Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Govt Audits And Oversight Committee 42116 20160422

Govtv for streaming us live. Madam clerk any announcements . Yes, please silence and electronic devices. Supervisor aaron peskin please read items 1 and 2 together. Clerk items 150672 home detention Electronic Monitoring Program rules and regulations and Program Administrators evidence of financial responsibility. Supervisor aaron peskin captain paulsen. Good morning. My name is captain paulsen. I have been asked to make a presentation today with regards to electronic monitoring. The reason for todays presentation is the california penal code requires that the board of supervisors review and approve the data regarding electronic monitoring. Currently we have made no changes to the electronic monitoring rules since in the past 2 years. In addition, the Contracting Agency which provides Electronic Monitoring Service for the department is responsible for approving financial responsibility and that proof has been included in the package. A review of the Electronic Monitoring Program by the San Francisco Sheriffs Department is this was designed to be an alternative to incarceration for low risk offenders. The participating electronic monitoring are reviewed by the court and reviewed by the San Francisco Sheriffs Department. A Program Reviews each person for electronic monitoring reviewing their criminal history, current charges and the police report. When we put a person on electronic monitoring we provide them a schedule of activities, which is referred to as home detention because they are required to be at their home. We develop inclusion and exclusion zone agenda depending on the crime. For instance, if a person is accused of shoplifting at a location, that is an exclusion zone. They maybe required to be at their residence for some time. The electronic monitoring is a provided as a tool of safety. It also reduces the cost of incarceration by providing a meaningful alternative to securing incarceration and allows the individual who is accused of the crime or who is serving a sentence for the crime to maintain Community Ties to and many times keep a job, to go to programmatic activity and most important to be with their family during the time that they are serving either serving pretrial or time assigned by a judge. We use two different types of electronic monitoring which is most widely used as anklet with gps device to let us know where that person is at all times. The gps tracking device transmits the signal actively which is picked up by us and it is light and does not interfere with any activity that the person is involved in. At times we add a beacon and that amplifies a signal if a person is living for example, in a basement, and improves the signal. The second type of monitoring is monitoring of a persons alcohol level. We do that through 2 devices. The first is a portable breathalyzer, a small device with a camera on it and we require the person participating to breathe into the the device, it takes their picture as they breathe into the device and tells us that persons blood alcohol level. The other device we use is ankle monitoring that measures the blood alcohol level by perspiration level and tells us whether or not that person has consumed alcohol. So, in conclusion, we are presenting this information to the board to state that we require your approval and authorization for the program. We have fundamentally not changed the rules and regulations of the program and the monitoring agency, the Contract Service provider has provided proof of financial responsibility. Supervisor aaron peskin thank you, captain. Just out of curiosity, how many individual on this program. On average 53 people per month on the case load. We signed up 187 people in 2015. And in terms of what is in the report referred to absent without leave, awol. The leaders have to report to you with how many awols . We have been very successful. Last year we had 34 people who in one way or another did not comply on a major basis. The advantage is we get reported to us in realtime. The more significant fact is that 93 of the people who complete the program, by our calculation and the numbers we report to the mayor, 93 do not recidivate within 12 months of completion of the program. Batteries, what about dead batteries . We get alerts when a persons battery is dying. So when it goes below a certain percentage, we actually have the ability to buzz the person, which is send a person an alert to say its time to recharge your battery. Thank you, supervisor breed, any questions for captain paulsen . Supervisor london breed is there more funding needed to put in to more womens programs. Based on the program it seems that you have done a good job in putting as many individuals as many as possible. It looks like there might be room to do more. I would like to have a clear understanding about some of the inmates that you have housed if there is a possibility to add more to this program . For every Single Person considered for electronic monitoring we do a Risk Assessment for them. Thecourt is our partner in the Risk Assessment. When a court says, this person should be on electronic monitoring, we do our best to defer to the court order about it. Currently, with regards to the people who are currently incarcerated, we can do more and we can and have gotten as many people out as have been presented to us. We are currently reviewing the case loads of people in the jail to see whether or not we can get even more people out. Thank you. Supervisor aaron peskin are there any members who would like to testify to items 1 or 2 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Could we excuse supervisor yee from these votes. Supervisor london breed so moved. That motion passes. Can we send to the full board with positive recommendations . So moved. We have general manager here who has to go to his recreation and Parks Committee at 10 00. We wanted him here for a closed session litigation item. I dont want to give the Financial Report a short trip. What i was going to propose if its acceptable to supervisor breed is that we take item 4 out of order which will require us to empty this room because that is a closed session litigation item. If that is okay. We will take item four4 out of order. Thank you for your cooperation. Well come get you as soon as we dispose with this item. You can call them all, but well go back into closed session to address them. Yes dont we call items 4, 5, 6 together. Clerk item no. 4, a settle of lawsuit with lisa owen for 2250,000. And item 5, settlement of lawsuit for ying zhang for 175,000 item 6, kai yuan for 175. Supervisor aaron peskin thank you, we will convene in closed session. Are there any members of the public who would like to testify on items 4, 5, 6 . Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, this is that committee and it gives us five tasks. We shall maintain a direct a separate line of communication between the board of supervisors and the city and countys independent auditor. We immediate with the independent auditor and the auditors Financial Statement as well as management and compliance. Recommend appropriate action be taken by the board for recommendations contained in the audit report and follow the necessary report is implemented. Welcome, good morning. Mr. Rosen field. Good morning. That was a perfect introduction. I will turn it to our auditors. As you are aware our office each year discloses a Financial Report and working with the department and you as the board of supervisors retain the audits and retain our work and come back to you regarding our findings and the citys compliance to federal rules. Thats what we are here for today. I will turn it to the external auditors from supervisor aaron peskin i understand we will not discuss this current fiscal year . Correct. We are covering last year. Well be back for the board of supervisors regarding those. With your permission. We will bring the audit plans back to this committee in a month or so when they are prepared. Great. We look forward to that. On behalf of macias, gini and oconnel. Ms. Louie . Good morning. Presenter good morning, supervisors. My name is annie louie from gini and oconnel. I bring you the audit results for fiscal year 1415. First i would like to go over the scope of the audit that is performed by our firm. We cover the citys general Financial Statements known as the cafr. We report on the single audits and the retirement system and Successor Agency and the Redevelopment Agency and the General Hospital and required communication. And current year assessment. We did issue an unmodified opinion which is a higher level of assurance you can receive through the audit and the Financial Reporting as well as over compliance. The second report which is the report to the government audit and oversight commute is to authorize the communication to the board regarding communication on the audit. With that, there are two types of required communications that we report to the board at the beginning of the audit. So we presented