Transcripts For SFGTV Entertainment Commission 22117 20170226

Commissioners we have quorum commissioner caminong commissioner thomas commissioner lee commissioner courtney. Commissioner frost will be here at 6 and commissioner perez on the way and a vacant seat that be here in a couple of weeks the First Business item is general Public Comment this is for items that pertain not San Francisco Entertainment Commission but you dont see currently on the agenda any Public Comment on this item . It there something you wanted to speak to on the agenda well come back. This is general Public Comment oh, why look through them all thank you. All right. 4 people hear restore are here to speak on that item coming up to in the report. Maybe we can take it then why not take you guys now i dont know if there are an order you guys want to speak to 101 and then we have a and others as you have a timeframe for them. Two minutes. To 3 you 2 and im 101 im here without a residential within the Entertainment Commission district we in front of the this im here on behalf of the permit holder hoa to share our concerns about the wellness to recklessly impact our quality of life this is the first time meeting you in personal but march 2013 i filed a complaint of then b box to the Entertainment Commission that was never addressed and august 2016 i worked with the staff for address the concerns we wrote a letter how the issues Public School resolve and august of this year will 6 medias or months weve benefit reasonable and respect fell and patient how she soundproofed an old building into a worldclass nightclub wife been corporate with jen i cant allowing the staff into the homes to verify the noise and jean e supervisor yee in a stopped communicating weve taken this burden to live with the noise throughout the process zero progress she operate theyre loud noise into the morning and sometimes next the next day until noon the issue is not jena but the after hours that is in the middle of the on and on issue in the neighborhood and articles like 29 makes it difficult for the Entertainment Commission to endorse the sounds like leakage into our homes were asking that the Entertainment Commission revoke the after hours permits on them for the mixed use residential neighborhood and residents so they can get sleep. Thank you. The next person is kelly. Hi commissioners my name is kelly im here on behalf of the building hoa to share my concerns about the Mental Health wellness i live on the second floor and 101 weve been in contact with the Entertainment Commission about the noise inside the venue and the intoxicationed crowds that is hard to describe 9 impact of interrupted sleep it is torture and lying down and hearing base music it terrible and woken up during the night and other experience that theyre supporting the patrons to block the south bay lanes and having honking that tends to go on until i leave for work the next day is a wellknown risk is physical and E Martin Luther king Mental Health if we can stop the noise by that 2 00 a. M. We can get some sleep as i mentioned oftentimes theyre not available into the night and asked to call pd at the dont arrive to address that and if they do they dont have a but to address this is frustrating the primary problem is hours of operation it is make in the center of the residential buildings were concerned from the permit remains that will effect our health for years we not to the entertainment to continue inform San Francisco but we needed to sleep were here to ask to you rerecognize the after hours permits thank you. I live on noting im here to share some frustration emotional and depression in finding a resolution that i and my neighbors are combrerments if you all you want peace and quiet but youre laying in bed you hear the thump through the doublepaned windows to give you an example i want to play a short clipon facebook of what was happening this past weekend. I mean, you get the picture the video this is accurate because as health kims neighbors we dont sleep i want to say how we get to bed we sleep with earplugs and turn on wide noisemakers fans and things to over power the sounds what i want to share with you 101 and i moved into the house two years ago we were excited to be part of neighborhoods but they operated in the Morning Hours its been an unbearable nuance to our life im asking you to revoke their permit to allow me and my neighbors to enjoy peace and quiet thank you. And finally emry i dont know if there are other people planning to speak. Hi commissioners my name is emry i live on norwalk with the same facing as 101 and others ive been there for smile 13 years and seen a number of parades operators in the space that health on occupies liquor studio z and lot to and b box i feel like im forgetting someone the Common Thread with the venues the physical structure of that building itself jena is clearly a top Club Operator that is voted to being professional and getting that right so far we havent been able to find a sweet spot of health on and our ability to have relative peace and quiet so i eagle everything im a big fan 101 and i met at club bay we are devoted nightclub gores we ask you to help us find a mutually architectural solution that continues to provide employment tax based and fun for everyone. Thank you. All right. Is there any additional Public Comment during this general Public Comment period. All right. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed i think to respond to those unfortunately, we cant act your raising an important question i want to raise a question to the staff how i know this showed up health on on the last inspector report on this one but how have they been behaving and treating the complaints coming in from your perspective. Can i jump in did you give the timeline. Yeah. I think see we are prepared for this Public Comment so i had shawn do background work so something to chew on cant take action tonight but we encouraged the neighbors to speak to you, your the policy body; right . Weve done a lot of work and shawn can speak to that it is not over yet but some direction that would be helpful. A question. Commissioner perez. The residents that spoke with im sorry got here late what the recording did he say that recording is from health on. No, from Health Something been facebook. Shawn i dont know if you want to walk us through the timeline or speak to the responsiveness. Yeah. Get to the mike. Is it still working. Sorry we have so make sure that everything is heard and recorded so do you want to go to the speaker mike . Good afternoon commissioner intaushgs i want to give a run down the question for the was have they been responsive i think throughout the 3 months or so i have been working on this and action was taken all of the process that ive approached this with all of different ways to regulate and enforce they have responded to i think jocelyn and i sat down with jena the operator at the health on with the repeated sifthdz and sat down with her and requested angle online as to steps that shell be taking so far as soundproofing the structure of building there have been steps taken thus far to soundproof the interior and the exterior on the roof specifically capping skylights and fathoming the existing roof structure and multiple environmentalist by sound techs inside the residents on the rooftops ive out numerous times to establish the ambient levels i think theyve been responsive to the concerns on ive been emailed text message its been going on for quite a while and i think there is has been progress at this point during my last visit with the operators and sound techs to my left is at the company and sounds like effects this past wednesday, i was able to take the age bins of that neighborhood from the rooftops and compare am i still on compare the level that is product inside of health on to show that the level for the sound levels produces a level outside from the property within the city so the level ive placed on the permittee puts them in compliance as of last wednesday. Okay. And you know, i think this is we didnt get those kind of complaints if b box that the venues before what can you attribute to the after hours permit is it i think you said it was a new sound system i think. I think based on what im hearing in complainants historically and especially specifically at the hearing i would say there is general sense of the sound level it allowed but more passion or prejudice from the tune the after hours is the issue. Okay great. Commissioner lee. So when you set the level are they able to lock it off or change