time. all the projects are kind of frozen until the decision has been made. prior to that, of course, you knew that we fought very hard to protect our redevelopment agency because we did it right in the city, and everybody in sacramento knows that. they know that we build affordable housing. we contributed to schools, to open space, and we created an environment for our investors to have faith that their projects and money and investments would be protected. we did it all right, and despite that, the governor and legislature had to do what they did and will be looking at that very closely and keeping tabs on it and making sure that we align ourselves with whatever the law ultimately will require of us. but we will keep some form of redevelopment to make sure that we are able and capable of using tax increment dollars for the future. we have done it right, and you

see all of the development right here in mission bay as a result of using tax increment properly. i mentioned earlier that we have been paying very close attention and will continue to make sure central market is redeveloped, and we are revitalizing that. you have seen all the activities that we have. that is the result again of having a payroll tax exclusion, an economic strategy, working in partnership with a number of different financial institutions as well as different city departments, creating tax increment financing, making sure there is a multi-agency approach to a better market street initiative. that was recently awarded by caltrans to make sure we continue that effort of forming through the leadership a 15- member advisory committee to keep improving market street and consider those ideas to making

sure transportation is moving smoothly as well as all of the other things that make great streets. the central market district loan fund -- $11.5 million to dedicate a small but a -- to dedicate to small businesses. that is why you see pearl's deluxe burger is that will open very shortly. i am missing a great hamburger on mid-market. also attracting new small businesses. huckleberry bicycle will be relocating there, and they are a receiver on our loan packages already. then, continuing to work with our whole our arena of arts groups and recruiting arts. whether it is burning man, the great arts foundation, arts in the store fronts, our arts commission -- everyone is working together to make sure that art is a great and producer of both businesses and foot traffic into that central market, and that is going very

well. because already, as you may have heard when we unveiled the redoing of those old advertising prints on the brick buildings above the original joe's, we also announced that same day that while the original joe's as a restaurant will not come back there, new arts attendance will be in the very same site. piano fights these arts organizations are really helping us see us revitalize taylor street right intimate market. you also have a higher degree of safety. the substation will be completed by early winter and we will have a substation that will have patrols of officers to make sure. we are going to work with the community and supervisor kim to recreate the ambassador program there and make sure we have

additional eyes and ears holon market to fifth to 11th, to make sure that people feel safe, particularly during the hours in which people work. these days, when you have tech companies there, they are working at 10:00, 11:00 at night. they are not really paying attention to anyone else. the programming of the arts. we will continue working on the un plaza. off the grid, the arts festival coming up at the end of the month into early october, on u.n. plaza, that will reflect our commitment to working closely with our program to revitalize middle-market. finally, as you know, can we said this at a time when we introduced the payroll tax exemption, that is just the beginning. i want to continue working with

all the business groups in the city to make sure that we redo the tax system not lose the revenue that we have had but also not the job punishing. in order for us to continue this effort that we started, i want to make sure that you know that i am welcoming all the members of this body here, the chamber, to work with us for the next year, with the board of supervisors and redo our peril taxes and completely. we are giving our self the year. we want to get everyone's input. it will be very complicated. but again, what isn't complicated in san francisco? i want to get past nudity and get into the tax base. that will be the challenge. this is a summary of everything

we are doing. i know gen will go into detail. i wanted to make sure that you know that as long as i am in room 200, i will be about job creation, about making sure that people's investment here has a return and that people have faith in the city. this is still a great city. walking together with senator feinstein to the white house, we had that talk about how great the city was, when she redid that investment in the cable car system, used the compassion of the the city to recover from low market death. we have the same challenge in front of us. i want to make sure that you know every day my commitment will be to make sure people's investments, whether it is families they create here, whether they bought a house that is more expensive than any part outside of new york, or whether you invested in a small business or medium-size business, or part

of a larger investment, or you want to tap the great work of course we have here, we need to make good decisions in this city. we need to focus and concentration on economic stability. we need job growth and job creation. you have my 100% commitment to do this every day diamond office. thank you. [applause]

>> welcome to the entertainment commission for the city and county of san francisco. will the executive director please call the roll. if any of the commissioners have to leave, will not be able to act on the two items for permits. having said that, item number one is public comment. members of the public may

address the commission on subjects that are within the jurisdiction of the commission. you may address the commission for up to three minutes. public comment? yes, sir. >> there was a great attendance and the police department and the industry representatives which is one more step which shows the communication. i i am really positive on the future of the hospitality in june -- industry.

>> i get your comments. that is a stellar job. >> item number 80, review and approve the minutes of july 26th. the minister now ready for review. -- item number2. the minutes are now ready for review. >> i will try to be short about this. if you were at the summit today, you heard me talk about the permit. i brought this up to you a few times because this is had a long road to travel. we were pretty proud of it.

at this point, legislation passed its first rate on the board of supervisors and you have a second read when they come back from recess in september. this more or less stayed intact. there were some their relatives in the neighborhoods. by and large, it pretty much stayed together. after the second read, we believe that the mayor will sign it really quickly and that the staff should be prepared to implement those permits right away. be prepared for some large and long agendas as those come forward into the fall and winter time. we will see quite a few of them.

as the staff mentioned, we did have our summit. the news is a bit of a success. there was probably upwards of 100 participants and a few command staff and the chief did make an appearance. we will be looking at any way that we can improve it for next year. i am happy to take any questions from anyone who was there. there will be played back as well if you were not able to savor the whole thing. they did a life web cast.

