Transcripts For SFGTV Entertainment Commission 41916 20160420

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 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 anniversary y party or 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 keeping 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 permit. 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 didnhave 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. [meeting adjourned] everyone deserves a bank account. In San Francisco, anyone can have a bank account, things to an innovative program, bank on s. F. Everyone is welcome, even if you are not a citizen or have bad credit to qualify for a bank account is simple. Just live or work in San Francisco and have a form of id. We started bank on s. F. Six years ago to reach out to folks in the city who do not have a bank account. We wanted to make sure they know they have options which should be more lowcost, more successful to them and using chat catchers. 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For quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005, she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. It was a bench at one point. It was a darkened room at another point. But the theme always was a theme of how do we call peoples attention to the issue of speci species extinction. Many exhibits do make long detailed explanations about species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of purposes. But i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. Missing is not just about specific extinct or endangered species. It is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need to link species loss to habitat loss and really focuses much on the habitat. Of course the Overall Mission of the academy has to do with two really fundamental and important questions. One of which is the nature of life. How did we get here . The second is the challenge of sustainability. If we are here how are we going to find a way to stay . These questions resonated very strongly with maya. On average a species disappears every 20 minutes. This is the only media work that i have done. I might never do another one because im not a media artist per se but i have used the medium because it seemed to be the one that could allow me to convey the sounds and images here. Memorials to me are different from artworks. They are artistic, but memorials have a function. It is a beautiful scupltural objective made with bronze and lined with red wood from water tanks in clear lake. That is the scupltural form that gives expression to mayas project. If you think about a cone or a bull horn, they are used to get the attention of the crowd, often to communicate an Important Message. This project has a very Important Message and it is about our earth and what we are losing and what we are missing and what we dont even know is gone. So, what is missing is starting with an idea of loss, but in a funny way the shape of this cone is, whether you want to call it like the r. C. A. Victor dog, it is listen to the earth and what if we could create a portal that could look at the past, the present and the future . You can change what is then missing by changing the software, by changing what is projected and missing. So, missing isnt a static installation. It is an installation that is going to grow and change over time. And she has worked to bring all of this information together from laboratory after laboratory including, fortunately, our great fwroup of researche e g researchers at the california academy. This couldnt have been more Site Specific to this place and we think just visually in terms of its scupltural form it really holds its own against the architectural largest and grandeur of the building. It is an unusual compelling object. We think it will draw people out on the terrace, they will see the big cone and say what is that. Then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab. We have the largest recording of birds, mammals, frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. So this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brandnew context, a context that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the World Without these sounds or sites. In the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. We get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. When i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. So, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. You see the object and say what is that. You come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. And then you step closer and you almost have a very intimate experience. We could link to different institutions around the globe, maybe one per continent, maybe two or three in this country, then once they are all networked, they begin to communicate with one another and share information. In 2010 the website will launch, but it will be what you would call an informational website and then we are going to try to, by 2011, invite people to add a memory. So in a funny way the member rely grows and there is something organic about how this memorial begins to have legs so to speak. So we dont know quite where it will go but i promise to keep on it 10 years. My goal is to raise awareness and then either protect forests from being cut down or reforest in ways that promote biodiversity. Biodiverse city often argued to be important for the worlds human populations because all of the Medicinal Plants and uses that we can put to it and fiber that it gives us and food that it gives us. While these are vital and important and worth literally hundreds of billions of dollars, the part that we also have to be able to communicate