october 16, 2018, commission meeting of the san francisco entertainment commission. i am ben bleiman and i am the commission president. if you are a member of the public and would like to speak, there are speaker forms to fill out located at the front tables, or you can hand them to our staff or just come to the microphone when i call for public comment. we ask everybody turns off the cell phones or puts them on mute, and that includes the commissioners and staff. i want to thank sfg tv and media for sharing this meeting with the public. we start with roll call. >> a commissioner tan. >> here. >> a commissioner lee. >> here. >> a commissioner fallson. >> here. >> commissioner bleiman. >> here. >> commissioner perez. >> here. >> commissioner laura thomas is

absent at the moment. >> all right. the first item today is general public comment, so if there's any members of the public who would like to speak to items not on the agenda, please do, and you will have three minutes to do so. seeing none, general comment is closed. and is the approval of minutes for the october 2, 2018 meeting. once you have taken a look at them, if somebody has a motion to approve the meetings of the october 2, 2018 minutes. >> i move to approve the minutes. >> second. >> a commissioner tan. >> aye. >> a commissioner lee. >> aye. >> commissioner falzon. >> aye. >> i think we should probably do

public comment first. >> you're right. >> is there any other public comment on the minutes from october 2? seeing none, public comment is closed. are there any police comments? seeing none, police comments are closed. all right. now you. >> a commissioner tan. >> aye. >> commissioner lee. >> aye. >> commissioner falzon. >> aye. >> a president bleiman. >> aye. >> vice president caminong. >> aye. >> commissioner perez. >> aye. >> commissioner thomas. >> aye. >> that is approved. the next is the report from the executive director. >> good evening, president bleiman and good evening, commissioners. i have a very brief update this evening. our holiday party is being planned. we are really excited about it for monday, december 10, so leftdy mark your calendars. that is going -- so definitely mark your calendar. that is going to be a special meeting of the entertainment commission essentially since that is not one of our normally

regularly scheduled meetings. august hall has generously offered their venue as a space, so i call upon all of you to please reach out to all of your friends, family, constituents, anybody that you work with to please come. we will be pushing that save the date out very soon with the help of commissioner perez. thank you very much. i'm hopeful that i will have an update for you at the next commission meeting around hiring a deputy director. that is all i have for you. >> thank you very much. are there any public comments on the executive director's report? seeing none, public comment are closed. are there any police comments on the executive director's report? seeing none, those comments are closed as well.

the next agenda item is number four, report from our sound inspector. inspector burke. >> thank you, president bleiman. good evening, commissioners. inspector sean burke here and i have a few notes for you. you will see under new complaints, put in quotes, those are direct quotes. anything in quotes is directly taken from 311 complaint. and you will notice under site inspections, the site inspections subheading that many of these were visited in real time. we have set up inspector forintino in the field with mobile access to the 311 queue and he is able to respond a lot of the complaints in realtime. so it's been really great to have him be able to put eyes and ears on some of the issues that our constituents or the

residents or complainants are experiencing and be able to address things like open doors and crowds outside of establishments in realtime, and not play the he said, she said game. he can actually be out there and experience it. a couple of notices of violation were written in response to complaints, both 311 complaints, one for a spin social club which is been verbally warned in the past about doors being opened and outdoor speaker. and one at new establishment, i think that was just having a one-off event. the salon in hayes valley. we issued them an n.o.v. to make sure they understood they needed a permit to have amplified sound. we issued one administrative citation this past weekend. they were operating above their internal sound limit.

and there was one incident, not this past weekend, but the weekend before at malibu. there was an assault and we're meeting with the permit officer and chief -- sorry, captain from engleside tomorrow morning as well as the operator and manager. the owner and manager are updating their security plan. that's all i've got for you. if you have any questions, please let me know. >> sean, i am wondering, how much in excess of their limit was halceon? >> we recorded them peaking about 10 decibels above their limit, and they were hovering in the low 120s, 122, 123, and we

were able to measure that pretty consistently. >> can you just tell us when that measurement occurs, do they immediately lower it until the meter goes down? or do they have their own meter? do you check between the two? >> they have their own meter set up. and any time they are over, we work with them to bring down the volume. >> okay. >> and did they explain why they were over the limit, other than just, i don't know, what do they say? >> from what was communicated to the director and i, there was no reason behind allowing for that to slip. our inspector forintino in the field two weekends ago was on site while there was no sound engineer on site. that could be one reason. he explained that there was

