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SFGTV Arts July 2, 2024

Could you speak into the microphone . We have quorum today, and the following staff are in attenance [indiscernible] okay. Thank you craig. There is one change to the agenda. Well take two items out of order and well call item 10 portsmouth square before item 9, Patricia Green. From the original stated agenda. I like to welcome all persons to attend in person at 1 dr. Carlton b goodlett place, room 416. This meeting is streamed on s fgovtv. This grants technology for those listance, please be mindful tech related difficulties could incur which contribute to gaps and delays. Please know we are doing our best and ask for patience. At this meeting we are bound to follow the structural of our agenda and adhere to the best practice out in the Good Government guide. At every meeting there will be a opportunity for general Public Comment where members may comment on any item pertaining to this body. Public comment is taken in person with Remote Access provided for those who require ada accommodation. Respectfully, we ask your keep Public Comment on topic. Today we will limit each Public Comment to two minutes because we have to end the meeting early. Because we have to vacate the room. Please understand the committee does not contribute dialogue towards Public Comment. Each comment will be documented for public records. I request that everyone please at this moment take a moment to turn off your cell phones. The ringing and use of cell phone pager and sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibitsed. The chair may order removal for those especially for ringing or use of cell phone pager or sound producing electronic device. Please note, that the 4th floor has a women restroom on the northeast side and men on Southeast Side and all gender at southwest side. The nearest exit is 4 floor outside the door. There are stair exits on each corner 6789 it is recommended to 3u8 the fire alarm and use the stairs. If there is a fire. Fire alarm is variable tone and strope lights flash. If strobes lights go off you must evacuate the meeting. I will turn it over to craig for Public Comment instructions. Craig, could you turn your mic on because we cant hear you . For members who wish to comment on items you will be asked to voice comment at the podium. It is recommended but not required to fill out a comment card. I will start two minutes when you speak using a visual timer. You will receive a second audible warning. When your time is up, i will say, your time is up. Participants who wish to speak on other items may listen to the next Public Comment opportunity. Anyone who speaks during the Comment Period at todays meeting can send summary of the comments to be included in the minutes if it is 150 words or less to craig. Corpora sfgo. Org. It may be rejected if exceeds the word limit. Person attending the meeting and those unable to attend may submit written comments. Comments will be made part of the record and brought to the attention of the committee. Written comments should be submitted to Arts Commission staff via emale to craig. Corpora at sfgov. Org by 5 p. M. Before the day of the meeting to insure comments are shared with commissions ahead of the meeting. Names and addresses included become part of the public record. Submittals may be made anonymously. Written comments will not read allowed during the meeting. Communications after 5 p. M. Before the date of the meeting may be delivered to sfac staff and shared with the commissioners. If you need to request reasonable accom dailgz under ada or language assistance, you must contact the Program Associate at least 48 hours advance of the meeting. Well make every effort to accommodate all requests. Commissioner beltran, please begin the meeting when you are ready. Thank you craig. I like to start the meeting by reading our land acknowledgment statement. The San Francisco Arts Commission we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as the San Francisco Arts Commission we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. As a department dedicated to promoting diverse equable [indiscernible] American Indian community. I am now calling item 2, general Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment on item 2, general Public Comment . If you like to mike Public Comment please proceed to the podium and fill out a information card. We are on item 2. Ill start your time when you begin speaking. You will see a visual timer and receive a 30 second warning before your time concludes. Anyone who would like to comment on the current agenda item . I see no request for Public Comment. Public comment is now closed. Thank you craig. I am calling agenda item 3, consent calendar. First, i like to ask if there are commissioners upon review of consent calendar who would like to withdraw or recuse themselves at this time . Okay. Since there are no recusals or withdrawls well take consent calendar items. Any discussion or comment on the consent calendar . I had a quick question. Most are the van ness publicthe art