is the more spiritual sense of how important it is that we get to live side by side with all of these forms that have three billion years of history behind them and how tragic it would be not commercially and not in a utilitarian way but an emotio l emotional, psychological, spiritual way if we watch them one by one disappear. This is sort of a merger between art and science and advocacy in a funny way getting people to wake unand realize what is going on wake up and realize what is going on. So it is a memborial trying to get us to interpret history and look to the past. They have always been about lacking at the past so we proceed forward and maybe dont commit the same mistakes. Hi everybody, we down here at the ep is a center which is our pop up space down here in San Francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has center which is our pop up space down here in San Francisco where we operate a store front to educate the policy from the home owner who has never done anything in the house to the most advanced structure engineers we have working around here. We were going to here from kelly to talk a little bit about San Francisco. How are you doing kelly . Very well, thank you for having us here. In front of us, we have a typical soft story building. When i see this, i think this is some of the most beautiful architecture our city has. A lot of people dont know these are problematic buildings. Why dont you tell us about some of the risks he we have in these buildings . Soft stories are vulnerable in past earthquakes and the northridge earthquake to this type of building and character of building. When we talk about the soft story, what were talking about is generally a ground story that has less wall or other pwraeugs to resist the lateral forces that might be imposed by the earthquake. So were looking for something that is particularly weak or soft in this ground story. Now, this is a wonderful example of what some of the residential buildings that are soft stories in San Francisco look like. And the 1 thing that i would point out here is that the upper force of this building have residential units. They have not only a fair amount of wall around the exterior of the building but they also have very extensive walls in the interior and bathrooms and bedrooms and corridors and everything that has a certificate amount of brazing yea its significantly less country srabl in those stories. Now very often, we get even a garage or storage or sometimes commercial occupancy in this ground story. That very often not only has a whole lot less perimeter wall but it often has little or no wall on the interior. That wall is the earthquake bracing and so he see very significant bracing in the top floor and very little on the bottom. When the earthquake comes and hits, it tries to push that ground floor over and theres very little that keeps it from moving and degrading and eventually paoerblly keeping it from a collapse occurring. So we know theyre vulnerable because of this ground story collapsing is this only a problem we see in francisco . Nce . San no, this is certainly a national problem. More acute in western but more up to california, washington, moving out into other states. This kind of building exist and this kind of building is vulnerable. When youre involved with the community safety, this is a different way of thinking about these types of things. We had a Community Group of over 100 people involved and upper 1 of them. Tell us about how that conversation went. Why did we decide as a city or a community to start fixing these types of buildings . There were a lot of aspects that were considered well beyond just the engineering answer that these are vulnerable. And that effort brought in a lot of people from different aspects of the community that looked at the importance of these buildings to the Housing Stock and the possible ramifications of losing this houbgs in the case of an earthquake. The financial implications, the historic preserve vacation s implication as you mentioned, these are very handsome looking buildings that are importance to the tourist city ask which make San Francisco something that people are interested from outside in coming and visiting. Its such animation story when you think about the 10 years that the community spent talking about this seurb but we actually did something about it. Now we have an order unanimouses put in place to protect 100,000 residents in San Francisco and retrospective in 2020. So on behalf of residents and employees in San Francisco, we want to say thank you for the work youve done in pushing this forward and making people more aware of these issues. And it was a fantastic community effort. So in an earth quake, what happens in these kinds of buildings . What happens when an earthquake comes along is it moves the ground both horizontally and vertically. Its mostly the horizontal that were worried about. It starts moving the Building Back and forth and pushing on it. When you see im pushing on it, the upper stiff of the wall stay straight up but the lower floors, they actually collapse just like i did there. Luckily, we can put this building right back up where it came from so its a lot easier. Now kelly, obviously these arent real frame walls here but when you talk about buildings, what makes the property for stiff . The easiest and most costeffective type of bracing you can put in is either put in a brand new wall or to potentially go in and strengthen a wall thats already there where you dont need to have an opening is where you maybe have a garage door or access to commercial space, you might go to a steel frame or other types of bracing systems that provides the strength