i hope we're about to the point of formally announcing this hopefully right after this thanksgiving holiday, there's a lot of pieces of paper that we have to move through but we're almost there and then i will be sending it to all of you as well, i want a wide net to find the right person who will be essentially trained by voj and then go out there independent of him to assist with hundreds of permits that we have to manage. i had talked to you guys about a tech and entertainment panel that i was excited about before the election and then i got a full stop with sf city, the organization that is like the tech sector chamber essentially put all their eggs in the prop b basket, so they were successful with that campaign and so i got back in contact with sf city and although we're

in a holiday week, i do expect to get back in touch and hopefully we'll schedule that event for january because i think that it's really important. i think that it goes to all the issues we were talking about, so i'll keep you informed and when it takes shape, i'll get some feedback from you. i also wanted to mention lastly that at the very back of this pile of paper i gave you is a section of the police code, two weeks ago, what i did in trying to prepare for new year's eve and the holiday season is sent out an e-mail to everyone and their mother that i had in my mailbox letting people know that new year's eve is very busy, not only for us but it's busy for the police department, and that if anyone is planning to do anything out of the ordinary, if anyone needs permits from the entertainment commission, is everybody okay?

what's happening? that they need to get their permits in. up to now, and until recently, we've been very kind with people who come running in at the last minute, we have been overly kind and we don't have the capacity legally to say, sorry, we're not going to accept your permit, however, there is a section in the police code, it's 1060.29.1 that will allow a special procedure permit.er one-time evens on designated events if the commission approves that procedure, and we haven't in the last year brought anything to you but my plan for 2013 is to do that because it does include july 4th and some other busy often weekends, so early next year, i'll present something. hopefully fairly simple in concert with the police department so that we will have more tools in our tool box if

people come at the very last minute, if they ask for things that are out of the ordinary, if they want to rush, maybe we can discuss the late fee kind of situation, just to give people incentive to not let everything roll down to the feet of the staff of the entertainment commission and frankly the permit officer and is the police department because we all struggle when people don't plan well and then we all have to clean up other people's mess, that will be coming to you, but if you take a minute sometime in the next few days, after you've eaten a lot of turkey and read that section, it's clear what we can and what we can't do and we'll formulate something. >> what is your cutoff for new year's eve, you should put it on the record? >> legally, there is no cutoff, it's just unlikely that more than three weeks out, you're going to really get a healthy response from our department or

the police or fire or anyone else that you might have to engage. >> so, i guess my question is, if someone comes to you on december 27th for a permit for new year's eve -- >> after i stop laughing. >> i mean as a matter of policy, you should set a date. >> so, i cannot do that unless the commission allows me to do that and that's exactly what i'm talking about, so we will be doing that for next year. for this year, i am working really hard proactively so that doesn't happen. >> okay. >> i had a question. i think, i know you mentioned the mayor's office of economic workforce development was creating an entertainment position, do you have any update about that? >> they were sort of in the same boat we were in terms of having difficulty of getting positions through the bureaucracy and i had a meeting

with wakeen torres who will be the supervisor for that position and i hope that's a hire at the beginning of the new year and i believe i still won't be involved on the panel to choose that person, so i will -- i don't have a date specific for you but i'm watching. >> thanks. >> that concludes me. anyone have anything to ask, i will turn it over to voj. >> commissioners, being as we had the last meeting was cancelled, it should be in your binder, two sides to that page on just my report, we can keep it pretty straightforward, you'll see that we've been looking into a series of complaints from the -- sorry, november 6th side of the sheet, sofa atmosphere, sky lark, and then on to the -- on the other

side that we're still looking at -- let me backtrack there, sorry, that now we're looking also still, we had a meeting with atmosphere, so they're working with the management there and gotten good response, it was both central station and ourselves on some operational changes and just what -- there's an influx and we have an opportunity to change operations on bog way, so working with atmosphere, we're waiting to see that change happen, [inaudible] they'll be coming before this commission i think it's december 4th for an extended hours. they continue to operate after 2 a.m. currently which you'll see on the sheet. we've sent notice ts of violation and sent reports. tenderloin station and us at

