Oh, hat cant be i have t you must be having a musical reaction to something. And showed them together. And then you went Royal Danish Academy of art, studied there, and then you moved to new york, but it wasnt until you moved back to europe from america where you began to start making art seriously. Was y sort of tied up wir identity that you were a european and you could only work properly when you got back to europe . Yeah. It i was a young artist. I started art school when the berlin wall came down. I was so optimistic, i said, ok. Im done. Why ever stay in art school . Let me just gew york anget it over with, so it was only when i realized, oh, this is actually a little hder. Maybe studying art is not so bad, after all, so i went back, and i realized, hmm, maybe being honest to myself, taking this se,ous, slowing down a b and this is sort of when i actually started, i say, to get more serious. And you are now a worldrenowned artist and particularly famous for your largescale instal
He is the awardwinning, icelandicdanish artist he is the awardwinning, iceOlafur Eliasson. Tist he believes that art can change the world by, for instance, helping to tackle Climate Change. This is one of his exhibits, a giant wall made of moss, and the idea iet people thinking differently about the environment. For instance, could oubuildinge with more sustainable materials. Is this f thinking visionary or just sily farfetched . Olafur erdasson, welcome to halk. Thu, zeinab. You had a fairly unorthodox upbringing. Yoy parents were extremung when they had you your mother 20, you father 19 born in iceland, moved to denmark. Your mother was a seamstress, your father a cook. Hodid your early life influence you and your work . Well, my father moved back to icand, and so i always spent my vacations in iceland, whcking around in nature he was out painting. He also worked as an artist, actually, and my mother, then, in demark would make sure i would go to school, and wer ould say that my motr
Thank you. Please call item number one. One is a hearing to consider appointing one member indefinite term to the close Juvenile Hall working group. Thank you. Did you have any comments before we hear from the applicant . I do. Thank you so much. As we know this is our final appointment to our 15 Member Working Group for the closed year of Juvenile Hall. We are excited to be at this point where we can point and other young person who will be serving. I am looking forward to the committee having the first meeting this wednesday and to finalize all the members of the working group. That is great news. So we have three applicants. I will call them all forward. Charles peacock, Danielle Russ wurm and julia thompson. We dont have any of the applicants. Do you have any thoughts about who you would like to see appointed, supervisor walton . I do. Thank you so much. The first thing i want to say is i appreciate everyone who applied to serve on the working group, especially our young people who
Chair ronen the meeting will come to order. This is the december 9, 2019 meeting of the rules committee. I am hillary ronen, chair of the committee. To my right is supervisor shamann walton, and supervisor gordon mar will shortly join me. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence all phones and electronic devices. Items acted on will appear on the december 19 board of supervisors agenda. Chair ronen just a quick note. Im going to call items out of order, so ill call item 1, and then 3 and 4, and end with 2 because its our longest item of the day. Mr. Clerk, will you please call item 1. Clerk item 1 is a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending march 31, 2020, to the commission on ageing Advisory Council. Chair ronen thank you. Is mr. Cooper here . My background, you have aha a recesume and summary to look over. I went to harvard, and my last clinical environment was with liver disease. I wasnt a fulltime clinician, but liver liver disease. And a
That will let people understand in detail before the budget gets to the board. Its something that ive often behind the scenes tried to request but havent had very much success in and only requesting those from the departments that im focused on. We should be receiving those as a matter of course from all departments. I want to tell you how excited i am with that particular part of the legislation. With that, if theres no further comment from my colleagues, ill open this up for Public Comment. Anyone wishing to speak, please lineup to my right, your left, and anyone wishing to speak please start us off. Debra . Good morning, supervisors, and i share your excitement. I am Debbie Lehrman from the budget justice coalition, and first i want to thank supervisors fewer and mar, chelsea and daisy, and all of the cosponsors who have signed on, along with the Mayors Office and the Budget Office. The budget is the singlemost important piece of legislation that this board takes on every year, and