Transcripts For SFGTV Entertainment Commission 51716 20160518

Your name and item and pass to to the staff ill call you during Public Comment and thank you to sfgovtv and the Media Services for producing this live every time we meet go ahead and start with the roll call. Commissioner joseph commissioner lee commissioner frost president tan here. All right. Thats a quorum none taking any bathroom breaks otherwise thank you all right. So the first item is general Public Comment this is Public Comment on any item relates to the Entertainment Commission that is not currently agendized any. Not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. Monarch to item number two Meeting Minutes i have one change just to make i was to the present at the meeting i couldnt have called it to order besides that noting no changes or amendments no quorum of people i move to continue the minutes. A motion to continue. Second all right. Commissioner joseph commissioner lee commissioner frost president tan the motion continues to the next meeting you want to move on to item number 3 our executive director is gone for a little awhile but you are amazing staff pass it on to inspector burke you want to start. Id like to start good evening two complaints have come in one for mellone pizza there are a couple of issues at hand were working to disseminate them the complaint are mechanical noise from equipment attached to the building an exhaustive fan claimed about the lack of bathroom facilities and patrons farth gathering between 2 and 4 maggie and i have working educating the complaint what avenues as far as followup with the different departments and work on addressing the patrons i did stop in 245 to 215 and not in the way of business concert staff everything looked calm ill continue to follow up we received a call about the cafeteria royal containment complaint of music from the complaint doesnt live close by and not being involved in any followup investigations ill put that on my list for route patrol i spoke with the operator we planned on meeting this weekend and my old stomg grounds i looked at propaganda this past weekend there was some concern historically about the flow of patrons in and out noise gathering for smoking and things like that i didnt notice anything over the past weekend temple has historically had good crowds on Howard Street im noticing a good security staff and good lines i do need to talk to them about keeping the doors closed to the front ill be following up this were adjourned about that and stopped by cals irish bar that past weekend and it is a bit of a madhouse out there with one lane the traffic cars and ubers and their exit is a bit overwhelming i talked with the owner for quite a bit he was active in guiding the traffic and patrons and looking that while i was there we had a chat about the difficulties hes had with dealing with just the general operation of the business on that street and the amount of people and continue to follow up and see if we cant figure out to make that has safe as possible and i followed up with 50 as well over the past weekend they have an extended hours permit i notice a few of their security from other establishment people i know to be good security and did a walk through one of the places since weve switched district and ton to a glow there interesting thing about 9550 if you have a live video feed isnt that the human video game. Indeed. Did they change that to 9550. It is 9550 what theyre doing a called the human video game. We approved the permit now i on intersections youre absolutely right. Thank you sir, i love being right. Thats unusually usually the case i understand they have plans under the event it was private. Oh, i see maybe were both right that wraps up ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Actually, i the president to brought to your attention something ive promised last hearing attached to my meeting notices youll find some information about hsa to as far as the photos that were sent by the builder did go back to weekends ago and took are measurement not fined to be in violation bans the a. M. Boinlt measurement 2, 3, 4 previous weeks ive followed up with the builder and the Real Estate Agent for this property and now am attempting to act as a mediator between the operator ate the builder and Real Estate Agent to establish a level where everyone is happy i have yet to hear back from the Real Estate Agent at this point in about a week and im just waiting on that to take the next step. Did you mention to the Real Estate Agent that it was bizarre reare getting noise complaint from on unopted out premise. I expressed did confusion. What did he say. Initially when the complaint first came through i was under the impression that maybe there was some how can i put this they were trying to file a traditionally sound grievance complaint once i realized the building was unaccompanied in talking to the builder is a situation he wants to know where we stands and what he can expect them so everyone is on the same page and aware of at what level and now that this building is in place so my goal is to try to come up with that unable i on intersections its required by the state of california to do a disclosure of value of the property i have one question about the temple. Uhhuh. Temple has been known to use dogs on the security line. They have. Are they still. Not this past weekend. Theyve used that. I discovered that last time that was the only time for me ive not seen that sense but not sure. Yeah. You know how i feel about dogs. I have a quick question. Uhhuh. Im seeing venues i havent seen on inspection are you guys approaching that or hitting it like extended hours. So this mellone the speakers name for the written record, and please deliver it to the secretary prior to after hours. The complaint driven and the 9550 has been fairly in active and i on intersections this is based on the human video game theyre doing goes in waves i noticed a listing ive been going through the new district ive taken over from inspector pauley using the sf station and website to try to get an idea of whats happening in the city and sort of organizing any weekend like that i on intersections were your probably getting that by the fact ive not been in the district for a while. Uhhuh. Im trying to get a feeling what is going on. That would be great of thats helpful. Ive seen the after housing and their ive been out that way myself late. I want to compliment you on the nuking new formulate. It is really clean and easy to read inspector pauley. Ill take notes laughter . And send along the template. Great using video drops on your phone. Good evening commissioners to respond to the question youll see from the me in the next couple of weeks random drop ins we have not been in in a while nonregular stuff for the next month or two until we get through most of the inspections we did losses ended my list is kind of short ive been making contact are complainants that were formally shawn was in contract contact with in