[gavel] >> good morning, the meeting will come to order. i'm supervisor mar, and i'm joined by stephanie and mirna and i want to thank committee clerk jessica for staffing this meeting and also jim smith and generalet at sfgov tv. madam clerk do you have announcements. >> clerk: allow in-person tenant and in public comment while supervising access to via telephone. the board of recognizes the equitable public access is essential and will be taking public comment as follows. first public comment will be taken on each item of this agenda. and then we will take those waiting on the telephone line. for those watching either channel 26, 28, 78 public call in number is streaming across the screen. once connected entered the meeting id at 2469--and then pound and pound again when connected you will hear the meeting discussions you'll be hearing in listen mode only. when public comment is called, those in-person should line up to speak and those on the telephone line. if you're on telephone please remember to turn down your tv and all listening devices that you may be doing. you may submit public comment in writing. email them to the committee work at elisasam--if you submit public comment via email it will be forwarded to the supervisor sxz added as part of the official file. you may also send your written comment to see our office at city hall. items acted upon are expected to appeal on july 26, 2022 for supervisors agenda. >> thank you madam clerk. colleagues we have three important hearings on the agenda today but we're going to start with three liquor license transfer items. madam clerk can you please call item number 1. >> clerk: yes, item number 1 is a hearing to consider in the off liquor license to golden stage consulting llc doing business as olive at 304 in district 1. will serve as public convenience or necessity, of city and county of san francisco, sorry. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on the hearing may line up to speak or if you're joining us by public, you may call. enter meeting id 2486618089 then press pound twice. once connected to the meeting you'll press star 3 to come into the line. please wait until we take public comment. that will be your queue to begin your comments, mr. chair. >> thank you, so first we're hear from officer samleson from the abc unit on this item for the liquor license transfer for olive. >> morning, members of the board, golden state and if approved this would allow them to operate in offset general promise. to located in plot 723 which is considered high crime. they're in census track 401 which is considered a high saturation area. police station has no opposition and alcohol liason recommends with following conditions that the petition in an effort to prevent the loitering to anybody. as depicted. >> thank you, officer samson. do we have a representative from olive here who would want to speak? or on the line? maybe not. >> yes, you do, this is nicole counsel, but i think my client intends to speak but i think he's still muted. ma'am, if he can get off mute. >> can you hear me? >> yes, we can hear you. >> okay, hi. this is amet owner of consulting llc doing business as olive specialty grocery store. what we dream of doing in that location is offer a wide selection of food, products and hopefully spirits, beer and wine as well. currently, we we opened our beer section in california and europe and middle east and mediterranean reg yoj. i'll be happy offer to answer if there is any questions or concerns. >> thank you, so much, sir. and thank you for opening a new small grocer specialty grocer in the district. i don't have any questions. i don't see any from my colleagues. >> members may line up to speak along the windows now. for those joining us remotely please call. enter id of 2489 of 64 and then press pound twice. once connected press star-3. please continue to wait until the system indicates that you can begin waiting. operations, do we have anybody in the queue at this time? it looks like we have four listeners but zero waiting to make public comment. >> great, public comment is closed. given that i will make a motion to prepare resolution determining that this license will serve the public convenient necessity and that we send it forward to the board with a positive recommendation. madam clerk, can you please call roll? >> yes, on that motion to send this to the board of public recommendation after redo a resolution, vice chair stephanie. >> aye. >> member mellbar. >> aye. >> and chair mar. >> aye. >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> okay, this will go to the full board with positive recommendation. madam clerk, can you call item number 2. >> item number 2, type 42 on sale beer and wine premise liquor license to unwine doing business as milli wine bar. in district 6 will serve public convenient necessity of city and county in san francisco. members of public who wish to provide public comment, may speak or if you're joining us remotely, please call our public comment number. meeting id is 24894408--press pound twice. once--a system will indicate you have raised your hand. that will be your queue to begin your comments, mr. chair. >> thank you, madam clerk. officer, can you please present the report on this item. >> okay, unwine sf operating as milli as a type 42 license and if so, they will sign. i have zero letters of protest and zero letters of support. it's considered that i low crime. considered a high sat ratetion area. a depicted number 2 petition should be responsible for maintaining free of litter of area over which they have control. and when the area is being utilized, a premise employee shall be in attendance and maintain supervisor at all times of said area to ensure orderly conduct of patrons. >> thank you. >> thank you and do we have a representative of milli wine bar here to speak? >> as team member of the committee on the board so i should wife and business partner. we came to california in the bay area about 30 years back and i've been here sips. just a few years back, we reside in the same building as we're hoping to open the wine bar. and two of our main passions have been traveling and wine. and i've been a humble wine collector for 20 years. so coming to this neighborhood, we thought we can get our passion together and make it a reality with your permission. that is exactly what we would like to do is bring the neighborhood together through wine. it's not just the wine part but the interaction after having two years of not really contact. the people in the neighborhood, there are a lot of residents, a lot of offices and the maybed people