roll call . We have a quorum. Our standard rules are posted in the agenda will be applied today to include Public Comment. We are going to start with closed session. Before i go into closed session, is there Public Comment . Okay. Motion for going into closed session. So moved. Any party that needs to leave, please make sure your cell phones are off. Reconvened first item of business is reporting out of closed session. Is there a motion whether to disclose. I move not to disclose. Second. Is there general Public Comment . I am john spencer. I am a 44 year member of our pension fund. At your last board meeting, your Investment Consultant told you that our pension fund had spectacular returns. If you use poor performing public Pension Funds as a beverage mark you have good returns, not spectacular. If you want spectacular returns you only need a passive investment in stocks, bobbeds, real estate. Let me give the 10 year returns. Bgsix index vanguard yeartodate returns 25. 66 . 10 year annual returns 15. 30 . Bfinx vanguard yeartodate returns 20. 5 . 10 year annual returns 14. 54 . D. B. I. Nx vanguard 60 10 yeartodate 14. 57 . 10 year returns 10. 35 . The average Management Fee is zero point 19. The average 10 year return for these is 13. 7 . Now, if you had these kinds of returns you would be the best performing Public Pension Fund in the world. Ask mr. Coker what the 12 month returns of your hedge funds and how much do you pay in Management Fees and performance fees . Thank you. Motion is made and second. I call the question. Those in favor of not disclosi disclosing. A. We have a few action items before we lose the quorum in 20 minutes. Item 5 approval of minutes any corrections or deletions. Those in favor aye. Item 6 consent calendar any additions or items to set aside for separate consideration . Motion and seconded. Is there any Public Comment . All in favor say aye. Next item 11 request to enclose the correspondence in september 2019 retirement allowances. So moved. Second. Questions . Public comment . That takes us back to item 7. Mr. Coker, you have the floor. Board members in the interest of time allen martin is celebrating the 50th high school reunion. Dan is going to walk us through the points of our performance summary. Dan. Thank you, mr. President. In the section 7 in the if you scroll through the executive summary to the performance report on page 12. You will see the total Fund Performance summary fees. This is a net of all Management Fees the three months through june they returned 3. 51 beating the average pension plan. Similarly in the fiscal year it returned 8. 18 and first percentile in public Pension Plans greater than 1 billion. To our knowledge no other public pension plan had better performance in the fiscal year than this plan did. Percentile over three years and five years and 10 years is strong. When i see these numberings i expect you are taking a lot of risk to do so, the charts in the middle and on the bottom show the annual for this plan is far less than most other public pension plan. 11 over the past three years, 25th over the past five years. You have positive years for far less volatility than other peers. It is amazing. You can see this on 16 and 17. There are charts that are similar. Each dot is a public pension plan. In ever crecase every case the San Francisco plan is higher than average above and to the left of the line. Diving into the specific performance fiscal year by year on page 23. Here we are looking at the fiscal year performance in every case the last five fiscal years the plan has been in the top quarter. In the last two years better than more than 95 of public Pension Plans. Consistently Strong Performance over the past five years. The circle is the performance and the triangle is policy index. It is beating that in four out of five fiscal years. How did it do so . In every case we chart starting on page 25 we look at the attribution for the plan. In each case it was driven far more by manager selection choosing managers that outperformed the benchmarks than allocation which is actively choosing to have over or under weight in certain categories. There are some allocation decisions that helped. The plan has consistently been underweight in development equities. Manager performance is the story here. Looking at the individual Asset Classes on page 29. In the interest of time i am not going to the names of the securities. In referencing the fiscal year rank so just as the plan outperformed other plans, when we talk about the rankings of these individual Asset Classes we are comparing at the bottom of page 29 the public Equity Investments of this plan versus other public Equity Investments institutionally, and the 5. 63 for the fiscal year is in the 14th percentile. Outperformed other public Equity Investments. To page 30. We have similar outperform answer relative to peers for u. S. Equity. We have underperformed in develop market equity. That was due to there has been a couple underperforming managers fiscal year and a few that have been terminated that contributed to the underperform answer. The decision to be under weight in the market helped the plan twice as much as the underperform answer hurt the plan. There has been some great decisions on the part of the staff to lead to this great performance. Emerging market equity outperforming. Fixed income 48th percentile. Page 31. You can see liquid credit third percentile. Treasuries 92 and percentile. This is an index strategy which matched the barklays u. S. Treasury index. It has less duration than core bonds or treasury allocations. That had a big impact this year because Interest Rates fell so much. The change in behavior of the Federal Reserve that had been tightening now is loose senning led to longer term Interest Rates dropping quite a bit. Treasuries 6. 