weiner today. i would like to think the staff to make transcripts available online. madam car, do you have any announcements? >> the items that are recommended will go to the full board on tuesday, july 19 unless otherwise indicated item one, a hearing to consider appointing three members to the ballot simplification committee. there are three seats and three applicants. chairperson kim: i believe all the candidates are here today. can hear from them in the order

on the agenda? first i have june frapps and then betty packard. if you could just approached the microphone and tell us a little bit about yourself. i know you served already on the committee and this is a reappointment. about your qualifications and why you would like to continue to serve. >> i have been serving on the committee for i believe six years. i have a degree in journalism and a retired -- and am a retired editor. i am qualified to create type perhaps. i think it is useful to do. i am willing to put in my time to make the ballot more accessible to voters. it can sometimes be too difficult to do. that is what i would like to continue. chairperson kim: colleagues, any questions? thank you. next, we have betty packard, and then we have adele fasick. >> my name is betty packard. this is a reappointment.

i started on this committee in 1997 and there are days in every committee session when i wonder why i continue. i have chaired the session for the last eight years. i will say the committee we have at the current time is the best committee i have ever served under. i am a retired national editor, and journalist, 50 years in journalism. i think probably at this point i am qualified. i will suggest to the members of the committee, and supervisor elsbernd and i have talked many times, that when you have an issue before the committee it is nice to have you come and represent your particular issue. sometimes the aids cannot give it the full explanation and it leaves us in a conundrum trying to figure out what in the world it really says. despite what the "san francisco

chronicle "says, the ballot simplification rights the boater -- voter handbook and explanation, not the city attorney's office. he is laughing. it helps when you come and help us bring it down to where we need to put it on an eighth grade level for the average voter. chairperson kim: thank you. are there any questions for ms. packard? thank you. hello. >> i am adele fasick. i have been appointed by the league of women voters. i have work with them for 10 or 12 years. naturally, we are eager to encourage voting. professionally, i am in library educator. i specialize in children's and young adult materials. i am familiar with reading levels and what kind of matter is accessible. i enjoy working on the committee because i think it is important. we have a confusing ballot, year

after year. it is important to have this as clear as possible for voters. chairperson kim: thank you. are there any questions? thank you very much. at this time, i will open up for public comment on this item. if you have any public comment, please step up to the microphone. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. colleagues, we have three applicants for exactly three seats. do we have a motion to move this forward? commissioner farrell: i would just like to say thank you for your service and things were coming before us today. i am happy to move this with recommendation. chairperson kim: thank you. i believe we can do that without opposition. thank you for your service and wanting to continue to serve. the ballot initiative committee is important and we will let our colleagues know if they have something important on it they

should come directly to you. the motion to move forward these applicants with recommendation to the full board. thank you. [laughter] madam court, can you please call item two? >> item 2, to appoint one member, a term ending july 1, 2015, to the entertainment commission. chairperson kim: i believe most of the candidates are here today. i also know that chris hyland has withdrawn his application, as well as shelly tatum. i believe all four remaining applicants are here. let us hear them in the order listed on the agenda. the first applicant i have is d. gill sperlein, if you could please approached the microphone. in general, we ask you to be brief, two 23 minutes.

if you could talk about your background -- two to three minutes. if you could talk about your background and what you want to serve on the entertainment commission. >> thank you to everyone for coming out today and to my fellow candidates. my name is d. gill sperlein. i was going in baltimore. my father and drove a cab. my mother painted houses. i put myself through college and law school and in my first trip to california when i was 26. i came to san francisco and it happened to be a weekend of one of your famous street fairs. from that day on, i fell in love. i went back and finished law school. the day after i finished law school, i flew back here and have been here ever since. i currently live in the crown heights neighborhood -- corona heights neighborhood.

i lived in the castro and on market street, and for several years south of market on 6th street, a couple of doors back from 1015, which has had problems associated with the operation of that club. those were challenges in all of those places. there was always crowds. there was always litter, public urination, noise, collecting bottles at 6:00 a.m., etc. and we worked with neighbors and homeowners and through those issues. i think that is really important. like many of you, i am a consumer of entertainment. my first jobs were in restaurants and bars. as a young gay man in baltimore before the internet, clubs and bars for a really important part of my socialization as a gay

man. a continued when i came out, which i really enjoyed. i have a profound love of entertainment and a love for the city. and i want as many events as possible. i think the key to that is to make sure that the clubs, the events that occur, all the night life, is operated in a safe and responsible manner. i think that when you have bad actors the cry from the community is to cut back. i think then everybody loses. i think it is important that we recognize the balance that was set upper and written into the legislation creating the entertainment commission. there are seats for neighborhood representation,

seats from law enforcement, seats from the entertainment community. that balance creates a trust in the system with everybody's interest being looked after. i think i represent a strong candidate for the neighborhood seat. i strongly believe in volunteerism. i am not a politician or an activist. this is not a stepping stone for me. right now, in the current financial state of our economy and the larger economy, we all need to step up and help the city do its job. this is part of that role. there is a park right across the street from my home. they recently switched to the trash cans that you will up to the street. the neighbors and i have volunteered that each week we make sure they get out to the street so reckoned part does not have to send somebody over to do that -- so that rec and park

