Organizations have a presence in nearly every Public School in San Francisco and our programs are important for the expensive education to the student we have gather organization and hispanic the environment we we share and help to better understand our community in the past 10 years the city budget increased 70 percent but the grants to the Arts Commission has decreased thirty percent and hotel tax increases if the Hotel Formula was the same arts organizations across the city would have access to 90 million in the past 10 years it effects our neighborhood and neighbors we fully support of the elements as the Additional Fund for the i delivered the support for the recommendations to each the supervisors offices today, i urge you to remember how important arts are to this city and neighborhoods much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello supervisors my name is susan im the managing director of the cutting ball theatre i was invited to speak because to my organizati
Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello supervisors my name is susan im the managing director of the cutting ball theatre i was invited to speak because to my organization is a small one we make a big impact on the city specifically on the local that tenderloin i serve on the local board in the tenderloin cutting ball you can buy ticket and no one is turned away first floor for a lack of fund it expands the imagination and depraved liveability for everyone we hire Prime Minister local artist that bring art and create a delegates for over 5 thousand people that activate your parked locally, however, like a hundred and 49 other small and mid sized organizations were under relative to the the general operating support allows us to pay our rent increasing expensive were going facing a hundred percent increase in rent i ask you to support of funding and in addition further increase g fta budget and recommended by the agencies to improve the funding for small mid sized art on may 2nd theatres
Organizations we need to support thank you thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi very much members of the board im mark you moved to San Francisco normal twovr years ago and started a comedy group and part of the Hewitt Foundation and on the arts task force youve heard from many of my clarifications about the specific budgeted requests for the art funding their cheap their cheap compared to some of the investment that need to be made in the department of the public works and the in dont support of art theyre a bargain they connect me to you a dramatic play a movie a work of art opens the windows to the world and the Community Around us nothing feels alert are better than laugh with the members of the board at the comedy show im not here to convince you that it is like Health Insurance or insurance love makes life worth living has we navigate the issues about social and qualifying and leased rings on the communities are on the mind cross the country and define what is it to be
Making investment in the art to see how we can make the difference and it acknowledges and comes up with solution we should invest in the arts its a Model Program but and if those issues of inequality are addressed we should fund them more theres a lot of Art Commission and theyve been doing a fanatic job in funding the city and ab boo makes significant contributions for the arts commissions that as a result culture Economic Program so i want to thank you, again so much for letting this conversation happen. Thats correct very much thank you. Next speaker, please. 50u im kevin the scombrgd a former grand maker and whole a lot of other things im here to talk about an experience American People an individual artist for the last 12 of 11 years scrapped together my fund to make videos and other cultural event last year, i received the public funding the culture Equality Fund and in the amount of 10,000 this grant completely changed how i viewed my progress and allowed me to get to now heigh
More theres a lot of Art Commission and theyve been doing a fanatic job in funding the city and ab boo makes significant contributions for the arts commissions that as a result culture Economic Program so i want to thank you, again so much for letting this conversation happen. Thats correct very much thank you. Next speaker, please. 50u im kevin the scombrgd a former grand maker and whole a lot of other things im here to talk about an experience American People an individual artist for the last 12 of 11 years scrapped together my fund to make videos and other cultural event last year, i received the public funding the culture Equality Fund and in the amount of 10,000 this grant completely changed how i viewed my progress and allowed me to get to now heights this program has been in existence within the recommendation of alba the Arts Coalition incision an increase of one thousand dollars that allows meaningful and thought fund for the artist you here are hear from a lot of small and La