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>> good afternoon and welcome to the land use and transportation committee for the san francisco board of supervisors for today, monday ape il -- april 8, 2019 and our clerk is ms. major. do you have announcements? >> clerk: yes, silence all electronic devices an anything to be part of the file should be submitted and items will appear on the agenda unless otherwise state. >> thank you to the folks at sf gov tv and madame clerk can you please read the first and only item. >> clerk: yes, a resolution imposing interim zoning controls for condition use authorization and specified findings for a use from a childcare facility for another use and affirming

appropriate findings. >> we'll start with public comment. kelly ing come on up and you'll have not to exceed three minutes. >> hi, good afternoon, commissioners. my name is kelly ng with wamai school. our executive director ben wong sends his greet and wishes he could be here but is unable to make it this afternoon. i'm here to speak in support of the passage of interim zoning controls. conditional use authorization for conversion of childcare facilities to other uses. i would like to thank president w yee and sandra fewer for the bill allowing for increased protections for childcare facilities at a time where cultural erosion and gentrification continues to threaten communities in san

francisco. wamai was established after the supreme court ruling that ensured non-english speakers has access to equitable education. it's best known as the first and longest serving bilingual school in san francisco. it operates pre-school, after school, summer camp and for 45 years it's been dedicated to providing affordable bilingual and multicultural and early use development programs. we're proud to serve a culturally diverse and mixed socioeconomic community. half our enrollment is for low-income families for receive subsidies. we serve over 260 families every year. and this afternoon was slated to

be honored with a distinction at the small business commission hearing. our school was notified our landlord was placing the property on the market for sale immediately placing us at risk of displacement. it was cited as having potential -- [chime] . >> commissioner: you can wrap up. i think you're the only member of the public speaking on it and in the interim the zoning control sin large part spurred by the situation your discuss sog -- discussing to please wrap up. >> it was cited as potential for future residential development or continued use. the loss of the school would be a loss to the community as much-needed childcare services for working families in the neighborhood and city. passing of the interim zoning controls would help protect childcare facilities like the school and ensure when a

building with childcare services goes up for service the wired community is aware of the potential neighborhood impact. it would help to ensure not only we maintain community-based childcare service but we as a city take a pause to evaluate the transformation of our neighborhood. we must be sure to maintain others at risk of closure and i urge you to approve this ordinance to ensure childcare is protected in san francisco. >> i know we have a representative here to speak after the author of the measure. are there other members of the publ public here to testify on item number 1? seeing none the public comment is closed. i'd like to welcome supervisor safai and norman yee.

the floor is yours. >> thank you, chair peskin. the legislation is a small attempt for us to address the growing need for childcare facilities in san francisco. we have 23,000 infants and toddlers and nearly 20,000 preschoolers in this city. 85% of the children 0 to 2,do not have licensed care and many have unmelt nee-- unmet needs. there are over 2,000 families on a wait list to receive care at it hit moment continues to grow. while the passage of the early care and education for all last june meant an unprecedented level of investment to eliminate the waiting list and to expand access to our middle income families, we're still awaiting court decisions. at this point in time, we have a

long way to go in order to provide services for this growing demand. and we certainly need to do more to support the childcare educators who are barely getting a living wage despite the significance of their work. we all know how expensive it is to seek quality childcare for a child. it can cost more than rent and college tuition. what's becoming more apparent to us is that it's also exceedingly difficult for childcare facilities who operate. because of the speculative real estate market, many childcare facilities are at risk of displacement and are unable to find new spaces. we are hearing stories from long-time childcare providers uncertain about their future. even in the past couple of months we heard about a pending

childcare closure in my district that is for sale. there's a childcare there and they've gone through anxious moments and they're pulling out. and wamai was not sure they can say in their site. when it closes it impacts the entire neighborhood and educators and students and families. the city may lose slots that may never be replaced and leaving a gaming hole in the community. we're already falling behind in existing needs. therefore we need to stabilize our existing licensed facilities if we ever want to serve the families who seek childcare. in order for us to better understand how to support our existing childcare facilities and how best to encourage new

license childcare spaces, we are proposing an 18-month interim control that would require a constitutional use authorization. sorry, conditional use authorization if an existing childcare facility is changed to another use. and i want to emphasize that it's only when a childcare facility is changed to another use. as san francisco grows, we will need more childcare spaces to accommodate existing needs and to protect our young child population. i want to thank supervisors mar and fewer for co-sponsoring this legislation. during this interim period, i want us to better track childcare facilities and think creatively on ways to support them while also encouraging new site developments. i hope i can count on your support. thank you.