19 for the fiscal year when the average for u. S. Fixed anything was 7 . Slight underperform answer and understandable given what is happening in the environment. Private equity first percentile performance in the fiscal year. Real assets 13 . This is a spectacular fiscal year both on top line basis and when you dig down to look at the individual areas. Are there any questions . You dont have to answer today. The issue regarding advent. I think you have to give me a reason for keeping them. Other board member questions . On the Positive Side i will say one of the good outcomes was the hiring of van burcouple which is staff recommended. It is good. No further questions. Go to the next item. It is under review. Who is leading this . There is no managers. I can summarize this. There is no changes to the managers under review. There is continued discussions with several of the managers in recent times, but no changes in who is on the list. They can accept the report as submitted . They can. There are a lot of research items, at least three or four in the public equity space that could result in another reconstitution of this portfolio that we think are going to be significant access returns. Hon ana and then aloe are traveg here. We are in the middle innings but beyond the middle innings of the Research Agenda that could result in changes. Fixed income is also summarized . We have been asked to complete the entire meeting in 20 minutes. If the board has any questions we can answer them. No further questions. That concludes the item. Thank you. That takes us go ahead. The aflcio issue. Next month. Item 9. Chief Investment Officer report. Very good. Board members it was a positive return for the last month while public equity was down 1. 7 we had a positive return of 57 basis points for the first two months of the year when public equity is down 1. 35. I did want to draw attention. There is a summary on page 2 of our returns bias set class. They are truly quite remarkable. Every assets class in the past year four of the five performed in the top 14 . All five performed in the top 31 . Every asset class over the past three and five years have both performed in the top 22 . This is a really good report. I did want to draw attention, and you can see the risk ratings on page 3 are also that are risk profile is decidedly below the norman the sharp ratio which indicates risk adjusted returns and the ratio which is indicating of our returns in down markets are both really high. I did want to draw one attention on page 5 and that that our returns are due to a very specific investment strategy, namely, we are very different than most public Pension Plans in two respects. One Asset Allocation is quite different. We have 60 in alternatives and 45 in private. Most of our peers have about a third of that. In addition our manager selection emphasizes unique specialists and strategies that are more time consuming than indexing or same old been here done that that are large and highly diversified. The approach is different. That has led to these excellent returns. At the same time, we have grown a lot. We have grown by 40 in the last five years from 19 to over 26 billion. Up heard us forecast liabilities were going to 30 billion in the next five years or at 8 years then to 40 billion and beyond. As we grow, that will put a strain and we are already at that strain to execute on the strategy for both Asset Allocation and manager selection given the current resources. We have to make changes. The changes are going to be to index more which would significantly reduce returns. We change Asset Allocation which would reduce returns. We change approach to manager selection. You saw that is the driver of most of our excess returns to emphasize more larger managers that have a lot of capacity. Those three options we all think have a negative impact on our returns. The fourth we need more resources to execute on the existing strategy. In february we have the next Asset Allocation to show the tradeoffs of the options and crystalize that for the board so you see the numbers in terms of what is historical and expected impact for different approaches to manager selection. We will have that ready in february. With that, that closes the report. Any questions . Any questions . No questions. That takes us to the next item on the agenda the deferred compensation managers report. Item number 10. Thank you, commissioners. Before you is the monthly activity report. If there are no questions on that report i would provide a brief update on the sfdcp transition. I know the transition is in process. I am receiving a lot of Text Messages i forward to joe collins. Credentials sent out the statements that showed peoples balance as zero. They were panicking. Some have not received the mail because they changed the address since retiring. Expect that. Joe can handle all of that. Okay. Thank you. Are we doing monthly activity reports again . Quarterly or did we change the timeline . I thought it was important that she report since we had a very significant event over the past month and so when she comes she brings the monthly. I have not discussed that with the president. Sure. I can provide comments quickly. It is with great pride and pleasure to announce we have successfully transitioned on time and schedule as of september 3rd. All contracts were signed at the august 30th. A huge thank you to the sfdcp time for ensuring the transition. As the commissioner noted participants were mailed a eight digit pin to register or answer security questions provided by lexus nexus which is used nationally for secure account validation. Nary trade is the trade sent out welcome kits. 31,000 accounts with 3. 