>>[gavel] >> this meeting is called to order. this is the tuesday, june 7 meeting of the san francisco entertainment commission by name is brian tan. a few housekeeping items did turn off your cell phones and keep them on vibrate. if you're here from the public and like to speak when i call for public comment we have other common speaker cards which can fill out they had to our staff. come up when i do call that. finally, thank you to sfgtv and media service for airing this meeting live to the public. also, happy election day. i hope everyone is voting today. you have not yet, go do it. let's start with a roll call. >> >>[call of the roll] lee, here. treasures of, here. jen thomas, here. cohen minimum we have a quorum. commissioner frost said he would be 15-20 min. late. and we've not heard from [inaudible]. >> all right. we have a quorum. the first item on our agenda is general public comments. this is for any business that pertains to the entertainment commission that's not currently on the agenda. a public comment? public comment is closed. item number two, approval of the meeting minutes. i believe we will rightfully continue this item >> i move to continue the minutes to our next meeting >> moved and seconded. >> the approval of the minutes of the next meeting at second. any public comment? commissioner lee seconded. let's of those. >>[roll call vote]. >> item 3 is a report from executive director and our inspectors. i will hand it over to director kane >> thank you good evening. i will make it short. i'm a little bit [inaudible] i was off for the last three weeks. one of the things i want to report on is one of the reasons i went which is to attend this thing called music city conference. it was put on by group by sound diplomacy, which in a nutshell is bringing together people from all over the world to do work in the nighttime economy in many cases in other countries focus on live music and music industry as opposed to you know, being an inclusive of other kinds of entertainment, but by and large, they were very interested in-and i was able to spend some time talking about our chapter 116 work which is unique in the states. they do it in berlin and they are certainly looking at it in london very closely and hopefully, now a lot of other places.. lots of folks from australia, canada, other obviously english-speaking countries, there were people from all over the world, and i think it went really well. it was very exciting and him and contacting out with people that i never thought i would meet. people from classic officials from all over the place. it was really interesting. so, i hope to be doing more about and then maybe we will be able to bring some folks here from other countries to talk about how they do the work they do. we are, again as we've said in the past, i had in some ways of most folks in terms of nighttime county management. from the standpoint of the government involvement and really having sort of a solid base to protect and enliven nightlife. however, it does come from a regulatory sort of side of things and we have some stuff we can do better , i think, sort of on the promotion side and the protection of creative industries and protective of targeted jobs. so, hopefully i'll be bringing forward some new things are you to chew on. then, while i was gone, maggie was able to convene the panel to finally do interviews for the eight 1823 position on outdoor events that haven't talked about forever. they did those interviews and there is an offer being extended or conditional offer at this point, based on background checks and fingerprints to the person who scored the highest, and so i can't at this point who say who that is, but it is-we are almost there. so, the pool was a really good sort of applicants so i think we found a good fit. >> you think bill be here by next meeting? two weeks? >> no. >> a month? >> probably. >> okay good that's great >> yes. there's a lot of work to do and will be off and running. so unless you have any questions for me- >> take me >> can we all go? >> i will hand it over to mr. polly. >> i will start it up your good evening, commissioners. report about inspections first. i want to correct the date. the first item and union st., festival it says 514. that was a typo. june 4 it was there around 5 pm. i was there for a couple hours in the area observing the surrounding area the side avenues, checking for [inaudible] this sort of thing. huge police presence. in the alleys and side streets. a lot of venues on fillmore street seen a bump in early activity, 6-7 8 pm. the [inaudible] was for street wwe did not receive any complaints so all went well. on 520, may 20, the second item it says 5-2. i forgot to put the zero. this was at 3:30 pm. we talked about this at last meeting can an issue regarding the noise alley ministry at 1021 sanchez st. i made contact with the church on or before the show took place that we talked about and i talk to her about it looking like what they were doing was entertainment. i told her she needed to contact our deputy director and talk to her to she ended up doing a leader in the week. i'm not sure how it played out in the end, nevertheless, i went by after 5 pm after the event started to see if there was any sound issues for the complaint and i did not notice anything. it was not imperceptible. nevertheless i told her because we don't permit the venue, i didn't-i'll be taking on a hands-off approach and waiting for direction from staff. so will see how that goes. i'm sure not sure how that's going to play out. on the 19th, this was at 620, i stop by mission cultural center to do an inspection. i talked to-that the operations manager i talked permit they do not have a permit post. they posted it in from inside the information booth. they can you schedule of events and just explain to them some of things. i been there a couple times so it was an interesting place to kind of stop i i was just checking on it. i left this item off last meeting on by accident but because dollhouse, 315 916 straight last year they were subject to an abc action regarding an employee peddling marijuana and me and sean went by with al al view and talk to my brother. nevertheless, that was a good idea to stop in. then check in on what's going on could honestly, they have mechanical moving devices there like 5-6 pinball machines in the front of the venue. i talked to their bartender just asked about any underage drinking or gambling or anything. stuff like that. but it looks fine. there every thing is in compliance with a couple of 1:20 am. i deserve the sidewalks in the management the audrey and john adult with him before. so, it's been a while since we instructed him to move their line and manage their sound better and then not received any complaints and on this particular night they were in compliance. i took a quick look at elbow room. i was in the area. i pass by a bunch of venues. i just pick out elbow room. i observe the exterior environment of the venue. it was busy but patrons were moving the sidewalks were not too cluttered. so it was fun. fine. on 21 may, at the end of the night operation, for [inaudible] there sidewalks looked a little cluttered. if i was-i could've the world am a notice of violation but it wasn't really that serious because it just look like they're end of the night. there were no complaints but nevertheless going to stop i do a follow-up inspection i scheduled for this weekend. a couple complaints. one of them is a complaint with the dealing with for a while. this is blatant and 1351 folk st. over the last few weeks i have observed the avenue in the sound environment and what my determination is is that it's collective sound, first of all. not just that venue. that avenue is busy with venues. nevertheless, after talking to inspector burke he states that he can clearly hear the base over everything else. so, the next step is to do in the end tests and compliance testing whenever i'm out there and they request testing. so we'll see how that plays out. the last item is a complaint in regards to club mala. they got a couple complaints. there really hasn't been many complaints in a while, but it got a couple in the last few weeks. this one was saturday at 11 pm. i was able to go by almost immediately within a half hour-45 min. i stopped out on virginia avenue about 20 feet from the property to see if i could hear anything. i could hear a little on mission street but nothing that would be out of line for the kind of thing they do. but, even though it's particularly quite on the street and neighborhood, it gets a lot quieter in the residencies and the so i'm sure the neighbors are expensive and something. so, i scheduled to do some interior noise testing with them and we'll see how that goes. i'll report back to you any questions? >> i have one for noise alley ministry. were we not tipped off by someone about that? >> yes. >> did you contact them about just following up about your inspection? >> i was in contact with them. this particular neighbor was a little on the aggressive side. i like to wait until i develop some kind of information before going back and forth because it ends up being just a bunch of stuff being thrown against the wall. you know what i mean? >> sure >> idle her complaint was valid or not so the first thing was to make contact 01 to give the venue to the opportunity to defend himself and discuss the results will discuss the matter with our deputy director >> i see. okay, that's fine. any questions for inspector burke? i'm sorry, polly. the record should show actually commissioner jan caminong and commissioner frost re:. >> the reason you are hearing this [inaudible] more mundane visits is because they switched areas so i have not done that before. but i did it because