Partnered with east bay to ensure that were actually allowing for union jobs to continue here when the arena moves here. We will maintain all of the commitments and provide for right of transfer of exiti existing employees to come over here. And we have addressed the issues and the opportunities and were frankly i am personally excited about the warriors and how they stepped up to the table on this and really gone above and beyond. Great. Thank you. Yes commissioner. I just want to make one last comment for the warriors in interest of full disclosure. My organization working with the warriors, the filipino Heritage Games but i am very happy and commend the warriors for working with the community. The comments from the cac, the other organizations. I know youre working with ucsf but you continue to work with the community to continue to hire locally and use minority vendors. I know that you have been reaching out and working it out but i hope you internalize these processes into your bi
Agreement with local two here in San Francisco who then partnered with east bay to ensure that were actually allowing for union jobs to continue here when the arena moves here. We will maintain all of the commitments and provide for right of transfer of exiti existing employees to come over here. And we have addressed the issues and the opportunities and were frankly i am personally excited about the warriors and how they stepped up to the table on this and really gone above and beyond. Great. Thank you. Yes commissioner. I just want to make one last comment for the warriors in interest of full disclosure. My organization working with the warriors, the filipino Heritage Games but i am very happy and commend the warriors for working with the community. The comments from the cac, the other organizations. I know youre working with ucsf but you continue to work with the community to continue to hire locally and use minority vendors. I know that you have been reaching out and working it out
Nice work, mr. Williams. Its still 1,000. Thank you, doctor. You should hire mr. Williams as council next time. The next card i have is mr. Watson. Good afternoon. My name is watson, executive director of public glass. I got one of the grants, my organization got one of the grants in question. I just want to come and say that we from the bayview found out about it we had somebody from all organizations, i met people at the library and we sent a representative to the process. We are a very, we are a small organization, but we do a lot of work. There are about three or four of us on staff that have done i have done this kind of work in rhode island. I have received grants before. When we sat at the meeting, we all do great work and i dont think my organization deserves it anymore or less than anyone else. I left that meeting saying we need to get our grant together and do it in a way that its written and get everything in order and get it in. Thats grant writing. Its not creative writing
Something about bridges. Has to know something about the safety of that bridge and the components that make it safe for the public. In this instance we have people who are nonartist. Whether they are from bayview or not, this is in subsequently. This fundamental importance is they have to have knowledge and background in the area of the selection. That has been the custom and practice for selection since time in memorial. In this instance, they werent singers and performers and they were paid 1,000 to make a selection that most people would do for free. 1,000. And let me make one final point. The last point i want to make is the comment made by that its existing programs to assist them with enhancing their arts program. Let me tell you about one such program which is the bayview opera house Ruth Williams memorial theatre. Of the 23 applicants that applied, it was turned down for 10,000 funding. Its right on third, it exist and it was the Arts Commission that named it after my mother. R
Good afternoon commissioners, my name is larry ware. Im the founder of the Poetry Program i started 35 years ago at the Bayview Library and started the African American History Program 40 years ago. I was the last unsung hero at the program and honored laureate for my work and i was honored for the city and the mayor elected someone else. Now you know who i am. I have known this gentleman for the last 50 years. I have the video of his mother and ed rub ins who was nominated for the pulitzer prize. And i have known her. Anyway, i think this gentleman deserves considerations for one of these grants coming up. I have worked election polls and in 1957 and i have been part of the community. When i started the Poetry Programs, the African American History Program i funded that out of my own pocket without any help. The friends of the library have contributed a couple hundred dollars every year and the poet like the christmas song, Nat King Cole and debra mason and janet, they have been in pr