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Any child in this country can go to school and not be bullied. When i was going to school they used to hit me in the back of the hid. They said i was gay. The kids who smoked cigarettes who are not living no more now. That goes to show education changes, [inaudible] future because American Kids are special. I think American Kids should be the most diverse in the world. And i think what youre doing here today is making sure that these kids have a diverse future. You know, i love all these points of knowledge of skills to graduate profile, Development Students to compete, drive and 21st century. Im crazy over four, five, six, three, two and one. Im glad to be here. Harvey milk has given us hope. The greatest love of all is for the children to be themselves and not have hate. Thank you. Thank you mr. Edmond. Good afternoon supervisors and board members. My name is michelle and i serve as the vice chair of the youth commission. When i first heard of 2025 and it had so many different topics which sparked so many different discussion points and i fell in love with it. I want to applaud the staff which put it all together which i know was a lot of effort. I want to encourage future curriculum planning to be processed in the same way where it invites not only San Francisco Unified School District staff members, but also students and service providers. I really hope in the future outreach towards the students can be increased because i want to see more students voice their own experience and needs by themselves since at tends of the day, no one can represent us better than we can represent ourselves. I look forwards to seeing all the funding implemented in the future. The current style of teaching is not the best for all, but it shouldnt be completely erased either. I hope in the future we can have better ways to identify different styles of learning and follow up to support them properly. When a student feels comfortable in a classroom that is when they can thrive and explore their capabilities and creativity. Thank you for your time. Thank you commissioner. Is there any other Public Comment at this time . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Any final comments or discussion . Blrt, i just want to thank members of the committee for their time today and of course our School District. Really good discussion on both items. I want to recognize our clerk, and also sfgov tv for recording our meetings and making them available to the public. Any other items . Is there recommendation to this item . Right. Should we take a motion to file . And we have a motion to file. We can do that without opposition. Finally i just wanted to say that because of the complexity of the budget season schedule we will be cancelling this meeting for the month of june as we have two members of the Budget Committee on our select committee. And i know in july the School District is off at recess in august the board of supervisors is off on recess, so our next meeting will be in september but i look forward to seeing you all then. With no further items or announcements, meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Welcome to the San Francisco local Agency Formation commission. My name is john avalos the chair of the commission. Joined to my right by commissioner london breed and to my left eric mar. The clerk of the committee is alyssa miller. Thank you for your work and broadcast by sfgtv staff. Thank you for your work. I would like to make a motion to excuse commissioner campos who couldnt make it here today. Do we have a motion . Okay. We will take that without objection. Madam clerk can you call the next item. Item two is approval of the lafco minutes from the date regular meeting. Colleagues you have reviewed the minutes. Any questions . I see know none. We will go to members of the public. There are no members here and we will close Public Comment. I move approval. Moved and seconded without objection. Item three. Item three is the Community Choice aggregation activities report. A status of update on cleanpower sf program. B status update on proceedings on California Public utilities commission. C status update on the state legislature proceedings. E update on the request for proposals to provide build our plaj for cleanpower sf and e status update on the board of supervisors proposed ordinance for Community Choice aggregation joining supervisor mar. As far as to go down the issues here we have worked on the study from the study approved from the last meeting. Today we received the draft from the first task. There are multiple tasks involved. I forwarded that to each of your offices so its in your emails and if you need hard copies let me know. The first part of the first task given that we no longer have a shell agreement or contract if we take procurement and all of the other activities shell would be doing on behalf of the city what would it look like as far as staffing needs and costs . How would this play into a knowledge discussion that is going on at the board of supervisors around the power enterprise budget and this is the initial draft and more work to be done. Were literally talking about a week or week and a half to work on this and it gifses a high level synopsis and you have million to 1. 