and stiff if necessary but at the same time, allows continued use of that area. But some combination of walls or frames or other tools that are in the tool kit that can bring the building up to the strength thats required in order to remove the vulnerability from the building so that when ground shaking comes, it in fact is a whole lot more resistant and less vulnerable. Ideally, this story down here would be made as strong and stiff as the floors above. If im a Property Owner, what is the first thing i should do . The first thing you should do is find professional that can come in and help you evaluate your building in order to, 1, figure out that indeed it does need to be retro fitted and 2, give you some idea of what that retro fit might look like. And third, evaluation and design to help you determine the retro fit requirement. Well kelly, i cant thank you enough for being here today. Thank you so much for your wealth of information on how we can take care of our soft story problem in San Francisco. 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Coming to this joyous celebration the fact reopening of franciscan towers clapping. its been a Long Time Coming 8 hours short of exactly 5 years with all due respect please give a warm welcome to mayor ed lee clapping. thank you, don i know that short welcome has everything to do with the fact real purpose that say we need to get people into units and this franciscan towers as you may know and that it was a victim of a big fire in 2011 and you know a lot of victims of fires particularly residents i think very few get the side the fact day tare, is reopened because it take a step back a long time to battle with Insurance Companies all kinds of things make it difficult again thats why we celebrate those opportunities this franciscan towers a hundred and 4 units of Affordable Housing the middle of tenderloin reopening the middle of a housing crisis and so it is blessed with being is very, very helpful solution to many and i know that supervisor kim understands this she and i have been working to get more Affordable Housing built if not rehabbed and also the middle of that whether a conversation or working with the fact private developers or work with our city tame family to produce more housing we made a commitment at least 10 thousand affordable units built by 2020 this helps interpreting the fact story is not just about the fact this is rehabbed and reopened lives have been here the middle of tenderloin that also need to be rebuilt thats why this investment is too important thats why the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development corporation valued in the city they keep increasing that portfolio of love i call it actually up to 33 different proposals the city in directly helping 6 thousand plus people to make sure they do more than survive in the city this is what the fact tndc does we we partner up so the clerk will take the roll with them and more to come i i know that portfolio they got a lot of projects weve got to announce and we have in a had your we dont want to take 5 years to do this when you look at the building you see how it was damaged and and the units that are very, very small studios are one bedrooms 95 e 35 of the one and 35 are dedicated to formally Homeless People this is incredible and burglary hips oh, help us with our challenge facing the fact homeless as i this more Navigation Centers and add Supportive Housing working with the fact board to make sure we can do with the last round and were going to get 8 thousand people off the fact streets by the end i finish that will no longer have to be a victim this is our promise xus were building so we donthe have to talk about the fact shifters we have access out of homelessness and that projects like this the middle of communities like the tenderloin are really important to getting that story completed i want to say thank you to the tndc and all the corporate sponsors others are are part of solution to make sure that the financial part of this is done because thats when what is it takes Creativity Initiative financed not just again money but the creative relationship with the fact Financial Products that really helps to accelerate this housing and want to thank tom dbi and some of the other agencies i know your staff was around and have been inspecting a fire building your probably happy this building will be with good lives thank you, everyone for the fact elephant e tenant and the former building that were patient and the team of people that have brought this to fruition congratulations to the corps clapping. thank you, mayor ed lee please welcome supervisor jane kim clapping. i just want to congratulate the entire team that, maam r made this happen 0 over the last 4 years a tremendous mulch work to building that after a major fire actually, i think this happened on a tuesday 5 years ago i left really late that evening around 8 30 i decided to have dinner and the middle of the are dinner i heard a major fire i ran over here and got to talk to the tenants at the alexander across the street and it was my first time experiencing a major fire as member of the board of supervisors and it is incredibly frightening one of most unfortunate things when a major disaster you have a responsible and consciousness Property Owner with a protocol portfolio to house the fact tenants i just have to congratulate tndc thats one of the most did the things to actually, the humans were enacted and the fact staff did a tremendous job providing a compassion that for weeks to come after to find new housing and help support people with the fact tradition and work quickly in fact, i had little work in the case of my first