reasons that the previous speakers have said i voice my support for them and their 48 license. thank you. >> thank you. >> my name's peter. i have lived on the 800 block of post street for the past eight years. i've been going to cafe royal since i moved in. i can say everyone that works at my work place would like to see these guys succeed. i think that a liquor license would be something that would be very beneficial for them. there is a lack in the area of night life and has been said before, it's something that's much needed as far as safety, security and just general well being of the neighborhood. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> morning. my name is [inaudible] i'm the owner of a

business around cafe royal, i'm a part-time resident near cafe royal. i had a whole speech prepared, but there's something that hasn't been said. on thanksgiving cafe always throws a party for people who has no family. somebody asked why are you supporting cafe royal and i said if you watched cheers, that's my cheers. you have many people that go everyday and they don't go there to get drunk, they don't go to get rowdy, but they go there to find friends and family. i'm

here to voice my support. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good morning. i'm lil may and i have been doing a popup barbecue for the past two years. it's a sophisticated place [inaudible] showcase their ability to an audience that ranges from 25 to 75 years. not only is this a staple to the community, it is also an inviting place where grandmas come and feel safe while watching live shows directed by the great san francisco talented san francisco theater. this is a bar that improves the environment and gives san francisco citizens a first

chance to stardom. it is a gem in the community, and a tourist attraction for the city of is san francisco that show cases phenomenal talent. our community respectfully asks that you willingly grant their request because they deserve it. they should be rewarded for such an outstanding service and heart throb entertainment that they provide to the knob hill community. thank you. >> thank you. good morning, my name is nick palm and i run a monthly stand up comedy

showcase at cafe royal. this has become one of the favorite places for the community to come and watch live comedy for free. being a san francisco native, i was born and raised here, i've worked in the bar and /r*s /raupblt industry for the past seven years, i can say for the character of these four gentlemen, i've never worked for more responsible and energetic group of people than these guys right here. >> i live in knob hill. i'm an attorney so i think everybody probably knows i've done a lot of attendance at bars over the course of my life. i learned to do any drinking in chicago and boston and one of the things you find in cities like that that you don't find in san

francisco is the quintessential neighborhood bar and one thing that's always impressed me about this place is that it has that quality. i think you've heard that today. the people that walk in the door, they know the guys behind the bar, they say hello, ask about their families. it's not a place where a bunch of people that don't know each other drink. it's a community bar, it's part of that community and i think you've heard it here today the impact they're having and i think that's something that's missing in san francisco as it become more an more wealthy upscale type of city. that place of community is lost and places like this are important to support. . >> thank you. >> my name is chris, i'm the property manager of 930 post

street and i'm also the [inaudible] i'm gonna speak on behalf of my job. i work with at risk youth and families and we do therapeutic services. cafe royal has offered their services to come help with the kids and families and would like to help raise money to help the kids, et cetera they allow the kids and families to come in and get educated on different arts and music. >> next speaker. >> i'm a small business owner

here in san francisco and these gentlemen here at cafe royal actually gave us the platform to start our business. we serve sushi there every tuesday and really just gave us that opportunity to start. we've grown our business to two other different popups that we do now.

>> the owners came and made a presentation, which is very good. i have been in that cafe. it is a community center and it's /skaoeupbld kind of like almost a self organizing community. and i think there might be some people that are frightened by organic communities that come together and i think that that might be possibly they look -- they don't really look at the individual community and the people that commit crimes are not members of communities. i just want to say we support

their desire to have the license because they are going to need the resources to continue. i belonged years ago to one of those self organized communities called the blue unicorn coffee house on hays and it was a life changer for me and it was the same kind of thing. they didn't serve beer and wine, but they were a wonderful place to listen to the poetry readings. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> can i have the overhead? >> sfgtv overhead. >> my name is [inaudible] and

we're only here for one reason and that's for type 48. we're not here for all the possible other concerns that people want to bring up. this is a posting, i did a site visit, take a picture of the actual posting of the requesting alcohol license -- the type 48. and they did their community outreach which is one of the things that the committee has always asked the community to do. as the reck

recommendation right now is a denial and i would like to see a continuance so abc could come back so they could get their permit today or a future meeting. >> thank you. >> is there any other member of the public who has not spoken who'd like to speak? if you do want to come up, /phraoelz line up. please line up. >> i'm the attorney for cafe royal. we are always open to

discuss conditions with alu and the abc and i'm sure we'll be going through that process. we're quite familiar with the standard conditions alu has proposed and we've gone over those with the owners and we're prepared to cover those in our abc license. they volunteer to end their entertainment at 11:00 pm out of respect for the residents that reside in the same business and will continue to do that as part of their ongoing business.

>> public comment is closed. >> one of the last speakers asked for continuance on this. i generally might consider a continuance, however, i have think we could -- because of all the support that came out and i could see there was community outreach and just looking at cafe royal's we believe site i could see the building's very full and [inaudible] and that you do have a menu there. so for me, if we were to continue this, to put conditions on here, that would necessitate probably another session where we have all these people come out again. and i don't feel like i

need to hear it again and waste everybody's time on this. so i'd like to suggest that through the district supervisor that you work out before it comes to the full board some conditions that people could live with and that [inaudible] upon so that we could -- i could personally feel like i could stand up and support the overturning the decision by abc or -- what is it -- the recommendation. so i'd like to take it out of committee with no recommendation at this point and with the caveat that the district supervisor will work

