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Announcer news the build a better bay area. This is abc7 mornings. Its sunday, june 16th. Good morning, and thanks so money for joining us. Im chris nguyen. Lets start with a first look at the accuweather forecast. Lisa . On live doppler 7 a lot of cloud cover for this fathers day. The marine layer is extensive. Heres a look from san rafael, a lot of cloud cover, numbers in the 50s, 58 in oakland. Mountain view is at 59. 60 in san jose. From the airport, 44 minute delays at sfo. The peninsula, in the upper 60s later on. San mateo, low 70s redwood city. Right now in the east bay, upper 50s to l...

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...

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 mo...

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 sho...

Change the funding formula to make sure that large size versus smaller and medium organizations get a fair shake and im trying to ask you to think out of the box and not use prop 209 every time different dissempowered communities try to raise a question of justice, but that is just my urging to you to think out of the box and not hide behind 209 i take that point. Mr. Chair, through the chair i wanted to add to that because it really bothers when this issue comes up consistently as it relates to these grants, but this wasnt a issue when we talked about lgbt housing and how we be creative and p...