really no one on site that knew how to operate the system. that was two weeks ago. but not necessarily this particular night. >> correct. >> well, i love to see the day when we don't see them on this list. so i am glad that there is some enforcement thing. and so we're trying to get to you on this commission. anyway, thank you for doing that. i know they are on your regular list of places to go to check on. >> they're still on the list, and the increased staffing has allowed us to be out later. we have been out past 4:00 a.m. the past two weekends. >> great. thank you. >> thank you. >> can i? >> the salon that is the one listed as taylor monroe under new complaints. and then that's the one with the

salon with the notice of violation. >> yes. >> on the second page. it has two different addresses. >> does it? >> it was on grove street. >> sometimes what happens is -- and this is an oversight on my part -- sometimes what happens is in 311 there will be an address for the issue -- >> that is not the actual address. >> i think i transposed those by mistake. >> thank you. >> regarding the incident at malibu, has there been a history of similar incidents at this location? >> based on the history that i have and we're still waiting on the list of incidents from engleside, there hasn't been any consistent violence there. we were able to go back into

records and find an assault from 2015. but other than that, we don't have a record of anything else. >> thank you. >> i don't see hue anywhere on here. there were no complaints for hue? >> no, sir. >> all right. thank you very much. thank you very much, inspector burke. open this up tonight and seeing none, public comment is closed. police comments are closed. following on to the next item, we're going to have our senior analyst dylan rice share with us. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners. dylan rice, senior analyst for community and cultural events. it's been a little while since i have given you guys an update.

in the same lines of thinking of how can the commission and the city position community and cultural outdoor events to be safe and more successful, we have some of the initiatives that we've been working on and so i have a couple engagements that are related coming up. so the first thing i want to talk about is the next mixer. the s.f. outdoor events network which is coming up tuesday, november 7. and right now we have a hold on el rio. it looks like it's going to be there, so that will be fun. but the theme of this one is how event producer cans leverage the revenue and technology. and so we have a couple of really great events and tech companies doing presentations and doing a little panel. first one is called quartek. and the c.e.o. based here and

they are one of the leading event tech companies that provides wi-fi structure for lalapalooza and major, high-profile events. and then the other person is scott la val who is v.p. of guidebook. guidebook is a company that creates tools for event producers to, for example, create an app. you don't have to hire an app designer. you can use a template, for example. so i am excited to have them both come to the table about innovations and best practices. things that some of these smaller nonprofits may think are out of their budgets and out of their range and may actually be available to them. with creative reuse and educating themselves on all the

breadth of and the limitation coming out for that, too. and switching gears to the first training that we'll do for the outdoor events guide. because i promised i would do one and at least start with, and we're going to try to experiment to a webinar. that will be on tuesday, november 15, at 11:00 a.m. i will also email an announcement. the idea is there may be a way to reach more people by doing an online webinar, so i am going to be the host of the webinar. and the point again is to really broaden the reach of the guide as hopefully a helpful resource for people. and giving a basic overview of the contents and how it's organized and ultimately empower event producers to learn the rules, regs, resources available to them or that affect them.

so that's coming up. i will report back after those events. i think webinars are the waver of the future. i am really excited about this, so i'm hoping that we can do more. and then lastly, i just wanted to give can you guys an update on the calendaring for events. the master calendar of special events, we talked about that a lot. the point of this is to, again, by having a centralized, you know, transparent, shared calendar of special events city wide, we're going to improve situational awareness with first responders and other city agencies as well as improving how we as a city allocate resources. and so the proof of concept for this online guide or online calendar, sorry, is finished and so we're currently in discussions with d.e.m. on how

to finalize the list of stakeholder who is should be receiving as well as who should be editing the calendar. and the finalizing of the communications that were going to be happening and communicated in the next two weeks. >> and just a part of that idea as you know and first responders look to us to be an aggregator and a hub of information about one-time events or just parties that are happening during really busy, high density times of the year, so halloween's coming up, right? so i'm working with inspector burke and inspector sevino on developing halloween list of known events that we'll send to first responders, and that is going to be going out the end of this week. we've called out -- we've done the nument to people saying if

you have an -- we've done the announcement to people saying if you have an event coming up because of the cramped time frame and busy turn around, you really want those applications in for those one-time events. that is all i have for today. any questions? >> dylan, just a couple. the first event that you described, the technology, just so i can learn because i am new to this, is this going to be a reoccurring thing and you are picking topics and subject mat sner>> an i apologize for not backgrounding you more. >> this is an initiative called the sf outdoor resident at work and it happens about four times a year. and it's a way to foster the network of event producers so they can meet each other and share ideas and resources and often to educate them on the latest best practices. >> is this network under the commission?