it after you disappear or when from what ive been told the level ive set for them they are able to lock it in i think anything they lock in theyll be able to unlock in my experience havent seen that or heard that or taken measurement that is happening i know they have the capacity of locking in a level and inhabit but anything they take out they can put in. Do you stop by randomly and notice any difference when you test it. Ive been by so frequently is there i dont sense a pattern of a sound level increasing at the night goes on over and over someone assumes im locked out for the night i think i dont know, there is a corelation between the night and it depends on if i were to make a guess i would say that two you know mentioned 2 30 at a time the neighborhood itself quieted down at that time there is a lot less activity at the 2 oclock compared to 1 oclock ive been to other night life operations i think the majority in the area are closing at two in the pb a it impacts even if the sound is the same i have less emission in the street and seems to be a lot louder. The amount bittbienambient is a stands it was taken over 2 00 a. M. It is important when i take an am bipt that the nightclub to make sure it is during a time where street traffic all and bus traffic and things like that im able to compare that to an operational timeframe i would say and havent tested that but say that ambient level will be tend to decrease as the morning ticks on but as of new the ambient levels are the prime time activity whenever we are testing for an ambient level we try to make sure that is on a friday or saturday night after 10 00 p. M. To get a clear game. Which totally makes sense i wonder for an afterhour permit specifically we might have a different standard that is more line three or four a. M. Sloepz to the 2 00 a. M. Dont know if theyve used a different ambient level. I dont know if ive ever done that is that conceptual but i get what youre saying weve not done that the xremgs between 10 and two is different within 2 and 6 00 a. M. It is hard in the middle. Right. Right. To gage the level that is uneasy. I dont know im not 0 suggesting that is easy but it might be a call for a different standard for after hours. I think i dont want to gods this is just Public Comment i feel like there a couple of actions we can and should take one we should bring in a hearing and have sort of discuss the option around setting different ambient levels or revoking or doing something in between at this time so id like to schedule that for the next Commission Meeting which i believe is the first tuesday in march. March 7. March 7 okay. Great. So just to be clear you want to bring up someone applicant to discuss a condition schedule permit. Correct and theres a standard for revocation are far different we cant have to hearing. Im not asking that we might audio additional conditions that might limit the hours which might add another round of applause ambient level. This is what youre suggesting. This is absolutely what im suggesting for for the Motor Vehicles and neighbors i apologize we cant act because the venue is not here themselves but hopefully, youll attend that meeting if not we have your comments on record so commissioner caminong. The four speakers said the owner had stopped xhuven with them before the hearing that will be good to hear about changes theyve communicated will happen have been completed at least theyre aware of where we can stand at this point. I can encourage that great. Okay commissioner lee. Any reading from anyone youve been notified audience initially sound testing took place on the 11 and both and front the club. So you have those reading for the area. The issue with that particular part of the city that the ambient level on the street an 11 is higher and less sound from this particular venue is escape though the front of the building through the doors most of sound but be able to witness the measures and escape from the roof so the ambient on the street is a higher than from a rooftop is lower so it takes time to establish the proper level. Anything in front of the building you said the back. You have all the information. I do the initial investigation is everywhere else in the city as far as the ambient level from the property and taking measurements outside at the property and we this is when the investigation took a turn and started to climb on top of revolvers. Thank you for all the time trying not to spend that much time anywhere so can i actually ask oh, one more thing. Im good. Have a seat. For the members of the public that want to speak i have a couple of clarify questions are there particularly nights of week or every night that something is going on. Pretty much every night that is not just on the weekends is during the week work and sunday or tuesday night and could go to 7 30 or 8 oclock in the morning. So through the full permit hours. Yes. And a type of sound base. It is base but also at least from my side it is the people loitering outside throughout the night. Or just people standing around like yelling and they tend to be route i didnt as well as as i mentioned the traffic gets backed up so there is cars honking as people are getting picked up and that goes on throughout the night starts around two they start servicing alcohol and through the night. We have a way to move forward well move on with the agenda item 2 approval of the minutes from both december 6th and february 7th. Commissioners i dont know if you have any changes of innovate ill entertain a motion to approve. I move to approve minutes. February 7th. No in my wrong december 6th im sorry. We can do them both together. Okay. No second for that motion. Second. There is a second sounds like we want to take december 6th or february 7th. February 7th is thats okay with me, too. Clarifying the motion to approve of the minutes from both december 6, 2016, and february 7, 2017, and a second. Second. Any comments from commissioners any Public Comment on this item . Take a vote. Commissioner perez commissioner caminong commissioner thomas commissioner lee commissioner frost president tan. I say minutes pass item 3 i think we were going to skip but the director executive director was out last week nothing to report and item 4 report from the sounds like inspections inspector pauley you want to start. Indeed good evening confirmations or commissioners, i only had a few comments its been pretty compete busy but quiet since the first of the year start with inspections i did inspections this past weekend that he is fusion lounge ive not been by there i did a walk through they had a busy night but security is tight looked fine did a walk through and policies is one of the main places i say is where most of activity is in the areas im regularly checking out maids and other places this weekend i did a walk through and talked with Security Guard a new complaint about monroe this is weird i dont want to get into the details before you basically an issue going on inside the building i talked about with the project sponsor and the project manager will solve the problem continue the venue and the person inside the building i believe the issue is resolved or the Property Management is dealing with the Entertainment Commission issue compliance ive been getting a lot of emails about huey on the issue is some nights theyre busy their sidewalks with busy and their messy when the police are proactive in moving the traffic along it helps the situation it shouldnt be all that the police about you it is consistent with venues it is hard to think negative about the venues but theyre busy and the police are concerned theyre not hear youre not hearing about, about that you p but nevertheless, nothing imminent theyre not here maybe not away again, i think it is fine but i do so what the Police Department concerns are i dont want to swipe them away i understand for Public Safety what the issue is but i think thats fine. Are you talking about the 10 b officers. It is usually around ten am in the area because of all the activity and then 10 b through too so the regular patrol didnt get mixed occupy on the block unless a need for like an emergency or Something Like that but the 10 bs are moving the ubers along and making sure that people dont conjugate waited for cars thats the problem with the ubers and the lyft. Maybe a lesson for lovingly street too. Perhaps. But i think your alluding too active on broadway nothing of concern i know that several years ago there was concern. It was different but not the 10 b officers and the d b d was not just