1 million that could be available to the power enterprise to pay for cleanpower sf. They would pay them. It doesnt solve their entire budget deficit and i dont think we would do that with the Clean Power Program but it solves part of that program so thats good news from that front if we had a cca program they have another option to utilize that. What was the response of the Utility Commission when you mentioned that . We just got it this morning and i havent talked with them and unfortunately their staff hasnt arrived on. State legislation. There were two bills we were monitoring and tracking. One is that was introduced by assembly man tom amiano to give San Francisco a choice in how it does its energy cca programs. Unfortunately that bill died in the local government committee. They had some concerns about t the forces on the other side that didnt want to see it said it violated the city charter but we said it didnt but the bill did not move forward. The other bill were monitoring is the brad ford bill 2145 which would change cca programs it and the bill would get through the committee. Its now sitting at Appropriations Committee where it will get a hearing next week. Should it go from there to the Assembly Floor and pass that to the senate side so were monitoring that. I believe ms. Miller on behalf of chair avalos and sent that and i will keep you uptodate as the legislature moves forward on the process and on the final one i will talk about here on the list is the as the three of you know since youre on Budget Committee and approved by the board unanimously this tuesday was theyre looking at how do we potentially join marin as an option to our program. One of the things talking with marin as going through the process we are a new way of doing things we are a much larger than they looked at before. We would dwarf them if we did it at one time and their program so they have more considerations to do than like richmond did or napa was just approved to move this forward so we have to deal with that, so what they have asked for if we can approve a 5,000 not to exceed rate they can start looking with the consultants and what would be the cost with the bigger study . If you give us a want to exceed rate but they would go so high it right scare people off so we wanted them to look at and pay for that part of the study and what would it take to join them . They said 5,000 is more than enough to do that so there is a resolution in the packet that would authorize that. I would say we would only moving forward it gets through the second Board Hearing because the ordinance going through the board of supervisors process had the First Reading and approved unanimously. I am guessing its going to have a second one but not to delay and wait until june were coming to you for the 5,000. And how long would that work take i would say its a about a month or two to come back and there is the full price for what we need to do lafco and the board of supervisors could have that discussion whether or not that made sense to move forward at this point. And at this point we will by resolution pass allowance of funds to go, allocation . Yes. Assuming it was done through lafco. It could be paid for by other means and manners but if lafco did that through the cca fund we would come back with approval for a not to exceed for that process as well. And do we get any indication of what the study could potentially cost . We know what it cost for richmond and for napa which just had their study done. Theirs was in the 40,000 to 40,000 range and don was up front and closer to the higher number and there is something they want to do a study because of San Francisco politics and what it would meep to their program and do broad base research to what it would look like a program and the appetite for their customers to join and they dont want to scare off their customers and San Francisco is going to take us over type of thing and also the appetite for joining a marin Style Program and i dont know the cost of that would be. What do you see as the work, the research that the city and county of San Francisco have done so far that might help them and theyre going to have access to that information . I told them they would have access to the information. On the Market Research side their concern it was a couple years old and none of our Research Incorporated commercial customers which theyre interested in having and not incorporate anyone outside of San Francisco and is a concern for them and whether to join up so they would have to do brandnew Market Research on their own. On the study side we have information and i hope that keeps the cost down on that side. What is the size of the Customer Base now. The size is about 130,000 although i havent checked in for a while to determine the current numbers are but i want to say around 130. All right. Thanks. Colleagues, any other comments, questions for the executive officer. Okay. We can go onto Public Comment and its open and seeing no one come forward we will close Public Comment and this is an information item or action item. We have a resolution with the packet with the 5,000. Yes, theres the not to exceed 5,000 and the only action item needed today. Okay. I will entertain motions whether to move forward. Okay. Motion by commissioner breed and second by commissioner mar and we will extend this for the study and we will take that without objection. [gavel] okay. Next item please. Item four consideration and approval of the final lafco budget for fiscal year 2014 2015. Jason fried lafco staff again. As i mentioned to you i presented the first draft budget at last meeting. This is the second required hearing. There is however a difference from last month to this month in the budget. If you look at your packets you will see there say re is a reduction in the budget. That was as the city and county of San Francisco was going through their process and changes to staffing and how lafco can interact with staff i noticed an interesting difference between what we say our budget was and what they were saying and i did research and worked with the clerk and by state mandate the minimum amount that we can request be ag indicated to us and its 300,000 so you will see the budget reflect the lower amount. Once again we do have enough in reserve to pay for one year of our budget but after year we will be below that budget and next fiscal year we will be below that amount. Were at 300,000 now in the reserve act so we can go one more year if we want to return the money and i will suggest that at a future lafco meeting once i review other lafcos and what is a good amount to have . We were up at a Million Dollars and we have spent it down and we should have a policy in place and most lafcos do and we should stay within the budget and be fine and the choice is up to you to return that back to the city and county for a year but let them know were reserving our rights to the full amount in the future. What are we spending a year . I went back the last years from what i consider our general fund, not the citys fund but lafcos