>> so -- >> or something that -- >> are you the lead? >> i'm the lead. >> and you gave it a title. >> essentially the way these are forums. >> got it. excellent. >> sometimes they are online. sometimes in person. one of these days if this is an organized group of people who really want to take it on and actually spin it off from us, i think that's something that we could do. >> that would be in the perfect world. >> exactly. but it has to get footing and show the value. >> totally, great. >> i'm always looking for ideas in terms of topics. some people talked about doing one for cannabis events. i think doing one on event design would be really cool, too. i'm totally all ears. >> cool. >> and average about 50 people, and i would like to obviously grow that. >> that's not a bad number, though. >> a mixture of let's learn something, but also meet each other and have fun -- >> networking, right. >> and just i think more connected, unified industry is a

stronger industry. >> i applaud that effort. and lastly, your event calendar that you are putting together which is a great tool obviously for the police department. will the commissioners all be receiving it as well? >> and are you talking about the master city wide or the halloween one or both? >> let's start with halloween. we can take baby steps. >> yes. the answer is you can all look at it and receive it. and i encourage that. and then the only last comment is that i am really triggered when you talked about the calendar you are developing and who can edit it. that is a really tricky thing because too many hands in the pot, so you're going so from to really figure that one out. >> i think it's not efficient for me being one person f. i am lucky, i get to copy and paste, and typing it in is not an efficient system and room for human error obviously. so i think bigger picture, it would be nice if there was a

singular set of online form that would consolidate it all to one place. that is the aspirational goal. and so that's where -- >> very well taken. unfortunately, you will still need a moderator. you will get that extra input in there. >> i am happy and able to do that and also doing a lot of data entry now, which i see as -- as hard as it is, i see the greater good to it. >> nice work. thank you. >> hi, dylan. a couple of questions. >> hi. >> in terms of how people submit the events, is it email or what is the form now? >> the way the data has been collected so far as through permitting entities, so m.t.a. obviously includes me on those applications and rec and park publishes a tentative calendar online. port publishes a calendar

online. and then i use community calendars, like community listings. so there is a bunch of free ones that you can find out, and sometimes you can find out, first activity through those resources as well. >> and then outside of it sounds like you might be compiling and sending it out to first responders, but is there like a public way to view that? >> currently there is no public facing way to view it in terms of the wholistic, citywide calendar. rec and park has the closesting then to a comprehensive, public facing calendar. >> okay. thank you. well, i look forward to when that streamlined system can be created one day, which i know you will be able to do. >> thank you. my other question was just about the actual events guide and curious about what kind of feedback are you getting. are you counting downloads or

anything like that? >> so i have the data since the first report back that i did. but i can definitely get back to you on downloads. so anecdotalty i was good feedback from event producers and people who are city partners. but i think the next six months will be really important to find out. how is it working and i have been enjoying using it just when i do the technical assistance for people. like just saying, here is a quick link to this information, right here in this email, rather than trying to copy and paste things and it makes the process a little more efficient. so then i will be doing enhancements and updates. for example, january is when the new one will come out. we will capture any sort of updates that may come up in january. and then july is the following time.