approved . That is what it is . But van ness project for the Planning Department also . Thank you. Wonderful. Okay. Thank you commissioner hakimi and commissioner schnair. Is there any Public Comment on item number 3 . Consent calendar . If you like to comment please proceed to the podium and fill out a information card. We are currently on item 3. Is there craig, we still cant hear you. I dont know why your microphone keeps turning off. Can you hear me now . Yes. Is there anyone who would like to comment on the current agenda item . I see no request for Public Comment. Public comment is now closed. Thank you craig. Do i have a motion to approve the consent calendar . Commissioner hakimi, yes. Do i have a second is . Second, commissioner schnair. All in favor say aye. Opposed, nay. All in favor . Aye. Thank you. The motion passesue unanimously. Im calling item 4, the sunnydale hope sf california bear over head peace sculpture relocation. This is discussion and possible action to approve the proposed new location for california bear over head of peace. A black granite sculpture at the former sunnydale housing project, now sunnydale hope sf. Sculpture will be relocated to the entry way to a prominent location on the corner of jackson way and sunnydale avenue as part of it had larger housing reconstruction projec. Im introducing senior registrar allison cummings. Good afternoon commissioners. I will introduce this item and we are representatives from mercy housing to talk to you more about it. So, as mentioned, this is benny bufano scupture and locatesed since 1945. The piece is not a part of the civic Art Collection, however we have a lot of benny sculptures in Valencia Gardens and Western Addition. There is question to the jurisdiction around this particular piece. There are kind of the same era and so still doing research so thought in light of the movement it is best to bring to you for approval. This is also a City Housing Authority property. We have another project that is a function of this redevelopment, which is part of hertz rec center, artwork going in there. They are all within the same area and wanted you to take a look at it and give your opinion on the relocation. At this point, im going to introduce lean ne and shell talk about the relocation and give more information. Thanks allison. Do we have the presentation up . Yes. Can you see it . Now i can. Thank you. Good afternoon commissioners. My name is [indiscernible] from mercy housing and presenting on the Sunnydale Community Center. Next, please. Firstly, the Sunnydale Community Center is part of a 50 acre Public Housing transformation that mercy and [indiscernible] are leading. Described on the screen now is our current phase. The Community Center is 30 thousand square feet, it has a boys and girls club, children service, Recording Studio and multiple amenities for the community to utilize. We are tracking completion later this year. I want to point the hertz rec center and close proximity to the Community Center, which is the l shaped building. Next, please. Showing right now is the rendering of the Community Center. We are looking at it from the sunnydale avenue street on the left and jackson way on the right. You see the corner plaza where the bufano structure will be relocated. Up north we see the hertz rec center and kaufman pool for orientation. Here is another view off jackson way. Again, showing where the boys and girls club will be situated and the plaza. Next, please. Currently we are 79 percent into construction. Here are some construction pictures of what the site looks like now. We are tracking [indiscernible] august this year and final completion in october. But some images you see on the screen is our main entrance off sunnydale avenue, the middle picture is the lobby, and our courtyard and where we are at right now. Next, please. We took Current Conditions and pictures of the sculpture in front of the admin bidings. The Construction Team is working to make adequate protection of relocation starting when we remove the sculpture to making sure it fits properly in the new location at the Community Center. Next, please. And to where it will live is a Community Center. I highlighted and put a arrow on the concrete rectangle. This is in the courtyard i describe being in the earlier slide where it will be in the corner of sunnydale avenue and jackson way. [indiscernible] next slide. And for visual, we are looking from the courtyard in relation to the Community Center and the middle picture you where the structure will be and the Community Center right next to it. On the right is an image of the sunnydale way finding signage we have all over sunnydale and we are trying to match the base finish and texture off that sign to the new concrete that the structure will be mounted to. Next slide. I want to point out that there is a plaque associated to the new location of the bufano structure. In the left image, the signage plaque will be sitting in a slanted area, the upper right corner,ing as you see there. And, in the middle picture is just a sectional image of where we are planning to have our concrete footing and how we are going to mount it structurally. Next slide. I think that is all i have. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you so much. This is a really thorough presentation and also, a fabulous opportunity. I actually am very familiar with the site as it is, before the renovation, because i used to oversee an after School Teaching program in the boys and girls center there. So, which desperately needed renovation. [laughter] it is spectacular. I wonder if you can go back to the color slide with the map of jackson way on the bottom, becauseright there. So, is the sculpture on the left corner where that person issetting on the bench . Is that where is going to be . Thanks for the question. In that plaza you see the trees on the left side, so the bufano structure is around those trees. Wonderful. That is really visible. Okay. Thank you so much for your hard work on that. Do i have questions from any of the commissioners . Yes, this is commissioner schnair. You were talking about the base is the same type of material that is being used on the wayfind that will be there. Im just trying to understand exactly what that material is. Can you go if to a little more detail about that . Yeah. Is that concrete that is just formed there, or is that wood . What is that . Yeah, great question. It is concrete and then we use like forms to create a wooden texture. Great. So, the middle picture here that shows like just a white concrete plent that the scupture sits on, it wont be that, it will be like the one to the right with the wayfinder, yes . Yes, thats correct. Okay, thanks for clarifying. Where is the sunnydale sign in sort of like situated comparedam i looking at the bottom left corner, is that where it is . With the green thing is . Okay. Got it. Thank you, i have no commissioner ferras showing me what is right in front of me. Any other questions from commissioners . This is commissioner hakimi, for educational purposes can i ask a couple questions to understand the process . Sure. You mentioned it isnt part of our collection. I missed that. It isnt pert part of the Civic Art Commission and we are doing research and it is possible it is city owned. We encounter these things when we dig in. There are questions why the ones at Valencia Gardens and in Western Addition but not this one . In the midst of the construction timeline and midst of all this we thought best to come to commission. Two other questions. Cost wise, who is responsible for the cost of removing it and placing in the new location . Lan, i think maybe you can speak to this, but is it mercy housing or San Francisco Housing Authority funding the . Right now the project is [indiscernible] not from no. The third question, the maintenance, can you go to picture of it for one second . I notice there is carving on it. Am i correct . Is that what im seeing . Yes, on the back side. Wondering if it will be touched up, cleaned up, and who will manage maintenance because it isnt our collection . Right, i believe that is function of the project. Conversation work to be done on the piece and the continue to discuss with mercy housing what the plan is for that. It has been on the site for a very long time and it isyou look online and see a lot of pictures people interacting with it. It is pretty popular, so it could use a refresh, yes. That is the question, are we responsible . No. My educational purpose. Currently no. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you so much for clarifying that allison. I actually wantedthose are Great Questions commissioner hakimi. I want to point out briefly there are multiple sculptures like this all around the city that are mystery donated. Maybe thats the best way of talking about it. I actually just got an email a couple days ago from a member of the public complaining we were not upkeeping this doorway that was over by lake merced and why were not upkeeping the door way on the golf course and i looked it up and it turns out it was donated by a lady society in 1935 and had nothing to do with the Arts Commission, which is what i wrote to her and it said, you have to find anyone from that organization is left to take care of it, but we actually cantwe dont have the resources or the legal responsibility if it is something donated with nothing to do with the city. Which i suspect this statute might have been. Any comment on item 4, sunnydale hope sf california bear over head peace sculpture relocation . If there is Public Comment, we are on item 4. Anyone who would like to comment on the current agenda item . No request for Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. Okay. Thank you craig and thank you allison and thank you leann. I am calling for a motion for this agenda item. So moved, commissioner schnair. Second. All in favor say aye. Opposed, nay. Aye. The motion passes unanimously. We are on item 5. The 2024 art on Market Street poster series. Discussion and possible action. This is discussion possible action to aproov the 10

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