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And this is for any items that are not listed on the agenda and i will if you have any Public Comment. Good evening, commissioners. Good evening, president bleiman. I am checking the queue and there is no one with their hand raised. And there is no chat. Okay. Excellent. All right. The next agenda item is number two which is approval of the minutes for the october 6, 2020 meeting. I will ask if there is a motion to i a prove the minutes from the october 6, 2020 meeting. So moved. Second. All right. There any Public Comment on the minutes from october 6, 2020 . I am looking right now and there is no hand raised and no comments in the chat. Okay. Commissioner bleiman . An aye. A commissioner caminong . Aye. Commissioner falzon . Aye. A commissioner thomas . Aye. Commissioner wang . Aye. A commissioner lee . An aye. A commissioner perez . An aye. All right. The minutes have been approved. Moving along. The next agenda item is report from the executive director. Thank you, president bleiman. Good evening. A special good evening, commissioners. So this evening i have a pretty brief update in comparison to last hearing. My apologies again for the long item. I hope you all enjoyed those updates, though. Just wanted to let you know about the jam permit. And some changes that were just released in a new version of the health order moments before this hearing began. And so i want to highlight those for you because these will be these changes in some ways will impact the issuance of jam permits. And its something that we have been anticipating for about a week. And so it may shed a little bit more light on where our numbers are at currently. And a little bit more background on that. And so we do have a new version of the stay safer at Home Health Order along with some mu directives relative to outdoor gatherings. And i just want to pull up the biggest changes that we are seeing essentially in the small outdoor gatherings that we were going to be using as a permissible underlying use to add a jam permit use. So either amplified sound or entertainment being added to an outdoor gathering. Previously the rules were written for an outdoor gathering that you could have a maximum of 12 people and that you could only have six people if you added food and drink. But that there was the possibility to hold simultaneous outdoor small gatherings as long as you could separate the groups. Due to new state guidance, the city had to reconcile the small outdoor gathering rules with more restrictive rules that were coming from the state. So that is what were seeing now. Multiple small outdoor gatherings are no longer allowed at the same space at the same time. And so there is one particular permit application that we were working with folks and i dont think i will go into the details of the permit application but lets just say it was a fabulous idea. To have a couple simultaneous outdoor gatherings that would no longer be permissible with a jam permit. The other parts about us that make it more restrictive and really do not lend itself to us permitting it because it speaks a little bit more toward the personal social gathering as opposed to a commercial gathering is the fact that they are now limited to no more than three different households. So although the number has actually increased now for the small outdoor gatherings to a maximum of 25 total participants, this group of commissioners wanted to get together outside of zoom, only three of you could attend since you are coming from seven different households, if that makes sense. And so that is a really challenging one that were going to have to figure out how to permit and regulate. We are still going to keep it as an option with our permit application, but i think were going to have quite a few denials because of these rules. So i definitely wanted to let you know about that sooner rather than later. And then just to give you a little bit more on that, the other high bullet point for that is eating or drinking take place at small outdoor gatherings, again, the limit is no more than six total participants. And limited to no more than three households. The more restrictive is what you have to comply with. And just a note that indoor social gatherings among different households are still not allowed. And so what were hearing from the City Attorneys Office as well as the Health Officer is that these rules are not going to impact current outdoor religious, cultural, or protest gatherings. They are not being changed by this. We will still continue to permit and regulate anybody that wants to add amp, sound, or entertainment to those activities. This does not impact Outdoor Dining either. That is where were going to see the majority of jam permits being issued and where they are going easily right now. And so a little bit more on that is that, for example, with street closure applicants that want to add entertainment, the only way in which we could do that is if it was permitted to a business using it specifically for Outdoor Dining. We will only see those in smaller alleyway where is a restaurant is closing it to host the patrons out there and they can add a performance with it. Because it is so much more regulated. So with that knowledge, here are some of our numbers right now. So again, our goal with all processing all of the permit applications is that prior to denial our staff are working to try to find other pathways to bring them into compliance with entertainment or amplified sound as opposed to outright denial. We will say this doesnt work, but here is what you could do. So most of the applications