>> a great. thank you. >> i had a couple of questions. >> how many people does it need to be to qualify as an event for the calendar? >> and the events in the park, and the threshold and the public secret and sidewalk and something that would disrupt normal traffic patterns. we don't -- that occurrence is what appears in the calendar. >> i imagine some of the organizers are people that you have yet to connect with. do you use this to compile and reach out and introduce yourself

if you have the contact info from somewhere else? >> i use that as an opportunity to do engagement. i think this halloween list is really stuff like crystal stewart is compiling a lot of the data, too, because of the one-time permit applications. >> to grow the network, send out a large bcc list and introducing yourself to people and know what you are doing and why and to use that to grow the network. >> and try to be careful about people who don't want to be spammed. >> but you are a city official. just introducing myself to help you with anything. >> right. i try to do updates and please don't hesitate to call me with any questions or navigation assistance. we are up to 211 members of the

facebook group. that is pretty engaged actually. so if there is a master list of calendar events and include us to see that regularly. >> all right. are there any public comments on chief analyst right? >> seeing none, public comments are closed. any police comments? public comment is closed. the next is item six, police department comments and questions. i am not seeing anyone from the police department here, therefore, we are going to close this item. and the next agenda item is number 7, hearing and possible action regarding the applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commission. we will begin with the consent agenda, which i will participate in, but once we move to the

single regular agenda item, i need to recuse myself as i am on the advisory board of this particular project. i will ask vice president caminong to oversee that item. please executive director wyland, introduce the consent idem. >> thank you, president bleiman. the first permit application is on the consent agenda. this is for mission street sports bar sf. this is at 2565 mission street. they already have a placement for entertainment. and the owner would like to add a billiard parlor and mechanical amusement device permit. therefore, fairly minor permit application process. he only needed to be publicly posted for 10 days. and we were able to achieve planning and police department sign off in that time. you will see that the police department did not propose any conditions, so therefore, it's on consent. i do see that the owner is here.

let me know if you have any questions. the owner is here and available to talk if you want to put this on the regular agenda. >> anybody want to pull this off? >> i don't think that's necessary. >> do we have a motion? >> i move approval of the consent calendar. >> i second. >> okay. >> public comment? >> do we have any public comment on the consent item? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have any police comments? seeing none, police comments are closed. >> commissioner tan. >> aye. >> a commissioner lee. >> aye. >> commissioner falzon. >> aye. >> president bleiman. >> aye. >> vice president caminong. >> aye. >> a commissioner thomas. >> aye. >> commissioner perez. >> aye. >> it has been granted. please follow-up with executive director for your next steps, but congratulations. now i shall recuse myself.

>> all right. thank you. the next item is our regular agenda item under item number 7, hearing and possible reaction regarding the applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commission. executive director wyland, please introduce the permit application. >> okay. thank you, vice president caminong. so this item is for manny's. and this is another mission district permit application going in on 16th street for a limited live performance permit. there were actually no issues with this application. it could have actually been on the consent agenda, but i personally felt like this is a really exciting project, and i wanted to give the opportunity for owner to come up and tell you a little bit more about his business. so come on up, manny. >> thank you, maggie.

thank you very much, commission. if you will forgive me, a little bit of context about who i am. my name is manny yekutiel, the son of afghan immigrants who escaped persecution in their trees to come to northern america, and it is on their backs i stand here today. my father came on a boat from afghanistan and saved up enough money to open his own restaurant in vancouver. so this is very personal endeavor for me as well. i came to san francisco six years ago from the obama campaign. i was an organizer in northwestern new hampshire. i have also worked on the hillary clinton campaign for an immigration reform advocacy group and same-sex marriage. i come from the world of politics and activism. after the 2016 election, i noticed that a lot of people were asking how they could get more involved, how they could do more. most people don't work in the field of politics or activism, but it seems to me that we're living in a once in a generation

moment of civic engagement. people want to do something. and when they asked me, i didn't know where to physically send them to go to become more informed and involved citizens. there are a lot of amazing community spaces in the city, but i found we're going to compete with all the other competition for people's time after a hard work day to actually get people into spaces and learning about social justice issues and how they can do more. so that's when i decided to build a physical space in san francisco where people know to go to to become better citizens. the space that i found is on the corner of 6th and valencia with a restaurant, political book shop and civic gathering space. the idea is people will come for food, drink, and enjoyment and notice there is a bookshop to learn and read up on the various fights that have been fought and are being fought now and engage in activity from activists, social justice folks, documentary screenings,

nonprofit executives, people that work in public service, and so i am combining civic work with a social space. i started this about two years ago. we're about two weeks from being done. we're hoping to open on election night, november 6. and that's it. >> and i welcome any questions you might have. >> so you are in the old bookstore space. >> i'm in the old yo yo sushi and most recently v-16 and before that it was yo yo sushi. i think the bookstore space is what is now the barbershop half a block down if i'm not mistaken. i don't think it was on the corner. maybe i'm wrong. >> a bookstore in that building. >> i don't want to call it being a bookstore for a while. >> this was a while ago. >> i know that yo yo was there from 2000 onward.