account. We tend to spend 100,000 or 125,000 a year and most goes to the Clerks Office for clerking the meeting but also the back office, hr, it, copiers and that goes to them and the bulk of the money and the rest is paying for miss millers time to do non cca work which i will now take over so we should be okay if we follow the patterns. If there is a interest to do things not cca related we would need to have a discussion but we can have that discussion as time moves on. Okay. I am just reviewing the chart here that you provided with the budget. It seems like the biggest changes to the budget are service of other departments where there is a 25,000 reduction. Looks like that is almost wiebed out. It was 28,000 to begin with and we will have 3,000 left. 15,000 from lafco staff and legal and consultant services. Thats the next big ticket item and proportion to the largest allocation we have for this fund. Everything else seems shaved off. Do you see any challenges in place while the 44,000 that is being removed from our budget . As long as we stay fiscally prudent, no. One thing i should mention some of the numbers are shaved down because theyre not to exceed rates and talking with the Clerks Office i asked what have we spent in the categories over the last years and all of the numbers even if we continue to spend at current pattern with inflation we would stay within that amount. At one time we brought for other stuff and now its brought in house to the Clerks Office and we dont pay others but just the Clerks Office and wrapped into the services we pay them so thats why that number dropped dramatically and we havent come close to that amount in the last years. I am concerned about the reserve of other lafcos around the state if you could do work and understand what the reserves typically are or a range from. That would be good to see. Also this budget if we were to approve a budget of this size we basically and we fund cca work but we dont have other work that will be budgeted or this budget would allow us to do other non cca related work including research or researching other issues, possible municipal w fior banking. Could you respond to that. Yeah. If you take the assumption we will continue with the pattern of returning the money we would have 300,000 less in the act so we spend 100,000 to 125,000 and make it easy and make it 150 that would leave 150,000 in the reserves for other projects and things in the course of the year but that spends down the reserve if we spend the entire 150 but we have room to do side projects as needed if requested by this commission to do so. Great. Thank you. And so are you recommending any particular action . Well, you need to approve the budget and the question that comes in and discussion at the last meeting and i yield to the commissioners themselves to determine if we give back the money, or one of the things we could do is were reserving our right and instead of giving back all 300 only give x amount and keep some in the account and i yield depending what is going on you could do that or return the entire amount. You all serve on the Budget Committee so you know what is looks like for the upcoming year. Okay. Why dont we open this up for Public Comment. Anyone for the public like to comment please do so. Seeing none we will close Public Comment. Typically we give back the funds . That is correct and we have enough money in the reserve act for an account for an entires year budget at this point so we could do that for a year or if you want to figure out i am fine to do that for one more year. I think i want to look at the budget process if we want to reverse that in june but more time would be thats my suggestion. Okay. I am seeing ascent from commissioner mar. Do we need to make a motion on that . Yes, you need to make a motion to approve and accept the staffs recommendation if you give the money back. I move that we accept the recommendations. Second by commissioner breed and i will third that and without objection. [gavel] okay. The next item please. Item five executive directors report. Do you have Something Else to say . One last thing. Our public seats have been up for reappointment now for a couple months. The current members are in those seats until we reappoint the seats. We have at least two applications in for the seats so we will hopefully move it forward at next meeting so if you know anyone else that wants to apply i encourage them to get the application in a week before the meeting so we can review them and i will get them to you to review them long before the meeting occurs. Okay. We will open up item five the executive directors report for Public Comment and seeing no member of the public come forward and we will close Public Comment and we will go to the next item. Item six Public Comment. We have American Kids<\/a> are special. I think American Kids<\/a> should be the most diverse in the world. And i think what youre doing here today is making sure that these kids have a diverse future. You know, i love all these points of knowledge of skills to graduate profile, Development Students<\/a> to compete, drive and 21st century. Im crazy over four, five, six, three, two and one. Im glad to be here. Harvey milk has given us hope. The greatest love of all is for the children to be themselves and not have hate. Thank you. Thank you mr. Edmond. Good afternoon supervisors and board members. My name is michelle and i serve as the vice chair of the youth commission. When i first heard of 2025 and it had so many different topics which sparked so many different discussion points and i fell in love with it. I want to applaud the staff which put it all together which i know was a lot of effort. I want to encourage future curriculum planning to be processed in the same way where it invites not only San Francisco<\/a> Unified School District<\/a> staff members, but also students and service providers. I really hope in the future outreach towards the students can be increased because i want to see more students voice their own experience and needs by themselves since at tends of the day, no one can represent us better than we can represent ourselves. I look forwards to seeing all the