call item no. 1? >> motion confirming the mayor's appointment of bryant tan to the entertainment commissioned a term ending july 1, 2015. supervisor kim: we have bryant tan here today. thank you for being here. this will go for all of the applicants today. speak briefly about your background and your interest in serving on the commission. >> thank you, supervisor kim, supervisor wiener and farrell. my name is bryant tan, i am, as you know, and urban planning representative on the entertainment commission. i will tell you a bit about myself. i was born and raised in san francisco, a product of the

public schools here. i grew up primarily in the tenderloin district. my family is also here. i am a hometown guy. what i wanted to share beyond that is that my academic training is an urban planning. i received an undergraduate degree at ucla ndand my graduate degree in massachussettes. first, as a resident and a young person, now allows an adult in the city, entertainment has been a huge part of my life -- canal as an adult in the city, entertainment has been a huge part of my life. i have looked for people with shared values. tand for entertainment in the castro -- the second point i

wanted to make outside of my own personal interests and supporting the arts and culture of san francisco, making this a world-class field where people look at an entertainment part of the city. i work for the department of children, youth, and families. when we look at opportunities for young people to have safe and accessible places after dark or after hours, they are few and far between. my work currently is related to the planning -- working with young people to identify issues that they care about and figure out ways to address those issues. i hear often that young people are looking for entertainment opportunities, what are the venues that we go to? how do i get around without having a fake i.d.? how do i access things when i am between 18 and 21?

they are old enough to make adult decisions but not old enough to participate in many of the venues. one of the things i would like to work on is to figure out how to expand those opportunities for young people throughout san francisco. the last thing, really as an urban planner, this isn't just any old seat. how do we bring communities together? how do we bring all sides of the issue to really develop, grow, and address issues around economic development, recreation, and quality of life? in my training and my work, i worked as a planner at the community center, it was about understanding community needs and resident needs. there are pros and cons to building a subway line. there are pros and cons to

getting a night life, a bar, a club in a neighborhood. if we can agree on a shared set of values and interests to benefit neighbors and neighborhoods, we can lead and create a community that can work. those are perspectives and experiences that i bring. i look forward to serving the commission, again, as a resident, as a person that thinks and works 9-5 about young people. and as an urban planner by training. i am happy to answer any questions you have now or later. supervisor kim: are there any questions? supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: thank you for having interested in this commission. i was very impressed, not just with your background, but with

your thinking about entertainment and nightlife. it is incredibly important that the entertainment commission have a perspective from youth, both in terms of its membership and the life experience. we have had a number of issues come up, more and more the abc trying to shut down the under-21 live music venues. a number of us came out against that. as some of the issues around electronic dance music and some of the pressure on those venues. higher appreciate you focusing on those kinds of issues. i don't know if you have any thoughts about those issues in particular. >> like i said, one of the main concerns, one of the ways i will

look at those issues is thinking about safety. venues are often shut down because the primary concern are a fifth violent acts are happening, our young people overdosing -- are if violent acts are happening or if young people are overdosing. it is really about being fair, and to regulate it in a way that it really reinforces the safety -- and nobody has come when people are dying are getting hurt. that is just the initial comment, i love live music and electronic music. those are things that i come to. supervisor kim: i had two questions. the entertainment commission involves a lot of time. would you be able to commit

roughly 20 hours a month to the commission? >> it is more than just being at the commission meetings, but i went to a commission meeting this past tuesday and at one of the staff there. i came out and met the owners, the business people that are trying to figure this out. i definitely can. supervisor kim: i appreciate from commissioners when they come to neighborhood meetings. we have a lot of mixed used neighborhoods -- mixed-use neighborhoods in the south of market. you spoke about the last entertainment commission meeting, something coming to the district next year is the western sun that plan. i was curious if you have any thoughts on that. >> i need to do more reading up on it and speaking about it, but the plan was to build the house and, especially along the

eleventh street corridor and in not permitting entertainment venues above harrison. i need to investigate more, to be honest. entertainment and housing don't go hand in hand all the time, we can depend on architecture to buffer malaisenoise, but there e problems that can be exacerbated or alleviated. supervisor kim: thank you. at this time, we will open up for public comment. i have a few cards here. alex hadey and asha metta. if there are others, please line up. two minutes. >> good afternoon, i have a resident of san francisco and also serve on the advisory board

on gays and the lgbt advisory committee. i am here to speak bryant tan on bryant t on behalf of bryant ta. i have known him since he was involved in the while less youth center. he was involved with a lot of youth programs there. a lot of youth can say that they look up to bryant as a role model. he's an mit graduate and he would be a great asset to the entertainment commission. i look forward to seeing him in that role. as an entertainer, he would be there to support the needs of the community. thank you. >> hello, my name is asha metta, i am from the beacon initiative. at my office is right across the

