STREET ARTISTS COMMITTEE

Wednesday, April 9, 2003

3:00 p.m.

25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 70, San Francisco, California


Notices
Explanatory documents are available for public inspection and copying at the Arts Commission office, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 60, San Francisco, CA 94102 during regular business hours. Tel: 415-252-2581.

Public comment in regard to specific items will be taken before or during consideration of the item.

The ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the Chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound producing electronic devices.

Agenda

 

  1. HEARING AND POSSIBLE MOTION TO APPROVE ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE OR RENEWAL OF CERTIFICATE

    Paula Grundman - Certificate # 5795 (expired December 27, 2002).
    Alleged violations: (1) Selling within five feet of fire hydrant; (2) Selling in a location not designated by Board of Supervisors, 2nd offense; (3) Selling items not certified by Arts Commission, 2nd offense; (4) Conducting business in a disorderly, improper, hazardous manner: (a) threatening in writing Street Artist Susan Pete; (b) threatening verbally, and disrupting businesses of, Street Artists Barbara Michalak, Albina Pietrzak, John Thomey.

    Section 5 of the Street Artists Ordinance allows the Director of Cultural Affairs to refuse to issue or renew a street artist certificate if charges have been filed alleging deception or violation of the Street Artists Ordinance. Under the Arts Commission's Section 5 procedures, the Director of Cultural Affairs may withhold the issuance or renewal of a street artist's certificate if the artist is charged with the violation of selling items not certified by the Arts Commission and/or conducting business in a disorderly, improper, or hazardous manner (threatening and/or disrupting businesses of street artists). Such charges belong to the category of "serious violations" which are considered by the Commission to include "violations of a violent or threatening nature and violations that significantly threaten the integrity of the Street Artists Program." Because of the above charges #3 and #4, the issuance or renewal of Ms. Grundman's certificate has been withheld pending hearing with the Street Artists Committee.

  2. HEARING AND POSSIBLE MOTION TO APPROVE ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE OR RENEWAL OF CERTIFICATE

    Benjamin Delgado - Certificate #5670.
    Alleged violation: Selling items not of the artist's own creation (leather & cowrie shell bracelets; metal & metallic cord necklaces; commercially manufactured pendants on cords).

    On February 27, 2003, the Advisory Committee of Street Artists and Craftsmen Examiners examined Mr. Delgado's wares for the purpose of verifying whether certain items in question were created by Mr. Delgado. In making its findings, the Advisory Committee, based on the evidence presented, could not verify that the items in question were of the artist's own creation. Section 5 of the Street Artists Ordinance allows the Director of Cultural Affairs to refuse to issue or renew a street artist certificate if charges have been filed alleging deception or violation of the Street Artists Ordinance. Under the Arts Commission's Section 5 procedures, the Director of Cultural Affairs may withhold the issuance or renewal of a street artist's certificate if the artist is charged with the violation of selling items not of the artist's own creation.

  3. HEARING AND POSSIBLE MOTION TO APPROVE RESCISSION OF AMENDMENT TO LOTTERY RULE V WHICH PROHIBITS ANY LOTTERY COMMITTEE MEMBER WHO HAS SERVED TWELVE (12) MONTHS CONSECUTIVELY FROM BEING CONSIDERED AT THE NEXT TIME OF THE COMMITTEE'S SELECTION OF MEMBERS

  4. HEARING AND POSSIBLE MOTION TO APPROVE PROPOSAL BY PROGRAM DIRECTOR FOR STREET ARTIST SELLING SPACES ON JEFFERSON STREET, BETWEEN MASON STREET AND THE EMBARCADERO

    On September 9, 2002, the full Arts Commission voted to authorize the Street Artists Program Director to draw a map of proposed legal spaces on Jefferson Street, between Mason Street and the Embarcadero (as well as spaces north of Pac Bell ballpark), and to propose such spaces to the Port Commission for approval. Such spaces require approval of both the Board of Supervisors and the Port Commission.

  5. REPORT BY PROGRAM DIRECTOR

  6. NEW BUSINESS

  7. ADJOURNMENT


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