-- live web cast. staff was able to file properly and have a meeting last week. it was a great meeting, it was about an hour. we did cover a lot of topics and we talked about best practices that will come back to you soon. the limit of a live performance to make sure that they are there. the issue of parking lots comes up. a piece of legislation is moving out of the supervisor's office.

we discussed broadway in particular, issues are around the towing continues for about five years and the possibility of the past taxis in. there was some discussion on ways to manage those issues, on broadway. we talked about the policy as well which is why i mention it at the summit and asked to go on record. i began the conversation around how we manage the space outside of nightclubs that is a shared space and they feel that they can handle this to a point and then their liability. we will continue to follow the discussion but the chief was great and open to coming up to specific guidelines.

that was a great start. he is fairly easy to meet with and i expect to do that regularly. i wanted to mention something called city deck. the mayor's office is putting together a big database of the neighborhood merchants association. the up reach issues are to know exactly when an applicant comes forward, what to counsel them on in terms of outreach. if we had a good list or something to give them, have them identify their neighborhood organizations and when they will open.

that would be the obvious way to do that. this is still being compiled. if you google it it will be founder something. if someone says north beach, we will find everyone. so, i wanted to let you know that we have a list here of who is on the list so far. it is not that long. if there is a way that you can help to spread the word for people that would jump online and get the city back and put their information in, there would be a better list for everyone. i will throw it over to -- to

his back from vacation. >> we have the neighborhood organizations and also the merchant information to anyone who qualifies as a neighbor, we have had discussions here and the commercial entities are still neighbors. >> to that end, -- >> i had gone to the process with city planning to get building permits. they require you to get a notice and to get the organizations that requests it. they have a list of hundreds of them that you have to pay in a lot of money to do these mailings that probably just end up in the trash somewhere. i bring this up because it is beneficial to you and might be a list already in existence. >> the list that is compiled and

available to us and anyone is out of date. that has been what we were using and it did not yield the results that we wanted. >> that is all i had. >> commissioners, having been out of town for the last two weeks, my report is basically nonexistent. what you will see in your binders is a list of some complaints that we are looking into and also you will see a list of incidents that have occurred going back to some of the earliest in july and you will see both in the categories incidence and in violence.

we have had some assaults comparatively to past summers and in the past years. it is pretty good. we have done very well. we have not had any major incidences of violence. in the past, our summers have been notoriously bad. this year, we have gone away pretty good. if you would like to look at that list, if you have any questions there. thank you. >> is to any public comment on the executive director report. we will move right along. we move to the police department comments and questions. is there a joke that you want to tell me about?

unfortunately, we will have to adjourn the meeting because of a lack of quorum to do any action items. is there somebody here? >> the owner requested a continuance. that is an agenda item. >> we cannot even vote on the continuance. >> ok. with the staff do me one favor and contacts loan and say if there application is missing all of the information requested on the application by the next meeting that i cannot afford. he will skip many items on this application. this is not acceptable.

>> if i might request, i don't know if this is appropriate or not but given the fact that we have an additional permit on the agenda and i know that you cannot vote on anything. is there something that you can do? if you will not meet for this to arrive on another agenda. >> what is your staff recommendation on this? >> we should probably talk to them first before we tell you what the recommendation is. >> why did you bring it before the commission? >> the want to read the item? >> this is item five, a hearing and there will be possible

action. this is regarding for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commission. this would be item b, dba cocomo, outdoor loudspeaker permit. >> it is standard for this to be handled by staff and not go to the commission. kelly we just process them by communicating with the police. this one is before the commission. usually we just process them. the proposed event is on august 28th this would have some doctor music. we have a list of some people of

met with us in the past. they are consent. there as to be updated and we did that in advance. on our desk you have a . of some of the responses that we received. we receive them up until today. it might be worth taking a minute or two. you have concerns. the but condition that i have is the people of the permit if you can balance the approval with mitigating the concerns that they expressed in their e-mails mainly related to the sound base. that is the main gist of the complaints. >> i have a couple of questions

in reading one person's e-mail, she says that the ambient db shall not be listed at 45. she has concluded that that would be 53. that is not correct necessarily. ambient is ambient for that area. unless they have information on what is ambient around kokomo, it might not be 45, it could be 55 or 65. then it might be much higher. unless she took a reading, she took a look at that. >> i've asked within the input relative to the permit.

we do send all of these two permit officers. the applicant is here. maybe you want to hear about what that is and -- >> someone from the applicant forward. >> i am the general manager. this is the promoter for the event. we basically rented the space out for this party on august 28th. this will be a daytime event that will go into the evening. the daytime portion, the lineup for the day is that they will have like a tropical scene because we have a big outdoor patio. to have the music genre for this

particular patio would peace also, and then a small band. -- to have the music genre for this particular petty would be -- patio would be salsa and a small band. there will be other long weekends. there are events that we do with a different promoter. this is a completely different event. we will report to this event. this is the first time we are trying to do this. it sounds like a perfect fit because we are loan for our -- we are known for our sean rush of music. this will be just a sound system

alone. everyone is consulting the promoters. we made sure that it would be a small mobile dj set up. there will be two speakers. it will not be a subwoofer or any kind of big amplified sound system. this is a tropical feel for the patio. the inside of the club, it will be house music. this is for the outside portion. >> any questions? >> i was wondering, you said you're going to have a band? >> there will be deejays and a small ensembles. >> do you think that you need both a deejay and a ban the outside? let me ask because he is doing the event. >> we will start off with a

deejay and then when the band comes in, this is the feature of that portion of the event. this is a small band and they will not have anything plugged into an empty. this is a guitar in a couple of drums. >> when i am looking through the complaints, a lot of it is about the base and a lot is about electronic amplified music. wouldn't it be great for the neighbors to not have to worry about amplified music and really have the stand be the outside music? >> there is a portion that will be the band. >> they will be plugged into something? >> yes. isn't that would usually causes the problems with the neighbors and the amplified sound? >> yes. these are made