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total liability was $182.2 million. as you are aware, that includes the $160 million in offset commercial paper. but in terms of sales tax revenue, we are slightly above target in terms of collection and anticipate collecting a full $72 million at the end of the fiscal year. total revenue equal to $88.1 million, with expenditures equal to $51.2 million. in terms of the amount of cash in the city, we have 88% in the city pool. i assume that there is enough on hand to cover the expenses incurred over the next six months. supervisor wiener: colleagues, any questions? is there any public comment? seeing no one -- please step
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forward. >> so, i was listening to the report before the smart business community. the smart business commission. this is what i have to see. the fiscal report kind of gives you an idea of what the san francisco transportation county authority is doing. i used to, at one time, attend all of the metropolitan transportation commission meetings, where moneys are allocated to san francisco. this is what i have to say. we have the money.
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that does not mean that because we have the money, that we do not have to do -- judicially spend it correctly. so, the small-business commission did not approve or was not in favor of what is going to be done. i know that some of you are not paying attention, but that is fine. you can multitask yourselves. but the point is, we should not be spending money on the gary corridor without some do deliberations. we saw that when money was spent on the market street. small businesses were compensated. when money was spent on church street, 85% of businesses, we
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lost 85% of the businesses. we do not know what will happen on van ness. we know that the central subway businesses are hurting. thank you. supervisor wiener: is there any additional public comment? seeing no one, public comment is closed. this is an informational item. yes, it is. ok. please call item no. 6. >> item number six, introduction of new items. supervisor wiener: i see no information -- introduction of new items. seeing no public comment, the item is closed. item number seven? >> public comment. supervisor marsupervisor wienern
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public comment. >> once again, for 45 years i have focused on infrastructure. it was a key role. now we see a lot of money has expanded on the van ness corridor and central subway. for those who are distant, and some of you are, you see the way that jumping from the frying pan to the fire, the central subway, at a particular juncture, is not going to get the amount of money to expand, but we still think, you know, that we have people in congress who are somehow going to deliver some money. so, some of us come here and we speak to you all and we tell you all this, you think that is
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good, but we are not. the businesses in of beach are going to suffer a lot. they are not even told that this, that, and the other is going to happen. i do not know. i have been attending these meetings for a long time. but we have reached a point now where some of the supervisors are nonchalant. they think they can do as they please. i do not know what is happening, you know? it is like in a supervisor, i can do is i please. no, businesses are hurting. these are dire economic times. i know that some of you look at the muni budget and think it is incorrect, and i am saying be
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>> please call role. president newlin: aye. commissioner lee: aye. commissioner tan: aye. commissioner hyde: aye. commissioner cavellini: aye. president newlin: aye. >> we have a quorum. gregg's members can address the commission brought to three minutes at the time that such item is called. if you want to talk about a commission-related item that is not on to my calendar, this is your opportunity to do so. ok, be that way. [laughter]
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see no one interested in making public comment, we will move down to item number two, will review and approve the minutes of april 24th, 2012. >> i move to approve. are we not on? >> i'm wondering, in the roll call, we are missing president 's named. gregg's he was probably at sen. gregg's it's as commissioners present. >> are you asking for a correction? >> yes. >> i will second with that correction. >> ok. commissioner -- commissioner
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lee: aye. vice chair joseph: aye. president newlin: i'm not sure which meeting i was at. cracked that is an approval then. -- >> that is an approval then. president newlin: item number 3. >> thank you. in a mood. a couple of things to update the commission on under the heading of legislative policy. i think it is june 1st that the mayor's office put out their budget. commissioner chan -- tan. let the record reflect that he is present. the commissioners, we are understaffed, as you can tell.
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and we will be doing a lot of things at once. the majors -- mayor's budget came out as a two-year budget. and the entertainment commission's budget is part of the larger administrative services budget. if you look at the document on line, it is hard to find, but we have been relatively consistent, as you know. for the nine years that we have been in existence. this year, i did not request an enforcement position. but that is among the mayor's many budget priorities. i want to update the commission on two pieces of robust legislation. -- on tour bust -- tour bus legislation. in one piece of legislation dealt with parking and citations. the second, which is a file dealing with amplified sound on tour buses. it creates a problem handled by
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the health department, and the police department, to monitor and regulate the buses operating in san francisco. i have the digest behind my memo, if your interested. we determined that the best place to regulate these with the health department. i think we lucked out. ab45 update, that is an assembly bill that we have talked about numerous times related to party bosses. if you watch the news last night, you would have gotten an update that assembly man held -- assemblymanhill amended as of this year. i think is a substantial amendment as of the last time that i talked about this.