with cafe royal to see what kind of additions are necessary to get this license 48. >> thank you. so we have a motion to move this item out of committee, to move this forward for a vote at the full board of supervisor without a recommendation. let me just make a couple of points. first of all, i want to thank all of you who have taken time out of your schedules to come to city hall and any time that a resident of any neighborhood comes down here to speak about a license application it tells you that they feel passionate and it's a testimony to the level of engagement they have with the establishment. we don't take the concerns lightly. we have to consider

the public safety and other implications, but i believe that the record here is a pretty clear in terms of where i think the city should go and i'm disappointed that the alu has /phot not come to this body with a set of recommendations that would allow for us to move this license forward. i think that what should have happened is that they should have been a discussion about how do we approve this license and address the concerns that have been raised through conditions. it's something we do all the time in this committee. we continue to say that the one thing we want from any license application is community outreach. what i have seen here is probably the best community outreach that i've seen since we've been having

these hearings. i personally would be ready to support granting the license today, but given that we don't have the conditions right now, and i know that the district supervisor wants to be a part of that discussion, i think supervisor yee's recommendation makes sense so we can vote it at the board of supervisor. and my hope would be that between now and the time it gets to the full board, that there will be an opportunity for the police department, the applicant and the district supervisor to work out a set of conditions that makes sense. and i haven't been to cafe royal, but i certainly plan to be there. so with that, if we can take that motion without objection. thank you very much. and colleagues, i'd like to move on to item number 3. i

know that a number of people have to leave so if we can take item number three out of order. >> thank you mr. chair. also quick correction. the items acted upon today will appear on the june 4 meeting. item number 3 is an [inaudible] that includes all families, /eupbl colluding same sex couples. >> thank you very much. i know that there are people leaving. this is an item that i have introduced and is to purr purr pursuant -- why don't we take a quick one minute break. we

are back on. this is an item that i introduced and it speaks to a very important issue that's being handled in washington dc. it's a resolution that urges united states congress to consider comprehensive immigration reform to make sure includes members of the lgtb community. we will be hearing today from many lg [inaudible] immigration

reform, goes against the very principal that we as a country have always held dear, which is the principal of of respecting and valuing families. families are made up of lgtb members. there are many amendments being considered and a key question is whether or not lgtb families will be a part of those amendments and there's an

amendment that would include the lg tb families in this bill. we call on the congress and senate to support this. we know that senator boxer has come out in support of that and we thank her for that. and now we ask the senior senator of california to support the inclusion of lgtb families in this bill. senator has a history of supporting lgtb rights and this is the time to demonstrate consistency with that /h*euls write and with that i want to thank also my colleagues on the board of supervisors who have cosponsored this item with me -- supervisor avalos, wiener, president david chiu. and i think that the message that will be sent from san francisco today is that we cannot leave

anyone behind. supervisor yee, unless you want to make any remarks we can open it up to public comment. if any member

of the public would like to speak, please line up. please go forward. >> thank you. my name is eric, i'm an organizer of [inaudible] so people who have been impacted by this issue directly. we've been around for over 12 years as long as [inaudible] has been introduced in congress. we're at the intersection of lgtb movement as well as [inaudible] movement. we're /sr-rb involved here locally in organizing members of the san francisco bay immigrant justice coalition where i'm happy to say we've received outpouring

of support. so it's a really strong issue that cuts across multiple issues. i personally have been impacted by this issue. i partner of nine years is actually undocumented and getting a green card through his church, but they pulled the support because they didn't want to support an openly gay choir director. this is something we feel really impacted by. supervisor campos said we want to urge senior senator to support the [inaudible] amendment and we want him to support not only

married couples, but also civil union couples. we're going to be leaving from here and delivering over 6000 petitionings, 6000 names to senator's office at noon today. these names were collected ed in the last week. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> i have a document for the overhead. my name is brian, i've been together with my husband for over 11 years. i filed a green card for my husband based on our marriage.

we were denied. your spouse is not a person of the opposite sex, therefore you doma must be desighed. we've suffered tragic results because of this discrimination. his sisters are [inaudible] immigration and customs enforce /-pl picked up my husband in 2011. from there they put him in an overcrowded facility in dublin, then put him into a visitor's cell which is another glass window with another person, changed the guards, left him there without

realizing he was there. then they put him into a general holding cell with about 30 other people. so while i was going to bed warm in bed, he was going to bed in jail. we will be back in immigration court [inaudible] he will be banned from this country for ten years and we will seek refuge [inaudible] not being completed. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good morning. i'm a volunteer with [inaudible]. i want to add a few personal points to a topic that i'm sure

you know well. [inaudible] the law of the land does not recognize same sex partners as federally recognized marriages and what we need to do is to get rid of that distinction so that people like me can sponsor our same sex spouses for registration. i had to /khaoutz between my wife and my career. i took early retirement. she has been out of the country without me or we have both been out of the country. we want to be here legally and safely but because now i have applied for a green card for my wife last year in january, luckily it was not denied but we are under further review and we've been under further review for eight months. we don't have a future

we can control. because of our processing my wife hasn't been able to leave the country for over two years. that means instead of become exiles we are prisoners of law as we say in california. we had to watch our son get married on skype because we couldn't go to scotland to watch. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morn. i'm the founder of the [inaudible] foundation with advocates for lgtb americans who are forced out of the country to be with persons we love. i'm also the head of

the democrats [inaudible] immigration task force and i had the honor of being the dell grate to obama [inaudible] i was born in san francisco raised in i moved to the nether lands 13 years ago because my relationship with my wife lynn isn't recognized by law. when i fell in love with my wife, i faced the choice that no u.s. citizen should have to make. i had to /khaoutz between the person i of and my country. i chose love and in doing that i gave up my job, my career to start over in a new country and a new language. other countries don't embrace immigrants the same way we do in this co