Year of the many dragon. Of course i want to recognize Carmen Chu Hao district 4 supervisor as well; she has been a strong leader helping us promote the new years as well of course taking care of her district, working as a wonderful supervisor. I am excited about this new year too because it has an opportunity to unveil many of our cultural aspirations in the city of San Francisco. It has been 160 years, and we know our history well. My ascension to this office has been one of those things that people still consider me pretty special so much special not because of me but because of our community. This tab will have international status. Gobs of people will want to have it, reflective of not only our history but if i go to washington dc tomorrow we will have an opportunity to talk with the rest of the mayors across the country is to how to celebrate new years. This would be another example. Want to congratulate again claudine and the whole team, postmaster general, is leadership is alwa
Seeing none, meeting is adjourned. Let me welcome everyone for coming out to this great kickoff event. Mayor lee, supervisor chiu, distinguished guests from the community, city family, all of us coming together. Last year we held a Pilot Project on stockton street to help the merchants and support the merchants in selling their merchandise. We were able we were very successful. We got a lot of great feedback from the pilot. So this year again, we are doing the second year of the pilot. All the agencies and the community and the merchants, we got together, and talked about how we can do better. And without further delay, i will ask the mayor to come and say a few words, who is a big supporter of this project. Mayor lee. Thank you mohammed. [ applause ] i am very happy to be here. Is this okay . All right. All right. [ laughter ] all right. First of all, happy new year to everyone. This is what im looking forward to every year and i know the merchants and residents and all the Small Busi
Youre not allowed to have it any volume you want. Thats the main constraint right now. And as far as Entertainment Commission is concerned, amplified sound is something thats within our jurisdiction. And when you suggest somebody does if they have a problem with, say, the bucket man, who should they call for resolving the case . I would probably start with if you are Government Intervention that your assumption is, you should probably begin with police, not emergency, 311, and build in the main tools that you have. From our perspective, there are no other tools, right . Your example, so its clear to everyone, is use the bucket man. Right. And a bucket is not an amplified instrument. Right. Therefore, that person, even if he or she walked into our office and asked for a permit, we dont have one for performing on the street. And, in fact, jocelyn and crystal and raj, we all get calls and emails and walk into all [speaker not understood] street performers, walking in and asking if they ca
Good morning everyone. Its a great time of the year to unveil happy new year actually. My name is claudine cheng. Im speaking as a past president of oca, organization of Chinese Americans. Every year is special; this year is specifically more special because historically the first year honoring chinese heritage was in 1993, this is the twentieth Year Anniversary of that; we are proud and happy that the happy new year series is continuing by the United States Postal Service. Oca is a National Organization 20 years ago urge the Postal Service to issue a series of stamps to honor the contributions of Chinese Americans and we have the support of many local organizations, the Chinese Chamber of commerce, the chinese consolidated benevolent associations and many other National Organizations and National Leaders that joined asking the post office to consider doing that. We see the stamp as an important part of the american cultural heritage; chineseamericans are a big part of it. This is a sp
The bars and restaurants and were fine with the existing level of if any place, but we dont want anymore. The existing restaurant is already encroaching on existing space and they are in violation and out of permit. As someone allude to ir, the entertainment commissioner, we have to spend many hours of our time asking people to comply. The restaurant would be for us, a nuisance that we dont want to have to deal with yet another one. My question is why cant it be either remain a residential space or can it be a commercial space other than a restaurant . I understand that people are trying to make money and go into business, and those are my comments. Thank you. Hello commissioners. Thank you for your time tonight and for staying so late. I wish the restaurant was open, so i could go eat right now. My name is terry besswick and i spoke to you a couple of weeks ago. I wont give you the history of the Castro Country Club and i think we heard unanimous support from the commission and the wi