>> the chargers are currently -- >> for electric vehicles, i don't know. >> so this expands it to 12 other locations. >> right. for the car share program. >> any questions? cohen? >> thank you. they will be hi in high- density areas. is mission bay what you are talking about? >> i will let amy answer these questions. she can give you an overview of the locations planned and

designated, to date. >> i am amy from city car share. this will be downtown san francisco and parks of berkley. 12 locations will be here. we have two locations at mission bay campus. >> with the criteria you used for this location -- >> part of the grant wanted to focus on priority development, outlining the east of san francisco and the west central areas of east bay. >> eastern neighborhood? >> eastern bay is the primary

location, and the bay view district. that is part of the grant. the other part is partners to install the technology. >> i want to encourage you, to think about the deep south and visitation valley, executive park area. both of which are project areas. in need of transportation and often just left and unconsidered. but there are many high-density projects that will be coming. you are scoping and i am just planting the seeds to take root and bear fruit. >> i can do that for you.

>> any other questions? >> thank you. >> i just wanted to reinforce the signifigance of this investment, that will make the electric car more viable in the eyes of the regular consumer. the beauty of the combination of the short-term rental of the city car share, so that, to the user, who will be taking the car a few hours, there is no risk. it is a trip to ikea or the trip to wherever, you need something you can't cary ory on muni. you are not making any investment, but you want to experience how reliable it is.

you can get -- with the best charges, we will recharge to 80% in a half-hour. it is a great way to chip away at the myths of how viable this technology is. we have a history of being early adapters and pushing technology we think can work. demonstrating it works. on a more policy fairness basis, in the region and ultimately the country, we want to make sure the technology will not leave the urban core behind. we have many dwelling swithout garages. -- dwellings without garages.

you have people who charge in their garage, they may bypass a number of families without a garage. it doesn't mean the technology can't work. we can make lemonade and do this through shared cars. other technologies need to be looked at. and we will have a chance to find money to put into that. as far as this is concerned, let's make the right investment in demonstrating how this works for us. in doing that ,, we will lead by example to improve the chance of adopting this technology. >> this will help popularize the

new electric vehicles ,hittin, g the market in 2011. the nissan leaf is supposed to be able to travel several hundred miles, and previously, this was more limited. the $2.4 million project gives us -- hopefully, people get more used to this. the longer distances people can travel. >> i don't know i've heard of one that can do several hundred, but i have heard a hundred miles. given the distribution of trips. there is a great piece of evidence.

the commute has stayed at a half hour. several people have longer distances ,longe, longer times,t there are shorter trips. the early adoption tailors it to the trips with a very appropriate technology. as you can see, this is a rich topic. the conversation is ongoing. >> just so you understand, this is our local portion. where does the funding come from? i apologize for not asking. >> i will let the city car share do that. a number of years ago, the

authority did provide a service grant. commissioner lena was the proponant -- proponent of that. we invested in a company that was a trailblazer who have done a lot of good, and are engaged in the technology issue once again. they can talk about their own bottom line. >> thank you. amy? >> hi. i can speak generally. we are a nonprofit. but most funds are self- sufficient. we got to that point that we can support most of our operations with our revenue.

we do have some grants for special projects. we are hoping this grant will help us add more electric vehicles. we have had our own funding to support this. >> we have support from the city of san francisco, as well as the other cities in our early years. >> i know about city car share. as we think about funding and other opportunities. it was just terriffic. we know this was not a pass through on our angle. >> cohen has a question. >> how do you compete? there is a for-profit, the zip

car. how do you compete with for- profit? >> as a local non-profit, we keep it as low as possible and we can be the low-cost leader. we distinguish ourselves as a local, and we feel we can locate as many locations through san francisco and provide different programs, we have an access program as well as other programs for reduced prices and distinguish ourselves in different ways. >> what is the outreach you do? >> the different developments, we work with residents of those

communities. and we are also working with -- looking for new partners. one in east bay. a big part of this grant is outreach and commmunication. learning about outreach of car- sharing in general, but also, this program. we want to try to educate the current residents. >> the fear is an electric vehicle running out and not knowing about the charging stations. more generally, it is critical for the success. what kind of efforts will you make so this will succeed? >> we are in the planning stages for the outreach we will be

doing. we will have focused mailers. the partnerships to reach low-income families or neighborhood groups. it is mostly between partnerships. >> other questions? thank you so much. let's open this up for public comment. does anyone wish to speak? it is closed. colleagues, can we move it forward? >> i second that. >> we move it forward without objection. >> item six, it is the report of the six months ending december 31 . >> i am cynthia fong, with more on our financial position.

as for the first six months, we have $115.1 million in cash and investments. 90% in the treasury poo. -- pool. this is a liability equal to $230 million. for the first six months we collected sales tax revenue, $3.5 more than anticipated, and we spent $26 million. the next six months is when we recieve the bulk of this. we will bring this up to the committee for approval.

according to the government code, we are in compliance and we also have enough liquidity for the expendatures. let me remind you, this is an information item and i can answer any questions. >> thank you so much. we open for public comment. does anyone wish to speak? thank you for that informational item. ms. cheng? >> introduction of new items. >> open for public comment? it is closed. ms. cheng? >> this is public comment. >> does anyone wish to speak? public comment is closed.

