Artist when the Program Began in 1972. How does a person become a street artist . There are two major tenants. You must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. A street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. This committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that it is all their own work. What happened during the holiday to make this an exciting location . This would be a magic time of year. You would probably see this place is jammed with street artists. As the no, there is a lottery held at 6 in the morning. That is how sought after the spaces are. You might get as many as 150 street artists to show up for 50 spaces. What other areas can a licensed street artist go to . They can go to the Fishermans Wharf area. They can go in and around union square. We have space is now up in the castro, in fact. How many are there . We have about 420. Are they here all year round . Out of the 420, i know 15
Across the street, we had the highest vacancy commercial rate in the city. What we are seeing now at midmarket is that Everyone Wants to be here now. Of course what that means that Everyone Wants to be here, what does that mean for the Arts Community that has always been here. This is going to keep artist and the Artist Organization here. It was great to work with the California Community loan funds and the office of Economic Development to make this a reality. Over the past couple of year with hard work and procuring money and Property Owners we were able to procure these sites to ensure the arts remain here permanently. This is a huge effort. Its not just the elected officials that get to stay here. Its the main Market Community that holds this together. Whether its the collaborative that continues to advocates for Public Safety and all of you that make this a viable and dynamic and Exciting Community and diverse. Thats the challenge here. We are trying to revitalize this area and st
Revisit the numbers. We believe this amount is sufficient but i dont want to come back and short change us again. Let me suggest this. We will talk Public Comment but i want suggest that we continue the items and not take amendments hold on. We need to do the extension amendment now and do the numbers amendment next week if we can advise you to work on it together. Okay. And if i could make one other comment . I am sure i would appreciate and my colleagues at the other departments would appreciate if maybe we could have a Small Working Group in next fiscal year to see ways that we can expedite the contract approvals for the board. Right now they average six and eight weeks and mr. Rose is accommodating but Everyone Needs time to do their Due Diligence before we bring it here and we find ourselves short in the process of getting in front of the board so the departments can do a better job of starting the process earlier but maybe we can look at the process and see some streamlining to b
First of all, id like to start out before we get started with our ribbon kci terminal cemetery actually, we have a congratulate message its what they say in japan its a congratulatey message weve received from the deputy administrator from japan who i think you can see on the screen. Im going to read it in japanese and then in earning speaking foreign language. so ill read that briefly necessary english. It says id like to congratulate you on the opening of our new facilities in san San Francisco. I look forward to the center becoming a focal point for United States and china. To further their research to open up a new era in business 13 from the japanese folks. Thank you very much clapping okay. So now id like to ask an important dpoifts to please come to the stage for a brief speech. Id like to ask mr. Mayor ed lee give him a round of applause thank you, my japanese is not as good as yourself. Im glad to be here as the mayor of San Francisco and joining jane kim in welcoming the Firs
So so thats evictions that happened after october 24th, 2013, and in 10 years. Right. So evictions before october 24th wouldnt trigger it a thats good to im glad well have a good two weeks continuance to get clarification on that. And where did the october 24th date come from thats the Planning Commission recommended those edition it would create a window for landlord to rush through an evocation in the meeting time when it was flooded and next day. Then in terms of what kinds of evocation that are covered by this. Didnt i saw there may have been some changes it refers to the code section unless you have the code handy can you tell me news it we borrowed it from the code conversion law. There were a couple of changes thats in the financial version what was added was covering evictions for lead abatement and substantial rehabilitation for if the original tenant isnt offered the chance to reoccupy the unit and the third one in the occupant is sold within the comedy conversion but if ther