MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OF THE ARTS COMMISSION

Monday, July 23, 2018
12:30 p.m.
401 Van Ness Avenue, Room 125

Minutes
 

President Beltran called the meeting to order at 12:36 p.m.

1. Roll Call
   Commissioners Present
   JD Beltran, President
   Charles Collins
   Simon Frankel
    
   Commissioners Absent
   Roberto Ordeñana, Vice President
   Mary Jung
    
2. General Public Comment
   There was no public comment.
    
3. Director’s Report
   Mr. DeCaigny asked Senior Racial Equity and Policy Analyst Dr. Anh Thang Dao-Shah to discuss the results of the survey of staff and Commissioners following the June retreat. The Commission discussed how the Arts Commission and other City agencies are following up on the commitment to racial equity.
    
   Mr. DeCaigny reminded the Committee that there would be no meeting of the full Commission in September.
    
   He reported that the proposed ballot measure restoring the tie between the Hotel Tax and the arts had been voted unanimously out of committee to the full Board of Supervisors, for hearing on July 31. He reviewed the elements of the measure. He also reported that the Board had also introduced two pieces of legislation regarding fees: one to increase fees for Civic Design Review, and another to allow the Arts Commission to package its Galleries exhibitions, and collect a fee for sending the exhibition to another city.
    
   Finally, he reported on the next step in removing the Early Days sculpture, a rehearing by the Board of Appeal on September 12.
    
   There was no public comment.
    
4. Artworks for San Francisco International Airport
   President Beltran explained that the artist whose works were the subjectt of this motion, Tammy Rae Carland, is her superior at California College of the Arts, and she would need to recuse herself from consideration of the motion. Because without her there would be no quorum, the motion was tabled for referral to the full Arts Commission. There was no public comment.
    
5. Cultural Center Cost of Living Adjustments
   Staff explained the following motions, and the Committee discussed them. There was no public comment and the motions were unanimously approved as follows.
    
   Motion to rescind the retroactive cost of living adjustment (“COLA”) increases to the FY2017-2018 Cultural Center grant agreements, authorized by Resolution No. 0709-18-190 in amounts not to exceed the following:
   African American Art and Culture Complex (“AAACC”), by $16,382 for a total grant of $671,662.14: $562,060.68 to AAACC and $109,601.46 to sub-grantee Queer Cultural Center.
    
   Motion to approve retroactive cost of living adjustment (“COLA”) increases to the FY2017-2018 Cultural Center grant agreements in amounts not to exceed the following:
   African American Art and Culture Complex (“AAACC”) by $16,382 for a total grant of $821,662 ($712,061 to AAACC and $109,601 to sub-grantee Queer Cultural Center.)
    
6. Cultural Center Management and Programming Plans
   Staff explained the following motions, and the Committee discussed them. There was no public comment and the motions were unanimously approved as follows.
    
   Motion to approve the proposed FY2018-2019 Management and Programming Plan (“MPP”) and Budget for the African American Art and Culture Complex (“AAACC”) for a grant amount not to exceed $671,662.14: $562,060.68 to AAACC and $ 109,601.46 to sub-grantee Queer Cultural Center (“QCC”), pending MPP and budget revisions.
    
   Motion to approve the proposed FY2018-2019 Management and Programming Plans (“MPP”) and Budgets for the following Cultural Center grant agreements in amounts not to exceed the following:
   Bayview Opera House Inc. (“BVOH, Inc.”) $353,348.65
   Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (“MCCLA”) $592,874.74
   SOMArts Cultural Center (“SOMArts”) for a total of $772,128.47: $ 662,527.01 to SOMArts and $ 109,601.46 to sub-grantee Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (“APICC”), pending MPP and budget revisions
    
7. Cultural Equity Initiatives Grants
   Staff explained the following motion, and the Committee discussed it. There was no public comment and the motion was unanimously approved as follows.
    