i felt like there was in importance and not getting too comfortable. so jordan's visiting venues that sean is very familiar with and different eyes and different experiences i think is been a be a better system to make sure that everyone doesn't get too complacent were too close to these guys at a comfort level around, you know, how they work and what they do. they're very different operators, these two. i think that is a good thing. so he's can go to malibu totally different than he will now sean is going to go to the nightclubs [inaudible] >> we caught that when you -either that was great because we had heard about venues we not heard of about reported inspector polly, director kane and good evening president >> good evening. a couple new complaints. one for the grand -lounge on geary right round abuelo. this is a establishment that had applied for a permit when ms. can meet locks on what was with us and something held it up, a be something along the lines of their abc permit. we did get a complaint recently about what sounds like midi karaoke going on at towards the end of their hours. i have been unable to witness that and i'm in touch with the complainant. the complainant has my mobile number or try to work out communication i know susie able to report to me when when he hears sound coming from-. i'll keep you posted on that. we have received a complaint from the hampton inn, fairly new hotel across the street from mezzanine. on jefferson street. upon some conversation with the assistant manager there, i learned that you seven complaining for some time. this is first time that lodged a formal complaint.. everybody was in the organization thought each other were filing complaints so this is the first time we've heard of it. i've been on site for taking measurements in a guest room there and i've spoken with the owner at mezzanine. we are waiting to get some information about some conversations that happened between the previous owner of mezzanine and the developer of a hotel to see kind of how some conversations went down in planning the construction. i hope to have some more information for you by next meeting. >> are they complaining about music were people in the streets are what? >> on the lower floors there something to picture noise but the upper floors are just base and it's only on the jesse side. i was told that the mission site is double pained and the jesse side is not. the jesse side >> which makes perfect sense because the jesse side is a nightclub in the mission side doesn't. how ridiculous. >> there's also that. mounted air conditioning units on the jesse side, so there's the free flow of sound waves coming through. >> chapter 116, doesn't include hotels, right just residential? >> this is correct. i confirm this and i've made an inquiry as to the possibility of amending chapter 116 to include hotels because there has been in the news regarding a possible creation of what are called [inaudible]. but i may or may not be able to get that done in time. we will see. >> thanks. they should be in a just similar. >> i'll keep you updated as i get more info. >> is the picture noise on the jesse side coming through the windows? going through that door work into the building? as they are choosing to put-to do like accept patrons on the jesse side and not the mission side, which is actually the front about oh is the mission side, right? >> poseurs, so the jesse side doors are manned with a hotel representative. the mission side is locked. you can access both ways. both of double sliding doors. >> so let me get this straight. the main entrance about tell is on jesse side, which is the side that does not have a double pane windows and is across the street from a nightclub? >> from the layout of the building, i would say, yes >> so, the mission street side which is not near anything has double pained windows and is not the main entrance of the building? >> from what i could tell, set yes >> that makes perfect sense. >> little tally narrow street >> a couple of inspections. the chamber of the restaurant at the phoenix hotel had a couple of outdoor amplified events for memorial day. we have a resident off hold, i think i mentioned previously, that has graciously allowed me entrance to his residence. i've taken in the and measurements so i can compare those to he's disturbed at this point we get a good ambient measurement. i was able to get access and take a measurement their weekend as well during entertainment i'm a but that particular weekend wasn't as loud as previous as he had mentioned. so, he's going to be in touch next time there's an event and will see if we can get a good beating analyzing frequencies and see if there something we can do to contain the chamber sound. >> i noticed they been promoting a lot more events by their pool. >> i think is the season swings there's going to be >> more than in past years >> they definitely capitalize on holidays and-as well summer as well, two. >> is this complaint is the same complaint and that has been complaining? is this a big building a multiunit building? >> correct. on polled. the first physical unit overhangs, and on one side and the chamber is slightly visible from another window on the property. so he's getting sound from chambers a little bit of people noise, some base, and then actually some noise from fixed mechanical on top of brenda's so i put him in touch with the department of health as well to address that. multiagency investigation. >> i see. thank you. >> quick update about this year's con of all. very smooth. everything was on time. i was on site both days and in touch with organizers. we were able to provide a schedule ahead of time and i was able to check-in multiple times throughout the day both saturday and sunday. no complaints that i came to [inaudible] directly to us. all in all the was a big success. susan sarandon's ping-pong nightclub was brought to our attention. 690 fulsome st. we were made aware of some dj even said that. i was able to stop by and talk to the manager and now were in the process of getting him permitted. this past weekend, early sunday morning, at the end up there was an incident with a firearm. i paid a visit on sunday evening to talk to security and management of the end up. we sat down for about an hour interviewed 630 footage, talked about what happened. they met with the sfpd today and we are meeting scheduled for thursday at 11 am with staff in the office to discuss the incident and what should we be doing during to move four. forward. >> with that inside or outside? >> at this point we do not know. >> some of those lease reports are not public record depending on the outcome. >> can you- >> i said some police reports are not a matter of public record, depending on the outcome of the incident. >> i reach out to the permit officer today and at that point even he did not have any kind of incident report or narrative because i think the investigation is still pending. >> forced and social clubs does that mean they're not really open what does that mean? >> they are open with ping-pong at the night that i visited her mother was a dj. now they're in the process of starting. >> so we will see them soon? >> yes >> grades. great. sounds like relatively quiet given how bad it could be. any questions from commissioners? public comment? public comment is closed >>[gavel] >> will move on with our meeting to item number four police department comments and questions. i don't see any least upon representatives tonight so we'll just will bring along to item number five. hearing and possible action regarding permits. we have two tonight and i'll handed over to a deputy director. >> great. good evening, commissioners. others permit application it this evening is for women in live performance, it is for a limited beer basement located at 222 highest rate in the former space of the basement. new owner, steve smith owns the special specialty beer store and ills unlimited in pacific heights. he plans on expanding this business model that is new premises so is actually did have for entertainment stand up comedy, open mic night, live jazz, and all can be in a craft beer focused bar. he hopes to be able to of flexibility and when he does an arm but always and by 10 pm. i haven't received any opposition about the permit application. we approve it with a good neighbor policy. the only condition. here to tell you more about his application is owner, steve smith. >> good evening. yes, we just picked up the basement and we change it as a site location from our facility in pacific heights. we only have retail and stability to do like a surf the draft and the limited products we have. there used to be a stand up comedy before at that location, and open mic and initially we did not have this as a anything under plan, but when he approached us a few times we said, okay why not. we could use the momentum and get the what they already had to i think was every thursday they had stand up-not open mic and every saturday they had for two hours they do standup comedy and so we met with the department to ask if we can apply for that license. >> are usurping any hard alkyl or is it just.? >> just beer and wine. we didn't want to do hard alkyl because that's not our focus. we did it for eight years on. at least a location with hard alkyl but the more premium single malts. we don't do anything in the mixed [inaudible] actually our focus is more in the upper end of the spectrum of the products. so a different kind of overly different kind of [inaudible] then used to be >> are you familiar with the history of the basement and the neighbors around? >> yes. i just had a few times met with sam. she's with [inaudible] >> great >> i spoke with her this afternoon actually. she had to pull the kids