forming. Commissioners other comments or questions for this report move on to inspector burke. That particular location we havent heard much about since it was repermitted maybe year and a half ago so ill get out there this weekend and hear what i can hear and followup with the complainants and a couple of inspections i wanted to mention that happened over the last couple of weeks a report and complaint that came from the 60 folsom this is a old bill of Health Body Shop place that was probably used i went by and noticed people sort of step van outside with a lot of equipment in and ive forward the details a picture to the officer and make sure they know about that and the r s four 909 was not here the last hearing we issued an llp a one time permit i checked to make sure they were in compliance with conditions and the music extend past of time weve given them there was quite a bit of noise on the streets and let me know this is not how the loophole will that will be operating and he understood and got my number maybe a mixup with the Security Guards. Is that the one on larkin. The address was wrong. They presented themselves so well didnt they. They took responsibility for a the openness like final the record. The guard card. For over 4. And last but not least i mentioned this in my Previous Report myself the operator a couple of neighbors and tested if you want new details about anything ive mentioned. Didnt seem like any commissioners any Public Comment on my of the inspector seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you thank you for all your hard work. Thank you move on to item number 5 we havent heard from directly in a formal presentation but tonight you dont why always forgot your full at this time. Senior analysis for community and cultural events. Take that away. All right. Good evening, commissioners too to be here to my letting joits one of the 7 pro bono consultants that have been been helping me own is evaluation efforts for outside events as a reminder were working with the Mayors Office with the civil innovation they match private sectors experts with public sectors challenges so we were excited to be able to use their expertise to help to figure out a way to improve and support outdoor fence tonight we want to share the scope a highlevel idea of what were doing and you have a long version of the draft report in your packet and the point of this report is to really help us to lay the foundation for making policy and legislative change in order to foster and promote Outdoor Events it is an opportunity to use the change to simplify the permit process for example, what we did we interviewed varldz so those were reasons as well as City Employees and did benchmarking with other employees and analyzed our cities permitting structures and support systems for after events and from that data gathering we identified 3 challenges that were consistent across the board number one the need for reducing the complexity of the permitting process number it the increasing the transcript of all the registering and who does what in City Government for the applicants but for the who works for the sfgh City Government and late lastly to address the Outdoor Events in the changing landscape of San Francisco lets get started this is frost and sustaining the events in San Francisco. How can we foster events in San Francisco i think weve talked about that 0 Outdoor Events are economic and cultural drivers for the city for the scope of this report we defined Outdoor Events as Public Events including street fairs and music, art, festivals and if you have any questions, well be happy to answer them fundraiser and the controllers report said that Outdoor Events contribute over one billion dollars for the fact of the city much the revenue supports bars and hotels and not just dollars signs but Cultural Assets to major parts of the citys identity as part of the fabric and the Legacy Events like pride are examples of that and then. Which event did it exclude. We focused on scott recommended events on city streets the purpose of evaluation rec and park for example, they have their own distinct permitting structure. Nothing like the summer of love is not something. The summer of love for Golden Gate Bridge is not in the scope. Or like outside. But if so this on the street it would. Okay. Thank you. Sure we were existed to get the help of the bridge consultants to answer the questions and promote boxer and sustained events. Ill let joyce take it from here. Good evening, commissioners and others so to really start off ill take you through how we approach the question of the public challenges as well as some recommendations for a big idea intervene we think will take San Francisco probation officer o to be a benchmark for other cities in the United States so first approach we wanted to approach it in a quantitative and qualitative data as bill mentioned the qualitative data we look at the street closer and benchmarks of other cities that have relatively other events and on the qualitative in the experience of the sites and the individuals on the ground to do that we interviewed individuals and really ask them their experience with the process and how they get their information who do they talk to and how has it changed and also want to get the other side we interviewed 8 individual if city agencies and permanent agencies to understand their experience and understanding how many approvals and permits a year and what kind of systems to handle all the permits they see at first glance we find those the number of events in San Francisco has been growing 9. 9 percent that is one. 7 percent and population around 1. 4 percent thats great but for the scientific pressures tare changing the character so on the screen you have two examples of events that are no longer held this year one the tech festival that is closed after 25 years of being in the space and a street festival hoped that is closed after 9 years ever being in the city and you might think those are isolated were hearing the saints parade or the zero fair with the socioeconomic chances vjt did sponsors something in the neighborhood to support their events so the 3 challenges are one complexity, so if you look at the top right it is a snap snapshot of what the producers have to go through that is 14 bureaus 10 approvals, sorry 10 permits, 15 approvals they have to go through it is incumbent on a 3rd of fte on the producers side that is a complex process if youre a first time producer and the third challenge is transparency so with 14 bureaucracies 10 websites that produce t the information it is ladder on top of the sub websites that theyre able to find what they need this is produces a challenge for the permit agencies because 100 percent the permits require strait with work from the final approval could take weeks because they work with a lot. So with the 3 challenges we found 3 pinnacle organizations and look at them to address the complexity we found that a lot of the cities with the process use the hub and scope model this means a Central Force that manages its own permit progress from the beginning. Carries the pertinent mrfrnt to the end and one point of contact there is none that comes through and make sure they get the second one to address the issue of transparency is really working to increase the communication so steadfast 10 weths the producers have to go drove one document one centered document for the people and the costs theyll occur and one point of information that then the producers can rely on top of creating the mixers with social hours throughout the years helps to foster the first time event producers feel confront and finally recommendation we are putting on the table today to address the socioeconomic pressures to make sure we connect the spores to the event producers to find the funding to continue what makes sf unique and hand it back to dillon for questions. Thank you joyce so first and foremost id like to my next step to get our feedback and see if those findings resonate with you and feel accurate and clear as far as you know the emphasis now or later as far as that report itself were currently hearing from all the departments we interviewed making sure that it is accurate and clear dont want any surprises and want to be collaborative approach and then well be doing enjoying and i and the other colleagues will be doing a read out to the mayor as part of civic bridge presentation with the other presentations on march second and in response to those recommendations you know as far as 2017 planning quick wins are working on a