people come to the bar next door and they come to your place. instead of having an oil and vinegar kind of situation. i know that the intensity was kind of making her mad a little bit. how is it now? >> i have not heard from her. i am open with everybody right now, with the local police, the community, even the neighbor. whenever a problem she had been having or anybody, i am all ears and making changes. so far, i have not heard from her so it should be ok. her main problem was having the clientele in the neighborhood and she said it was affecting her business. it has been affecting the whole neighborhood so we made that change and it has been positive. >> i have a question for staff. it sounds like the business will change their name. do they have to come up for a new permit at that point? >> no. generally speaking that is added

ministry of -- that is an administrative amended. there will -- and they will request an amendment. it is not a requirement for a name change. >> what are you planning to change the name to? >> right now the funds are kind of flow, i estimate three months if things work out. things were -- will work out. >> i recommend in terms of the commission -- condition alterations that at such time that it would like to proceed with those that you contact the richmond -- you would like to proceed with those that you contact the richmond station and review and make their recommendation whether we do it or not. it would be hard for us to do it appear. i want the people who are out there saying what is going on to make the recommendation. those are the people you will have to convince that you are ready to have modifications. >> understood.

president newlin: in my humble opinion. >> ever so humble. >> as an industry, they went through the ringer on this. like most clubs should if they're in trouble. they're taking the responsibility of trying to do well. i do not know what the neighborhood side has to say. you know how you guys feel. again, unless officer moore and richmond station is comfortable coming back to the table, like the president said here. the neighborhood, i have not heard anything from the neighborhood. how do you guys feel? >> is a positive step in the right direction. i appreciate you making the steps you did to improve the quality of life that you did and making sure the place is secure for the neighborhood. >> that is one of our main concerns. president newlin: ok.

is there any member of the public that would like to comment on this issue? this is your last chance to appear -- >> i would like to agree with my permit officer, toby moore. we were pleased with the conditions and the progress and we would like to monitor that to ensure that compliance maintains and we're able to facilitate public safety and we would be willing to revisit some of those conditions but we need to make sure we holdfast and maintain current conditions right now. president newlin: thank you. ok. this is an action item. what type of action? >> it is only there in case you would like to make it

actionable. i do not think you're required if you do not want to. president newlin: not taking action, that would be it. unless everybody agrees that at this time we will leave it under the auspices of richmond station and our staff, we will go from there. good luck and thanks for the improvement and thanks for the oversight and hopefully, richmond will have only hookah clubs in the future. ok. item seven. regarding applications for permits under jurisdiction of the entertainment permission. two jacks, 401 haight. >> this is a seafood restaurant in the neighborhood. the restaurant has been in operation since 1977. this would allow the operators

to have live music including music and poetry. we have received no communications of concern. several neighbors and the neighborhood group to support the permit application. president newlin: great. is the applicant here? come on up. welcome. >> good evening. i wanted to say that i am second generation omer -- owner of two jacks. i am their only child so i decided to take it over in 2006. i was born and raised in san francisco, and tended -- i attended st. ignatius, uc davis,

class of 1998. i have two gorgeous babies, i am a wife. i am grateful i have two parents that worked so hard to establish a business in san francisco and continue the business. i want to be an example for the community being a minority, a woman, to show that when you are dedicated and grateful for what you have, you can achieve your goals. that is what i am here for, to pass this to my kids and the community around me. this will definitely help. >> i used to work in that area. the fact that your parents survive, that was a tough neighborhood, not anything like it resembles today. that was something to be said

for them that they could survive in an environment that was very tough and unforgiving, i would say so congratulations -- i would say, so, congratulations. any other commissioners? >> what type of entertainment you plan to do? >> open mike and small bands, music. that is pretty much it. president newlin: public comment. is there anyone here from the public that would like to address this application? no one here from the police department? i did not mean to overlook you. >> good evening, commissioners. officer boyle. the community groups are

supportive and we have no objection to this going through. president newlin: excellent. ok. >> i would like to move to approve this and your presentation was awesome. >> commissioner prius, aye. commissioner lee, aye. president newman, aye. >> good luck. very thankful. thank you. president newlin: 7b, dba king of thai. extended hours premises permit. >> this is a restaurant downtown in the union square neighborhood. the permit would allow them to stay open past 2:00 a.m..

sfpd recommends the permit be approved. i believe the applicant is in agreement. in your file are letters of support and the tenants association coalition of san francisco. we have not received any communication of concern. >> good evening, i am representing captain john joseph garrity. i met with the applicant and her husband, did a walk-through of the business and after having some discussions with the applicant, we came to the agreement that we would recommend approval for them to stay open for one hour from 2 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. in the morning. they agreed after one year, we will look at their business and it looked like there were no issues or problems at that location, we would recommend approving it for an extended time.

