These work, supervisors, when they were established, we took a snapshot as to how much general fund money these departments received during that year and we grow that amount based on the growth of these general Fund Revenues so in the current year for the municipal railway, we have approximately 154 million that is appropriated to them and an additional 58 Million Dollars for parking and traffic, similarly with the library, 53 million, children services, 115 and this particular baseline is the only one that we overfund that is we provide them with more dollars that is required by formula. The Public Education services baseline, we need to maintain the level of funding that was provided to the school during the years during that 6. 7 million and then re are the amounts for the Public Education enrichment fund. So, taken together, all of these baselines amount to 450 Million Dollars of discretionary funds. And then similar to those baselines, we have others that are specified to be certain percentages of certain taxes, so you have parking tax and property tax are the ones, so mta receives 80 of parking tax in lieu, and what that means is that the parking tax comes into the general fund and we give mta general fund money in the same dollar amount, so that amounts to 61 Million Dollars, similarly with the library, 2. 5 of property tax, this is an additional 37 million, open space, 37 million, the Childrens Fund of 44. 7 million, the municipal symphony, 2 million, and then the hotel tax as we discussed earlier, 88 million that is then budgeted, 56 million of that is budgeted in the general fund. So, the open space fund is getting an additional 37 million this year, yes, this year . It is getting 37 million, it is not an additional, each year, it gets the percentage of property tax, 2. 5 of property tax, so as property tax grows, the open space fund is lucky enough to grow with our largest growing general fund tax. Got it. Supervisor avalos . Just a question on that, so we have the open Space Property tax set aside, 2. 5 at 37. 3 million, is there anything that protects overall funding within the rec and Park Department, like theres no baseline that protects the overall funding . They have the open space and they have the reserve where any money that is left at yearend from increased revenue or expenditure savings can be used the subsequent years so those are their two guarantees of certain kinds of funds. I might also add that the park and Recreation Fund is largely supported by their own fees so their general Fund Allocation, they do get a general Fund Allocation, but most of their revenue is taken from their fees. So, it works differently than say the Childrens Fund and the baseline that goes along with the Childrens Fund or that baseline protects funding in all departments and you can august lt with the Childrens Fund, the rec and park doesnt have a baseline where you would augment with the open space . Thats correct because the open space fund is separate from their operating fund, so the percentage of property tax, the 2. 5 goes into the open space fund and that is in addition to anything that the recreation and Park Department receives in their fees and in general Fund Allocation for their operating costs. They do use the open space fund is used for operating as well. I was going to say, so the open space fund is used to operate only those facilities that were funded by the open space fund. So, if a park opens up with open space, then the maintenance of that park, the gardeners associated with that park can be funded through the open space fund. Okay, and then theres some other services, staffing requirements, these are expenditure baselines, these are requirements that the city spent its money on providing certain types of services, the city services, auditor gets 2 10 of 1 of the citys budget, that amounts to 12 million, the Human Services agency has a homeless care fund of 13. 7 million and that was based on a certain level of funding for Homeless Services at the time that this was approved. The office of Economic Analysis and the Controllers Office has about 400 thousand dollars, the police minimum staffing requirements that was passed in the charter many, many years ago requires 1971 full duty officers, i might add that in this budget year and in this past year, the city has likely not met that requirement but with the staffing plan that the mayor submitted in his budget that was approved in the year for a two year, we are moving toward full compliance to the staffing requirement. Similarly, the fire houses, certain fire houses have to remain open and that has been met, a number of years ago, there was a treatment on demand ballot item that was approved by the voters but that was never funded to its fullest at the time and it continues not to be met, and the Housing Trust fund is the latest one and the proposal is to fund that one in next years budget. And so that kind of completes the rules of baselines and set asides, we certainly can provide Additional Information to you or your offices or as you deliberate the budget, if you have questions about that, we carefully reviewed the amounts of money and the formulas, theyre audited on an annual basis to be sure were consistent with the requirements. Thank you, colleagues, are there any questions at this time . Okay, seeing none, thank you very much. At this point, i would like to open up to Public Comment, any members of the public, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, can we have a motion to continue this ie tome to a call to the chair, so moved, we can do that without opposition, so moved. Mr. Clerk, do we have any other announcements . That completes the agenda. Thank you very much, we are adjourned. meeting is adjourned . Good afternoon and thank you for coming. Im delighted to announce that our first effort is unleashed upon the world. [ applause ]. Its only been twoandahalf years since the moment of conception of this idea. Its an amazing tribute to our community. It reached three levels of impossibility, of getting a permit and designing it and putting it on this structure and the impossibility of getting it funded. It really is a tribute to so many and a lot of faces that im looking at this room tonight. It comes down to as always people. Im going through a few moments here to give a real thanks to people who made this night and the next two years possible. Im going to list a couple of company names, but i want to think of them as members of our community that made this project possible. That included, bloomberg, guchie, it includes the partners, magazine, California Home and design, magazine, aluminum illuminary sponsors and the folks tonight. And, you know that first level of impossibility. Im going to list some agency names. It comes down to a lot of people in this room to make it possible. My first phone call in this project was to cal trans. In cal trans working together with the bay area with the Mayors Office here in the county of San Francisco and coast guard, official wild life, all of these came together to find a way when typically the system is designed to say no, people found a way to say yes to this project. The arts commission, this collusion support from the san franciscmuseum of modern art. I apologize for the folks i will be missing because this is a cast of a thousand that made this happen. We certainly love our lawyers in this process. Morrison who helped it become a very established and professional way in getting the contract involved in getting this project to an amazing legal footing. The Technology Network in san jose who made this a crucial project. I want to call out a thanks to or tactical team. We know how to make it small, not over 150 feet in the air. We have a studio, zone engineering and i have to say thanks to hmr who has been a rock star and directly one of the reasons this is happening. An extremely talented project. Thank you all. I also want to just take a moment to really acknowledge that while leo and i have done a lot of things m in this world, we would not be able to do it alone. There is only one person responsible for this project and that is executive director of the arts. Luminarias. I can go on and on. I think i will throughout the night. Do know that shes a special person and this entire community owes her a debt of gratitude. I want to thank leo and his family for bringing the level of artistic integrity for this work that somehow slipped through the progress of a work of contemporary art parallel in art history. It has everything to do with leo and our interpretations with our discussion and that one minute that transformed how people will be receiving this project and how i can make this happen and Lieutenant Governor will join us at the ceremony at the bay light. Org. I really want to thank our mayor who is a visionary in his own right and common good and who i had the pleasure of working with other projects and hes making this city better every single day. People should know that mayor embraced this team, this project ma way that had nothing to do with really even, it was a matter of passion, a personal desire to see the work of art radiant and shine in our community it was an amazing gift. Mayor lee, we owe you a great debt of gratitude. Thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you. Welcome everybody to the building in San Francisco. Gosh, your vision, i have been living with this vision for almost two years now ever since our City Engineer said, come with me to this event and you are going to be surprised how we can turn infrastructure to a piece of art. I have worked with so many projects with roads and buildings that we oftentimes cannot lift this heavy piece of metal or holes in the ground an construction and not be able to see the work of art that contributes to this city and future. Amy, thank you for your incredible leadership on this. I met you first at this event here but was immediately sold on the possibility that we can unleash art in the most creative way. This is in fact a beacon for our Arts Community, for a world class city and it has the ability to attract some 50 million of contributions to our Economic Vitality a huge base of fans that will visit our city. There is going to be 150 million visitors, i think its going to be 97 million contribution to our committee already scaled by our travel association. So part of it is economics, but i actual, without even having those numbers in front of me knew that this was going to excite us. I actually know that when we unveil this tonight, the feeling that im going to be having, is we just won another world series