in the fiscal year 1415 Audit Service plan on our responsibility under u. S. Generally accepted editing standards and planned scope and timing of the audit. There were no changes on the planned scope or the timing of the audit. In the report there are a series of items that under government audit and oversight we have to report to you. These are typical items. Without going into too much detail. The one i would like to highlight of qualitative aspects. We pointed to the audit themselves and the estimates used and how they were derived. The audit you receive in the Financial Statement is the implementation of gatsby 68 which is the new standard on pension benefits are being reported in the Financial Statement. That is one of the biggest changes with that im going into the audit and recommendations. The first one relates to Information Technology governance. This is from information we have from the previous audit and policies and procedures related to government it for the city as a whole. The reason why this is still in continuing comment because we believe the condition has not been fully corrected mainly due to the turnover at the department of technology. The second comment that we have relates to the yearend closing process. During the yearend closing process each department has to make estimates ora cruel of their liabilities. We found that certain departments did not have their own fiscal staff. They rely on the agency to record those transactions and the communication can be improved to account for the transaction in that period. Supervisor aaron peskin ms. Louis, give me an example of those . I cannot remember off the top of my head. Let me go back into detail. Good morning, deputy county administrator. These are facilities in Treasure Island. There are three other departments that rely on the department. There is ti and other facilities use gsa . Right. Conventional facilities is their Management Agreement so they have their own internal financial staff and review the material and statements. Treasure island, completely relies on gsa for all of their accounting back in process and pos. Treasure island was a subdivision of the state of california until recently, right . It was not a city agency per say, it was kind of a second Redevelopment Agency until it did have a separate status, yes, now it falls under the umbrella of the City Administrators Office under the gsa. With that we fall under the gsa and accountable for all the finances. Thank you. If you would like the details of the transactions that we have found and corrected is on page 10 of the report. So moving on, there are two informational type comments. These are not deficiencies in the Financial Reporting process but we believe have significant changes or impact on the Financial Statement or for the city as a whole. The first item related to the uniform guidance for federal awards. What happened in the office of management and budget issued new requirements for all federal awards and it became effective december 26, 2016. , 2014. That will impact how the city manages oversee any funding received including cost procurement monitoring. This will be the significant change in the effecting of awards. The second comment relates to the new accounting standards issued for other Employment Benefits o opeb for short. One of the most significan change is the presentation of an opeb liability on the Financial Statements. So you will have basically it will hit your bottom line. Currently the information is measure differently and also only disclosed in the note for the Financial Statement. The implementation year is 151718 for the city. Going forward the findings for the year for compliance awards. The first one related to the procurement for the Port Security grant program. That program was administered by the port of San Francisco. During our test of procurement procedures we found that proper documentation was not maintained for one of the contracts. We found the department to be in compliance based on other types of testing, but we believe that document retention is important. In terms of management response, you will see the response in the report but it was addressed august 2015 to address the issue. Supervisor aaron peskin whats the difference between a significant deficiency and material deficiency . Okay. There are basically three types of deficiencies you can have in internal control and the most familiar is the material witness which will be a likely chance to lead to the material of the Financial Statement or material noncompliance in terms of federal awards. That will be a Material Weakness in control. That doesnt mean you have to have a material misstatement or noncompliance, but one would be such a finding. The next level is is the deficiency in the process that we warrant to management as well as the board. The lowest level would be a control of deficiency that may not raise to the level of significant deficiency. Thank you. The second and last finding of this audit is the program. As part of the claiming process reimbursement for the program will be to do time studies for the workers time. We found that during the time study process sick leave and vacations were not classified properly and we have the information for the department to visit that process and corrected. In terms of a management response, the full response is in the report itself, but they are communicating. We are emphasizing the proper time of the hours and looking into enhancing the process. The last section of this presentation i would like to go over the prior year of the recommendations we have for the single audit. We have three findings in the slide and they were corrected by year 1415. With that, i will take any questions you may have. Supervisor aaron peskin colleagues, any questions from ms. Louie . No. Can we hear from kpmg . Good morning, supervisors, my name is lisa avis with kpmg. I will here to discuss the three departments we audit. The San Francisco International Airport which is included the single audit. We audit mta, and we audit hsf and puc for water, wastewater, hetch hetchy water. The Financial Statements resulted in an unmodified opinion. Thats the clean bill of health. Basically the Financial Statements did properly state their Financial Health at the end of the year. Single audit we had no findings. All received unmodified opinions. When we were here last year and frd audit results we did report a material witness for the San Francisco International Airport in the process of capitalizing their fixed assets. There was an approximate 45 million audit adjustment to be booked and there was a material issue. Happy to report it was reminded in that t reimmediated that finding and took the appropriate steps to remediate that finding. They have a clean bill of health. No reports this year. Management did well in that result and no Management Issues to report in that timeline. Any questions . Supervisor aaron peskin colleagues . Thank you, ms. Avis. And now we may hear from the a fore mentioned significant deficiencies. Maybe we start with someone from the department of technology. I dont see mr. Here. Im the new securities information officer. Boya. We concur with the findings. This is something thats been known for a while and we are working on solutions for that. There is an established architectural policy review board in place which is currently working on five separate policies. The one addressing this main issue around privilege access to management policy. I cochair with my colleague out at the airport, tom borden. We are working on that standard now to be able to codify a centralized password Identity Management program for the city and county. Hopefully you will stay here for a while so they dont find this as a turnover. I hope so. Controller . Briefly, i wanted to add that joes presence in itself and description of his job is one that is repeated. Joe is filling the job that is the scope for security citywide. As we had a chief Security Officer responsible for this, joes scope is larger. So we are looking for and pushing through this finding. Great, we would love to see it go away in its currently fiscal year. If you want to reiterate what gsa is with communicating with Treasure Island and Convention Facilities and anybody else about this significant issue is stressing. Thank you. Deputy city administrator. Weve already started implementation and recommendation in terms of increasing the level of communications with both of those two organizations Convention Facilities as well as Treasure Island development authority. We have instituted monthly meetings with our budget and finance staff with the Staff Members for the organizations. Weve also increased regular meetings with the Controllers Office and we are working with the Controllers Office to establish the yearend close timeline working with the departments to identify any of those similar kind of issues early in the process. Thank you. Any questions . Who do we have here on behalf of the port of San Francisco. Good morning, mr. Wu. Good morning, john wu, office of port of San Francisco. As