission for those who get to the academy via sustainable transit. This week our latest exhibit is opening. Its going to help guests see how the complex organ forms a living interface between organisms and their environment. We also thought it was important to use the exhibit to explore the way humans explored skin color and how it shapes the modern world. Let us know if youd like to join us. Through all the support together were make difference in the world and we thank you for your support. Ill open it up to questions. Supervisor thank you. Any comments or questions from colleagues . Seeing none, i want to say that the academy of sciences is a constituent in my neighborhood and proud to have them because they add so much to San Francisco and my neighborhood. Many work at the academy. Have you no change in ftes and i think were okay. Thank you for your presentation. Thank you very much. Now id like to call the Fine Art Museum. I think we have tom campbell. The hes the new director and chief executive officer. It includes the deyoung and legion of honor. I believe you have a big anniversary next year. 125th anniversary. Fabulous. Thank you chair fewer and supervisors. Im tom campbell director and ceo of the Fine Art Museums. Im delighted to present to the committee on behalf of the museums for the first time following my appointment last october. I look forward to getting to know you all and working with each of you particularly in considering ways to make the museums accessible and relevant to all san franciscans and want to acknowledge the work of the offices in developing this proposal. As you know the Fine Art Museum are deyoung and legion of honor and it folks on meeting the needs of all audiences to the present of special exhibitions, displays of the permanent collections, educational and programs and events all in a fiscally responsible way and within the two cher kirb cherished museum at golden gate and lincoln. A key measure of impact is the visitors well welcome. Well exceed 1. 5 million visitors and ill comment of the 1. 5 million over 400,000 had free access. Well provide free k12 School Visits and programs and family programs, many of which are free using many san franciscan youths and in total well serve over 200,000 people. This slide presents the general fund portion of the Fine Art Museums. The proposed budget for fiscal year 20 is 18. 1 million a 2 decline from the current year. 70 of the budget represents personal costs including all security and building, engineering staff as well as limited number of program and support services staff. After contract mandated increases for the staff as well as expected increases in utilities and insurance costs, the result of the overall 2 decline to the budget is a reflection of reduction of the Capital Expenditures budget by 1 1. 4 million represent a reduction to Capital Project funding. Theres no new ftes or changes in the scope in the fund. Capital projects include five. Two to repair the exterior of lesion of honor and removing damage to the copper panels. [stand by] coming year, we have a rich program ranging from old master shows like a big exhibition of the 19th century french artist who portrayed the final years of the late 19th century in london and paris, to one of the first shows i brought in, art in the age of black power, which addresses just addresses africanamerican artists. And another Major Initiative that we have launched recently, is free saturdays aiming to connect museums more closely with the city, and we are offering residents of San Francisco free admission. We are also focusing hard on the 125th anniversary coming up, and we have a Strategic Planning exercise that we are working on where we are working very closely looking at our infrastructure business and data for the public, and we are looking closely at the storage areas in which our collections are housed in the south of the city. Finally, a brief slide that shows the many ranges of accessibility we have, both for residents of San Francisco, students, and for people with disabilities. We are working very hard to make museums accessible and open to all. Thank you. Any questions at all for mr. Campbell . Go ahead. Thank you for your presentation. Thank you for the good work you do for San Francisco. I appreciate that you are going to be targeting, trying to reach out to more children to participate in the education program. I am just wondering, what is the program in terms of the education component . Are the kids coming to the museums, or are you going to the schools . We have a variety of programs most of the programs are currently on site, receiving ass , and we have Something Like 40,000 schoolkids visiting, but we also have a Young Ambassador program to be out in the streets of the city over the summer, handing out 700 passes to children, encouraging them to bring their families to museums. We hand out Something Like 40,000 passes in the course of the year, but we have a very active program for k. Through 12 and when you have ambassadors handing out these passes, where are they targeting . What area of the city . I dont have the exact numbers, but my understanding is they are going through this city , and i should say, but with our free saturdays, our plan is to work with the different supervisors and the districts so that with each month of the year , we are working with Different Community groups in the different districts, finding ways to reach out to low income and other families who might not think of the museums as a place for them. That is our goal, and i should say that in return, since april, when we launched the free saturday program, we havent been advertising it, but we have already had quite a considerable