The corporation was exonerated in the late 7. 70s. We had subcommittees on each development that came in that we had one for childcare, one for parks and rec, development and everything. So the training programmes we had with the college and also with model cities, we trained people in our community for each phase of the projects that were coming into Hunters Point. Where there was business, we had a Business Programme to train people with businesses. It went through the hunter Point College which was the first campus college. Every college we started through model cities, we started a minister witmission with hiringl of the others. But for those familiar will the mission, talk with i forgot the directors name now don markham . No, he was the director of the model cities. They could link up with the colleges out there, training with childcare. We had over 40 people through the Childcare Programme and each were able to buy homes, so if we want people to stay in our community, we need to train them in our community. We have College Track. We have Philip Randolph and they train people for different aspects of things but we were neeneed tomake sure they are pry managers. Thats the last comment well be doing. Make sure that happens withs lenar and College Track and thank you very much. I talk fast and my mind is moving. I want to make things are happening in our community for the people in our community. Appreciate all your work and being a watchdog, thank you. Madam secretary, the next item. The next order is item 7, report of the chair. Madam chair [ laughter ] item 8, 8a, 2800as 2800 arels walking drive for a multiple Family Development including 19 Public Housing replacement units, affordable at 50 medium income and 11 Housing Units which are affordable at 60 media income at Hunters Point shipyard and discussion. Madam director. Thank you, madam secretary, through the chair. Theres a memo in your package. As you know, this project was phase 4 and completed the end of this year ill bring up jeff to give highlights of this one. I think what was remarkable about this is that we had the beholders apply which means all of the outreach has been working but not all. Its still good news. Good afternoon. Jeff wyatt, Housing Programme manager. The director said, the report is in your packet and phase 4, it has 31 units, 19 of the units were for Public Housing, relocateees from alice. With the marketing in this project, everybody has been moved over into a new unit from the old and thats quite a milestone. And then the other 11 units in the 31 were lottery units and those were one and two units. The larger units were right sized for the folks moving over from alice. For the preferences, first were the folks that had moved away from alice, but didnt have he had previously moved away and so they had the opportunity to come back into a tax credit unit. So four households were occupied and then, the remaining was the next preference and there were seven households there and we have theres a lot of children that came over so its an indication, a lot of families with kids, which is great news. And really kind of the highlights and im happy to have any more discussion or take question. Oh, i will mention the 11 cot holders who applied, they fell out for a variety of reasons, two ended up getting housed in an inclusionary unit and they found another option. There was one household. He wanted a threebedroom and we didnt have any available at this phase and we had somebody who was overincome and then some, luke, three folks said that they were interested in just continuing to look at other opportunities. Thank you. We have to do speaker cards first. No speaker cards and no one here to speak. Closing Public Comment and well turn to my fellow commissioners. Vice chair. Thank you, chair. You think you answered one of my questions but ill ask it again or mask it. So the displaced tenant preference is third in line for preferences on this . Thats correct. So that would explain why you could have out well, since the resident and worker reference, lets just call it the San Francisco worker reference would result in someone from outside of San Francisco getting a preference to come into this development. In that preference, thats correct. I will mention the rent burdened preference is not geographic so somebody could come in from outside of the city. Is that usually the way it works, the rent burden is ahead of the displaced tenant . The displaced tenants are San Francisco ans displaced by fire. That was later after we established the preferences in the area and we added that on after the rent burden reference, the alice resident preference and other cop folks. So, then, thats great. Now i understand it. And then the other thing to highlight, 2 of the applications, even though there were a lot of applications, but two came in paper. Dahlia, we worked very hard, if you remember, push, push, push and folks are embracing dahlia is the way to go. Theres a lot of assistance with people unti dahlia. I remember early on in the commission, when the commission was established, im sure it was Alice Griffith but i may be wrong, but there was one of our projects or meetings, we had folks afraid of moving out of, basically, their housing, even though they had a