specifically dedicated to maintenance, you guys are complying with that. i feel that the earmark fund that goes to the symphony produce symphony events, the dolores park concert and others and we partner to kind of advertise those to the public and to distribute tickets to those events, and i think that the gift is greatly appreciated from the arts commission in terms of the support that it offers us for our unrestricted use in terms of supporting other community arts. many of those programs include musicians and artist and so we re able to grow our capacity both through our cultural civic grants programs because of that gift. okay. so with that, i would just conclude to state that, again, we re very appreciative, i think my coming in, in terms of the transition period that the organization, this has been a great way to dive deep on a number of policy issues. we ve agreed with a number of the recommendations in each of those areas of how to improve as an agency. i m c
commission is clear on expectation but there is also a structure for accountability at the community level in terms of everybody who has access to those buildings in the community locally that those buildings serve. supervisor chiu: thank you. moving on to the street artist program, just to address you know, we re making we ve responded to the recommendation of the of the artist program and we would propose it remain at the arts commission. it is not our purview to decide that but we heard loud and clear from street artists with a 40 year history with the arts commission and who at two points in time, one a couple of years ago and now, signed a petition, i believe two years ago it was over 200 signatures, who felt they wanted artists overseeing the making of their work, that it was critical as arts people that the oversight function needs to be by other artists who understand that craft and the artistic value to that. most definitely these artists are entrepreneurs.
what i m doing now. i m handsome. kind of feel like an idiot talking to his camera. it s like i m talking to myself. it s crazy. it was a very interesting new thing that we d never done before, and i was able to give these cameras to the inmates and kind of give them a brief tutorial on how to use it. and it was an interesting thing because these are people that some had never even seen one of these new camcorders. when they first handed me this camera, i m like, what? how does this work? i don t know what an ipod is. i don t know how to work these fancy gadgets. they had to show me. well, this is an old prison, a place where john dillen an the boys used to hang. old floors. sometimes i wonder how many people were in this cell that died. died in here or were famous or infamous. they were really into it