uptake, and we found we have a much higher demographic of low income and of minority families attending the museum through that program, and 40 of them 47 of them cite cost as having been a barrier to their previous attendance. Fantastic. The other number that i noticed, and it sort of struck me, is that your target for the number of young visitors and also the legion of honors, the target for it, i noticed that for 2019, 2020, it is actually lower then the target for this year. For instance, the number i am looking at is to the young visitors, it is just over 1 million, projected for 2018 2019, and 20192020, you are only projecting 1 million. Are you thinking that this will get less popular . I think, in the past year, we had a very popular exhibition, the monet exhibition, which we anticipated was going to drive attendance. Next year, we have a rich and varied program, but we are anticipating wont drive quite such as high attendance. Thank you for the explanation thank you. I only have one question. My question is about, i believe it is a reduction in the capital fund, and tell me a little bit about that, and why is it such a huge reduction . I mean, we see reductions all the time in the budget, but very rarely do i see a 60 reduction. Can you explain that, a little bit about that to this committee over time, we are looking at, with two large buildings, 1100 years old, and one a much more recent build, but with modern materials, with different kinds of longterm maintenance issues, we are assuming a need for an investment over time of about 2 million a year, and that i think is what we have been spending in recent years. In this year, with the constraints of the whole that the whole city is facing, it seems that we have very limited room to manoeuvre or with much of our city funding, which 70 of which goes towards staff costs and benefits, and we have also had a number of increased costs, which we have no control over, such as insurance and workers compensation. So i think the building, the capital expense was, as it were, it was for all these targets. Obviously, over time, with very key we are very keen to continue the investment in the infrastructure, most fit both physical and technological. It is very much a question of a stitch at in time rather than dealing with catastrophic failure later on. Okay. Thank you very much. I just think that these institutions also, also from now they are institutions, they how was our artwork, our citys artwork, it if we dont invest in infrastructure, we have to protect artwork because we own it. That is our investment as a city , so thank you very much for coming today and for presenting to us. Thank you. Thank you very much. If there no other questions, they keep rain much, i appreciate it. Could we now have the Asian Art Museum and the director . Good afternoon, commissioners i am delighted to return to report our museums budget. Let me bring up the first slide to show you. That is the village artist corner on larkin and fulton. This image is powerful because it shows the value that the asian museum stands for and the service that it provides to our community and our beloved city of San Francisco. We partner with local artists to bring up free programs for our neighborhoods, for people from all over the city, all over the world, and also partnering with neighborhoods in terms of maintaining the art installations such as the students from Hunters Point bayview students. This is really, it really summarizes our efforts in terms of engaging the community and providing service to the community. The asian museums and agent Museum Museums mission is to im delighted to say that there is a movement. Back in 2014, the Asian Art Museum rebranded itself. I am proud to say we are the first to claim asian for all. We want to make asian art and culture essential to everyone. This year is our 20th proposed budget. There is a total of 12. 1 million, only 100,000 higher. Our budget has more or less stayed the same. There are no new f. T. E. While the city funding mostly helps us to provide protections and safeguarding the citys collection that enables us to do the work we do, we also engage the private sectors to provide more value such as the current expansion project in our museum so that it will be a new facility of a Community Gift for our city. This is the view of the construction that is happening. The construction should be done by the end of this year to open the new facility and transform the visitors experience by next spring, sometime late april or early may, and we would love to have all of you to help us celebrate along with our citizens. The Asian Art Museum is famous for its worldclass collection. In this transformation project, we also highlight the great pieces in our collection to bring it up to speed in terms of lighting, and we really want to think this city, our Mayors Office, board of supervisors, who support us to change the lighting to l. E. D. It is better quality and longterm sustainable. Green energy is truly very, very important for us to do that. In doing so, not only the new facility, our own facility will be certified. It is very good progress. In doing so, we are also trying to make multiple stories in terms of the audience can look at these pieces and connect on their own individualized, personalized basis so that in doing so, we really try to make the asian art and culture essential for everyone. We very much demanded. [indiscernible] in this case, two exhibitions in china, that will be our gift to them. We will service cultural ambassadors. We have the reputation of our institution institution, as well as the city of San Francisco. Once again, i would like to thank our city partner support and for all of