fire because the fact frng was taking care of and had staff on hand and work to make sure that tenants were able to transition i think actually in many ways a bigger accomplishment that tenant didnt move back they ere able to find permanent housing they felt was secure and wanted to stay in this is actually new housing and will house many that individuals that live on the fact streets it is a tremendous accomplishment i want to say this because this is as an opportunity to talk about tndc and the fact Partnership Im lucky to serve under a mayor with Affordable Housing is clearly his top priority for the fact city and an extensive history to have as much Affordable Housing and well Work Together to secure the gap furnld for the fact what will be Affordable Housing for formally homeless families an eddietaylor a tremendous project were able to work with tndc and the Mayors Office to get the fact funding for the 5 m project project and excited for a project coming online weve been talking about the fact fortunate we we have in long time institutions like be tndc that will have been building in the tenderloin for decades thats in many ways why the tenderloin continues to be a working class neighborhood we have nonprofit and leader this stuck around for decades to continue doing this work and one of the reasons i love tndc and come back and see the fact same people continuing to do the fact work with the a testament hard to find nonprofits to do that and frankly you get paid this to d this work yet you believe in it and a tremendous leadership to run an organization that people continue to believe in and finally i just want to acknowledge your organizers go amazing work clapping. ive saying this because because wants legislation and funding more Affordable Housing the community didnt come out and residents not informed at the local and state level putting pressure on the stories out the media thats ultimately had drives our accomplishments were not able to do that and beyond housing building and housing neighborhood not just about neighborhood we need to convert and build a healthier and stable environment outside of the residents i want to thank tndc for your comprehensive vision and for the fact neighborhood in helping us build not only more audible city but a healthier one thank you clapping. thank you jan bank of america clapping. thank you don. How you doing i just wanted to thank tndc for building this amazing or rebuilding i had the fact honor of being here years ago and as beautiful we see that again with new Community Groups i aim thankful for the mayor and city for building Affordable Housing and an honor to see a city that is so committed to building Affordable Housing and make sure that you know our residents are the place to be bank of america buildings we are better when were connected we truly are thats why we build save and secure communities in 2014 alone bank of america provided 4. 5 whether they would say in financing across the country most importantly in San Francisco in the past 10 years bank of america has 1 3rd of Affordable Housing not including the fact investment money today and great to be a partner with you guys and with tndc a number of projects and our apprenticeship didnt aspire we worked for bank of america now for the fact greater innovation thank you. Thank you clapping. it is my great pleasure to introduce to say tndcs social work manager Doreen Franklin kin clapping. a okay good morning im here to honored to be here today with you and in a Brewing Community room of the franciscan towers this is a day ive been hoping and dreaming of for 5 years please forgive me my role this morning twofold first id like to over some reflection aftermath of fire in second give thanks to the unimagineably folks that 2rshd to the Resilient Community in 2011 was an average day for me, the walking through the intend to to get to another meeting when i left work at 4 00 p. M. I never imagined id be bad actor in back in a few hours at 8 30 the fact crowds were coming in theres a fire at the towers okay there was a fire at the towers and arrest rick were on the scene and everything under control while talking on the phone he glantd at the tv i saw the franciscan towers on fire when i arrived most of the tenant were across the street the lobby of the alexander residence told me and in theyre afraid pa ganlz and others in mire bathrobes in a few hours as the fact disaster in two things were really clear the first that tenants wouldnt be going home imagine having been unhoused in a single second without notice and having only one minute to gather a few blorjz imagine arriving in the building after a long day of work with no place to go no food, no water, inform id, no money, no tone phone and no clothes the fact second thing that was clear to me that tndc staff would not rests until all the fact tenants we are safe and secure by 8 a. M. All of the tenants were, in fact, safe and secure while many that few weeks stayed with folks and family families be doubled up in apartments and adults were the streetcars in the ambassador and cc r the next 10 days at tndc were controlled chaos the fact workers the shelters while Property Management searched for alternative housing for one and some tenants tndc was a blessing we had amazing staff, we had a lot of building, and we have some really good friends the community to r two of our best friends are he American Red Cross and by 12 p. M. All one and 25 tenants we are settled in temporary housing and properties and dish properties or with friends and families while this data was a milestone for us it was really just the fact end of chapter one the fact rest of the story unfolds with with tndc