>> thank you, president yee and colleagues if there are no question or comments from committee members at this time i would like to ask ms. quan on behalf of supervisor mar to come up and offer comments on behalf of the district 4 office. >> hi, i'm a legislative aide to supervisor marr co-sponsored by supervisor fewer. i wanted to echo the sentiments expressed by supervisor yee. the school sits on the border of district 4 and 7 and holds immense significance to the chinese community, bilingual education community and immigrant community. but the legislation is more than just about one site and more than two or three districts. while most pre-school needs are met there's an 85% unmet need in childcare for infants 0 to 2 and

many don't have access to the subsidies. in conversation with oece we know eight centers that have recently faced possible displacement due to high rent or building sales. these are centers that are proactively reached out and we know they do not represent the whole landscape. the interim zoning would give us an opportunity to understand the pressures childcare centers face. we know they're not immune to private housing market pressures. this would give us an opportunity for look at uses and about the creation of future child sar -- care centers and we look forward to working with president yee during the interim period. >> commissioner: thank you. supervisor safai.

>> thank you, chair. i have spoken with president yee about this i have an unusual situation that could potentially or may not be impacted so i wanted to ask a couple questions. so there's an existing proposal to develop on a site in our district, deputy city attorney through the chair. that site has a childcare facility. though the childcare facility has purchased another site and they're on a month to month lease. in the next probably two months they will relocate at the same time, the project sponsors will be coming in front of the planning commission and because it's a home sf project, i think they're going to go through what would be similar to a conditional use authorization anyway and they are working with an existing childcare center to come back and relocate on the ground floor. they're in the process of

finalizing an agreement. how would this legislation impact that scenario? >> deputy city attorney, john gibner. i have a hard time answering without knowing more and talking to the planning department on what that kind of approval that project needs. it does sound like if the project sponsor is seek ing a chink -- childcare use it would require approval requirement during the interim controls resolution. >> also, i heard supervisor safai indicate they were planning to have a childcare facility in the new structure.

>> like said, i'd need more specifics on the use of the property. >> president yee. >> let me ask for some language. it's not my intention in this situation where a child care facility will be removed but it will be replaced by a child care facility. it's not my intention, that that particular condition would trigger a conditional use. so if we need to add some language to clarify that, i'd be more than happy to entertain that. another example of this is the

sunny dale they're going to knock down a center in this site and rebuild the sunnydale project another site to replace it. if we need language would be able to create it? >> i think it depends if they are seek change of use authorization as part of the project of the move of the center within the project. i can talk to planning. it's probably a simple fix at the board when the resolution comes to the ford and if you did -- board and if you did amend it would not trigger a referral back to committee. >> thank you, president yee. thank you, supervisor peskin and deputy city attorney.

is there a motion to send this to the full board of supervisors with the understanding that in the intervening eight days we'll figure out whether any amending resolves are required? >> so moved. >> can we take that without objection? that lb the order and we are adjourned.

