nelson. we were skiing one weekend. i told him about my fantasy. he said that i should do it. dawn holliday and sherry sternberg. the four of us had lunch. he said we would start a festival. that was the genesis. it was not anything more complicated than that. in my own defense, and was not yet playing the banjo i was not yet played the banjo. the ulterior motive i was accused of did not exist yet. i would have thought it was because of your interest in the music and the instrument of the banjo that you play with a lot of love and enthusiasm. i would have thought that would lead to the founding of the festival. i have loved the music. much of my life. i really love the old time music. you mentioned dawn holliday. she works with you collecting the older music. she basically organizes the whole thing . she decides who is going to be on. they have incredibly great bands opposite each other. i always worry about that, but she tells me not to. this has really grown in
advertising contracts. mta has three advertising agreements. the first is the transit shelter agreement between clear channel and outdoor, the second is for vehicles and parking garages and the third is a memorandum of understanding betweenmta and bart between mta and bart. this shows the revenues associated with those three agreements generated during a 10-year time frame through 2010. you can see over the past four years, the revenues have increased by $7.4 million. the increases are largely related to mta s success in negotiating a financial terms for contracts, which in part resulted from good economic climate in place when the contracts were negotiated. the transit advertising generates a majority of revenues for advertising on city property. as a result of the audit, we found mta has demonstrated a lack of success in monitoring some of these advertising terms. for example, advertising for five of the city parking garages under mta management, titan has not sold any ad
san francisco is home to a renowned civic art collection that includes a comic works iconic works by local and national artists integrated into our public buildings and six basis. the arts commission has struggled to take care of the priceless collection because of limited resources. in an effort to gather more funding for the maintenance of the collection, the art commission has joined forces with the san francisco art dealers association to establish art care, a new initiative that provides a way for the public to get involved. the director of public affairs recently met with the founder and liquor local gallery owner to check out the first art care project. many san franciscans are not aware that there is a civic art collection of numbers almost 4000 works of art. preserving the collection and maintaining it is something being addressed by a new program called art care. it is a way for citizens to participate in the preservation of the civic art collection. with
through the commission itself, perhaps. but there is not any way they can compel the 49ers into a naming rights agreement. supervisor farrell: so this was a bad deal entered into a while ago? we had some concerns at that time, yes. supervisor farrell: do you know they have not made any efforts? the recreation and parks department did not know the official reason why they did not make an effort, but there is speculation that trying to find a naming rights agreement is not one of their priorities at this time. supervisor farrell: again, the question is do you know they have not made any efforts or they d have not succeeded? we do not know if they have made any efforts or not. one other thing when we talk about the policies, we did make a recommendation and the city administrator agreed to begin to coordinate and centralize to some sort of uniform standards to advertising which is currently lacking. good morning, supervisors. my name is sarah duffy. and going to go ove