Community Investments Committee - February 24, 2016 - Minutes

Meeting Date: 
February 24, 2016 - 1:00pm
Location: 
401 Van Ness Ave, Ste 125
San Francisco, CA 94102

SAN FRANCISCO ARTS COMMISSION
COMMUNITY ARTS, EDUCATION, AND GRANTS COMMITTEE

Wednesday, February 24, 2016
1:00 p.m.
401 Van Ness Ave, Suite 125
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MINUTES
 
 

The meeting was called to order at 1:10 p.m.

1. Roll Call
Commissioners Present:

Chuck Collins
Abby Sadin Schnair, ad hoc Chair
Marcus Shelby
Janine Shiota 

Commissioners Absent:
Sherene Melania, Chair

Staff Present: Tom DeCaigny, Judy Nemzoff, Barbara Mumby, Robynn Takayama, Ebony McKinney, Liz Ozol, Dr. Anh Thang Dao-Shah, Cristal Fiel, Khoi Nguyen, Alexander Tan

2. General Public Comment
There was none made. 

3. 2015-2016 Grants Cycle Presentation
Senior Program Officer Barbara Mumby gave an overview presentation of the 2015-2016 grants cycle, from the research, evaluation, and community feedback process that Dr. Anh Thang Dao-Shah conducted in fiscal year (“FY”) 2014-2015, to how feedback and recommendations were implemented in FY2015-2016 grant cycle. She said that it was amazing to see how much the grants team had grown and developed throughout the process and that the presentation would show the breadth of work that was being done. 

Ms. Mumby said that the staff took all the input from the community process to revise guidelines so that the application questions were in clearer alignment with scoring criteria. To ensure that the grants program was meeting its legislative mandate of serving historically underserved communities, there were structural changes to increase accessibility; a voluntary demographic survey for applicants; the inclusion of a cultural equity question in the grant applications; an open call for panelists; and the requirement that grantees would have to submit demographic data. The Committee reviewed slides of exemplary samples of applicants’ response to the cultural equity question. Ms. Mumby said that the staff will continue work on the cultural equity piece of the grant process to ensure the agency was meeting its legislative mandate.. 

Ms. Mumby said that technical assistance workshops were held throughout San Francisco at three Cultural Centers (African American Art and Culture Complex, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts and SOMArts Cultural Center) and Bayview Branch Library. There were four general workshops that gave an overview of the grants program and categories for organizations and individual artists. Additionally, there were four dates scheduled for one-on-one meetings with organizations and individual artists. There were roughly 196 individuals who signed up for the workshops, but actual attendance was a bit lower. Ms. Mumby said that staff would continue to revise and try different outreach strategies for technical assistance. 
 
Ms. Mumby moved on to discuss the panel recruitment and orientation process. This year, there was an open call for panelists that included applicants’ answering a question around their understanding of cultural equity. All applicants were approved to be part of the Commission’s pool of potential panelists that the program officers could select from.. Once panelists were selected, they had to participate in a mandatory orientation process about a month or so prior to the day of panel, where they reviewed with staff the agency’s values and cultural equity, and the criteria for evaluation of the respective grant categories. In addition to mandatory orientations with the program officers (“PO”), the POs had a mid-point check-in with the panelists and a day-of refresher prior to the start of the panel. As a result, Ms. Mumby believed that the panel process went much smoother and that the POs did a great job of facilitating the panels. Ms. Mumby then provided demographic information about this year’s panelists. 

Commissioner Shiota asked about the general response staff received regarding the applications. Ms. Mumby said that it was generally positive. While there were some bumps in the application process, such as the glitches with using fillable PDF forms, applicants were generally happy with the structure and revisions of the guidelines and application. It was very well-received and applicants believed that it was simplified and easier to fill out. 

Ms. Mumby moved on to provide an overview of the grant funding sources. She explained that a majority of the funding came from the City’s General Fund. Additionally, the agency received more add back funding from the Board of Supervisors than in years prior; and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (“SFPUC”) approved realigning their previous funding investment to support grantees specifically in the Bayview. While a majority of the total grant budget went toward the Cultural Centers and the Arts for Neighborhood Vitality and Native American Arts and Cultural Traditions grants had specific sources of funding, there was more balance in funding between the other categories than in years prior. 

