[inaudible conversations] good evening. Ima member of the event to staff and i would like to welcome you this evening to politics and prose took a quick note before we start, now would be a great time to silence cell phones. Feel free to take flash free photography. We are here to welcome Hendrick Meijer for his new book, Arthur Vandenberg the man in the middle of the american century. When Arthur Vandenberg assumed his seat as a republican senator 1928 is outspoken opponent of the new deal and staunch isolationist. By the end of his life was not just a supporter of nato event un, but a key architect of the american postwar policy and in this comprehensive biology he changes from a politician to effective consensus builder. Is a reporter, editor and executive producer of the [inaudible] please help me welcome them both to politics and prose. Thank you for coming and thank you for that nice introduction. I am delighted to have pink with us tonight because this is a surprisingly relevant
By 2020 i know we have to make Public Housing a habitable for people that live there for seniors to count that into the 10 thousands didnt make sense we have facing a displacement criticized i want to say for the teacher housing i know since the feinstein and Park Side School issued years and years ago weve been trying for many years rent subsidizes or other thoughtful Going Forward as youre trying to figure out that the Teachers Union and sciu and 10 to one and people vong for more hours were not all adapted from the city during the terrible crisis thank you for your prediction and all the work. Colleagues, any other questions from any of our departments okay want to thank all the departments for being here and look forward to continue our conversations so at that point item number one ill read your name line up against the far wall ive seen a number of speaker cards around the arts we had our hamburger last week on the arts program obviously feel free to speak on that matter but we h
Believe this is the new frontier the equality San Francisco needs art and culture to thrive european and intelligently please encourage the mayor to provide fund for the art years budget thank you thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im going to start by addressing some of the my neighbors are artists im an artist being vooektd my michael and carlos and others so just to name a few i only have 2 minutes so id like to talk on behalf of emerald tablet on a in which Arts Organization their lease it up in two months in their facing a double rent increase also the Corner Museum is being evicted or has been evicted a lot of young people go to there im also disturbed about that but not as disturbed as any friend todd brown from the poppy arts center his rent was increased 27 percent the rent on third and fulsome a viable place and im asking maybe a rent increase can help the red poppy is a viable to my neighborhood and a lot of people came out of the red poppy and to note thi
Commission has decreased by thirty percent compound by the affordability crisis particular in housing this deep funding has an outsized impact on artist and the Arts Organizations they serve artists are being driven from the city in small and mid sized organization very existence being threatened as a member of the loinsz we supported the position that any increase in the civic arts be helpful to that end we support and encourage you to include the 2 percent cost of living by the grants for the arts and supportive of the grants for the better art weve at t yerba buena arts. Thank you, sir. Sir. Excuse me, sir. Thank you your two minutes are up we have to respect those waiting in line. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello lead organizer more arts for a better burr along with the flight today we the members of our allies want to talk about an important liveability art and cultural were asking for an 8 Million Investment since we began in january over 5 hundred people are attended our m
Please encourage the mayor to provide fund for the art years budget thank you thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im going to start by addressing some of the my neighbors are artists im an artist being vooektd my michael and carlos and others so just to name a few i only have 2 minutes so id like to talk on behalf of emerald tablet on a in which Arts Organization their lease it up in two months in their facing a double rent increase also the Corner Museum is being evicted or has been evicted a lot of young people go to there im also disturbed about that but not as disturbed as any friend todd brown from the poppy arts center his rent was increased 27 percent the rent on third and fulsome a viable place and im asking maybe a rent increase can help the red poppy is a viable to my neighborhood and a lot of people came out of the red poppy and to note this issue ignores the cultural life in San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Th