the process of waiting for complaint and so forth and the projects getting ready to start the inspections. With that said, i stopped by one venue during the inspection process they didnt center a permit posted that was the issues i thought was wellmanaged and did a walk through so this was that a couple of compliance on 16th street just to get an idea of what is going on ive done that for the last couple weekends but that was an issue that issue was people congregating into the alley to keep an eye on it looked fine the knock out on Mission Street is another one and that one had issues with leaving the door open during performance and there was a complaint i was dealing with that and decided it was fine the door was shut a accountant of followup on the last hearing i talked with monroe about the complainant is the landlord of the building next door talked to the complainant well and what they originally minded the complaint wanted sound at the time a similar situation the building is you think opted out i expressed basically, we dont approach it personally we want to Work Together to try to solve the issue rather than an enforcement action so initially when i talked to the Building Owner about a month ago they werent on board with dealing with the memo i made it clear thats right the route he agreed to a meeting so thats going to be be passed on to shawn well see where that goes the square so they finally took the speakers out of the wall the complainant is not totally happy but how i feel is that the venue after initial bumps and bruises theyve gone above and beyond to try to appease the neighbor and eliminate the sound issue evident in the bar listening to the speakers on the wall but on the wall created a problem nevertheless, they took them out the complainant said it is not as loud in here unit she hears imaginations or things but utter is better theyre in compliance but at some point we might discover something ill pass that off. Did you take any reading in the complainant apartment. I did initial but given the sound level i took readings initially last are summer in the process of permitting this time around when i was in the bar they were at 71 well below the 82 or 85 i knew that wouldnt be loud per say in the apartment. Concentrated because of the speakers in the wall for instance, like kick drums and base not be a violation in the residence but the thumping is something annoying so i did not on intersections that i needed to do that i really didnt i knew the issue ive heard the speaker noise i told them to remove it into the wall. New complaint came through it was last week talked to the complainant after she called in and talked with maggie for awhile noah Valley Ministry a church our sanchez street the issue is noise from a couple of noise not entertainment noises and some possible unpermitted activity im not sure what their permitted to do through the Planning Department but after talking with maggie i contacted the Planning Department and didnt get back to the team they didnt get back to me about what their you allowed to do right now theyre doing events they have ticket prices like 35 to 75 not average church stuff like a donation not you know it wouldnt be a ticket thing. Entertainment being. What kind of a band the flier said for the description said like a singer and a violin player this kind of thing. Leader like a concert. Basically classic. So the noah valley ministries and thai have been credibly activist in the community doing all kinds of fundraiser from hiv to hopeless dogs and loud in the k34u7b89 so something new running the place and we heard something new in terms of operation but really theyre the phases of an investigation and the complainant shes done a lot of reach but been there for 20 years just starting to be a problem for them. Noah Valley Ministry. I talked to them today, i talked to the complainant today and since theyre having an event it make sense for me to go out and talk to them. For the years theyve been credibly good people i think. What the issue they had construction with the vestibular that blocks the back of the building i guess it was blouk a lot of noise i dont know what everyone did but now the noise is not blocked for the neighborhood being impacted by things that maybe were unpermitted before didnt bother anybody. So well see what happens again ill go out there friday is the confusion around the date i belive it is friday that is the date on the ticket whatever so the neighbor said hell have a sounds like consultant take reading so well see what turns up the main issue the unpermitted entertainment and if they need to get a permitted thats the first one after discussing that with the deputy superintendent wilder really the first thing. I have a question on monroe so if eastsoutheast complaining about the regular operations or after hours. Regular. Regular. So xraip about the after hours that was like a supplemental thing it is really quiet no matter what they do you know 4 or 5 in the morning or whatever they start alu youre going to hear that in the property because the dude didnt live there. He didnt live there i havent twaukd him he might own the building in part im not sure about the division not there after hours. No, not after hours he said he has someone that moved out because of the noise but a few different sources there is the bamboo hut a in the basement you can hear monroe the windows face over the roof monroe you hear but we all know the sound within you know 50 foot radius or 70 all contributing so well figure out what is going on and hopefully, theyll resolve it on their own. Without heavy enforcement work. Great any more questions for either inspector commissions . Ash all right. Public comment any Public Comment . Seeing none item 4 Police Department questions or comments anything tonight monopoly move on to item 5 the hearing discussion and possible action for applications for permits in the jurisdiction of Entertainment Commission 3 im going to turn it over to to the deputy director. The first permit application is actually a loudspeaker permit for an event called the detroit show on july 30th, 2016, at home sharer with or win with selma close to harrison in front of the studios and the applicant is requesting to extend until 12 00 a. M. So wanted to bring this hear theyll have djs playing in the street they already have an eis cot permit and Feedback Feedback approving this permit youll see the conditions attached so shes our applicant and done Neighborhood Outreach with the files and received no negative feedback about the event here to tell you a little bit more. Can you talk into microphone. Thank you maggie and commissioners im from halves weve put on an event similar no november we didnt need a loudspeaker but all the neighbors are familiar with us and invited braurnd and theyre supportive this event this the builders about detroit and different artists where an art gallery with detroit djs and food and we just got oures scott permit and been in touch with the officer