Am the president of the commission. If you want to speak on Public Comment, you need to fill out a speaker card or you can just come to the podium when its Public Comment. I want to thank sfgovtv and Media Services for sharing this media with the public, and well start with roll call. [roll call] president bleiman all right. Thank you. The first order of business is general Public Comment. This is comment on any item that is not on our regular agenda tonight. Seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. President bleiman next agenda item is number two, which is approval of our minutes for the february 18, 2020 meeting, and ill ask if we have a motion for the approval of the minutes from the february 8, 2020 meeting. I move to approve. Second. President bleiman is there any Public Comment on our minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] [roll call] president bleiman all right. The minutes have been approved. Next item on the agenda is a report from our director, commissioner weiland . Director weiland thank you, president bleiman. From friday to monday and this past weekend, the two of us with ben van houghton, we attended the president ial cities annual social city conference. We were with folks that do similar work as us from across the United States as well as folks from amsterdam and cancun from outside the United States. President bleiman and i spoke on a presentation sunday, and we were on a panel sunday, and we were on the panel with two people from new york and two people from washington, d. C. A lot of what we did was educate people on having an Entertainment Commission or an Entertainment Office of some kind to promote the economy but also regulate it. We pride ourselves on being oneofakind in San Francisco, and so many people were coming up to us maybe a little bit envious, but also a little bit curious figuring out how they sort out their cities in regards to night life. Did you have anything you want to add . President bleiman yeah. I think its shocking when you realize weve had this Entertainment Commission going on for 17 years now, and the city of new york, they have one director with a couple people, and theyre going on one year, and in d. C. , its even less than that. New york is two years, and d. C. Is one year. President bleiman and we have an insurmountable comparison to theirs. Its amazing to see. Director weiland and although were a Baby Department compared to other offices in San Francisco, were far ahead of where were at, so we should be proud of that just because we weve had so much time to evolve. And so much of the thanks goes to the folks who built out our groundwork and our founding commission and our founding director, and jocelyn cain, who came after him. So we need to just keep evolving our work into the future. So do you have any questions on that . Okay. President bleiman yeah, i did say that our one job on that panel was to make all the other cities jealous, and i think we fully accomplished that. Check a box there. Is there any Public Comment on the directors report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. President bleiman the next agenda item is sorry. Number 4, which is the report from our Deputy Director azevedo. Thank you, commissioners. Ive highlighted the independent band practice going on. We received 26 complaints since our last hearing. Eight of them were from for the independent or businesses in that area . Our investigators west we we to the area, and they were in compliance during both visits. There was a complaint that the back door was open. When inspector fiorentino went, the door was closed, and there was another complaint with invasive base, and inspector fiorentino went, and they were in compliance. I do want to be responsive to the neighbors and the landlord who is reaching out to me on a regular basis on what we can do. Thank you for that important addition. Aside from that, there were 46 venue inspections that happened over the weekend or rather since last weekend, and the majority of our venues were in compliance . So to director weilands point or im happy to answer any questions. Good evening. L lets start with the independent. Our executive director used the word neighbors. Is it singular or plural. So its anonymous, and its two neighbors who live in the same unit. President bleiman so the volume of calls that were getting, is it primarily these two people. Are we able to ascertain that . For the most part. We also believe that based on the language thats used, its the same complainant even when its reported anonymous. Weve got used to seeing the complaints coming in so frequently, weve gotten used to the language thats used, and its similar to the language thats used when they are not anonymous. President bleiman okay. Director weiland there isnt any way of knowing because theyre either identifying these specific neighbors who are represented by the landlord as i just mentioned or theyre representing themselves as anonymous. President bleiman the 311 trac commissioner falzone the 311 distinguishes between 311 and online, correct . Yes, and these calls are being made through the app. Commissioner falzone okay. I got it. So my sense is im just trying to get an understanding of, is there some kind of person vendetta is this a Community Problem or is this an individual problem with one club . I know theres some conjecture in this, but we dont know . Its we do not know. Commissioner falzone so whats our next step then . Thats a great question. I think thats what director well, yeah, ive got to be responsive at this point . And ive been responsive along the way, but ive got to i guess i would just like to know from the commission if you have any feedback on this or commissioner falzone i have some more questions for this. Have we pulled the Actual Police calls for service for the address . No. Theres no need to. Commissioner falzone im just trying to see what it is, and if theres a lot of police calls for service. That may help substantiate