this time are on the same page the best possible thing to do in this particular waysing, -- situation, is to grant them the permit so we can bring them under jurisdiction and into compliance and leave it to you as commissioners to decide what kind of conditions you want and both tenderloin station and this staff will have recommendations at this time. sky lark, we've been seeing some violation, 1015, we've been working with the neighbors and southern station, we've been dealing with sound complaints that have come up from that space from a building of condos behind that location. rose wood was a venue on out of broadway near the tunnel that was operating illegally as far as dj's, we have not met by phone the owners of that establishment today, hopefully we'll have that taken care of.

the farmhouse continues to be an interest, interesting animal that has nothing really to report because it's long and convoluted and working with neighborhood people and ingleside station, hopefully we'll meet with the neighbors soon, and hopefully we've called into them and have a meeting with them also soon, they've been doing some minor sign, and nile cafe have been operating, one has been operating without extended hours, they should be coming in and also [inaudible], so overall, i know i normally don't go through the list like this, we've had an increase in complaints and we've been focusing attention in addressing those complaints currently and so far we've been able to make a lot of traction on them so it's a lot, a new person would definitely be very

helpful. continually, you'll see there's lots of incidents so forth and so on, not as bad as in the past, we've seen a decrease in incidents overall which is nice, but instead of going through those, i know officer mathias is here from central station, so he'll bring up his highlights but as far as i am, any good questions you have? >> has [inaudible] paid its fines. >> we have not cited them currently. >> we've warned, they've been given notices. >> okay. >> and talked to a whole bunch of times. >> and 1015's been quiet for a long time, can you tell me again what's going on there. >> 1015, we have a series, right behind the building, there is a condo building, i think it has 12 condos in it.

>> across the alley? >> no. and they have been complaining and dealing with sound, it's low frequency vibration through the walls of 1015, so that's -- and it's kind of -- you know, as these things often happen, people get to a certain point and then they're done, so they're done, so they're moving forward. >> thank you. >> okay, thank you. >> okay, so we are moving on to -- is there any public comment on the report from our director? seeing none, we will move on to 4, which is the police department comments and questions. this allows any member of the police department to address the commission regarding matters related tonight life and public safety. >> good evening, commissioners

and staff. >> no, it would be that one. >> hello, steve mathias from central station, giving a recap of what's been going on, an update as far as horizon 490 broadway, they are serving a 15 day suspension through the abc, this is going to go from november 14 to the 29th, this is for a minor that was intoxicated on their premises. as far as [inaudible] we've had a little bill of a loel, not as many incidents going on in the district the last few weeks. oftentimes, we've noticed that thanksgiving weekend, a lot of times, there's an increase because a lot of kids come home from different slaloms and they meet up with their friends and things happen there, but as far

as any incidents that have happened, on october 24th at 1:30, the ambassador, victim's jacket was stolen, a couple of different thefts, this person's purse was stolen and the victim caught the suspects outside, so one person went to county jail, part of the reason we bring that up is it's nice for the staff at the different venues to know there are a lot of thefts going on and that's really what we want to have a heightened awareness so that the patrons when they're coming to the city to enjoy their night, they're not having all their things taken, somebody's lap top was stolen, on the 16th at 2 a.m., a patron leaving vessel lounge was stabbed twice on a street robbery, looking at here the staff did absolutely nothing wrong and that's not why i'm bringing it up, but here it is, i'd like people to

know, be aware of their surroundings, so if there was a robbery just down the street, just for the staff, the substitute