to Port Security grant program, i guess the good news is there are no cost and our contractor was in fact not suspended or debarked. As to the procedural matter, this came up as part of a monitoring report as to compliance and we turned around immediately in august 2015, documented new procedures to make sure that we followed the steps of documenting a review for obtaining certification for regulation that we document and report that procedure. That is now clear in our internal procedures and well be in compliance from this point on. Excellent. Thank you, mr. Wu. Any questions for mr. Wu . Seeing none. Who do we have here from juvenile probation . Good morning, very new to the scene. Just a month and 2 weeks. Tell us your name. My name is eric gribde. I understand there are changes to rectify our recording mechanism. So i think its three fold at this point. So there is retraining of probation supervisors. Also the second piece is changing the procedures. I think our procedures are to be enhanced further and i think for me the key to all this is open up the channel of communication between all stakeholders. So i think with all three being implemented, i wont be repeating this and i wont be in front of the members. Its all good and this is the lowest level of deficiencies. We wish you all the best in remediating that problem and the coming fiscal year. Mr. Rosenfeld, is there anything you would like to snad we appreciate the work and appreciate the process between the Audit Committee and we are pleased they are relieved the material deficiency and we will work with the departments today to be sure that is not repeated next year. Not bad for a project of these millions of dollars. Thank you, ms. Avis, supervisor. Supervisor norman yee i was going to say for the things of our budget. That is a positive mark for the city. Are there any members of the public who would like to testify on the consolidated annual Financial Report. Public speaker hello. Its great to see you back here at city hall. It is a time to have new balance. What im here for seems that this was the oversight committee. Here im here celebrating years of working as an advocate in the western edition. As im here before queen bee. None of this is reflected on her because we were both little kids. I was much older than her. Im requesting as the fillmore corridor ambassador. It was granted back when ambassador was here. The planning commission, the departments that are related to the western edition. Currently i know you are about the addition efforts, the western edition to fillmore and redevelopment had nothing to do with it. No departments. Here all of a sudden there is bankruptcies and the city owes the state millions of dollars. I want an audit to show corruption, miss guidance and all the things that i dont have time to say. I will do it respectively. I know im thinking of sending them around again when they usually we have issues for the full board. Thinking about sending them again to the full board. A month, 3 months later. Supervisor aaron peskin we will reconvene in open session. Deputy City Attorney gibner. City attorney 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 12 to the board for full recommendation and items 7 to be tabled and 10 to the full board. Supervisor aaron peskin we need a motion not to disclose, second by supervisor yee without objection. Seeing no more business before this body, we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] adjourned. Hello and welcome to this presentation. Im San Francisco purrs since that time weve helped people clean up their criminal records. We created this to help you understand how this worked. Well plan or explain all the steps. After watching this program youll know what to expect after completing the process. Hi, there are im deputy and im part of the clean slate team. 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Earthquake brace i was able to issue the violation for a long time as some of you may remember based on a complaint i received, i was able to go out using the ambient measurements. They were in violation of the sound ordinance 20909 and a few other Good Neighbor policies. The other initiatives at public works are working on existing sound proofing on working with interfacing with the neighbor and the establishment trying to move that along as quickly as possible and they were foind in violation of code 2909 this past weekend. I was able to get an ambient measurement the previous week and they were in violation this past weekend. Three citations in total for a good number of policy violations. Four of them in total. The director and i met with the operator today in the office. And we discussed some possible solutions on a security end to bring some of the issues to a close. With two other citations for the events that were brought up in our last hearing on february 26th and 27, at the armory, one citation for 50 and one for 100. One for ambient reading events. I did investigate a complaint. There is quite an interesting situation going on there. We have a building that is for sale. No one has yet moved in nor purchased it and we are already getting a complaint. So unsure. Its the first i think for the inspectors. Correct me if i am wrong. I will give you an update as i have more. That wraps it up for me. Commissioners, any questions . Okay. I did mention the citations for the armory. I believe i told you all individually about the memo that i handed out. I wanted to make sure there werent any questions there. I did bring along some documentation for flyers ticketing sites, there is some documentation that i used in the memo. I have supporting documentation if anyone is interested in seeing that or discussing it further. I have a question, in your memo, it states that a check showed a balance for the armory on the 26 and 27 . The 13 was part of a two night event promoted called led presents at the armory. I have a flyer. February 12th and february 13. Th. We did give a permit for february 12th. I want you to know that that memo is 2sided. The back would be helpful in the line of questioning. To answer your question, the two process issued on then at entertainment are completely different. Unless its done by two agencies. Necessary there was someway to integrate those two processes, there is no way to do what you just said. Could we ask abc to put a stipulation on the license. These are temporary 1 day licenses and they are issued to in many cases a variety of different people asking for them. So, i dont know, we can ask abc anything. I dont think that would really be i dont know that it would work. I look at our penalty of 50. It a business where its going to cost you only 50, but if they violate a stipulation that they put on there. I understand that its pretty hard to get a Government Agency to follow our rules. As you said they put out a lot of 1 day permits that have nothing to do with entertainment. I dont know how we can get them to put that in there. Maybe more of an interesting exercise to find a way to make fines more relevant to the violation. My thing is to not get more money for the city but to get people to play nice with us and follow the rules. Okay. Any other questions . Okay. Inspector pauley. Good evening commissioners, we made several stops in the last week. They are slowing down their operations. They have some issues with the permitting as going on with abc and also with the Entertainment Commission. They have been pretty quiet lately. There have been some issues and fine and otherwise compliant. I stopped by hue nightclub on broadway and talked to the Venue Management and security about a smoking section that is located in front of their businesslike during their operation or whatever. One of the issues they had was that it was clogging the sidewalks. They did it because they were directed to by the one of the sergeants out there from sf p. D. There were some issues around there as to whether it should be there or in the alley. We talked about it and i bet the best course of action whether this want the smoking section as opposed to the side. There is first thing i would want them do is talk to his neighbors to talk about how they feel about it because its going to come up at some point. Well see and well be getting back to them. I made a stop by holy cow this weekend and observe the sound, the patron management, and interaction. They have been doing promotions lately and they were in compliance. Big bob, we got a complaint regarding noise after hours. I stopped by the area to assess the situation after 2 00 a. M. When all the other venues shutdown. B box has extended hours. I did not observe anything in the two stops that i made after 2. Nonetheless i will be stopping pretty regularly. Its an item on the list because of the amount of complaints weve gotten over the last month. New complaints, hawthorne, 46 geary street. This is an on going issue, something we have been dealing for a while, same complainant. The building that the complainant is in is about two 2 stories down from the venue. Its an sro building. I talked with the