hall from bryant's. i have been the director of the initiative and i have been able to watch bryant grow. it was just an idea into a very robust use leadership program. it in fuses high levels of youth leadership within -- i would imagine of all the departments, it has the greatest amount of that type of leadership. taken a small body of young people helping make decisions into multiple bodies and citywide change. it is incredibly exciting and robust youth empowerment initiatives that he has led. i can't imagine someone more strategic, more connected to the community back at a very different perspective. what i appreciate about bryant

is that he is very rigorous and intelligent and thoughtful, and not a real knee-jerk response -- and never has a knee-jerk response to an issue. it is based on a really thorough decision making into thinking. i help you select henhouse -- hope you select him. supervisor kim: thank you. >> ♪ rules committee, pick some entertainment appointees you may say there is no such thing as santa, but me and the appointees, we believe ♪ ♪ the city goose is on the table and the pudding made of fig i know they will get some good

entertainment gigs ♪ ♪ i will tell my friends and neighbors better watch out for your city self a will find some more appointees in city hall and they're elves ♪ ♪ watch out for your city appointee selves you will hear some rules committee and appointee entertainment bells ♪ supervisor kim: thank you, mr. paulson. [applause] >> good afternoon, supervisors. i have lived in san francisco for 59 years. i am not taking a position one way or the other in regard to

mr. tan, but i have to admit since he has an mit grad, he went to the same school as my dad. secondly, i would like to say that since this is a mayoral appointment, i hope to fully consider the actual qualifications of the candidate rather than being asian and a mayoral candidate. the reason i feel that way is that sense i have lived in district 7, in my opinion, the infamous triple-play appointment was a real bomb for our district. i feel that the 49ers will be leaving san francisco soon, and with that happening, the entertainment commission becomes even more in important because whenever they are going to do, they will try to replace the forty-niners. that will be a big chore to

do. in regard to making suggestions for other candidates that might be considered, it would be interesting to bring in an outsider such as michael wiener, also known as michael savage. outsiders bring something different to the city, and since this candidate is already affiliated with the city in an indirect way, are we just putting more people that are already affiliated with the city to fill up more positions and we are not really getting a true outside opinion? when you bring in outsiders, you bring in people that don't have a vested interest as to what their normal job is. who knows if it will happen or not? i just want to make sure we don't have any more gavin newsom triple plays. thank you. supervisor kim: any more public

comment? public comment is now closed. this is a motion to confirm the appointment. thank you, mr. tan, for coming in. i got to work with you years ago and i appreciate your focus around entertainment for young people. working with young people, there is an incredible lack of activity and i would be really excited to partner with you and also the entertainment industry on some potential ways that we can collaborate to route these issues. i think it is a good issue to work on. >> i think your background is terrific and i was impressed with what you had to say today. i would like to make a motion to approve or confirm mr. tan for this seat. supervisor kim: we can do that

without opposition. we will be moving the motion to confirm the appointment with recommendations. madam clerk, item number two. >> appointing one temember to te entertainment commission. supervisor kim: i believe all of the applicants are here today, so first i will be called amie bailey-knobler and then tim eicher. supervisor kim: is amie here? i guess she is not. now tim eicher.

same format as with mr. tan. if you could speak about your experience and the things you hope to work on on the entertainment commission as well. >> good afternoon. a move to san francisco in 1989. i own three bars in the castro and one along the russian river. when i got the first bar in the castro one of the first things i did was to join in the eureka valley neighborhood association. i did that because i wanted to be in this business for the long term and i felt like the long term success of the bar depended on the understanding of the neighborhood concerns and being able to proactively resolve issues before they get out of control and become huge issues. i tried hard with all the bars

to make sure they are responsible members of the community and trying to do good and involve the neighborhood. so, i am also on the board right now. i helped former castro after dark which is a coalition of nighttime businesses in the castro. with castro after dark i took the lead on crime reduction issues. i do not know how many people are aware. there has been an increase in things like petty theft in the castro. people are coming in and stealing iphones and smart phones and wallets and things like that. one of the things we have been working on is working closely with sfpd with mission station to put together an alert program where the bars and restaurants and cafes are working to promote

awareness and educate patient -- patrons to watch their belongings and be careful. also i put together a program where the bars can communicate to each other and with the police by texting to a single number that goes to the security staff. something happens at one bar, it will alert all the other bars so they can be watching out. going through the neighborhood and -- someone going through the neighborhood and stealing smart phones, let's be extra vigilant. i am putting together a series of training sessions for security staff at the bars for things like fake i.d. detection, property escalation techniques, how to detect pickpockets and things like that. i feel like getting the security staff at all the venues properly trained and working together is an extremely important part of decreasing -- increasing safety and decreasing the crime.

