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this place will have live music and jamming every night. is this incorrect? >> my friends made the comment. i had a drum set. people come by and they hear music and may ask me if we will have some. i say that this is on condition of the permit. >> hours of operation, obviously these are relatively restrictive. do you have ours that you would like to have with respect to
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hours of 8:00 p.m. and 12th. i told him i cannot do this because i don't have a license. >> since you have limited capacity, maybe anyone can perform. what will you do when there's a lot of people attracted to come and a line of sight. >> if i become that popular, i have room to expand. i have an extra room and a basement. for now, i'm not that popular. i will come and try to get a permit for that. for now, again, my kitchen is very small. we don't want to use too much money.
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>> if you feel you have a need to expand into your basement or anywhere else, do not and do it unless you get a permit. >> of course. >> expanding in the basement doesn't leave a room. >> i will not do anything without a permit. that is why i am here. >> are there any more submit the -- are there any more questions? >> i would like to move to prove. i think with our standard conditions with no music before
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and said can't on commissioner joseph's an initial motion. >> i would like to second the motion. b>> do we have the same language as the inspector said for the loitering? >> the motion is to not include any of these police conditions. that is the motion and there is a second. so, discussion on the motion. so be it. is there a discussion on the
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motion and a second. >> i believe the intent as far as a couple of nights a month is to see how it goes and see if there are any complaints. any time in the past, i am not familiar with your condition. there is always these permit hearings. there is usually a reason why those conditions were placed there to see how it went. this was very well in the conditions and they can be changed as time moves on. the permit could be amended with the conditions. maybe a six-month trial. maybe that was just to protect the community.
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i would suggest that we add the following condition of not allowing entertainment later than 7:30 p.m. in the week and on the weekend, allowing dj music friday and saturday nights until closing time. >> the applicant has already agreed to stop it at midnight given the residential hotel surrounding it. for an interim time, that would be the way to go. >> a deejay on the weekend no later than midnight. >> right.
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>> non amplified instruments means that you cannot have an electrified qatar. even if he did, you would want to put in mike on an acoustic and he would want -- and that would be not acoustic. your friendly amendment is 7:30 midweek and midnight on the weekends, is that we said? >> again, i don't plan on having them all of the time. i don't want it more than once every two weeks. i want people to know my place as a jazz place. if you want to have a deejay, you have to come for a one time permit.
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the applicant plans to provide entertainment similar to the previous operator. they owned another establishment on -- and they don't have any intent permits. the applicant has an understanding that the use of teaching is not allowed under the planning department and their current conditions. only non amplified music is allowed. they will be applying to the planning commission. as we have done in the past, these will move forward into new
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permit because this was stay with the location and they are very old but they need proper the changes of conditions. with that understanding, we are recommending the grant. >> what is the name of your other place? >> this is called a board room. >> do you understand what non amplified means? >> it means through now type of application. >> the only thing that can be amplified in your place is the fire alarm. that means no microphones, no dj, no anything.
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the only thing you can use for music other than acoustic, that means that sinners cannot use microphones. they have to be acoustic guitars. everything. you can use like an ipod and an ipod player or a cd player or something that you cannot identify and i just want to make sure you understand that. >> ok. >> are there any other questions? >> seeing none, public comment. seeing none, do we have a motion? >> i would like to move to approve acknowledging the planning commission's conditions carry over and simply
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tables when we bought it. -- this already had three pool tables when we bought it. this is across the street from a hideout. it used to be a bridge its place. >> you have a couple of videogames. we will mention them. >> we have a shuffleboard and also like basketball and probably video games. >> this is relatively simple request for two separate permits and they have been paid for. one pool table and a couple of video games. you have indicated that this is a condition -- continuation of existing use.
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all of these indicated approval with one condition about the gambling. no gambling is permitted. staff is waiting for an electrical inspection. >> i just need paperwork and you are good to go. >> are there any questions from the commission? any public comment? >> can i have the same house, same call? >> yes.
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>> item number8, commissioner's comments and questions. no comments or questions? public comments on no comments or questions? item number nine, new business request for future agenda items. any public comment? that will conclude the tuesday, january 11th, meeting of the san francisco city and county entertainment commission. thank you.