mc2k07b8d who suggested we get 6 Security Officers from the Security Corporation and two, 10 b officers were in the process of doing thats all. Did the november event go until mint. No 11 00 p. M. So the neighborhood is familiar with having something go on to that late. Yes. You guys didnt know. It was a brass band again, no pa we didnt have a need to do it so everyone was fine with it, it is zoned commercial so theres very few residents that actually live there. Tailor a few but theyre all very aware what the supporters and come to the events and yeah. Is that a public event or ticketed. A public event that is ticket as well were blocking off harrison and have two officers on heron and ticketing on heron and officers checking people they have stamps saying they can come in and out. Are you serving alcohol. Yes. How do the ticket an event in the streets. We sell tickets online beforehand and ticketed at the door. How do you do that for a street in the public street i thought that was not permit. They can have a ticket event but have to allow local assess all the time. I believe they. Is that changed in the last year. I dont know. San Francisco Pride closed 16 blocks and cant ask for donations because you cant you know i mean it is curious to me because i dont commissioner frost do you have any ideas. No ideas. The use of streets because you did a street closer. You cant block off the skulks i sidewalks im curious i dont know anyone else. Asian art museum rent out for the civic center and the gallery so because that is is specific about 3 permit. I was curious they received the permit in full detail. I just didnt on intersections you can sell ticket its interesting to know if you could. I have no idea. Be interested to know im asking out of curious. Mural from the sfmta. Right. Direct questions specifically about that particular permit any other questions or comments commissioner lee. So those neighbors your nearby you said there are few have you reached out to them with a heads up. Any letters i dont see any letters. We actually spoken we have a letter we printed out and given to some people were in touch with most of them you know, i on intersections almost on a daily basis we let them know ahead of time an event is coming up and invited them their seamly existed. I dont see anything in the packet. Oh, with the letter. Usually theres a support letter. There . Yeah. We included the letter in the application. No, like feedback letter. Feedback. Oh, from the neighborhoods. Feedback letter. Oh. Not your it is something we have to have. So youll stand into the neighborhood thats so kind. We dont need that but helps your argument to know that the neighbors are not just there with ticket but can publicly say we support this our numbering complaint is a neighbor upset. My phone call is on the letter that theyve been handed and they know me personally most of them have a personal relationship with them if any kind of thing their unhappy they know to contact me. Have the read the police conditions. Yeah. Yeah, the 6 locations so it will be at heron for that one night and turn it down as requested. Sure no problem. All right. Any other questions from commissioners can i ask the one question to our staff did i guys have any particular concerns or what is this out of ordinary because of the location and the fact have not applied for a loudspeaker to extend beyond 10 00 p. M. We want you to define. Okay. Yeah. Well, that sounds like no Major Concerns ami open up for Public Comment any Public Comment on this particular permit no Public Comment Public Comment is closed. Move to approve. Back up with police conditions. Yes. A motion to approve with the police conditions and a second. Second. All right. Vote. Same house, same call . Yep. Yep. That means the motion passes good luck now the second permit with the pie restaurant and launch the second is for a change no ownership for a lack of space for the lounge at post street and japantown their oriental on calendar back in october and a ran into an issue with planning but was mute a disappointment they had to wait the 24 months to come back theyre here again their plans to have live music and come down i didnt shows you with the hawaii restaurant. Bar they have done Neighborhood Outreach in the past and conduct more with the reposting only 10 days youll see what is signatures from neighbors not many neighbors Apartment Building across the street they reached out to other facilities ive not received option for the application and northern station approved this with the Good Neighbor policy the only condition here to talk about that more the owner and this is his partner. Commissioners, thank you my partner is jeremy sorry so as far as the neighborhood support i reached out to pretty much everyone including the sundance movie theatre the most complaints weve pretty much talked to every Single Person that had issues even people that worked there in at past we have a pretty Good Relationship with everybody no problems with anyone weve had multiple fundraisers with many folks cherry and to j. T. C all in the past never done it because of issues are the previous owner and we pretty much figured out what was some of the issues on the previous owner side after that i contacted all the City Organization like japantown and the immediate neighbors and contacted the movie theatre that has the biggest crowd theyre brought out they were bought out and now by a new he Movie Company of some sort and a process to get an answer the gm that the michael springs i spoke to him he understands ill be there hes not there for any reasons made no complaint but he was one of the main people to kind of put all the not sure exactly what in the past but the main person so other than that there are a few letters he couldnt get in time because the apartment across the street and they were a little bit easier to get you know and other than that the movie theatres that was extracted to get anything from there with so far as the Community Organization almost Japantown Task force and every japantown Community Group i didnt realize their process of getting a letter from them would take somewhat 4 weeks up to 2 months so i have to go to their hearing and plead any case theyll take that to their board of directors i didnt realize the process was so long but the process with the other 5 Japantown Task force and j. T. And as soon as jc c. Great definitely sounds like youve done our homework any question how are things with sundance knowing that was hung up for a while by you have clearance if the general manager those issues are resolved. Yes. Yeah. The movie theatre were the most Thoughtful Group we have issues and the original person was gail johnson i on intersections his last name but things were lost in between as far as the business were keeping everything generally the same it is mostly food and a ratio of 70, 50 and the rest is liquor related no night club no department of emergency events cut out anything that was remodeling having a crowd not