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MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, January 7, 2008
3:00 p.m.
City Hall, Room 416
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

Agenda

Roll Call
Approval of Minutes
Action
Motion to approve December 3, 2007 Minutes.
Explanatory document: Draft minutes
President’s Report
Discussion
Current developments and announcements.
Interim Director’s Report
Discussion
Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
Consent Calendar
The following items are included in the Consent Calendar subject to withdrawal at the request of a Commissioner:

Approval of Committee Minutes
Action
1. Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of November 7, 2007.
2. Motion to approve the Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of November 13, 2007.
3. Motion to approve the Street Artists Committee Meeting Minutes of November 14, 2007.
4. Motion to approve the Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of November 19, 2007.
5. Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of December 6, 2007.
6. Motion to approve the Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of December 11, 2007.
7. Motion to approve the Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of December 17, 2007.
8. Motion to approve the Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of December 18, 2007.
  
  Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (December 6, 2007)
  Action
9. Motion to approve the Interim Director of Cultural affairs to provide an artist honorarium of $700 to Tucker Nichols, for the completion of artwork to be installed at SFAC Gallery at 401 Van Ness and the window installation site at 155 Grove St. for the January SFAC Gallery exhibition.
10. Motion to approve the Interim Director of Cultural Affairs to provide an artist honorarium $500 to Zefrey Throwell for his participation as a co-curator of and for the completion of artwork to be installed in the January SFAC Gallery exhibition.
11. Motion to approve the Interim Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement with Diana Pumpelly Bates for $100,000 to design and fabricate sixteen waterjet-cut stainless steel panels for the entry gate to Laguna Honda Hospital.
12. Motion to approve the Interim Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement with the artist team of Peter Richards and Susan Schwartzenberg for an amount not to exceed $142,000 to design, fabricate and install a public art project at McLaren Park.
13. Motion to authorize the Interim Director of Cultural Affairs to invite one of the Moscone Recreation Center finalists, artist Kent Roberts, to develop a new proposal for the Moscone Recreation Center and to award him an honorarium in the amount of $1,000 for the submission of a proposal board.
14. Motion to approve the completion and installation of Solar Sight, six painted steel fence panels for Sunnyside Playground.
15. Motion to accept into the Civic Art Collection Solar Sight, six painted stainless steel fence panels by artist Deborah Kennedy permanently installed above the children’s playground and at the courtyard ramp at Sunnyside Playground.
  
  Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Recommendations (December 11, 2007)
  Action
16. Motion to approve recommendations to award twenty-one grants totaling $202,500 in the 2007-2008 cycle of Individual Artist Commissions grants to the following individuals, and to authorize the Interim Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
  
  Florante Aguilar, $10,000
  Sia Amma, $7,500
  Brenda Aoki, $10,000
  Sean Dorsey, $10,000
  Kim Epifano, $10,000
  Cris Forster, $10,000
  Guillermo Gomez-Pena, $10,000
  Frederick Harris, $10,000
  Mark Izu, $10,000
  Rocco Kayiatos, $10,000
  Jenny Jo Kristan, $10,000
  Carla Lucero, $10,000
  Devorah Major, $7,500
  Sara Shelton Mann, $10,000
  Maxine Moerman, $10,000
  Alleluia Panis, $10,000
  Kirk Read, $7,500
  Gang Situ, $10,000
  Matthew Graham Smith, $10,000
  Melody Takata, $10,000
  Erling Wold, $10,000
  
  Explanatory document: Individual Artist Commissions applicant ranking and project descriptions by discipline: Dance, Music, and Theater Arts
17. Motion to approve the following individuals as application review panelists for the Cultural Equity Grants Program:
  
  Idris Ackamoor, Executive Director/Co-Artistic Director, Cultural Odyssey
  Eloise Burrell, Vocalist, Percussionist, Event Producer, Cultural Heritage Choir
  Gina Gemello, Projects Director, Aunt Lute Books
  Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez, Associate Director, Curator, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana
  Dr. Anne Huang, former Executive Director, Oakland Asian Cultural Center
  Connie Hwong, Grants Manager Bay Area Video Coalition, former Managing Director, Kearny Street Workshop
  Jo Kreiter, Artistic Director, Flyaway Productions
  Yesenia Sanchez, Fiscal Sponsorship Coordinator, Intersection for the Arts
  Melanie Smith, Executive Director, San Francisco Girls Chorus
  Charles Wilmoth, Associate Director of Development, California Institute of Integral Studies
  
  Explanatory document: Panelist biographies
18. Action: Motion to increase the 2007-2008 grant agreement to South of Market Cultural Center and sub-grantees for a total grant not to exceed $871,789, (including $583,012 to SomArts, $96,259 to sub-grantee Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, $96,259 to sub-grantee Queer Cultural Center, and $96,259 to sub-grantee AIM-West) pending completion of required paperwork from AIM-West.
  
  Explanatory document: AIM-West draft proposal
  
  Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (December 17, 2007)
  Action
19. Motion to approve Phase 1 Parkside Branch Library.
20. Motion to approve Phase 3 Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch Library.
21. Motion to approve Phase 3 SEWPCP Building 915 Modular Office Facility.
22. Motion to approve document “Design Concerns” as modified at the December 17, 2007 Civic Design Review meeting.
Committee Reports
1. Executive Committee—P.J. Johnston, Chair
  1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Executive Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
2. Civic Design Review Committee
  1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Civic Design Review Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
3. Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee
  1. Discussion: Report from Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
4. Street Artists Committee—Alexander Lloyd, Chair
  1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Street Artists Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
5. Visual Arts Committee—Jeannene Przyblyski, Chair
  1. Discussion: Report from Visual Arts Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
Public Employee Appointment/Hiring: Director of Cultural Affairs of the San Francisco Arts Commission
Action
Closed Session to Consider Candidates for the Position of Director of Cultural Affairs
1. Open Session: Public Comment on All Matters Pertaining to the Closed Session
  Discussion
2. Vote on Whether to Hold Closed Session to Consider Candidates for the Position of Director of Cultural Affairs (San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.10(b))
  Action
3. Closed Session Pursuant to Government Code Section 54957 and San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.10(b)
  Discussion
  
  Consideration of Candidates for the Position of Director of Cultural Affairs of the San Francisco Arts Commission, Classification 0961, Department Head I
  Action
4. Reconvene in Open Session
  1. Possible Report on Action Taken in Closed Session (Government Code Section 54957 and San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.12(b)(4))
    Action
  2. Vote to Elect Whether to Disclose Any or All Discussions Held in Closed Session (San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.12(a))
    Action
New Business
Discussion
Reports and Announcements
Discussion
Public Comment
Discussion
Adjournment
Action

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Notices
Explanatory documents are available for public inspection and copying at the Arts Commission office, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 240, San Francisco, CA 94102, during regular business hours. Info: Sharon Page Ritchie, 415/252-2591.

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