permitting guide that will have a lot of the road maps and way findings and the f f x to make it more clear and oh, i started in your packets started to issuing the outdoor bulletins you know it is a start in the right direction of making sure that when there is a new policy or opportunity that is available to really making sure that information defeats to the right people and so it it squat last week and ill go doing mixers and convening to figure out what was the National Third party whether a nonprofit or some other entity be that can help identify funders and match them to event producers that need it now the long term major type win is a really the piece of hub and spoke model and urban design group jocelyn and i will have to figure out how to approach the board and a sponsor to push forward those as far as change and ill be convening a working group of the different departments and you know asking them you know what are the shared goals and you how to work towards the vision and next steps that is really just again, a collaborative approach and thats 2017 so any questions ill ebt ill be happy to take them or chew on that. Commissioner caminong. I want to say congratulations for reading this case report i feel like the first time ive seen written down 14 agency to go through for approval so i just want to clarify what is the minimum process is it basically like a checklist. So you know this planning died will have an aggregation of people youll talk to and deadlines something that i have the power and wherewith all to do and have done that in my previous jobs thats at the quick win you know, i think the Bigger Picture we want on online dime portal that would be great if i can get people on the same page it is easy as pdf a pack are links does that answer your question . Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I actually think every commissioner has a question. Commissioner perez. Thank you for spearheading this and glad to is where an applicant within city hall an organizer and want to let you, you know that a lot of the cultural organizers are not professional were planned Community Advocates for a festival and tend to preserve the cultural in the neighborhoods so it is overwhelming to go to other department thats why it is kind of and a lot of us are not versed in filing those complicated forms thank you. I think that will help a lot of events organizers moving forward and thank you for thank you for all your hard work. Yes. I have thank you for doing all of this this is fantastic to have it written down it is what ive heard from my colleagues that produce those kinds of events with the bureaucracies is overwhelming and some new thing theyre afraid to theyll leave out thank you for this i really like the hub and spoke model of something there is a central listed place for people to go and found out what necessary need and get the permits and applications i speak from a experience if forms with filled out 100 percent wrong the former is what is wrong and not the individual; right . So how we can make that easier and wonder given the extent so many of the events our cultural events by nonprofits and volunteers the dislocation and figure out urgent care find outing go if we have a different standard or someway to make that easier for volunteers and cultural groups for those events i think that is a difference when have lawful corporate sponsors versus neighbors and a center that wants to put something on so i dont quite know what the answer we have to hold people to the same standard how to make that easier for yeah. For the neighborhood and cultural events. Yeah. I mean, im open for business so, please let people know im here for Technical Assistance throughout the process. Thank you, thank you very much for this report. It is a great solution. Commissioner lee. My turn it is a lot of agencies that even if i with all the knowledge we have i go figured what city streamlined is it something if we get a sponsor we change the legislation well have people on staff that will actually help these nonprofits i mean a lot more work is it in the Entertainment Commission or part of about his cot life streamlining but it is so confusing. May i. Do you want to take that. I want to context lists to the commission i remember forward and do what did i live on is doing we did a title that was clearly an analyst level position we as part of our authority really have a tiny part tonight as it relates to recollecting Outdoor Events and before i sound pretty much like pinky in there the balance of this stuff so the notion we have any control or authority necessarily a quality direction to change from dramatic methodologies or across the city i dont know what to say about that an we cant do it on our own there needs to be political will from a highlevel in the city in kind of things need to be examined and changed with the together daylight to suggest and hopefully, t hopefully, the Mayors Office will work with us were not in a budget cycle to grow the Entertainment Commission or sure were in the right body to do this nobody was taking on the issue so i decided to do that for better or worse. If the Economic Development can bring all the departments total i would i know or think that is the ultimate goal if were streamlining bans other cities other than San Francisco. I dont know about the streamlining. Thats something to think about if you streamline it i look at this and say oh, too much work. The one thing i want to mention the Controllers Office is not here to talk but they working with d e m to do an analysis of the emergency medical plan approval process and so there is some complimentary data we want to connect this report to what theyre doing and make a bigger impact so just to say that is coming down the pike. Thank you yep. Great job. I have a few not number one when i do things i cheat and copy it so you know where im going is like a sample if this is a convoluted and a pain to put together a package that can guide me i think that is one of the things that will help with the organization the thing i see the festival and parade it is huge but im lucky enough so have my assistant hearing laughter lucky enough that our budget allows us to hire a professional producer and tells him i dont want headaches im lucky i get to have him ive realized with work with the city whoever he go to talk with face to face but the bureaucracy they deal with is they dont want to say anything negative but you have to do that so, yeah with us putting on the festival were dealing with rec and park and as civil plaza we are lucky to get the art money and handing is to rec and park and thats lucky because if we didnt get the grants the arts wouldnt have a festival but at the same time im going to sfmta to close the growth street so we vaccine have a kiddie area over there and commissioner caminong said something i cant remember that was really a grain im just happy youre doing this because as the process stand now and being a person that kind of looks things not always in a positive marin manner it looks like the city is setting people up to dissuade people might not be true but every time we institute a new rule we dont get rid of of things that dont makes sense ive seen with a new rule with the bottle i say lets communitybased introduce the whole package but i appreciate you guys doing it im positive that there be a good outcome i believe that. Ill add my 0. 