up to mike night i cut that out any kind of rap related rap things they used to have i cut that out and pretty much our Live Performance is basically a raggedy multi currently music were trying to focus on but were definitely not doing hip hop or rap related to something that would probably be disruptive. Great i hope you can continue playing the role of a focal point for the community i know that the asianamerican auctions have been advertisings it sounds like those are continuing and continuing and hope with entertainment. So thats really great i totally support that commissions you guys have any questions or thoughts. I mean it is run as a limited will with the previous owner weve not had any complaints ive not seen it on the reports. That was a while ago but the main complainants i dont see anything many in our files so even though previous owner had to go through a lengthy progress with planning and thats when sundance got involved but the 312 notification. I on intersections that was limited live and go beyond that. There was involving the Planning Commission and Planning Department where we tried to step in and safe this our territory. So anymore questions and the police conditions are a Good Neighbor policy are you happy with that why not have a seat ill open up for Public Comment by Public Comment nope Public Comment is closed. Commissioners anyone have a motion. Like to make. I move to approve. I second. There is a motion that has been seconded and at least take a vote. Same house, same call . Same house same call that that item passes good luck well move on to the game room our final permit. So the game room is going for the permit only Fourth Street formally was the drake the owner plans to use this is a a restaurant with a focus memo cocktails and memos but the whole thing with the mechanical devices their thank you for the opportunity this into the retro arcadia spaces the owners reached out to all the businesses in the area youll see whether the support and response i didnt receive any negative feedback and the Police Station approved that with the basic conditions more to talk about that a mohammed. Thank you for your time basically in general a casual Bar Restaurant the focus on group share because they find it easier to have a Higher Quality of product with the arrival of other places where similar quality we focused on you know quote unquote cocktails fresh ingredients and being in soma there is a good amount of businesses that are based on gaming like the Major Developers lake the i reached out to most of them but some are Huge Companies but get feedback from the Smaller Companies we were looking to get 10 games pinball machines as an accessory we building breaks the money in any and helps us out with the local community i did reach out to went door to door 2 or 3 hundred feet with local businesses and restaurants and retail shops get positive feedback but unfortunately not many people relied back but thatnuts and bolts it the a positive environment were taking over a lounge area i think were a little bit safer environment not the place where people will have a lot of security and well look down others crowd as well and so we dont see issues happening if that sense and im available to answer any questions. Commissioner joseph. Hi so tell me how many mans will you have. 10. And where are you putting them downstairs or upstairs. Said. And serving food upstairs so the machinery is upstairs. Correct we took a good effort and hired designers they broke down the space in aesthetic fields so downstairs is more lively area and the upstairs is quiet we wanted to keep the game people happy a. Are you serving food downstairs. We are. You are thats great people can come in and hang out and have drinks. Are the machines coinoperated. They are when we say people well limit to 25 and older. Your limiting to 21 and over and 47. Yeah. Just because why. For the safety of the we have a restaurant thats a lot more sit down people mill around we dont want to mix in alcohol and children just a personal preference. Okay. More. Thats a great personal preference. What in your security. Uhhuh. Are you going to just a question because a previous commissioner representing police once asked a question about anyone coming in for an arcade what will you do or how is the skgsdz going to handsome situations to make sure there is no gambling with the machines. No gambling. Yeah. Gambling on scores. I keep the eyes on the prize i have a previous large staff we call them floor people theyre all over the place and their job to look around and see whats going on that will definitely help to superfluous weve not have concerned but something we can bring into the training. Okay interesting. All right. Are you going for a poe. Thats a place of entertainment permit. I think so. Were talking about djs and things like that. Okay. Any music placing in the bathrooms. Yes. Just plugged into an ipod. Yes. Great other questions or thoughts commissioners. In my mind the old arcades that were on Market Street years ago and the same people coming in that kind of is that what you envision or people coming in you know less frequent than instant. Im not more confused on there was like on Market Street with the arcades the same people everyday do you expect that to be your clientele. Like i said theyre looking gaming more as an accessory we take pride in our products and spent a lot of time on the drink memo and morning anything we want to be a solid business a solid place of business to add to the bonus of soma and our clientele will be come and go in the neighborhood but no means a Big Game Community coming to the gaming. It will be easy to pick out anyone there to do their gambling. Absolutely we keep an eye on on the machines for 5 thousand to 8,000 we are concerned someone tilting or pressing or hitting the buttons two hard and not had a problem before even on our minds but something we can definitely spot out. Those games are retrofit you say gambling to me. Of gambling is not like donkey. Pack man and some of the computer games. Whats the price for those games. 0. 25. Very cool thanks. Let me had an on one second 0. 502 too. Im on tv so this really is i hear a high demand like arcades and arcades in bars i on intersections youll your filling a demand not met at this point. Rent is expensive im sure have you it sounds like youve run arcades in the past. We have experience running bars and restaurant as well. Where else. In san diego we started that like a fun dinner restaurant and maybe the restaurant of the year we got that award when we opened up the concept there and moved to sacramento and down here. Taking over San Francisco. I dont know about taking over. Great if no further commissioner questions or comments. The problem with Fourth Street you have to create a designation with the arresting cads youre pushing the restaurant in that area is restaurant needs a little bit of help. You know we dont want to push the arcades with a trending concept worrying about what to do with the products and service there are is a good amount of retained so hone in and establish a good food and drink place and fun. Games. Essentially at the end of the day, we are a bar and restaurant great. Well, thanks i know thank you for research out to the neighborhoods they may say we have an issue hopefully thats not case we hope that the front line of defense is you and tussle to negotiate those terms. Tshths. Let me open up for Public Comment any Public Comment on coin opt game room all right. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Well move on to a motion. If one of our commissioners like. I make a motion 80 we approve. Second. There is a motion that has been seconded im assuming with the police conditions. Right. Correct. Okay okay same house, same call . Yeah. Same house, same call no roll call vote that passes congratulations move on to item 6 which is commissioners questions or comments commissioners any questions or comments . Commissioner joseph so this thursday im going to have the pleasure of monitoring a panel on entertainment in the city so the name of the panel is sex drugs and rock and roll and the leadership of San Francisco is an allday event theyre having it starts at the y ill be and after hours stuff ahf theyre doing this on San Francisco Cultural Arts and local businesses and having different panels commissioner thomas was supposed to do that with me she cant shes out of town but, yeah. When. This thursday. This thursday so leadership San Francisco is the group of executives who represent like i do believe institutions in the city im not clear and like pg e and at t and ecology and whatever so to have arts and entertainment be front and center in an allday event is kind of cool and pleased to be able to moderate this event. So there we go. laughter . Which one. All of the above. Excuse me any other particular give me a specific question im curious. Commenting were doing this to entertain the staff. Any other commissioners questions or comments not seeing any, any Public Comment on that. laughter . I mean, ill not be attending youll not be attending i have a quick announcement for people were schooling our july 5th meeting so if you were planning to be away you have can be away longer thats to respective the july 4th long weekend all right. Lets move on to item 7 new business for future agenda items any. I have a new business request for this meeting that didnt happen ill talk about the alternative. Alternative. Yeah. So ive not gotten that on the agenda. Yeah. It was not ready to be altered to the agenda but in time for the next rdr. Okay. In time for the next rdr for the meeting for the next rdr. It is the 7. At our next meeting. June 7th. Thats what im saying the same day of rdr. Okay. All right. 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The most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think hes a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think were not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. I thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are Great Stories for on opera. I was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. A friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. Why isnt it are that i have the support now we can do that. I realized that was something that wasnt being done in San Francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in San Francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision thats the final product felt opera. I was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i looked at sports looking at the daily. So much our mandate is to try to enter disis particular work theres great dancers and theatre actresses and choirs weve worked with and great video artists is a great place to collect and collaborate. I had a model they have a professionally music yes, maam assemble and as a student i benefited from being around this professional on and on soccer ball and as a conductor id be able to work with them and its helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer ball to be an imperial it operates as a laboratory we germ a national the ideas technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on stage. Thats part of the opera lab i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so thats why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. There were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and its different it has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and thats part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. So one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. Thats what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people dont like it and some people do were concerned about that. Its about thirty something out there thats risky. You know, disliked by someone torn apart and thats the whole point of what were drying to do you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. Good morning, everyone and welcome to our plans and programs meeting of our stowers county transportation authority, for may, 2016, im kati e tang the chair, we have commissioner avalos. And london breed, and we would like to thanks sfgtv. Mr. Clerk, could you call the roll please . All right, the roll call, avalos. Here. Breed . Here. Farrell absent. Pes . Absent. Tang here. Could you call two. Citizen advisory report. Thank you if we could have chris, our cec chair, if he is here. Okay. Maybe not. Maybe if we could push to this the agenda, and okay, great, we will come back to that and if you can call item three. Approve the minutes of the april, 19. And seeing no questions or comments, if we can get a motion or the Public Comment on the minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And if you can get a motion on the minutes . Thank you. And motion by commissioner avalos and he with will take that without objection. Minutes are approved. All right, thank you. Item four, please . Item four, recommend appointment of two members to the geary corridor bus Rapid Transit Citizens Advisory Committee . We have the Senior Transportation planner here. Good morning, commissioners. So this is item number four, page 19 of your park ket and as you know the project that we are working to improve the transit travel times and reliability as well as implement the pedestrians along the corridor. And so we are in the environmental phase and so we published the document last fall and we working to incorporate all of the comments that we have received and released a final to bring to the board this fall. As the project has a dedicated citizen Advisory Committee consisting of 13 minutes who serve in two year terms and you can find a list of the current members in the attachment and those meetings happen every two months. The structure of it is shown in the attachment as well. The number served, either appointed to serve, as the section of the corridor or at large. And there are currently two vacancies of the two members terms and neither is seeking reapoinme