>> that would have been earlier. sounds like a great project. >> i am wondering, so i know you have an eclectic mix of programming that you are planning. do you have a program manager or how are you going to curate and if it's jazz and book and all that? >> is so there are two basic ways that i'm going to do it. first of all, there are a lot of organizations in the bay area that just need space to do their event, and so most of the events will be put on by other organizations that are doing, you know, civic work in some way, and just need affordable, high quality, centrally located space to do their events. it is really hard to book out a space in san francisco if you are an advocacy group, a campaign, or a nonprofit. it can cost thousands of dollars. and so part of what i am trying to solve for is build a great space two blocks from bart that's purposefully reaching out

to organizations to host their events and already, i've gotten requests from over 20 local organizations in the mission that need physical space for their events. so i'll only be proactively putting on about 25% to 30% of the events. most of it will come from other organizations once i am up and running. the second kind of answer to you question is that my premise is that during the weekday, people are more willing to leave work and go to a talk, a lecture, a discussion or even an organizing night, but come friday, saturday, or sunday, i'm planning on having what i call civic adjacent. that is something more focused on the arts, on different medium like documentary screenings, poetry night, spoken word, and we'll be doing the first poetry night, god willing, the first opening weekend, so november 8, i believe it is. and so the idea, bryant, is to take the arts and focus that a little bit more on weekends when people are a little bit more interested potentially and what

i would call a more direct civic program from monday to thursday. >> and i know your hours of operation are as early as 6:00 a.m. are you planning to have the space be activated as limited live performance starting that early? or just when the kitchen opens? >> that is when my kitchen opens. the idea is to have most of this programming happen after work hours so 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. with the ability in some cases to go it throughout the day, and might be some lunch programming, but not at 6:00 a.m. >> that is helpful to know. >> just a little bit more color on that, the reason we have such expansive hours is the idea is that folk cans come at any time and there is something going on or something to do, and a book to be purchased. so i want to create a new kind of gathering space where there's food, drink, events, book, kind of at any time. >> even notice in your layout, it looks like it's not like set

up like a typical restaurant with tables and chairs everywhere. kind of looks like there are little places to congregate. i think that is to your credit. i think this sounds like a great project. i'm -- we hardly ever hear people come up to us and say, we're doing this for the community. often we hear about just what their entertainment vision is, and the fact you are doing this for more than just money in your pocket and more than because of whatever notoriety might come from having a great space, and i think the fact that you want to curate and support and engage nonprofits in san francisco and areas is fantastic. i hope your business model works out. and we're not here to investigate that. but more than happy to support this. >> thank you. >> i hope that i could accept your kind words with true

selflessness, but i don't know at the end of day, but i have been watching the news, and i feel like i am building a space i need first and foremost because so many of us are consuming the news in isolation and so much of the news is so bad. so at the very least, i hope to create a physical space to consume the news in community, which is something we have done for generations and are not doing anymore. >> great. good luck. >> thanks. >> commissioner falzon -- >> commissioner tan covered it. thank you. >> commissioner perez. >> hi. thanks for coming in. i am also inspired by your project, so congratulations to you. i also plan to support your permit application, but before that, can you elaborate on the neighborhood outreach? you are planning to reach out to other folk. i wanted to see if you can give us an update on the follow-up. >> absolutely. before i even signed the lease, way before, i started reaching out to folks in the mission and

tenderloin because those are the two neighborhoods that i was planning on doing this. and that was because i wanted to be within mass public transit because so many activists and public servants don't live in san francisco anymore. so i will keep it to the mission just because that is where i ended up choosing, and i met with supervisor ronen and william ortiz to talk about who in the community i should reach out to, again, before i signed the lease. in doing that, i have spoke to folks around the mission. the freedom archives, meta, of course, a whole -- basically that anyone i was told to meet with, i met with. so plenty of people know about this space. eric, rena melgar and carlos are all on the advisory board.

