the sound permit will be between 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., with the sound check beginning at 10:00 a.m. with that said, i am a available to any questions. commissioner bonilla: i take it this is going to be a public event. and if such, you re talking about attendance of 8000 individuals. how will you regulate or control who participates in this event? are there going to be tickets? are we looking at fees or will it be a free event, as usual? i am concerned, because i do not have that information about how the attendance will be regulated. absolutely. i think that this is one of the details that we re still working out. it is likely, due to the time of year that the event will be in a tent rather than open air, so that will be one of the controlling mechanisms, the size of the tent. and it will certainly be free and open to the public. over the next few weeks, we will be working on developing a security plan that will allow for people to gain access to the site, an appropria
and artists that reflects the community that is going to serve. i and the south of market there is a huge population of latinos, southeast asians, and filipinos. we want to make sure that the arts reflect the ethnicity and the culture of our community. we hope that the arts commission will incorporate community groups in their decisions. we thank you and hope that you would support this legislation as well. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. i am speaking in strong support at of the legislation as amended. a couple of opportunities here in particular with this legislation are, one is it expands the definition of what the the support so it is not specific our work on site. also the public trust fund. in helping communities bases and art spaces. that is great, too. we found there was an eroding level of support for our spaces. the neighborhood arts program which predates all of you was one of the largest recipients of tax funding in the 1980 s and it was erased. we have
[applause] president of the police commission, thomas mazuko. [applause] representing san francisco state, our host today, the program director, irena. [applause] i would be remiss if i did not mention in david chan, who really is the glue that put this all together. [applause] robert from the department of adult probation and parole. [applause] do we have a representative from the chinese chamber today? thank you for being here today. [applause] testing, ok. thank you, everyone, for coming today. i am very enthusiastic about this microphone. [laughter] and about joining with all these people behind me, our board, our chief, our commissioners, all of our community partners. this is an opportunity as we begin the new lunar new year to signal a very important program that was adopted many years ago but that has been growing year after year. and that is a relationship with our community. i and lunar new year, what we have seen in the past is that, you know, things happen, so
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do not see what the big deal is. things should be shared. commissioner o brien, you are going to be on this commission for many more years, and there is going to be a lot of opportunities to resume in one of the leadership positions. i am simply asking that it be shared at this point with an actual small-business owner. our respective your desire is to stick to your guns, but it is not a matter of you being more deserving or her being more deserving. you are both deserving. you go on display at a significant commitment of advocating on behalf of small and businesses and you both this play a significant commitment of advocating on behalf of small businesses. keeping track of where we are out, do we have public comment or not? i thought we have public comment. there was a motion but nose second. it is a new motion. my understanding is we would need to take public comment. that is to continue or not to mark the motion is to continue until the february meeting. shoo w