02 and spectacular report you didnt say listen mentioned to cultivate to build did argument for everything we do we didnt have the data few years ago about the impact of night life and the data about the impact of the night life events this is one step closure to that i dont know what the end goal trophy is but think that includes mccity sources for events and more salaried positions to facilitate and to hold the hand especially with the Community Groups to move forward with the types of events he that that hopefully means safer and cheaper and more events for San Francisco i think i dont care about were not number one how to beat this but i think the more we can have the more vibrant and the more that kind of contributes to the city one quick thought i had with i sat in the presentation of mayors Innovation Awards last week one of the things sounds similar basically hsa has to process of calfresh and had this statewide website over 25 pages that low income had to apply to in order to get calfresh that was really crazy complex thing that didnt need to so complex we received an Innovation Award because they redesigned an overlay you can go directly to one website that was simple not a state gibberish site and i think that is like calfresh sfgovtv. Org but the interesting thing not a whole website that gathered information it pushed into the application system i wonder if there is some sort of overlay to create that pushes into that 14 departments applications you didnt have to retype your name 14 types and all the standard information for a simplified form i can send that to you as well but that was one immediate thing i thought of i think we can win an Innovation Award next year in 2018 anyways commissioner frost or someone. Yeah. One thing i want to add the city agency is kind of complained that when we put on events we drain the resources from them i want to make sure it put in under when we put on an event to the city to the general fund and maybe to them is come out of their budget if theres a way to recap or put in how much money was put in and the individual departments cant put a strain on them if it does they can go to the city you think impact Feasibility Study is enough. When the Police Department or Fire Department says where is the resource and they can i understand you can talk to the budget people next year or whatever every time they bring up that. Sorry commissioners. I think youre done hearing in us i dont know if we have my responses you dont have to. I said enough and appreciate it. Thank you very much were going to open up for Public Comment any Public Comment on item this report. Good evening, commissioners the process before and is now is complicated so it does discourage a lot of people you get on a path and go through a mass it long overdue once the capture the data it will streamline the process to track things a lot better and more efficient and effective we saw when we had the superbowl this time with was political so the city had 0 allow the data hey how much money is coming in the general fund and hotels we need to educate about what we are putting in and getting out but most of things that the city wants to make sure that maintenance and theres you know impacts are dealt with if you can manage that theyre pretty happy with that, i want to applaud the commission and report that was long overdue eased events in this town are globally looked at and thats why we want to live here we have special events and by and large it is diverse and a lot of the people that is what makes it special to live here in the first place. Thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment thank you to joyce for coming and helping out all right. Were going to move on to item number 6 Police Department questions or comments i dont think there is a report or questions so move on to item 7 hearing and hearing and possible action for applications permits we only have one tonight the slogan for the only permit is a change in ownership for a permeate and billiards for a loan star slogan on harrison alone star a bar that historical is recognized absent the first place of the bear movement the bar owners have been involved in the application of management for years and are planning to keep the operation similar to the last ownership for the community and fundraisers theyve reached out to their neighbors not many and received letters of support youll see in the files and i want to call your attention to 6 pages from gail ruben with her relationship with the previous owners by the actively giving her support to the owners that theyll abide by the Good Neighbor policy position and southern station approved the permit and here to talk about that is owner char s charlesly evans and hello, everyone. Hello. Hi so brewing and i have been there 15 years we love the bar and the area so we jumped on it and i have a astrology background if Bayview Management and so unfortunately maggie said all that ill say laughter we have a great relationship with the neighbors and over the years bruce and i are familiar with the operation and the night life and the challenges that brings both during and after hours so i think weve done low to address the issues i can speak marry when you business as usual and not change anything we want to have a dj we can afford one on the weekends and continue on for the last thirty years thats my presentation. Great. Thank you very much commissioners any questions. I do actually i know the lone star i used to deliver pizza there i had a pizza place in the area im familiar with your crowd and love the bears so. They love pizza too. You know that a lot of the development in front of you have gown up and things have changed i had a business there and i know that i see those items have you read this letter from the neighbors on the items theyre concerned about. Yes. And had a conversation with reuben. I started to speak with them in september she was continent on being in contact with us and as recently as yesterday invited her to the bar and wraukd or walked to the changes their made and plan to make they recommended we get a salter we got the report and walked through what they asked us to do and yeah, im familiar. Okay. You have no problems with what shes asking for a no, no not at all we did major changes to the sound separate from the venue already and think that as strongly opposed to the venue as it was to come out and speak to that. Great, thank you. Commissioner gails name carries a lot of weight great job think getting her on board. This is the goal to make her happy when we first took over i didnt want to hear from you vice versa and she feels exactly the same way no news is good news i had some hang over to get through with her and her partner rightly so but were going in a great direction. Thats good to hear. Yeah. And have you seen the police conditions. I have. Proposed and fine with them. Yeah. Yeah. Dont seem like nothing unusual if so standard for a business. The lower one is no the problem because you know we dont have smoke cigarettes. It will make a deference to the impacts as well. Great i think the more we can do to support night life in the south of market is the more i think that is a goal of the commission and also especially lgbt business are you involved in the cultural isnt there a lgbt Cultural Heritage and legacy business. There are legacy but i dont know how engaged yet with the meetings were doing on the Cultural Heritage to try to keep up well try to get them involved and gail is involved a historian as it relates to south of market culture. Yes. Yes. We have different charters every week every sundays a different charity that week a dawn for destiny last week was bigger yeah, the they support us more people have pets while their convalescenceing. Real paws. I think go ahead and have a seat. Well open up for Public Comment i dont know if any folks in the room want to come up and speak about this. You did wait a while to be heard and im bruce one of the new owners this is just were really excited and i met my partner actually 25 years ago so laughter we have a history and our 25 anniversary is 19 in two weeks. Congratulations congratulations any other Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners anyone want to make a motion. Motion to approve with the police conditions. Theres a motion is there a second. Second. Second from commissioner perez lets take a vote. Commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner thomas commissioner caminong commissioner perez president tan. That item passes congratulations. Happy anniversary all right. Well move on to the election of Vice President i apologize. I wanted to do this at the beginning of the meeting he forgot but postpone this it appears that our commissioner that is vacant that seat will be appointed in the next week or so but wait until we have a full commission and i dont know if we need do we need to move up on that or take it off. Table that. Dont call that. I move to table this until the next meeting second. Ill second that. Thank you any Public Comment commissioner perez commissioner caminong commissioner thomas commissioner lee commissioner frost president tan. Thank you very much finally our last item commissioners questions or comments commissioners, i think there is some parade additional to hear about. We have sfavkd parade it starts the second of march and goes to city hall and then the next day a festival out i will out at 45th and slope, 27 block of 25th avenue thats the next day just like every event cultural feminist your turn to be irish last week we are that all chinese and in may lifesaving and in june we are gay and in and the filipinos im going to get in trouble ill leave something out we started with the flag