complainant to talk about whats going on with the interior of the unit. He didnt want to cooperate with that, usually in that case, it makes it hard to do any kind of enforcement work, but i was able to get a hold of the landlord and i will be able to do some kind of testing. Because of the amount of test and the complaints, i want to get in there. They are cooperating with this and this weekend i will do a sound inspection and see if there is any compliance issue that needs to be dealt with the managed management of the venue. New complaint in folsom. I havent talked to the complainant. I will be following up with that particular item. Clear born kitchen, they have a small place. They applied for a limited live permit a couple months ago. After readjusting their entertainment plan, they were granted for llb. There were no complaints, but basically a lot of complaints leading into the hearing. So, they are having an issue with the same neighbor. The issue is its noisy. The stereo. I went in there to assess the situation and see whats going on. They have their speakers in the structure in the wall. Usually there is some baffling that cuts down on the sound that escapes to the structure. There is no baffling. Its not well done. So basically i told the manager if i keep getting complaints i will be out here and it will get ugly and i dont want to be out here so many times for a simple fix. I recommended he remove the speakers from the wall. He said it would be fine. We are waiting to see what happens with that. If everything goes well, it will resolve itself. If not, it may come back to commission. I imagine it will come to staff first and well bring staff to talk about that. If not, maybe they have to come back in front of the commission. I dont think its that serious yet. I will let you know notice of it. One notice on 530 jackson street, a violation about the sidewalks and the general noise around their operation. I talked to the owner about cleaning it up. It seemed like it was Getting Better and this was around 1 20 a. M. Usually around sidewalk traffic about 1 45, there is normal fair, but 1 20 you are not moving people along. It has been a regular stop since the complaints. If you have any questions, i will be happy to answer them. Commissioners . They just kind of let out when ever they want. Right. I know the permit only goes to a certain point. Im not exactly sure. [inaudible] have you suggested an area where they can smoke rather than have them on the sidewalk with the neighbors can you adjust your mic. Again. The crowding of the sidewalk. Is there a way that you can maybe suggest that they you know have a little designated area closer to the building because i drive by this all the time and they are on the street. Once the permit is over, its out of our purview. So the main thing that we were dealing at the time when i talked to the manager and the complainant was at the end of the night and people leaving. So, what the manager agreed to do, hes always on site, what he agreed to do is move people down the block so the uber and taxis can pick patrons up down to i think its washington because there is less residents that way. That was the idea, but i guess. Thats at the end. To answer your question, we didnt talk about that, but i will. Thank you for mentioning that. What is on either side . A travel agent on one. A restaurant on the other side. But there is a lot of mixed use kind of buildings and there is residences spread out. The smoking is the issue. Doesnt the ordinance say you have to be 25 feet from a door or window or at the curb or if you cant do that, so, its a densely populated neighborhood. Its hard to get people to go out and smoke 25 feet away and monitor that. I agree. So, i have basically i havent been, you know, anytime im out, i assess, you know the venue or whatever is going on and i try not to push too hard on things that you know there is a reasonable reason why they need to do something if the logistics doesnt allow them to follow everything i would want to recommend normally. Im conscious of the general issues in the area. So i dont push them so hard. In this case its early and they can do something about it. It was like 30 people out there. Not maybe 10 or 15. Okay. Thank you. Anybody else . Okay, is there Public Comment on the reports of our sound inspectors . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 4 on our agenda is Police Department comments and questions. Im not chair if its vicepresident. These arent necessarily Police Department concerns but these are Entertainment Industry in the Small Business industry was bringing up concerns about starbucks and taco bell and nontraditional abc retailers entering the San Francisco county market. There has been development that we want to update you with and one which is a very significant accomplishment that the board of supervisors unanimously sent to the governor a nonbinding resolution requesting that the govern or and abc take a look at this issue and discourage bringing new sectors not having abc looking at dispensed products and prior to that vote, the friday before starbucks elected to withdraw all of their applications in San Francisco county. They are currently electing to take pause and take a closer look at their longterm strategies for our county and for the time being that is off our plate. So i just wanted to share that update with the commission. Yay thank you. Thank you. Any Public Comment on Police Department. Questions and comments . Okay. Moving on to our consent calendar so the items on our consent calendar have to do with the subcommittee. I will make a quick comment because im not going to talk about this specifically since they are consent items unless there are questions specifically in which case we have to move the item from consent. In general, these are two items that were projects that were described and discussed at length and they were both moved out with conditions. I think i included those for your review as well as the map and the project sponsor form to look at. I would encourage you if you have not gone to the rdr, they meet once a month and so you can see what they are looking at prior to voting on consent. Is there Public Comment on our Consent Agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . Is there a motion . I motion to approve. We have a motion to approve. Do we have a second. We have a motion and second. Clerk, please call the roll. [roll call vote taken] the next item on the agenda. Timothy language this is for a place for the bar which obtained a permit from 2011 from a location which is on Second Street and they are in the process of moving over 65 post treat. This is the same owner and they plan to keep the existing bar concept. Its primarily an after work destination in the financial district. It will be used for art openings as well as private parts and well have djs including poetry and small live bands. There is three conditions they recommend with the final page in the packet. And to tell you more about the bar are michael and tim. Great. Hello, commissioners, my name is timothy landregan. Im one of the bar owners. I have a handout. This helps to go over why we are moving and what we intend to do and give you information on our background and concept. We began gouddou and we began our position and we have many local events, tech start ups and banks pharmaceuticals, they come in groups of 510 people at one time or they call and make reservations for large parties. Over 70 of our business is 7 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. Our other line of business have more of the entertainment piece to it. The first is that we have hosted many, we usually do them over a month over 100 art events. We hosted art shows with artist that live around the world. Japan, england, to name a few and many of our artist are local in the San Francisco bay area and west coast in general. Many of them are graduates including our local programs and the Welding Program in west oakland. We just stantd a relationship with them last fall. Our other line of business is entertainment. For that is, most of that is on a private party function basis. We get a basic reservation, and we close up the shop for that particular event t most common one is a birthday or Going Away Party or anniversary and right now at our Current Location which is 86 Second Street in a 1200 smaller place but where we are moving we can triple the size. For these large events be it art related events or parties, its typically getting their own dj basically spinning records. Sometimes we have someone with a mic and just wants to talk and then comedians and sometimes its political. They have speakers. Our name comes from the gouddou movement. So why are we moving . For starters, we lost our lease. We had a 10year lease in our existing place and we didnt negotiate a space. The building we are in has three commercial space and retail space on the ground level. We are in the middle and our understanding from the Management Company is that the owner of the building intense intends to lease the building for