outside to get everybody alerts. she was happy that we moved in because apparently it was some complaint here and there from the previous owners. we picked everything out what they had in their swap the noise complaints there before i got there anymore because we actually don't have anything existing what they had in the. that got pulled out. i reach out to some of the other stores around [inaudible] quite as the neighborhood. everybody so far was okay with that we moved in, yes. >> great. i think-main complaints of our previous permit holder and so i think if you are if you're spoken with them and actually change the equipment >> i spoke with sammy before-five times. i walked around just to get familiar with the area. i ran into actually she wants to come down tonight but because the whole voting idea she said she may not but in case you need some kind of letter she would be glad to write something up if it's required. but she was really forthcoming and we met the first time i think was one we still were doing renovations. she was very happy that we moved a lot of the equipment out. >> great. commissioner caminong >> are you open until midnight? >> were open tuesday, wednesday thursday currently from 4 pm-10 pm and then friday and saturday we are open 4 pm-until midnight. that's just because the neighborhood we want to engage first what customer base were going to get but we did not have the intention to stay very long unless somebody asks us if we could stay a bit longer. we had some increase for opening mondays, which we did have in the plan before. somebody wants to watch the wwf on monday nights. we thought would be a cool hangout spot for three hours so will look into that. so we don't open long. we don't do the same thing in pacific heights. we close at 8 pm and pacific heights. we try to be early down. not saving up at night >> you are aware the permit you're asking for is only until 10 pm? >> yes that's fine. i think the standup was from 6 pm until 8 pm or something like that. they didn't do it long. it's always 10 pm would be the idea. he used to be a green room for the [inaudible] so the will be mays be some people would like to play jazz and obviously they would like to go until 10 pm or something like that for the life >> are you going to be entertaining yourself or do you have a manager doing that for you? >> we do not look into that yet. we just want to get the ball rolling with the permit for the standup comedy. these guys are from day one have a huge following apparently so they want us to do-that he turned down several venues already because it was no permit and they were bit behind with filing a one-time application, and so i just said, look, as long as we have to wait, we have to wait get if they came in a few saturdays want to do something i said, no, unless we have a permit we won't do anything >> to have someone in-house in charge of the sound system and volume who's going to manage the equipment we pick >> no. there's nothing going to be that loud in the system right now. we can put anything in which can go that route. >> you have an existing sound system >> yes. it's not a pa system it's like a home stereo system with some macintosh and [inaudible] speakers. because of the jazz back onto idea was to play jazz were some there's no subs. there's no base coming. you guys: i think we have [inaudible] but there's no 20 inch whoppers and we don't intend to the one in >> was going be responsible to make sure the sound is not- >> there's not enough volume to go that high. the system we put in is maxed out at 150 w. that's not even remotely in a pa system. they can go that loud. i mean, at least we did not have a complaint from anybody. we want to keep the level the people can actually talk to each other so there was a lot of people that i think some of it was a very cozy atmosphere and one of the reasons was we had as background music to entertain people. i think that was the difference before. the previous owner got people in because the nightclub. our idea was to get people and for the year and wine and then have some background music just to have it running, but not to actually entertain them with the music. >> president of comedy is entertainment, right? >> but they just talk. you know. these guys they make jokes. he did yes that's entertainment >> i mean i just have no idea because i didn't think was funny but it's just a. no, they're very nice people. i don't think it's can be that loud. i think the noise complaints as sam told me was because of the 2 a.m. electronic dance music they play. that was just the people upstairs for whatever reason that the tenants actually said on my god don't do that but we said it's not our focus. we have a totally different idea. >> so, i've more than 150 watts in my house. so just so you know, but if you were soundproofed at all? i mean are you know complains that all? you have not done this yet, right? >> were opened and would play musical we don't play loud music. >> have you got any complaints? >> note >> none whatsoever. do you have any soundproofing? >> the ceiling whatever the soundproofing was before. >> so that doesn't work >> if i can interject, this is 222 height. if you remember- >> yes. nevermind. got it. yes. >> what does that mean? >> i'm not sure what that means but i think >> i will tell you >> this is the [inaudible] we ashley saw the last permit holder not very long ago. it's very different program than what is being proposed now. that was the place of entertainment [inaudible] i think you're actually asking for the exactly right thing. the limited by permit is in ansley ancillary title permit with the comedy were entertainment, whatever it may be isn't the prime reason people are there. >> yes. i think like i told before i used to be a dj for 15 years and that's probably not designed to be anything. so that's what-there's no point to do anything like that. so, we put like for background speakers in the place and obviously when inspectors show up they can see that but the idea was more, they were more designed for basic even the layout we been exhibiting out and put some seats in there. we put leather couches in. like a lounge, big carpets go people can just it used to be only a country four and too much echo effect so we put a big person kind of rug on the floor to get rid of that problem the echo effect. that didn't seem to help except [inaudible] because they wanted to put drapes with some kind of special spray >> fire retardant. >> yes >> great. i think events are sufficiently our questions. i do know there's others from commissioners? if not, one of you have ac. one recommendation is, know the painful full person could not come tonight if you can get at e-mail sent to us that that would provide us a little more >> she said it's no problem if it's required and i think she knew exactly what it is and she says he wanted to show up, but again the whole today with a voting and everything >> yes. it's not required but i think it helps your case. thank you. any public comment about this? public comment is closed. commissioners, you have a motion? >> i motion to approve the permit. [inaudible] >> so you will move to approve the permit with police conditions. item i didn't see any please condition to adjust the good neighbor policy. >> moved and seconded. let's think about >>[roll call vote]. >> the motion passes >>[gavel] >> congratulations. we will onto our next and final permit tonight boxcar theatre. >> so, final permit for this evening is a place of entertainment for boxcar theater. this is at 644 broadway st. boxcar is a nonprofit performing arts organization. they intend to use the new venue as the new home for the speak easy to identity i support about that before, but that's an immersive theater experience allows audiences to explore replica of the 1920s speakeasy in san francisco. they're really cool idea. the performances are going to include live music, cabaret, vaudeville and much more. the planning department has sent a recommendation and stuck it in there. it's not actually three plunged but i wanted you to see. they approved other entertainment use as permitted by right within this district, but alerts the commission that the components of the bar within the premises is currently awaiting a conditional use authorization hearing before the planning commission. the entertain commission is only proving the use of the entertainment for the space so it should not be a problem. the applicant of the neighborhood is an outreach that you'll see in the files that i've not received any opposition for this permit application. central station approves of the permit with the applicant's existing safety plan as a condition. as well as having bartenders and or tips train and having camera security footage maintained for at least two weeks. so, this is david back from boxcar theater. >> on the general manager boxcar theater good a professional theater producer did i been managing director the magic figure for five years. i also served as the mayor's arts task force and 25-26. the applicant is nick alabama. he's the founder and artistic director boxcar did he not here tonight because he zero personal. our rehearsal. our plan our private use of the space is two remount our production of the speakeasy. we ran this in 2014 very successfully in a venue and the tenderloin behind golden gate. we did 75 performances were all sold out. we left that location when the building was sold and or tenancy was terminated. we were very happy and lucky to find the location of north beach. it's a much larger venue and it's a very big step up for boxcar theater, which has been around for 12 years and is performed primarily in 49 seat theaters in soma and the tenderloin. it is now building a 9000 ft.2 venue for 