right of return because they were worried they would not be able to return. To i wani want to say its alicf filgriffith. Im just trying to complete the story in my mind because the commission was worried that folks would not be able to return, because there was a fear expressed about their ability to return for a variety of reasons. So they were clinging on to their old decrapit housing because they didnt want it to come back to the neighborhood or San Francisco. My question is, did it return. There were a lot moving. In the end, a few folks were attached to their anatomie unitt took a lot if they had a lot stuff in their apartment. Thats great news. Thats a huge success. I have one more question and i know im brow beating the situation but this being such a success, just seeing that we still only got 11 applications out of 4,000 being cop, are there any plans to cast the ar net to the members who came back in our reports who hadnt been reached out to and to get them into the fold and into the same pipeline into getting on dahlia. Is there a plan for doing that . Werwere continue doing eary outreach to be aware of early opportunity. Theyre now in the dhalia system so when it looks appealing to them, they are made aware of it multiple times andthy have the e opportunity to apply. So thats our net. And that might not be satisfying. Were always open to more ideas because during the annual report presentation, if you look at the results over the last five areas, weve increased the cop applicants, so we feel like were doing a lot. Thithe displacement happened ma, many years ago and we are doing, we think, getting as many cop holders housed as possible and there is a finite members who are out there. So thats not to say were making were continuing to redouble our efforts for each project when cop holders come up. And whenever we have a developer Selection Process for a project, we have cop outreach and results and performance top of mind. Thats something we look at and score on. You guys are doing a lot of off mazinamazing oneonone and i ws asking outside of that, cop not identified directly. As know, we had the 1718 and well have 1819 and i know you had gimp feedback o given feedbt additional outreach we had to do. Well come back to you. Madam secretary, call the next item. Commissioners question and matters . Any questions . No. The next item. The next order is item 10, closed second and the next order of business is adjournment. Mr. Chair. A motion to adjourn. I move that the meeting be adjourned. Commissioner scott, anybody second . I second the motion. Great, we have a first and second and thank you so much. The meeting is concluded at 2 18. Thank you. I strive not to be a success but more of being a valued person to the community. The day and day operations here at Treasure Island truth in family is pretty hectic. The island is comprised of approximately 500 acres, approximately 40 miles of sanitary sewer, not including the Collection System. Also monitor the sanitary sewer and Collection System for maintenance purposes, and also respond to a sanitary sewer overflows, as well as blockages, odor complaints. We work in an industry that the public looks at us, and they look at us hard in time. So we try to do our best, we try to cut down on incidents, the loss of power, cut down on the complaints, provide a Vital Service to the community, and we try to uphold that at all times. Going above and beyond is default mode. He knows his duties, and he doesnt need to be prompts. He fulfills them. He looks for what needs to be done and just does it. He wants this place to be a nice place to live and work. Hes not just thinking customer service, this is from a place of empathy. He genuinely wants things to work for everyone and that kind of caring, i admire that. I want to emulate that myself. That, to me is a leader. I strive not to be a success but more of being a valued person to the community. The key is no man is an island. When anything actually happens, they dont look at one individual, they look at p. U. C. Stepping in and getting the job done, and thats what we do. My name is dalton johnson, im the acting supervisor here at Treasure Island treatment plant. Good morning everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is october 2nd, 2019, regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. Im sandra lee fewer joined by supervisors Catherine Stefani and rafael mandelman. Our clerk is linda wong. I want to thank sfgov tv. Do you have announcements. Pleaitems will appear on october 8th board of supervisor agenda. Thank you, item number one . Resolution of amended for the java house restaurant and increasing the Monthly Base Rent to 4,000 and no change to the initial term through august 31st, 2023. I believe we have mark to present today. Madam chair, chair members and board members, im the assistant Deputy Director of real estate and development for the port of San Francisco. The item before you today regards java house restaurant, a small restaurant at pier 40 1 2 located next to south beach harbor. The java house restaurant is a long standing port restaurant which has been operated by the family for over 33 years. In 2006, by their daughter. The java house currently operates under a 15 year lease with the port that expires august 31st, 2023. The original lease covers approximately 14,090 square feet. The original lease provides for the port to receive the greater of guaranteed monthly based rent or percentage rent. The current base rent is 3,314. The percentage rent is set at 7. 