available the 18th or 19th, so let us put in for the 18th. i think that is a good idea. >> both? chairperson hur: both. is mr. hennessy going to appear live? >> not as far as i know. chairperson hur: so there are two witnesses, and they will appear july 18. >> we need to go over the sheriff mirkarimi's testimony to find out if we need rebuttal witnesses. i do not know whether we do. we might. we will look into it as quickly as we can. chairperson hur: everybody hold the 19th. do not release the 19th. i would like to know by july 6 -- is that doable? that is next friday.

we can do the 10th, if that is a problem. >> we might be able to identify the witnesses by july 6, certainly. i do not know if they are going to be any part of it. it depends how quickly the court reporter may be able to get us a transcript. chairperson hur: let us to july 10, ok? let us know by july 10 whether you have a rebuttal case you want to present. is that reasonable? >> yes. >> two issues, actually. one is we would like to have some date certain by which we will now -- know whether or not sure if tennessee -- sheriff hennessey will be here on the 18th. chairperson hur: it sounds like he is not appearing. >> is that the commitment?

>> if he changes his mind, i will let everyone here on short order. -- hear on short order. chairperson hur: if we did not hear from you on july 10, we should exclude him. >> thank you. chairperson hur: after the 19th, i presume you will want some time to get us, by citation, the evidence that supports whatever facts are actively in dispute. i will provide the parties with an opportunity to brief whatever legal issues they think need to be briefed. you do not have to submit them, but i think we should give you a chance to do it, if you feel like. how much time with you need to accomplish those two tasks specs -- tasks? facts, supporting evidence, and

the brief on the legal issues. >> i am sorry. one thing that goes into this is in terms of the rebuttal witnesses. are you going to ask us to proceed by declaration again? are we bringing people in for live testimony? one is faster than the other at this point. chairperson hur: i think we may just go with live testimony by rebuttal witnesses, if any. >> if any. chairperson hur: timing-wise, how much the need after the 19th? >> i would think at least a couple of weeks. it will have to be digested.

i think minimum two weeks. >> we would prefer three. i would propose august 10. >> i think, honestly, we would like more time. but we want to get this in. three weeks, we can do. chairperson hur: i am going to -- mr. kopp's client is who find it the most pressing. if that is agreeable to you, we will go -- >> ok. i am not available between the eighth and the 13th. chairperson hur: this is when the papers would come in, not the meeting. >> it is my understanding the board is out of session. no? >> that will not trigger -- record is what triggers the board involvement. our submission of the record is what triggers the board deadline. >> and you are intending to

submit while the board is out of session? >> no. >> that is what i was mentioning -- chairperson hur: we will get to that. i am cognizant. i really want to get this schedule. >> it is diminished by the fact we can really see this is not going to move quickly. we are happy to present three weeks, four weeks to them. chairperson hur: i am asking what you want. >> i think a minimum of three weeks. chairperson hur: august 10, to get that index -- in? my thought is that, after having those, the next meeting of the commission, whenever we can schedule that, we would come to a conclusion. we would deliberate on the findings of fact and propose

conclusions of law, and we would make recommendations on whether there was official misconduct or not. at that hearing, i would be willing to entertain some short closing argument, if you all wanted to do it. it will have been a little while since we have heard the testimony. if you would prefer that, i think i would be willing to entertain it. >> i would prefer it to ballooning at this briefing. but it does not have to be a long argument. chairperson hur: it will not replace your feelings about where the evidence lies. but if you want to do a closing, i can see it potentially being helpful. >> can i reserve my recommendation on that? chairperson hur: sure. >> i am concerned that i may have aided in commissioner renne's proposal that the

parties make suggestions about how the decision look or how to help the commission. i do not know if that is something you still also wanted from the parties. i do not want to have brought attention away from that, by accident. chairperson hur: i am not sure i follow. if you have an additional recommendation for how the papers should look, we can talk about it on the 18th. i am just telling you, whatever those papers are, when we want them. we will have your conclusions of law and findings of fact on august 10. the next question is, when should we need to discuss this? what is the commission availability? second full week of august. >> dandy.