250 people along the north beach chinatown border. the speakeasy is a immersive theater means there's no separation between the audience and the actors. there's no actual stage. you build this theatrical environment. not parties were doing a replica of the speakeasy and we populate the environment with actors. they can be 35 actors in the cast that way people from making 23. so there will were one veterans, there are bootleggers and comment. there's regular people from the group, to the city for a night on the town. many actors by people like the bartender and the club owner and of the chorus girls in the mc. the evening unfolds. the audience members tend to come dressed in costumes. sorry heavily encouraged and weep with costumes out. in your speakeasy it's often hard to tell who the actors are and who the audience members are until the action unfolds. our format includes--it is a speakeasy so the physical layout includes a bar, backroom casino and cabaret space and cabaret space we do a vaudeville show authentic 1923 vaudeville show. control of west, magician, horace goes, chanteuse, and comedy abbott and costello routines and so on. the event goes from 7:30 am-10:45 pm and were contemplating subsequent show a late-night show that would go from baby 11:30 pm until 12:45 am. how's that furniture and? >> i want to go. >> it's pretty fun. it's pre-popular >> what is your [inaudible] joe's clock shop?. it's one of the false front business. there's a lot of misdirection involved when you buy a ticket you don't get the address of the theater. we give you a wanted viewpoint reader supposed to meet some addressed certain way. maybe wearing a yellow hat. maybe reading a book of burns: getty rotary that we asked them what's your favorite line from howard something like that. if you're on the list the annual map to the theater and let's say a pocket watch to be repaired. so when you arrive at the theater the façade is not a theater it shows clock shop and you going to talk to joke you cannot pocket watch. he directs you to through the employee entrance, down the stairs. there is a grandfather clock. google open the rent of the pocket has a false back you step through. 1923 >> i love it. tell me [inaudible] >> family laundry is other false front visit. we are multiple entrances. so the venue has three entrances. this one is the skies is a 1920s chinatown london that pertain almost to where we sit on the borderline to do additional communities. in that entrance you also go down to the service entrance and you come out behind the counter with the employees would be. press the cash register and open the counter and then then you enter the speakeasy >> last questions at the easter egg room. what is that? >> the easter egg room good it's the show was very heavily scripted. the script actually over 1200 pages and there's seems happening simultaneously in six different parts of the floor plan. but there's also opportunities for audience interaction and one of the flavors is: easter egg room where an audience member will be invited by a actor to go into a private chamber and had a one-on-one encounter. it's not a salacious as it sounded just a monologue where i can than no other discussion back and forth between the actor and the audience member >> may call it an easter egg room because? >> that's a not of the had to computer games and there's some influence on in the gamer community on this theater project and so an easter egg in the computer game is when you stumble upon a hidden treat in the game world that is not open to the general gaming public. >> when are you opening? >> our intentions of our first performance on august 12 we actually went into her so yesterday was our first rehearsal >> my mother's birthday >> anyway, we just went into rehearsal. the 10 week rehearsal process. were sort of racing the contractors out of there as quickly as we can. so that we can stick with the power schedule and of course were working closely with the many city agencies to get all the permits in place in time for that first performance. >> i wish you the best of luck. it sounds awesome >> thank you >> i went to it in the tenderloin. it's really fun. superfund >> i been some stuff like that, but this sounds like so much fun. >> in fact i should put it my calendar summary. i think i saw these book event and i was like speakeasy tickets go on sale. >> yes are going on sale on monday. >> monday the 13th >> yes >> is it more than one level? it's not like you're going underground >> yes. so the location is a former new world cinema. at 644 broadway and that's completely subterranean. >> is it immersive we pick >> no. were not on the first floor or any of the other floors. that's other businesses on those were good ours is multilevel but expert level because the movie theater slopes down. and was 20 feet or more of ceiling height with the screen was. >> great. >> is actually gambling in the casino area? >> this fake gaming and the casino edge. we are very strict about conforming to doj requirements. so there's nothing you can't win a free drink coupons or a free ticket or even a teacher. there is nothing. you just play for bragging rights we give you [inaudible] at the end of the night. >> what is the status of the planning commission and the conditional use? >> are hearing is set for july 28. we've been encouraged by the planner, my understanding is that theater bar is using a permitted access radius wherever a theater is permit but there's restrictions that no alcohol sales can be allowed as an accessory use. so, we been required to get a conditional use permit to open the theater bar, but they lead me to believe the planning department leads me to believe that should be a formality. >> okay, good luck >> thank you >> will people be able to drink while walking around? >> yes. we have two bars in the 9000 square-foot floor plan and we also table service. it's part of the-is very much a theater event also was a bit of of your nightlife event. >> that's great. any other questions or thoughts? i'm really excited about is the only other immersive theater extends that was in new york with the no more and that was amazing could i said likely have something like this in san francisco. i'm glad people say arts is dying in san francisco and the scene is dying, is the current attack wasteland, i'm glad you guys are here to fight against that >> i'm glad you mentioned that. it's not just us but the building owners, the bank, there's a whole bunch of institutions behind us who feel the way you do. they want to do-go put aside business as usual and make sure that [inaudible]. we have a 10 year lease a meal to be there for a long long time. >> that is awesome. so, good luck to you. i don't there's other comes of questions? how much? >> how much are tickets? $100. it's a big >> comedy cast we pick >> it's 35 actors and then seven musicians and there's the gaming cable operators and the cocktail staff and all in all it 75 people on staff to produce one show including the required three security personnel. so, the costs are not insubstantial >> and you said the current 732- >> it's 1045 three point 3.25 hours. 35 actors, $100, a deal. i just came from new york. let me tell you, theater tickets are like-[inaudible] that's great. >> thank you. >> all right. i don't know there's any public comments. there's not a crowd behind you but with open up for public comments. >> choice of them? >> yes. thank you so much. public comment is now closed. commissioners >> i moved to approve >> >> moved and seconded. great. let's take a vote. >> with police conditions. >> i do not look at the police conditions. i'm sorry. i was just so excited about the whole thing. where are the police conditions >> looks like security cameras to the main maintain for two weeks. >> yes, okay. >> these the same safety plan, sorry. >> yes, that's fine >> so there's a motion with police conditions for approval. if the second? >> moved and seconded. same house, same call that means the motion passes. good luck. hope to see you there. we have a few more things to cover. one main thing to item number six and appointment of alternate member to the residential moment review committee. when we first appointed or when i first appointed to members to the committee it had been successful so far but we've actually had some attendance challenges at times. it sort of got a lot were delayed. we would like to will forward get a special because the timing of things planning commission might be hearing it like immediately following after the meeting that we have. so, with that said, we talked to the city attorney, or staff out of his 30 attorney to figure out how to handle the situation. should we-the bottom line was we could appoint an alternate to attend only in the absence of one of our members. so, they would not be there >> [inaudible] >> one of our members. so, that the person could attend it to other committee members were there. do you have more to say? >> no. >> okay. that's the bottom wanted we briefly just one of really help with the applications along and really backlog it. i've already discussed it with commissioner thomas to see if she would be willing to join as an alternate command she has agreed. so, i believe a motion is in order to approve that nomination. so, is there any discussion or questions before we do that? commissioner, questions, thoughts? with the commotion them. >> i moved to approve and appoint-to approve the women of commissioner thomas as an alternate to rvr. >> residential development review committee. second? >> moved and seconded. any public comment? good question. you'll be a one-year term i think the same term as all the rest of the members. starting as soon as we vote. it would expire i think the same term as the other