off cell phones and pagers. if you wish to submit speaker cards, given to the clerk. please submit an extra copy for the file. items will be sent to the full board will be acted upon at a board meeting of january 10, 2012 and was another day is indicated. supervisor kim: can you please call item no. 1? motion confirming the mayor s appointment of bryant tan to the entertainment commissioned a term ending july 1, 2015. supervisor kim: we have bryant tan here today. thank you for being here. this will go for all of the applicants today. speak briefly about your background and your interest in serving on the commission. thank you, supervisor kim, supervisor wiener and farrell. my name is bryant tan, i am, as you know, and urban planning representative on the entertainment commission. i will tell you a bit about myself. i was born and raised in san francisco, a product of the public schools here. i grew up primarily in the tenderloin district. my family is also here. i am a h
the file. items will be sent to the full board will be acted upon at a board meeting of january 10, 2012 and was another day is indicated. supervisor kim: can you please call item no. 1? motion confirming the mayor s appointment of bryant tan to the entertainment commissioned a term ending july 1, 2015. supervisor kim: we have bryant tan here today. thank you for being here. this will go for all of the applicants today. speak briefly about your background and your interest in serving on the commission. thank you, supervisor kim, supervisor wiener and farrell. my name is bryant tan, i am, as you know, and urban planning representative on the entertainment commission. i will tell you a bit about myself. i was born and raised in san francisco, a product of the public schools here. i grew up primarily in the tenderloin district. my family is also here. i am a hometown guy. what i wanted to share beyond that is that my academic training is an urban planning. i received an unde
francisco. ok. supervisor kim: good afternoon, . the court today is gail johnson, and we would like to acknowledge the tofrom sfgtv. the staff from sfgtv. are there any announcements? all persons attending this meeting are requested to turn off cell phones and pagers. if you wish to submit speaker cards, given to the clerk. please submit an extra copy for the file. items will be sent to the full board will be acted upon at a board meeting of january 10, 2012 and was another day is indicated. supervisor kim: can you please call item no. 1? motion confirming the mayor s appointment of bryant tan to the entertainment commissioned a term ending july 1, 2015. supervisor kim: we have bryant tan here today. thank you for being here. this will go for all of the applicants today. speak briefly about your background and your interest in serving on the commission. thank you, supervisor kim, supervisor wiener and farrell. my name is bryant tan, i am, as you know, and urban planni
and one along the russian river. when i got the first bar in the castro one of the first things i did was to join in the eureka valley neighborhood association. i did that because i wanted to be in this business for the long term and i felt like the long term success of the bar depended on the understanding of the neighborhood concerns and being able to proactively resolve issues before they get out of control and become huge issues. i tried hard with all the bars to make sure they are responsible members of the community and trying to do good and involve the neighborhood. so, i am also on the board right now. i helped former castro after dark which is a coalition of nighttime businesses in the castro. with castro after dark i took the lead on crime reduction issues. i do not know how many people are aware. there has been an increase in things like petty theft in the castro. people are coming in and stealing iphones and smart phones and wallets and things like that. one of th
we have a number of electricians, mechanics, car cleaners that we need to operate a world class system. we maintain for basic safety. we don t have the funds right now to maintain for cleanliness and convenience. we have a structural problem and we will do what we need to do to bring the budget this year but this does not address the rest of the gap that we have underfunded for years if not decades. i put that as context because to the extent that we re able to identify funding for this initiative, which i think is laudable, we would still be making a trade-off verses those of their essential needs and that needs to be part of the discussion. that is our fiscal reality. i want to commend the budget analyst for a very good report and identifying the expenditure impact and the revenue. i will say that i think that it is a good analysis. there is definitely some guest work involved. they did a thoughtful and intelligent analysis. there are some assumptions in their such as that