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♪ >> we're here at one of the many food centric districts of san francisco, the 18th street corridor which locals have affectionately dubbed the castro. a cross between castro and gastronomic. the bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering food options here. adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he which includes skylight creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. >> skylight market has been here since 1940. it's been in the family since 1964. his father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. at that point sam revamped the market. he installed a kitchen in the center of the market and really

made it a place where chefs look forward to come. he created community through food. so, we designed our community as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where it's comprised of our producers that make the food, our staff, those who sell it, and our guests who come and buy and eat the food. and we really feel that we wouldn't exist if it weren't for all three of those components who really support each other. and that's kind of what we work towards every day. >> valley creamery was opened in 2006. the two pastry chefs who started it, chris hoover and walker who is sam's wife, supplied all the pastries and bakeries for the market. they found a space on the block to do that and the ice cream kind of came as an afterthought.

they realized the desire for ice cream and we now have lines around the corner. so, that's been a huge success. in 2008, sam started 18 reasons, which is our community and event space where we do five events a week all around the idea of bringling people closer to where the food comes from and closer to each other in that process. >> 18 reasons was started almost four years ago as an educational arm of their work. and we would have dinners and a few classes and we understood there what momentum that people wanted this type of engagement and education in a way that allowed for a more in-depth conversation. we grew and now we offer -- i think we had nine, we have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teacher training workshop where san francisco unified public school teachers came and

learned to use cooking for the core standards. we range all over the place. we really want everyone to feel like they can be included in the conversation. a lot of organizations i think which say we're going to teach cooking or we're going to teach gardening, or we're going to get in the policy side of the food from conversation. we say all of that is connected and we want to provide a place that feels really community oriented where you can be interested in multiple of those things or one of those things and have an entree point to meet people. we want to build community and we're using food as a means to that end. >> we have a wonderful organization to be involved with obviously coming from buy right where really everyone is treated very much like family. coming into 18 reasons which even more community focused is such a treat. we have these events in the evening and we really try and bring people together. people come in in groups, meet friends that they didn't even know they had before. our whole set up is focused on communal table.

you can sit across from someone and start a conversation. we're excited about that. >> i never worked in catering or food service before. it's been really fun learning about where things are coming from, where things are served from. >> it is getting really popular. she's a wonderful teacher and i think it is a perfect match for us. it is not about home cooking. it's really about how to facilitate your ease in the kitchen so you can just cook. >> i have always loved eating food. for me, i love that it brings me into contact with so many wonderful people. ultimately all of my work that i do intersects at the place where food and community is. classes or cooking dinner for someone or writing about food. it always come down to empowering people and giving them a wonderful experience. empower their want to be around people and all the values and reasons the commitment,

community and places, we're offering a whole spectrum of offerings and other really wide range of places to show that good food is not only for wealthy people and they are super committed to accessibility and to giving people a glimpse of the beauty that really is available to all of us that sometimes we forget in our day to day running around. >> we have such a philosophical mission around bringing people together around food. it's so natural for me to come here. >> we want them to walk away feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. whether that change is voting on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand why it is important to support our small farmers. each class has a different purpose, but what we hope is

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>> we will call this meeting to order. hello, and welcome to the tuesday, april 2nd, 2019 commission meeting at the san francisco entertainment commission. i am the commission president. if you are a member of the public and you would like to speak, there is speaker forms you can fill out that are located at the front table and you can hand them to staff or come to the microphone when it is time to speak during public comment. we ask everyone turns off their cell phones or put some on silent, including commissioners and staff. we want to thank san francisco government t.v. and media services for sharing this meeting with the public and we will start with a roll call. [roll call]

>> we have an excused absence from commissioner perez. >> fantastic. the first order of business is public comment. this is for public comments that are -- on items that are not listed on the agenda tonight. do we see any public comment on any items not listed on the agenda tonight? please step to the microphone, you have two minutes to speak. please state your name first. grabbed the microphone, thank you. >> my name is michael, and i'm the chair of the fillmore residents voices committee. we found it necessary to address ongoing issues for the commercial parcel at 1330 fillmore. aside from this typical concerns of crowd control and noise

complaints, and crowd disbursement upon closing, the reason we are here is because there have been numerous meetings public and private regarding the sale and use of the commercial parcel from which we have been excluded or our point of view has been minimized we are here to correct that and obtain a voice in the process. the format -- homeowners of the fillmore heritage centre are tied to the commercial parcel, fiscally in that we share corridors and adjoining walls, and financially because we share the common areas, and because emotionally, what happens at this parcel has a significant impact on our will be -- well-being. i'm sure members are not surprised that we're here to stand up and make our voices heard in the wake of a brutal killing that happened march 23 rd just steps from our front door. that shooting death of innocent bystanders have made us question concerns for our safety and has galvanized as to wake up as community harold or his --