does not have to send somebody over to do that. there is a park the city has never maintained. we get together and do that we recently -- we get together and do that. we work with the parks council. i do castro community patrol, which is a public safety issue where neighbors come out and take on part of that responsibility. i know there are a lot of people here today. you have asked us to keep comments brief. i hope that is brief enough. i will leave it at that unless anyone has questions. chairperson kim: are there any questions for our applicant? i have a couple, although there will be the same for all applicants. first of all, thank you for the work on the park. it is beautiful and i appreciate your advocacy for open space. >> it was fun working on that.

when we got stanley mann, a big sculpture, it was great. chairperson kim: i know you talked a little bit -- the seat is important as one of the few residents seats on the entertainment commission. we took off and on the board and in the public about the tension between the night life and community residents. some of your role will be to mediate that. what are some ideas you have in terms of outreach and some ways you think entertainment and residents can work together in cooperation so interests are not always in opposition? >> i think they are in opposition a lot more than they need to be. i really believe in this idea that residents want entertainment options. most of them that live in a neighborhood where there is entertainment -- some are there for other reasons, but a lot of times people recognize that. i do not want that to be

misconstrued as "you move into the neighborhood and that is the way it is." i do not feel that way at all. people want entertainment options, but want them run responsibly. having that dialogue and really working on -- i think the commission has done a great job on their neighborhood outreach policies. i think continuing them in is an important step. i also think right now, going through the economics of it, i know our staff is kind of maxed out. but it is my understanding that some of the new tools they have gotten which allow them to temporarily suspend permits and things like that have really helped with compliance. my hope is that will free up some time so they can look at some of their other tasks, which is to promote entertainment. what i would like to see is more opportunity cortines, children -- for teens, children, families, and elderly folks to

have options. entertainment is not just bars. st. fares are an important part of this and can be a way to build a sense of community. but i think there might be other ways, concerts in a park. i would not want to encroach on the community as to what they would want, but it would be great to promote something like that. chairperson kim: are there any concerns that you want to address as a commissioner on the entertainment commission? >> there is one trend i have seen that has always bothered me. i have attended a lot of entertainment commission meetings. that is that the police department is trending more and more to requiring nightclubs to engage in some sort of surveillance, whether that means cameras inside or outside or scanning ideas -- ideas -- id's. there was an outcry over that.

that concerns me. some require that they keep audiovisual files for 30 days and turn it over to the police with no due process. i think if the city government is going to require night clubs to play that role, i think it has to be really seriously looked at. and if it is done, it should be done absolutely to the minimum that needs to be done, and in compliance with first amendment rights. it is scary. as a gay man, one of the things they used to do is record license plates at gay bars and publish them in the newspaper. this reminds me too much of that. it is scary to me. chairperson kim: that address my next question, from the police department questions. my next question is what would be some of your priorities as a commissioner that you hope to accomplish in your turn? >> i spoke to that to a large degree as far as promoting entertainment options upside of

clubs and bars. i also fully support the recent proposal to make it a little bit easier for folks that want to have a guitar player in a restaurant peeper -- a restaurant. people are doing that now on permited, i am sure. i think we need to fit that into the regulatory scheme and the only way to do that is to make it economically feasible. chairperson kim: colleagues, any further questions? thank you. next, we have glendon hyde. it is the same format. do you need me to repeat it? >> i have got it. good afternoon, supervisors. it is exciting to be here. my name is glendon hyde, and i am running for the neighborhood , association, or groups see. there has been a lot said about commitment to neighborhood

fabric. a lot of people think that because i am a drag queen i am not also an activist. the easiest way to dispel that is one of the things that prompted me to become a drag queen is the compton riots followed by the stonewall riot, which were the birth of the clear rights movement. it is not easier to be a drag queen. it is much harder to be taken seriously, to make connections. and even when i ran for district 6, people said, "you are bringing your drag queen named with you? do you know that is going to be harder?" i do not mind working harder to prove myself. i think my run for district six did in grain me in the cultural and community fabric even greater than i was. it proved i can be taken seriously and not just someone who represents what sinkers in a bar -- lipsynchers in a bar.

i represent a large community and a voice in the community. i will talk about the organizations i have worked with. my introduction came through chp, the community housing partnership. i was homeless myself after a bout with debilitating aids. after 11 t-cells, i bounced back and became a hairdresser. with a 98% success rate of taking people off the street and keeping them in housing -- often have trouble diagnosis. how can you not get behind that? i have been happy to work with them on the night of a thousand stars, which i have posted twice. i have made a personal commitment to raise $1,000 a year for them. i also took their organizers course. they introduced me to the idea

of working with the community in harm reduction, which is how i got involved with the alliance to save lives, which is centered around drug users and harm reduction. everyone in the group except for me is invested in harm reduction as their job, or drug policy. the reason i am interested is because of the way it helps the community and the benefits it offers the community, like reducing crime. there is the only north american safe use site, and it reduced crime by 30% in the first year. the biggest complaint in district 6 is a street drug use. here is an equitable way to save the money -- to save the city money and help people who have this problem. i do it because the community needs the support. i am an active member of the futures collaborative, which is a group of people from nonprofits.