are in various stages of review right now or waiting for missing information from the applicant. And in some instances were waiting for review from sfpd, although again, just so you are aware we are just doing 72 hour review with those folks, so once that threshold has been met, they get moved on to the next step in the process. So we have only issued at this point 15 applications. It has been or 15 permits. It has been fairly challenging. I sat on 10 of them for the past week as we have been waping nor updated small outdoor gathering guidance because that was the underlying use they wanted to use. And then i just heard from dylan and crystal and tony who have been working so hard that i have seven in my queue to review for approval at the director level, so that is good news. But 22 out of about 90 applications, it is proving challenging for us to issue these in the submission format that they submit to us. So what we are realizing is we need to do an overhaul of our transaction page. We need to better educate folks on what is permissible on the front end. Because the way it is written down now, it doesnt help people as much as it can. We need to be much more clear here are the ways in which you can add entertainment and amplified sound. Right now it is really add it to your outdoor space. But what we really need to say is you can add it to the outdoor space if you comply with one of the following. So let me know if you have questions. Its been an interesting process so far. I just want to be really clear before we start with questions and i know you already said this, but this doesnt apply to all of the people who are this doesnt apply to the permits that were issuing that Effect People taking advantage of the shared Spaces Program with Outdoor Dining. Unless they are trying to do something bigger, right . A normal restaurant that has a speaker outside is still permissible under the rules, correct . They just would apply. That would be a really simple one to approve. And so i think that to your point the ones that we have been seeing coming in the first wave were probably really excited, creative folks. The second wave is what we want to focus on in terms of bringing the people who are already doing this and doing it in compliance with the health order into compliance with the jam permit. And were doing that by focussing on anybody that has had complaints first and foremost. Then were moving on to more proactive outreach. Are there questions . Let me get into gallery view here. Comments . I have a question. You mention the exemption for religious and political and you ls a said cultural events. What is the definition of cultural in that context . That is a good question. I literally just read that directly from an email about the changes. So i would have to look i can probably do a quick search and see if i can find the word cultural in here in this directive. Cultural ceremonial gatherings. So its pointing back to the religious and cultural gatherings directive specifically about that. It says cultural ceremonial gatherings throughout. Looking for the definition. But you can get that later. Wedding ceremonies. Funerals. Thats what they are saying. Got it. Thank you. So maggie, so just to clarify, again, so if the business is applying for the shared street program. Lets say there is an alley they want to block off. And it is to serve outside and whatever. Is there a limit of people that can go inside this alley . Or is it just basically distance everybody 6 feet . The limit would be based on Outdoor Dining and complying with Outdoor Dining rules which limits 6 per table and tables 6 feet apart and maintain a. D. A. Compliance. What happens if there is more than one business that applies for the same closure . Then they can have shared spaces would mitigate that. So if you are applying for a closure for the most part you need to get buy in from any other business or resident on the street from what i can understand because even for shared spaces that want to expand into another businesss curb lane, for example, could do that if they had written permission from the other Business Owner next door. And we can apply for the jam or not we. But them can apply for the jam . For Outdoor Dining, it is pretty easy for us to do those ones because it is so much more, as i said, regulated with rules that keep people socially distant. And now these outdoor small gathering rules feel more restrictive because of the three household limit. They feel more unattainable for us to regulate because of that reason because can you imagine our inspectors going up to the group and trying to say, okay, who lives together. And it is ridiculous. It is not feasible. So in my opinion i think i need to leave it as an option on the application and vet them as best i can. And some of them may be able to comply with, for example, say you want to do an outdoor Live Streaming situation. And you have a couple whatever. Like i think you could do it in certain situations that are more regulated. So ill keep it as an option, but it just feels like it is not written for commercial businesses at all. Does the application have any scenarios like an example, you cant do this. Here is the example. So that they at least know before they apply . Or you just kind of that is a good idea, commissioner. No, it doesnt. But that is mostly because its not the format that Digital Services uses in a user experience. And so it would be more so asking a question, having a field below for your entry and below that help text in certain instances that help the person jog their brain about what they need to fill in there. That is the way its