a restaurant. Also bigger reason we need more space. We are limited to about 50 capacity. We are able to reach out and have more functions. We lose a lot of our business because we cant accommodate more than 50 people. The last thing to where we are moving to is the mechanics institute. They are an historic concept like we are. They are in the west coast. We brought several of our mechanics institute, ralph, and jerry and the board of directors. This is part of the group coming together and leader in sponsoring literary events. In terms of whats going to be different with the move. The short answer is nothing. We are keep g our concept the same, the ownership is going to continue, mike and i have been doing it for 10 years. Our staff is the same. We may have additional staff because of the additional size. I wanted to add that we had several people with us for over 5 years. We have 3 years, 5 years, a long term staff. In terms of community outreach, i will say that gouddou is a global concept. Our art has originated all over as i explained a second ago. I do expect this to continue. We reach out to our primary Customer Base. One of our long customers, bill schaffer. Before gouddou and he was with us before. It seems every time we have an art show, his office is literally on the same block to the business where we are moving. That said, weve reached out to the primary and they have all said they will support us in this location. Right now we are on Second Street and marsh. We are across from the gallery. Its downstairs. We are in a downtown location. Our zoning at the new location is downtown and the commercial and primary uses for offices and retail. There is one place on the block. That is 690 Market Street. We havent done a lot of outreach. In our persons, we are the concept that try to reach out and say everyone is welcome here. We have a high location. In terms of security, we are going to follow the same plan that we have today. Upscale for the size and id checkers at the fire exit. All of our employees are trained, that includes security, trainers and bar and support staff. We are present for all large nighttime events and entertainment and we will period of time Police Department request notify the Police Commission in advance for entertainment and well continue to uphold our Good Neighbor policy. Weve never had any incident because we take great pride in our operation. So i dont want to cause any issue with the neighbors. We will always continue to abide by the conditions of the Police Department. In conclusion, nothing has changed. The staff is the same. The Current Location and our proposed location is literally. 2 miles. We are incident free. We fully expect that to continue. Thank you. Commissioners, any questions for the applicant . Commissioner perez . Yeah, i have two questions. One of the request from Public Health, they are denying this. That is an error in process. The department will follow up again when they are ready for their inspection. Thats what they sent out when they receive the permit application. Early april 1st we did open up our department of Public Health pert. We havent done the buildout in waiting to get the clearance to get approval for what we want to do. Architects have completed all of their drawings. We are waiting for dbi and all the players from the other departments. Another question . Regarding your public outreach. You said that you talked to all of your neighbors, including businesses. Do you have any evidence of that . No. Its all been word of mouth because its all of our continued patrons as we are letting them know that we are going to continue our lease. Its the people we are sharing who are Customer Base. What about future neighbors, did you get a chance the talk to them . We can talk to, a lot of our businesses that are in support now are in that area. Next door mechanics is one of our primary customer basis. We do Christmas Parties with them with different offices. The only residential building on our block is 690 Market Street. Thats the ritz carlton resident. That we have not reached out. It may not be a Customer Base for us. It might not be a Customer Base for you but that maybe an issue for theirs. Can i get a confirmation from you . Absolutely. Okay. Any other questions . Okay. Why dont have a seat and well open for Public Comment. Im ralph from the mechanics institutes. Today we have 800 member. Its a very democratic place. Anybody can become a member. We are a cultural hub. If i can pass this out to the commissioners. The chronicle just wrote an article in october to say we are really emerging. Really the gouddou part to become an institute. We own the building. Its creating who comes into the building in terms of renting space. We have many writers and so its really becoming a cultural hub for San Francisco. We think having the dada bar will help us become even better. It reflects the values we have which are to foster the community and really get people to get together and talk about ideas with great ideas and authors. We are looking forward to having them join mechanics institute. Thank you. Is there any other Public Comment . I have the Library Director and i have 4 Years Experience at the library. I think this is a good fit for us and rob laid out that we are a great cultural hub and this will be a great fit to the mechanics institute. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Public speaker hi. Im bill schaffer. A San Francisco native. Indini. We are located at 68 Market Street which is around the corner from where dada will be. I have been a dada patron for 14 years. I attend the majority of their events. We are looking forward to being able to hold much larger events there because our community is such that we have those that are involved in the Entertainment Industry we do tend to go out in larger groups. The new space at dada will allow us to have larger groups there. With my whole time attending events at dada, they respect the community and its a pleasure working with these guys. Any other comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners . On poe for dada bar, is there a motion . I make a motion that we approve what the Police Departments recommendations. We have a motion, do we have a second . We have a motion and second. Any further discussion . Call the roll. Colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. Without objection this item is approved. Next item on our agenda looks like vince lau. This is for Fiddlers Green of sf. The new owners under the previous owner plan to keep the original irish theme and operations and entertainment. They will have Entertainment Daily until 2 00 a. M. Including traditional irish mud music. And here to tell you a little bit more are the owners. This is vince and colm. Thank you, maggie. As maggie alluded to earlier, we are trying to stick to the same aspects of this bar. This bar has been there for a quarter of a decade. Everybody going by is really sad the see it closed. They are happy to see it back open and love to see what was once held with its entertainment. We make sure is well maintained and nice and clean. The people look forward to its opening in the coming weeks and well be joining part of the community. As maggie alluded to earlier, weve been in touch with Sf Entertainment Commission and their recommendations. Im sorry, Police Department coordinating with the Entertainment Commission to implement their recommendations. Thank you. Commissioners, any questions of the applicant . Can you tell me some of your background . Have you been working at this place before or a new owner buying the business . We have been in a relationship with the owner of that business. Have you been in the business . Myself not in the business, but the owner, my father operated there previously. So there is a lot of knowledge and interest in keeping this place open. So the current staff that, im not familiar with the place. I know the location, but is the current staff that you have you are keeping. Is there a manager . The current staff well interview some of them and we plan to bring in new staff going through the whole certification process to make sure cards are issued and bringing in the general manager who has been in this bar business for quite a while. Thats why hes one of the partners and hes helping with the renovation as well at this moment. So i guess the question is how much experience is the person thats going to be there everyday . Sure. We will have employees that have over a decade of experience at least and myself and other partners with a combined experience of almost as long as this bar has been opened. The supervisors . The supervisors are going to have at least a decade of experience. We are going to bring in a very experienced staff and to make sure that everyone will be trained properly. So, there is not going to be inexperienced staff running this bar. We dont want to give the impression that staff is placed with people that dont know what they are doing. A new business is overwhelming sometimes. For sure, thank you. Commissioners, any other questions . Do you have bar experience . I own a Construction Company and i build bars and restaurants for a living. I have been around this for 15 years now. I have been involved. Other than being a customer, have you ever run a bar . I have never run a bar, but i know the whole ins and outs of it from building a bar. I have a question for both of you. How do you know who you are hiring if you have no background . The people we have hired have over 10 years of experience . 