6 billion that including all outstanding loans and 200 accounts. So far we have accounted for all of the money and are reconciling every penny. Voyia ensures that the assets in the trust are reconciled with the records received. Participants may check last statement which some folks have received against the opening account valance. As you remember we launched the site for the three weeks in august to capture the elections before the blackout period including future ready powered by financial engines. It replaced goal maker. You didnt have to do anything if you were okay with the mapping. Around 400 people use the site with the majority select their own funds followed by future ready elections and targeted and 12 selected the managed account service. On tuesday september 3rd we sent out a postcard to celebrated the launch. E maim open rate email open rates are 30 . It is available for all prospects. A formal update will be provided next week. At this time i would like to address any questions the board may have regarding this update. Did you or voya text all of the access points. We have converted and we are still doing that. One problem and i called them they said you should use a different browser. That was the Customer Service recommendation to me. I didnt appreciate it. They said that in the emails i would have been prepared for it. Other problems. We will discuss it in the deferred comp meeting. We will see how quickly voya solves problems. Thank you for the feedback. I have feedback from people having problems enrolling on the website. They follow the link that was sent and they enter the information, Social Security number, date of birth. They say you already enrolled. They cant log in. There are two different experiences. One is online enrollment for people not currently in the plan. There is a separate process forna. Then there is the pin process. For those that did not receive the pin they can answer the questions or we can have it recent through email to get that more immediately. We have been taking questions as they come in and addressing any inquiries. We seem to resolve them. Please forward to staff and we will address them. I cant remember my problem i had a problem. We can discuss that offline. I realize they are selfdirected users who received the welcome kit last week. They are in the process of checking the td account online right now. We are aware of the issues and we are working. Thank you for completing the top of work you have in the last couple months. In terms of enrollment there is confusion as to how to enroll. I try to enroll. I saw the email, register now. I went through the prompts. I couldnt get registered. In my experience it is not that different from other people. We can follow up online. You are going to start deferrals for the first time. Maybe that is what it means to you guys. It meant to me enroll in their website. You register for the website. I dont know what the language is. We have said you could do online enrollment, which is first time deferrals. That is why they said you are already a member when you tried to follow the instructions, but we can work through all of these, continue to report them we do want to make sure this stabilizes and that everything is cleared up. That is good feedback. We will differentiate better what it means to enroll and what it means to register. I assumed it meant enroll for access to the website. We are on the other side thinking you enroll for the first time, but i can see it is a new website you need to enroll so you think that is what you need to do. That makes sense. Thank you. Anything else to report on . That concludes this item then. That takes us to item 12. Executive directors report. I provided you a jul july 2019board report. I haved discussions with a number of Board Members about additional information, data points you might want represented on the report. We will gather those and revisit as you move forward. I just had a discussion with the commissioner and it is planned at the october 16th Investment Committee meeting we will have presentations from the two finalists for the boards general Investment Consultant. Try to mark your calendar to be there. You will have an opportunity to meet the timists and have a o finalists. We are on a timeline. We thought this might be a good time to schedule that on the Investment Committee side. The last item is not on my report but i am sad to report that we lost a member of our team. Mark coleman died unexpectedly on sunday evening. Mark coleman was the security analyst for 33 years with the retirement system. I have known him for my entire career here. Like i said, it was a rather sudden event and i just wanted to let the board know that president driscoll suggested certainly staff fully supports the retirement board adjourn the meeting in honor of mark and we would certainly notify the family that the board took such action. With that i will take any questions. At this point then mark coleman, the 33 years he was hereunder states how consistently he worked. He was the utility infielder for the investment team. We didnt see him much. He had that i dont want to say difficult but that task coordinating with isi and the proxy voting. Very detailed, and he did it. With all of the tabulations with the results. It was brought to our attention recently that all the securities that we are issued from all successful private Equity Investments have to be sold. That was one of the things he was quarterbacking with 97 success ratio. He was a quiet man who we appreciated and needed. I knew mark a little bit because he was here when i got here, so to speak. He used to like going to the blue grass festival every october. He had one more to go but he decided to go surfing. He can hang with warren. Surfs is the only thing warren didnt do. Mark, we will miss him. Whoever follows his foot stops we hope they work as hard as he did. Just to chime in to say mark was a character. I am trying to find the picture of him dressed as a pirate. If i find it i will bring it to staff. To say he was overly friendly doesnt quite describe an interaction with mark coleman. There are times when people had to remind him, i am on a conference call, i cannot talk. I never heard an unkind word out of his mouth. Friendly, engaging, sometimes overly so. I agree in the 20 years i have been here he has taken any assignment as his job has changed and puts the time in. Someone you can count on to make sure he was here to get the work done. He was a happy face. This meeting shall be adjourned in the honor of mark coleman. Item 15 any comments . We will close the meeting in honor of mark coleman. I want to add we adjourn in memory of the victims of 9 11 in a moment of silence. I concur. Do any Board Members have anything else they wish to add . This will conclude item 14 and 15 and that shall be the motion to adjourn made by commission bridges. All those in favor say aye. Those opposed. I forgot to ask for Public Comment. When mr. Coker made his report he didnt ask for Public Comment. Can i make my Public Comment right now . Go ahead. I read the report. It seems like it came from an interview with a Business Reporter with mr. Coker. This may not be true you can verify if it is right or wrong. The worst performing asset class retained 1. 