i could not stand it. i do take advantage of the night life. probably more restaurants these days. talking about job creation and economic vitality, we do not turn the lights off when the folks are gone. lots of people are out in the still thank you for -- in this. thank you. [applause] >> i wanted to explain a bit about the break out. if you could say, i hope that you will. i think that this is one of the most important parts of this. one, getting you all in a room together. you are in your venue all of the time. when you are not there, you go

home and are with your dog, or whenever. obviously, i want you to meet each other. breakouts, i will try to create four if we can. two groups. one will be in the small room. i was going to try to do two on either side of this room. do your best. there will be someone in the group to redo what we can.

this is great. thank you for coming. i really appreciate it. [applause] arewebcastinwe are webcasting . supercool, i think. to do that well, we need to be amplified a bit. i know that we lost some folks. nick, did you take notes? what i wanted to do was have you come up here. we were all in different groups and hopefully we have things to learn from each group. quickly, because i know it is getting late, vaj, do you have

your notes? did we wind up with four or three? this seemed like a great session. we do have another microphone, if there are questions that come up. but i think that these will be closing comments. >> you can correct me, if you heard something different, but i heard points one, too, and three were a more pro-active police presence. proactive policing, instead of just responses to emergencies and deterrence. in general, there seemed to be a sentiment of a bid of nickel and dime business.

whether through fees or regulations. or a sense that we have to do a better job to make sure that regulations are appropriate, fair, and balanced. one more, dealing with neighbors. we can do a better job of trying to address people's complaints in a constructive way. trying to figure out a way to deal with components that do not go away, even if other people do not think that there is a problem. that is what i heard. anything else the to would like to that? -- that you would like to add? >> with my group, some of the three big points that were

discussed, the first was uniform signs. right now a lot of venues have signs about being respectful to the neighbors. they will use certain code language, like no loitering. but those signs, in different shapes and colors. they are talking about making sure that every venue had the same language, looking venue. wd idea, it is uniform, people see it. not only in north beachx%gsj maybe city wide. the next is temporary taxis jones in and around clubs on the weekends. it is 2:00 in the morning. it is hard to get a cab. if we could put in temporary tax rezones friday and saturday night, it would be easier for

people to find cabs to and from then use. last, more light. i know we talked about cities, areas where there is a lot of venues packed into a few blocks. they will actually bring in temporary light towers. the last thing is organization.

as venues, it is really important that you come together, whether it be in cmac, or your smaller organizations, so you can work together, have one voice to work with city government. >> that is a perfect segue. i was in the group with south of market, bayview. we talked a lot about organization, communication with the police department's. something that i wrote down that i did not even know, if you feel like you need to call the police, you should. if you do not feel at 911 is appropriate, use 553-0123. i did not know that. that is a direct line where you can get an

ambulance. we also talked about -- the commander talked about -- your relationship with your police officer. the captain said he intends to start a monthly meeting with the nightclub owners at the station. he does not want security. he wants to meet with the owners of the night clubs once a month. that is a fantastic idea. i want to plug that around to all of the stations, certainly the ones that have a number of night clubs in their area, so that that can become a routine relationship. if a capt. changes, which happens all the time, that can also continue, regardless of what capt. is there.

those were the big ones. some discussion about risk-reward in using promoters. there was the resolution to this issue but it is something that you should leave here thinking about. some people chimed in to say that there is not a dime that they would not bother turning using a promoter if they thought there was some risk involved in that. obviously, other people feel differently. that risk- reward ratio is something that you need to think seriously about if you are going to continue to use promoters at your venue. at this point, certainly take some questions. if you are done, it is 10:04. i appreciate you all coming. we have the bac cards. -- feedback cards. i would love to hear it in e-mail form or you can call

me. please use the entertainment commission as a resource, but be nice. you saw all of us today. we are here to help you if we can. we do have to issue some permits that those of you -- that somebody do not like, but there is. thank you. >> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been

installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates

that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was hand-painted. >> maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe starting in the middle and working out. >> [inaudible] the flower of industry. >> it is like a compass. there's an arrow pointing north. >> within the great bear consolation, there are two pointed stars here. they typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris. so i thought it has a layer of theme. >> let's talk about some of the other elements in the peace. we are walking along, and there is a weather vane. there's a sweet little bird hanging on the side. what kind of bird is that? >> [inaudible]

the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the bay area. >> you want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send? >> [inaudible] around 1926 or so by the dahlia society. >> what is this bird here? >> that is the california quail. >> coming up here, we had a little blustery theme. what is this area here? >> this is supposed to be the side view, the expense of the golden gate bridge. >> there it is. >> there are really beautiful elements of architecture still around, i would say that it gives that feeling over to the

work. >> what are your hopes for it? >> that in a way it just becomes part of the area. i think it is starting to have that feeling. people utilize it. they sit and, and have their lunch and play on -- they sit and, and have their lunch and play on that -- they sit and come and have their lunch and play on it. just for it to be part of the neighborhood. that is my hope. >> is such a beautiful addition to our public art in san francisco. thank you for joining us. it was nice to meet you. and thank you for telling us about your beautiful mural. thanks for watching "culturewire."

>> " yes 08 so. this company represents yet again another successful recruitment it be well and attraction of our city to manufacturing. i want to congratulate robyn and catherine or air decision to locate here. it is about 20,000 square feet, and the hope is that the next three years, they will grow with our help and with the help of a good, strong economy i in the city, that they will grow from the 20,000 square foot starting blocks to hopefully about 60,000 square feet i in the next three years. heath ceramics is now based out of sausalito, but i know robin

will give you a story about the family and how they occur over about eight years ago, but for them to come here at this time and to make a go at it is a wonderful story for our city. we have been recruiting companies like this to actually did manufacturing right here in our city. you are going to see actually clay being manufactured right here to produce this type of beautiful setting. this kind kyle you will see -- this kind of tile you will see. you will also see their be aware, which is world renowned, and it has been sold to places like slanted york -- door and some other fine eating establishments in the bay area.

garrett orr is well known. the sausalito plant will continue manufacturing back, but the new tile, and decorative ceramic will be manufactured here from the actual making of the clay to developing orders here to actually sending it out and delivery right here. you are standing in between which would be trucked out and delivered here. this is a great manufacturing plant. it will all potentially about 34 employees that will be here. they are all making great salaries and will have a great health insurance benefits and 401 (k) matching funds. that is a great addition to our work force. so an important at the actual manufacturing is based instead francisco. i would say that our city

because it you -- our city is so important because in games, you are manufacturing here. biotech, you are manufacturing here. we have done a lot to invite companies that want to manufacture here, especially for this type of entry where i think the workforce is even more absurd. you're going to have people here that can really work with their hands, work with the design firms that the heath company has attracted to it a buy, high class both dinner wear as well as ceramics. i am so glad to welcome them here to santa and cisco, right on the northeast sector of the mission area, right eye in the heart of where a lot of other manufacturing the car going on as well. congratulationst to sfmade.

katie has been working really hard with our office of economic and workforce development to attract businesses of this nature. it is really nice to have a manufacturing plant who will make these grants. thank you very much but locating here. i hope it's not a risk for you. i hope you are going to tell us about how mrs. heath started her career. the body as she started on clay street. robin, please, come on up. >> thanks for coming. i do not do a press conference every day, so my remarks are a little more prepared.

we came by it in thousand three. it has spent eight years now. we found an iconic company that has april by an agent or design aflac manufacturing but it's of reinvigoration. our goal has been and remains to return design back to its important role i american manufacturing and life. we want to set an example for other companies to assure the possibilities, and that is why we're here today doing what we're doing at plan to do over the next many decades. as we look to expand our factory and bring more to our customers, san francisco west always where we edition -- where we envision would look next. it was here that even if he created her first product in the late 1940's.

