hotel but also the community around it, but we fully support this and thank you for your attention to it and we hope that you approve these permits in front of you. thank you. seeing no further public comment, public comment is closed. i just want to inform you all that a bunch of my friends got together some years ago. and threw me a surprise 50th birthday party at the hotel. i do not think that that would effect how it is that i vote, however. i have something to say to that too. i used to throw parties at the nikko, new year s eve party and we are talking about 20 years. when you were young, right? when i was a kid and so it has been a long time. having said that, i would like to entertain a motion. i would like to move that we approve this application. and we have a motion? a second? and a motion and a second. any further discussion? follow the question. okay, the motion to approve this permit. the commissioner tan? aye. lee. aye. joseph.
dinner, and we inform clinton and have been involved in project night night where we give our time there and the list is endless and last year, sorry. thanks. obviously we are involved with the business. union square business for the district. and but there is i mean there is a number of organizations that we touch and it really depends on who reaches out and last year, they reached out and we raised over 100,000 dollars for them, when the tsunami relief we raised $92,000 in one day. so it fluctuates every year but last year, there were actually get, and i have been given an award for our community out reach by the hotel heroes. and how about the specific permit, do they know that there is a new, venue, or that it is now coming? that it is a new management. and just for this specific application and are they informed? well there is a gentleman here that i actually just met who has been up once before and he has asked us to come to the meeting next tuesday to go and talk
and i checked back, that week, that following week with joslin and we did not have any sound complaints and we also had a limiter that he set and he taped it and we made sure that it was taped the entire time. so with the diagram that i presented right now was the same set up as to what we did in october of last year and that is what we are proposing for this summer. i think that, you know, there are obviously problems with the venue and i am a little surprised because i feel like you are giving us the same speel in october about trying to sound proof your venue. if we did the right and if there were not any complaints and we did the right limitations on your sound at that time, i feel comfortable kind of continuing that same set up. i think that is separate from the issues that you have that could shut your party down altogether. right. right. and what you are focusing on correct me if i am wrong commissioner tan. you want to focus on these outdoor permits solely and
and the hotel nikko was chosen out of 72 hotels as the hotel to win the community spirit award. and she mentioned some of the things that they have done and she is out there working and reaching out in the community. and i want to be sure that you were aware that have as well the visitors spent twice as much money outside of the hotel and that is night clubs, and restaurants and taxis and having a club that is inside of the hotel benefits not just the hotel but also the community around it, but we fully support this and thank you for your attention to it and we hope that you approve these permits in front of you. thank you. seeing no further public comment, public comment is closed. i just want to inform you all that a bunch of my friends got together some years ago. and threw me a surprise 50th birthday party at the hotel. i do not think that that would effect how it is that i vote, however. i have something to say to that too. i used to throw parties at the nikk
well as the other permit that we obviously already got permitted. and geary street. but you know, we like to have the applicants come to our meetings before they get their permits because it just helps them understand what community out reach is about and they probably can mitigate any problems if there is any beforehand and it would be a lot easier for the hearings because obviously there will be support or, so, you know, we are neutral until we actually hear a full presentation of the organization because that is where we have to stand. but, you know, we do understand that the hotel nikko has been a solid, or establishment, in the union square, area for some time. and we were glad to see it join the union square bid, because there was, i was the former board member on the north of market community benefit district and it did not want to join us, and when the union square bid finally regot its boundaries larger, it joined so that there was no, zone that was not being cover