On each item on this agenda, closed channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are teaming the str. Each member will be allowed two minutes to speak. Opportunities to speak during the comment public period are available via the zoom platform. Using meeting i. D. 848 9880 0745 or call 1 888 4754499 tollfree. If using zoom platform to speak select the raised hand option when its time for Public Comment. If calling by phone, dial star 9 to be added to the speaker line. Please call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your tension or radio. Keep that radio turned down its really important. When your item of interest comes up dial star 9 to be added to the speaker line and call from e recommend you use zoom audio or telephone submit a written Public Comment through the chat function on the zoom. Thank you to sfgovtv and Media Services for sharing this with the public. Well start the meeting with a roll call. [ roll call ] you for goat me. Iforget me. Im sorry com. You are here. All right. The first order of business is general Public Comment and these are Public Comments for any items that are not listed on our agenda tonight. And well give you a second and i will need, i believe, senior annalist rices help on this. All right. Let me check the queue. There is no one with their hand raised in Public Comment. And there is no caller waiting. Give me one second, just in case. All right. Were hearing no general Public Comment so we will close that item. Virtual gavel down. Into the regular a agai agenda. Number 2 approval of our minutes for the august 18th, 2020 meeting. And do we have a motion to approve. I raise a motion to approve. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the approval of the minutes . No. [ roll call vote ] next is report from executive director. Thank you, president and good evening commissioners. I do want to apologize in advance, it looks like zoom on my desk stop has crashed vpn so i dont have any notes for you zoo im going from recollection. I did relevant to covid19 response our group is still operating cert or Community Education and Response Team and were still working on a proposal to be able to permit and regulate accessory entertainment as a part of our already approved outdoor uses of spaces per the health order and a joining guidances. Other than that, im sure youve been reading the papers and watching the news relevant to reopening updates. As it relates to our work, i will just say that you know, at this point, drivein theaters, theres a drivein experience that is allowable with certain restrictions but it does not at this time include Live Performance and we will keep you posted on our conversations regarding this as we discuss that internally with other municipalities and beyond that, we will work to permit and sounf that falls to our property lines, which were guessing it more than likely will unless at fort mayson which is the example weve seen. Aside from that moving on in the directors report i wanted to update you that we submitted our annual achievement document this past week. I sent that to all of you. I think i will do a bigger update with a presentation on that with our next meeting as i will be giving a presentation similarly to city administrator kelly in a couple of weeks. Feel free to ask questions about that and talking about our a visuals. Finally i wanted to update you that over the period of our last meeting and and i did just want to thank a especially dillon rice on our staff and and going in and packing and organizeing and getting everything cleaned before we moved to our space. When covid is over, were excited to show it to all of you. Its a very userfriendlytype space and were excited to have meetings in there and be able to expand our capacity with how we engage with the public. That is all i have for you this evening. Let me know if you have any questions. I would love to know the process. I know youve been working really actively on this proposal to permit and regulate accessory as the approved outdoor spaces. I would love to know where that is and the bottlenecks and if theres anything. Were in a good place and i think that well officially be able to update you all very soon. So, i just dont want to preempt the official announcement but by the time we next meet, we should have a full update but you will be hearing from me prior to them. Thank you, maggie for all youve done for that. No problem. Thank you for all of your work behind the scenes and pushing this forward. I know we heard a lot from the Entertainment Community at our last meeting about this and i know youve been working hard to make it happen so thank you. Thank you commissioner thomas and tthank you for your help and everybody elses work and staff and commissioners involved in this and its fantastic. Thank you. Thank you for everything youre doing and we speak confidently so i hope you know that from us. No more questions from the commissioners . Is there any Public Comment on the executive directors report . And actually, let me mention now that i actually had the wrong numbers for the meeting i. D. And so i just want to give the correct meeting i. D. Number. Its correct on the slide that participants are seeing but i just spoke it wrong. Its 815 0454 0468. Were not hearing any Public Comment on this, right . Im checking the queue and no one has their hands raised and there are no comments in the chat. All right. Were going to close Public Comment on this item and move on. The next agenda item is number 4, which is an update on the state i have the wrong script here. Hold on one second. Sorry, guys, give me a moment. As you were. I can help too, if you need me. I think some of the