reapoinment appointment, and one is for the rich manned district and one is at large. We received, 35 applications for the cac and of those, all of them are eligible serve in the at large seat, 30 of them are eligible serve in the richmond seat and we have encouraged all of them to come today to say a few words, which is optional but not required. The information on all of the candidates is be found in the enclosure which are in the packet and as a reminder, the staff does not recommend the candidates and that is just up to you. And we can seek appointment to the cac. Thank you and so at this time, i want to see if there are any applicants who happen to be here today for item four, for the geary corridor vrt, vac, if you are up, come on up and make a couple of minute presentation of why you would like to serve on the cac and please remember to state your name when you come up, thank you. Yes, if you can line up over there by the wall . Im nooel johnson and i have been a resident of the bay area since i was 7. And i have been in San Francisco since 92. And i am a daily rider of muni and i also drive a car in San Francisco and i walked halfway here and i am also a pedestrian. And i was encouraged to apply for this to put my input in to the planning of the corridor. And what i have to offer is that i am smart and i can read the eir and documentation and understand what they are talking about and i have a lot of different insights into different roles that the people play along geary. And i would like to get involved in this because i want to stop complaining about muni and i want to do something constructive thank you. Thank you very much. Next applicant. All right. My name is nelson. If all of the applicants could speak into the microphone. Thank you. My name is nelson bunia and i have lived in the Richmond District for the last five years and i am a daily muni commuter and i took it to get here to 38. And i work downtown. In the past i have worked in morin and so i have driven a car and i drive and take the bus and so that gives me input into the Different Things that are trying to be managed my family is from la and there is a successful line there called the orange line which i have ridden men times and so i have the experience with the brt form of transportation and i want to give my input and bring a perspective of a commuter and a driver to try to make this be best project possible, and make the transit times as fast as possible for you know the thousands of people that take the 38 every day. Okay. Thank you. Next applicant . Hi. My name is osher, and i have lived in the Richmond District the entire time that i have been in San Francisco and i dont own a car and so i am dependant on muni. And i really think that it is important to make this line work well. And i have been working with a number of different transit advocates in district one over the past couple of months. To really try and make that people get excited about this line and i think that it is really important to make sure that everyones voices are heard in the process. And i think that i could do a job representing the riders of the line. Hello. My name is renee, and i believe that i am number ten on the list and i am here for a few reasons. Number one, i have been living in the richmond and raising a family for about eight years now. My son is in school so of course, i am interested in providing the quickest and safest Transportation System for him. In the Richmond District. Secondly, i have lived overseas in a lot of countries and cities where they have fantastic Transportation Systems. I think that is an area where i can add some value to the brt program. And thirdly, i do have some experience with the Public Transportation and the city traffic engineering. When i was at grad school i worked for the city traffic engineer and provided a lot of help to the staff there and coordinating meetings and working with the community and it is something that i enjoyed and i would enjoy getting back into. And i believe those are all of the reasons. I understand that there are two positions. One for the richmond and one for at large. I would prefer the richmond if i do get appointed because that is where i live. But the at large position would be fine as well. That is all that i have to add here, i hope that you will consider me for this position, thank you. Thank you very much good morning, my name is stanford kingly and i am a native san franciscan and a life long resident of the city and 32 years in the Richmond District and life long on the muni many years on the 38 including yesterday, this is an important project, 50,000 people a day ride this bus, the Richmond District is one of the few neighborhoods that does not have access to a high speed form of transit like bart or street car. But it is also very complicated project. It the median strip issues, the underpasses, the rest of and most of the businesses that are on geary boulevard are owner operated and they are mom and pop businesses. We have a few banks and some chains. But most of them, 80 percent of them are owneroperated. And it is important to this be a sustainable project that is something that they do in the ride off during the construction phase. And have that still becomes an attractive place for people to go for to take care of their needs for the dry cleaners and go to the restaurants that line the boulevard. I am a lawyer by training i now have a full time medation practice. One of the things that i do as an immediate aa mediator is that all of the par papts have the voices heard. I think that it will add to the process in that manner. Make sure that we can get the fair process, where a lot of constituents want to speak and be heard and come up with a solution, idealy that meets the needs of all of the parties concerned. So, i urge, you know, urge your support for my candidacy and like the previous speaker i would be happy with either position. At large or richmond. Thank you very much. My name is thomas, and i moved in San Francisco . 