>> this is christopher burnett, i am the applicant. can you hear me fine? yeah, so i also represent the building owner, i'm the managing member of the loc that owns the building as well as the managing building of the loc which is the tenant, so i am the sole member of both the loc's and i just wanted to briefly describe our business to you and our business model and what we're planning to do in the building, it is a historic building that's housed and a place of entertainment for a long time, i know a lot of you have heard of the purple onion and maybe you have heard

that it's closed, we're looking to renovate the building, i have plans available, i'm not sure if you have the plans but we're looking to keep the historic nay xhur to have building, the historic preservation society has been involved in keeping the facade, pretty much keeping the facade how it was when the building was initially constructed. we are looking to renovate the interior to just provide access both ada to the basement which it currently does not do as well as to come into compliance with the fire department requirements, currently it had a hand shake easement with the neighbor's parking lot for getting people out of the building in case of an emergency, we're looking to create staircase that are compliant, the ada lift as well as bringing a lot of the other elements up to code, it's going

to be culinary based, our prep kitchen is for the type of volume which we're experiencing which is a good problem to have but we're looking to have a place where we can increase our prep and the kitchen space here is quite large, it takes up a whole floor of the building, it's around a thousand square foot kitchen and it's going to be our production kitchen both on-site, catering, as well as doing some off-site prep work for some other facility, one of the things we're focusing on is the cured meat aspect, it is the hazard analysis, critical control points plan to help reduce, hopefully eliminate food born illness, we're focusing on a lot of culinary aspects, i have my chef here with me as well as a couple of other advisers, we're looking to do culinary classes in the space as well as lectures, trying to teach people about

the food movement that's been occurring and getting a little more momentum, we're hoping in addition to that, we've reached out to various organizations that have been interested in using the space for culinary space classes, parties.com is interested in doing cooking classes and different events there, we've reached out to some other organizations, the comedy aspect we like to keep alive there, the history of the space, i think it's important to keep that aspect going, so we're excited to be able to renovate it, bring it back to life and still provide comedy there, reach out to people would have performed there and help coordinate the events and they are definitely excited that the place is going to be cleaned up, renovated and just brought back to -- hopefully brought back to its previous glory, some other aspects that i like to point out on the event space is doing some

literary events, we're excited about being in that neighborhood, the jackson square historic district, some to have literary history that has been involved in the neighborhood, we've reached out to city life and the dave ed gar's youth writing program in engaging them, it's preliminary, neither has signed or sent letters of intent or anything like that, you know, and most people want to see the space before they really engage us fully, but we're excited to bring them in as well as do some readings and book signings, another aspect that we're looking forward to doing is some music, primarily initially at least we have engaged in spao*ir music groups which 800 students in san francisco, they have been a great group, i only just

started being involved with them, i've gone to their shows, they have various thing, voices, cabaret kids, i spoke with victor and stephen who are the directors there, we're excited about possibly bringing them into the space as well. these are secondary uses, the primary use for the space will be culinary based and we also want to use obviously the comedy aspect are the two primary roles for the space, i wanted to bring up the possibility of having those other aspects as well because they're personally exciting to me and i would like to make sure that i cover everything that we're looking to do and not try to say we won't do something and then ultimately bring in one of those organizations. i would like to see if there's any comments you have. i do have some more information on the business side of it for the production kitchen as well as the full service restaurant. i'm not sure if that's relevant at this time so i would like

you to take the time to look at the plans and any questions you might have. >> i know you haven't picked a name yet. >> i have picked a name. >> it says you haven't. >> i know, we weren't really wanting to release the name just because of publicity, i'm willing to share it. >> you're on tv, just so you know. >> yeah, i'm aware. you know, it -- it's looking to be called dock rickets which is a marine biologist, a local person in the community, he has been a teacher, a guru of marine biology, he is someone who i think sort of will help sort of define our space in teaching and sort of bringing in the local community, bringing in the marine environment as well as just the local ecology, he was a founder of a lot of those fields and we feel that he describes kind of

our concept as well as just sort of what we're about there. >> okay. what i was saying is that i'm glad someone's taking on the purple onion, the purple onion was e clastic, it's an important venue, i'm glad you're improving it, i'm glad you are recreating it into something wonderful, i'm glad you're considering musical groups like the students and that you're going to continue doing comedy. sound like you have a lot of work in front of you. bringing it up to ada access is a lot of work. do you have any idea when you might open? >> i can optimistically tell you a date but i know i will not hit that date. i think, you know, we are going for june, but that can easily push to late summer, if not beyond, you know, our plans have all been finalized, we are