Ms. Mumby then reviewed data regarding new versus returning applicants and grantees, grant recommendations by supervisorial district, funding trends from FY2010-2011 to FY2015-2016 across the different grant categories, and the grant panel recommendations per category.

Ms. Mumby explained that Artists and Communities in Partnership (“ACIP”) was funded through General Fund and thus went through a closed panel process. Of the 35 applicants, 18 were being recommended for funding. Ms. Mumby also noted that this was the only category in which funding was reduced from $25,000 to $20,000 to match with the Organization Project Grant (“OPG”). This was because staff wanted to see more intentionality behind applying for an ACIP versus OPG outside of the fact that ACIP provided more funding. Additionally, this year ACIP specifically enhanced criteria to support arts education programs and many of the newly funded recommendations were arts education organizations or programs. 

For Cultural Equity Initiatives Level One (“CEI L1”) and Level Two (“CEI L2”) there was a dramatic shift in how funding was disbursed. In years prior, an organization had to apply for and receive CEI L1, which was a one-year grant for $25,000 before they could apply for and receive CEI L2, which was a three-year grant for $100,000. Additionally, there were usually only up to three applicants who were recommended for CEI L2 year to year. This year, CEI was based on budget size and both were two-year grants. CEI L1 was for a two-year, $50,000 grant for applicants of annual budgets under $400,000. CEI L2 was a two-year, $100,000 grant for applicants with an annual budget between $400,000 and $1.2 million. As a response to community advocacy, more grant money was put toward CEI and Individual Artist Commissions (“IAC”) this year.

For Creative Space (“CRSP”), several revisions were made including splitting projects between planning and facilities, doubling the maximum request to $50,000 and having a two-year, Facilities Level 2 category where the applicant had a higher level of scrutiny and had to meet more requirements. For Facilities Level 2, Brava! for Women in the Arts and Root Division were being recommended for funding. Ms. Mumby stated that the panelists felt that applicants who made compelling cases for facility needs were generally more persuasive for funding recommendations. 

For IAC, both grant applicants and grantees almost doubled from years prior. The grant size for IAC was also doubled from years prior, from $10,000 to $15,000. Commissioner Collins asked how panelists overcame the inherent subjectivity in the IAC category. Ms. Mumby said that IAC was the most challenging category to do this and there was a lot of training and recalibrating with panelists involved. In the panel orientation to the day-of panel process, the staff tried to support the panelists as much as possible so there would be less subjectivity. This year, there was a lot of debate around whether to include a question about cultural equity within the IAC grant application. Staff decided to not include it, but panelists felt that it should be considered in next year’s application. Lead program officer for the IAC category Ebony McKinney added that there was an optional section for applicants to discuss the cultural context of their traditional or folk art practice. She said that panelists found that applicants who responded to this question made more compelling cases for being recommended for funding. 

For OPG, the agency received a higher amount of applications than in prior years. In the revision process, staff looked at how to allocate funding based on budget size. This year, organizations classified as mini were those with annual budget sizes under $150,000 and could apply for up to $15,000. Small organizations were those with annual budget sizes between $150,000 and $400,000 and could apply for up to $18,000. Mid-size organizations were those with annual budget sizes between $400,000 and $1.2 million and could apply for up to $20,000. Ms. Mumby clarified that some organizations were receiving less than $15,000 because the maximum allowance also depended on budget size. Funding for this category has remained relatively the same.

Commissioner Shiota asked how staff tracked which applicants were recommended in multiple funding grant categories. Ms. Mumby said that applicants cannot receive CEI and OPG in the same year. For those applicants who were recommended for both CEI and OPG by the panel, they moved forward for CEI funding and not OPG. Otherwise, applicants could receive funding in multiple categories if eligible and recommended. 

