opinion. is the street artist program part of art works? they are on jefferson street, down on fisherman s wharf, and there are some spots around downtown, and part of some frustration is there is a sense that it is becoming less of a street artist and craft individuals and more that it is vendors with merchandise. you are going to report back to us on the next meeting with what you find? logistically what this means an example is mobile food, where it was under the police department, and they thought it was best to put it under a lease for the public s right away, so what does that mean in terms of taking it away from one department and adding it to another? what would it take for us to be able to do fivthat? i look forward to hearing it. thank you. august 5 i visited sunday streets. the organizers asked for a task force and who to be put together to help walk the street. the organizers only have a permit to close the streets, and some permit were they do have
force and who to be put together to help walk the street. the organizers only have a permit to close the streets, and some permit were they do have activities in the streets, but they do not have permits to be able to sell food. they do not have permits for sidewalk encroachment for the businesses, so because the emissions missions, this does happen four times this year, what has transpired is there have been some street food vendors coming out on the sidewalk, so since the event is not permitted for the sale of food, the organizers were concerned this was starting to develop and to grow, so the city put together a task force with our office, department of public health, and fire department to do some communication and talk to the vendors, but also there were restaurants but also working outside of their restaurant, so the city has no permit for a business to even have prepackaged food they can sell outside of their business, so we did have to talk to those businesses. the
streets. the organizers asked for a task force and who to be put together to help walk the street. the organizers only have a permit to close the streets, and some permit were they do have activities in the streets, but they do not have permits to be able to sell food. they do not have permits for sidewalk encroachment for the businesses, so because the emissions missions, this does happen four times this year, what has transpired is there have been some street food vendors coming out on the sidewalk, so since the event is not permitted for the sale of food, the organizers were concerned this was starting to develop and to grow, so the city put together a task force with our office, department of public health, and fire department to do some communication and talk to the vendors, but also there were restaurants but also working outside of their restaurant, so the city has no permit for a business to even have prepackaged food they can sell outside of their business, so we d
focusing our wrote that will be the direction of where i will be focusing our report. is artist program is run under the arts commission? yes. did they tell you why it would be better to come under the purview of the office of small business? i will send you the grand jury report. gmy understanding is the sense s that maybe the arts commission is not giving it the attention or focus of those involved in the program see that it needs, and i cannot evaluate whether that is accurate or not. i wanted to see what they were saying. i was not looking for your opinion. is the street artist program part of art works? they are on jefferson street, down on fisherman s wharf, and there are some spots around downtown, and part of some frustration is there is a sense that it is becoming less of a street artist and craft individuals and more that it is vendors with merchandise. you are going to report back to us on the next meeting with what you find? logistically what t
that i do not think our offices should be in the position of advocating one or the other, but that is a directive and policy decision out of higher level, but to really communicate should be the outcome is the office of small businessmen take on the street artist program, what it would mean in terms of that program for the commission, so that will be the court s direction of where i will be focusing our wrote that will be the direction of where i will be focusing our report. is artist program is run under the arts commission? yes. did they tell you why it would be better to come under the purview of the office of small business? i will send you the grand jury report. gmy understanding is the sense s that maybe the arts commission is not giving it the attention or focus of those involved in the program see that it needs, and i cannot evaluate whether that is accurate or not. i wanted to see what they were saying. i was not looking for your opinion. is the street