they get bored. they walk around the street and cause problems. "we are hoping to see -- and i do not have the data to back it up. we will need a few months. with this going on, maybe we will see a decrease in problems and those kind of issues. i could be totally wrong there. i am hoping we will have a positive effect. >> i was wondering. you were talking about the short throw speakers, and stuff like that. a few weeks ago, i was talking about el rio, and the use of an outdoor venues. they are frequently open spaces. is there a possibility to have some francisco, for its problems between neighbors and people with back patio's?

>> there is the finale that potential. as commissioner joseph has said, it is a new technology. a lot of it is based on digital or computer-based religious systems. -- relay systems. the length of sound accord between speaker and source causes delay. they have conquered that by installing these digital systems that, for that delay. it continually equals everything out. everything sounds like it is coming out at the same time. really, there is a computer figuring out where to speed up or slowed down certain things. but it is a new technology. as far as what you are talking about, i think it does have the potential of making big steps in that direction. quite honestly, it is going to take a while.

every situation is pretty new with this stuff. working with somebody like sauternes associates, which is an engineering firm in the nation and globally. it would be great to talk to them and get some of their data input. but long-term vision, absolutely. >> and they take out a certain amount of megahertz. >> since it is new technology, does that mean it is also more expensive at this point? >> radically so. give it a year, and it will probably be cheaper and more affordable. >> -- president newlin: that

concludes the directors' report. any public comment on that? seeing none, police department comments and questions. seeing none, any public comment? item five, you are on. hearing and possible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commission. this is for bluestem brasserie, 1 yerba buenda lane, limited live performance permit. the actual -- we accidentally schedule this for the last meeting, so we need to do something with that. i missed the last meeting. it was voted on? >> yes. president newlin: ok.

why can't we just -- it must be heard tonight? >> it was heard before the 30 day notice period was up. president newlin: do we have the applicant here? >> i do not see the applicant. >> we have to rescind it before we discuss it. >> i am not sure the order. >> i move to rescind. president newlin: all those in favor? same boat, col. same house, same call. ok. >> this is located on yerba buena lane near market street. it is a full-service restaurant, and a limited live performance permit would allow

live performances to a company brunch service. staff has not received any letters, e-mails, calls, or objections. in front of you, you have proposed conditions from sfpd. that is it. president newlin: is there a company b who wants to speak to this issue? are you guys just have nothing to do and want to hang out at our meeting? >> from southern station. southern station does recommend the approval of the application, with the written conditions you have in front of you. president newlin: excellent. vice chair joseph: why is a condition that they stop at 8:00? >> initially, the application was -- we decided to give them

an extra window, in case things ran late. this was for the lunchtime crowd. we decided to expand the window by four hours. they ask for 4:00 p.m. [laughter] president newlin: ok. commissioners? >> if it is a limited life permit that extends to 10:00? >> that are not open. >> that are open until 11:00 p.m. >> oh, they are? >> after a year, the permit may be extended to 11:00. >> that are only going to be open until 11:00 anyway, right? >> the only wanted until 4:00.

we are giving them until 8:00. >> they wanted it for the brunch crowd. we gave them an extra four hours. >> i do not mean to be a stickler on a point like that. >> the limited liability is set at 10:00 in general. there are really no residence in the area. it is mostly happy hour. do we do the regular thing until 10:00? >> is that the standard operating procedure? i do not think there will be any objection. president newlin: any other questions? i think we need an emotional -- we need a motion with an amendment.

>> i would like to move to approve the limited live, changing condition number four to 10:00 p.m. for consistency. >> same house, same call? president newlin: thank you for coming in. commissioner comments and questions. i assume there is no public comment. >> do you want to hear public comment? >> yes. >> ok. >> tomorrow night at the lgbt center, beginning at 5:00 thursday, going until 7:00, i think, or maybe 7:30, will be a conversation with mary ella castro, daughter of raul castro, the president of cuba, and the niece of fidel.