5 of gross sales for food and beverage. For the period ending 12 months, the 12 month period ending may 2019, the java house reported average monthly gross sales over 17,000, which did not result in percentage rent being paid to the board. Percentage rate has not been paid to the board for quite some time under the lease. Also, pursuant to the current lease, java house was required to make Capital Improvements of at least 346,000 to the facility. Due to personal, family issues and difficulty in raising financing, the java house has not been able to complete the Capital Improvements currently under the lease. These are the signs of a struggling operation which is having a hard time making ends meet basically. In the latest phase of ongoing dialogue with the port regarding coming into compliance for Capital Improvements and overall desire to improve the Operational Performance of the restaurant, the tenant has approached the board with a proposal to restructure ownership and bring in a new investor. Under this proposal, the entity would complete the previously required Capital Improvements and construct an addition to allow outdoor seating and alcohol sales and to make amendments to the lease which improve the financial metrics to the port and provide the tenant with an initial lease term. To that end, the owners of the java house have engaged in negotiations to sell the original lease to a new entity which the current owners retain 15 ownership stake. The new entity would be called frankies java house, llc with the owner being a well known business Man Associated with the insurance industry. The frankies proposal seeks to resolve the Current Issues related to the completion of Capital Improvements and reposition the restaurant into a viable business enterprise. The proposed amendment would require them to make a Capital Investment of no less than 737,000 into the facility and includes the previously not completed improvements of 346,000. He is willing to condition the extension of the lease on the successful completion of the Capital Improvements first and to provide a personal guarantee for the cost of all the construction. Upon 100 of construction and completion of Capital Improvements, which must be completed in one year of commercement date of the amended lease, frankies has the right to extend the lease term for 10 years. The direct benefits to the port are the base rent increased to 4,000. The increase Capital Investment from the original 346,000 into the facility to 737,000 into the facility that also includes an expansion which doubles the Seating Capacity of the restaurant. So now that 737,000 is put toward an improvement that actually grows the business, creates more sales and hence brings more back to the port. The port will receive a 12 of the proceedings of the sale, which is approximately 63,000. The 12 was negotiated up from 10 originally in the lease. That was negotiated up from 10 to 12. And finally the port will receive 51,000 as a penalty from the original tenent for not completing the tenant improvements in a timely manner on time. The port is 100 in accord with the budget Analyst Report and supportive of it. If theres nothing else, i have ill be here for questions and i have a representative from the tenant to answer questions also. Thank you very much. Colleagues, any questions or comments, if not, lets hear from the ble please. Good morning chair fewer and members of the committee. This resolution approved amended and restated lease between the board and a new buyer frankies java house, llc for the java house location on pier 40 as the representative from the port stated, this would set rent at 4,000 a month in the first year increasing subsequent years and provide 7. 5 rent on gross sales. The new buyer would be required to put in about 737,000 in tenant improvements. If they put them in within the first year, they do have the option to extend the lease by an additional 10 years from 2023 to 2033. We summarized the rent component on table 2 page 4 of the report, it would be about 1. 4 million to the port over the 10 years. We want to call out, this is a sold force lease. There was not a competitive process to select the tenant. There is a port retail policying that allows for sole source if its a tenant in Good Standing and financially reasonable to do so. We summarize that on page 5 of the report. The current tenant couldnt be considered a good tenant in standing, but the assumption if they make the improvements and get the additional 10 years, it will be a benefit to the port, because its consistent with the ports retail policy, we recommend it. Lets open this up for Public Comment . Seeing none, closed. I have one question. Just for clarification, so it looks as though there are 12 years left on the current lease. This started in 2007, is that correct . Yeah, it expires in 2023. So, they would do improvements and if they do it within a year, they have the option to actually extend it for another 10 years. Correct. Would that