[laughter] >> the week of the 12th? chairperson hur: the 13th. that week. it sounded like commissioner renne was not available on the 13th. >> are we talking july? chairperson hur: august. >> i apologize. my phone died, so i do not have my calendar, but i think i am available that week. chairperson hur: we can hold a couple of dates and see. what about the parties? >> the second full week, beginning with the 13th? chairperson hur: not the 13th, but the 14th through the 17th. >> early in the week is better for me. the 14th would be a preference. i have obligations that week. chairperson hur: is it

avoidable? we do not have much time. let's deal with available. >> i am not available on the 17th. >> the 14th or 15th would be preferable for us. either of those dates. >> what date is our regularly scheduled august meeting? chairperson hur: i believe it is the 27. -- 27th. >> it looks like that week from the 14th through the 17th is -- the last two weeks of august, i know are not very good for us. chairperson hur: i am sorry, mr. kopp. you said? >> i believe that week is ok. the rest of august is problematic.

chairperson hur: ok, let us schedule it then. are you talking about daytime availability? one thing i am thinking is, if we can do it during the day, we do it during the day, so we make sure we get it done. >> we will do it during the day, if need be. chairperson hur: ok. >> during the day, i do have a couple of hearings. i have to look and see exactly what dates i have hearings in august, if it is during the day. >> i have a charger if it is an iphone. >> it is a phone i have had problems with, so i think it will take forever. thank you, though. chairperson hur: do the parties have any unavailability, where absolutely things cannot be moved? >> no. chairperson hur: if you can hold

those, why don't we plan to talk on monday? i will talk to the parties about scheduling. we can get a commissioner -- get commissioner liu's calendar and look at when we can have our last meeting on this. commissioner liu: thank you. chairperson hur: any comments from the commissioners or objections from the parties about the schedule we have discussed? >> neither of us is available to consult with you on monday. chairperson hur: ok. we can do it tuesday. >> or tuesday. >> we can work out a time. >> what time are we scheduled to start on july 18 and july 19? chairperson hur: those are evening sessions, i believe. we have not set a time. that is a good idea. we probably should.

why don't we plan to start at 5:00? are you available at that time? >> i do not have a calendar with me. the 19th is a thursday. many times, the room may be taken until 4:30, 5:00. perhaps on the thursday we can start at 5:30. chairperson hur: why don't we do this? we will send out the notice, or you can contact us by cc'ing. we will get it figured out. reserve evenings the 18th and 19th. >> if it is possible, i would request, when we are hearing witness testimony, if we could be in this room. i know it is limited by availability, but it is better. chairperson hur: i agree with

you. this room is much better, and much cooler as well. >> also. chairperson hur: the rooms, apparently are hard to come by. we will do our very best. anything else? ok. as is our practice, i recommend that we take a vote regarding the rulings that the commission has made today. is there a motion to approve, on an interim basis, the rulings the commission made today? commissioner renne: so moved. chairperson hur: all in favor? opposed? ok, the meeting is adjourned.

>> when the new california academy of sciences opened in 2008, it quickly became one of the top tourist magnets in the city. part of the cal academies' astronomical success is the weekly nightlife party. >> i am joined by helen, who is here to school me on all the nocturnal activities that are getting ready to take place here. tell us a little about what we can expect to see at nightlife. >> we open up the doors every thursday night at the california academy of sciences. there are certain things you can see every week you can go to the

museum, visit the planetarium, and we bring in bars and a deejay or band. it is a different feel from during the day, something different every week. tonight , we have beer and music. -- tonight we have great beer and music. it is beer week. we have a dozen local brewers in african hall. we have a deejays to set up throughout the museum and a live performance at 9:00 p.m. tonight. >> what has been your favorite part as a participant or as an observer? >> my favorite part is to walk around the aquarium in to see people with a drink in their hands, getting to know maybe somebody new, may be looking for a day, or chatting with friends. there jellyfish. i mean, they are beautiful. >> the culmination of the animals. >> it is very impressive. we do not have this at home.

>> tell us a little about some of the spider's we see here on display. >> at the california academy of sciences, there is a very large collection of preserved and live specimens, which are the evidence about evolution. we have the assassin spiders, which are spiders that exclusively kill and eat other spiders. they are under the microscope here. research done and the california academy's i rhinology lab suggests that the assassin spiders have been doing this for over 150 million years. this glassed in room is a real scientific laboratory, and the people in that room are preparing specimens of vertebrate, that is mammals and birds. the way they do this is to remove the skin, sew it together

in a relatively lifelike pose, and ensure that it does not decompose. >> i am a really big class actress fan, so i am here to see them, and beer week. >> i wanted to learn something and have fun. >> i always enjoy it. i am not all is well -- always working as i am tonight. sometimes i come to enjoy the music and to dance. ♪ >> culturewire covers the arts in san francisco, and one of my favorite culture artists is here tonight. jason, thank you for being on culturewire. tell us about some of your posters that we have here today. >> most of the posters here are four specific shows or tours. i am hired by the bands or the venue. >> what is the inspiration

behind these posters? >> no, disease of the related to the bay and, of course. music -- it is related to the band, of course the musical content or isn't related to the bed. album covers can come from anywhere. ♪ ♪ >> class actress was great. we have been having so much fun. i did not realize how beautiful the cal academy looks than that. what other events take place