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because we have a great waste water system here in san francisco, we do about 80 million gallons of waste water here in san francisco, which means we basically fill up 120 olympic sized swimming pools each and every day here in the city. we protect public health and safety and environment because we are discharging into the bay and into the ocean. this is essentially the first treatment here at our waste water treatment facility. what we do is slow down the water so that things either settle to the bottom or float
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to the top. you see we have a nice selection of things floating around there, things from bubble gum wrappers, toilet paper, whatever you dump down the toilet, whatever gets into our storm drains, that's what gets into our waste water treatment and we have to clean. >> see these chains here, this keeps scum from building up. >> on this end in the liquid end basically we're just trying to produce a good water product that doesn't negatively impact the receiving water so that we have recreation and no bad impact on fish and aquatic life. solids is what's happening. . >> by sludge, what exactly do you mean? is that the actual technical term? . >> it's a technical term and it's used in a lot of different
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ways, but this is organic sewage sludge. basically what it is is, oh, maybe things that come out of your garbage disposal, things that are fecal in nature. it's sludge left in the water after the primary treatment, then we blend those two over and send them over to digestion. this building is built to replace tanks here that were so odoriferous they would curl your hair. we built this as an interim process. >> is there a coagulant introduced somewhere in the middle of this? . >> this coagulant brings solids together and lets the water run through. that gives us more time in the
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digestion process, more time to reduce the amount of solids. these are the biggest ones in the world, like we always like to do in san francisco. they are 4 meter, there's none like it in the world. >> really? wow. >> three meters, usually. we got the biggest, if not the best. so here we are. look at that baby hum. river of sludge. >> one of the things is we use bacteria that's common in our own guts to create this reduction. it's like an extra digestion. one of the things we have to do to facilitate that is heat that sludge up and keep it at the temperature our body likes, 98.6 degrees. >> so what we have here is the heat exchanger for digester no. 6. these clog up with debris and we're coming in to -- next wet weather season so we always come through here, clean them
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out, make sure that we get maximum heat exchange during the colder wet weather. sludge season. >> rubber glove. >> right here. >> rubber glove, excellent. all right, guys. >> thank you. >> good luck. >> this is the full on hazmat. . >> residual liquid. we're taking it time to let it drain. we don't want to get sludge on it necessarily. take your time. stand on the side of it. . >> should we let it release for a while? . >> let it release. >> is that the technical term? . >> this is the most important bolt on the whole thing. this is the locking bolt. it locks this thing right in
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place. so now. >> take your hammer and what we want to do, we get rag build up right in here. the hot water recirculates right in here, the sludge recirculates in here. the sludge sometimes has rags in it. all we want to do is go around the clean the rags. let me show you how. take the slide hammer, go all the way through the back, go around. >> got you. >> during the real rainy season, how does that change the way dealing with this job? is it a lot more stuff in there? . >> what we do, charles, we do this quarterly. every four months we go around and clean all the heat exchangers so we don't have a
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large build up. . >> go around? . >> yeah. (sound of hammering). >> what i'm trying to do, charles, is always pull it out on the low stroke. >> right. so you are not, like, flying out. now talk about clean up. . >> then where does this stuff get deposited? . >> we're going to dump it in a debris box and it will go back to the plant. >> if you think back, the romans came up with a system of
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plumbing that allowed us it use water to transport waste away from the hub of civilization, which enabled cities to grow. . >> you have a large bowl, a drive motor and another motor with a planetary gearbox with differential pressure inside there. the large mass up there spinning separating the solids from the liquid. we have to prevent about once a month, we go in there grease those, change the oil, check the vibration levels. the operators can tell just by the hum of that machine that it's a harmonic noise emitted that it's out of balance and the machine needs to be cleaned. it will start vibrating and we have vibration analysis machines that will come over
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here and check the levels. so it's kind of an on-going thing that you have to stay on top of on a daily basis. >> handled properly, you take organic residuals, as we call them, that are leftovers of our society and turn them back into some energy. and we have another ability to take that sludge and get a nutrient value for crops there. we actually are running a kind of composting energy recovery system. >> well, this is a dirty job. we try to do it safely and we try to do it without imposing too much on the public. people want to flush their toilets and have things go away and not be bothersome again. we do a lot to try to accomplish that. i'd like to invite you to come back any time you want. once you got this in your blood, you are not going to be
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