we found possibility where we did not expect it. we communicated our vision for a space that could allow us to create, and of a common share, and. and experience -- and curate and experience. here we are to celebrate that realization. kate understood our language, believed i and our company, and connected us with a building owner willing to support our vision. you guys are all back there somewhere. you guys should come on up. as we grow as a company, we remain committed to local manufacturing. as a delivery van works behind us, our ceramics are still made by in sausalito since 1948. today, we at san francisco to

that phrase, but the honesty and spirit of the deficit remains true. our new location in a neighborhood known granite act allows us to connect with the community and bring our products into their homes and lives. we believe in building community, and we are achieving back not only through a job creation by nca manufacturing -- but in seeing manufacturing as a way to enhance the environment. we seek to create create a court introducing crack years--- introducing crafters ina new and positive way. we will have others up as create to remain true to our values and make business decisions with

community and mine. i cannot emphasize that an. we are proud to be employee more than 200 today. we are helping to reinvigorate the city at a court for artists and manufacturing, and we thank mayor lee and supervisor kim, could not be here today, for creating an environment that supports local business. also, thank you to the owners of the building or working with us to transform the space and share our vision. also want to thank alison kelly from pacific ventures as well as vince and rob from new resource

bank whose belief by the benefit of small business made this project entirely possible. of course, a grateful they still everything kate has done and will continue ice together today -- greg poe thanks for everything case has done and will continue in bringing us together today. harv>> i also want to recognize mark, the original founder of the bid and that having -- visiion of having sfmade. it started with the been that we could reconnect the sector we have here and over time help san francisco reclaim its rightful place as a home for partisan scale manufacturing, and i thank

reaching a 215 member companies who collectively right now already currently employed close to 3000 people across companies just like heath, we are beginning to realize that been. when we started, bebop was less that we would be looking to the outside to bring lots of companies into the city -- the though was less that we would be looking into the outside. we wanted to start with what we had indigenously grown and help companies better connect with each other and back into the resources the city had available to it. what we did not and to stand with the power and amplification that would really happen when we started to make this connections -- what we did not understand. when we look at what has happened to bring the company back to its roots, back to where it came from, it really is this

power up community. the of the word, whether it is thinking of races like pacific community banter, but that's a long history of bringing senior business advisory capacity to businesses as well as equity investment, looking at b source bank, which was created and added i in san francisco not so long ago with someone who was able to step forward and see the possibility eyewitness bashan that other banks may not have been able to realize so quickly. i recognize the owners of the building, the family who has a history of being incubators of small business, and the city itself, the office of economic workforce development, the planning department, the building department -- we have this asset because we are small, tightly connected, and can make

things happen i in relatively short time that other cities cannot. i want to conners and princess the. i want to honor heath and the power of what we are creating together. -- i want to honor san francisco. we will see there will be other companies starting and growing here and coming back to the city following in heath's footsteps. thank you to be mayor, the city, and ito -- and to heath. [applause] >> thank you. congratulations, everyone. i want to put that down before something happens. it is still tile. questions? >> [inaudible]

>> we will put the ceramic tile in the subway, too. make it artistically beautiful. in fact, i think that would be a great place, write >> -- great place, right? central subway is still going through. we are on our way strongly to make sure we get people and the grant agreement by the end of the year. every step of approval has been there. the bid for the, part have already been bid our -- out. they are under budget. very good for our city. and the others >> >> [inaudible] -- any others? >> [inaudible]

>> one of the things i want to clarify is we have a number of locations. the original location i in sausalito will stay there. we have the very building in san francisco. we also have a location and los angeles. we are really a california company. this move to separate cisco is another opportunity to be exciting things in another part of california -- this move to san francisco. we ran out of space in sausalito. our business has done very well. we have grown from 24 people eight years ago to over 100 people today. many of the original employees still work there. about 15 from the original 24. the best i've retired -- the rest had retired. san francisco is a creative community, and we believe if you are going to be created based and manufacturing, you should