1962 with my parents and sibings and i went to elementary and junior high and the high school in the district and the city college and uc berkeley. I got an engineering degree. A botachelor and a masters degr. I have been working for a corporation in the downtown San Francisco continuously for 37 years. So, right now, i commute every day in the 38 blocks to work. And on the weekends, i drive through the geary street and so i need to have the driving and the bus because it goes smoothly. And in the company i have been working on the regular projects both design build projects and i also have some experience in construction support. So in summary, i grew up and educated in and near San Francisco and i work in San Francisco, and i have experience in and related to Construction Projects and i guess time is up. So but, i have the vested interest to improve the daily street traffic now and into the future and based on my education and Work Experience i hope that you will be able to understand and analyze different proposals thank you. Thank you very much. Good morning, my name is alexander post and i am from the heights and i appeared before this Committee Last month at the april 17th hearing. So i will try not to repeat myself too much here. But you got my application materials. But in summary, i am very passionate about Public Transportation and i have particularly interests in the geary street corridor because i am a regular user of the 38, and the bx, and i am excited about the prospect of Rapid Transit along the corridor and so i think that that passion along with my legal and policy experience will make me an effective ambassador, both for the project and to the project to bring the city wide concerns to the Advisory Committee. And i just want to pass one down, i attended the Advisory Committee meeting on april, 28th. Where they were actually one number short of the quorum, which forced the significant delay and they actually then lost the quorum before they were able to complete the agenda. And because one of the agenda items was neighborhood out reach, and you had many concerned citizens who take in the time out to come to the meeting and including representatives from two japan town neighborhood groups as well as representatives from the planning and association for the richmond. And who all understandable are frustrated at the process. So i think what this committee may need most of all is someone who is willing to take the committee and the projects seriously. And if you appoint me, i will be that person. And just a final note. I know the previous at large Position Holder was a richmond resident and so i think that it would be good to diversify the at large position to other neighborhoods. Thank you for considering my ka dancy. Thank you very much. Last call for any applicants who are here for item four . Okay. Seeing number we know colleagues, i know that it is in our hands now, commissioner breed . She wanted to Say Something before we go to Public Comment. I wanted to ask a question if i could be reminded of the people who were here at the last meeting . As well. Do we have that information on the minutes . And if you want to go to Public Comment you can. Thank you. And just for the public we are also joined by commissioners aaron peskin and farrell and we will go to Public Comment first, this is item four for the cac, if you would like to come up and speak, please do so. Good morning i am on the cac but there is one individual who has this application in your packet and you have seen it before and that is brian larkin and he is also on the cac. He was a chair person that that you have seen many times give the cac report, and then it had to be done and this sort of thing. He was on the original cac for the geary Rapid Transit. And for this geary project and in fact, i have known brian since 1986, when we both, and a group, where we were with a group of people that wrote prop b. The sales package that became prop k that i helped to pass later. And if you look at his, and if you look at his experiences of brian has had, working with and with and you know that he is a very, vocal in our meetings regarding anything, regarding the bus Rapid Transit and wanting it to be light rain, i think that you should consider him as your richmond appoint ee because he is the one that really knows what is going on out there. I have known brian for many years, i have known him since 1986 and i was appreciative if you would appoint him for the richmond representative because he was on the original cac. Years ago. Thank you. And just one question for you just only because i have not heard from that applicant directly. Do you know if he still wants to . I dont know if he wants it. But i know that he is very vocal. And he has a very, he is very vocal in this project as well as i am. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please . And to the supervisor mars office, and to send the support for butnic for the richmond seat, and the brtc, and asher the transit advocate who has been working on the period with the district one transit. Riders group. And that has been formed with the transit rider, and leaders who have been really strat strat guying what it means for the richmond and feels that asher will work for the voice of the riders to make sure that the voices are heard. And he is knowledgeable about the geary corridor as a whole as well as other brt and cities, and he has been taking the time to look at the transits in seattle and all inspiration to enhance the project here in San Francisco. And he has been an advocate that really is looking not just the transit benefits and adjusting the service gaps and connectivity and liability but he is able to think critically about the impacts. And what that looks like for the neighborhood and how this project can be about Development Without the displacement. He is passionate and has a vested interest both in the neighborhoods. And so, supervisor mar would like to extend his support for this candidate. Thank you. Any other members of the public who wish to comment on item four . Seeing none, closed. Commissioner avalos . Thank you. And i want to thank everyone for their interest in wanting to serve on the geary bus Rapid Transit, Citizens Advisory Committee. And with the at large seat that we have the number of people who are very, very qualified and very interested in serving and it is a hard decision to decide what to do. But i do want to make sure that the supervisor mar he wanted to see asher and that is fitting for the supervisor to recommend his appointment and i know that he has also done a lot of work with supervisor mar in the transit and he has familiarity with the project. And it will be great to see that. I would like to recommend that position that we accept him for the richmond seat for the cac. Other people that stood out for me. Nelson, who actually has some experience relative to and thomas as well, and i think his engineering for the background and as well as worked for the committee. And posts are the ones, and i am not making a motion, but engaging on a conversation i dont want to wait longer to keep these seats open. Thank you, breed. Thank you i would like to ask asher a question. How long have you lived in San Francisco . Three years, and how long have you been taking muni . The entire time. Can you tell me specifically what projects related to transit that you worked on with supervisor mars office . So, i have worked on helping notify residents and getting the input on the muni forward changes that have happened insurance since i have been volunteering with the Office Starting in last august, and that included working on the 28 r, and the two reroute, and it did get postponed and kind of talking to residents and making sure that they understand the project and kind of make sure that they understand the purpose of it. And i have been working on and talking to local businesses to make sure that they understand the project and the concerns are heard and also, talking to a