extend it not to 2023 but to 2033. At that time when they renegotiate have the option to extend it for another 10 years, a rerenegotiating then, another rental fee . You mean after the 2033 . So if in a year, they decide to we offer them the 10 year extension and then are we then negotiating at another rate for the additional what happens when they exercise the if and when they exercise the option, the base rent would rachet up to basically 85 of the percentage rent experience for the past three years. So theres a racheting up and that also happens in year well, year five of the option. So half way through the option, theres a market its a market to market adjustment. So the lease constantly goes up with the market. I think you mentioned, i could be wrong, 15 of ownership will be with the original owners or leasees, is that correct in. Yes. If they extend it for 10 more years after the 2023 date, would 15 of the ownership still be would we still see the 15 of ownership is with the existing tenant now . Thats probably no guarantee, if the person may sell out at some point. Its a partnership ownership. So its hard to predict what would happen. Theres no requirement. Correct. This has been in the family hands for so long. This is the kind of thing that we actually this handoff, of a struggling business, that is an institution in San Francisco. I think it has been recognized as very much beloved institution along our waterfront and the family has invested so much into the building of this, the name and also i think some of the great affection that San Francisco has for the java house, right . So my question is just about the 15 ownership because it would be really nice if they could continue to be part still of what they originally developed. We are losing so many of these institutions in our neighborhoods and it would be nice to see that the original owners would still have 15 ownership. Thats the only reason i ask. And i think they they have experienced personal family difficulties, you know, the spirit has gone away a little bit but they still want to hold on and be a part of it. Kind of nice. Thank you very much. No more Public Comment. No questions or comments from colleagues, i would like to move it with a positive recommendation to the board and we can take that without objection. Thank you colleagues. Madam clerk. Resolution approving bond or loan for California Municipal Authority not to exceed 65 million to refinance outstanding debt and refinance the acquisition construction and improvement located within the city owned and managed by healthright 360. And we have michelle from the office of Public Finance. Thank you very much. Good morning. From the Controllers Office of Public Finance. Thank you for considering the item today. And in attendance, representing the healthright 360. He can speak in more detail about the project if theres specific questions about that. Just as a reminder for you and the public, the tax and financial act allows the Tax Exemption on interest of certain types of debts. In this case, proposed financing through the California Municipal Authority through which San Francisco is a participating member. Notes and bonds and certificate of depreciation. This resolution is before you because federal tax law requires that the governor body in which the project is locating approve the finances after providing opportunity for a public hearing before bonds can be issued on tax exempt basis. The city and county of San Francisco is not obligated for payment on the bonds. Hearing notice was published on september 6th. The public hearing held at the office of Public Finance on september 16th and no comments from members of the public were heard or received. Ill give you background on the borrower. Healthright 360 arose out of a merger between two clinics. They started in the 60s to serve adolescences and young adults and opened in 1967 as the first Free Medical Clinic in the country. They were an innovator to giving Healthcare Services to those who could least afford it under the guiding principle that healthcare is a right and not a privilege. It was to help homeless and runaway adolescences. Today it treats people with Mental Health and Substance Abuse problems at various centers throughout california, including prison treatment programs and providing drug and alcohol treatment and Mental Health services for people transitioning back into their communities. Like the free clinics, they have served people who are underserved, homeless and those with h. I. V. And aids. They merged in 2012 and have subsequently added additional clinics and programs that serve San Francisco to its portfolio, including Asian American recovery services, lion martin Health Services and Womens Community clinic. So the project, proceeds from the sale of the bonds will be loaned for the following purposes, to refinance all or portions of outstanding debt obligations financed and refinanced, furnishing of clinics and Treatment Facilities at hayes street, buena vista west, haight street, coleridge all within the city of San Francisco managed and owned by healthright 360, a California Public non benefit corporation with Residential Treatment Services in the city and equipping and maintaining such facilities may capitalize interest on the bonds and pay certain expenses incurred with the issuance of the bonds. They would issue the bonds to not exceed 69 million. Bond council on the transaction, the bonds do not con constitute a debt of the city. If there are questions, ill be happy to answer and the borrower is here as well. That was very thorough. Thank you. There is no b l. A. Required on this. Opening up for Public Comment. Any Public Comment on item number two . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, any questions or comments . Seeing none, i would like to move it to the board with a positive recommendation. Thank you good to see you. Thank you madam clerk. Call item number three. Resolution retroactively approving the contract for electric Monitoring Program for term of three years from august 1st, 2019, through 2022 with two one year options to approve. We have the Sheriffs Department here. Good morning supervisors. Im here requesting retroactive approval of a contract we have with sentinel. We were here in july and this body approved the Program Scope and legislation today approves the contract as a whole, not simply the scope. Otherwise it is unchanged. But still ill give program history. Electric Monitoring Program to provide alternatives to incarceration. Fee structure was originally based on ability to pay. In february of 2018, the sheriff waived fees for sentenced participants and in february 2018 an apellet court ruling required courts to consider ability to pay and non monetary alternatives when setting bail or release conditions. This resulted in a significant increase in the number of people who came on to and into electric monitoring as ordered by the courts. Monthly participation increased from about 100 before the ruling to roughly about 400 per month now. And as i said, we were here in july, this body approved the Program Scope for the contract to begin august 1st and were here today simply to approve the contract as a whole, which we should have done back then. I have two other slides that before you that show the growth and monthly participation that resulted from the Appellate Court ruling. Fees went up, we struggled with this for the budget last year but have budgeted for it in the current year. The mayors office, mayors Budget Office was generous in their funding of this, thank you. And finally this last slide before you, just shows the increase in releases on alternatives. Back in september, late september 2016 we had total justice involved population of about 2150 of which 1350 were in jail and about 800 were out on some sort of alternative. In september 2019, the total number of justice involved people is up to over 2700, the jail population has gone down by about 75, but the individuals out of custody on pretrial release or sentenced to alternatives has gone up. That means that our the percentage of people on alternatives has increased from 37 to 53 which is higher than youll find in other counties in the bay area. Thank you. Yes . Supervisor stefani. Thank you chair fewer and thank you for the presentation. Can you talk about the success rates of electric monitoring . Have you noticed anything obviously we know why the number of people on electric monitoring have gone up, but im just wondering if theres been problems and if you could briefly touch on the success rates . Well, theres been quite a bit of there have been news reports about some of issues that have come up, but overall, for people who are put on some form of pretrial release, over 90 show up to court. I think overall the program has been successful. Continues to be successful. And what happens i know it says something about the Sheriffs Department staff will respond and enforce compliance of the programs rules. If in that 10 situation, what happens then . Then we have a warrant Services Group and the warrant Services Group responds as needed. Okay. To people who are not responding in the way they should. Thank you. Any other comments or questions. Bla please . Yes, the proposed resolution retroactively approves the program as stated excuse me. As was stated, the board did previously approve the terms and conditions of the program but not the contract itself. It is below the charter threshold for board approval but the california penal code does require approval. It would be for three years with a maximum amount of 3. 4 million. There are two, one year extensions subject to board approval if they exceed the 3. 4 million maximum. We recommend approval. Im sorry. Thank you very much. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you chair fewer. This is a little outside the scope of the contract, but im curious if the Sheriffs Department has thoughts on what accounts for this pretty significant increase in the estimated job population without alternatives to incarceration. You dont have to answer that. Its not related to the contract. I think actually if i were the one answering asking the question, it would be why is the justice involved population going up so much. I think the fact that alternatives to incarceration have gone up speaks to the citys commitment to alternatives to incarceration. But the increase in the total justice involved population . Id speak to any number of issues but i would be my expertise is finance. Im not sure i would want to venture into that area. I didnt totally expect you to answer that. But it is a marked increase. Thank you. Certainly. I think that there are many questions that i have about this and just about the program in general and why are there some people who can be released without it and why courts are requiring it and what is behind that and have we done analysis or advocacy for those who dont need to be electronically monitored who are employed, have families, stable. I think its a larger question and the question that supervisor mandelman had, i dont think you have the answers to that today. But it think it calls for a larger and deeper discussion about the demographics of the people released and the ones not released and for what offenses and the outcomes, too. Anyway, today i know you are in charge of finance, open up for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment on item 3 . Seeing none, it is closed. I will move to the board with a positive recommendation and take without objection. Thank you. Good to see you again. Madam clerk, item 4. Resolution authorizing the execution and acceptance of the First Amendment to a lease buy between lexington lion of San Francisco and the city for the Real Property at 350 rhode island street north facilitating the provision of rent credit to the city in consideration of waiver of real estate afforded to the city under the lease. Thank you very much. Im going to make a motion to continue the item but before i do that, i would like to open for Public Comment. Any members of the public want to comment on item 4 . Seeing none, it is closed. I would like to make a motion to move this item to the next meeting next week. Thank you madam clerk. Thank you. Madam clerk, call item 5. Resolution approving easement agreement between Pacific Gas Electric company for the exchange of easement areas at airports west of bay shore for the replacement of a natural gas pipeline. So we have deanna with us today. Im sorry, my notes say kathy wagner. Please. The airport is requesting approval of the quick claim agreement with pg e over the airports west of bayshore property. The original easement was conveyed in 1953, it includes a natural gas line, in accordance with u. S. Department of transportation departments concerning pipeline integrity. Its necessary to bring the facility into compliance with the federal mandate. A 3700 foot section of gas pipeline will be replaced installing alignment. Im happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Theres no bla required on this. Open for Public Comment. Any members of the public want to comment . Seeing none, its closed. I would like to make a motion to move to the board with a positive recommendation. Thank you madam clerk. Item 6. Item 6, resolution approving a 2011 Lease Agreement between the city and El Al Israel Airlines limited, effective the following day of the first month and expire june 30, 2021. Exclusive use space and joint use space and rent and landing fees. Thank you very much. The airport is requesting your approval of a new lease with El Al Israel Airlines as a significanttory to the 2011 Lease Agreement for approximately 1 year nine months. Through june 30, 2021. This agreement is the mechanism that allows airlines to provide Flight Operations and rent terminal space at the airport and has a common set of lease provisions such as rent and fees and terminal space and provides Legal Framework to make an annual Service Payment to the city. The airport projects 1. 1 million in exclusive space rent over the term of the lease and 889,000 in joint use rent which is determined annually by formula. Im happy to answer questions. Thank you very much. Can we get a report please . Yes, the proposed resolution approves adding El Al Israel Airlines to the agreement at the airport, this is the agreement that all Airlines Sign on to that are operating at the airport, they started operating under permit of may this year. This Lease Agreement sets the terms for rent and for landing fees and as you see in table 2, page 15 of the report, rent over the remaining term of the Lease Agreement through 2021 is 1. 1 million in addition to allow paying landing fees to the airport. There will be the total Lease Agreement for all airlines does expire in 2021 and a new document coming forward to the board. Any members of the public . Seeing none, it is closed. Any questions or comments supervisors . Only to say if my grandma were alive, she would be excited about this item and i want to move forward. We can take that without objection. Thank you very much. Madam clerk any other items . No other items. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very Minimal Energy use. It Still Matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. So having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. We heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. It was super easy to sign up. Our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. Nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. Its an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around Climate Change and its so easy that its hard to not want to do it, and it doesnt really add anything to the bill. [ ] 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. [ ]