Sfgov, thank you. Commissioner lee . Here. Commissioner perez . Here. Commissioner thomas . Here. We have a quorum. The first item is general Public Comment. This is for members of the public that would like to address items that are not on our agenda for the evening. Is there anyone here that would like to make Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item number two, approval of meeting minutes. The minutes of the november meeting. I have one. I second with one change. If you look on page three. Motion commissioner thomas move that the charging party has proved i think its commissioner lee and then commissioner thomas. Its unlikely that i both made the motion and seconded it. Thank you. So i think that needs to be changed. I would change to commissioner lee made the motion and commissioner thomas seconded it. Sorry. Commissioner lee . Aye. Commissioner camino . Aye. Commissioner perez . Aye. Vice president thomas . Aye. Number number three, report from acting director. Good evening, commissioners. This evening i just wanted to update you on a couple of fun things that we have planned. We have a Holiday Party coming up two weeks from today. This is open to the public, so anybody here that would like to attend, register and well have live bands performing. Starts at 5 45. Were looking forward to that. Hope you can all attend. Working on planning our summit for 2018 as well. I wanted this year to have it somewhere in one of our venues as opposed to having continue the public library. So tentatively, we may be olding it at the independence, were looking at making the main topic around active shooters, since its very topical right now. I know its it might be a hard topic to discuss, but were working with stake holders with the city and outside of the city as well as a lot of venue owners and operators, as its a concern with everything going on around the world. Trying to tighten up premises. And also well be working on content for outdoor and thats good evening, commissioners. For the outdoor event component, we were going to combine this with the Sf Outdoor Events Network strategy. And talk about something not so necessarily sad. Maybe talk about how to how to preserve and create social space in San Francisco in the context of the ever more populated, densely populated city we live in, where space is a high commodity. And thinking about how can we as event organizers and looking at off the grid with food trucks transforming urban space to a social space. Im excited because i get to work with steven raspa from burning man to putting the panel together and we want people that are real practitioners in the event space. So definitely some exciting content. If you want to put a hold on your calendar, it will be likely that first monday in february, february 5, 1 00 to 4 00 p. M. The only other updates we wanted to discuss was just an update on the work on our permit applications and our website changes. Its a rollout were put together. Dylan has been project managing and doing a really great job, so i will let him take it away on this. Great. Well, in terms of content and design, the application and the regular permits has been completed. So its really good. And the objective of this is to roll out these changes, but also to increase the clarity of the roles and processes and ability to gather data, to inform our enforcement and also our efficacy for arts, culture and entertainment. And so im working with maggie and shawn on drafting the new website content, which will have entertainment for what the description is. So were trying to be more userfriendly and inoutive indtuitive there. And well have it on the website by january. Okay. Thank you. Any questions on any of that . No. No questions from the commissioners. Thank you. Next item is report from sound inspector, sean burke. Inspector burke. Good evening, commissioners. Sean burke here. A couple of notes. Under the heading, i wanted you to note that the giants was a notice and not a citation and another was a citation, not notice. I think well stick to this section tonight. The meat of my notes and report comes from here. A a notice of violation was issued on the 19th at 1 00 a. M. After a complaint and we are now have something with the tech to ensure that things are in place to control the output of the system, puts it in the hands of the equipment that cant be modified during an event. Kionce issued a citation. There was not an engineer on site. The system was in control completely of the deejay. I spoke with the operator and let her know she was operating out of compliance and any time she was open she will need an engineer to model levels. And a complaints continue at halcyon. We have a number of complaints, you can see, we have a new entry there. Bergerak has had trouble keeping their front door closed. Im in touch with them. Theyve been issued a citation. We haval brewery and bar with a nice, big stage. And i think that might be the main points. Im happy to expand on anything that you might like to hear more about. Any questions . Yes. I have a question about the giants is that the sales force event . That was the fundraiser. And a violation means what . Its a precursor to administrative citation. It was observed. That they were in violation of a condition placed on their permit. Its something in writing, more formal than, hey. More formal than a phone call. So you said it was after so they went over time . They did. They had a condition time to stop at 11 00 p. M. And they how much time did they extend . 11 04 p. M. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your diligence. Yes. Tracking 4 minutes. Yes. Any other questions from commissioners. Thank you, inspector burke. Item number five. Report from our Senior Analyst for community and cultural events. Its me again. And i will give you an opportunity to do that. So the big, heavy lift, big win idea of this idea of the model and increasing our organizational efficiency as a city when it comes to the rules and registrations and the support systems for Outdoor Events. So just to update you, were still in partnership with the Emergency Management and asked them on our behalf to talk to the Mayors Office and float the idea of the task force. Were very close to getting clarity on the mayors position on that. And then we should know by the very beginning of the new year on what that is. This is just the idea of how the city improves intercity coordination and experience for Outdoor Events and make sure theyre not just safe, legal, but also successful. Those are the bigpicture ideas. And at any time im working with the chief of staff at dem stake holder mapping, so figuring out who are the critical departments and players that need to be at the table and who need to be kept informed and were also talking about these pillars of these values of simplicity, consistency, transparency and accuracy in terms of ways we can help guide the task force and what were moving towards. The the other major deliverable ive been working on with our very own al perez has been the outdoor event permitting guide. Weve turned a lot of corners, im excited to say. Al and i had a great working meeting looking at the overall design and clarity of content. Im excited to say that we have a draft thats been sent to mta, dem. The new ems agency, which is now under dph and pd. So were getting some feedback from the agencies. I wish i could give you a publication date. Im optimistic it will be in the new year. It just really depends on how fast we get final approvals back. But i feel like weve made a lot of great progress and so i feel very good about it, dont you, al . All right. And in the meantime, i went to a really great conference called fest forums in Santa Barbara last month and its a gathering of people who are in the festival industry, so representatives from lalapalooza, new york food and wine festival, hawaii food and wine festival, so major players. I was really there to learn about the emerging trends and also more best practices, to carry this knowledge back to Event Community here. And so i was really excited about the content. It was highlevel. A couple of my favorite panels, one was about, you know, how to ensure Public Safety and managing risk and takeaway early on as possible and collaborate with the highest levels of governments can and get their buyin. How to make the case to your board about investing in event technology. So were going to austin for the firstever conference for people who work in City Government who regulate and organize events. Its called the municipal special events summit. And i will be on a panel about policy development along with nashville, austin and chattanooga. And the point of this is to share the best practices and innovations and learn about what other cities are doing. Im excited to learn, also, the tools that the other cities are doing, literal and figurative, to really improve event safety and event success. So that will be late january. L o ill report back. Great. Thank you. Thats many things that we had hoped this position would be doing, so that is really good to hear. Great. Any other questions from the commissioners . No other questions from the commissioners. The next item is Police Department comments and questions. I see we have a member of sfpd nope, not to make comments and questions. So we misour Police Department comments and questions. Item number 7 is hearing possible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commission. The first item under this is the consent calendar, and then well go into our regular agenda. Do you want to present the consent calendar . On consent is a place bawled berber at 1516 broadway. And so they had this is going for a limited Live Performance permit. They did not have any issues. We didnt hear any negative feedback and the Police Department signed off with no added conditions. So that is why it is on consent. The owner is here tonight, so if you have any questions, you can ask him. Commissioner, any questions . All right. Can i have a motion to adopt the consent calendar . Motion to approve consent calendar. Motion. Second. Motion and seconded. Same house, same call. Excellent. And congratulations. Moving forward with the regular agenda. Okay. So on regular agenda tonight, the first item is for august hall and fifth arrow. This is at 420 and 430 mason. These folks have extensive history in entertainment world in San Francisco, owning other places, and theyre going into the location of the old ruby skye and theyre going to have live music, and its going to be a creative space. I am looking forward to it. And if you look in the file and dont have a lot of residential neighbors and they have hotels down there and businesses nearby. And he brought the conditions with him. I am sure he can discuss if he wants to do that first right now. This is one permit with two addresses. And there is a fifth arrow downstairs from august hall. August hall is the music venue. And with the discussion and why dont we hear. To establish security protocols and other things like that. A brief overview of the project as now that you mentioned there are two components to it and august hall, which will be opened as a Live Music Venue and to transition from what was there in the past in terms of a nightclub will be a hard ticket venue. What that means is every night people will be buying tickets to come to the show. It is not about people coming to the venue and lining up to get in from walking into a nightclub. And you are buying tickets and seeing a show booked six months in advance to play at the venue. We also have fifth arrow downstairs. Fifth arrow will be a threelane bowling, a restaurant, and a cocktail bar that were very proud of that we think will be a nice juxtaposition between the two in terms of guests coming pre and postshow and other people coming during shows to fifth arrow downstairs. A couple of notes. We are redoing our sound system in total. The system that was there is about 15yearold system, so were starting with a new system. We spent a tremendous amount of money