from the chamber of commerce and planning commission, and so specifically for this permit, i reached out to all the neighbors. the landlord, the residents, and supervisor ronen's office, and talked to them about it and got letters of support from many of them. i will say the reception has been pretty positive. i put a piece of paper up on the corner when i signed the lease which most people told me don't put anything up anywhere. cover it up. but i am doing this for the community. so the first thing i did was write up a big piece of paper on the corner in english and spanish to tell anyone walking by 16th and valencia is what this is about. i got a lot of longtime mission residents pretty jazzed about the idea of new space focused on community and civic engagement first and foremost. so i did do as much outreach as i could. i put teresa meijer on the list from the women's building and

she is a very busy lady and i didn't hear back, but she is aware. >> and to your actual neighbors. >> love store yoga and massage school, and mission hiring hall. mission hiring hall looked at me a little weird. we close at 5:00, why do we care? luxury yoga had no issues, but the actual owner is fine. i had the manager's email and it didn't work. i got a letter from the massage school and met with and received confirmation that i would get a letter from saint john evangelist church. they use the space during the day for homeless people to sleep in and are jazzed about another civic space in the neighborhood. >> they didn't write the letter in the end, but they said they would. >> in case there are complaints from neighbors about the noise, what is your policy in how to handle complaints?

>> part of the limited live performance permit, of course, prohibits me from having any live entertainment after 10:00 p.m., so of course i'll honor that. i like to nip it in the bud, so anyone thatment cos into the space for -- anyone that comes into the space for any kind of programming, i will let them know it is a residential neighborhood and important to me to be a good neighbor. i think setting myself up for success is important. i am building a community space. my metric to myself is i want to create and subsidize housing and the building that i am in, and i want to ekroo yate a welcome environment, first and foremost, in the building. and i am in constant communication with the building manager, an and she and i are on very good terms and it will be a conversation between herself and myself and i am confident if there are new issues as the new kid on the block, it is my responsibility to address them first. >> okay.

thank you. >> commissioners, any other questions? okay. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> all right. i think we have public comment. >> anyone in the audience? >> okay. commissioners, do we have a motion to approve the permit? >> an i will raise the motion to approve. >> second. >> all right. commissioner tan. >> aye. >> commissioner lee. >> aye. >> commissioner falzon. >> aye. >> vice president caminong. >> aye. >> commissioner thomas. >> aye. >> commissioner perez. >> aye. >> your permit application has been conditionally granted. please follow-up with the executive director for next steps. thank you.

>> that was very relaxing back there. i recommend it for anyone. i'm going to recuse myself more often. >> nice. >> all right. so we are moving on to agenda item number eight that i wanted to put on the agenda item as an issue i discussed long ago with then director cane and wyland and i brought it up as an idea briefly in the retreat we had. but we're thinking that maybe few times a year we can honor some of the more legendary music venues with an official honor from entertainment commission. i think it would serve a lot of

our purposes and give us something else that is not only regulatory or punitive, which i think would be exciting for once. director wyland and i discussed it very, very briefly and had a small framework, but i wanted to bring it up for an open discussion here just for everyone. i don't want to take too much time on this obviously, but i would like to hear your thoughts on it. really, really basically what we're thinking is maybe perhaps quarterly we choose a venue and i don't know what the process would look like for choosing that, so we're very open to how we would choose, and then something i think would be cool is if all of the -- all the honors in the city are so stogey and like when you get a document, and what we were thinking is maybe year lu we can work with designers or a local artist to come up with a different award that looks like a concert poster.

maybe one year it could be something drawing on the 60s and maybe one year later, but i just think it would be kind of like an easy symbol of that's cool and fun that would set us apart. other than that, that's the entirety of the thought that we have put into this process here. i want to see anybody had any ideas on it. and it is a small thing, but i think it could be really meaningful for the people receiving it and give us a little bit of something outside of our normal day-to-day for us to do and focus on. anyway. u eel just welcome thoughts or anything to add to that. >> just one thing to add is that this is not unique. this is something that majority of commissions do as they honor folks that contribute great work to whatever work their commission is tasked with, and so it's up to you guys to decide, but i definitely think it's something we should explore and i love the concert poster

idea. >> it doesn't have to be a venue. it could be a person or group of people or venue or organizer, etc. >> i love it. >> also good outdoor events or daytime events? >> i think under our purview is definitely open for that. and anybody who is adding to entertainment in san francisco. >> so i think this is a great idea. just so i am understanding, so the proclamation would look like one of the 60s vintage posters, is that where you are heading? >> what i was halogening is yearly we could kind of -- what i was imagining is every year we could redo it and the if you go to the filmore. >> and that would be kind of the commission proclamation. >> got it. >> instead of like something stodgey. >> we're kind of cool here. look at commissioner tan's hair. we're the cool kids.

