Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Rules Committee 20240713 : compare

Welcome to culturewire. Today we are at recology. They are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique Artist Residency programs. We are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. Welcome to the show, deborah. Tell us how this Program Began 20 years ago. The Program Began 20 years ago. Our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970s. She started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. She started with kids. They had an exhibition at city hall. City officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. We thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. Since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. How has the Program Changed over the years . How has the program what can the public has an artist engage with . For the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. Over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. Conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. That has really expanded the program out. It is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. Why would an artist when to come here . Mainly, access to the materials. We also give them a lot of support. When they start, it is an empty studio. They go out to the public area and we call it the big store. They go out shopping, take the materials that, and get to work. It is kind of like a reprieve, so they can really focus on their body of work. When you are talking about recology, do you have the only Sculpture Garden at the top . It is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. It is the only kind of structured, artist program. Weit is beautiful. A lot of the plants you see were pulled out of the garbage, and we use our compost to transplant them. The pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility, adults and children. We talk about recycling and conservation. They can meet the artists. Fantastic. Lets go meet some of your current artists. Here we are with lauren. Can you tell us how long have been here so far and what youre working on . We started our residency on june 1, so we came into the studio then and spent most of the first couple weeks just digging around in the trash. I am continuing my body of work, kind of making these hand embroidered objects from our daytoday life. Can you describe some of the things you have been making here . This is amazing. I think i started a lot of my work about the qualities of light is in the weight. I have been thinking a lot about things floating through the air. It is also very windy down here. There is a piece of sheet music up there that i have embroidered third. There is a pamphlet about hearing dea nearing death. This is a dead rabbit. This is what i am working on now. This is a greeting card that i found, making it embroidered. It is for a very special friend. While we were looking at this, i glanced down and this is amazing, and it is on top of a book, it is ridiculous and amazing. I am interested in the serendipity of these still life compositions. When he got to the garbage and to see the arrangement of objects that is completely spontaneous. It is probably one of the least thought of compositions. People are getting rid of this stuff. It holds no real value to them, because theyre disposing of it. Were here in another recology studio with abel. What attracted you to apply for this special program . Who would not want to come to the dump . But is the first question. For me, being in a situation that youre not comfortable in has always been the best. What materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here . There are a lot of books. That is one of the thing that hits me the most. Books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. Also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. Of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. Job mr. Some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. Taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. The first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. It was actually a poster. It was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. In terms of the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. So being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. How do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the threedimensional . Maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. Everything is in the process of becoming. Things are never said or settled. The sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. It becomes a part of something else. Theres always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. At the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. Thank you so much for allowing culturewire to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. Is there anything you like our viewers to know . We have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. Everybody is welcome to come out. We have food. Sometimes we have gains and bands. It is great time. From june to september, we accept applications from bay area artists. We encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. We want as many artists from the bay area out here so they can have the same experience. How many artists to do your host here . 6 artist a year, and we receive about 108 applications. Very competitive. But everyone should be encouraged to apply. Thank you again for hosting us. Thank you for including us in culturewire. Five, four, three, two, one. Commissioner ronen good morning, everyone. The meeting will it come to order. Welcome to the may 11th meeting of the rules committee. Supervisor hillary ronen. With me on Video Conference is rules vice chair gordon mar and our clerk today is victor young. Id like to thank sfgov for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Board Members ab the public, the board of supervisors and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely at the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and sfgov tv. Org are supreming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments during Public Comment are available via phone by calling 888 2045984. Access code 3501008. Then press pound and pound again. When you are connected, dial 1 and then zero to be added hot to the queue to speak. The system will be silent. The calling system will notify you when youre in line and waiting. All carers will all callers will remain on mute. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your streaming device or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment either of the following ways, email me victor jung clerk of the rules committee. If you submit Public Comment by email, it will be included in the legislative file as part of meeting. Finally, items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda on may excuse me. May 19th, unless otherwise stated. That completes my comments. Commissioner ronen thank you so much. And request you please read item number 1. Clerk item number 1 a hearing to consider appointing three members, term ending december 1st, 2023ed to Soma Community Stabilization Fund Community Advisory committee. Commissioner ronen wonderful. And i know that abby is here to speak on behalf of supervisor haney. Would you like to speak now or after the candidates have a chance to speak . Now is good, chair ronen. Commissioner sure. My name is abby rivamontemesa. Thank you for all of the applicants that applied to the Stabilization Fund and for those that are able to join us today. Briefly for some background, i know that this matter has appeared before the rules committee a couple different times now. But just quickly, the Soma Community Stabilization Fund was created in 2005. The mission of the Soma Community Stabilization Fund is to stabilize a community and promote equity through funding recommendations and priorities. That mitigate the impact of development. Today we have the following alternate seats remaining, that are open for consideration. Seat 8 for this seat the applicant must meet the minimum qualifications of being a senior or disabled. Seat 12, for this seat the applicant must have Small