7 and i think that was for the fiscal year ending in june. It is in our portfolio. He said hedge funds will help during a severe equity downturn. Is that correct a 1. 7 return on hedge funds . Can you answer that question . That is my question. I just made the comment. I asked a public question. We are entitled to a public answer. No you are not. Motion to adjourn has been made in the honor of mark coleman. Those in favor say aye. And the First Responders who passed away because of 9 11. All those in favor say aye. Opposed. Meeting is adjourned. Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is september 11, 2019. Im sandra lee, chair of the budget and finance committee and im joined my my supervisors and our clerk. I would like to thank Sandra Williams for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, any announcements . Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Anything part of the file should be submitted to the clerk and iteming will appear on the september 17th, board of agenda. Madam clerk, call item number one. Finding the proposed updated port shoreline protection at a San FranciscoInternational Airport fiscally feasible pursuant to code 29. Thank you. I believe we have kathy weidner, director of Government Affairs at the International Airport. Yes, good morning, chair and members of the committee. The items before you is an updated i should say the airport is seeking your approval of a previously approved shoreline protection project, fiscal feasibility report. We are asking you to find that the expanded project is fiscally feasible pursuant to chapter 29 of the citys administrative code. In 2015, the airport completed an airport shoreline protection Feasibility Study identifying deficiencies in existing infrastructure and made recommendations on the improvements necessary to protect the airports shoreline Protection System against 11inches of sealevel rise. At that point, the board found the 2015 project to be fiscally feasible. The programme at that time focusing on addressing the current level of flood risks and moderate amounts of sealevel rise. Sealevel projections incorporated into the programme were based on science from 2012. Since the time of the approval of that project in 2015, the science for Sea Level Rise has been updated by 2018 new design criteria from the state of california. In march of 2018, the state of california adopted a new sealevel rise guidance programme, which the airport used to update the report before you today. The updated shoreline Protection Programme proposes construction of new shoreline Protection Systems around the entire perimeteperimeter of the airpor, including along highway 101, that would protect the airport facilities and runways against a 100year storm and 36inches of sealevel rise. Tout ththis is estimated to cost 587 million. The significant cost increase is due to constructing infrastructure to address sealevel rise up to 36inches rather than the previously reported 11inches. The 2019 shoreline Protection Programme provides for new sheet pile wall and concrete wall construction and Environmental Mitigation not included in the approved 2015 shoreline protection study. The airport intends to fund the updates project by utilizing debt finance through the general aviation Revenue Bonds. The budget analyst recommends approval and i would be happy to answer specific questions you might have. Thank you very much. Colleagues, any questions or comments for miss weidner . Seeing none, lets hear from from the analysts office. The proposed resolution would find the airports proposed shoreline Protection Programme to be physically feasible and responsible in accordance with chapter 29 of the administrative code. Approval of this resolution would allow the airport to proceed with environmental review. In december of 2015, the board of supervisors found the airport proposed programme to be physically feasible in accordance with chapter 2019. In march of 2018, the state of california issued a report called sealevel rise guidance with updated sealevel rise. This incorporates new design criteria to address sealevel rise resulting in shoreline Protection Programmes, scope and estimated coasts from 580 million to 718 million and this includes a breakdown of the estimated costs. This is due to constructing infrastructure to address sealevel rise up to 36inches rather than 11inches in the 2015 plan. A list of major changes to the scope of work is shown on page 3 of the report. The areas to be considered for determination of fiscal feasibility and this is on pages 47 of our report. According to the march 2019 airport shoreline protection project fiscal Feasibility Study, its to maintain operations and associated reductions in airport employment and revenue. The estimated shoreline Programme Cost 587. 1 million, the airports Capital Improvement programme includes 15. 7 million in airport revenue funds. The remaining scope and estimated budget are 571. 4 million for Construction Costs and Environmental Mitigation will need to be added to the Improvement Plan at a future date. The airport estimates that issuance of 58 587 million in Revenue Bonds would result in 1. 