>> you have to have the hair to begin with. >> i think it's a great idea. i don't know why we haven't done it earlier. i would just try to make sure we have diversity of honoree and whether it's size of venue, days, years in the business, ethnic, gender, diversity, all that. but a fantastic idea. >> i think that is the crux is the process we use, so we want it to be somewhat transparent at least amongst ourselves here and we want to -- i would be curious how others and their process -- >> usually it is pretty timely or topical. it is somebody very important in that industry or work is retiring, and so they are honoring that. or just using the example of slims, and i brought their certificate honor which was an stodgey version which i created

myself. it was still good, but that could be a good example. a 30th anniversary of a venue. or whatever. and it might no be smart to vote on it publicly because then they will know it's coming, so you could potentially send me and i cok be the filter for that. and then we can decide as director, president, vice president, of the list of 10 nominees and you all provide, which ones we're honoring when. something like that. >> did you raise this as something that would be quarterly or annual? >> it's open, but i think more than annually and maybe we just commit to just thinking aloud, maybe we commit to quarterly but can add them if somebody is retiring, but we just gave one, why wouldn't we will able to, right? maybe just thinking aloud here, the process of figuring out who they are is probably the -- that is probably the tricky part here. we probably don't want to -- ideas are welcome right now.

we don't want to spend the next 45 minutes hashing this out, i don't know, so maybe we set up a working group with a few of us and email if you are interested in being on it, and we will meet. and i think what might be helpful for me is if we got the what we're honoring down, so the spirit behind it. and then what the criteria are. and include diversity, include things like affordability, and things that are -- maybe things like that that are part of what the mission statement of it. and then pick things that go by that and maybe that working group can present back to this group. >> overall contributions to night life and entertainment in san francisco sort of thing. >> do we each nominate a person and put it in the pot and see which one -- >> that is the question. what i am suggesting is we have a working group who comes up with so we don't have to hash it

out here and we will have a million ideas, but maybe the working group comes forward with a couple of suggestions on how that would be. we want it to be fair and -- >> every person on this board has different focus. >> exactly. and perhaps we go down the line. and also we want to reserve it for specific situations, like you're saying, like we could give an extra one if somebody retires or something. >> i think quarterly would be great, and then the special ones for retirees. >> that would be good. >> one of the other things -- one of the other things i note is departments do are things that are attached to a particular women's history month or lgbtq or stuff in june, things like that, if there is a particular day or month or other sort of recognition attaching it to that, so for example, for women's history month in february, a woman who is

contributed or women who have contributed tonight life and entertainment. something like that. that is a way to organize. >> frame it. >> just to share some personal perspective on this idea, i have been appearing before this commission since its conception. this is the most exciting thing i have ever heard. and i mean that sincerely. i think it really brings a lot of credibility to the commission that it's evolved to a point now that not only are you bringing this idea forward, president bleiman, but that recipients will actually want it and value it and feel honored. i love this concept. and getting this commission further down the road now that it is very much a mature commission, and like our executive director said, this is not an uncommon practice with other commissions. i just think this is spot on. thank you. >> all right.

there is really -- if anybody is interested on being on that working group, email director wyland. and maybe we can send a reminder out soon to do that. and then we will just table that for -- and have that group present to the commission. >> if that group is more than two of us, do we need to move to establish a committee or something? >> like an ad hoc committee. >> that might be the way to make it as a formal ad hoc committee. >> an i will talk to the city attorney. i think three or less. >> an anything less than a quorum, it doesn't matter. she said at that the retreat, but we can check up on that for sure. >> only tangentially related to that is one of the ideas at the entertainment commission retreat is updating our photos and descriptions on the entertainment commission webpage to have photos of us out in front of our different favorite