can come together and have it with conversation. so humbly request to get us to realize our dreams. we have a lot of support, we thank a lot of people out here too. we got letters from neighborhood people, office people around the area. and i'm honored to get a letter of support from karen mckneel who is one of the wine, i don't know how to put it, she has best wine book in the united states. so with that, we have all the documentation. so please let me know if you have any questions. >> thank you, sir and for taking the step to open this new business. i don't think i have any questions. >> members of the public wish to speak to this item and joining us in-person, should line up to speak along the window now and if you're joining us remotely please call. today's meeting id 24896618089 then press pound twice. once connected press star-3 to enter the line. looks like we have one person in our chambers, please begin your comments. >> good morning, honorable members, stephanie mar, mill gar. i work with the benefit district, we're one of 17 san francisco benefit districts. this corridor that city planners envision to be the main commercial artery of the neighborhood and connecting tissue between the residential and commercial core over mix use diverse neighborhood. they will execute the vision and streets. connecting our diverse community together and attracting and curist to san francisco downtown. we have more becomes than we have places to congregate. we have a deficit our neighborhood focus on serving lunch to the office employees, thus creating a vaccine on evenings and weekend. and more dramatically a wine bar deficit. luckily the--giving us a chance to transform downtown on evenings and weekend and increase the social culture value of downtown san francisco. thank you for your consideration and time. >> thank you for your comments. >> i'm checking with operations looks like we have 6 listening and 0 want to go make public comment on the virtual queue. >> thank you, public comments is closed. i understand that supervisor doresy is supportive. so given that, i give motion determining that this license will serve the public convenience and necessity and that we send resolution forward to the full board with a positive recommendation. madam clerk, please call roll. >> yes on the motion to send this with positive recommendation. >> vice chair stephanie. >> aye. >> millgar. >> aye. >> chair. >> aye. >> you have three ayes. >> this will be sent to the recommendation and best of luck to the milli wine bar. madam clerk, can you please call item number 3. >> typed 51 nonprofit club on sale beer wine and distilled liquor license to the south end rouge club in district 2 will serve the public convenient necessity of the city and county in san francisco in accordance with professions code, section 2395814. may line up to speak for public comment or if you are joining remotely, please call the number, and enter meeting id. and then press pound twice. once connected to the meeting, please star to get the line. system indicates you've been unmuted. that will be the queue to begin your comments. mr. chair. >> thank you please report on this item? >> okay, pipe license if approved this will allow them to operate a private club. i have zero letters of protest and support. they're track 102102, which is considered high saturation. alu recommends approval with no additional conditions. >> thank you, officer. is there anyone from the south end club that would like to present on this? welcome? . >> thank you. my name is josh say len, i appear on the south rouge club. we were non for profit volunteer base organization. we have approximately 1800 members and a i row through the public two to three times a week. of of it can be followed with a meal and occasionally alcohol. because we're volunteer, we sometime forget to apply or apply too late for the permit to be issued. this will not change the con supposition at the club but it will allow us to always do so legally. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> super stephanie. >> i want to say that i'm a member of the rouge club but i have been cleared to vote on this there is no conflict of interest. >> madam clerk, can we go to public. >> clerk: members of the public speaking in-person, should line up now. then press pound twice. for those already waiting in the queue, that will be your queue to begin your comments. i'm seeing no in-person commenter and no callers on the queue. >> public comment is closed. supervisor stephanie, i understand your support of this license transfer. i make a motion collecting the clerk to prepare a resolution that this will serve public convenience and is that we sent resolution forward to the full board with the positive recommendation. madam clerk, please call roll. >> clerk: yes on the motion to send this with a positive recommendation. stephanie. >> aye. >> millgar. >> mill garaye, >> chair. >> aye. >> you have three ayes. >> so this will be sent sent to the full board with positive recommendation. madam clerk can you please call item number 4. >> clerk: agenda item number 4 is hearing updates and report on economic recovery of san francisco art and cultural institutions including an update and report of statues of implementation of golden gate access and safety program and requesting the office of the controller, fine arts and recreation park department to report. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this hearing, may line up to speak once we call for public comment or if you're joining us remotely, please call the number. and enter the meeting id. and then press twice. once connected to the meeting, you can press star-3 to enter the speaker line. a system will indicate you have entered the line. that will be your queue to begin your comments, mr. chair. >> thank you. and thank you supervisor stephanie for calling for this hearing and i just wanted to say, that you know, the museums in the city play a roll of quality of life and also to attract and support our economy in our city as well. we all are aware of struggles that they've had during the pandemic and even the challenges with the changes we've made. so i really thank you for calling for this hearing so we can hear from the museum and ensure that we're supporting them, thank you. >> thank you, chair marfor not only scheduling for this item but also for cosponsoring this hearing as well. colleagues i want to state that today's hearing has two objectives. first and for most, i have serious concerns of covid recovery of our arts institution leaving up regarding the closure of jfk, we heard time and