lot of local residents. And both in the d1, transit, and advocacy group, and also, other times that the people that contact our office and are reaching out to the different people. And before that, you were involved in transit related issues and in cities and can you give me some examples . No, i have always been a transit ride sxer this is the first time that i have gotten involved in organizing the advocacy. Thank you. Thank you. Farrell commissioner farrell . Yes, i wanted to echo. I am sorry, commissioner breed. Thank you. And you know, actually, i would like an opportunity because it means a lot to me that so many people came forward to speak and i would like an opportunity to even though i have read through the applications, it is great to associate the applications with the comments of the people who came here. And i am definitely more inclined to support someone who came here and i would like an opportunity to maybe review those after mri indications based on not only the individuals that came here today but the individuals who came here last time. I definitely would say that you know, from my perspective, although, i definitely will honor and support the recommendation of the district one supervisor, here we have a number of candidates who have taken muni and been in the city and some cases their entire lives, and we are chosing no disrespect, someone who has only been here and taken transit for the past three years. And i do think that it is a mistake. And again, you know, and in this particular case, you know, normally our process is to honor and respect you know what is suggested by the district one supervisor, which is the only reason why i plan to appoint or support that recommendation. But, i definitely dont think that it is fair for many of the applicants who definitely have significant engineering experience and significant experience with understanding of the actively engaged and transit in our city and this is going to make this choice even that much harder. But i will say that definitely a number of individuals stood out. Mr. Renee. I am sorry if i am butchering your name, bause i am really terrible with pronouncing names. And stanford, kingly and thomas and post, and as well as yeah, those are the main people who stood out for me. And i would like an opportunity to just which will take some time to just take a quick look and make these appointments today, of course, but take a look at their applications as it relates to the folks who showed up here today in order to make a good decision for this committee. And i will say that what i do appreciate most are individuals who express a sincere desire to serve. But more importantly, to show up at the meetings and to respect i think, it was alexander post and was at the last meeting and there is business, and we take that seriously and when the people take the time to attend the meetings and i do want to move forward with this process today but i would ask the colleagues if it is possible to make the decision, and later on in the agenda as i review this to decide what exactly i think is my preference is. So, i am going to go to commissioner farrell first. And you can discuss whether to postpone this. I would say, echo supervisor avalos about supervisor mar, for the richmond seat and i think that is appropriate and we want to honor that. And then in terms of the at large seat, i will say, that especially to me i think that it is kingly, and mr. Post, have come now twice in a row and i think that does demonstrate, some commitment level here that i would like to honor as well. So those would be my thoughts in terms of discussion for us. But happy to do whatever the committee likes in terms of moving forward right here. All right, thank you very much. Commissioner avalos and peskin do you have any objections of continuing this until later in the agenda . Okay, we will continue this until later. And thank you to all of the applicants here, and i do agree that for at least the at large seat it is difficult and because everyone has varyed backgrounds and i see attorneys here, and i see mediator and i see engineers and advocates and transit rider advocate and there are so many different backgrounds that we could choose from. So we will get back to that. Shortly. So, at this moment, then i am going to back to item two because our chair chris is here. Welcome. Sorry commissioners for being late. I forgot my bike lock key. The 9. 6 for prop k, peter sacks regarding the bike lanes was given assurances that the highest degree of safety was applied to the streets by and inside the bike lanes, and what he considereded a buffer protected lanes. And my concern with that project was with the spending of so much money on paint treatments that would be reapplied within a year or two and for the paint costs and but, public works needs to have that delay. And supervisor mar apparently requested that the stripes be, or the bike lanes be put in place now, as a safety precaution and the extra cost is with it. And then jackie, sacks was given the assurances on the signal timing on the crosswalks that will be taken into consideration. And all of the intersections will accommodate the speed of 2 and a half miles per hour. And during the Public Comment it was suggested that a 1. 5, mile per hour, be considered that is what cal train uses apparently and so it is only that we may want to think about. For s disabled members of the community, especially around the churches or senior homes where we may have more disabled people. We also heard that the churches in the area may not have been contacted i want to make sure that out reach is being done on these projects. Regarding the charlie bus purchase, they wanted assurances that the buses will be able to make it up the hills and read that the previous models could not make it up the hills and she was given the assurances that they could. Item 6, and the replacement project on your agenda. Peter sacks describes problems in the air traffic industry, where harris that is mca, contractor seems to under bid and expand the scope of these projects that they work on and thus, increasing costs. Harris was the only bidder and came 40 percent over the sfmta estimate and this caused about a years worth of delays in getting the contract out that is all that i have. Great, thank you for your presentation. And i can see that the district four member is very vocal. Yes, and this item which is great. Yes. And any questions, comments from colleagues . Okay, seeing none, we are going to go to Public Comment on item two. Any members of the public wish to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and that was an information item. And now we will go to item 5. Allegation of 9,559,451 in prop k funds to present to the plans and Programs Committee and this is an action item. Thank you. And it looks like we have a different today. Okay, maria. Okay. Good morning, and i think that i can work three here with three allegations that you have before you. So that the first allegation i