Finally, Ms. Mumby moved on to discuss the Native American Art and Cultural Traditions (“NAACT”) grant. In previous years, NAACT was a completely separate category and application process with half the amount of funding compared to the other categories. This year, NAACT was aligned with the other categories, embedded in the application for IAC, CEI and OPG, and eligible for the same amount of funding. If an applicant wanted to be tracked into the NAACT panel, they needed to answer an additional question in the grant applications for IAC, CEI, and OPG. Additionally, there was money set aside in the CRSP-Planning category for a Native American Cultural Center. While the agency received fewer applications this year, the funding recommendation amount was larger than years prior because of the Native American Cultural Center grant. Ms. Mumby concluded her presentation. 

Commissioner Schnair called for public comment. 

Public Comment: 
Nancy Wang from Eth-Noh-Tec said that the public panel used to watch work samples together and that applicants used to be able to speak with the panelists to make corrections to anything that may have been misinterpreted. She felt that Eth-Noh-Tec’s lead reader expressed a personal bias toward the organization’s plan for their CEI L1 application in terms of whether artists could become administrators. She said that organizations like Kearny Street Workshop and Cultural Odyssey were examples of organizations where artists worked in administrative capacities. Lastly, Ms. Wang said she appreciated that the Commissioners asked the staff how applicants felt about the changes in this year’s cycle. 

Brenda Wong Aoki from First Voice said that she applauded the Commission’s continued support for individual artists. She talked about her previous experience such as co-producing Asian American Jazz Festival, being commissioned by the United States Congress, receiving a number of grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission in prior years, serving on grant panels to bring more music to the community, and serving on the board of funding organization Cal Humanities. She said that she understood how difficult it was to create a fair panel process, but that sitting through the CEI and CRSP panels this year was difficult because of the biased misinformation presented by the lead readers, particularly for CRSP. Ms. Aoki said that First Voice had a great letter of support from Supervisor Eric Mar that the lead reader did not talk about, and that there was misrepresentation that First Voice’s studio was underutilized. She felt that it was important if there was some way for the administrator (panel facilitator) to intervene if there was misinformation. 

Jenny Leung from Chinese Culture Foundation asked the SFAC continue its commitment to cultural equity and to clarify its priorities for cultural equity as a leader in the City. She said that she felt the panelists for CRSP mixed personal experience with professional judgment, and that a panelist alluded to the myth of Asian Americans as the model minority in the panel process in regards to the misperception that Chinese Culture Foundation was more well-funded than the organization actually was. Ms. Leung said that the staff should ensure that there are diverse panelists and that the Chinese Culture Foundation knew of qualified panelists to serve on panels. 

Vinay Patel from Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (“APICC”) said that he would like the agency to reconsider the one-day application deadline and that he was looking forward to the implementation of an online grants management system. He said that in the past, there was a Cultural Equity Grants program that was a central place for discussing and ensuring cultural equity issues were addressed. He wondered how the agency would continue to meet the value of cultural equity if there was no named department, and how the agency was trying to achieve equity beyond giving out grants. He said the (Cultural Equity Endowment Fund) legislation had the vision of building the capacity of underserved organizations, particularly in the CEI L1 and L2 categories. Mr. Patel said he was glad that the agency was reconsidering the eligible amount for CEI L2 and was looking forward to working with the agency moving forward. 

There was no further public comment. 

Commissioner Schnair said that it was a huge task to go through the entire process and that there were many discussions and meetings to think about how to make the grant process more equitable. She congratulated Ms. Mumby, Community Investments Program Director Judy Nemzoff and the rest of the grants staff with what had been accomplished thus far. She said it was an amazing process and she was looking forward to seeing the impact of the changes in the long term because it was change that the Commission had been wanting for a long time.

Commissioner Shelby asked if there was a Sunshine Ordinance process for applicants to engage with the panel if they heard misinformation or something was misrepresented factually that could affect the scoring of the applicants’ project. 

Ms. Mumby explained that staff has heard in the past the desire for applicants to give feedback and that the City of Oakland incorporates this into their panel process. She said that staff would continue to consider how that could work, but the SFAC’s applicant pool was three times the size of the City of Oakland. It was a matter of balancing logistics, infrastructure, and resources. She also said that there should be a balancing act between those applicants who can or cannot attend the public panel. She said that staff takes the community’s input very seriously in both the philosophical and bureaucratic sense during the decision-making process. She said that changes to the grant process were gradual because the agency did not have the staff capacity or infrastructure to incorporate changes all at once, and that changes were happening in phases and over several years. 