>> why? why only one hour? i am curious, why did you decide that? >> because that is an area that right now we're not too clear as far as if we're going to have problems at that location, but we have had problems at other areas on the corridor. the applicant agrees to that and they have no problem with it. >> ok. thank you. president newlin: is the applicant hear? >> the applicant's husband is here. president newlin: this would be the king. welcome. >> good evening, commissioners. his wife happens to be traveling. you made an agreement -- which

made an agreement with the police to go until 3:00 p.m. i was hoping for 4:00 a.m. but when we went out into the community and talked to the alliance no. 6, there is a representative here from community leadership alliance. they saw the need, a lot of those folks live in the neighborhood. part of the things they wanted was his food is good food and is inexpensive and offers an alternative to a hamburger or something else at that time and it is very popular. not everybody works nine to five. i just got wind of this that he made an agreement with the police at 3:00 a.m. and i think he should honor that. i wish he talked to me prior to that. i think you should be a man of your word and maybe we will look

at it in a year and if there are no reports, may accept 4:00 a.m. at that point. he is here for any questions that you might have. commissioner joseph: i find it offensive just so you know that you give us this boilerplate security plan that has no relation to the venue. what it maybe there is not a high security risk, but i think the security plan should somehow reference the actual venue it instead as being some boiler plate security plan. it does not reference the specific place at all. that is just a comment i want to make. >> a lot of these plans are

boilerplate and then they tend to modify a little bit. the place a hold 49 people. he has one exit. the person would be there at the front to monitor. he did not want to look as if he were guarding something. commissioner joseph: what does this mean? providing safeguards were necessary? what is that. i do not want to get on your case. i just want to tell you how i feel about the security plan. >> at that time in the morning, you have people that come in who may have had one or two too many. you do want to use discretion. it is not 9:00 to 5:00. president newlin: this was just

a comment, that this was not a debate. for future modifications, it would be up to them to make those recommendations. please certainly what you to do very well down there. -- we certainly want you to do very well down there. >> thank you. president newlin: public comment on this? welcome. >> good evening, commissioners. i represent community leadership alliance. i want to speak in support for this application of extended hours. we were unable to get you a letter of support because we had a presentation made yesterday at our community meeting. we deliberated today with our

advisory panel. it is unfortunate that the commission did not receive a more specific safety plan because we did receive one from public relations. we discussed in detail before deciding to support. we are supporting this and hope you will do the same. thank you. president newlin: all right. it looks like they gave them the plan, but not you. [laughter] all right, pat concludes public comment. -- that concludes public comment. >> i move to approve. >> i second. >> any conditions? >> pardon? >> are there any conditions? >> their agreement with the police department's stance.

>> all right, good luck. president newlin: did i miss something? all right, item number eight, commissioner comments and questions. yes? >> it is traditional for the entertainment commission to have an annual party to celebrate entertainment and to celebrate us. we are looking for a date. we usually have it sometime in july, but it is leading the way. we have our summit in august. it is going to be a little late this year.

we easily do it on a monday? when do we do it? we do it today we have a meeting, that is right. we usually do not do the first meeting in september, is that right? it is usually labor day. we should come up with a date. guys, can we come up with a date by the next meeting? president newlin: as president of this commission, i directed to come up with a date. >> did started as a birthday party because we were born on july 1 of 2003. each year, we would get a little older. it is not just for us. it is for the public. it is for our permittees. it is for anybody interested in coming to meet the commission. it is something that we will

want some time to do some invitations and make sure we agenda is it. -- agendize it. we usually do not have permits, but we do have a little bit of business. it is open to the public, just like a meeting would be. but it is not here in city hall. we will post it as such. >> i would like to suggest september 11. i take that back. oh, my god, no. i do not want to do september 11. that is our meeting date. all the way to september 25. >> are you looking at the first and third? our meeting dates have changed. >> the 18th, september 18.