10 years of experience where doing what . At the moment hes running kiz ar bar. Its a sports bar . Yes. I will be able to talk to the owner there. Okay, that makes me feel a little better. Have you ever worked in a bar . I have. You have . What have you done in a bar . Bar tending . Yeah. You have bar tend . I have in the past and modeling over the years. Remodeling a bar does not equate to anything about operating a bar. Its different. Im just saying that i have seen a lot as well. Thank you. Anybody else have any questions . On your application, you said no that you have not reached out to any neighbors, is that correct . We have correspondence. Of course like i said with the cbd, laura, we plan to meet with her. Our place is under renovation at the moment. So as we get closer to it. Right now its not presentable. We have plans to engage with them to promote, to be part of the community. Our neighbors are saying that they are also excited about it. Any other questions . Im happy that you are hiring a manager. Just for the security, how many Security Officers or guards are you going to have on at any given time . Do you know . Its too late now, but bringing in the manager here tonight would be a good idea so we can talk to him or her about this stuff. We are talking about escobar over Protection Services and they have done a lot of work and they can meet with me and we start off with three guys depending on the crowd. Checking ids. We start with a minimum of three and assess it as we go along and if we need more, well get more. You guys are okay with the conditions that the Police Department asks for . Definitely. Okay, thank you. Commissioner . Does any of the owners have lead training or any alcohol training . Sir, we plan on attending the training. The earliest one is in june. That is actually not true. I just wrote 30 people to a lead training and it took me a week to get the date. So, try again. Okay, well do. Commissioner thomas . My question to staff, have there been any complaints or concerns or issues with the previous iteration . I didnt see anything in our tracker or previous complaints from the other place of entertainment. Just so you know, we would love to see if i Fiddlers Green open and doing well. Our only concern is that the operation of the bar is managed well and it should be your biggest concern as well because you have a lot to lose. I mean violations can affect your Liquor License which is a huge investment. It can affect your operations. I mean in a lot of ways other than just entertainment. So it is in your best interests to make sure the operations are good. Do you have an operations manual, an employees manual. Do you have such a thing . Yeah, we have been developing it. Everything you spoke about. What do you mean you are developing it. With the general manager, we have examples to making sure no one gets served and policy. I suggest you go online and download the manuals. They are all over the internet, instead of someone who has never developed a bar. Thank you, we have downloaded a lot. Thats why we say developing. We have taken many of them so everything you have poen about we are taking a very strong interest to make sure we dont screw it up in regards to the liquor piece. This is not a living moment that we dont think about how to operate the house. We take it very very seriously. Okay. Anybody else . I open the floor to Public Comment on Fiddlers Green. Cmon up. My name is dana shively. I live in the condominium complex in the back of Fiddlers Green. There are nine condominium units there. I live there in the center of 9 units which from the street form a tictactoe board and i have two children that i live with. I have had a lot of experience with Fiddlers Green in its previous ownership and have even stopped there for a beer from time to time. I do want to point out, i know it is a cultural establishment, but there are times when it has been extremely loud, particularly on the weekends. I have gone in. I havent filed a formal complaints. The late in the evenings. From machine involved in construction, there was a club on the second floor that didnt have an open license. That was the second part of the noise. The other noise i believe was a fan that was related to the cooking area that made an extremely high pitch sound. The people i would talk to them before and they would usually take care of that fan. My intent is not to say, this shouldnt happen, this is too noisy. We dont like this. I want to point out a couple of things. One is i know seven of the other unit owners in our building and i can tell you there hadnt been outreach to our complex that was right outside of Fiddlers Green. Again, im not trying to stop it, but to the extent that there can be the proper rules, construction items or ordinances to be put in place to make sure that this is not unduly, an undue nuisance to the neighbors, that would be great. I dont know anything at all about running a bar, but when i hear that its going to be open until 2 00 a. M. Every night. That makes me wonder, okay, what exactly is going to happen. So under previous ownership, there are probably handful of nights in the warm months when it was ridiculous. It was really really loud. Then the other nights it was fine. I didnt have issues with it at all. I would look to all of you especially the new owners here for or the guy that never ran a bar before and lived in Orange County and monitored the operation by a video camera. It is sometimes concerning. Entertain a motion on Fiddlers Green. Questions for the contractor or have a motion . I think that part is over, you need to have a motion and we can discuss it among ourselves. I mean, if you cant make a motion then dont. I cant make a motion. Commissioners you can entertain a motion to approve or motion to continue i like to make a motion to continue this to have the manager brought in since we dont see all that comfort with the questions so make a motion we continue this until the manager can be brought in till the next meeting. We have a motion to continue to the next meeting. We have a motion and second. Any discussion . So, on this continuance i would like to add that whatever information on sound and want to knowit is a very sensitive neighborhood you are opening the bar and so, 9 units in the back and the biggest thing running a business is when you disturbing them and they call you because that is a part of the Good Neighborhoods policy, you center to give them a phone number and if it is leaking out of your space they will tell you to turn it down in the middle of a packed house, so it is very importance you bring all the information you can and also you have a outreach to the neighbors. The cbd is all businesses usually. Building owners. What you friendly amendment . The friendly amendment is no dissertation, just a friendly amendment bring all the information you can, sound proofing. That is your friendly amendment to the permit . That is the friendly amendment to the motion . Preta much does the maker of the motion accept the friendly amendment . Could you tell me again what it is . All the information we are missing. Outreach to the neighbors, sound proofing what he is doing to the building. I accept that. A second . Okay, we have a motion and second on the floor. Any further discussion . Call the roll. Commissioner frost, aye. Commissioner lea aye. Commissioner perez, aye, commissioner thomas aye. Good luck to you. Next item is barbara oakal doing business at bayview opera house for a loud speaker permit from april 5, 2016 which passed through march 17, 2017 to 8 p. M. And 11 59 p. M. I assume it could be every day of the beak. Week. If i could ask we are doing one at a time if i ask that we open all of e , f and g together and ill go down the list to make sense. This item is now for the loud speaker permit which i just mentioned, also item f is for the opera house yard and parking lot from july 1, 2016june 30, 20178 a. M. To 1159 p. M. G is nob nab sidewalks from mckinnon to quesada. Commissioners if you approve this this permit can be every day of the week, so for a year. Here it goes. So, mrs. Occul is here to answer any questions. Let me try to explain what this is because it odd and here in front of you for a couple reasons. One, you can see we are using a loudspeaker permit which we dont normally see in this way but have done this in the past and did for t for the bayview opera house a year ago to use a amplifyed sound permt in a way is odd but i have no other tools. We as a commission have no tools until we create some which we are in the process of doing. Be as it may, let me talk about g first. I