Is here and francesca vetore is here. Approving of minutes of october 22nd shgs 2013. Moved and seconded. Any comments from approval of the minutes . Hearing none, Public Comment is closed. All in favor say, aye. Aye. The motion carries. Next item . Public comments. I have no cards. Good afternoon doctor. Its a great day. Im here to make a request. I thought it was your birthday. Im 80 now. Dont make me older. My request is a hearing that was moved on sometime ago about the southeast facility and sewage plant. I would like for you, please, its been at least three or four 4 months that was passed on to uphold a hearing with your staff about this and that has not came forth. I want to say this to the listening audience because they see me in the store and on the street and shake my hand for the work that i do. I never ask anyone for anything but im going to ask you that are here to pray for me. I will be praying for you. To pray for the elderly, pray for the children and please pray for
Vietor. There is a difference in the process in regards to Public Comment. City attorneys office. I think thats correct. The administrative code has requirements with respect to protesting contract procurement process. There are no City Ordinances mandating a specific protest opportunity for grant. It would be up to the granting department to provide inform for that. But certainly Public Comment would be due process for that to occur. Commissioner torres . Council, back to you, under the administrative code the grant producing agency would be the repository for a protest . The administrative code actually at this point does not specify any required citywide protocols for grant making. So if an agency receives a complaint, that agency can ignore it or does it have to act upon it . They have a process by which they would award a grant and then they would themselves determine whether or not the complaint warranted redoing the grant award. The witness has testified or stated that there wer
The tremendous number of persons were the number of applicants interested in youth and young people. You will see a lot of Program Expansion to support more young people and more expanded program opportunities. So, again none of the programs that you see are new. There are programs that have been in the community that were seeking to expand the work they do by bringing in additional artist by serving more young people, by having more opportunities for free and expanded access. You will see on the next page a couple of, two programs in particular that focus on elders in the community. One wah is a wonderful grant of quilt making program in the university and innovative use of the arts with recycled material working with women in the Salvation Army bayview Hunters Point ministry. You will see this all within the bayview hunters neighborhood and all will be expanding their grant making. Really to wrap it up, the grants are under way. We are beginning to see some program attic activities t
Public comment on item no. 5, communications . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Next item, please. Item 6. Any Public Comment on item 6 . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Next item please. Item 7. Report of the general manager. Good afternoon, next on the agenda what i want to bring back is the bayview arts grants update. The puc made a commitment to bayview arts in San Francisco. The city requires by City Ordinance to contribute 2 percent cost for the Arts Commission in the city. In 2011 we actually passed a Community Benefit policy that alliance the art contributions with our goal which are to be a Good Neighbor and invest in arts and cultural neighborhoods that are impacted by our services and operations. Before it would go to the Arts Commission and we didnt have about where these funds would be directed. We partner closely with the Arts Commission to administer art funding similar to how we partner to other agencies like the department of the environment, San Franci
1 35 p. M. Madam secretary . President courtney, here, commissioner moran, here, commissioner torres . Here. Vicepresident Ann Moller Caen is here and francesca vetore is here. Approving of minutes of october 22nd shgs 2013. Moved and seconded. Any comments from approval of the minutes . Hearing none, Public Comment is closed. All in favor say, aye. Aye. The motion carries. Next item . Public comments. I have no cards. Good afternoon doctor. Its a great day. Im here to make a request. I thought it was your birthday. Im 80 now. Dont make me older. My request is a hearing that was moved on sometime ago about the southeast facility and sewage plant. I would like for you, please, its been at least three or four 4 months that was passed on to uphold a hearing with your staff about this and that has not came forth. I want to say this to the listening audience because they see me in the store and on the street and shake my hand for the work that i do. I never ask anyone for anything but im go