entertainment venues with a little line or two about what we like about that venue or just something highlighting our personal connections to entertainment and night life and slightly more exciting than the standard head shots going along with we're the cool kids idea. >> if you pick a venue that is probably always coming before us, you can probably recuse yourself -- sorry, i have to recuse myself. >> i'll have to pick the stodgey place. >> if you are on the woib as our commissioner and advertising that you love one venue more than any other, and then they come before the commission because there was an incident or whatever, and you are, like, no, we don't need to condition you harshly at all, and then -- that is a very small window, i don't know if that would really

happen, but something to be aware of. >> short of sort of specific venues and what do you love about san francisco night life? what is your favorite band? >> you can have a photo in front of whatever venue and it would look awesome. >> i don't want to take too much more time on that. is there any public comment? seeing none on this agenda item, no police comment, and seeing none, so the final agenda item is commissioner comments and questions. >> all right. thank you. october is filipino american history month, so happy filipino american history month, everyone. i would like to take this opportunity to invite you all for a special reception this coming friday at the rotunda 5:30 to 7:30 to celebrate the special occasion. we'll have some delicious filipino food for you all to partake in. and some entertainment.

so you are invited. also, i happen to also sit on the grand national rodeo palace fair. this coming friday is first responders friday. all first responders get four free tickets to the rodeo. that is at 7:30. and so all you need to do is bring your badge or proof that you are a first responder and get four free tickets. saturday we are celebrating military night at the rodeo. so come check it out. >> so i just wanted to share with commission as well as to our listening audience, last week i was at the tenderloin neighborhood development corporation's annual pull toss and exceptional event. i recommend everyone try to i a tend. it is an awesome fundraiser for 240 plus kids in the tenderloin.

the most compelling part that i want to share with everyone is most of you know commander david lazar was one of the people tossed into the pool and raised over $20,000. i think that is quite an accomplishment. i wanted to share that with everyone. thank you. >> thank you. >> was he wearing a speedo? >> he was not. but he did do quite a show. i will share that. >> i am not sure the more money you raise to toss you in the pool, is that a -- anyway, anymore comments? any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. the meeting is adjourned at 6:27 p.m. thank you.

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the arts, illustration there has really great teachers. robert hunt, vance story taught me a lot. what i'm working on is a portfolio [inaudible] riding a donkey unicorn in the process. >> my name is dawn richardson and musician, drummer and drum teacher. i guess i would say i started my professional path quh i started playing in bands and teaching drum lesson when i was in college. they were definitely not that many women that would do what is doing. in 198 8 i graduated from cal state los ang and studied mostly classical percussion and music education but at the same time i was in hollywood so played at night

in rock bands so was doing two different things. >> the reason i'm [inaudible] the people. there is a extremely vibrant art community especially arounds the red poppy art house [inaudible] as a artist in the past 2 or 3 years there is a event called the [inaudible] every 3 months a free art music festival that i usually play at and just met so many people. >> i was teaching a little bit and doing odd jobs like waitressing and going at night and playing in bands and meeting a lot of people. i chss in ban that had cool break jz get parts on tv shows or things like that. a friend of mine, we had mutual friends that got signed to a record deal in san

francisco called 4 nonblaunds and i addition frd the bands and moved to the bay area. i think things are different now than 30 years ago, the world evolved a lot. it could be a challenge but have to know how to negotiate everything and sometimeatize is [inaudible] it was great to get to a point where i was just treated like another one of the people, a musician not a female musician and that is always what [inaudible] >> you don't hear stuff on the radio [inaudible] i need to write music [inaudible] be more conscious in their decisions and somehow make that poetic so they will be convinced. i think i will do that. [singing in backgrounds] drawing and writing music since

i was a really little kid and fortunate enough to have a good education in art and parentss who supported me. i hope my life will continue to allow me to do both. >> for me now having all male, female girls, boys students it shows the world has changed a lot and people areope toon open to a lot more than they were in the past. you can get a deep satisfaction from responding a lot of year practicing in one thing and becoming really good at something. sometimes i think that it is better to get lost. you have to practice and become good at what you do, so if you have everything together then go out in the world and do what you do and then i think people weal accept that.

>> chair c. brinkman: we will go ahead and get started. i would like to call to order this san francisco municipal transportation agency october 16th 2018, ms. boomer please call the roll. >> clerk: [roll call] madam chair, directors, you