notes got scrambled up here so im going to pull out the agenda here. So the presentation on queer nightlifesupport efforts. Im bringing into the panelists function throw peoplee from the Queer Night Life Funds. Angel garfuld, ray spanon and shannon addminton. Give me a second. I just wanted to say thank you for putting this on the agenda. And im really excited that we get to hear from this with steps forward at the very i understand one ofthe things the queer y does best which is figure out how to take care of our own and we put together a fundraising effort and the holding zoom meetings and Community Input and i was impressed the needs in the community both from participants and as well as promoters and performers and theres a whole range of folks and i want to stress to the commission because to hear what they had to gather because i think, while there are some things that may be specific to queer night life, a lot of things are relevant to the entire night life industry and i think they can be used to help inform our decisionmaking and our process moving forward so i want to say thank you to the commission and the Commission Staff for hearing this and thank you to the. Thank you. Jump in. Go ahead. Im angel and im going to do the overview of who we are and what weve been doing and we organized early on in the first couple days with our founder, phil hammock and we created our Steering Committee. We started right away with the inpo advertiseimpotence with thn place and unable to work and maybe some challenges of being gig performers and not having a difficult w2 and having access to unemployment. Early on we didnt know how it will play out so we wanted to bring it together as well as to also offer a Community Space for people that have on ought let for the lack of access because of the shelter in place so our first and foremost was to Bring Community together, raise funds and help support people oust work for an unknown period of time and at that time we had hoped welcome back shorter than it is. As this has gone on, we have shifted our mission to be more specific and to our new mission is to provide resources and opportunities that promote queer night life in the sf bay area during the covid19 pandemic and recognizing the history of White Supremacy and male gender privilege in queer communities we aim to prior ties women, transgender, gender non conforming and black, indigenous and poe people of color. We needed to shift that especially after the george floyd incident. So a little bit about what weve done today. Were proud to say as of right now we have raised almost 300,000 towards this effort. Weve had two rounds of grants where we have distributed about 245,000 of that and wore currently in our round three and were giving emergency grants as the donations and the boots on the ground Grassroots Level donations have slowed up because of the continued need for a variety of communities that includes 300 recipients so part of how we did that is we started having every sunday the quarantine where we would highlight local dvs and diversity opinion our communities and diversity in the genra of djing and we would do that every sunday from 1 00 to 6 00 and then we have zoom and twitch so people could dance and see each other and have their outfits and do all of that. We did that for 13 weeks in a row and weve moved to a more sustainable schedule of once a month as well as adding in our queer night life talks, which was mentioned. So we just had our first one last month, which will be on the third tuesday and that was about what makes it a party for you. And tonight, you can join us and we have one that talks about what makes a party inclusive. So talking about meeting the needs of people both online as well as inperson when we open that up so making it available for the community to tell us what we need and what they need and then producers can come and participate so they might meet those needs even better. And then our next thing that were starting next tuesday is a Skills Development process. Were having a threepart series for someone to come in and called you incorporate and wore having a professional come in and talk to people who register to be able to look at their background and see what else they can do while queer night life is not available so what skills do you already have that can be resourced and reworked so people can put it on their night life so they can stay in San Francisco because thats one of the Biggest Challenges and the final thing were adding is a pod cost so we have new djs and queer nightlife people and have opportunities to be known and express themselves and be curated in the dj world fashion and giving them a platform all our performers, djs and host and interpreters and moderators are all compensated with the help of a grant from Horizon Foundation so were making sure not only do we put money in the hands of grantees who need that for basic events, were employing people in a contract basis so that they have their earnings funds which i think help on a mental level as well. And so we learned to date in this process is that queer night life workers are at highrisk of losing their income and moving out of the area and not being able to practice their art and their skills and then not being in a good spot while this is going on so being able to offer new ways to meet what is going to happen in the future and whats happening now and then how to pivot to survive while this continues on. Thank you, angel. My name is ray and im on the Steering Committee of the queer nightlife fund. I will discuss specifically the Community Feedback and input we got at our first queer nightlife talks which what makes it a party for