will ask the commission continue to the call of the chair or in some way direct staff to handle this because we had a meeting now about 3 weeks ago with bayview station, permit officer rumeres mrs. O ckel to discuss the lay of the land. Can you fine the map . Do and have the map . This is helpful. What we did is looked and said what are you doing and what do you want to do. The last item, g is one in which i was very uncomfortable because it relates to street closures and a monthly event doing in front of you this way. I ask that you and i know the applicant agreed we can handle each of the events individually as they can come forward which is a manner consistent how we do amplifyed sound within street closures on a administrative level. Can i ask a question . Third and third [inaudible] i dont believe it does. I think she was matching the street closure times, but notyou can ask her. Im not asking the question and request that you do not maketake action on g. It was on here again so the pack jage made consent before we were able to have a meeting and i should have removed it again because we have agreement how well move on the third on third event as they come up. It is much more consistent way to handle that particular event, which stands blocks and blocks on third street. So, thats that issue. Can we deal with that issue first before you go on . My request to the commission is you simply move to continue, but to the call of the chair or in some way direct staff to manage this my question if we continue this do we have to follow the same rule frz a poa . No. Thank you. Alright, so commissioners on item g, can we entertain a motion to continue this either to the call of the chair, or to continue it until a decision by staff . One or the other, guys. I think continuing to staff is good enough. Is that a motion . That is my motion that is his motion. Motion and double second. Is there no further discussion . Is there Public Comment on continuance of item number j . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Commissioner frost. This is g. Aye. Commissioner perez, aye. Commissioner thomas, aye if you want to hear from the applicant on the other 2 since you will be decided on these 2 im happy to have her talk to you. She is at the leck turn looking at you about how these work and they have [inaudible] so you can use that as well and you get a sense of what and how we move forward. I just want you all to take into consideration the draft conditions and gave you to take a look at them as she is describing what she is looking for. You dont want to make a Opening Statement . I think she will do just fine. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you. I want to give a little background what we are doing otherwise the vast areas of permit requests might be like really confusing and strange to you. So, i assume you have heard about the bayview opera house and what it does in bayview and may not be aware it is closed for the past 2 years because of renovations. Now is expected to open up this summer around july or Something Like that. So, while we have been closed, we still have Community Events and tried to activate the merchants as well as mune Community Members through the arts and create positive Community Action in the area. Since our building has Nothing Available we have held events on Mendell Plaza which is the plazait is a paved over street. There is a [inaudible] at the street level like enclosed in a way but it is called Mendell Plaza. The tea thing that goes off that is a Community Garden and have leased that from the Property Owner and not ready to develop it at the time so let us use as a Community Garden and have school clubs in there. We tried for a long time tried having the third on third event which takes place once a month on the 4 blocks of third street to engage the merchants and Community Members to come to the restaurants, we are all struggling and so on. However, it was not successful in that especially since we still had event area on Mendell Plaza for the kids who we dont want on the streets people tend today congregate to Mendell Plaza and performers on the street corners did rnt have customers and it wasnt working well so we discontinued that. Now, when the bayview opera house reopens the summer or fall, well brin the third on third event as well as other events to the newly renovated opera house that has a beautiful outdoor stage and gordon around it so it a much more attractive event area. After that reopening we use Mendell Plaza for occasional events or events that are so large the property isnt big enough. We may also want to we are in the middle of third street it may be easier to engage the restaurants but i will work that out with josh and already discussed that time after time. So, third on third is something we do once a month, every third friday and sometimes the date moves. The public event is fifen to 8 and get the kids from schools out and participate. We have performers butd loud speaker squz dance music is playing so 28 is typical event time. We never go to midnight or anywhere knose close to it. We would like to option if the is one event where we do a festival and want to go to 10 it is nice to be able to do that. It is unlikely we want to do. At the bayview opera house on the other hand we rent the venue out to others who want to hold events and that is a [inaudible] where we will have Entertainment Permit but also the outside is so much improved people want to go out with lighting and heat lamps out there. It is pleasant state to have larger events and will be possible inside because it only holds 300 people and if you improve the outside you can have twice the size of the event so that is what we want the permit for and would like maximum flexibility to hold different events. We dont have nearly capacity to hold a large event every day and mindful of the fact that we dont want to be a disturbance to the community, we know there are not too many but some residents that live near by that we dont want to bother so well work in conjungz with them and the residents are pretty much our friends and we talk to them and they come to our events. It is a relationship and wouldnt put on like a heavy metal concert until 2 a. M. , we just wouldnt do that type of thing. It is like jazz or hip hop is saturday afternoon. We dont want to do things annoying to the neighbors and talked to jaus and fine with a loudness level that is acceptable that can be established we are hpy to comply with that. Im not into deafeningly loud music and it will give me a tool to keep people from playing that. The bayview opera house is the community sener and want to be able to put on event in our newly renovated facility. I have a couple questions. I may decide to answer some of them before you ask them, maybe. Mendell plaza is the green has a permit that you should see and this is 5166, so the permit package should have a dpw order. It looks like this. It is a lot of words, but what it does is basically gives the Land Use Authority two the bayview opera house for the plaza because it is dpw property. City property so it isnt public space . It is public space by virtue of the order the bayview opera house can activate Mendell Plaza on to their purview for what is essentially like a guess a year. Does that mean nobody else can . It does ntd say nobody else can but it says anyone else who wants to must work through the bayview opera house given this dpworder. I just want to be clear on that and any conditions in this im going attach to any loudspeaker permit we issue to her on Mendell Plaza specifically. And then again, there is attached hopefully you can see this other possible condition relative to mendell that includes a level set potentially if amp fiication isnt needed until midnight on mendell in particular we say 10 p. M. For open ended permit and we add some indication of a calendar of events sent to us as well as bayview station because while we do want to give flexibility, we need to know what is going to be happening and it is very helpful since we are the arm as well as the police that we all know what is planned for mendell. And then the other point i think that is important to note is the red which is the opera house yard area, which is sth other one, 5167 is fenced, is it not . Most of it is fenced. Most is fenced hourfck, however, there is corner at the nob nub side of the property that used to be fenced but now outside the fence and is a fairly large area. We had large events and sometimes for a third on third event we may want to set up there so we can easily connect to the other businesses on third street. A lot of it is fenced is that you can potentially fence had other part if you needed to but the space around the bayview opera house is somewhat different and part the bayview opera house. Private in the sense it is to yours without dpw order or order from other agencies for her to do with what she will. What she is ask ing for us is limited flexibility around that outdoor space and will ask you to remind the applicant again to let us know as the city in advance