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it had pretty much died in sacramento, and now has got . -- has gotten amended. i attended a committee meeting the arts community meeting on the subject with a couple of commissioners -- >i attended a committee meeting on the subject with a couple of commissioners. this may help the party bosses that we keep seeing. -- party buses that we keep seeing. as you know, last year i requested a chunk of change to use on-line in a bunch of ways.
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there have been using our online payment system for the last couple of months, which is so great because we do not have to deal with checks in the office or a cashier in the office anymore. it makes it so much easier for people to pay, in some cases, a very large amount of money with a credit card, which is what people are used to doing. many of the applications on the website now are smart .pdf's, which is to say they are fallible pdf's that people can -- fillable .pdf's that people can fill out on line. we started with one-time permits. those can be done is right. we are still trying to perfect the two.
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as always, the payment is a different company than the .pdf. we just have to track them together. it is pretty much working. we are close to the online permitting 40 fixed-price permits. nicklaus is staying on top of this project and has had one meeting to train all of the different departments who weigh in on this. we're talking about something where you submit on-line and everyone else gets a notification, the health department, the fire department, the billing department, and they can log in as well to this system and let us know whether there are corrections needed or whether they are complete. we are getting there. we are still testing and we will work with all of these agencies to get them on line. we will work with the police department as well to train
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access to it. but i am excited that this is coming together finally. it has been a long time. the promoter registry continues to self populate, which is obviously out is made. we are continuing to waiting for these promoters to come out from wherever you are and put themselves on mine. for the public watching on tv, go to our website, the entertainment commission website. there is a promoter registry. it is free 24 hours. please, go ahead and get on there. the 2012 industry summit, which we have done annually, for the last five or six years has been scheduled for august 6th.
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i have gone ahead and invited three the mayor's office and the chief of police -- through the mayor's office and the chief of police as well as other advisers. hopefully, put that on your calendars as recreate the panels for the main session and the breakout groups as well. so we can talk about the most pressing issues for the end of the summer moving into the fall. lastly, staff today received the resignation of commissioner cavellini. a couple of questions before we proceed? >> on august 6th, do we have a time of day?
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>> traditionally, we have done at 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., because it is plain enough for people to would awaken on a monday and not to -- late enough for people to awaken on a monday and not too late to lose their attention. >> about this sound staff for the open air buses, it talks about the sound truck. don't we regulate the sound track? >> we do. and i think this legislation will remove that. it will make a distinction and make sure that the sound track will not be a problem on the bus. >> i want to tell you that the progress with the one-stop shop is just great. and lastly, in the budget position that your request from the budget office and they turned us down, we clearly need it.
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we cannot do the whole city. that is just silly. is there a way to press either the board of supervisors, or is there some other way to pursue this position? >> there is a process that the board of supervisors has. if it is the commission's intention to have staff person that, i can request it. >> i would like you to pursue that. i do not suppose you can't hold the commissioners -- can hold poll the commissioners and ask them that. everyone is shaking their heads yes. i do not think the audio recording can do a shake of that. gregg's if someone -- >> if someone is directed by the commission to pursue the board of supervisors, i would be happy to do that. >> that would be great. >> so directed. i have one question.
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promoters, registration -- how many so far? >> roughly 40, 50, something like that. it is not enough because we know the definition is fairly broad. >> we should get more if it is fairly broad. >> we should get more. i register, just so you know. >> to promote? oh. [laughter] >> i went on and try to register as a promoter and i got through the first half and i have not been able to go back. because anyone who has the thought of throwing fund-raising parties and stuff like that as well. i do fund raising for a lot of community groups, but i cannot get into the second half. >> we have worked out a few wrinkles. i do not know why. why don't you call me and i will walk you through it. >> because maybe that is why there is only 40. >> i don't know.
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ok. >> commissioners, you will see behind the report from director king, my report is rather thin today. not too much to report. one of the things that director key and i have been working on it will get out hopefully this week. it is just another letter working nights to hand to promoters or to club owners for promoter registration. we are trying to hit many different venues and promotion on this particular thing to promote the promoter registration. that is a lot of promoters. moving through my list, you will see that not too much is going on the last few weeks. i do not want to say it has been quiet, but it has definitely not
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been as busy as we usually expect for the beginning of june, which is good. just a few administrative tickets have been issued at the lounge and the make room. just a few violations. i will talk about 1131 mission room. very briefly, that was an permit -- and on permited venue that had come to our -- a non- permitted many that had come to our attention. the city and the building were able to resolve that particular location very quickly. it was a good example of when you get the different city departments working together. if the we can kind of resolve -- we can kind of resolve issues fairly quickly. i know i do not have a in my face and they reopen sometime soon.
