allowing both people can go to singapore and go to the u.s. to work and they never have a problem and they can stay here for long. why is there an exception to 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 in
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 this for educational purposes, i imagine that we have to do
there will be cash exchange by to open a account at the bar you have to have a reference number. there will be event spaces that will be available for outside groups so you allow people to rent from weddings to other events. so what kind of events are you going to do in you re up scale club? corporate events with are corporate event planners that know what a beer looks like and don t change the decorations. looking at the map i provided i m you wondering chase this building adjacent to our property. it holds let s starbuck s and to take out japanese and so on your permit i said i plan to have sound proofing and i can t find that what s the plans? we re charles and associates and well known sound company. we re about 7 weeks away from c p to sound testing the places without people in it. when people are in it they re to hear some of the sound so it will be limited to the first floor. right and i have a question about sound proofing so - have they made a recom
cocktail boom around the country has turned bartenders into a true professional. now that professional bartender s job is in question. i m sure it s around the whole notion of where you can drink alcohol and the idea of one of those courses or presentations or event would whether or not it would constitute a public, somebody opened to the public or whether it was essentially amounting to commercial use of alcohol. and, you know, frankly the law is pretty clear on it and we have not or give a quota to a situation where there is any kind of commercial use of alcohol without the benefit of abc license. there are innovative ways to get ourselves into a scenario, a licensed scenario that could let something like that work and another option would be to hold these courses on locations that are already licensed for the sale or service of alcohol. unfortunately i m not familiar with that challenge that you are talking about. if it came down to wanting to have a carved out exception
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. [ applause ] some people think the highlights were of van a white. i kind of thought it was jocelyn king in her hat. it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you now the