i am not a nonprofit stickler. i get an insight into their needs, into community needs, as well as meeting with the mayor's office of economic development and getting to work on issues. and it was there that i met the director and the youth coordinator for the tenderloin ymca. they said, "you should be on our board. we like your style." i am already on the board of united place, and at risk used -- use organization in the soma. i had also just joined the board of the harvey milk club as up rich coordinator. i said, "i am not sure how much commitment i can offer. let me see what it is like a puzzle i help them produce their help the kids been go fund- raiser. -- what it is like." i helped them produce their help the kids -- healthy kids bingo

fundraiser. they want me on the board. we will see how it goes. my special understanding of outreach and communication brings to the table and something i am very proud of, they just put out a youth- produce seed the -- used produced -- youth-produced cd. i am working on getting combination training for these organizations. i really enjoy my work. i am not a parent. but i see and am anxious to work with the youth commission around some of the issues in my life. i believe the new generations to have a clear vision of what is coming and how to make things better, often. i am just going to say a bit about the milk club. i am their outreach coordinator and got them to join the alliance to save lives, to help

advocate, another example of integrating in the fabric of the neighborhood. this year, i won the simeon white volunteer of the year award. it just proves that if you work harder, if you are more focused, and if you really concentrate on what it is you have a hand to accomplish, people do see that. they respond and are thankful. that is a great thing to be able to contribute to something like the harvey milk club. i also want to talk a little bit about my involvement in street fairs for the past six years. i have run several sections in the world of wonderment in the castro street fair, which is a community-based section of the fair. one of the reasons i support the castro street fair is because they are so community oriented and handle themselves so well. i have a great insight into what it is to be part of a street fair, to be a community representative at that street

fair. i also have worked with the folsom street fair, hosting their main stage. they asked me to do that because i am a representative of the soma community as well as the entertainment community. i am known as a leader and representative. both of them are so well run. i am pleased and honored and think we can learn a lot from them, especially since the folsom st. pierre is one of the largest -- street fare is one of the largest street fairs and moneymakers for the city. i will talk about the neighborhood. a lot of times, ours are cornerstone businesses and have been there since the 1800's. as a great example is the now- defunct eagle tavern. i think protecting these cornerstone businesses is very important, because they are part of the fabric. they create jobs. they create meeting spaces. in the case of the eagle, there

are many organizations that are going to go without because they do not have the great fund- raising ability that nightlife and entertainment have. i have always use my entertainment to raise funds, to be a fund-raiser, and to help these organizations out. last saturday, i was directing people to the middle to help the business owner in the tenderloin. we need to bring planning to the table. one of the things during my race through district 6 that i learned that i was sadly lacking in was an understanding of planning and planning codes. to really immersed myself in that, i went to the western soma citizen task force. i had been following them to recreation. when i see i am lacking in something, instead of saying i would make up for it some other

time, i like to meet those challenges head-on. hopefully by the end of this year, i will be far more versed in neighborhood planning. i hope to work for the closely with the planning commission. i think we can work a little harm reduction around planning and nightlife with the right out of reach. thank you very much. i hope you let me continue my community service in a broader spectrum. for me to the full board. thank you very much. [applause] any questions? chairperson kim: i have a couple of questions, similar to the ones i asked the applicant prior. as the neighborhood's seat and someone that will be representing neighborhoods and constituents around entertainment issues, what do you view as concerns you have in terms of what perhaps the commission has not addressed thus far, or ideas of ways of addressing the tension?

>> i think one of the things i really bring to the table is people seek me out and asked me to be part of their organization or to help them with problems. i think with that already as a strength, relations with neighborhoods are going to be better. when you pay a million dollars for a condo that is not built up to code and you are living right about a club, i can understand why you are angry. you should be heard. there should be a large community meeting around this so we can discuss the impact planning is having on our communities. i also think that when planning is going into a neighborhood, especially along and entertainment corridor, i think not only the place of entertainment, but the community and planning, needs to be, and

the developer, need to be brought to the table to understand the special needs entertainment has in communities. chairperson kim: the second is something the applicant addressed, which is some of your thoughts around recommendations the police has made in entertainment, around the id scanning insecurity. >> i am definitely not in favor of that proposal, as strong as it is. i think it could be limited in some areas. i think district 3 has a lot of issues. maybe because there are problem clubs, we can implement it for serious problem clubs as a measure to ensure public safety. but we also need to explore how people are getting into our city. i think with a communication with bartok and other transit, -- with