congratulations to them and to all of those of you wearing orange and black in the chambers. i want to thank the members of sfgov tv who are working on this committee meeting. and the clerk, ms. alisa miller. i am joined by board president david chiu and we will be joined by committee vice chair sean elsbernd. do we have any communications? please make sure silence all cell phones and electronic diveess, any document documentse submitted to the clerk. supervisor chiu: i just want to thank the patience and indulgence of the chair as well as members of the public. we were not watching the celebration of the giants. there was a signing ceremony today for our u. s. transportation secretary announcing a grant to the subway project planned a few weeks ago and we had some miscues but we re ready to go. president farrell: clarification, i was watching the giants. madam clerk, please call items 2 and 3 together. item 2 is a hearing and item 3 is a resolution. president
improving our city and the arts commission. i did want to just summarize some of the thoughts in the mayor s office about the report and the recommendations. i think we all agree that there has been challenges in the past and i think we re all in agreement that we re excited for the new director to continue to make changes. i think in the mayor s office, we are confident that there is progress being made and that it will continue to be made. i know some of the recommendations made involve changing the framework for how the commission should be structured. and i think that over all, the mayor s office would like to maintain the existing framework to the extent that we can, and to, you know, allow the changes that we see the staff and commission making with a new head of the commission, with a new head of the department, and a new deputy director. we think that we re seeing the changes that we want to see happen and we re going to continue to see them. so supervisor farrell