   Motion to rescind and reissue the following FY2018-2019 Cultural Equity Initiatives grants to change the fiscal sponsor for such grants and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to approve the change of fiscal sponsor:
   • Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers (Current Fiscal Sponsor: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts), authorized by Resolution No. 0507-18-159 for an amount not to exceed $7,952 (New Fiscal Sponsor: Dancers Group)
   • San Francisco Black Film Festival (Current Fiscal Sponsor: West Bay Local Development Corporation) authorized by Resolution No. 0507-18-159 for an amount not to exceed $21,875 (New Fiscal Sponsor: African American Arts and Culture Complex)
    
8. Individual Artist Commissions
   Staff explained the following motion, and the Committee discussed it. There was no public comment and the motion was unanimously approved as follows.
    
   Motion to rescind and reissue the following FY2018-2019 Individual Artist Commission grants to add a fiscal sponsor for such grants and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to approve the addition of a fiscal sponsor:
   • Lincoln Basaing (authorized by Resolution No. 0507-18-161) for an amount not to exceed $15,000 (Added Fiscal Sponsor: Circuit Network)
   • Conrad J. Benedicto (authorized by Resolution No. 0507-18-161) for an amount not to exceed $15,000 (Added Fiscal Sponsor: Mindanao Lilang Lilang)
   • Michael Phelan (authorized by Resolution No. 0507-18-161) for an amount not to exceed $15,000 (Added Fiscal Sponsor: Counterpulse)
   • Richard Marriott (authorized by Resolution No. 0507-18-161) for an amount not to exceed $15,000 (Added Fiscal Sponsor: Circuit Network)
    
9. Special Projects Grant
   Staff explained the following motion, and the Committee discussed it. There was no public comment and the motion was unanimously approved as follows.
    
   Motion to increase the Special Projects Grant to the Economic Development on Third (authorized by Resolution No. 0605-17-171) by $25,000, for a total grant amount not to exceed $50,000 and to extend the grant window to June 30, 2019.
    
10. WritersCorps Grants
    Staff explained the following motions, and the Committee discussed them. There was no public comment and the motions were unanimously approved as follows.
     
    Motion to approve an increase to the WritersCorps Teaching-Artist-in-Residence grants (authorized by Resolution No. 0710-17-178) for the amounts listed, for fiscal year 2018-2019 to the following teaching artists; and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to amend the grant agreements with each, pending availability of funds:
    Tina Bartolome (Fiscal Sponsor: Intersection for the Arts) in partnership with Oasis for Girls, $52,000
    Madeleine Clifford (Fiscal Sponsor: Intersection for the Arts) in partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District Court School, Woodside Learning Center at Juvenile Justice Center, $52,000
    Robyn Carter (Fiscal Sponsor: Intersection for the Arts) in partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District school, Redding Elementary School, $52,000
     
    Motion to approve an increase to the WritersCorps Teaching-Artist-in-Residence grants (authorized by Resolution No. 0501-17-121) for the amounts listed, annually for two fiscal years 2018-2020 to the following teaching artists; and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to amend the grant agreements with each, pending availability of funds:
    Anne Rovzar (Fiscal Sponsor: Intersection for the Arts) in partnership with Hilltop School for Pregnant Minors, $52,000
    Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Fiscal Sponsor: Root Division) in partnership with San Francisco Balboa High School, $52,000
     
    Motion to approve an increase to the WritersCorps Teaching-Artist-in-Residence grant (authorized by Resolution No. 0501-17-122) for the amount of $52,000 annually for two fiscal years 2018-2020 to Celeste Chan (Fiscal Sponsor: Intersection for the Arts) in partnership with Chrysalis Studio’s Queer Ancestors Project; and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to amend the grant agreement pending availability of funds.
     
11. Street Artist Code of Conduct
    The Committee discussed the draft Code of Conduct, and made some revisions. There was no public comment and the motion was unanimously approved as follows.
     
    Motion to adopt the Artist Code of Conduct as revised.
     
12. New Business and Announcements
    Mr. DeCaigny announced a talk by artist Zak Ove.
     
    There was no further new business or announcements, and no public comment.
     
13. Adjournment
    There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 1:41 p.m.
     

posted 8/6/18, 7:45 p.m. spr
approved 10/1/18


 

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