you. I dont have a lot of time. I will try to keep this concise. If you want to drill into the details, you were send a pdf with a link no a full report and even within that report, it drills down to every single comment that was mentioned during the zoom event in chat, all consolidated into digestible chunks but i really recommend thaw drill into that if you want to look and see some of the details. Some of the things we learned was, zoom and twitch are certainly the platforms of choice. There does a peak to be a ledge logical challenge around some event producers, they dont have the tech savvy to step in and produce some of these events and they sometimes need assistance. One of the things that people do like about Online Events is the accessibility. A lot of people who have social anxiety or have the ability to interact is positive and also, many mention that it gives them an entree to feel more comfortable too, at some point do those events inperson when theyre available. Theres absolutely a bit of what were describing in the media calls zoom fatigue taking place. So a lot of Online Events are starting to see a significant decrease in attendance. There were some events with a thousand participants that are now down to 100 or less. And that is just because theres a per ponderance of events on zoom and twitch and other platforms and people do not want to sit in front of their screens. Part of why we did this talk was to see what would draw people into those online parties and a lot was inperson events because ene meinie miny mow it must be safe and it must be done in such a way that they feel truly comfortable walking into that space and you can drill the details but theres a little thing that were brought up like fine, you can social distance in a big outdoor space but what happens when go to the bathroom at the same time. How do you get them in and out of that space in a socially distance responsible way and there are things that came up that i think i really recommend if you go through the details you will see a lot of those things. One of the things that also was mentioned is that people like the Online Events and when we go back to inperson events, when that might be, they like the idea of Online Events so happening because they allow a hybrid approach for poem that cant make it for some reason and that they have economic challenges that cant pay the cover charge and they can do it inperson and one of the other things that came out was lets say you started inperson event theres limited in capacity but you do something that says ok, were going to have a contest and the first 20 people that wins this contest online and it can distance dance together on this boom box over here that is broadcasting what were doing and limited that events. So theres a lot of Creative Ideas that came out of this that i recommend you go through and as laura pointed out, i would say most of what was documented in that talk pertains to the Queer Community and awful entertainment so i think that it has tremendous value not just for the Queer Community but for the San Francisco community that values the robust entertainment we have in the city. And im already about a minute and a half past my time so im going to just shut up and let shannon talk. Thank you, ray. Thank you commissioners for hosting us. When shelter in place began the core night life fund knew we had to act swiftly. Without unionization or governmental body to sad vow adt was up to the community. The Entertainment Commission is the we meet folks where they are at and to do that we must provide any and all resources to support a community who has continuous low faced discrimination, loss of ven uses and displacement, unemployment extensions and long gone ppp loans are not enough. As we stair down a long road of recovery, i believe we must take Harm Reduction approach and to work now to provide the necessary permits to gather safely outdoors. While we covered inperson and Virtual Events the time was spent brainstorming ways to hold irl safe events. This demonstrates a deep seeded need for inperson gatherings and we are looking for a way to help the community to once again safely come together facetoface. The organizers of the astro shared Spaces Program of which i am one, provided the information and tools to host safe weekly Outdoor Events and now we are able to see what a safe structured reopening can look like. Just as 25 permit to hold classes in city parks and neighborhood organizations can receive permits of their own, we asked that the Entertainment Commission prioritize small scale Party PromotersOutdoor Events. People around the world associate San Francisco with lgbtq culture but well before the canadian queer night life was already suffering. We cannot afford to take its survival for granted and thats why were asking for your help today. After all, like harvey said, we got to give them hope. The three of us are available for q a and any questions you might have. That was quick but you have a lot of information and feedback from the community that weve gathered during this many monthlong process of doing what we do. I have a comment. You know, weve been talking hyped the scenes about stage four and how even the lounges are trying to open and coming up with the best practices everyone is coming up. Would your panel be able with all the information and data that you have on your side be able to submit to the commission maybe a list of protocols that you think that would work for your community that probably will cross over to other communities as well. Because i think even though were months away from large indoor bars and things open, its because possibly the Health Department officials