why is it relevant? she was instrumental in changing the attitudes and laws in cuba on lgbt folks. she is pro gay marriage, pro transgender health, hiv. she is going to be making a presentation. it is open to the public free of charge. come early. it is going to be slammed. >> when is it? vice chair joseph: tomorrow. i suggest you arrive between 5:15 and 5:30 in order to get in. she will probably not be there until 5:45. having said that, that is my comment. >> i would also like to invite

everyone to the local production of "the vagina monologues." the cast includes supervisor malia cohen and others. it is women of color united against violence. i have been a volunteer in this production for about eight years. vice chair joseph: will everyone be there? >> it is this friday at 7:30. president newlin: anybody else? >> i just wanted to say that last night the harvey milk club had their soiree, which was fantastic. as a result, today, on harvey milk fifth birthday -- happy birthday. today was named jose saria day at the board chambers. and the harvey milk club -- this

is the first time he has been recognized with a proclamation in our city. we are really excited about that. he has a street, but the other is a day to go with that street. maybe we would get a parade going. also, i just wanted to say that the alice b. toklas club and the hard enough club will be joining us for a clear night life program at the women's center. -- queer nightlife program at the women's center. we are very excited about it. >> on thursday -- i think you have a fire in your books. -- flier in your books. this is asia pacific heritage month. 5:30 is a celebration hosted by mary lee, honoring the secretary

of transportation who grounded all the airlines during 9/11. it is a free event. there is food. i am producing all the entertainment for the evening. we are going live. it is all live performers. we are going with one of the bands that has played in the japan town area for many years. it will be our backup band. the singers are not all professional. it is going to be kind of like an american idol in city hall. the live performance goes from 5:32 6:00 for the speakers. 7:00 to 8:30 is the live

performances. it is in the rotunda. we are taking over the space. president newlin: all the permits in order? [laughter] i would hate to send guys down there. i just have one item. i would like to point out that our becker -- our deputies director we did our deputy director, nicholas king, has outstanding taste in clothing, particularly shirts. [laughter] having said that, we will move on to item seven. new business, request for future agenda items. seeing none, this will be my pleasure to conclude the tuesday, may 22 meeting of the entertainment commission for the city and county of san francisco. thank you all in the audience for coming.

>> we will call this meeting to order.

this is our second disaster council of 2012. i will turn this over to the mayor to make a few remarks. >> thank you, everyone, for participating on this meeting. as you know, it is obviously not a high priority. we're using every opportunity to practice. we are engaging our businesses, making sure that everyone has the supplies. i do strongly feel that what we're doing is going to allow us

to recover so well after any major incidents. i just came back from celebrating the final signing and recognition of the america's cup. the reality is 500,000 people, maybe a weekly basis. we have posted 3 different workshop scenarios to handle crowd and responses and getting ready for all of the anticipated populace that will come into the city. while we enjoy of course the big economic contribution to the work force and to business, we also have to be focused on everyone's safety. that is partly what makes the event so successful. the more that we do that with all of our partners here, the

more the event will be safe, therefore more successful. i am also very interested in every type about reach that we do in our neighborhoods and thank you, supervisor cohen, for joining us. i know that we are trying to be creative and constantly reminding people about to the equipment and products that they should have. there is going to be another effort to make sure that we have a campaign to educate our public to get the right equipment and have it available to them. this is being planned and it is called "what are you shopping for?"

we take every opportunity to remind everyone. thanks to our fire chief and his wife and to her work that we properly use the month of april. this takes advantage of the commemoration of the 1906 earthquake. those of you that did that, we will thank you for next year. it does what it is supposed to do. it gets everyone's attention. this is a commemoration, also a reminder of what we can do. the more kids that we can get attention to your club of the more they will have a culture. this should be the way that we live our lives in the san francisco bay, to be ready and to be a collaborative.

to be ready no longer just to help yourself. we will move beyond that. it is about you being prepared and then being prepared to help someone else. that will be thematic for everything. we celebrate this and all of our relationships. this is with our business community or with our groups. thank you for being part of this and keeping a vigilant with the education. the collaboration with the nonprofits, from the red cross, to the interfaith council, and our business leaders. i do think that our emergency response department has really felt that they are no longer by

themselves and they have a lot partnerships to respond with because everyone has elevated their attention and preparation. >> thank you. >> i have a very brief directors report today. i wanted to let everyone know that the board of supervisors will be approving the 2011 -- appropriations which will bring about $35 million into the bay area. of that, 5.5 million is going to san francisco. we were waiting for the guidelines for 2012. the bay area receive a reduction in funding. this coming year, year 2012. even though our relatives for went from 5 in the nation to