about what the intentions are and also obey whatever fire code, it isnt open yet, july is the intention for the space, but there were be a learning curve and the Fire Department will in fact i hope give you a occupancy. I will press on the fact so we know and she is aware of the safe amount of people to have in the space. So i have questions for you. Um, with regard to mendellplaza, and the public garden bun err but Mendell Plaza in particular, if we grant you this permit and somebody calls you and says, we want to use it next weekend, are you using it . We want an event from 5 in the afternoon to 8 at night, will you respond to those people so others will be able to use Mendell Plaza when you are not . Absolutely i would consider making that a condition of the permit. Absolutely. Okay, so if you dont respond to them or violate you will be in violation of the permit, so that is one of the things. As far as the parking lot goes, that area that isnt fenced in, is that your property . That isnt a parking lot, it is like a public plaza that was the area in red isnt a parking lot . The area in red we are [inaudible] that is all the bayview opera house. Part is sth building and part is the yard used for the performance stage and like garden area and one quarter on the upper left is a parking lot. Everything in red is our property. Okay. Thats what i wanted to know. So, if we grant you the permit for your yard and parking lot, how will you control a area that isnt fenced in . Um, you mean how would we control in terms of people sitting there . Yeah, like you want to do an event so you only use that for parking . No, the little triangle the little triangle isnt a parking lot, it is a publicplaza not designed to be used for parking at all. It is like part of the sidewalk. It is like a extra wide sidewalk but it is your property . Yes. You are asking for a loud speaker permit for the entire area in red including the area that isnt fenced in . Correct so in this area in red you want to be able to rent it out to people, do special event up to midnight or sometime there after, is that correct . Yes if you rent out the whole area including the area that isnt fenced how do you intend to control the area that isnt fenced . How do you control people that are part oof the event from getting in there . If you want to have an event that is private event you probably wouldnt use that space. We want everybody to participate. If you have a private event you put it behind the fence. That is a public space . It belongs to us but open to the public someone can sit down during the day. I just want to understand. Why do you want this ongoing permit until midnight, just curious . Why do i want toto midnight . Yes because i think occasionally our event will go past 10 if we gave a permit that went to 10 oclock it is okay if you came to the Entertainment Commission for the extratwo hours . We can make it all you do is go to jauslen. That would be fine. And then on Mendell Plaza you said most events are 2 to 8 . Our events. If you want to include other peoples events and sometimes occasionally one till 10. Property once or twice a year. Okay, thank you. Commissioners anybody else . Jauslens question is enforcement, say this is on going for a year but is there any temporary stoppage if they get so many complaints because i dont see anyit says illegal activities but if they get nukeerous complaints over a course of the year, is it revisited back to us or so, we dont have a context in the police code to revoke a loud speaker permit, it doesnt exist now and that is a problem that we are trying to mend but dont have a fix now. We have enforcement here in terms of citations, we can ask the sfpd for assist. I dont know if this particular situation rill will require that. Midnight or if it bothers the neighbors it is still the noise there are ways in which we can try to work with other agencies as well thaz tools that we have to try to mitigate noise, but if you are asking bet revocation the answer is no, we dont have a way to revoke. Once we approve the activity we monitor which is why we ask you to consider conditions. Commissioner lee, we have done this before for otherplazas and other places throughout the city we did it for this particular mendell as well. We had no complaints. Was it for a whole year . We did it for a whole year. I think it was the same thing. Third on third has been going on 3 years we did a permit very similar on mendell last year without problems and had the permit for third street. Just pointing out there was no complaints any other commissions have questions kwr . You mentioned the Police Department, what did they say . We met with officer rumeres at bayview station and she was in concurance with all of this conversation. She is happy to have order to some of the chaos because she is confused sometimes. We want to activate Mendell Plaza and bayview opera house but want a sense how we move forward and want notice so that is what these conditions will allow. Commissioners, anything else . Why dont you have a seat. Opening the floor to Public Comment on the loudspeaker permits e and f for the bayview opera house. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners i would like someone to entertain a motion for Mendell Plaza loudspeaker permit to end at 10 p. M. Just as it says in the suggested conditions. About the monthly calendar being paramount and our sound inspectors set db levels for the outdoor events. Now, correct me if im wrong, the code says the events shouldnt be heard 250 feet away but in physics that is impossible to achieve because all kind of things can effect sound. Clouds, fog, whatever. So, i would like someone to entertain that motion and thencan we do this together as one motion . I rather you do it sep rat because there are 2 seperal permits and separate location squz give separate possible conditions to work with. On item e, Mendell Plaza entertain a motion like to make a motion we approve Mendell Plaza with the conditions as identified by staff that the applicants abides by all conditions in the dpwordser and the sounds inspector sets the level and ampication ends at 10 and monthly calendar sent to the Police Department and commission. We vamotion, do we have a second . Second. Motion and second. Question . It says here on the green agenda it starts at 8 a. M. . We set 10 p. M. Can we set to 11 a. M. What is the logic . Um, so it isnt too early so the neighbors are going to be inconvenienced. So, i mean just to tell you that in my experience attending street fairs in the city like pride or folsom or chinese new year, when they set up they do sound tests and you cant do a sound test unless you have a sounds loudspeaker permit. I heard from staff the applicant says she is fine if you amend back to 10. There is a friendly amendment to 10 a. M. For Mendell Plaza. Accepted and second acceptsism we have a motion and second and accepted amendment. Call the roll. Commissioner frost, aye. Commissioner lee, aye. Commissioner perez, aye. Commissioner thomas, commissioner joseph, aye. Go for it. Item number f. Item f is for the parking lot and yard. Can i ask a question about staff conditions. No music is allowed on the nob nub is that for the triangle identified for the map it was more along the lines and dont think i worded it well, if there is amplifyed sound is not face that direction because there is i think Senior Housing facility on that side. That is correct, so that is something the applicant agreed to. I wasnt clear in my condition, sorry. So if you would to amend that condition it should say no speakers shall face newcom b avenue. Would you like a motion . I make a motion to approve this with the conditions developed by staff that the sound inspector set noise levels that there be no speakers facing newcome street side and amp fiication to end at 10 p. M. Accept for one time a month until midnight as noted and amp fiication to start at 10 a. M. And a monthly calendar to be sent to Police Department and entertainment condition and Fire Department occupancy to be obeyed once issued. Great, we have a motion. Do we have a second . Motion and second. I would like to correct the wording the amp fiication isnt to start earlier than 10 a. M. Instead of not to start at 10 a. M. Do we want the word notice or approval when it says one time per month with notice to sfpd and entertainment condition or approval . Tonights approval and so if there isi dont know how i would give a secondary approval from a policy standpoint. It would be notice. It would totally be notice. You cant reapprove something that is already approved. Right . Correct. Okay. Motion and second. Any further discussion. Commissioner frost, aye. Commissioner lee aye. Commissioner thomas, aye. Commissioner joseph aye. The bayview opera house is a asset to the community and wish you the best of luck. Okay. Item number 7, commissioner comments and questions. Anybody . Anybody . Anybody . Okay. Item number 8, new business for future agenda items. Okay. We are adjourned. Thank you very much. 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