thank you. come on up. >> good evening. past president, marina merchants association. we have not had any meetings with the owner. that would be something we would be interested in. he did come to one of our meetings a couple of months ago and i do not know what the plan of attack is. we want him to work with us. that is the main request. we want to be involved. the way this was pitched to the neighbors that live above who were really burned out from all the music before is it was going to be acquired establishment. i do not know what the regulations or limitations will be but you need to be considerate of the neighbors. president newlin: thank you.

>> good evening. i am both -- i have to businesses on scott street next to -- i provide security. he is not going to be here to speak. i have heard a lot of -thing said about the establishment. i think he has done a tremendous job of rebuilding of this place. gravity was a menace to the neighborhood. i have to contact the police department. paul has turned the space around. if you walk into the place, if you see the clientele, it is

100% completely different than what was there before. i was there when that tillman was shot at gravity. it is not fair to paul or to them to compare. president newlin: they were saying he is uncooperative. we're not comparing what is -- to gravity at all. >> i have heard him and i respect their opinions. as a business owner i think he should be entitled to have this permit. president newlin: thank you. no further comment from the public, it is with the commission. commisioner joseph: you said he contacted us and asked for continuance.

how did he contact you, e-mail, phone call backs >> she stopped by the office. to let me know. commisioner joseph: ok. can you tell me is this commission continue did or did he? >> he made the request. commisioner joseph: i do not think so. >> i am positive if he did. commisioner joseph: my -- >> i can hear the public grumboinmbling. commisioner joseph:i if we continue to the next meeting and he does not show up, then what? we cannot not continue in again, what happens? >> wyck cannot continue it? >> we are on a time thing.

if we -- >> the place of entertainment permits shall be granted whether the entertainment commission acts are not. if a certain number of business days elapse, and the applicant has not said, would you please continue this, a permit will be granted. we almost never have that problem because we have regular meetings. at the last meeting in july, when he was here, the way that you phrased it was it was you who said we're not going to continue it but if you ask for a continuance, we would be inclined to grant one. he said, may i have a continuance? you granted one. if that is what you think happened -- commisioner joseph: i do not remember. i am asking this lichen phrase

my motion. upon the request of paul owens, a move to grant a continuance -- i move to grant a continuance. is that the proper way to phrase that motion? >> yes. president newlin: do we have a motion? >> second. commissioner pereiz, aye. commissioner tan, aye. president newlin, aye. commisioner josephpresident new. >> al perez and i are the community representatives and i was not impressed by the bieber at the last meeting. if there are these problems we would like to be invited to any meetings that would happen and kept in the loop.

>> we have another permit. president newlin: patterson, michael, extended hours permit. is that continued? >> it is a restaurant on market street. commisioner joseph: he was here. >> it occupies the space that was the baghdad cafe. this is an application to do the same, operate between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. i will tell you about it since the applicant is not behind me. all sorts of soul food and louisiana style cooking. i'm not sure about louisiana. they do have chicken and waffles

and i have had them. commisioner joseph: what is the staff recommendation? president newlin: anybody from the public wish to comment briefly on this item? >> i am a big fan. i read about it in the north side magazine. chicken and waffles but there is a lot more. the have an awesome gumbo. this is a global destination to have this quality food and to be able to get it late is what we brag about, being world class. thumbs up. commissioner newlin: are they open now? can i get dinner? >> i would like to echo that. i have eaten it twice in the last three weeks. this place is great. the chicken and waffles and blue plate specials and i had the big

shrimp and very new orleans and really good. thank you. commissioner newlin: no further public comment. item is with the commission. >> i move to approve. >> second. >> commissioner perez? ["roll call" all voting in the affirmative] commissioner newlin: commissioners' comments and questions. >> commissioners, if you will notice the size of our packages tonight. it is -- although the office uses recycled paper, it is a lot of paper. i would like the commission consider bringing your laptop so we can reduce our paper load and be environmentally correct and

have it electronically to those commissioners who don't have a laptop, i'm sure the staff will print you a copy. i'm going to ask this to be an agenda item. commissioner newlin: item 7 -- go ahead. >> whenever you guys have your clients, could you make sure we get things wired to this public neighborhood meetings they are supposed to be having. they would like to attend and meet with them, us neighborhood representatives. and then i believe we are trying to schedule a retreat and have a conversation about dates. i did talk to the venue. >> could i say for the record