raising in front of city hall a week from friday at the 7 oclock come out and join us at one of the events or all the events im happy to hear that report we got to make that easier in the future. And wear green and wear green. All right. Commissioner thomas. I know that senator wiener has transferred senator leno legislation will extending alcohol licenses to 4 and just want to make sure that note that wont be but director kane if an update about what that is doing. I can do that certainly i want to ask though that everybody who refers to that call it what it is but call it local control i think that it is a misnomer to call it 4 00 a. M. Bill and thats not what it is this commission i mean weve not taken a position im not sure it is appropriate im happy to bring one sheet in the office regarding the local control bill by the city never takes a position by the Mayors Office so, yes and not suggesting we take a position one one way or another but if it goes through and San Francisco exercises the local control that may impact on the thing were regulating. Ill update the commission. Thank you all right. Any other comment. I have a comment the 90 awards are next monday night so anyone that would like to attend let me know arrest adu before i or joseph know the annual night life award show this year. 5 year. Already 5 years. Commissioner perez. One comment about the agenda i think when we have a long report that is given to us and then have one person coming forward to make and sit through something they have no interest in is there a way in the future we can change the agenda. Absolutely. Yeah. I think that is yeah, the agenda is absent of an experiment what is on it and you know kind of shuffling the cards any Public Comment not seeing any, im going to go ahead and adjourn this meeting have a good test. Everybody id like to welcome everyone to the phone bank this is our at a of action for the Affordable Health care act the seiu were the Health Care Workers representing many workers and have a serious even if Affordable Health care act thank you for joining you guess i want to welcome a guest thats mayor ed lee good morning thanks for being here first of all, thank you. The united Health Care Workers west for letting us join them in this multiple state call day for action to a safe our health care and recognize governor jerry brown from the board of supervisors who is someone that is wellinformed about the issue having worked in and around health care for a good part of his life and well have i think some good to guess to share joined by Department Heads directly involved in the Affordable Health care act and our overflow room healthy San Francisco and now, of course, our covered california for San Francisco Barbara Garcia who is our head of our department of health and jerry mcfattening the department the of aging and joined by some very important partners in our on and on to make sure that everybody is Health Womens Health and protected and immigrant health are outlined cost planted parent hood thank you and our Communities Consortium clinic consortium it here were in a fight were in a fight with the administration and congress over saving health care for millions of people and im here to express that San Francisco wants to Save Health Care for all people not just in San Francisco but the entire state of california that has over 5 Million People enrolled in covered california and 2 0000000 people enrolled in the athens that president obama had started we should not repeal this law and this program without an adequate explanation and a replacement of the program because ill tell you why were lucky to be in california with so many people are Health Care Coverage and earned it and worked hard im more lucky in to we had a Human Services Health Services agency as well as a Public Health agency worked as a team to enroll 93 thousand people into the mel program and therefore thats why we have one and 33 thousand people covered by covered california in the city really a hard to do this but a reflection the citys commitment we care about health we celebrated the year of rooster and if you alone carefully you didnt have to listen in marine and cantonese to understand that people said happy lauer new years that is meaning it is so important to everybody you have good health to begin the year to be with your family and to be able to work and this is work we have been successful to enrolling people that is important i had an opportunity as part of action team to literally learn in detail what it takes for a city like ours to provide the health first of all, i began with the hsa and Public Health to look at we enroll people and thanked the team of people that were really the cause of being able in multiple languages in multiple locations that to enroll over 93 thousand people in the medical cannabis Extension Program if it wasnt for that team that will go agree competent and the cbo that result will not to have happened we were the best example of how the Affordable Health care would be successful i think the state of california is to be congratulated as well then i went on to one of our clients one the 12 to 14 cbo based clinics the max minute hall clinic with 4000 patients i went there i wanted to hear firsthand what it means to people before they have Health Cottage and now after i hear story after story heres the lesson i learned from the stories you know fear does a lot of things to you thats why i working hard to remove fear from people in San Francisco one of the areas of fear is that if something happens to you whether a medical condition or otherwise people fear going to doctors and hospitals because they think theyll not be able to afford it prior to the ac a1 medical episodes will literally put you in jeopardy of bankruptcy no standards and all of that got cleared up with the labor unions and the cbo clinics the system of care people didnt is to tear if what about enrolled and start not just responding to an episode but the more important things to have ongoing coverage to diabetes ive heard two stories about this afternoon or aneurysms that may not have caused dedicated but people to get checked out and treated and ongoing treatment with one treatment so those episodes in fact, they have an 11yearold that was presented to me with 4 pages of petition signed and a cover letter that will break our heart she hoped she wrote about her brother how they needed this coverage in order to afford the medicine she doesnt want her brother without the coverage to a mother who wasnt there but she got treated and now she wasnt there are shes working i like it i had to hear the stories because prior to the coverage and someones brother who doesnt b know about the Affordable Health Care Coverage those people would so been in complete economic and arithmetic devastation that is what we wanted to do today to present those stories and quite frankly their not just stories their about lives theyre about whether we care about people or not those are reale. Episodes in peoples life we care about in San Francisco their real theyre not alternative facts theyre real because people live through them, they really understood after they got coverage what their fear was doing to their health and economics and now we have the 3 thousand people in San Francisco about one and 334 thousand people that didnt necessarily live in fear of not having health conform that is so important and life saving i wanted to insure he appeared to join all the volunteers at the united Health Care Workers to call the elected officials that are attempting to repeal the ac a without an adequate replacement or discussion again what we some do to reduce the fear thank you to all the volunteers today, were calling Congress People and elected people and the staves nevada and arizona and right here in california ill expect to make the calls myself im joining mayors across the country and mayors in the statistic lets not repeal this law if that so valuable such a foundation of hope for themselves their families and lie people to work and really join this incredible economy in the bay area and they wouldnt be able to do it that unless a pass forward to take care of their Families Health that is one the most important things to improve peoples lives i know that jeff knows this were elected officials we ask ours probably at the beginning of our careers but the beginning of everyday how am i supposed to help People Health is one were doing housing and transportation and if we dont take care of the fear of the lack of Health Coverage well be a big disservice to