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we are working with the building apartment -- owner and with the tenant as well and it should no longer be an issue for the neighbors, which were having a hard time in the area. which is good news. there is not a lot to talk about here. i was just open it up to questions if any commissioner has a question. >> i do not have a question, but a suggestion. could we have the gates of the violations on here, so we could track them? -- the dates of the violations on here, so we could track them? >> share -- sure. >> if they are not around the clubs, are they just standing in line, loitering? >> there are a few different situations. i will give you an example that happened recently. someone was intoxicated and walking along broadway. they decided to kind of the late labor leader in front of two
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officers. when the officers -- blatantly litter in front of the two officers. when the officers decided to ask him about it, he got kind of our rate. they ran him and turned out if he had a warrant for his arrest. it is not related exactly to the bars and clubs, but it is related to the area. and it's a good showing that, for lack of a better term, the gotland has been thrown down. -- the gauntlet has been thrown down. s.s.p. have been making a concerted effort -- the san francisco police department has been making a concerted effort that you are not hair to have a good time, you need to go. -- if you are not here to have a good time, you need to go. >> any comment on the executive
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director's report? seeing none, item number four. comments and questions? officer mathias, welcome. officer matthias: hello, commissioners and staff. i'm here to give you an update of what is happening lately. many were talking about, he was actually parolee at large. it is helpful to be able to take them into custody when they are wanted. some of the things that we do when i apprised the commission as far as what things are going on, if it is tied to a club, i will say exactly which club and how it is tied their, if it is appropriate or not. but sometimes we talk about the things that are just entertainment related. i think it is important for the
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commission to know the level of activity going on in the districts. june 3rd at about 6:30 p.m., there was a battery at pier 23, appeared 23 cafe. they acted appropriately by escorting the parties out and helped the police when they responded. after talking with the employees at the bar, they were able to find out what happened exactly and take appropriate action. on june 10th at 2000 hours, several phones were stolen at grand ave. the suspect was later arrested that night on broadway. june 2nd at 11:40 p.m., i suspect was arrested for a drug warrant and for being drunk in public at kearny and broadway streets. june 7th, a woman's purse was stolen inside the stricker cafe located at 65 sutter st.. an unknown group stopped a
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possible suspect and beat him up. he claimed it was security, but when police talked to security, they said it was not them. i think there were several different groups that were dealing with this. we never determined whether he was the actual person who stole the purse or not. june 5th, at about 11:00 p.m., a $200 camera was stolen from the ambassador club on geary street. on june 6th at 10:30 p.m., a parolee at large was arrested on the sidewalk at 538 broadway. may 25th, at 10:30 a.m., a suspect was arrested at the club on broadway the ordinance there has helped we would like to work more closely with the doorman -- the doormen working in those areas. it could be the doormen that have advised a person ought to
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stand there, as well as an officer. we would like to the -- advice a person not to stand there, as well as an officer. we would like them to be on the same page. lastly, a man approached two different officers at regarding fights and people being drunk and noisy at the sugar cafe on sellers street. i have spoken with raj about this as well. officers have said that it has become a problem on thursday, friday, saturday night. the next officer that he spoke with was during the day shift and he was begin with people at the metropolitan club. it is the oldest ladies club in san francisco. >> ladies' club? >> [laughter] >> reject the one website and that is what they said. -- we checked the website and that is what they said. >> ladies' club. >> [laughter]
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>> they have these ladies' clubs internationally and they have reciprocal rules that you can stay at their establishment, but several guests were complaining about sutter street as well as the sugar cafe and the seller and that they will not be coming back. as far as the fights and the noise and the drunk in public ness. there was an illegal after-hours party that we are currently dealing with. any questions or comments? >> is it true that the arrests on broadway for the theft of violence occurred when you received -- theft of cell phones occurred when you received eight phone calls at once? but they did call in number. -- >> they did call a number.
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>> i have a question on the sugar cafe and the seller. they're doing construction next door, correct? >> yes. brecht's do you think that has a problem -- is a problem with -- >> to do you think that is a problem with pushing people out on the sidewalk? rex it could be, but when you're dealing with security, you have to deal with the cards you have been dealt. on grand avenue, very small sidewalks. you have to allocate resources. also, if people are in the street, it just means that security has to step it up and you move the people along. advise them of the good neighbor policy as far as letting them know, hey, this is a residential area. if somebody is wrong at 2:00 a.m., they do not think their voice is very loud. but the poor person that is as the upstairs and had to get up at 5:00 a.m., that is a different issue. >> on your list, you will see that
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