part of my background, i have a background in technology. as part of that, i have developed skills in problem- solving and finding practical solutions. that is one of the things i bring to the table. as well as one of my strengths is finding common ground on issues and coming up with practical compromise solutions that everyone can live with. as far as we would like to do on the commission, one of the areas i think i would like to work on is the crime and safety issue. i think if we can extend training to a larger number of venues around all these safety issues, i think it would be positive. cmac has done at a tremendous amount of work in this area. it could be expanded upon. also, the other thing i would like to work on, entertainment is such a vital part of having a

world-class city. i would like to see entertainment and nightlife promoted as part of the city's promotion toward visitors and tourists. it is another area i would like to work on. thank you. supervisor kim: are there any questions for the applicant? ok. i have a couple of questions which will be asking all the applicants. have you attended an entertainment commission meeting? >> yes. supervisor kim: also in terms of your time commitment, do you think you will be able to commit to the time involved in not just the commission meeting but attending association meetings as well? >> that is an important part of being on the commission. i would not want to make decisions in a vacuum. doing that is an important part of being on the commission.

supervisor kim: also we have a policy that supervisor wiener and president chiu has brought forward, around on monitored parking lot. we have quite a number in the south of market. >> i think it is a great idea. it is important. i would -- i am curious about whether i would apply -- it would apply to private parking lots. there are city-owned lots that would benefit from the same techniques. i definitely support it. i wonder if we should not apply to city parking lot as well -- lots as well. supervisor kim: i wondered if you had any thoughts around staggered parking. >> it is a good idea.

one of the problems is we have everyone pouring out of the bars at 2:00 a.m. and different groups of people intermingling and there is potential for conflict. i think having staggered exit times would be a great idea. also, late-night restaurants are great idea. i would like to see more of those. it is a great place for people to go and sober up a little bit before going home. i think having options that don't have everyone trying to pour out and leave these venues at 2:00 a.m. is a idea. supervisor kim: several other folks have brought up the idea. it is not a permit issue. if there are restaurants near entertainment venues or other ways the commission could do l ration what we could do about late-night dining. i appreciate that. thank you. seeing no other further

questions. we will call up steven lee. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i come to -- before you to offer my personal time and knowledge in the entertainment field foresee tw -- for seat two. i bring to 30 years of practical experience starting as a broadcast communications major. living on merced hall, i joined an asian student group that did barbecues and held house parties and dance things. i spent hours producing the music and the dancing stuff and i emceed for them. i worked for pg&e in the mail room. when i finished the promoted me to a public relations in the audiovisual technical field. i was in charge of all their

video gear, audio taping, recordings. in 1982, being bored there at the corporate level, i quit to do -- to be an entrepreneur. i wanted to explore the situation of making a fun part time side money thing into a real business. i quit my job to do this. in 1982, i decided to learn everything i needed to know about the entertainment business in san francisco. from being a d.j. i managed bands and booked the bands. the street fair, the cherry blossom street fair, even worked on the coordination involved, bringing bans and entertainment to the community for their

fundraiser uses. at the same time hosting -- over 500 events at that time. the largest one but myself, i had 3000 people at a new year's eve party -- by myself i had 3000 people at a new year's eve party at mosconi center. we had a mobile dj thing and we were going around. i gained so much -- they were calling me the king of parties but it was called the king of set -- social networking before social networking was known. i work hard to preserve the spirit of entertainment in san francisco. charlie lo, i was watching the documentary on forbidden city. he was the first asian-american nightclub owner who against all odds opened a nightclub in -- near sadr and grant -- sutter and grant, to help the troops

and the visitors to san francisco. i met andy wong who was in charge of the sky room in chinatown. well i -- i threw my first outside party when i was 21 and met the owner of bimbo's. i see all these pictures of frank sinatra and glen campbell and i said, what is this place? he was telling me, my place was the place where everybody would go to see big-name entertainers. that kind of inspired me. through my course of my career, and promoting, i felt that the only way to reach salable of any promoter is to own a nightclub. as you know, a lot of the city places are owned by former promoters of san francisco.

what happened is, i built a business plan, the trucadero nightclub. a sister club of studio 54. the owner -- the neighborhood wanted to shut it down. abc and the police wanted to shut it down. the guy was definitely on his last leg. he asked me to propose something to put to renovate this club. first i thought it was a great idea. at the same idea it became the glass cat. i was happy to keep it going. that club has been there since 1977. we have been there 12 years and we remodeled to go another 10 or 12 years. that said, a lot of problems come with a club like that. neighborhood issues, i had to

deal with 40 violations from the city to take care of, which are handled. i had neighborhoods in the area that did not want us individually after a few years of mediation, we were able to have a lot of trial and error situations with the neighborhood. i had sweepers sweep the streets. i had security guards in the alleys so that our patrons do not go down there and park in there so that the wake them up when it is time to go home. they used to be open till 6:00 a.m. but as a transfer rate, we lost that. -- is a transferee -- as a transferree, we lost that. we finally got after-hours and is working out. for the public safety in the neighbors, the after-hours extension has worked out really well. -- and the neighbors, the after