Director of Cultural Affairs Tom DeCaigny congratulated the staff for their work. He said that there was benefit in looking at the grant recommendation in aggregate because it was hard for Commissioners to gauge whether the agency was meeting its legislative mandate when recommendations were presented in piecemeal. He said that the main charge was in ensuring that the panel process was equitable, with a diverse set of panelists who possessed competency in cultural equity. After the grant recommendations would go before Full Commission in March for final approval, the next step would be to have an annual grants meeting to see how to adjust guidelines and process based on community input. Speaking to the capacity and infrastructure of the grants program, he said that this was the largest allocation of resources being granted to the community in the history of the Arts Commission, but it had not come with new staff. He said that the agency was continuing to look at how it would balance dollars out to the community with staff support and that there were many difficult decisions between the intentions of legislatively mandated grant dollars and putting resources toward City salaries and staff support. He said that there was a lot of work happening behind the scenes in administering the grants program; the hope was to implement an online grants management system that would allow staff to place even greater focus on helping grantees. He thanked the staff again, and the community for advocating for a one-million-dollar increase in a time when affordability was a real challenge in San Francisco. 

Explanatory Document: FY2015-2016 Grant Cycle Review and Award Recommendations (pdf)

4. 2015-2016 Arts for Neighborhood Vitality Grants
Commissioner Schnair presented the following motion:
Motion to approve recommendations to award nine grants totaling $27,000 in the 2015-2016 cycle of Arts for Neighborhood Vitality (“ANV”) to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each organization for the amounts listed:
Au Co Vietnamese Cultural Center, $3,000 
Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema, $3,000 
Brava Theater Center/Brava! For Women in the Arts, $3,000 
Excelsior Action Group, $3,000 
Flor y Canto Literary Festival, $3,000 
Genryu Arts, $3,000 
Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, $3,000 
Salsa Festival on Fillmore, $3,000 
The Village Project, $3,000
 
Moved: Collins/Shiota
Public Comment: None.
The motion was unanimously approved. 

5. 2015-2016 Artists & Communities in Partnership Grants
Commissioner Collins recused himself from the following motion because the Bayview YMCA had a financial relationship with the recommended organizations.

Commissioner Schnair presented the following motion: 
Motion to approve recommendations to award two grants totaling $40,000 in the 2015-2016 cycle of Artists & Communities in Partnership (“ACIP”) to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each organization for the amounts listed:
Mural Music & Arts Project, $20,000 
ZACCHO Dance Theatre, $20,000

Moved: Shelby/Shiota
Public Comment: None.
The motion was unanimously approved.

Commissioner Schnair recused herself because she served on the board of directors for American Conservatory Theater (“A.C.T.”), who was the partner in grant project with Downtown Continuation High School. 

Mr. DeCaigny presented the following motion:
Motion to approve the recommendation award and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreement with Downtown Continuation High School for $20,000 in the 2015-2016 cycle of Artists & Communities in Partnership (“ACIP”).
Moved: Shiota/Collins. 
Public Comment: None.
The motion was unanimously approved.

Commissioner Schnair presented the following motion:
Motion to approve recommendations to award 15 grants totaling $296,972 in the 2015-2016 cycle of Artists & Communities in Partnership (“ACIP”) to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each organization for the amounts listed:
API Equality- Northern CA, $20,000 
ASPIRE, $20,000 
Au Co Vietnamese Cultural Center, $20,000 
Children’s After School Arts (CASA), $20,000 
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, $20,000 
Chinese Progressive Association, $20,000 
Citizen Film, $20,000 
Flyaway Productions, $20,000 
Imagine Bus Project, $20,000 
Push Dance Company, $20,000 
Queer Rebel Productions, $20,000 
San Francisco Boys and Girls Club- Don Fisher Clubhouse, $20,000 
San Francisco Mime Troupe, $20,000 
Southern Exposure, $20,000 
Streetside Stories, $16,972

Moved: Collins/Shelby
Public Comment: None. 
The motion was unanimously approved. 
 