stakeholders. is long-standing number members of the neighbourhood, we are aware of its history and respectful of the significance of that history, but by no means are we opposed to community benefit. some of us invested in the community benefit -- okay. two minutes goes by fast. most importantly, we and the city are legally bound as real estate entities by the reciprocal easement agreement as crated by the california department of real estate, and therefore it is -- we write that we should have an equal disposition of the commercial parcel. >> your time is up. >> thank you, thank you very much. all right, do we have other

public comments for items that are not on tonight's agenda? seeing then, the general public comment is closed. moving into the regular agenda. next item is to move -- to approve the meeting minutes. these are from march 5th, 2019 , and we are looking for a motion to approve the minutes from march 5th, 2019. >> i moved to approve it. >> second. >> wait, we do need to have public comment on this. is there any public comment on the minutes from march 5th, 2019? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> mr. thomas? [roll call]

>> the minutes are approved. the next item on the agenda is the report from our executive director. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners. i wanted to begin my director's report with a legislative and policy update. we have been tracking the board of supervisors file number 181 211. this is regarding a small business streamlining that we have been managing from the office of economic and workforce development. that was brought to land-use yesterday. there's actually why he was not able to present to you all at the beginning of the summit. unfortunately it was continued to the court -- call of the chair, so we're not exactly sure when it will be continued, but hopefully it will be heard in the next couple of weeks. so no substantive update on that just yet. so i wanted to move into an

office update. we are going to be saying goodbye to our senior inspector, sean burke, this is his last entertainment commission meeting , and we are super lucky to have had him with us for five whole years, and we will miss him a lot. and the president has a couple words to say on that. >> i do. so sean burke, you have been with us for five years now, and i think the general public believes that the job that you have almost personally created the parameters around, i think a lot of people believe it is a science that you go out, you check numbers, and you report on those numbers, et cetera, but i don't think that's true, i think it is an art. i thank you have really become somebody who has taken that and

made into truly an art form, and for me, you can tell that you have done an incredible job by both your effectiveness in dealing with p.o.e. that are not behaving or not acting as their good neighbour policy does, but also that the p.o.e. themselves have a really good rapport with you and you have built that, and i think that people don't really realize how difficult walking that fine line is, and being fair with the p.o.e. and having them respect you and trust you, and also being able to confront and handle the serious problem that the communities need to deal with. this is a relatively new commission. we have only been around for 15 years. i think voice inside of it kind of came after a lot of the initial stuff was done, and i

think a lot of what we have today is due to the efforts that you have done, and i think it may seem like a small thing, but the work that you did on the good neighbor policy specifically, because it really is -- people see it as a bill of rights -- the entertainment venues see that, and the neighbors really see that as these are my rights that i have, and i thank you recognize that before any of us did, and we were able to hone it to a way that we have something that we can use going forward that's incredibly effective. i want to thank you on behalf of everybody here. i thank you have done an incredible job, and i thank you have left a real legacy in the city of san francisco, and it may seem small, but it is not small to me. thank you very much, and we really appreciate it. we do have a proclamation here. did i miss something? >> no, no. >> everyone is looking at me

like i missed something. i do have a proclamation here, and it is sean burke day. [cheers and applause] we will give a standing ovation. [applause] >> do i stand, too? >> i wish it said sean berg here day. that would be a lot better. on behalf of everyone, this is your part -- proclamation. >> i thank you get to write munimobile for free for a day, but don't hold me to that, those inspectors are pretty tough. >> i will fold it up and put it into my wallet. thank you very much for the kind waves. it has fanned onorato flashy. i have learned a lot from you -- i have learned a lot from you. this is an awesome last week. my last hearing and yesterday, i couldn't be prouder of the work i've done, and i'm going to miss everybody. thanks. >> thank you.

