Like the big hit was at the minority groups. I think the numbers where we look at percentage of underrepresented groups receiving allocations that is the total money available that year oppose today the actual amount of monies are also going down over the years, so there are 2 different factors. The otherit doesnt reallythank you for the analysis. The general question i have is, even though whatever gets allocated to grants fl art, it isnt necessarily tie today the hotel tax. This leaves a soft relationship, but it is general funds and at the same time if the hotel tax goes into dpr againroom funds and went opfaum [inaudible] you would think arts group would get a little more support. What do you think the reason is . When f we have more general funds and the arts group get less money actually i think that would be a question for the mayors budget office. The way it works everything since there is a change in the code where these are general funds revenue there is a dedicated amount pu
Shulman coulden be here, but from grants from the art is con wong as mr. Wong is being set up i know our City Attorney probably has advice for us about Hotel Tax Fund resources and how the city allocates those resources and im wondering if mr. [inaudible] could give a comment about that sure. [inaudible] the office advised the board a cual years ago about various law suits involving the hotel tax. The specific answer for arts funding is the hotel tax isnt specifically allocated for arts funding. That funding comes from the general fund and as howard mentioned the amount of the fundsing is a discretionary decision for the board and mayor. It is based on a large number of factors including the amount of revenue coming into the general fund thank you mr. Wong thank you for having me. Good afternoon supervisors and chairman. My name is con wong and Senior Program manager for grants the arts. I would like to acknowledge a few of my colleagues here. [inaudible] pointing them out because shou
Shows fundsing between 1999 and 2012 13 and you see the downward slope. This chart shows a comparison of San Francisco demo grap grafics to grants of the arts funding in 2010. What is interesting in here is in 2010 grants of the arts awarding 21 percent to racial minority grumes and 58 percent of San Francisco demo graphics in that yearof the population in that year was classified as people of color so there was a disparity there. In this slide you see the relationship between grants the arts and cultural equity grants. Many of those receiving grants fl arts also received cultural equity grants. There is no formal relationship between the 2 arts programs. In conclusion grants fl arts doesnt have criteria specifically for funding underrepresented groups, nor does it have a methodology for defining underrepresented. As result this report used the back ground of key staff and the organizations mission. There are many possibles reasons why people of color organizations declined since fisqu
That went down also. It seems like the big hit was at the minority groups. I think the numbers where we look at percentage of underrepresented groups receiving allocations that is the total money available that year oppose today the actual amount of monies are also going down over the years, so there are 2 different factors. The otherit doesnt reallythank you for the analysis. The general question i have is, even though whatever gets allocated to grants fl art, it isnt necessarily tie today the hotel tax. This leaves a soft relationship, but it is general funds and at the same time if the hotel tax goes into dpr againroom funds and went opfaum [inaudible] you would think arts group would get a little more support. What do you think the reason is . When f we have more general funds and the arts group get less money actually i think that would be a question for the mayors budget office. The way it works everything since there is a change in the code where these are general funds revenue
Lawyer. Later former secretary Janet Napolitano talks about education policy. Next a discussion on the impact of the splooem Supreme Court decision on the can traception mandate in the Health Care Law. From washington journal, this is 40 minutes. Joining us now, pro choice america, their president , welcome. Thank you for having me. We are here to talk in part about the decisions made by the Supreme Court last week. First of all with hobby lobby, what happened . What is your perspective . My perspective is i am disturbed. What we saw were five male judges essentially say that discrimination against women is not discrimination at all. What happened is that the court decided in favor of a private corporation saying that our religious beliefs trump the civic doubt we have to provide comprehensive health care for all of our employees. This was coming on the heels of there are administration and the country acknowledging if you are truly a religious institution, are you exempt from this. Yo