MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OF THE ARTS COMMISSION

Monday, October 22, 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
   Roberto Ordeñana, Vice President
   Simon Frankel
   Mary Jung
    
   Commissioners Absent
   Charles Collins
    
    
   President Beltran announced that the Director’s Report would be taken after the two action items to allow Senior Racial Equity and Policy Analyst Anh Thang Dao-Shah to arrive after her offsite meeting.
    
2. General Public Comment
   There was no public comment.
    
3. Individual Artist Commission Modification: Tessa Wills
   Mr. DeCaigny explained that this motion was an administrative matter to address the fact that grantee Tessa Wills had changed fiscal sponsors. There was no public comment, and the motion was unanimously approved as follows.
    
   Motion to rescind and reissue the Individual Artist Commission grant to Tessa Wills (Current Fiscal Sponsor: Dancers Group), authorized by Resolution No. 0507-18-161 for an amount not to exceed $15,000, to change the fiscal sponsor and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to approve the change of fiscal sponsor to the new Fiscal Sponsor: SOMArts.
    
4. Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit Project Artwork; Approval to Submit Transportation Art/Community Identification Proposal to California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
   Public Art Program Director Susan Pontious explained that the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit ("BRT") project is on Caltrans land, and that Caltrans has recently instituted a new policy for artwork on its property, requiring the transfer of ownership and rights from the artist to Caltrans. Because this is contrary to City policy, it requires modification of the existing agreement between artist Jorge Pardo and the City if the project is to go forward on time. Ms. Pontious explained that she understood the problem Caltrans was attempting to solve, and that the City had addressed the same concern in a very different way. She explained that City staff was working with state legislators to develop a long-term political solution, but that would not come in time for this current project. The Committee held a spirited discussion of the issue.
    
   There was no public comment, and the following motions were unanimously approved.
    
   Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to submit a Transportation Art/Community Identification Proposal on behalf of the lighting installation proposal by Jorge Pardo for the Van Ness Bus stations to be located at Van Ness Boulevard between McAllister and Geary avenues.
    
   Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to approve a modification of Jorge Pardo’s contract to design and fabricate his proposed lighting installation in order to align the artist’s agreement with the City with the artist’s agreement with the California Department of Transportation.
    
   President Beltran had to leave the meeting at approximately 12:54 p.m., and Vice President Ordeñana chaired the remainder of the meeeting.
    
5. Director’s Report
   Mr. DeCaigny asked Dr. Dao-Shah to present findings of the recent arts census, phase one. She discussed the methodology and goals of the survey, and its relationship to the earlier artist displacement survey. She discussed the findings and the plans for phase two, slated for January, 2019.
    
   There was no public comment.
    
6. New Business and Announcements
   Mr. DeCaigny announced that the annual national Grantmakers in the Arts conference was underway in Oakland, and that Community Investments staff were participating, with several making presentations.
    
   He announced that planning for the World Cities Culture Forum was entering the final weeks, and that reservations were required for the public event on Friday, November 16 at the Atrium in the War Memorial Veterans Building.
    
   Finally, he announced that the first of the grant deadlines was approaching, and that the various grant programs had deadlines rolling up to Thanksgiving.
    
   There was no further new business or announcements, and no public comment.
    
7. Adjournment
   There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 1:14 p.m.
    

posted 11/5/18, 6:00 p.m. spr
approved 12/3/18
 

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