>> thank you, sean. i will note that he came into my office an hour before this hearing and pointed at the proclamation hang on my wall and he said, do i get one of these. [laughter] i said yes, you do. [laughter]. >> was he crying? >> no. moving on, i wanted to give an update on our summit yesterday. it was our tenth annual. all of you were there, thank you i thought it was fantastic. we had a great turnout, it was at mezzanine. i would say at least 200, maybe 250 people showed up. we had surveys that we gave out, maybe 30 were filled out, but all of them were just glowing remarks about the entertainment commission, and everyone said they learned something and they can't wait for next year. a lot of people that are -- had their first time ever going, and

so i'm excited to continue that work, and i think starting tomorrow we will start talking about what we are planning for next year so we can make it better each time around. just jumping jumping in to some of our corrective actions, i do believe i forwarded this to you just prior to our hearing, but i issued a directory's order, and a suspension for public safety for the rock because there were incidents two weekends in a row there on march 3rd and march 9 th, so that was quite some time ago at this point, but we had to cancel our march 19th hearing, it was not able to update you then. the director's order required compliance with their revised security plan this past thursday , march 28th. we sent an inspector in the field to make sure they were in compliance with their added security conditions and they were.

we were confident that they will continue their work and get better from here with their revised security plan. do you have any questions on any of those items? >> just a quick comment, i wanted to applaud the executive director and the staff from yesterday. i thought it was -- hopefully jocelyn is not listening, but i think yesterday's was the best you have ever put together. if she is, i will explain later. [laughter]. >> she is a retired executive director, for those of you who don't know. >> just to echo that, this was easily the best summit that i to both in terms of the content, the audience, the attendees, we got a diverse group of folks in the doors and it reflects well on the staff of the commission, all of you, in terms of putting it together.

your personalities and interests were apparent in all of it, and it was a really good summit and a good representation of what it is that we do here at the commission. thank you, all. >> thank you. >> i have one thing. i think when i first started, it was all about everybody watching each other. what do we do for calls for service, and the breakout sections were about that, and now we are all about education, and we have learned a lot more on this summit, and before everybody was learning how to protect themselves, and it shows how much the commission has evolved already, and that we are in different times. i was just telling the president that i've learned more on this one than any of the other ones i have been to. congratulations. >> thank you. >> i want to also add to the kudos. thank you also to mezzanine for hosting that. i know there were a couple of donations from events locker.

thanks to them. i'm sure we will do more showering of praise for sean at the end of the meeting, but i do want to say that i remember when your predecessor was here and we thought he was fantastic, and there was such big shoes to fill , and i thank you really phillips them. i thank you stretch them out and made them even bigger, and i just noticed how much people respect you, and i thank you have a pretty thankless job, you know, you are kind of this quasi- police officer, because i -- total enforcer that doesn't really fit all of the people that who went -- when we think about city governments. thank you for all you have done, and thank you for working with us every time we tell you, hey, can you write a report

differently, or tell us stories differently, or provide more information. you have always risen to the occasion to do that. thank you, very much, and i'm looking forward to seeing all the great things you will do in the twin cities, and hopefully he will come back. >> i did have a couple comments. first of all, around the summits i think the director and myself and the giant with the beard, ben van helton, the three of us went to philadelphia this year and we went for a government nightlife summit, and i think all three of us learned a little bit there, and it was really a rewarding experience, especially the networking side, but we also learned the do his and don'ts of having quality unsubstantiated conversations, and i think when the director sent her teeth into

that, she made a very, very quality and substantive summit yesterday, and i want to also say that the feedback that i got was universally positive, which is that is the first time that has ever happened. usually i hear constructive criticism first, which is not my favourite thing. and the other thing i want to mention is i posted a picture of the mayor from yesterday on my facebook page from the summit, and one of my friends, i hope he is watching right now, he wrote, isn't it ironic that the mayor is speaking at a place that is being threatened to be shut down by ten offices. isn't that ironic, and my response was, this was not ironic, this was very much done on purpose. this is exactly why we are here at mezzanine, and this is exactly why we are fighting. we are all in this together. i wanted to make that very clear to my friend and everyone watching government t.v. today that we are in a war right now to make sure we preserve and