committee members. >> i have to go back and look whether you did put a term on this as a committee because typically these were-we don't sort of ad hoc standing committees until the president determine it was not necessary. so may not have a term adult to be honest with you. i have to go back and look at the original motion. i just don't remember. so, i eight- >> let's take about. >>[roll call vote]. >> without the motion passes. thank you for stepping up into that wool commissioner thomas. we will move on to item number seven commissioner comments and questions. i think there is one burning coming to my left we pick >> yes. i would like to move to close today's meeting in honor of princesses birthday june 7, 2016. >> may he rest in peace. other commissioner comments or questions? >> also to say we approve-we love our commission secretariat, crystal stewart. >> yes. commissioner perez >> it anybody watching please vote. still time. please vote. >> 31 min. >> all right. any public comment on a commissioner comments? i don't see any public comment is closed. finally, were down to new business items for future agenda. anything? none. great. with that, this meeting is adjourned at 6:30 pm. thank you very much for watching. >>[adjournment] >>[gavel] >>[adjournment] (clapping) >> are you a parents that's unemployed and struggling to pay child support we have teamed up and positions ourself to offer an opportunity for permanent employment. for more 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to run this charity foundations and she said, yes. >> i'm a co-found and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday they're really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city they're our stand alone cola's we had a series or series still city of attorney's office style of classes our final are night life diners. >> santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and i've been here about a year. >> we want to be sure to serve as many as we can. >> the san francisco cooking school is an amazing amazing partner. >> it is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. >> i'm sutro sue set i'm a chief 2, 3, 4 san francisco. >> that's what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not 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was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen i'd cook more. >> some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasn't taught how to cook. >> i have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. >> the more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify they're not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. >> it is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. >> we'll have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 we're really excited. >> a lot of the of the conditions in san francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the san francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. >> we'd never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case that's something people are 2rrd in doing. >> you can't buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids don't have this you have to instill they can do it they're good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for >> everyone welcome to san francisco on behalf of the california host committee i welcome you to the clean energy in the great city of san francisco i'm jim wonder man and have the honor of serving at the ceo and president of the bay area council we've been honored to work with the department of energy to put together those events the bay area council is a business association representing major businesses from the bay area and very, very proud of our work we've done over the recent years to address climatic change and proud and pleased you're here san francisco silicon valley and california have made clean tech a corner of economic development and very, very proud of our results while california has the largest population in the largest economy of any state in our nation we're also one of the most request energy efficient states compared to other states california ranks among the lottery in the nation both for per capital energy consumption and per capita spending it took a lot of work but california has shown you can embrace clean energy and cut green house gas emissions and at the same time grow our economy in fact, since 1990 california has cut its g h g emissions per capita by 25 percent and at the same time increased other energy by 37 percent how do we do those things because of leadership we have incredible leaders two of whom you'll hear from today so, now let me ask the mayor of san francisco ed lee to come to the stage. >> mayor ed lee is mayor of a global city he's a global mayor he's worked hard to make san francisco one of the most of the welcoming alternate cleanest energy city in the united states of america we're proud of his leadership and proud of our friendship with him ladies and gentlemen, the mayor of the city and county of san francisco the honorable edwin lee. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, jim secretary and distinguished guests america's cup i'm 0 truly honored to be in the company of so many leaders around the world that share in the belief that action only climatic change is necessary and utter will this gathering that the first step towards the implementation of the historic all the time many of the nations ♪ room drafted in paris last year when i attended the gathering of mayors at the the have and have not's con on climatic change france eloquent expressed a true economic california approach must respond to the cry of the earth and of the poor st. francis is the patriot saint we pride ourselves on a world-class and great city deficits and qualify and sustainability and social justice are all san francisco values those values drive our commitment to lead and act with resolve only climatic change in san francisco we've reduced green house gas emissions 23 percent below the 1990 levels and we're proud of this especially considering our population as grown by 15 percent and our economy has grown by 49 percent over the same time period and as we grow we are growing sustainability sustainable we are productive first hand that solutions u solution to climatic change is a benefit all people of all income levels and in all neighborhoods still as a look around the room and this about drought and sea level rise and wildfires and conditions we've experienced in our own country's the truth is the impacts of climatic change is have san francisco real city, state, or national boundary lines that's why we need to address the problem that is bigger us but we're each be contributing to while city's take up only 2 percent of landmass wear responsible for 40 percent of land use and global emissions what happens in city's truly changes the world for the better and worse as contributor to global climatic change the responsibility to address the problem also rests on our shoulder which is work i want to talk about the role that cities should play when it comes to climatic change in the environment and san francisco strategy to reduce our aggressive is represented by 3 simple numbers, zero, 50, and one hundred >> zero waste to our landfills 50 percent of trips by methods other than cars, 100 percent renewable energy, let me briefly share with you awhile zero, 50 and 100 percent are important first zero waste the production transportation and disposal of our wastes comprise 42 percent of green house gas emissions in the united states recycling and compost mandatory in san francisco help cut this down by creating jobs and conserving resources zero waste is among the quickest and more cost fiscal strategies for governments to implements thanks to our residents and business partners san francisco is an 80 are percent waste diversion rate today next 50 percent transportation. in 201043 percent of san franciscans san francisco's cash footprint came if transportation related emissions our country must move people out of cars and go mass transit and bikes and pedestrian trips in san francisco we're investing everyday in bike share and pedestrian network and our public transportation system and i'm pleased to report that san francisco reached the 50 percent at the end of counsel table just a few months ago years ahead of our schedule our challenge is now to main and grow that number finally 100 percent renewable energy just over half of our green house gas emissions come from energy use in our city's commercial and residential buildings the birth cash source we have first, we need to use less energy to power and heat our buildings and second we need to change the energy supply and source for renewable power how were we accomplishing this we're leading by example we launched the city solar incentive that helped to install over 3 thousand three hundred solar installations and created green jobs along the way this program focus on empowering low income and the members to benefit for the city's growing economy has been especially successful we recently launched >> renewable energy program that offers san francisco residents and businesses an electricity option cleaner then their existing energy and just as affordable san francisco is not the only city taking action too there are over 2000 actions teacher to reduce the building energy demand by over 46 cities and countries who ministers are representatives here today for example, to achieve the goals by 2020 the city of vancouver is on the neighborhood e neighborhood scale development a neighborhood strategy focusing on hi density areas of that city to improve heating and cooling services for those buildings the city of cop hasten has the goal of the first cash