6. 2015-2016 Cultural Equity Initiatives Level One Grants
Commissioner Schnair presented the following motion:
Motion to approve recommendations to award 18 grants totaling $783,484 in the 2015-2016 cycle of Cultural Equity Initiatives Level One (“CEI-L1”) to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each organization for the amounts listed:
Acción Latina, $50,000 
Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers (ABD Productions), $50,000 
Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA), $50,000 
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, $50,000 
Bindlestiff Studio, $38,219 
Circo Zero / Zero Performances, $50,000 
CubaCaribe, $50,000 
Duniya Dance and Drum Company, $39,199 
Flyaway Productions, $50,000 
Genryu Arts, $37,500 
Jess Curtis/Gravity, $50,000 
Kearny Street Workshop, $45,331 
Loco Bloco Drum and Dance Ensemble, $50,000 
Push Dance Company, $25,000 
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP), $50,000 
Sixth Street Photography Workshop, $30,000 
Topsy Turvy, $18,235 
Women’s Audio Mission, $50,000
 
Moved: Collins/Shiota
Public Comment: Ms. Aoki from First Voice asked the committee to consider funding down to First Voice if there was more money in the budget, since the organization was next in the rank after the initial cutoff. 
The motion was unanimously approved.
 
7. 2015-2016 Cultural Equity Initiatives Level Two Grants
Commissioner Shelby recused himself because he is an artist-in-residence with Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. 

Commissioner Schnair presented the following motion:
Motion to approve recommendations to award five grants totaling $500,000 in the 2015-2016 cycle of Cultural Equity Initiatives Level Two (“CEI-L2”) to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each organization for the amounts listed:
ABADA Capoeira San Francisco, $100,000 
Alliance for California Traditional Arts, $100,000 
Fresh Meat Productions, $100,000 
World Arts West, $100,000 
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, $100,000

Moved: Shiota/Collins
Public Comment: None.
The motion was unanimously approved. 
 
8. 2015-2016 Creative Space Grants
Commissioner Schnair presented the following motion: 
Motion to approve recommendations to award nine grants totaling $530,400 in the 2015-2016 cycle of Creative Space (“CRSP”) to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each organization for the amounts listed:
826 Valencia, $50,000 
Acción Latina, $50,000 
Center for New Music San Francisco, $30,400 
EXIT Theater, $50,000 
New Conservatory Theatre Center, $50,000 
Brava Theater Center/Brava! For Women in the Arts, $100,000 
Root Division, $100,000 
509 Cultural Center / the luggage store, $50,000 
Cutting Ball Theatre Company, $50,000
 
Moved: Shelby/Shiota
Public Comment: None.
The motion was unanimously approved.

9. 2015-2016 Individual Artist Commissions Grants
Commissioner Schnair presented the following motion:
Motion to approve recommendations to award 41 grants totaling $604,000 in the 2015-2016 cycle of Individual Artist Commissions (“IAC”) to the following individuals, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each individual for the amounts listed:
Aaron Gervais, $13,000 
Alleluia Panis, $15,000 
Andrea Danger, $15,000 
Baruch Porras-Hernandez, $15,000 
Beth Custer, $15,000 
Caroline Cabading, $15,000 
Charlie Varon, $15,000 
Danny Clay, $15,000 
Danny Duncan, $15,000 
Fely Tchaco, $15,000 
Gang Situ, $15,000 
Idris Ackamoor, $15,000 
Isak Immanuel, $15,000 
Jon Jang, $15,000 
Julz Hale Mary, $15,000 
Kali Boyce, $15,000 
Karl Cronin, $15,000 
Kal Spelletich, $15,000 
Keith Hennessy, $15,000 
Kerensa DeMars, $15,000 
Kevin Seaman, $15,000 
Lenora Lee, $15,000 
Lily Cai, $15,000 
Megan Finlay, $15,000 
Melody Takata, $15,000 
Mica Sigourney, $15,000 
Monique Jenkinson, $15,000 
Nathaniel Justiniano, $15,000 
Niloufar Talebi, $15,000 
Pamela Z, $15,000 
Raisa Punkki, $6,000 
Rhodessa Jones, $15,000 
Richard Marriott, $15,000 
Rohan Krishnamurthy, $15,000 
Ross Travis, $15,000 
Rotimi Agbabiaka, $15,000 
Sara Shelton Mann, $15,000 
Sascha Jacobsen, $15,000 
Sean Dorsey, $15,000 
Sean San José, $15,000 
Temistocles Fuentes Betancourt, $15,000

Moved: Shelby/Shiota
Public Comment: None. 
The motion was unanimously approved. 