that i'm excited about being on the board and working with all of you. so i think -- i don't want to be the overeager rookie. if there is any more i can do to be out in the community and understand the issues that you all are dealing with in the public as well as with the commission, i'm more than happy to do that. thank you. >> we are happy to have you. commissioner newlin: we enjoyed your comments and you got into it and hopefully we won't have to worry about having a quorum every week. item 7, new items? >> this is where i talk to make sure in february, the first meeting of february, i give my broadway presentation. i want to make sure that's on there. and is it true next week, we will introduce an action item

for -- ok. commissioner newlin: are we going to skip the executive director's report. >> how about the minutes? can we get that out of the way? >> i'm not going to mention my report at all. you have it in there and go ahead and look at it and i'm going to make one quick comment and shout outi'm wearing this mohawk in showing support for a brave little boy named james who was diagnosed with cancer last week who is sporting a mohawk as he sits in the hospital. james, get better. >> gosh! commissioner newlin: we'll do the minutes next time. i got to get going.

this concludes the january 10 meeting, 2012 of the entertainment commission. i will be in palm springs for the next meeting. first one i miss in two years, but i want a full report on how commissioner joseph runs things in my absence. adjourned at 10:34

>> with the secretary please call roll. [calling roll] commissioner levitan is on her way. we are on item number -- just as a reminder, if everyone could please turn off any electronic- sounding devices. if you would like to speak today, please fill out of blue card. it you could please take in the secondary conversations outside, we would appreciate that. when you speak on public -- public comment, please address them to the commission. neither staff nor the commission will respond during but they may be asked to respond after public comment is through. with that, we are on item number two, the president's report.

>> i am going to refer that to later on. commissioner buell: i did want to announce that a good friend of the recreation and park department passed away. she is the late widow of gene friend, who was a friend of the commission for many years. they have been very generous to the recreation and parks department. i would hope that we would adjourn in her honor. with that, let's move on. >> any public comment on this item? public item is closed. item number three, general managers report. >> good morning, commissioners. happy new year. a few announcements this morning. this past monday, in honor of the martin luther king day of service, we partnered with the

department of public works and the mayor's office to host volunteer day of service event in district 5. i had the pleasure of seeing commissioner borden at the kickoff. we have 45 volunteers who worked quite hard to pick up the mall, picking up leaves and sanitizing playground equipment. it was a very great tribute to dr. king and his legacy, and we want to thank the city partners, and the executive director of the of that -- of the african- american arts and complex director. i want to talk a little bit about our winter department. we are offering a wide department oa way of services fs

and families. log on to discover what we have in store for you if your families. believe it or not, even though we're still in the middle of winter, it is not too early to start thinking about summer. we are currently taking signups for lottery. residents have until february 5 to register for one of the best camp experiences anywhere in america. also, they can't guides will be out on february 6, and registration will begin on march 17. we have a couple of exciting event happening at the randall museum that are worth noting. the young people theater musical group proudly presents "cabaret" beginning january 27. three shows on january 27, saturday, january 28, and

sunday january 29 at 2:30. shows on friday night, february 3, saturday night february 4, and super bowl sunday, february. general admission tickets are $15. student tickets are $10. i have been to a couple of these productions, and they are truly spectacular. the kids are incredibly talented, and our own stuff that works with them does an amazing job. i highly encourage everyone to see "cabaret" at the rental museum. also, we want to invite everyone to join us on saturday, february 4 at 10:00 in the morning for the dedication of windswept, a sculpture by charles showeauer. we want to think the san francisco arts commission for commissioning the work and the san francisco public utilities work for funding the project,

which is out -- which is actually a wind chime. admission is free, and we would be happy to let everyone join us on that day. community meetings are moving ahead for the planning of the waterfront playground as to be urban park. the next meeting is tuesday, do you reach 24. -- at sue bierman park. children are welcomed. refreshments will be provided. we have a few staff acknowledgements today. it is our quarterly employee recognition award time. i would like to call our human- resources director to make this quarter's recognition award, which is an award given by staff. it is a peer award. >> good morning, commissioners.

