view and my city government still takes an over reactive view towards nightlife instead of a more balanced view. we know historically what it s meant for our community for young people, four music lovers, for people in the lgbt community. we are at a crossroads and we have to make a choice whether we want to be a city that continues to attract young people here, whether we want to be a city that wants to continue to attract the creative class here, creative whether they are raiders or tech folks. the reason why so many people come is because we have those cultural resources including nightlife. if we continue on the path where we are which is to put continuing pressure on that and making it more harder and more complicated and more expensive for yone to offer nightlife to our city, we are going to suffer in the long run and we ll become a beautiful and very quiet city and very peaceful for everyone but it won t be the interesting place that it is today. on the san francisco p
i m audrey joseph. the acting chair of the entertainment commission. july will mark the 10th year of the entertainment commission and we as an industry have come a long way. our venues are safer, we have survived the recession, our city has produced an economic impact report that speaks to our value as an industry, we are looking forward to the next economic impact report on daytime events and festival and we continue to improve our permitting process most recently the help of supervisor scott wiener extending limited live permits to d j s. today we are introducing to the best i am practices manual based in security and we are discussing issues that are veflt relevant to us all. the 90s, san francisco nightlife awards recognized excellent and creative content and patron experience in the nightlife industry. we as an industry deserve that recognition. and now, a few highlights from the 90s. welcome to the 2013, 90 awards and the san francisco entertainment commission.
hands off any kind of position or opposition to those kinds of things. the first one that we took no position on and basically said let s let the community and the full legislator when it comes down to it vote on whether or not it s appropriate and we ll react to it and process those licenses as they come and there haven t been any problem on those communities to date on facilitating those things but in the department we have the same position very likely for san francisco. some of the legislative leaders i can tell you at this point have grown a little bit frustrated with the carving out kind of atmosphere that s being played there. when you look at the sponsored bill you have a lot when you are looking at an interest group you have a sponsor there and the way california politics work. some people have gotten fed up with the ideas that there are these carved out areas that have them and they are starting to ask questions about whether or not there might be a good idea to loo
i m audrey joseph. the acting chair of the entertainment commission. july will mark the 10th year of the entertainment commission and we as an industry have come a long way. our venues are safer, we have survived the recession, our city has produced an economic impact report that speaks to our value as an industry, we are looking forward to the next economic impact report on daytime events and festival and we continue to improve our permitting process most recently the help of supervisor scott wiener extending limited live permits to d j s. today we are introducing to the best i am practices manual based in security and we are discussing issues that are veflt relevant to us all. the 90s, san francisco nightlife awards recognized excellent and creative content and patron experience in the nightlife industry. we as an industry deserve that recognition. and now, a few highlights from the 90s. welcome to the 2013, 90 awards and the san francisco entertainment commission. [
our part. but, what is the future hold there? it s hard to say. i can say at this point that the department itself is not making any specific efforts toward bringing new licenses in, but we are certainly not bringing any barriers to it and when it really comes down to it, we would be very supportive of a broad based legislative effort to work the entire formulas throughout the state so there wouldn t be a bill for every place that wanted new licenses come in including san francisco. thank you. and the second part of my question is, i m also an educator. i get invited to distillery around the world and which draws a lot of attention for our expertise and spirits and i do a lot of education. i m a national education bar tenders guild. the liquor laws don t allow us to use alcohol in training. the bar tenders schools in california are a joke. it s a cheap industry where hopeful bar tenders are hoping to take a $300-500 course to use colored liquid. if we are expected to do thi