funding implemented in the future. The current style of teaching is not the best for all, but it shouldnt be completely erased either. I hope in the future we can have better ways to identify different styles of learning and follow up to support them properly. When a student feels comfortable in a classroom that is when they can thrive and explore their capabilities and creativity. Thank you for your time. Thank you commissioner. Is there any other Public Comment<\/a> at this time . Seeing none, Public Comment<\/a> is closed. Any final comments or discussion . Blrt, i just want to thank members of the committee for their time today and of course our School District<\/a>. Really good discussion on both items. I want to recognize our clerk, and also sfgov tv for recording our meetings and making them available to the public. Any other items . Is there recommendation to this item . Right. Should we take a motion to file . And we have a motion to file. We can do that without opposition. Finally i just wanted to say that because of the complexity of the budget season schedule we will be cancelling this meeting for the month of june as we have two members of the Budget Committee<\/a> on our select committee. And i know in july the School District<\/a> is off at recess in august the board of supervisors is off on recess, so our next meeting will be in september but i look forward to seeing you all then. With no further items or announcements, meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Welcome to the San Francisco<\/a> local Agency Formation<\/a> commission. My name is john avalos the chair of the commission. Joined to my right by commissioner london breed and to my left eric mar. The clerk of the committee is alyssa miller. Thank you for your work and broadcast by sfgtv staff. Thank you for your work. I would like to make a motion to excuse commissioner campos who couldnt make it here today. Do we have a motion . Okay. We will take that without objection. Madam clerk can you call the next item. Item two is approval of the lafco minutes from the date regular meeting. Colleagues you have reviewed the minutes. Any questions . I see know none. We will go to members of the public. There are no members here and we will close Public Comment<\/a>. I move approval. Moved and seconded without objection. Item three. Item three is the Community Choice<\/a> aggregation activities report. A status of update on cleanpower sf program. B status update on proceedings on California Public<\/a> utilities commission. C status update on the state legislature proceedings. E update on the request for proposals to provide build our plaj for cleanpower sf and e status update on the board of supervisors proposed ordinance for Community Choice<\/a> aggregation joining supervisor mar. As far as to go down the issues here we have worked on the study from the study approved from the last meeting. Today we received the draft from the first task. There are multiple tasks involved. I forwarded that to each of your offices so its in your emails and if you need hard copies let me know. The first part of the first task given that we no longer have a shell agreement or contract if we take procurement and all of the other activities shell would be doing on behalf of the city what would it look like as far as staffing needs and costs . How would this play into a knowledge discussion that is going on at the board of supervisors around the power enterprise budget and this is the initial draft and more work to be done. Were literally talking about a week or week and a half to work on this and it gifses a high level synopsis and you have million to 1. 1 million that could be available to the power enterprise to pay for cleanpower sf. They would pay them. It doesnt solve their entire budget deficit and i dont think we would do that with the Clean Power Program<\/a> but it solves part of that program so thats good news from that front if we had a cca program they have another option to utilize that. What was the response of the Utility Commission<\/a> when you mentioned that . We just got it this morning and i havent talked with them and unfortunately their staff hasnt arrived on. State legislation. There were two bills we were monitoring and tracking. One is that was introduced by assembly man tom amiano to give San Francisco<\/a> a choice in how it does its energy cca programs. Unfortunately that bill died in the local government committee. They had some concerns about t the forces on the other side that didnt want to see it said it violated the city charter but we said it didnt but the bill did not move forward. The other bill were monitoring is the brad ford bill 2145 which would change cca programs it and the bill would get through the committee. Its now sitting at Appropriations Committee<\/a> where it will get a hearing next week. Should it go from there to the Assembly Floor<\/a> and pass that to the senate side so were monitoring that. I believe ms. Miller on behalf of chair avalos and sent that and i will keep you uptodate as the legislature moves forward on the process and on the final one i will talk about here on the list is the as the three of you know since youre on Budget Committee<\/a> and approved by the board unanimously this tuesday was theyre looking at how do we potentially join marin as an option to our program. One of the things talking with marin as going through the process we are a new way of doing things we are a much larger than they looked at before. We would dwarf them if we did it at one time and their program so they have more considerations to do than like richmond did or napa was just approved to move this forward so we have to deal with that, so what they have asked for if we can approve a 5,000 not to exceed rate they can start looking with the consultants and what would be the cost with the bigger study . If you give us a want to exceed rate but they would go so high it right scare people off so we wanted them to look at and pay for that part of the study and what would it take to join them . They said 5,000 is more than enough to do that so there is a resolution in the packet that would authorize that. I would say we would only