10. 2015-2016 Organization Project Grants
Commissioner Schnair presented the following motion:
Motion to approve recommendations to award 43 grants totaling $676,850 in the 2015-2016 cycle of Organization Project Grants (“OPG”) to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each organization for the amounts listed:
3rd i South Asian Independent Film Festival, $18,000
509 Cultural Center / the luggage store, $20,000
African & African American Performing Arts Coalition, $15,000
Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, $9,500
Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology (BAYCAT), $20,000
Center for New Music San Francisco, $12,500
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, $20,000
Chrysalis Studio, $15,000
Creative Labor: Queer Visual Artists’ Working Group, $6,500
Croatian American Cultural Center, $15,000
Cypress String Quartet / Cypress Performing Arts Association, $20,000
Dance Brigade, $20,000
Dawson Dances SF, $15,000
Eye Zen Presents, $15,000
foolsFury Theater Company,  $15,000
Garrett + Moulton Productions $18,000
Hope Mohr Dance, $10,000
Kulintang Arts Inc.,  $15,000
La Pocha Nostra, $10,000
Lenora Lee Dance, $15,000
ME’DI.ATE (Mediate Art Group), $15,000
Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Theatre (NAKA), $15,000
OX, $15,000
Playwrights Foundation, $18,000
Queer Rebel Productions, $15,000
Quiet Lightning, $9,600
Radar Productions, $18,000
Red Poppy Art House, $15,000
Root Division, $20,000
Roxie Theater, $20,000
San Francisco Black Film Festival, $7,750
San Francisco Juneteenth Festival, $15,000
San Francisco Live Arts, $15,000
San Francisco Mime Troupe, $18,000
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival , $20,000
San Francisco Silent Film Festival, $20,000
San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (Tranny Fest), $15,000
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center, $15,000
The LAB / The.art.re.grup, Inc., $15,000
Theatre of Yugen, $15,000
We Players, $18,000
Youth Art Exchange, $20,000
ZACCHO Dance Theatre, $18,000

Moved: Shiota/Shelby
Public Comment: None.
The motion was unanimously approved. 

11. 2015-2016 Native American Arts & Cultural Traditions Grants
Commissioner Schnair presented the following motion:
Motion to approve recommendations to award 6 grants totaling $123,359 in the 2015-2016 cycle of Native American Arts & Cultural Traditions (“NAACT”) to the following organizations and individuals, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each individual and organization for the amounts listed:
American Indian Community Cultural Center for the Arts SF (AICCA-SF), $50,000 
American Indian Contemporary Arts (AICA), $8,000 
Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits (BAAITS), $11,000 
John-Carlos Perea, $14,359 
Patrick Makuākane, $15,000 
Seventh Native American Generation, $25,000

Moved: Collins/Shiota
Public Comment: None.
The motion was passed unanimously.
 
12. New Business and Announcements
Ms. Nemzoff introduced the newest member of the Community Investments program, Khoi Nguyen. Ms. Nemzoff said that Mr. Nguyen, formerly on staff at the Academy of Art University, was a practicing artist and teaches a class at San Francisco State University. 

Commissioner Schnair announced that it was her last meeting serving on the CAEG Committee and that she would begin serving on the Civic Design Review Committee beginning in March. She said she was impressed with the growth and development that has happened for the Arts Commission during her time serving on the committee and that she will miss it. 

Mr. DeCaigny thanked Commissioner Schnair for sitting on the CAEG Committee and announced that Commission Vice President Roberto Ordeñana was assigned to serve on the CAEG Committee again as of March 2016.

13. Adjournment
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 2:46 p.m.
 
 
CF 3/9/16 draft minutes posted 

CF 4/4/16 minutes adopted
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