>> 9 is adjournment. >> thank you for the meeting. meeting adjourned. president newlin: called to order the meeting of the entertainment commission. please call the roll. >> [rollc all] call] commissioner cavellini is abs ent. president newlin: public comment. members of the public may address the commission that are within the subject matter or

jurisdiction of the commission. with respect to agenda items, you can address the commission at the time such item is called. anyone that would like to partaken public comment? >> i want to address a couple of things that people are talking about that we have not gotten in a concrete answer. the officer is here today and is welcome knowledge. we want to talk about permits in terms of liquor licenses as kind of a privilege. when they are transferred, they are often viewed as new applications. they are treated as such. we have counsel here that has talked about the license as property, in terms of also

amendment rights. i would like to see some clarity. when they are transferred and they want to sell the business, are the personal property? is it something that is viewed as a privilege? if it goes into escrow, what people thought they were selling doesn't come out as they thought they were selling. buyers are propping the sale and it is not consummated. i would like to get some clarity there. we have a couple of people in the audience because they know a lot more about it than i do. president newlin: anybody else? seeing none --

item number two. review and approval. >> i move to approve. >> i second. >> [roll call vote] commissioner roja: i abstain. president newlin: i abstain as well. >> they are approved. can you hold the volume down?

president newlin: minutes approved, item number three, a report of the executive director. >> commissioners, the evening. my report shall be brief. the legislative policy of de, i have to talk to you about tonight, i don't know how many of you paid attention to the board of supervisors. we called for a hearing requesting the economic impact study. i. attached a short memorandum with information regarding that instruction and the file number so you can follow it. that happened on february 1, and

there will be a hearing at land use and economic development committee when the report is finished. it will be at least a month to before we see that report. it could be even longer. the staff was involved in the meeting today regarding the scope of the study. the staff will continue to keep the commission in formed of the progress. that takes care of the legislative update for now. we expect the supervisors to continue to introduce other legislation that involves the entertainment commission. we wanted to give you an update on the neighbor summit. it is scheduled for april 6 of this year. the research on finding appropriate venues at this

point, the park has facilitated the use and we are still working on the details. hopefully, that will be concrete by the end of the week. working with of corruption are -- both commissioners perez and meko, other format concerns is that this will take place between the hours of 5:00 and 8:30 so that we can get full participation from folks that have jobs. it will be done in conjunction with the neighborhood and our network. -- poewwer network. a faction of the police department, i think they ought to be involved in this.

and the mayor's office, the staff will continue to keep you informed. any other commissioners will have to work out how to keep a quorum from appearing. we might have to rotate through or something like that. >> if it is a public meeting, why can't we all be there? the public is invited. >> i believe, and maybe commissioner meko can shed light, if there are too many commissioners in a room -- >> this comes up with members of the board of supervisors all the time. by my experience, supervisors are very careful not to allow a quorum to be reached in the room

at any one time. regardless of whether it has been properly noticed. the agenda is not going to be so specific. there is the possibility that the discussion will go outside of the agenda as public meetings often do. generally, supervisors will leave the room in order to maintain a minority presence at any time, so is -- if you would like to get an opinion from the city attorney on that, go ahead. >> i think it will take 30 seconds. >> he does everything. >> when in doubt, don't reach a

quorum. >> i wanted to update the commission on the joint hearing with the youth commission on issues related to use entertainment opportunities -- youth entertainment opportunities. i was speaking earlier today, and the meeting is being scheduled for sometime either before or during our regular entertainment commission meeting. i was confused and i thought it was february, we have lots of advance notice. , march 22. we will roll into the regular meeting at the regular time. depending on how heavy the agenda is, we might do a special order sometime soon after the meeting. and do it a little bit later in

the evening. again, i will let you know as soon as i find out when we have locked stuff down. anyone that is participating in that hearing is welcome to do so. you are not obligated to do so. we are running at of details as far as the agenda items, if you will, for that hearing. it will definitely discuss the bill on other concerns related to that. i will get you more specifics as we go forward. i had agendized the sfpd liaison issues. i don't have any dates, but if

they will come up to the microphone and maybe give us an update on where we are with those training at the station. lastly, i wanted to introduce some positive light on san francisco music and entertainment. we often talk about negative things introducing a very simple project called, "this day in san francisco music." is a little joint venture. on this day, 1970, the grateful dead played at the corner of market street. all three of those legends have passed and the fillmore is back to gary strieker. they are remembered in a live recording of his performance

that you can stream for free. the recording academy is located on union street and was created in 1974 and is the fourth largest membership of music industry professionals in the united states. this week is grammy week. it culminates with the awards in l.a.. it includes and green day, her train, and neil young, and local producers. lastly, it is also the birthday of the lead singer of motley crue. that's it. that's my report on "this day and music. -- in music."

it is probably more information than you will ever want to know. i have no corrective actions on permits at this point, which is a good thing. i will hand it over to give you some highlights. >> that was awesome. i love the fact that you mentioned leslie ann jones. i have the distinct pleasure of working with her on a number of projects. >> if you look at the report in your blinders, it is very short this week. you will notice that for administrative citations, it has

once again been cited. they have been cited twice in two months. they have had it literally two months. this is not the best of behavior. i have talked to the director and we're both looking at the best possible route for this particular incident as opposed to continuously citing. they should probably explain what is going on. we are still getting complaints from neighbors. we have been promised they will increase their soundproofing and they have yet to hear to the sound cap --