time again, that our museums are struggle. we have the responsibility to ensure the viability of these museums that not only add quult you're value but institutions that play a critical role supporting tourism which is one of our largest economic drivers. we will be receiving presentations, asian art museum and armies of golden gate park. second, updates from the recreation and park department. and the sfmta on the progress that they've made in planting the golden gate safety and access program. you'll remember the safety program was presented to the board back in april and included a series of measures that the department's committed to implementing and improve the user experience along jfk, particularly around safety for the accessibility capability and museum needs. back in april, i said that i had concerns regarding access would be prioritized. and i'm eager to receive today's update. we'll begin the first half of our hearing with presentations from the museums. first we have tom the director of the fine arts museum. next we have i kwan the chief operating officer and head of appears with the academy science and then j, director and ceo of director museum and finally in the interest of time, if we can please hold questions until the end of series of presentations, i think that will be helpful and we're hoping to keep presentations to auto 7 minutes and 10 minutes for the fine arts museums since they have two museum to see report on. and with that, we can begin our presentations. >> good morning, i'm tomas campbell director and ceo of fine arts museums in san francisco. i'm very grateful for you to convening this hearing speaking on behalf of myself and my staff we're proud of a civic institution and grateful for the city's support and especially this extraordinary hearing. i'm joined by jais an our c.f.o. and paraour senior government affairs manager. do we have the slide show? i lead a strategic plan process to take health and how we best serve the community going forward. as part of that strategic plan, we rewrote our mission statement which should appear on the slide. the next slide. i can read it, it's to connect our local people with art and curiosity about the past deepen their engagement with the odds and ideas of today and stimulate the agency in their own future. and if we can go to and to the next, thank you. the role that we play in the city and in our engagement with international partners with manifold with a cuss stowedian of two-thirds of the art collection. we act as a forum for community discussion and engagement with art and ideas and issues from around the world. we offer a range of educational programs and resources. we're economic stimulants for the community and platform to represent the city's cultural values. next slide. last year the total spending by the fine art museums combining the city and corporation expenditures was about 76 and a half million dollars. the city representatives 25% of that expenditure and acts as a foundation for support of the museum. the city budget supports security, art insurance, facilities, and facility maintenance and importantly capitol improvement and remayors. the basic function that allow us to open the doors. with this allows the corporation to focus on all museum activities, like collection care, exhibition and communicatione program. in practice because of the pressures of covid and rising expenses over the years, the corporation has increasingly been pressed to support areas that are traditionally that are supported by the city. and next slide please. in my presentation today, i would like to draw your attention to the need for increasing funding to ensure the art collection, funding to create new security and building engineer positions, increase capitol support for aging buildings and improve way finding to both museums. these are all issues and difficult to address in the budget annual cycle which january works in comparison to the previous year. so this is grateful for this opportunity to raise these larger issues for your advocacy. and i'll come back to the detail in a minute. let me just recap the nature of the work we do. next slide. the fine art museums are proud to be stewards of two-thirds of the city's collection, approximately 130,000 objects that have been collected over the last 130 years and a treasured by san franciscoians and bay air residents. costumes and textiles, native american, and african around the young museum. next slide. while in the ledge i don't know of honor, explore collections of mediterranean art and european paintings. we also have the large acrobat during some prince collection one of the largest in the nation. next slide. as we grow the art collection, we're putting a lot of thought into how to expand who is represented and in our gatherers as well as our history. in the picture that you see on the green, some of our young out reach professionals who provide tolls are shown examining a ceramic by enslaved david drake. this object allows us to the issue of slavery which has been marginized in museums. next slide, another aspect of our work is expanding the collection and contemporary artist who represent the concerns of the time. just resentedly we received a gift of one million dollars from the spain foundation to buy works by emerging artist in the bay area. here you see a report about the 42 works by 30 artist that we acquired with this gift. next slide. on the exhibit program allows us to bring works of art and ideas from around the world to san francisco audiences that we can never afford to collect. with our global trans historical focus, we're really making an effort to be impactful and to engage with issues of the day. over the last year and a half, for example, we've really focused on representing art by women artist and non white artist who have been marginized in the past. on the slide, you see the campaign artist in the legion of honor that took place a year and a half ago. next slide, currently, we have an insleighsing of bay area, of chinese american artist hung lu, given the time where hate against asian has risen. we just closed neil artist who was ground breaking and representing marginized communities in the 20th century. next slide. and currently at the legion, designers who draw on both chinese and european tradition to see create quite fabulous effectively sculptures and textile. next slide. at the dl young we're proud to present for traits being the reverance. on this weekend, we open american people which celebrates this 92 african-american artist and her lifetime achievement. and then along next slide, along with this c