protect nightlife and live music in san francisco. that is exactly what the summit and this commission is four. thank you to the director and the entire staff are putting that on. you guys did an incredible job. thank you very much. anymore comments? his now it is time for public comment on the executive director's report. does anyone have something to say about the executive director 's report? >> i just came down -- >> please speak into the microphone and state your name. >> my name is ace, i'm on the case right now in front of your face. i'm not sure where i am on the agenda, but i just want to do a tidbit and run about here. first of all, i was downstairs singing marvin gaye, because this is a tribute to him, his 80th birthday. we had some stamps made after him. [singing]

[singing] >> anyway, thank you for your time and effort. i know it isn't on the agenda, but i am the fillmore according to our ambassador, not the bastard, and i want to know what went down with the issue of the heritage centre. i don't want to bore you with these things, but soon as the wind blows and the whistles go down, i will be back to find out what is going on, and we will have the whole city hall,

it all the departments that were involved come down to explain it. my name is ace, and i'm on the case. thank you. >> thank you very much. is there any more public comment? seen none, public comment is closed. we will move on to agenda item number 4, which is the a.a. report from our senior inspector, the last report from our senior inspector, sean burke. >> that will be -- it will be a tough night. thank you, good evening, commissioners. sean burke here, one last time for your listening pleasure. you will notice the transbay terminal is on this new complaints list. we had a nice discussion in the office amongst staff and we realized that maybe some additional scrutiny needs to come to these one time event permits, and really start to

try and staff field inspectors during a sound checks, have additional conversations prior to issuing these permits, and maybe trying to out some conditions, maybe some standard for larger events. that's a conversation that i will evolve as time moves forward, but i think it's important as we move forward to some of these bigger things, to try to make sure we are keeping in mind the code, and maybe some of the issues that the code has in addressing these one-off events. you will notice -- if there's three smaller venues on the new complaints list. were not sure where the complaint -- what establishment generated the complaint, but on

friday, march 18th -- march 8 th, 19th and mission was the address listed. it was either beauty bar or another. the parkside is on that list, vendors is on that list, and the chapel is not as small, but the chapel is also on the new complaints list. i think that -- i hope we can get to a point to where ben van helton's big man with the beard , at that that project that he put together, and trying to get grants together, can come back around. we have already had is when you reach out and ask about that, and unfortunately we had to say no one step forward -- stepped forward to give grant money, but i hope that continues. there were quite a few inspections. i tried to remove any that were very routine, either just the

guys driving by, and that included a couple of good neighbor policy drop-offs just to let you know that we are continuing to do that, and just about every time we make a visit to a venue, we are dropping off the good neighbor policy along with the visit. one notice of violation to the hotel it via rooftop, this was very soon after we approved charles salter's operating minutes, and the head of sound for hotel via did not bring a meter to keep track of their limit on the roof. we issued them and n.o.v., and then we have had an ongoing complaint. we are not sure, and it doesn't seem the complainant is confident about either emporium or independence of that investigation is ongoing. the inspector has stopped by on

multiple occasions on divisive darrell. he has has found emporium out of compliance, and we are now -- two things are happening, the next step at the independent is to assign a limit for them, and then to follow up with emporium after some sound abatement has been completed to provide them with an updated sound limit. brick and mortar was on our list for a little while. they haven't had a complaint since the last hearing. we did receive a complaint from jones addressed it in realtime, it did not find them to be hosting entertainment. they were found in compliance by the inspector. all the other site visits i believe were pretty routine. we had a one-time event at the irish bank. this is another thing like what was on the front page for the transbay terminal. another one time events. this one has been going on for quite some time and we don't