this. On the other hand, if there arent any, that starts to lend itself to a different scenario. That sounds good. I can certainly reach out to northern station for that. Commissioner falzone we take the police calls, and we can get pretty granular there, and if we can match it up to the 311, it might be helpful. Ill defer to our director. Was the star able to contact the residence staff able to contact the residents . Yes, we were contacting them regularly. And they were complaining or not complaining . When they identify themselves, the inspector has contacted themselves and stated ive just responded to your complaint. The venue is in compliance. President bleiman so im just curious. Do we know how long these neighbors have lived in this unit . From my understanding, i believe its been about a year . President bleiman okay. And how long has there been a music venue at this location. Commissioner falzone at least over 20 years. I believe its 30plus in different iterations. President bleiman and prior to these neighbors moving in, were we getting a lot of complaints about this venue . No. Director weiland no. President bleiman and just so im clear, at least two of the calls about a back door and another call seemed to involve an inaccurate description of the venue in that the back door was closed on one of the nig s nights. And i may note in one of our inspections, they noted that the door was open, and two other inspections, it was auto body shop was having practice really loud. Even i, on one of the occasions, when a complaint was coming in, went out on divisadero and heard the live band practice. President bleiman and that would be a p. D. Matter. That would not be our jurisdiction. Right. President bleiman and im just curious. How many times have we visited independent in your best estimate since it starts happening. So ive quantified it since september, and weve visited 15 times, and weve found them in compliance 14 of the times. One time, the rear door was open. President bleiman and thats the first time, if my memory serves me. So the next 14 times, the venue has been in compliance. And weve also been checking emporium because theyre side by side, and emporium has also been in compliance. President bleiman and each visit is taking time . Especially, if its taking time to go to two venues. It depends on what their starting point is, but sure. President bleiman i have real concerns about the use of our resources. The poor venue is not acting outside of its purview at all, and in the meantime, we need to address other concerns at other venues. If the venues complaint and the neighbors still having an issue, one thing that comes to my mind is maybe the building requires some extra sound proofing or mitigation. Where the resident lives . President bleiman where the resident lives, because if the venue is doing something within the code, maybe theres some other issue going on. I dont know if is there any precedent for us having a landlord come before us and speaking with them . I mean, theyre a member of the public. Thats one thing they can certainly do, they can come and certainly address you themselves. President bleiman i think we should offer that, at least. Every case that ive seen up here, you know, every single time that ive since ive been here when theres a repeated complainant, we are finding violations or out of compliance with a venue, so this seems to me to be very one sided in whats going on. But id welcome any thoughts that the rest of the commission has. So they get the complaint 311. Does it get there within 30 minutes or is it, like, an hour or two hours later . So that can vary, and youre looking at a 2. 5week report since thats passed, and some of them are within a 30minute period, and theres some of them where more than an hour has passed just because theres been another complaint elsewhere, but i think in general, its within an hour. If theyre complaining at 11 42, theres not a reason they should be complaining if theyre closed. Is there a time stamp . So there is, on this report in front of you so is this when they show up or is that the complaint . So the first three let me tell you how many pages. The first six pages are the complaints, and then, starting on page 7 are the inspections, and so they coordinate. So they time and you can see they correspond to one another, so if we were to look at the first one, saturday, the 15 february 15, the complaint came in at 11 52 saturday, the 15, and they were there by 11 57. President bleiman so commissioner falzone have we visited the complainants address . Yes. Commissioner falzone and does it have anything, additional sound proofing, windows, drapes, anything . No. Commissioner falzone so i can share my thoughts. If weve been there 15 times, and 14, they had no merit. Looking at it from the Police Departments perspective. At this point, we would stop responding because we have a limited use of our resources. If its 15 visits, and 14 times theyre in complains, i would be incline compliance, i would be inclined to have our investigators stop visiting for a while. I can tell you that some people will just keep blowing up 911, and at some point, the Police Department determines this is not a good use of our resources. Weve responded 15 times. 