moving forward it gets through the second Board Hearing<\/a> because the ordinance going through the board of supervisors process had the First Reading<\/a> and approved unanimously. I am guessing its going to have a second one but not to delay and wait until june were coming to you for the 5,000. And how long would that work take i would say its a about a month or two to come back and there is the full price for what we need to do lafco and the board of supervisors could have that discussion whether or not that made sense to move forward at this point. And at this point we will by resolution pass allowance of funds to go, allocation . Yes. Assuming it was done through lafco. It could be paid for by other means and manners but if lafco did that through the cca fund we would come back with approval for a not to exceed for that process as well. And do we get any indication of what the study could potentially cost . We know what it cost for richmond and for napa which just had their study done. Theirs was in the 40,000 to 40,000 range and don was up front and closer to the higher number and there is something they want to do a study because of San Francisco<\/a> politics and what it would meep to their program and do broad base research to what it would look like a program and the appetite for their customers to join and they dont want to scare off their customers and San Francisco<\/a> is going to take us over type of thing and also the appetite for joining a marin Style Program<\/a> and i dont know the cost of that would be. What do you see as the work, the research that the city and county of San Francisco<\/a> have done so far that might help them and theyre going to have access to that information . I told them they would have access to the information. On the Market Research<\/a> side their concern it was a couple years old and none of our Research Incorporated<\/a> commercial customers which theyre interested in having and not incorporate anyone outside of San Francisco<\/a> and is a concern for them and whether to join up so they would have to do brandnew Market Research<\/a> on their own. On the study side we have information and i hope that keeps the cost down on that side. What is the size of the Customer Base<\/a> now. The size is about 130,000 although i havent checked in for a while to determine the current numbers are but i want to say around 130. All right. Thanks. Colleagues, any other comments, questions for the executive officer. Okay. We can go onto Public Comment<\/a> and its open and seeing no one come forward we will close Public Comment<\/a> and this is an information item or action item. We have a resolution with the packet with the 5,000. Yes, theres the not to exceed 5,000 and the only action item needed today. Okay. I will entertain motions whether to move forward. Okay. Motion by commissioner breed and second by commissioner mar and we will extend this for the study and we will take that without objection. [gavel] okay. Next item please. Item four consideration and approval of the final lafco budget for fiscal year 2014 2015. Jason fried lafco staff again. As i mentioned to you i presented the first draft budget at last meeting. This is the second required hearing. There is however a difference from last month to this month in the budget. If you look at your packets you will see there say re is a reduction in the budget. That was as the city and county of San Francisco<\/a> was going through their process and changes to staffing and how lafco can interact with staff i noticed an interesting difference between what we say our budget was and what they were saying and i did research and worked with the clerk and by state mandate the minimum amount that we can request be ag indicated to us and its 300,000 so you will see the budget reflect the lower amount. Once again we do have enough in reserve to pay for one year of our budget but after year we will be below that budget and next fiscal year we will be below that amount. Were at 300,000 now in the reserve act so we can go one more year if we want to return the money and i will suggest that at a future lafco meeting once i review other lafcos and what is a good amount to have . We were up at a Million Dollars<\/a> and we have spent it down and we should have a policy in place and most lafcos do and we should stay within the budget and be fine and the choice is up to you to return that back to the city and county for a year but let them know were reserving our rights to the full amount in the future. What are we spending a year . I went back the last years from what i consider our general fund, not the citys fund but lafcos account. We tend to spend 100,000 or 125,000 a year and most goes to the Clerks Office<\/a> for clerking the meeting but also the back office, hr, it, copiers and that goes to them and the bulk of the money and the rest is paying for miss millers time to do non cca work which i will now take over so we should be okay if we follow the patterns. If there is a interest to do things not cca related we would need to have a discussion but we can have that discussion as time moves on. Okay. I am just reviewing the chart here that you provided with the budget. It seems like the biggest changes to the budget are service of other departments where there is a 25,000 reduction. Looks like that is almost wiebed out. It was 28,000 to begin with and we will have 3,000 left. 15,000 from lafco staff and legal and consultant services. Thats the next big ticket item and proportion to the largest allocation we have for this fund. Everything else seems shaved off. Do you see any challenges in place while the 44,000 that is being removed from our budget . As long as we stay fiscally prudent, no. One thing i should mention some of the numbers are shaved down because theyre not to exceed rates and talking with the Clerks Office<\/a> i asked what have we spent in the categories over the last years and all of the numbers even if we continue to spend at current pattern with inflation we would stay within that amount. At one time we brought for other stuff and now its brought in house to the Clerks Office<\/a> and we dont pay others but just the Clerks