here? >> we do corporate events that night on a regular basis. but nightlife is your best bet to come in as a regular person pharmacy the academy at night, and visit with friends. calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks. you can get tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. supervisor elsbernd: good morning. welcome to the city operations and neighborhood services committee meeting. my name and sean elsbernd, chair of the committee. to my left is a professor christina olague. our clerk today is mr. derek evans. anybody with cell phones, please

turn them on assignment or vibrate. mr. clerk, would you please call, and we have a lot of folks survey for items one and two, but we're going to do item 3 first to get it out of the way some of our officers can get back to work. please call item number 3. >> item number 3, hearing to consider the transfer of an existing type 20 beer and wine license from 566 minnesota street to 101 4th street to beth aboulafia to serve the public convenience as necessary -- or necessity of the people of the city and county of san francisco. >> i am the inspector with the police department. the applicant filed an application with the california department about alcoholic beverage control, seeking a type 20 off-sale beer and wine store license, located on the corner of 101 4th street. inside a commercial space with

numerous retail establishments and eateries. for the purposes of this hearing, the california department of alcoholic beverage control, abc, six in determination from the board of supervisors as to the approval or denial of this license. police calls for service from july 2010 to january 2011, 101 police calls the police reports for the same time span, 14 reports. this premises is located on a slot 224. the high crime area is defined as 215 or more police reports in a plot. this one has 480 reports for 2010, over the high crime area definition by 265 reports. the applicant premises is located in a high crime area. this premises is located in census tracts 176.02, and population is 534.

off-sale licenses of christ is one. active off-sale licenses, seven. the applicant premises is currently located in an undue concentrated area. three leopard -- letters of protest or received by the abc. no record with abc of letters of support. there's no opposition. the alu recommends approval. the following conditions recommended. number one, sales and service is about public beverages should be committed between the hours between 8:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. daily, except thanksgiving through new year's eve, sales of alcoholic beverages will be permitted from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m., and on the day after thanksgiving, the day before christmas, and the day after christmas, sales of karbala

beverages shall be permitted from 6:00 a.m. to 12 yen number two, no more than 5% of the square for the rich -- square footage of the premises will be used for display of alcoholic beverages. 3, no malt beverages with the alcoholic content greater than 5.7, except for microbrews, kraft bruce, organic, and specialty products sold under such designation as stout, porter, ipa, and esc, to eliminate high of all, low-cost products that are frequently abused but did not prevent the cells of specialty and craft beer products. four, the cells of beer or malt beverages in quantities of 16 ounces, 22 ounces, 32 ounces, 40 ounces, or similar sized containers is permited. 5, no beer or malt beverages

shall be sold in quantities of less than manufactured, pre- packaged four-packs for sale. no wine coolers or beer coolers shall be sold in less than manufactured pre-packaged multi- unit quantities of four. six, no wind shall be sold with an alcoholic content of greater than 15% by volume, except for dinner winds which have been aged two years or more in maintained in court bottles. 7, wind shall not be sold in bottles or the tenor's smaller than 750 ml's unless old-line manufacturer, a prepackaged, multi-unit quantities. thank you. supervisor elsbernd: i have heard a lot of conditions. i have never heard the one about thanksgiving and christmas. this one is unique. any public comment on this application? please come forward. you'll have two minutes.

>> ok, my name is michael, with district 6. there was no community outreach done by the applicant. there are properties nearby, but they did not go to any community organizations. the first issue is the [unintelligible] states that there's no alcoholic beverages within the gardens, so we feel that it is important that -- you know, who is going to be monitoring this? two, there were actually five or six things -- did you see the package? more than that were given to abc. and there are no letters of support, so that would mean they

did not do any outreach. also, there was as part of the complaints come a map of yerba buena gardens, which shows you the points of interest. when you have these children- related activities nearby -- i am not sure i can read them all, but you have the ice skating rink, a play circle at the center of the gardens, the bowling center, the carrousel -- i mean, these are all children- related things, plus the yerba buena gardens themselves. so how is this going to be mitigated? [bell rings] it is clear that there was no community outreach. the mitigations seem to be somewhat inadequate. there should be at least sign niche, because they will also sell cigarettes.

how are they going to address the cigarette smoking nearby? we would like to see them get a license, but we would like to see it better mitigated for the community thank. thank you. supervisor elsbernd: thank you. next speaker, please. >> if there are any other speakers, lined up along the wall. >> good morning, supervisors. i have another map here. you can see the open spaces. within two blocks of this area, you have plazas, parking lots, parks. again, somebody could go into target, by a six-pack, and then drink it anywhere they want. clearly. and we have people coming from all over the world to our city, and this is what we do.