in the permit process right now. we are waiting for the historic preservation society's green light, they have verbally okayed it, we're going to issue two separate permit, one for internal and one for exterior so we're not delayed. >> do you intend to memorialize the purple onion in any way. er >> we cannot use the name, it has been trademarked fwr the previous owner, he placed that in september and has taken it with him, we have not reached out to him to possibly purchase that name but legally, we're unable to use it. >> okay, thank you. >> hi, chris. >> hi. >> thank you for coming in and i've been to the purple onion, i attended a comedy festival there so i'm glad you're taking over and renovating the place. are you intending to increase

the space at all? >> it's defined by the concrete walls to some extent, i don't think we're capable of increasing it, we're reducing it with the ada compliant bathrooms as well as the wheelchair lift, the square footage is going down, the occupancy load is staying relatively the same. there is a calculation on the plans that pegs it at -- i have to double check the number, i believe it's around 96. we are hoping to do more of a seated venue, so that's going to reduce it down to more like the 50 mark, so i think the square footage also is being eaten up by a lot of server station for the food aspect because the fact that it is in the basement, we're going to have to have a dumb waiter system, it's two dumb waiters to make sure food is delivered on time, hot, you know, and how our chef would like it to be delivered. so, i would say the answer to that, we are most likely

reducing the size. >> my second question is on your application under neighborhood contact, it says you are currently scheduling public forums to success your project, what else have you done since your application thus far reaching out to the community. >> we sent an invite to our neighborhood meeting to about 144 people, all residents within 100 feet including, let's see, including a list of business owners, neighborhood associations, i have the mailing list, i'm not sure if you were forwarded on it or not, i included the entertain commission as well as central station, i also went door to door and introduced myself to the local business owners to describe what we were looking to do and sort of meet them and see if there was any concern they might have as we sort of move forward and hopefully address those concerns before they were brought up and try to

eliminate any problems we might have in the future because obviously when somebody sees a new neighbor coming in, there's a tendency to be concerned. >> and when is the event going to take place? >> we held the first meeting already. >> you did? >> yes. it went fine. i was hoping for a little better turn-out. >> when was it held? >> you have a description of it in your packet in this tab. >> i saw it. >> it's an outreach meeting? >> yes. it included the meeting notes, the meeting minutes was included in that as well as an invite, a sign-in sheet as well as the mailing list, so just to briefly go over the meeting minutes, you know, we have the date which was the 13th. >> that's okay, we have it in packet. >> i would encourage you, you abut next to chinatown, it didn't sound like any of the

groups you listed were there, i'm sure some of the property owners are residents or property owners within chinatown, i would encourage you to reach out to that community since you're going to be a direct neighbor impacting it. >> absolutely, and i would like to hear a recommendation for a group that you would think i should engage directly with. >> you can try the chinatown community center, they have an office on clay in between kerny and montgomery. >> okay. >> and i would also like the encourage you to do more outreach to neighborhood organizations like north beach neighbors, the telegraph hill dwellers because this area does have a lot of very engaged members of the public and it is best to do the outreach and not have them ask for the out reach, it's a better result in

general, check out the neighborhood organizations and go to their meetings and present your plans to them, i'm sure they'll be very receptive. >> the north beach neighborhood association had a meeting which unfortunately i missed the cutoff for, so i have engaged them and i'll definitely reach out to some of the residents, is there a radius that you would recommend on neighborhood associations. >> there's several organizations in north beach, north beach neighbors, telegraph hill neighbors, there's also a business association on broadway, just -- i would say as many people that you can reach out to because entertainment and new development is a very hot topic in that neighborhood and it would just really behoove you to reach out to anyone you can. i'm sure supervisor chu's office would be happy to provide you with information of all the organizatio