When we started selling yelp across the street. And its been rung many times and we were going to allow you to bring it forward laughter its been an honor. Let it ring. ring, im your host of culturewire, and today, here at electric works in San Francisco. Nice to see you today. Thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. My pleasure. How long has electric works been around . Electric works has been in San Francisco since the beginning of 2007. We moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. We do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. We will look at all of that as we walk around. It is incredible to me how many Different Things you do. How is it you identify that San Francisco was in need of all these Different Services . It came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. I wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. It should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. It should have a retail store. In 1972, i wanted to have art sales, pointofsale at the grocery store. So you go through the manifesto. With the bay area should have. You are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. Lets take a walk around the facilities. Here we are in your gallery space. Can you tell me about the current show . The current show is jeff chadsey. He is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. I do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. It is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. Your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. How to use some of what you look for in artists you represent . It is dependent on people are confident with their materials. That is a really important thing. There is enough stuff in the world already. You also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. Lets go over and take a look at that. Here we are in a smaller space. Project gallery. Artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. I noticed a lot of artists doing really sitespecific work. This is a pile of balloons, something that is so familiar, like a childs balloon. In this proportion, suddenly, it becomes something out of a dream. Or a nightmare. May be a nightmare. This one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. This is made out of puffy paint. Often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. She has made all these lines of paint. For the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of . Im not telling. Ah, a secret. This silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. Her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. Their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. This is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now. You have a more established artists alongside and emerging artists. Is that something important to you as well . Very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. Now lets look at other aspects of electric works operation. Lets go to the bookstore. Ok. In all seriousness, here we are in your store. This is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. It has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. This was the project for the berkeley art museum. It was this is from william wileys retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song, 270 people put on the cat. It is not just a bookstore. It is a store. Can you talk us through some of your favorites . These are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. These pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. We do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. They are probably not for prime time. You sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. Maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. Lets go. Before we go into the print shop, i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. What are we standing in front of . This is william wiley, only one earth. This is a print edition. There are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. This is really an art object. There we go. Besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited edition . There is the slot machine. If you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. What about work . The right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. The cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. Really special. Lets move on to the print shop. Ok. The core of what we do is making things. This is an example. This is a print project that will be a fundraiser for the contemporary music players. We decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. So nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell, and the profits, they can keep. The return on investment is usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. This is for the bio reserve in mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. You also make prints for the artists that you represent. Over here are some large prints by a phenomenal artist. He writes these beautiful things. Anyone who has told you paradise is a book of rules is has only appeared through the windows. This is from all over coffee. We are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. Thank you very much for showing us around today. I really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation and also to share with our culturewire team. We will call this meeting of the Historic Preservation. Welcome to the regular meeting for wednesday november 6th. If you have any mobile devices please silence them. Id like to take roll at this time calling names commissioners first on your calendared is the consent calendar. The public may address the agenda items but the item when its reached during the meeting and each speaker may have up to 3 minutes mrs. Haas. Commissioners im you jim haas. Id like to these microphones you have to swallow them to make them work properly. I want to condominium on the heritage report. I served on the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation under president carter in the 70s. At the time that the secretary standards were being developed. Those were developed for a narrow purpose to deal with the tax credit and to protect the tax treasurer. Ive you witnessed the expansion of those guidelines and scope of application in ways ive never expected and its had an effect on people in their be feblt to use the historic resources. Theres been a reaction to that in the 21st century from a gentleman at notre dame. Some of you attended his lecturer. I have a paper that summarizes the theme. That has brought forward a go robust discussion on the secretary standards. Now the spear heritage report overlooks that doesnt mention that. I find it startling and ive interviewed 5 members of the committee that said it wasnt discussed. Thats quite extraordinary. Now, when supervisor wiener was preparing pious election regarding the prestige i lent him the professors book. Hes familiar with the whole issue of secretary standards and thats one of the reasons he suggested the local guidelines be presented now you have in your work plan an item to prepare thosegles and budget item for it. As ive not seen any activity towards that. That should be your first that priority. The items litsdz listed in the spear heritage report are nice preschooler things by in getting into the business in San Francisco the first order t is to straighten out the order like they did in charleston and portland and i urge you to move in that direction mr. Paul scott your item is coming up during staff report, would you like to speak that then . Thank you in the meantime any any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Yep. Yes it probably would be best for paul scioto speak at this time