so many people i want to 82 say thank you and take that day of action and move forward and make my calls i want to i know know i come from a culture youre supposed to take care of our health first, you cant take care of anyone unless your health so with that, let me introduce gil District Attorney and thank you, very much. For your leadership as well. clapping. thank you. Im gil District Attorney ceo of planned parenthood in Northern California it is a great honor standing with the brothers and sisters with u h w and other leaders as you may know that planned parenthood is in the cross hairs the administration when you no strainers to advocacy 3 brave women opposed a clinic in brooklyn and were arrested it is not easy for us over the last one hundred years we know this fight and more importantly how to survive were ready to fight and ready to fifth because of weathered thousand patient it come to us in the most vulnerable days of their lives would weve been here for us of 55 thousand other young people in the schools providing answers and needed information they couldnt get and the other 70 thousand people through the building we know the fight is worth it and were going to be here no matter and player i heard you say recently, i picked up excuse me because we wouldnt go up and not back down not now not every this is a pleasure to be here. Ii represent the clinic consortium our 11 members are the major nonprofits Community Clinics serving San Francisco diverse population we serve one hundred thousand people 10 percent over 10 percent of San Franciscos population along with the partners all represented here we feel like we do a good job in providing connections to people to an excellent system of care the clinics are unique we offer high care regardless of the ability to pay but like others weve voonsz from 50 years ago we were founded now we have advanced medical practices using data to improve the quality of care and use the programs for intervention to ward off diseases we have become modern listed but as the clinic we welcome everyone and have a lot of language and culture diversity so that all people of San Francisco feel comfortable coming i personally worked on Health Care Coverage for 20 years and nothing makes me angrier when the politician say break a leg go to the emergency room i hope they bring me to zuckerberg San Francisco general, however, the vast majority of people need the competitive appropriated care and counseling about nutrition and void diabetes we need assessment so depression didnt ruin their lives and need Something Agency for i do he provided with the pediatrics care that very inexpensive and ice easy intervene what help ward off things for the rest of their lives if the ac a expansion goes away some clinics will survive by the ability of the clinic to approve the quality for this evidence based care will be affirmative list from the financial point of view here in San Francisco our clinics provide over 8 hundred jobs and clinic training jobs which is great Health Center patient on average 20 percent lower costs than others provider so there is a large statement to the mel program in San Francisco were lucky to have the haight system as a safety net for those no eligible for the private Insurance Companies or mel but not money to the Community Clinics that is medical theyve been wells as well as a federal grant it is threatened without the ac a and the San Francisco percent reduction in the Health Care Grant in San Francisco 5 hundred jobs will be lost and over 41 thousand patient will be taken care of elsewhere the result 60,000 higher ill close with the words of a working mother for the children this particular family had two Sick Children with the parent had to pay for urgent care for their healthy child like pneumonia the other child had to go without medication this was the moms words having to choose one childs medication is one of the worst position my husband and i were devastated hard to watch it hits the couldnt stopping his medication what could we do weve made prognosticating and particularly in california and San Francisco and cant go back because some politicians in San Francisco think that is exhibitor to stop healthy thank you for we dont go backwards. clapping. good afternoon. Im maria i work at the st. Francis Memorial Hospital and was for the Viral Services if the Affordable Health care act is over turned that will cause a lot of harm im speaking personally my fiance is a worker had a fulltime job by the job didnt give him Health Orange coverage he said he didnt need the Health Coverage i was grateful, however, december 2016 i was rushed to the emergency room where we thought he was having a heart attack they admitted him into the hospital and found out he had high Blood Pressure and other medical issues and you know we were grateful for that, however, the Health Coverage at the time juans bill was to big there 0 was no way i could pay it and him to pay it the Affordable Health care act helped my fiance stay alive hes doing great and does his doctor environmentalist thank you to the Affordable Health care act i want everyone to be able to keep their Health Care Coverage none should live in fear of getting sick and not have something that is affordable so thats why im here im calling on voters today and asking him to contact their elected officials to protect the Affordable Health care act we need this law to keep People Health and safety and need to give people a sense of hope and we need to keep people like juan if he didnt have is it he could have been bad im asking everyone to support find Affordable Health care act because as a community we need it and as americans we need it thank y thank you. clapping. good afternoon. Im Barbara Garcia the Health Director of San Francisco and as Health Directors my obligation to insure the health of everyone in San Francisco it is my job to protect health care and the healthy with 8 thousand employees and others have been providing care for dozens of years in the city over 12 years ago we developed it to make sure that everyone be has access to health care and the ac a helps that it is important to check with them over the last 5 years received over one billion dollars to build our new Trauma Center and rebuild the existing clinics the mayor was talking about one of the clinics we have an information to protect the infrastructure of the Health Care System in San Francisco and today, im here to sherry, support of union work and call the representatives and our obligation 8 thousand employees of the department of behind me to make sure we work hard to insure we save the health care to everyone has care we dont want people to go to the emergency room but well try to protect and we will fight to insure that all san franciscans my personal obligation and the obligation of the urgent care to protect the health care in San Francisco thank you. Good afternoon im sheree the director of department of aging Adult Services in San Francisco want to thank you and mayor for having a day of action i wanted to highlight two things that the evicting for the people with disabilities the first our Department Administrators the inhome care project far inform we serve over just under 23 thousand people in the program and the workers are represented by u h w and the expansion has loitsd for nine hundred plus people to assess the Inhome Care Services without Inhome Care Services will be in institutionstion and medical has afforded them up to an average of two hours of inhome care a week would have cost 3000 a month and people in expanded medical cant afford that is allowed people to stay in their homes 31 percent of people are Asian Pacific islanders and 20 percent of the people are africanamerican and those are populations that we really want to keep living in San Francisco we want to keep it affordable and in addition the Affordable Health care has given some is more help to medical so medicare benefits are wellness for people that come into medicare as part of that they get a screening and also allows for annual visits and allows for cancer screenings mammograms and things like that that is critical to people i want to thank mayor ed lee for having this event and thank you u h w and good afternoon. clapping. highway im supervisor jeff sheehy, you know, i both approach this in a policy point of view when i was diagnosed with hiv i didnt have insurance one of the reasons i didnt get test until i was starting to get sick i didnt have Insurance Companies i know what that feels like to not feel well, not know what to do and where