Office<\/a> and wrapped into the services we pay them so thats why that number dropped dramatically and we havent come close to that amount in the last years. I am concerned about the reserve of other lafcos around the state if you could do work and understand what the reserves typically are or a range from. That would be good to see. Also this budget if we were to approve a budget of this size we basically and we fund cca work but we dont have other work that will be budgeted or this budget would allow us to do other non cca related work including research or researching other issues, possible municipal w fior banking. Could you respond to that. Yeah. If you take the assumption we will continue with the pattern of returning the money we would have 300,000 less in the act so we spend 100,000 to 125,000 and make it easy and make it 150 that would leave 150,000 in the reserves for other projects and things in the course of the year but that spends down the reserve if we spend the entire 150 but we have room to do side projects as needed if requested by this commission to do so. Great. Thank you. And so are you recommending any particular action . Well, you need to approve the budget and the question that comes in and discussion at the last meeting and i yield to the commissioners themselves to determine if we give back the money, or one of the things we could do is were reserving our right and instead of giving back all 300 only give x amount and keep some in the account and i yield depending what is going on you could do that or return the entire amount. You all serve on the Budget Committee<\/a> so you know what is looks like for the upcoming year. Okay. Why dont we open this up for Public Comment<\/a>. Anyone for the public like to comment please do so. Seeing none we will close Public Comment<\/a>. Typically we give back the funds . That is correct and we have enough money in the reserve act for an account for an entires year budget at this point so we could do that for a year or if you want to figure out i am fine to do that for one more year. I think i want to look at the budget process if we want to reverse that in june but more time would be thats my suggestion. Okay. I am seeing ascent from commissioner mar. Do we need to make a motion on that . Yes, you need to make a motion to approve and accept the staffs recommendation if you give the money back. I move that we accept the recommendations. Second by commissioner breed and i will third that and without objection. [gavel] okay. The next item please. Item five executive directors report. Do you have Something Else<\/a> to say . One last thing. Our public seats have been up for reappointment now for a couple months. The current members are in those seats until we reappoint the seats. We have at least two applications in for the seats so we will hopefully move it forward at next meeting so if you know anyone else that wants to apply i encourage them to get the application in a week before the meeting so we can review them and i will get them to you to review them long before the meeting occurs. Okay. We will open up item five the executive directors report for Public Comment<\/a> and seeing no member of the public come forward and we will close Public Comment<\/a> and we will go to the next item. Item six Public Comment<\/a>. We have Public Comment<\/a> open on any matter related to lafco and seeing no member of the public come forward we will close Public Comment<\/a> and our next item. Item seven future agenda items. Colleagues any comments or questions on future agenda items . And we will have Public Comment<\/a> on future agenda items. Public comment is now open and we will close Public Comment<\/a> for lack of a commenter. [gavel] and we will go on to the next item. Item eight adjournment. Colleagues we are adjourned hello. Welcome to culturewire. We are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. I have been doing largescale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. I quickly found out about the San Francisco<\/a> Arts Commission<\/a> school and realized there was a prequalified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. How long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza . This was a fast track project. Design development was about a month. Lets look at the beautiful mural. I have never seen a mural created on asphalt. The heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. Then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was handpainted. Maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe starting in the middle and working out. [inaudible] the flower of industry. It is like a compass. Theres an arrow pointing north. Within the great bear consolation, there are two pointed stars here. They typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris. So i thought it has a layer of theme. Lets talk about some of the other elements in the peace. We are walking along, and there is a weather vane. Theres a sweet little bird hanging on the side. What kind of bird is that . [inaudible] the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the bay area. You want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send . [inaudible] around 1926 or so by the dahlia society. What is this bird here . That is the california quail. Coming up here, we had a little blustery theme. What is this area here . This is supposed to be the side view, the expense of the golden gate bridge. There it is. There are really beautiful elements of architecture still around, i would say that it gives that feeling over to the work. What are your hopes for it . That in a way it just becomes part of the area. I think it is starting to have that feeling. People utilize it. They sit and, and have their lunch and play on they sit and, and have their lunch and play on that they sit and come and have their lunch and play on it. Just for it to be part of the neighborhood. That is my hope. Is such a beautiful addition to our public art in San Francisco<\/a>. Thank you for joining us. It was nice to meet you. And thank you for telling us about your beautiful mural. Thanks for watching culturewire. 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