you for your support to putting your effort and energy in behind what we do, and enabling us to serve more students, more communities, and enabling us to support our reputation locally and culturally. I love to have any questions. Thank you very may. Thank you very much. Just a quick question. I see some numbers where you are planning to increase the attendance at the museum by 50 next year from 200,0002 to 300,000. What is the basis of that prediction . The basis is because half of the facility, will enable us to have more space, but really have a portfolio approach, portfolio meaning we will have larger scale submissions. They should be very publicly attractive, but we have a medium and small size submissions, so that with this expansion, not only the addition of a new facility, but it will enable us to mimi to be more holistic. It will also be more voices given to all the asian arts and culture. Thank you. Colleagues, any questions . I am just curious, when you reduce spending on Capital Equipment as you are proposing to do for the next two years, what does that mean in terms of your building and overtime, what does that mean . Do you have any concerns about doing that . Yes, i dont have concerns. I know the current budget is a good compromise that enables us to meet our needs, but also the need is always there. Our building is just past the centennial. In the last year, and the upcoming year, we will have a fusion and changing the lighting to l. E. D. Lights. That project goes away. Thats why its potential comes down. On average, we need about a Million Dollars more or less each years each year. We are really looking at the future needs such as the sprinkler system, which is 550, it is fundamental. We will work very closely with the Mayors Office on all these issues and we will address them adequately. Okay. Thank you very much. Any questions or comments . Thank you. Thank you very much. Congratulations on your new expansion. Thank you. It is beautiful. Thank you for serving san franciscans. Now, could i hear from the law library, please . I think we have the director here today. Hello, supervisors, thank you for allowing us to speak at this time. I want to introduce our assistant director, dianne rodriguez. She is fantastic. We have a small handout. Im not going to reiterate everything on the handout, but maybe talk about a few highlights. First of all, ive got the wrong sheet here, hang on a second. The law library is the only facility available for legal information for the people of San Francisco that is free, and we serve everybody. Once upon a time, many, many years ago when we were still in city hall in the seventies, we were with the court, and anecdotally probably 90 plus of the people that use the law library were actually members of the bar. The dynamics have changed over the ensuing years for a lot of reasons, a lot of which is that ordinary people are attempting to handle their own affairs for a variety of reasons, so our outreach is now different, and we are very excited about serving the members of the public that are not that familiar with the law. We do a great deal to serve the lawyers as well. Some of our key strategic goals to that end, we are an agency that facilitates the access to justice because we are providing not only the materials and free illegal databases, training, a Legal Education programs, and one of our important goals is to expand and promote Public Awareness of the library services. A lot of times, for the members of the public, they dont need us until they have a situation where they need some help legally, and then they go away, but we feel that we really are very interested in reaching out as much as possible to the community to make everyone aware we have a lot of ideas about how to do that. We have really enjoyed this year , and particularly partnering with a lot of other city departments which has been very fruitful. We are looking forward to continuing to do that. Some of the highlights from the budget is it is reduced from the current year. There is no change in f. T. E. , and one of the key things that has happened this year was our partnership with d. T. And the department of real estate, which i will talk about any minute. We are going to celebrate our 150th anniversary in 2020. We were formed in 1870, we were the first Public Law Library in california, 20 some years later, other legislation was passed to enable their be county Law Libraries in the rest of california, so were very excited about that, and i think dianne will talk about what we might do about it and a key component of our budget highlight and focus is that continuing outreach to the community. With respect to our highlights about the 2019 library achievements, one of the key projects that was completed was very complex to survey and remove some 160,000 books stored in brooks hall. They had a place there been placed there by the city when the city hall closed in 1995, but there have been no place for those materials to go until recently, and this project was, thanks to the great help of the department of real estate, and it was extremely challenging. Dianne and i spent six or seven hours a day besides our regular work, going through every single box of the boxes of books in the hall. That project is done. Now we are looking at cataloguing it. I think it is important that dianne talk a little bit about our initiative with the minute that minutes that is left. Sorry, dianne. We have some really exciting initiatives coming up for this year. Now that we have finally retrieved the materials, and brought a rare book collection, which is separate from the art storage because of our new facility, we are able to finally go forward with the process of c