to go and not an option i know that feeling having gone to see a doctor and number one was where i presented that will mean you can see a doctor and get care and spent a night in the San Francisco general i know the care we provide it outstanding favtd two years ago later that the Affordable Health care act we have been able to really think and start to achieve big goals a National Movement to the Medicaid Expansion so everyone can get coverage go on the exchanges and get covered if we treat people for hiv theyre much less likely to Effect People a profit for people to not tariff advisors were following on hepatitis again, the means there is a cure we can end this it costs out people dont have their stop working if they dont have to get a transport it is cheaper and San Francisco started the San Francisco, california a multiple approach to reduce the cancers that impact our marginalized community all of the big vision ideas with only really possible within the construct of the organization c a it is great for calling other congressmen i heard this st. Patricks that the horrifying that 51 percent of the individuals in bakersfield get their health care through medical or medicare and just to remind people medical is the ryan budget proposes a Voucher Program for medicare and it is amazing if there theyre voting republicans i wonder in the republicans that are supporting this said the rhetorical for their own constituents so thank you u h w fork doing this today and lets to the voters and the congressmen. clapping. id like to thank everyone for coming out today and the speakers and the Community Partners and now it is time to get on the phones and make that wor issue. Homeless in San Francisco is a challenging issue that effects owner in the city in many different was as of the 2014 Homeless Census over 64 homeless in individual in the city to try to address the issue weve got a program for chronic homeless welcome to the Navigation Center. This Pilot Project is for People Living on the street what makes it different the Navigation Center is able to accommodate homeless encampments lowell u allowing people to keep their pets and bring their personal bloonlz. The full realization that people dont want to be homeless not refuse services but from the services dont meet them and not relevant theyre not going to be successful if you look at the budget losses weve got a community sacrifice important people to get food and laundry were standing next to the bathrooms it is designed to be a dynamic and brief residential experience where right of on this site city staff to connect you to homeless places to return to family dine is up for medical and all those things that are complicated for people. The other exciting thing city agencies come on site and provided the services for folks this is existed to see when the goal of streamlining a a whole processes of getting people on go gentle assistance into housing as much as possible. Way totally different you can come and agree as please and get Laundry Services and showers any time of the day and night its twentyfour hours a day whatever and twhefr its not like any other she recalls. They come and help people for what it is theyre required the issues they need and reach out and do what we can to say okay how can we accommodate you to get you set up and straight never in my mind imagined a program like this this place it different and a a lot a lot that better it works. The navigation is center is a collaboration of partnerships too city departments one is the Homeless Outreach team managed by the San Francisco distributing i look forward to the Navigation Center well have our agents go out and help and say dont go anymore over and over send our dayshift out theyve meet the population and hang out and hang in the encampment and transport people and be with them and make immediate impacts with me and my staff. Bringing our wloongz whatever you go presents a problem this place their help with the storage i dont have to worry about it staying here you know youre getting things done they need to get things down done to get off the street avenue of the hope alsoness is gone. They help you if youre hungry go eat if e you need to go places go. Theyre 4th district it awe auto. It was funded through a unanimous donation and of may 2015 an additional 3 million to help to continue the Program Beyond 18 months. You see people coming out theyre ready to being so the future homes you know how variable the Navigation Center is my message for the constituents yes something can be done do break chronic homelessness it is being done. This is a community that sets an example but i how to pick an area that was funky theyve seen were trying to do is help their neighbors theyve seen getting sicker and more frail and broken down on the streets and welcomed us thats a powerful Statement People are exist and president in theyre becoming to see the movement for folks and people on the streets are only survival modes where is there next meal and their itch more carefree. The staff here is interpretation the first day i have a appointment and everything was made all you do is go through them this makes a huge difference. To get settled in a helping hand, to get on my feet, take care of the issues i have and get out of bed and help. Even though the Navigation Center has been up in march 2014 the program is creating successful outreach for its clients. A month ago they came to me and asked me to go into a new program i moved into here and now 3 months later i have my own place it is mine i lock my door dont worry about my stuff it feels human againtoday. clapping. ive been working in restaurants forever as a blood alcohol Small Business you have a lot of requests for donations if someone calls you and say we want to documents for our school or nonprofit ive been in a position with my previous employment i had to say no all the time. My name is art the owner and chief at straw combinations of street food and festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you dont want to wait 365 day if you make that brickandmortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything weve done to celebrate that. So nonprofit monday is a program that straw runs to make sure that no matter is going on with our business giving back is treated just the is that you as paying any other bill in addition to the money we impose their cause to the greater bayview it is a great way for straw to sort of build communicated and to introduce people who might not normally get to be exposed to one nonprofit or another and i know that they do a different nonprofit every most of the year. People are mroent surprised the restaurant it giving back i see some people from the nonprofit why been part of nonprofit monday sort of give back to the program as well answer. Inform people that be regular aprons at straw they get imposed to 10 or 12 nonprofits. I love nonprofits great for a local restaurant to give back to community thats so wonderful i wish more restrictive places did that that is really cool. It is a 6 of nonprofit that is supporting adults with autism and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about, about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, well be happy to answer thems in the month of genuine we were able to organize with straw for the monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of 10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any questions, well be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really great vibrate arts program. We we say thank you to the customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know youve made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. It is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good cause also. It is really nice to have a restaurant that is very Community Focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. We have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. When those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand restaurant in San Francisco were doing an average of 6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand thats a lot to could we have a roll call. President edna james. Present. Vice president gustavo serina. Here. Commissioner samer itani is excused. Commissioner katie loo. Here. Commissioner richard ow. Here. Commissioner commissioner roy kaushick roy. Roy. And note that neil sims is present. I would like to approval of the agenda with changes and Meeting Minutes and under reports no report from the nominating committee. Can i have a motio