tireless purity of hours after one year of working with the Fact Community partners the fact late tenants was housed on march 3, 2012 equally important that tndc would not settles for a redtagged icon. Equally important tndc would not settle are are for a redtagged icon in the middle of the tenderloin after several years of having a vacant property on the famous corner of twothirds they began to rebuild the fact towers there are many significant milestones each of them leaving me at times bracket also and overwhelmsed i remember that the fact admin and the tndc Afterschool Program was moved to the parking lot not we called the budget lows i remember the directive and the lottery i remember the fact day the knowledge was painted and the first i stood r5078 and cried i remember the fact day the first tenants came back home and another day of tears tears of joy and stand the franciscan towers very own Community Room something they deserve just above us one and 4 unit of beautifully renovated affordable apartments its been 5 long years since this corner of eddie taylor felt like home i account reasonable doubt for hours for the fact folks that supported the fact tenants and tndc to recovery from such a tragedy id like to thank the franciscan towers tenants who were kind, caring and compassionate with each other they were patient and never gave up on tndc they taught me the true matt haney of human the fact San Francisco Fire Department saving retrieved medication for people if the people and the tenants the back of residences that opened theyre afraid home on the night of the fire and First Responders dale, art, georgia, orlando are yvette and monique and linda, and state and federal the fact department of Emergency Services ben im not sure hes here we want to thank them on behalf of the fact city and county of San Francisco tenants at the ambassador and cc r for 10 days graciously shared theyre afraid home and tndc social work team operated the fact shelters around the fact clock and the American Red Cross that provided meals and three hundred and 34 hours hours of volunteer support the San Francisco food bank for providing food and vouchers for basic Household Items and tndc precipitate Management Team for the fact 10 days to make sure that all tenants were in a safe and secure housing tndc admin and it team especially in a few days had the fact office up and running and tndc 65 for ooefg stability to the franciscan towers families and not missing a beat by operating out of the circulation the team that grashz left hand theyre afraid rooms of temporary units and welcomed the fact tenants onto the Community Without question or gymnast the Human Services for continuing for the fact support the shuttle mrs. Care especially shannon to help us to maintain and ultimately double our subsidies the dult who operated across the fact clinic the manor house for accepting the hundreds of vouchers that were provided for the fact tenants the fact San Francisco Housing Authority for the fact emergency applications Public School to a very special grew up of people that plays a role ms. Jones johns, joe sanchez at the know that sanchez at the is here Joanne Goldberg and tfa list and others and the countless folks i imagine ive left out to the tndc leadership and most specifically don and paul and others and the face of such tragedy the 3 of you dug deep and was forced to ask users the fact question who does tndc want to be at this time of crisis you made did the decisions and had care and compassion tndc staff and the Tenderloin Community the final group id like to thank all the fact people that believed in tndc those that believe that tndc will one day rebuild the franciscan towers on behalf of the tndc we want to thank you from the bottom of my heart clapping. thank you thank you. Burnett its your turn please welcome vernon clapping . Good morning, everybody. This is a brand new opening thank you thank you all for being here we go celebrating with us mooirns are very happy it have franciscan towers to call home my wife and i were homeless for a year people are homeless for no reason i believe you dont kick people when theyre down we working hard to keep her healthy from diabetes shes lost both of her legs we tried to stay off the fact street and stay clean and healthy we have no family to support use it is just we have we found a place to say for 450 question had be out at soubs and ask for a shower it was better than the fact street but not good we got a connection to 3 social workers with them working together we got a wheelchair for my wife and best of all a home were happy to have a home we work hard and my wife says shes never leaving with our new home we get healthy and stable who knows what is possible clapping. now my turn for a few concluding remarks there are so people people im not xaefrg hundreds and hundreds the aftermath of a fire but putting together the new franciscan towers rather than call anyone out i want to direct you to a program recognizing those who contributed and we want to commend i guess replenishment on a couple of things because identify cabin sleeping by myself in my bet bed the first we tndc cant do anything alone we exist in a community that part of community and the community depends on us our success is he really a function how we Work Together and one cant see that anywhere better than the fact franciscan towers the other thing ive learned i want to share with people is that Affordable Housing is a safety net i really only understood how true when i saw what happened when Affordable Housing was jagged from flaerths peoples lives so thank you all for coming question appreciate everything youve done and enjoy your lunch