neutral capital in the world by the year 2024 and begun transforming the district heating from cool and natural gas to sustainable bio mass 98 percent of cop happiness buildings are connected to the system when is one of the older of its kind the city of seoul in the represent of korea launched the project to reduce energy demands they offers low cost loans that cover 100 percent by increasing the krofrj from to 100 percent they saw an increase in loan if $4 million in 2012 to $20 million in 2014 and finally i would be remiss if i didn't recognition our own nation's capital in about washington, d.c. they entered into a 20-year power purpose agreement that supplies roughly thirty percent of d.c. electricity for wind power the largest wind power of its kind and entered in by the american city and protected to save transpires that $45 million from over the next 20 years well, all of those examples illustrate judge industries are a crystal partner to advance clean energy solutions cities and states should be the focal point and leverage for the clean ministers to advance goals and have actions thanks to the advance and the sciences and technology from the private sector partners the intersection between the decashtion of energy and the economies is closer but advancement still requires investment and that's why i want to thank our u.s. secretary monohe is and the department of energy for in their continued leadership of providing grants to the city attorney's office san francisco to scale up new clean energy technology in closing sniff you may know the charter of the united nations was actually signed into creation right here in san francisco in 1945 and a gathering of 50 nations that excluded over 8 hundred delegates rep 80 percent of the are worlds population imagined was put to paper and action to make the world a more peaceful place for all citizens i believe that 9 climate agreement forgot in parking garage the work today is just as historic it will be recognized as a time when our global community united to create and healthier future for the planet and transforming our economies sustained so i commend our effort to tackles this challenge and honored to host you here in san francisco thank you very much >> (clapping.) >> thank you, ed lee. >> thank you, mayor it is wonderful your the amazing innovative things in san francisco and as well as here what the cities around the world to foster clean energies next my honor to welcome tony early to the stage. >> now we're a very expensive region from our perspective tony is from detroit i can we have 3 governs in the room actually, i see govern gray davis hi. good afternoon how are you but that a 5 govern in tony it turns out that tovn i didn't was recruited inform run for govern of the michigan by jennifer and he instead tony decided to take a much easier job and moved to california to run pg&e now i'm sure that tony has his days did i make the right decision we never wonder an absolutely expensive leader of an important company please help me welcome the mr. chairman and president affordable housing and ceo of the pg&e tony early. >> (clapping.) >> jim told my secret jim thank you very much and thanks for mayor ed lee hosting this in his city the mayor is a great advocate of investment in infrastructure to move the city and state ahead i want to thank secretary for eyes and ears to hold this very important meeting here in san francisco i want to start any remarks this afternoon by asking you to picture a scenario in a prosperous western state the climate is b of a weird decades the unafternoon rainfall has product a drought and farmers are despite and everyone is prop i for a pacific rains unfortunately, they get their wish the heavens opened and failed to close from one state to the other and deserts are flooded 4 feet deep and washing away community in low lying regions the water reaches the tops of light poles and even the state capital is submerged on inauguration day the newly elected govern gets to the ceremony by row boat had the water resides thousand are dead and with an in every 8 homes ask ruined or carried out away that didn't sound evict a scrip for a bad hollywood movie all of that happened in california over the winter of the 18 61 and 62 thanks to a river storm it produced 43 days of rain in a row, in fact, every number associated with that event staggers the imagine not only a loss of life 200 thousand cattle and 29 percent of economy was destroyed and built i the gold rush was driven into bankruptcy the land in denounced sacramento was raised 15 feet and the governor added an extra story to the mansion just in case what is truly mind-boggling 1 and 50 years later the lessons faded the supreme weather is not new we've seen education in california and around the world by climate says those episodes with increasing if density it and the rising global temperatures make them less predictable to unlike our predecessors in 18 61 we have the guest of understanding why this they come again. >> how much is at stake thanks to the agreement struck in paris to pg&e power plan and the mo u we've taken steps to heed the warning of a century and a half ago i believe we can be successful over the next decades to create the solutions to stave off a global climate discharge in the government setting the right policies and individuals stepping up to do the right thing but even if i'm relevant that won't change at fact warm is unavoidable we'll have to contend with those the melting of the parlor i'll say sheet in for your or san francisco bay area more than 200 square miles are vulnerable to the sea level rise with the more powerful i'd like to surges a storm lasting a few days can cost economics damages that's why at pg&e our focus on sustainability so the need to adopt to the climatic change to make your systems for resilient we're developing robust procedures and conducting a comprehensive assessment to vault storms and sea level rise as we see heat waves pg&e is among the utility that joined the partnering for climatic resilience to share best practices we've also commented 200 and $50,000 in stakeholders fund to protect and restore wetlands around san francisco bay area and provide to join with other corporate members of the abusing council and voluntarily supporting that with public officials andville organizations we're now and then a new program to granted money to public-private partnerships to share the instantaneously for climate resilience and specifically one million dollars to support local planning throughout our service area to help community better understand plan four and respond to climate change risks some stisz have sophisticated plans underway others are getting starred or face problems those grants we can learn from and with a focus on disadvantaged areas where the resources are lacking we see this as ass our commitment in support of communities we serve now for me that mission has then e taken on a personal resilience in the last 6 months i made two trips the first with governing california designation to the united nations climate change and part of geography to ann art can i cack with a faith in our ability to work collectively to solve this problem and i cack from ann articulate how crucial we fulfill that promise sooner than later a prominent research has seen temperatures rise 12 degrees in his years of working and paris made clear the world is looking to california for some of those answers and gave me the privilege to tell our story that about that success while much remains to be done a clean energy future is moving faster they than we thought possible we made progress at pentagon this year we expect to deliver 33 percent from qualified renewables and when you include our large ohio plant under california laws don't fit the definition more than 45 percent is cash free light years ahead of most other places within the next 15 years we'll be approaching 70 percent as we meet the target of 50 percent renewables and one key to the progress is bold target by the policymakers and the wisdom of utilities as partners a critical part of this is reaching barriers probation officer notify solutions the utilities have the unique ability to achieve and accelerate the use of low cash technologies and do so on the quick scale and demonstrated we can move renewable energy and drive down costs and keeping the grid reliable and customer bills down we can continue to do that if we work together with the right steps i think that 3 keys are crucial the first is continued investment in the grid the grid is the backbone of the economy and makes more than life possible the smallest grid it the backbone of a clean energy economy with more distributed intelligence online privately owned solar and electrical vehicles and the like the grid is more acceptable we see the grid that services what the internet don't say platform a network that pulls the energy and integrate them to have more value for everyone the second key to the future adopting our empower right now the market forces are evolving faster the regulatory framework that largely is stuck in the year of thank god that stalls our progress for example, in the u.s. an ongoing debate in meter that is an attempt to put band-aids on a antiquated process we need to make a changes and indeed examples regulatory environment slows down not just limited to the energy spear for those of you who flew into san francisco you might have noticed the span on the bay bridge the original part of that bridge is the part that is still standing and at the time that was built had the longtime suspected radios radio that is ahead of the grand jury designed is pencils and slide rules and built with more pleasantly labor than modern projects and took over 3 years to build the