working with salter as well as on the acoustical treatments for the room as a whole. We will have a db monitor in place. And well work with the commission to make sure that we are in a place that we are adhering to noise as well as being the best neighbor we could for the neighborhood. To date, we had sent out a letter to every single neighbor within a 500foot radius as well as the businesses and hotels in the neighborhood. And we gave them an overview of our project as well as gave them information to contact us. We also hosted a neighborhood gathering at the venue. Sadly, only two people came, but we did offer to talk through anything. So far all we have gotten from the neighborhood is we are really glad you are coming and happy to have what you are doing versus Something Else that might go into the space. One thing i didnt mention earlier and is probably important is this has been a venue in San Francisco since 1911. The building was rebuilt after the fire and has been an operating venue since that time, and we are proud of the opportunity to kind of carry that forward. Let me see what else i can add to this. We will have guard cards for everyone at the front door. All the team will be lead trained. We will have a Security Director on staff that we are in the final process of interviewing three of them. We have a security plan that we have developed and will add to that once the final Security Director is on our team. I think that takes me through predominant amount of the things i wanted to add. Im happy to answer any questions you guys may have. Yes. The second floor, that opens out to mason street. Yes. Has windows that open. Correct. What do you plan to do in the room . We dont plan to have the windows open, but it is a room used for a meet and greet with artists. That room were redoing to have it more of a cocktail room. And in the past they used it as secondary kind of entertainment room. For us its more of a l cocktail room with the ability to do meet and greets. Enough ventilation. It doesnt get stuffy there. We just went through the research and got a 7ton a. C. Unit that is more than that room needs. So definitely with the ventilation. An i think if i remember, there is the walk in and it kind of crisscross in, so do you have a one door and then another door . One door is an exit. In the past there is a satellite bar in there, so were adding a permanent bar in that room and the ability for people to sit down and enjoy a cocktail versus being in a room have you been to the poster room and that is the idea of that room as well. Yes, okay. An other questions . Hi. Thanks for coming in. Thank you. Can you tell us more about the soundproofing that you have done or planning to do . Absolutely. We work with salter. They came in and did things i have never seen done in a room of popping balloons and making various noises to work on the sign attenuation in the room. And working with two different acoustical engineers interiorly to create a sound baffle to keep the sound deadened in the room. We are lucky the building is a concrete and steel building, so not a lot of sound permeates the building as a whole. By we have acoustical treatments and working with adding 42 curtains to various areas in the building that kind of deaden sound. Weve also where were transitioning from the main room into the lobby, we are adding soundproofing to make sure sound is not carried to the front of the building. Are you doing this in preparation for the live acts versus theres two components to it. One is the room as a whole wasnt great for live music, so adding to that. And the second is to work to make sure we keep the music in the venue. As a note, there were not a lot of issues with sound permeating the venue in the past. We want to be in a good place from a sound, clean sound for the building. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions . All right. Thank you. Thank you very much. And now were going to hear from San FranciscoPolice Department. Hello, commissioners and staff. We sat down with the applicant and with the captain and myself and went over the safety plan. We were satisfied with it. As you know, ruby skye before that and they did have an extended hours permit with the old application, so its not something thats a big change for the neighborhood. Looking at this, lets see, i have the conditions. It is on the projector. Oh. Okay. What we did is we looked at where we thought there could be issues. And one of the things that actually was kind of happy about that was the management was complete agreement. As we are recommending approval t two recommendations that we have is all employees shall be leads trained. That is extremely effective in helping the employees know what an intoxicated person looks like, what the law says. Its just a real good tool for management to make sure that all their employees have the basic understanding of what we want. We want the patrons to be able to come and have a good time, but a little special training is going to be helpful. And is going to be good for the patrons experience as well as for the establishment in lowering the liability and nobody wants anything to happen at the clubs. And so that extra special training where they can kind of look at somebody and say, oh, you know what . Youre going to be Drinking Water for a little bit. Or i think i have to cut you off completely. And i think if they get that training, theyll be really have their a game. The other part was that with extended hours and having bands, what were asking for is management will send Central Station a calendar of special events and evenings of the extended hours permit will be utilized. If you are going to be a band, let us know so we know what is happening in the district. They work very closely with live nation. And we have the same understanding for entertainment thats being done at the masonic auditorium. And that has been very, very effective. And the other one was for if its going to be it didnt seem like the extended hours were going to be utilized that muc