currently set up. And it could be improved. But were what we really need to improve is the initial transaction page. Really laying it out step by step because right now it feels slightly inaccurate. Just because its not it says check our rules but doesnt specifically say you have to have an underlying permissible activity such as blank to be able to add this. I am sure it gets confusing. And so maybe during the q a with a little help and have question marks and push on it and possibly has some scenarios like if they have questions or maybe that will save some time of going through the process and getting denied. I think dylan manages this work with Digital Services so i know he is listening right now. And maybe even at the top right now we say like and use examples that are really basic. They could be an it will bit more specific. Great. Sounds good. I am definitely listening and taking notes. Any other questions, comments . All right. Is there any Public Comment on this agenda item . President bleiman, director wyland asked me to post the slides more frequently. So lets give it a short moment. People can look at it again. Just looking at the queue right now, there is nobody with their hand raised. There is no chat comments. We other going to close Public Comment on this item. The next agenda item is number four which is a report from am i correct . Hold on. Sorry. From Deputy Director azevedo. Thank you, president bleiman. Congressmening, commissioners. We are going to be speaking about the jam enforcement report. I sent to your google folder a brief and edited version. I will not be doing a screen share projecting this so if you would like to follow along with where i am at, it is under item number four in that document. So in total thus far, we have received 53 complaints since the beginning of september. Those are all documented here. You can see that there are complaints about multiple complaints about the same business. And i want to just give a lot of credit to inspectors for doing a really excellent job and getting boots on the ground to work through a lot of the sound complaints. This is a lot of unknowns and we are all in this gray area time in between when jam actually was launched and there was Outdoor Entertainment that was allowed under the health order. So with that said, our inspectors are doing a really excellent job of bringing folks into compliance and educates them about the jam permit. And you will see that quite a few of the businesses who have repeat complaints on the enforcement tracker have, in fact, already applied for that jam permit. I also want to make mention that a couple of these i will get into that in a moment. If you are following along, i am going to talk through some of the highlighted yellow complaints. And you would see that under the action column. And so the first one that i would like to speak about is the valencia room. We, as you know, it holds a place of Entertainment Permit from our office for indoor entertainment. They are not technically a part of the valencia street closure but are close. They have been having a live d. J. And amplified sound occurring outside for their shared spaces and Outdoor Dining program. So we have received multiple complaints about the valencia room. And inspectors worked really closely with the manager and the sound engineer to come to a happy medium about volume that is comfortable for all parties involved. So since director wyland has issued the jam permit and we set a sound limit for them, we have not received anymore complaints about this business. So i wanted to bring that to your attention. Moving on to the saloon, i wanted to raise this to you because it is an example of a band playing unrelated to a business. The saloon had permitted a band to play outside of the bar. But the bar itself was not open or functioning as an Outdoor Dining establishment. So basically they were just pulling power from the business itself. And this is not permitted because it is not in conjunction with allowable underlying activity of Outdoor Dining or another permissible Outdoor Activity under the health order. So our inspectors provide great education. Furthermore, the band was not in compliance with the health order and there were unmasked instruments im sorry, unmasked performers but also instruments being played that are not currently allowed under the health order. So we worked with them and i actually spoke with the lead singer of the band and let him know the rules and he decided they would just cease their operation. Moving on to temple, this is another example of a business that holds an entertainment license from the office but migrated to Outdoor Activity. They have set up a full Outdoor Dining program in an adjacent parking lot to the business. And they are doing a really great job of social distancing the tables and a whole concept that is working. However, we have been receiving complaints nearly every weekend about their sound. Inspectors have also been working closely with the Management Team at temple. They have applied and have applied for a jam permit. And that is near the finish line to be issued. And inspector savino made contact with the complainant to hone in on that direction and in that area sound travels in a way where it effects individuals in their apartment that are actually not that close. It is something we are working through and coming up with solutions that work for the business and with the tenant who is in the surrounding area. The last complaint that i want to speak to is about hotel via. They hold an outdoor llp permit from our office the so they are permed to have Outdoor Entertain