generally get complaints, but the neighborhood has changed. one building has been raised, and another has yet to go up, so we got our first complaint about the irish bank as far as the time i've been at the entertainment commission. it's another one where i think it would be important for us to go out whenever we can during a soundtrack and try to set some levels and work with the nearby businesses, and in this case, there was a hotel that was a complainant, and just really, when staffing is available, try to be more on top of getting inspectors out there, and getting lay of the land as far as putting some more customized sound limits on some of these annual events, try to learn from years past. i think that's all the highlights that i wanted to go over, and i'm sure, i hope you

will have some questions for me because i don't want to stop talking, this is my last -- this is life, we're are on the internet. [laughter] >> sean, i never knew you were this funny. watching you yesterday, i saw a different side of you. >> my mom is watching right now [laughter] know she's not, she doesn't have the internet. [laughter]. >> if i could just say a couple of quick things. >> police. >> i do not have no questions for you today, sean, but i wanted to acknowledge, and this is coming from the law enforcement side, he did have some big shoes to fill. the person you replace, on many levels, was incredible he competent and took the past to hand, and he wanted to acknowledge that you did take it to another level. i thank you did an incredible jog working with our department , working with our members, and i recognize that can be challenging at times, given that you're trying to

commingle swing members with civilians, but i thank you did an exceptional job, and i think the san francisco police department will definitely miss you, and as i said to you yesterday, know that you still have friends in the sfpd if we can ever help you out. >> thank you, lieutenant. >> any other questions? >> we are going to go easy on you today. >> i did have a couple comments and questions. it seems like a lot of these, and i love your opinion on this , but a lot of these complaints are indicative of the nice weather that we have have all of a sudden had, it seems like a lot of them came in mid day on sunday, saturday and sunday of the 39 and 310 of people having events from outside. in your experience, our people buttoned up for a while and they come out and there are a lot of complaints.

>> i have noticed that trend for sure over the time i have been around. i think operators, especially, a security guards and managers, are all just really excited to pop the windows and pop the doors and get people coming in doing some barhopping on a sunday. i was out, off duty, driving around the city a few sundays ago, and you could feel it in the city. it was fun. [laughter] >> all right, and the other question, it seems like there's a couple more complaints about jones here, and i just want to confirm. so it does seem like there's a complaint on the 15th, friday the 15th, people were unhappy with how loud it is, but they're not actually hosting live music or live entertainment. >> yeah, i received the picture from that complainant, i have

no doubt that -- i don't know for sure, but i have no doubt that he is being disturbed. we haven't found jones out of compliance because we haven't found them to be hosting entertainment after their cutoff time. i think the challenge at jones is even if they have music playing within the confines of the conditions on their permit, the way the structure of the building is utilized, the sound leak is inevitable, so i'm not sure if you've been up there, but they've got a giant door, wall structure that sort of stays open. they really can't close it, so it is a challenge, and i think it's going to take another

visit by inspectors, i think it will take a different sound limit, i think it will take some work with the neighbors, and it may take some outside the box thinking to condition this in a way that is a lot different than we have condition some of the other rooftops. usually what we're doing is we are saying, okay, there's another giant apartment building, 350 feet away from this rooftop, this other rooftops, it is an entertainment space, list limits the time with an l.l.p., but in this case, it is a rooftop below an apartment building, which we don't see, so i'm not sure the solution, but i'm sure it will be -- it will have to be customized and it will take some neighbors and operators and maybe the apartment management and asked to do some creative solutions. >> got it, okay. any other questions?

>> i think we are planning on bringing them may seventh. >> thanks. >> you read my mind. >> i know. [laughter] >> all right. that was it, the last last time this is really said, i'm surprised you not crying. >> do you want to say something to your mom? [laughter]. >> hi, mom, love you, hi celia, i'm not sure if you understand english yet but leg port-mac, and i love you, mary claire, i hope it is not called all the time in minnesota. [laughter]. >> you hope, it is. [laughter]. >> with that, we will open for public comment on schaumburg's presentation. is there any public comment, please do state your name. you have two minutes. thank you. >> good evening. i am the president of the women 's auxiliary for the american legion across the street and i am also a part of the fillmore heritage