5 million in debt statements over the 30year term of the bonds. Debt Service Costs to repay the airport Revenue Bonds are paid from airport revenue received from the airports doing business through airport rates and charges, as well as lease and concession revenues. As previously noted, the funding of fiscal feasibility allows the airport to proceed with review for the shoreline Protection Programme. Issuance of airport Revenue Bonds and appropriation of funds for the Protection Programme are subject to future board of supervisors approval and we do recommend approving the proposed resolution. Thank you. This opens us up for member comment. Any members like to comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues any comments or questions . I just have to say that this is somewhat frightening. The fact that were now anticipating the first sealevel rise of 36inches rather than 1, ten times the cost and the protection says until 2085, but that is just our best estimate with known science. So this is frightening, quite frankly. I dont know, i wont be alive in 2085, but i do think that this isnt the last time we will see an assessment that we might have to recalibrate how much more protection we will need. I think we have seen in these past years and in the recent past years that Mother Nature has the last word on this. So seeing how the vla recommends approval, no disagreement here . I would like to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation and we can take that without objection. Thank you very much. Everybody pray. Ok, lets go on to item number 3. I would like to continue this item until the next meeting of the budget and finance committee, which is the 18th, i believe. Would you like me to read item number 3 . Yes, im so sorry. Item number 3, resolution authorizing the director of property to sell up to 550,000 gross square feet of remaining Transferable Development rights authorized from the war memorial complex at 301 and 401 at fair market value. As i said, i would like to continue this next meeting, which i believe is september 18th. But lets first hear Public Comment. Any members . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We will hear the daily report and also staff report at that time and i would like to make a motion to continue this item until the meeting of september 18th. We can take that without objection. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please read item number 4 . Hearings to consider the. Fund to the Public Utilities commission in the amount of 3 million to fund the operation, no cost of the solar assess programme for 20192020. Thank you very much. Is it angela putane from sfc power. Yes, im the Programme Managers at the enterprise. This is a request for the release of 3 million on budget and finance committee reserve for the go solar sf programme. This is the Incentive Programme providing incentives, monetary incentives to residents, businesses and nonprofit organizations, installing solar panels on San Francisco rooftops and provides additional incentives to lowincome households and to projects that have been installed by San Franciscobased installation companies. In june of 2014, the board of supervisors placed 3 million on reserve for the go solar sf programme to be used when the clean power sf Community Choice aggregation programme was up and running. The board wanted to ensure that go solar sf funding would be available for the new customers. , these new power sf power. Clean power sf launched in early of 2016, so the go solar sf programme is currently providing Solar Incentives to clean power sf customers and hetchi power customers. The 3 million will be used to fund the programme this fiscal year. 1. 8 million is budgeted for solar alternatives. 800,000 is budgeted for the low income inverter Replacement Programme, which will provide incentives to lowincome households to replace a component of their solar system, the inverter, which has reached the end of its useful life. Finally 406,000 is budgeted for administrative costs. I would be happy to answer any questions, supervisors. Thank you very much and any questions or comments from my colleagues . Seeing none, could we have a daily report, please . Im from the analysts office. The supervisors placed 3 million on reserve for the go solar sf programme pending implementation of the clean power sf programme. Sf puc is requesting to release the funding from reserve to fund the programme through june of 2020. It originates from the hetchi power enterprise from the 20152016 budget. The solar sf is developing a Replacement Programme which would help lowincome. Reporter s replace solar lr reverters and 1. 8 million is budgeted for Solar Panel Incentives and approximately 400,000 is budgeted for administrative costs. A breakdown of the gosolar sf budget is shown on table two on page 14 of our report with a further breakdown of the go solar incentive budget on table 2, also on page 14 of our report. We recommend approving the request. Thank you very much. This opens us up for Public Comment. Any members like comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. So colleagues, this is not a motion to send it to the full board. Its just requires us to approve the release for the funds forenoon reserves. I make a motion to approve the release from the budget and finance reserve. Take that without objection and thank you very much. Madam clerk . Madam chair, can we please file this hearing . Yes, please, thank you. Can you call number 5 . Item number 5, resolution to authorize the District Attorney to accept and expand a grand for total not to exceed 267,000 from the california Victim Compensation board, for the period of july 1, 2019 to june 30, 2022 to continue the criminal restitution compact, should the parties agree to a amendment under the provisions of the Grant Agreement. Thank you and we have jackie ortize from the Victim Services division. Yes, good morning. Please be advised the grant is technically not retroactive because