new span that is half as along with the engineering software and technologies and the crucial pieces are being reworked as we talk about the need for the infrastructure i'll life you to decide where this fraction can meet the climatic change and the third key comes from the spirit and letter of paris agreement to keep the focus on recuse carbon rather than one particular mix of resources by doing that it gives the utilities and entrepreneurs the freedom to find the options and maximize innovation and provide consumers progress we know the issue of climatic change is no fixed address many of you come from far away's places with our history i'd like to offer a few points i hope you can take back to our home first, as a tackle the numerous challenges of clean energy and solving the low cash look to the utility sector as a solution this is an industry that is used to doing big things an industry that was designed to serve the public interest part off dna we're good partners and the second as you look at those problems that need solving remember that we are more energy providers we can help with the resilience and clean transportation and we can help with public awareness and education utilities reach into every home additional business in your country we have relationship with millions in for the billions of customers and third look at the utilities in our areas as partners just as individual country's can't eliminate cash neither can we our industry is hunger for partnerships you can help to facilitate and nurture we'll continue to make progress offender climatic change we have to take advantage the utilities and all of us to work together to accomplish things in a big way but to unleaf this we'll need the right policies the road to paris leads through this room and through all of you the decisions you make in the next few years shape the world for decades and essential to the ability of our country's to deliver on the promises it is your engagement in overseeing issues that assure that future is right and the stories like the california meg flood remain in the history books where they belong thank you very much. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, very much. tony, say with great confidence not a business leader utility leader or company that has shown greater commitment to clean energy and pg&e we appreciate our leadership so, now we will have a high-level panel decision a sustainable urban systems so let me ask the panelists first welcome the executive director of international energy agency, mr. lien norris leader of petroleum and john first deputy mayor of china, and raphael gonzales the ceo of the north america inc. thank you for being you are here today enjoy the discussion. >> so ladies and gentlemen, i wish you, please enjoy the american lunch here while we're going to do discuss a few important issues before going to the panel which is a very expressive panel as you can see i want to make a few remarks two racks one about the year 2015 and the second is a major report we are going to release in half an hour 2015 much has been perhaps the most incredible years in terms of the fight against climatic change not only because of paris i'll talk about paris in a moment two other reasons why i believe 2015 could be a wonderful year for the fight against climatic change one 2015 ladies and gentlemen, zero two emissions did not increase like 2014 two years in a row we have seen zero emissions didn't increase even though global g dp increased more than 3 percent this has not been the case in the history we have seen only 3 times in the history when it didn't increase and all the 3 years is the financial crisis other than that for the first time two years in a right now 14 and 15 emissions remain the same good news now the year 2015 more than 90 percent of historical capacity the energy were renewable empowers and solar followed by other not the case 90 percent is impressive driven by china, u.s., europe and india and all other countries this is the second excellent news for 2015 and third was, of course, the power agreement i see the years in paris and he can assure you that paris the beautiful paris became much more beautiful after december 2015 i can assure i have many french they'll definitely agree with me and in paris in addition to the historical agreement there are two other important elements that needs to be underlined number one our agreements were agreement attempts it was not only a top down target but a button up all the countries brought their targets their policies how their issues extremely important and second paris also brought new actresses into the picture in addition to governments we have now the businesses and act dam and others part of game and other actor is local governments the cities therefore the paris is not only the amendment of all the countries of the world by the moeshltd were extremely important and in my view down to earth now great paris this to our panel we are going to do present or publish a major report in a hour of time two things i want to tell you about this this report focuses on a the progress in technologies we have a tasht in paris below two degrees and it is important to see how we are doing in different green energy technologies i'm not going to details you'll not lose your appetite we're not doing well there is some move a process but there are any areas we say are significantly lagging in our report highlights where we are progressing better than expectations with a target established in paris the second area the report focuses on the cities as already mentions about the 70 percent of the emissions come from the city 85 percent - so if you want to solve this problem we have to solve the problem in the cities and the cities in our report they're two areas extremely important one the building be sector from the installation of the building to the for example, the cooling requirements which or go to psychopath in the next year's to come and what kind of cooling units we're going to use the standard is extremely important for fighting against climatic change the other area we look at the transportation we look into how we can see even a bigger move in terms of the electrical vicles which one million cars another good news but much for electrical cars and what are the favorable conditions but also the underlined the public transportation how to subsidize public transportation and the rest of the moves in the city we see in the beautiful city of san francisco but ladies and gentlemen, the main issue is the emerging countries cities which number of buildings built in the city and the buildings is 75 hundred years of time we should look into the future in the buildings which are not efficient so those are the issues that we deal with in our report maine the buildings and the transportation issue so we have now an clean out panel here one minister from the government and the mayor from the e merging country and the company which is dealing with energies i will move to the panel and perhaps start to ask the gentleman the minister of norway mr. minister your country is the highest share of electrical cars in the world into the total car fleet in our country how do you see is measures put forward and what is it in the future so far as 20 percent if not share of cars in norway are electrical cars which compress the gloeshld average of unfortunately zero want one percent so how do you do that. >> mr. minister. >> thank you, dr. for your kind words and a moment to look at in a moment in time negative impact 2012 the paramount decided the goal to have 50 thousand electrical vehicles and that goal was already xhoetsd last year and today 70 thousand fewer electrical vehicles and hybrids if we have hybrids bylaw but basically most of benefits were put in place already in 2002 and 3 and the car didn't take off until 2000 but not before 2011 and so what are the reasons i think the obvious reasons for things to happen in 2011 was the fact that there were cars on markets that were really cars that could meet the needs of families in a safe manner you have the problem we're starting to address in a proper way to say a greater range in norway we have a power system like 8 percent renewable sources nobody in norway we're able to say okay. your changing our diesel car with pure renewables, of course, the tax and obviously of great importance a high new car sales tax for cars and however no new car sales tax for electrical vehicles of course, the same goes for petro and hardly any tax think renewable energy on the policy on the basis there is free parking in cities free ferry rides, access to bus lanes and from the government does we have good strong efforts into building capacity we targeted isn't urban where most people live establishing with the transportation for everybody and now we're actually connecting the major cities in norway and this has led to this norway with 4 million people the second and the third largest market bean by the u.s. and china which has more people than norway as you can imagine and a fiscal benefit the in fact, that is when it comes to fueling meets the connection from petro fueled cars which will forever have high taxation and a competition in the decades ahead but if i might add one thing before i leave the word back to you why do a tremors effort in reducing local pollutions reducing and co-2 emissions they come up justice department just as much space on the roads to have the basic strategy for ongoing electrical vehicles instead of building public transportation system could be a wrong solution. >> thank you very much mr. minister for highlighting the critical role of public transport even though the cars are moving fast in terms of populating the global fleet and mr. minister said if you have to have electrical cars certain share of your car fleet we need policies and also some regulatory measures and very important as i mentioned mr. minister that in order to have an amount of benefits electricity fitting the car must be also clean otherwise the benefits may not be so obvious so i just mentioned that the statistics are important for climatic change but the e engineering countries are important so we're very lucky the first deputy mayor of in china under jack and you mr. mayor have an excellent experience in our city of the pushing this smart upper public transportation and sustainable energy can you tell us how you realized what steps you took and whether or not the story you have in your city can be a model for other cities in china. >> thank you sorry don't speak good english so i need a translator. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i want to thank the california the governor of office for inviting us to attend this meeting the president of the china has made a commitment via the unclimatic change in paris the reduction of cash emissions in china and now the whole country is taking action i'm very glad our city is very glad to endorse the mou and now under the leadership of the central government we are connecting with california we find the plan of actions with california and now we are promoting our policies closely. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> this is a city in east of china been shanghai the american female writers who is also the the nobel prize in litter she grew up in china for 18 years and described as her hometown in china. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> this morning i heard the speech by the government of california gosh and i agree with him very much we need to transfer our commitment to actions. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so our apart from the separate transportation we have conducted many efforts for the reduction of cash emission in the city and our efforts can be concluded from 5 perspectives. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> first, we set up the goal of achieving cash peak. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> at cop 21 pointed out that cashier emissions will peak in around 2030. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> based on a scientific analysis and calculations it is one of the earlier city to achieving 10 years earlier than the national goal and average. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> preceding in the current situation we're confident it we have the ability to realize the goal. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> second we need the best tools for the contractions how much the cashier emissions like drinking water we have to take sip one by one to know how much water we can drink. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> by using clot commuting i owe the technologies we segregate land use, environment and sources and industries and safety reduction and cashier emissions by doing so we can hanger and reexamine and check the cash emissions reduction in the city. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> now we conducted realtime online monitoring over 48 key emissions companies in the city the total emissions is 80 percent of the cities total. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> during the past 5 years over three hundred chemical plans were shut down. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> nearly 11 towns of cashier emissions is reduced. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> third, i think about apart from the activities of the business sector one important actress in the reduction of cash emission is people's livelihood. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so the motorer mentioned buildings and transportation are very important factors in the reduction of cashier emissions. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so we've taken 9 major actions to reduce the cash emissions in the city. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> is action include optimizing the industry and encouraging the low cashier industries for production developing cash buildings and low cash incurs and low cash transportation for low cash development. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so, now the low cash development and the awareness have come to - has been raised amongst the people. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> fourth we highlight the highlight of our efforts zero cash demonstration projects in the city. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> we select city and two islands city as pilots. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> last i think that the most for the international cooperation like the meetings during the two days a very good opportunity to learn from other countries and regions. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> in october of this year we were holding international infection of low cashiers and products the interact welcomes companies and expert from all over the world to join us i'd like to extend our opportunity and hope you have a look in the country city and our low development. >> thank you, mr. mayor for this excellent presentation of achievements of our city is it so interesting what you said your city's image as 2020 before the aggregate promise emissions this is one of the in my view most important outcomes coming from paris the architect of paris agreement and she was agreeing with me the peak in 2020 both the underlying agreement is critical to reach our goal now the other thick that is critical to reach you are goals within the energies in greece in the urban systems and the entering green power is one we're fortunate to have other green power with gonzales is with us and can you tell us about our sclernz how do you merge the smart renewable and just the generation of models. >> okay. good afternoon and thank you for inviting me to participate first, let me explain the activity of urban power that is part of a viability and it is investing in renewables and investing in conventional duration that works and we we have activities in other places as well let's start to explain the our vision and strategy for how we are implementing these in the notifies in the renewables so our region is open power to solve the main challenges of the world open power needs to supply energy to the people they don't have energy supplied. >> open power means a tool to be open to innovation and new technologies and to use this system technologies as well as on a different way in a way we have here in nevada an assembled combination of technology, solar tv and solar concentrated open power needs to find and open ways to manage the energy on a different way as well in relation to the demand and generation and to be open as well to paris so we can't build this by ourselves we need to have paris in this sense so how we approach what is the business model ♪ smart cities we're taken so our vision we are open to the scope and to the local initiatives so it is different for example, in mellone we have builds for the first time in the world the first smart city refell fill a city designed for one hundred thousand people supply renewable energy solar and we see the light systems as well as market the light systems and smart mobility and smart challenges and the system is implement to manage all this on the right way this is an assembly all assembles are depends on the local scope and the local needs we have all this examples in mellone another smart city by started almost 7 years ago so a combination of generation of solar as well and integrate these in a smart way and incorporate these on a different way and obtaining at the same time efficiency in the management of the grid the salesforce are important and in this instance sustainable we're doing the specific initiatives with sharing cars for example, and bus car in chillingly and electrical taxis in above the blue and windy sea to we're contributing utility on those different specific requirements and it is important ♪ sense the corporation with the place the local authority and government is very supportive on this sense we can't do this type of initiatives without the support and the engagement of the local activities the most - the locals say the local communities and consumers and so much it is necessary to solve with them this project so make it as sustainable and reliable and affordable thank you very much so ladies and gentlemen, we're at the end of this two things if i may undermine we understood the cities are extremely critical if we were to address our climate challenge number one and number 2 local governments we need to be bring a critical roll in terms of which measures then and how when it comes to buildings and when it comes to the transportation and when it comes to the electricity generation we've seen the minister show up how hi country increases cars and from the mayor how successful in emerging countries and how successful and seen from the ceo they agree and visit us and still make money if those 3 can do we can all do as well thank you very much and thank you >> (clapping.) >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, sir and thank you panel it is very, very go back this is the conclusion of lunch program so at this point we'll be splilt into two groups if you're among the ministers you'll go to the room next door in the colonial room and the c e m along the tower thank you on behalf of the bay area council it is a pleasure to have you here in san francisco and the bay area hope you enjoy the lunch thank you very >> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for >>[gavel]