Business expertise and a familiarity with the soma neighborhood. And for seat 13, the applicant must have experience serving lowincome residents. Chair ronen, that concludes my initial comments. Commissioner ronen okay, great. Now we will hear from the applicants. We have three misconducts shan applicants Shannon Amitin, marke bieschke and lorezno listana. In any order that works for you. Victor. Clerk mr. Coe, can you unmute the first applicant. Mr. Coe . You should be hearing mr. Listana now. Good morning, supervisors. My name is lorezno listana. Thank you for the time that youre giving me today. So i live in the lowincome housing in the south of market neighborhood since 2018. But prior to moving to soma, my family had lived in the tenderloin for 12 years. I work as a commuter since 2010. I have worked closely with lowincome residents, seniors, working class families on issues like Affordable Housing, immigration, jobs, Public Safety, evictions and gentrification. I believe my experience in working with lowincome residents in soma and, of course, the tenderloin for many years, is my biggest qualification that fits me with this. As an organizer, i founded and cofounded five Community Base residentled organizations. Now working to help the problems in the community. So i founded the Tenderloin Community association in 2010. It will be turning ten years this year. Yeah. So i cofounded the congress in 2015 with the late shane hewitt. I organized the Residents Assembly and cofounded the Filipino Community Development Corporation in 2017, the only Filipino Community Organization Corporation that focuses on Affordable Housing, development. So last year i organized the soma neighborhood resident council. Its an organization in soma. All of these organizations are actively working on issues to help lowincome in our community. So if given the opportunity to be a member of the soma c. A. C. , id like to help the committee with the lowincome residents in soma. And to bring to the attention of the Committee Issues that are important to them, such as Affordable Housing, focusing on how to preserve gentrification in soma and to fight against eviction. I will also work with residents of the administration to help Public Safety and especially on 6th street. And local hiring. And lastly supporting neighborhood events and programs under soma filipinos, that brings people together as one community. So i hope, you know, my work and my experience in working with lowincome residents would be given a chance to be able to serve in the community, so that i can bring, you know, my experience and the interests of the people that i care about. And so that they will be wherever they go me representing the lowincome residents in soma. So thank you so much. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. Thanks for your willingness to serve in this capacity. Is there any questions for mr. Listana . Seeing none, i think we can move on to the next applicant. Good morning, supervisors. My name is marke bieschke, im known as markey b. In the community. Im a queer member of which banded together with the oldest queer population. As a business in soma, thousands of hours in the neighborhood getting to know other Business Owners, artists, musicians, performers and workers. As a regular journalist, i spent 25 years documenting the culture and history of soma, including publishing hundreds of articles of the local and international area. As a banker, publications which documents soma history and changes. Its very close to my heart. I have danced, deejayed, performed and enriched myself in somas culture. Ive been involved in such festivities as the Howard Street fair, folsom street fair, which i helped document the events as well as participate in. As an adviser on the committee, id like to represent the Small Business, especially with the crisis were going through right now. I definitely want to help promote historical character of the neighborhood, as well as help preserve somas diversity and wonderful events, by helping to figure out ways through this challenging time. I think despite all of the bad going on, a fresh opportunity is to keep soma thriving as a diverse and social neighborhood. Thank you so much for considering me. Supervisor ronen thank you markey b. Its good to hear your voice. Is there any questions . Seeing none, thanks again for your willingness to serve. And did Shannon Amitin join us yet . Clerk no, she has not called in. Supervisor ronen okay. Then if theres no questions or comments from my colleagues, i wanted to turn it back to miss rivamontemesa to see if supervisor haney had any recommendations for us. Thank you, chair ronen. Supervisor haney would like to recommend for seat 12, marke bieschke and for seat 13 lorezno listana. Wed like to keep seat 8 open for an applicant that has qualifications as being a senior or disabled. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you very much. Well, i am happy to make that motion to move forward with positive recommendations. Clerk did we have Public Comment . Supervisor ronen absolutely. Im so sorry. I will now open this up for Public Comment. Yes. Were checking to see if any callers are in the queue. Mr. Bell, please let us if any callers are ready. Please press one and zero to speak for this item. For those already on hold in this queue, please continue to wait until youre prompted to begin at the beep. For those who are watching our meeting on s. F. Cable channel 26 or sfgov tv, follow the instructions on your screen, dial 888 2045984. Enter the access code of 3501008. Then press the pound symbol twice and then press one and zero to enter into the queue to speak. Mr. Bell, any members of the public wishing to speak at this time . We are having a temporary delay. We are trying to reconnect to the Public Comment line. If you dont mind holding for a moment. Supervisor ronen sure, no problem. Ill just take the opportunity to thank our amazing Clerks Office. Theyre performing heroic work digitally during this time. Thank you so much, mr. Young, mr. Coe, mr. Sea. Mr. Bell. Were still checking at the moment. Madam chair, this is alisha. Were having issues reconnecting the Public Comment line. May i suggest you may want to move on to the next item and hear from those applicants and we can come back to voting on item number 1 after we reconnect. Supervisor ronen that sounds like a great idea. Okay. Thank you so much. So if the clerk could please read item number 2. Clerk yes. Item number 2 is a motion approving rejecting the president of the board of supervisorser inman yees nomination of deland chan to the Planning Commission to a term ending july 1st, 2022. Supervisor ronen wonderful. Im assumeing miss chan is on the line. I want to congratulate you on your nomination. I was so impressed with your approach to urban planning and look very much to hearing from you today. Would you like to start off with a few words . Excuse me. Supervisor ronen yes. I had no idea you were here, mr. President. Im so sorry. Before ms. Chan, before you do that, i wanted to see if our president of the board of, who nominated you, had any words to share with us to start us off. Thank you, chair ronen. I generally do not do this, where i will come before the rules committee to speak on behalf of somebody i nominated. But since i was going to speak on item 23 anyways, i thought i would take advantage of this opportunity. Because i feel like anybody can speak clearly for themselves. But as it is, you know i think my colleagues on the board know that i really want to, if i have the opportunities, to diversify as much as possible our commissions, whether its gender or ethnicity and other ways to diversify. And in the past, we have seen many commissions that are sorely lacking in diversity and perspectives. So were really proud. I mean, that recently ive been able to do this. And today in front of you, at the rules committee, i dont think its any different. Deland is somebody that and several other people that i interviewed for this position. Many highly qualified, but what came top me for was deland. Her background and her perspective shared by many of us. Shes she has much experience in the Community Working for ccbc