>> that is my 45th birthday. >> what is wrong with that? >> i like you very much, and that is also the night that the harvey milk club does its endorsements. that is not good for me in two ways. >> i will suggest that we may be use some e-mail and do some circulating. staff will do that. do not do it amongst yourselves. we will find a date. president newlin: we do not have to hold it on a beggarly scheduled a meeting date. -- on a regularly scheduled meeting date. all right? excellent. ok. >> i have pictures of you. at our last one.

president newlin: i think that should have been under item nine. >> i have a question. regarding the presentation, where do we go from there? president newlin: edification. correct me if i am wrong, it is good for us to know, but it is under the authority of the department of public health. >> commissioner hyde had seen a similar presentation and have facilitated that presentation here mostly as point of information. clarity on this topic is useful, as it does get mixed up and people do have questions for the commission sometimes. relativity getting into certain businesses or facilitating meetings with businesses in that

industry, if the commission wants to direct staff to assist him in that regard or not, that is up to you. president newlin: any public comment? the final item, new business request for future agenda items. is there any public comment o b? that will terminate and finalize the tuesday, july 10, a meeting of the san francisco city and county of san francisco entertainment commission. thank you for coming.

commissioner wiener: welcome, everyone, to the san francisco county transportation authority finance meeting. are there any announcements? >> no announcements. commissioner wiener: ok, what will go to item two? >> item two, up from the minutes of the june 12, 2012 meeting. this is an action item. commissioner wiener: colleagues, any comments? any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion to approve the minutes? can we take that without objection? that will be the order. item three. >> state and federal legislative update. this is an information/action item. >> mr. chairman, members, i am

here today to give you an update on legislation of interest and what is going on in sacramento. i want to cover a couple of bills first, but i do want to know that last friday was the date that the legislature recessed until august 6. they completed their work for the year. when they come back in august, they will be dealing with appropriations for two weeks, the appropriation bills and the suspense calendar, and then they will go straight to the floor. a lot of bills moving in that direction, including some of the ones i will update you on. first, a slate of bills that have particular interest to the bay area, the community, and particularly san francisco. a.b. 57 includes the requirement that we saw that san francisco had a third representative. it is on the governor's desk, and as a result, i am organizing a check-in with the

governor's office staff to make sure whether they are standing on that, and i will have that completed by the end of the week. there are two bills by the senate transportation chairman that have been of high interest. the bill was basically killed in the assembly transportation early last week and is no longer valid for the year. s.b. 878 b which at one point started off as a bay area governance issue, restructured the relationships in the bay area, and then ran into trouble and became more of a bill to deal with economic strategies in the bay area. later, that became a bill no longer dealing with bay area governments but dealing with the state transportation commission. that bill has been sent to appropriation, and we will not see any more attempts to deal

with governance this year. probably next year. finally, s.b. 1339, a re-bill of senator yee, the bill had been sponsored last year, but it was statewide, and the governor chose to veto it. this year, the senator narrowed it down to be a mtc region bill only. the governor has asked them to keep it in moments, it is technically not on his desk until he can get around to taking a look at it, given the slate of work the governor had the last couple of weeks. assembly members scanner -- assembly member skinner has tried to enact legislation that would reduce parking requirements in cities. to help benefit in-fill

development. her bill last year died due to opposition from the league of cities. this year, she established a new bill in the last month, a.b. 904, and she ran into trouble with it, so she held on to it, so she will be back next year rather than surprising people in the last month of committees. there are a couple of bills that deal with ifd's. the speaker has a measure which would reduce the vote requirement to something like 55%, but it also would allow -- there are certain pass-throughs that come back to the city at certain points in time that would allow this to be integrated with the ifp process. i am not a technician, so if you need to know more about this, i will dig into it.

i have a decent handle of what is going on, but the interaction between the two in the bill is confusing to me. in addition, the senate local government share has introduced a local government bill late in the session to deal with it. her main attack is on the vote requirements for establishing an infrastructure finance district. that bill has not been heard yet. it is pending in local government. it seems to be outside the deadline, so it may be in trouble. she may be seeking a rule waiver. those are the high interest bills we are following this year and where they stand at this point in time. as you know and read about and a lot of us were working on for the last couple of months -- or the last six months in some cases here in the bay area -- on a high-speed rail funding package, the total package, which includes financing for the

initial construction segment in the central valley, includes the balkans, which this region really promulgated the whole notion of an additional investment -- includes the bookends. it lives the high speed rail authority into a modern era. finally, the one i have been working most directly on was for the connectivity funding, which is the path that provides the funding for in this case central subway project. earlier in the year i did not see a pathway to getting that done as a stand-alone basis, but i think the operators and related entities in the state were looking at connectivity with the department of finance. this is the time to make those investments. consequently, we had a series of

meetings with finance and the cpc to get them to a place where they accepted the updated program and put the money in the budget. with that, i will draw to a close. commissioner wiener: colleagues, are there any questions? commissioner elsbernd: what does that pot of money due for caltrain and electrification? how far down the path does that get us? >> i have heard conflicting reports that there was 700 million, but i have heard $600 million. the characterization i heard fully funding the electrification of the 700 level, so i do not understand the differential. it may be local funding included in the pot. >> good morning -- did i hear