it was budgeted in the annual budget process. This resolution is needed to meet the california Victim Compensation board requirements, which has a separate legislation authorizing the approval of the funds. Do you have any questions for me . Colleagues, any questions . Seeing none, no report on this and lets open this up for Public Comment. Anany members like to comment se seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Madam clear, point of clarification, since the department mentioned that this resolution is not retroactively approving the grant, can we amend the resolution to strike the retroactive leads on page 1, line 2, i believe . Yes, thank you very much. We can strike retroactive from the title of it and we can talk that without objection. And then lets move it to the full board as amended. Thank you very much. Thank you. Can you please read item number 2, please . Retroactively authorizing the park departments into an internet agreement for the protect Environment Agency for the receipt of 1. 2 million in the remediation project for a term of january 1, 2018 through september 18, 2030. We have a representative from the rec and part and this is part of the indian basin project. Yes, the indian basin waterfront project is between recreation and parks, the trust for public land and San Francisco parks alliance. This is designed to honor the history and culture of the neighborhood, part of a plan by social justice communities. Currently, we are moving into our 2020 construction phase of the project and this is what we will be doing, side demolition and removal of band structures, remediation of soils containing elevated concentrations of sediments. The department was awarded a 1. 2 million Funding Grant from the United States protection agency. This was actually appropriated through 20182019 budget process and originally allocated to the Construction Cost expected to occur in 2020. In fall of 2018, the United States epa asked to build a grants fund and the administers at the federal level wanted to ensure we were spending the money,es, and epa isnt the most favorable department. In spring of 2018, there was a grant over one Million Dollars or greater approval by the board of supervisors. After learning about this additional requirement, we asked for this Grant Agreement before you today to be retroactive approval. Lets open this up for comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I would like to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation and we can take that without objection, thank you very much. Madam clerk, any other business before us today . No further business. We are adjourned. [ ] i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world, you shouldnt just be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [ ] i would say i am a multidimensional artist. I came out of painting, but have also really enjoyed tactile properties of artwork and tile work. I always have an interest in public art. I really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world. You shouldnt just be something in museums. I love that people can just go there, and it is there for everyone. Public art is art with a job to do. It is a place where the architecture meets the public. Where the artist takes the meaning of the site, and gives a voice to its. We commission culture, murals, mosaics, black pieces, cut to mental, different types of material. It is not just downtown, or the big sculptures you see, we are in the neighborhood. Those are some of the most beloved kinds of projects that really give our libraries and Recreation Centers a sense of uniqueness, and being specific to that neighborhood. Colette test on a number of those projects for its. One of my favorites is the oceanview library, as well as several parks, and the steps. Mosaics are created with tile that is either broken or cut in some way, and rearranged to make a pattern. You need to use a tool, nippers, as they are called, to actually shape the tiles of it so you can get them to fit incorrectly. I glued them to mash, and then they are taken, now usually installed by someone who is not to me, and they put cement on the wall, and they pick up the mash with the tiles attached to it, and they stick it to the wall, and then they groped it afterwards. [ ] we had never really seen artwork done on a stairway of the kinds that we were thinking of because our idea was very just barely pictorial, and to have a picture broken up like that, we were not sure if it would visually work. So we just took paper that size and drew what our idea was, and cut it into strips, and took it down there and taped it to the steps, and stepped back and looked around, and walked up and down and figured out how it would really work visually. [ ] my theme was chinese heights because i find them very beautiful. And also because mosaic is such a heavy, dens, static medium, and i always like to try and incorporate movement into its, and i work with the theme of water a lot, with wind, with clouds, just because i like movements and lightness, so i liked the contrast of making kites out of very heavy, hard material. So one side is a dragon kite, and then there are several different kites in the sky with the clouds, and a little girl below flying it. [ ] there are pieces that are particularly meaningful to me. During the time that we were working on it, my son was a disaffected, unhappy high school student. There was a day where i was on the way to take them to school, and he was looking glum, as usual, and so halfway to school, i turned around and said, how about if i tell the school you are sick and you come make tiles with us, so there is a tile that he made to. It is a little bird. The relationship with a work of art is something that develops over time, and if you have memories connected with a place from when you are a child, and you come back and you see it again with the eyes of an adult, it is a different thing, and is just part of what makes the city an exciting place. [ ]