my name is kim gene, the human- resources director for the perks and wrecked apartment. i am proud to introduce the recipient of our quarterly recognition award. the award is megan tieman. she is been a project manager since january 2007. she has proven excellence with her ability to work proactively and internal operations divisions. having to manage and when competing interest is one of many strong interest. over the past several years his work diligently on numerous capital renovation projects, including bishop playground, sunnyside playground, mary's, lincoln pplayground, and many others. while working closely with the

various community stakeholder groups, she completed the self park and self park projects. she worked diligently to secure regulatory approvals since the project reside within the coastal commission jurisdiction, as well as other sensitive natural resources. macon has shown tremendous poise and professionalism -- megan have shown tremendous poise and professionalism over her tenure with the program. she has demonstrated a strong and professional approach on conflict resolution and has been successful in delivering projects while meeting everyone's needs through compromise. on behalf of the san francisco recreation and park department, we want to thank you for your dedication, and we wish you continued success as a an

employee. megan is getting this award for a few reasons. reason number one, her projects are always a ='s. +'s. she brings her project in on schedule. 3, she has a zero tolerance policy for excuses and b.s. and four, because there is no cash bonus for averting disaster, at the very least we would like to give you employee recognition. [applause]

>> thank you. by the way, from did want to note -- i did want to know we are speaking macon and excellent work of her colleagues. we are well under way in our thinking about our 2012 bond. there will be more to come before this commission. i want to let you know we have been working with numerous community groups to give them updates on what has been happening with the 2008 parks bond and to begin to cultivate community input on what it should look like. we have had meetings in the excelsior. i think we have been in sunset and richmond. we have been before chinatown. you will hear much more about that in the months to come. employee recognition number two.

i would like to bring up a very special person from our recreation staff that will be taking a trip of her life next month. raquel miller -is a boxing instructor with our department that will compete against seven other women in spokane, washington, next month for a spot on the u.s. olympic boxing -- boxing team headed to london this summer. [applause] this is the first time women boxing will be included in the olympics. her nickname is a rocrockie. without further without furtherd

like to give you rocked txicksie miller. >> that is amazing. >> i just really want to thank everyone so much for the support and recognition, because it has been a really long jury in a short amount of time, and i am thankful to have the support of my city behind me. i am looking forward to this historical moment. i am very excited to be here with this opportunity and the support that i have. ed has been amazing. i'm really thankful. i want to thank everyone because it has been the energy that has been keeping me pushing. thank you for my great picture. [applause]

maybe you could come to the board of supervisors with us when we are negotiating for the budget. [laughter] >> my last announcement is a little bittersweet. both very joyous and a little sad. i want to recognize nicole avrol. as she stands up, you will get a sense of why we are about to recognize her. we are very happy enjoyable she will be welcoming the newest addition to her family in a few short months. i am also somewhat sad to announce she will be leaving our department in her full-time capacity so she can focus on her newest endeavor. nicole, as you know, just a few months after i started we learned that we were facing historic budget cuts, and we created a new division under the

theory that we did not want to cut services, we wanted to add revenue. that is how we wanted to solve the budget challenges. we tasked nicole with leading the effort. i could not be more proud of her work. he was truly a start up in every sense of the word. pro results and the team she has created will leave a legacy for the city and department for a long, long time she has helped this department focus on earned revenue and property management and stolen property support. we think nicole, through her leadership, of her team has added about $5 million in current revenue to the department of the past couple of years. at think about what that translates into direct services. she has also brought an incredible amount of joy to the city come into thy, to some of e

special event in the city. she brought a philanthropic will geift to a center. she is help the department of fund facility renovations and programming that otherwise would not have been possible. she has an infectious laugh, a great spirit, and has done an absolutely amazing job for us, and we are truly happy for her and will also miss her whole lot. i wanted to bring out a cold and did you special recognition on behalf of the department, which is you have been the transaction queen. these are the deal pieces for your mantle. we have one that we would like to give to you. [applause]

>> in honor of your entrepreneur real spirit on behalf of your san francisco family. [laughter] >> thank you. thank you for those exceptionally kind words. it has been an honor and privilege to serve if this department. i am so passionate about the recreation and parks department mission, and the partnership -- the divisions role within that. i truly believe what we do here is what makes every single person in this city want to live in san francisco. but especially those that are underserved.

from the tiny tots that we serve, to the kids we teach how to swim, and the seniors that we teach about in his programs, to the kids that get after-school enrichment programs, we make this city exceptionally beautiful and a wonderful place to live. so it is with the very heavy heart that we made this decision, but this is a role that deserves 150%, and so does my family. so this is where i need to focus, but it has been such a pleasure working with you all, and i am so proud of what the team has done, and so proud of what the department does on a daily basis. i could ask for a better experience. i will be advocating on behalf of the department. you have not seen the last of me. thank you for all of your thank you for all of your support.