because its going to bring that kind of excitement into city. And to have this timed in a way in which we have just finished the 75th anniversary of the celebration of the bay bridge, we have opened the auditorium and on our bay for the first time we have just finished the world series and the 55 sealing on our bay is a celebration for San Francisco and this incredible rebounds that this city is experiencing can really only be complimented by the arts, because allows the arts to celebrate all the other things that we are trying to do economically to be covered, i think is an incredible cap on our future on what we can experience and exemplify to the rest of the world. This leaves me to an appreciation to the artist that he has not only visualized what 25,000 led lights can do but discovered a fashion in which will not see the same pattern at any time experience. This is kind that have innovation that we are experiencing in San Francisco that creativeness, that weve always wanted to have from our Arts Community to us with all the other things that we are doing in struggling everyday and sometimes there are good stories but art has always been an inspiration to me. You can imagine anything you want in these lights. The artist will say that leo has always said it and documented in so many other interviews to give yourself a chance to work with these 25,000 light is. To me its the mustache. It will be for every child in us, the ability to celebrate, to see whats good and what we have done here, but i think it will be the beacon for world class to happen here in San Francisco. I look forward to we talked about this being a 2year commitment. But we all know with the success this has, we are already and i will predict that people, including myself will want this to be on going certainly during my lifetime. [ applause ] so i have every expectation well about be right there hand in hand celebrating with you to create even more art in the city. By the way, its budget time, so tom in the art commission, you have done very well with the opening of this timing with everybody else that we have the proper level of art to be creative, to bless us with all the things that are so positive and to exemplify the Arts Community for what its done. With that, i would like to introduce our artist leo villa real. Thank you so much. Im beyond thrilled to be here today. This has been an incredible 2andahalf years from the initial idea when ben davis asked me to consider the bridge and how it can be turned into a canvas and having thought about it and created an assimilation on the computer, animation that so many people saw and were inspired to get behind and enabled to happen. So many people to thank, but certainly folks at cal trans and Mayors Office, governors office. There were so many hoops we had to jump through. Getting the permit was one of the miracles. I thank you for believing in public art and helping us get this done. Amy has been amazing, our executive art director. [ applause ] amy was able to shepherd this impossible project through all the intricacies, im in incredibly grateful for her help, grateful for his efforts in another monumental task. Hes raised 6 million of our 8 million. This project is an incredible gift by our pat patrons through the city. This is an incredible piece. You dont have to buy a ticket. Its there and available. A very universal quality, it has some response to it. Its operating on a very primal level. I think we the Technical Team that put this piece up has been remarkable. Zad and zoon has been a lifesaver. Incredible individual who has never said no to me. Everything is always been possible and bringing the Team Together to actually install this work. To make a photo shop simulation and 3d animation project. It was in incredibly inspiring. I went out there on a cloudy day and it was incredible magic that was happening. I knew this was going to be fine if i can channel the interaction of all these systems into my work. So im very grateful for everyone who helps install this piece. We had lane closures. Everything happened from 5 a. M. There were hundreds of thousands of cars and the contractors installing this 550 feet over the water. Incredibly challenging work but here we are. I would like to thank my team and studio, everyone helping, our lead programmer, transit for helping with all our networking, there is a lot of behindthescenes of help that nobody will know about, we have computers, wireless connections, i want to thank Timothy Childs who helps us invent this custom clip which we used to hang these lights on the bridge. There was a lot of behindthescenes thats its taken to bring this work to a reality. I guess our patrons are also, thats a whole other unleashing generosity in the way that we have just really bologna way blown away. Incredible innovation at work and thankful to phillips for their equipment and standing behind they are technology and helping us achieve what we have done i guess we are here and ready to punch the button on the computer. We are using a laptop tonight and its going to go on at 9 00. Im just incredibly grateful and keep pinching myself that this is happening. Im incredibly overwhelmed that this is happening and im eager to share this work with all of you. Thank you
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