Our part. But, what is the future hold there . Its hard to say. I can say at this point that the department itself is not making any specific efforts toward bringing new licenses in, but we are certainly not bringing any barriers to it and when it really comes down to it, we would be very supportive of a broad based legislative effort to work the entire formulas throughout the state so there wouldnt be a bill for every place that wanted new licenses come in including San Francisco. Thank you. And the second part of my question is, im also an educator. I get invited to distillery around the world and which draws a lot of attention for our expertise and spirits and i do a lot of education. Im a National Education bar tenders guild. The liquor laws dont allow us to use alcohol in training. The bar tenders schools in california are a joke. Its a cheap industry where hopeful bar tenders are hoping to take a 300500 course to use colored liquid. If we are expected to do this for educational p
To say. I can say at this point that the department itself is not making any specific efforts toward bringing new licenses in, but we are certainly not bringing any barriers to it and when it really comes down to it, we would be very supportive of a broad based legislative effort to work the entire formulas throughout the state so there wouldnt be a bill for every place that wanted new licenses come in including San Francisco. Thank you. And the second part of my question is, im also an educator. I get invited to distillery around the world and which draws a lot of attention for our expertise and spirits and i do a lot of education. Im a National Education bar tenders guild. The liquor laws dont allow us to use alcohol in training. The bar tenders schools in california are a joke. Its a cheap industry where hopeful bar tenders are hoping to take a 300500 course to use colored liquid. If we are expected to do this for educational purposes, i imagine that we have to do the same thing, to
Believe its somewhere in the neighborhood of a full on sale Liquor Licenses for every 2,000 residents in the area but the hundreds of thousands of people that come from these bridges and highways and airplanes to be entertained for the wonderful food and nightlife that is here. So yes, one could argue that the formula doesnt work for Something Like this and there should be exceptions to it. There have in fact been legislative efforts for the last decade for different tourist based economies to have additional Liquor Licenses allowed for it. Napa, i believe was the last, i believe there is a pending bill for marine county for the same sponsored by legislators from those areas. We the department, the abc have been really completely hands off any kind of position or opposition to those kinds of things. The first one that we took no position on and basically said lets let the community and the full legislator when it comes down to it vote on whether or not its appropriate and well react to
Have that opportunity, to have different businesses close at different times. I used to be on the Police Commission i know that everyone that closes at a specific time becomes a challenge for the Police Department. I think this is legislation that makes sense. There are world class cities throughout this country and throughout the world that are already doing it and i think that San Francisco is lagging behind and one of the reasons that i as a gay man came to San Francisco because of the entertainment nightlife that we have here. I think there is a way of promoting that and still maintaining Public Safety which is always the excuse to not do it. Larry . As an operator of a late night venue already i can tell you that having Late Night Service would certainly contribute to Public Safety. I know my business stays open often until 4 a. M. We have a trickle out of patrons as opposed to many of businesses have a dumping of patrons. My patrons dont all dump out and have interaction and conf
We maybe as soon as january 2014 have that task within our mission as a Regulatory Agency thats been doing something somewhat similar for over 60 years. We do feel confident that we will be able to get the job done as its given to us, but it in a very early state of that and we are still working through to be prepared. One thing we will for sure and definitely want to make sure we get communicated to you folks today is that it will not impact our ability to serve you in the abc licensing or oversight role that we have. We are the alcohol and Beverage Control and we are funding through the abc special fund through your application and renewal fees and our role to ensure that we are not a road block to developing business in that area is something we certainly keep in the forefront of our minds. Americas cup races, we have had a couple of meetings with the stake holders in the city and promoters and pretty much everyone else that you can think is involved in that end of things and we hop