numberfour. we received a larger cut than chicago. they received a 13% cut. given that our mayor and other local mayors sent a letter to secretary of paul lozano expressing their distress with this -- secretary napalitano expressing their distress with this. we are really hoping that the attention that we have given this is going to help us in 2013 and that we will not be hit again and hopefully our allocations will go back out. i wanted to update you on the system, the interoperable communications system. i talked about it before

motorola got the funding. 1 of 7 areas in the country to receive this finding to start to build out this system. we have put together a regional joint powers agreement which the chief and myself sit on 4 san francisco. lots of good things happening. congress in february, you have probably heard this come up last new lead -- probably heard about this, passed new legislation. there will be a larger area of legislation. the problem is that it is transferring responsibility from the fcc over to and cia for developing this program. -- over to ntia for developing this program. the new board that congress establish will be set up in

august and we are not sure yet exactly what will happen. we are continuing to move forward although ntia has cautioned us to slow down a little bit. we were trying to meet every single 1 of the federal deadlines because the original finding was -- funding was rf funding. we have to slow down. we did have a phone conversation with 1 of the undersecretaries in washington and i feel confident that will continue to move forward and we will be 1 of the first to build out our system. san francisco is 1 of 5 counties funded by the state of california to pilot the disaster program. this is a first in the nation effort to strengthen government- affiliated volunteer programs and integrate a volunteer resources.

disaster core, we are hoping to get volunteers shortly. these volunteers will be able to do things for us that others cannot do because of the background checks and the classifications that they had as being a member of disaster core. on our emergency shelters, we quickly assessed the disability needs in emergency shelters. more than 50 personnel were trained to be on the assessment service teams and staff teams. the trainees came from him and services agency and also department of public health and we think that these teams are going to help us in serving our local community and service providers. finally, i hope that you will all go to the academy of sciences to see the new show that is opening may 26th.

it is a new exhibit on earthquakes. this is a lot of fun. that concludes my report. i will turn it over to staff that will present on this next item, which is our special event update. >> as we have done, we continue to highlight the special events as an opportunity to coordinate around planning and execute the event. the more times that were in the emergency operations center, the more times we are getting together on a day-by-day basis. with that, i will turn it over to diana to speak a little bit about the golden gate bridge. >> i and a special event

coordinator. if you have not heard anything about this, there will be 8 series along the waterfront which will culminate in a fireworks show in the evening. this is between 9:00 and 9:30. for this anniversary, they will not be closing the bridge. however, they will be closing this so that they can set off fireworks and to the bridge. for safety reasons, the bridge will be close. this is a very unique opportunity to work with some knee jurisdictions involved. this goes into rose county. we'll have been working very closely in planning this of that. this is also the same footprint, that would be the america's cup. this is an excellent opportunity to exercise our emergency plans

and spending for the city. >> i will ask -- to talk about the america's cup series. >> and we will look at how we all work together as public safety agencies. the first part of that is developing this plan. there are 7 plants. we really needed to check and see how this is going to work. the mayor mentioned that is where we have these series of exercises. we have all the different agencies and fall, we have almost 50 agencies participating in each 1 of our exercises. we will get an understanding of how this might impact may. the second exercise was 1 where we thought about where things went as planned. we look at how the plans would work to get there, where the

personnel would be, where they would be located, and how things will flow parent of the third exercise was, what if something bad happens? we took this same scenario that we had for this and we used the second exercise of the plan and we look at what if we had protective demonstrations, what if we had some type of event at the bridge. what if we had mass cataclysmic incident. each time, we had over 100 participants. we decided how we're going to respond while at the same time, maintaining all of these operational levels of service throughout the rest of the service. we have gone through the 3 exercises of the america's cup and now we have the opportunity to test them with the golden gate bridge. it has been a great opportunity to meet all of the different agencies and for us to meet 1 another.

we will learn how to make this work. >> finally, i will go over fleet week. once again, we are in need deep in planning. this will be here the first week of october. once again, there is a focus on the air show. this remains a great partner. this starts with the senior leadership seminar. we will bring together military and civilian leaders. we will touch on a number of topics. we have a lot of good ideas ranging from the medical search all the way into cyber security issues. as we start to pull these things together, we will keep you informed with that. we will continue an annual exercise and bring the