15 calls, and 14 were no merit. Im seeing an incredibly strong pattern. I can tell you from the work i used to do, the one thing that bugged me the most is when people would try to exploit city resources for their own vendettas. I can tell you one from my experience. People like massage parlors, but the minute they get 86ed from a massage parlor, they start blowing up the phones. Was there a person who was satisfied until they could no longer participate and then just started blowing up the phone. Im just looking at the data, 15 visits and 14 no merit, im inclined that our investigators take a reprieve from responding. I dont think its a good use of our resources. Well, in the back in the day when we were on the street, the a. B. C. Would come so many times. We dont come anything, the number is closed. Commissioner falzone yes, but the number is three. We go three times, not 15. Because there are some people that just i wanted to get a little feedback because especially in cases where we were receiving multiple complaints, and we go out and we visit, and theres noncompliance, and they dont progressively get better, thats when i say, can we bring this business in . Can we bring the neighbors in . I just wanted to bring it to you. If theyre not complying, but youve gone there three times, four times, theyre in complains. You just close the compliance. You just close the file. Commissioner falzone we can literally use that phrase that we close out the case. Because if we cant substantiate it. My feeling is if the investigator felt something, they would be saying that. We picked up on the vibe of the place and the complainants and their willingness to participate and what the under lying issues were, but i really feel like were chasing something that may not exist, unfortunately. So i do have a question. Outside of these outside of this current report, have has have has these callers actually registered complaints in the past . In the past . Outside of it . Yes. Yes. And in terms of your dialogue with the neighbors, are they aware that they moved into a district that provides night life and entertainment . Yes. He wants to get a better sense of the unit there might be and what kind of sound he was picking up from the venue walls when they were operating. In terms of the times that they complain and call, it ranges from saturday to sunday anywhere from 6 00 p. M. To 12 . And that theyre very different he from from a lot of the calls that come in generally, which is ill be generous, 11 00 until 3 00 a. M. , so im just concerned that the time frames where somebody would decide to register a complaint. And the fact that the sound is traced to two, potentially three different venues, and one be being a permitted venue, but a garage, that theres band practice happening, happen. I i actually am very aligned with my fellow commissioners and the majority of their comments. Okay. Thanks. President bleiman all right. No further thoughts on that. I dont have anymore thoughts on the on the report unless anybody wants to bring up any other wanted to bring up any other similar things. Im so glad that we have salt and straw. Weve determined theres no Live Entertainment at salt and straw. President bleiman all right. Is there any Public Comment on the Deputy Directors report . Seeing none oh, there is. It is open. Step to the microphone. Please state your name, and you have two minutes, please. Hello. My name is umbra, and this report it was caused in muscle stress it was only, what you call it, recycle, reduce, and it had went to a to a different area. And the area that it went to, i had no idea. The counselors and the missionaries seeing over at [inaudible] needed to be more responded to it was in the hallway, and i knew that i needed to explain this to the Health Department because there is a certain thing that he had to do to stop a lot of these infections thats going in the water, and which its already been in washington, d. C. I used to call the state up and all these departments to, you know, put more you know, substantials on a lot of these informations to, you know, explain to them a more, you know, brief it and the police and deputies. And this was closed because of one reason, i had the evidence that needed to get and all of a sudden, because of the evidence that i had, it was due to what i had said in [inaudible] was that deputies on this president bleiman all right. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is there anymore Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. President bleiman our next agenda item is number 5, which is hearing and possible application regarding applications possible permits regarding applications for the agenda. Thank you, president bleiman. The first matter is at nightingale, located at 239 fillmore street. One of their businesses is located across the street. The applicants are applying for a p. O. E. Permit to host live d. J. S and entertainment in the premises. They reached out to supervisor peskins out, four community groups, and reaching out from the venue. Here to tell you more is brian sheehy. Can you, commissioners, and as always, thank you for your guidance, and to the director, thank you for your guidance on this process. Were very fortunate that there are no residential neighbors on this side of the street. We are a sixdayaweek business, closed on sundays. We just opened in december in this location which, for the previous two years, was a bar, and for eight years prior to that, it was a restaurant called gaetan. Since we opened in december, business has been pretty good. Were a happy hour bar, but by 9 00 at night, people are pretty much moving on their way home. That is basically the reason for our application for a permit. Wed like to offer different types of jazz on weekdays and late night. We do a lot of corporate business in this location, as well, and a lot of our venue events need to have the opportunity for Live Entertainment. Officer matthias came to visit and tour the space two days ago, and he was happy with what he saw at the location. Be happy to answer any questions you have about the location. We also have our general manager, daniel shield. If you have any questions for him, and my business partner, doug dalton. The location is kind of across the street from your other location. Yes. This is the end of it. Weve got little storefronts a little further up. Perfect for you. I dont have any further questions. Ive already seen it. Hello. Thanks for coming in. I have a question about your Neighborhood Outreach . I think you commented that there was no neighborhood in the facility, but you had a Neighborhood Outreach. How did that go . We had to incentivize people to come out. We had 12 of our guests at the neighbor