because it was not an agenda item its only an informational report back to the commissioners so pardon me mr. Scott. Thank you, commissioner. As many of you may know theres a fire at the case he will there was a torch on the roof. But theres a story about it in the paper i dont know how many details argue interested in are i want to let u. S. You know were open it and weve had numerous people on the site to inspect it to try to maintain the materials to have a complete picture how to rebuild and but i knew this would be of concern to you folks. I wanted to check in with you. Weve provided some pictures to the planning staff i assume it will show you the condition of the roof and well be taking spepz steps to put that back together. Weve got enough information from the materials we have to rebuild it exactly as it was. Thats the plan. The only other thing i wanted to add in our last visit that was a discussion we received a copy of final motion and theres a discussion around this fence wail the tiled wall on the property that seems to be going in a different direction so i wanted to have you folks be aware of that and perhaps consider the language that was used under it was different from what i understood the commission was going. I understood the consensus on the commission was to maintain the wall in place with perhaps eliminating some things but the language is to basically eliminate this wall above of the dirt line, you know, for the reasons weve explained i can show you a picture of it. This is the hi and actually, i work with staff on that. I remember it very well. Sorry to divert you from the agenda if you have any questions, ill be happy to answer them. Okay take care. Any member of the public wishes to speak on any item seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners that places you on Department Matters item one announcements. Good afternoon, tim from the staff the directors report is in our packet if you have any questions, ill be happy to answer them. Seeing no questions the review of the staff report and nominates. Commissioners tim fry again, a couple of items i have nuke u nothing to report from our previous Planning Commission hearings although congratulations to mr. John for his appointment as commissioner commission secretary. Last week myself moss he is and commissioner andrew accepted on honor at the National Trust prestige convention n in i said i understand regarding the twin peaks. Moss he is spoke to the h pc designation work Programming Program to designate properties that have significance beyond the architecture. Other Properties Like marcus book store and other awards included the new york city aids memorial which is currently under design and construction and near i cant recall the name of the hospital but near the Lower East Side the st. Vincents hospital. And the lgbt contact statement that is currently underway by authors shawn, watson and donna graves with the partnership with the lgbt Historic Society and they received some funding prosecute with the development of that document. To follow up on mr. Scotts comments there was a small fire at the julissa castle i have some photos that were submitted. Apparently, there was some reroofing on the deck the contractors were using below torchs and there was not a fire marshall observing the work and a fire broke out but the fire was contained pretty quickly. The pit was destroyed but theres enough material to build it. There was some water damage to the interior and i believe thats still under that examtion. Finally, i want to let you know ill be at the mayors graffiti board talking about the h pcs process for the permits alternate. Their primarily looking for ways to work with the department and the h pc to curb situations like what just happened at the bank. So its a high he concern and they want to address it in a meaningful way in Law Enforcement and abatement. Ill report back to you on the finding at youre next h pc hearing if you have any questions, well be happy to answer them thank you prosecute fry seeing none, no questions. I want to remind the public please silence all electronic devices. That places you under wants reports and announcement. No formal announcements. Draft minutes brawl special meeting and a regular meeting. Commissioner. Myself may i ask the question that mr. Scott raised about the motion is that to i was going to offer a motion 40 to a approve both sets of minutes. Public condominium first. On the minutes. Do we have a second. Anyone wish to comment on the draft minutes for either the special or regular meeting any Public Comment . Seeing none, move open. We have a motion second. Thank you. On the motion then to adapt the minutes for october 16th special and regular meetings. calling names so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 7 to zero and places i under item 5 condominiums and a questions. Commissioner pearlman. I can tell even about the graffiti its been removed. Theres still some ghosting of that and theyre adding the shool. Just an update on the project itself pits moving forward and theyre starting construction either january or february and theres some permit issues being looked at. The final removing of the graffiti will happen during the restoration of the building thank you. I think that mr. Haas raised some interesting and legitimate concerns. You know were going to embark on this project to study the secretary of interior standards and any local application. I think it is so important that this is going to take several meetings i up. I think that it should be discussions in an atmosphere or a forum where were not simply considering heritage reports. It should be broadened so other members of the Historic Preservation community have an you been opportunity pr i think we should invite them and they should express their feelings so we can get the broad it possible spectrum of opinion and pressure from all those various groups and that will better allow the Historic Preservation commission to evaluate the entire subject matter. We might not get back to this for many, many years. Its important we do it correctly. Im not sure what the mechanism is i dont know if the professor would come to invest but i think we should have more than one meeting at which the various well lobbying groups for the various positions are invited to make their points. I have one other thing on december 4th the Historical Society will be presenting a tea focus this year is on Tea Service Tea is a resident july and one of the magnificent things when mary madison of Pillsbury Madison its a tour of 1920s. Thank you, commissioner. I wanted to ask the staff about the study that i remember at least when i came on earlier this year as part of a work program were going to be looking the guidelines. Im looking the points that jim haas raised in conjunction where we left the action agenda from the spurs Historic Preservation report the idea was to develop a list of priority steps and actions. Id like to have staff condominium on where you think were at with that and how we tie the action items on the super report. Im going to open my mouth on whether or not we need a subcommittee and we should be on the subcommittee to help you laughter mr. Fry. Tim fry Department Staff in the john and johns question this summer weve begun compiling Design Guidelines that are based on the secretary of interior standards we had one intern to mormon late on ways to apply the secretary of interior adds. Weve been attending various you Community Meetings relevance at the Victorian Alliance and heard many concerns the direction they felt we should take. Eave begun that Public Engagement and we certainly think its a way to have a boarder forum and several meetings not in in a rigid format to