. >> >> supervisor mandelman: -- to implement ab 1784, so i'd like to make a motion to add that language. >> president yee: okay. there's a motion to amend. is there a second? seconded by supervisor peskin. if there's no objection, then we'll take these amendments outlined. [gavel]. >> president yee: colleagues, can we take this item, same house, same call, as amended? seeing no objection, then, this resolution passes unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: number 62. >> clerk: 62 is a resolution to support the rights of san francisco veterinary specialists. >> president yee: supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: yes. i am so proud to have the

cosponsorship of every single colleague on this board. thank you so much for standing by these workers. as i stated last week, sfvs is owned by v.c.a., a company that owns 800 animal hospital. in 2018, v.c.a. was purchased by mars, the candy company. the next step is for the company and union to negotiate a contract. that started 14 months ago, but unfortunately has resulted in delays, not a contract. colleagues, bypassing this resolution unanimously, we are sending a strong message to

mars-v.c.a. and san francisco veterinary specialists that we expect them to honor the law and do right by their employee. they need to know that san francisco is a strong union town that will always fight for justice. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? okay. with no objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: number 65? >> clerk: 65 is an authorization to written ballot arguments for submittal to the voters for the 2019 consolidated municipal election. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, the amendments to the motion have been distributed to authorize

preparation of ballot arguments for the november 2019 election as follows. number one, president yee to write the proponent argument for the charter amendment regarding the disability and ageing services commission and department. number two, mayor breed to write the proponent argument for the g.o. bond regarding affordable housing. number three, mayor breed to write the proponent argument for the initiative ordinance regarding the tax on net rider fares. number four, supervisor fewer to write the proponent argument for the initiative regarding the affordable homes for educators. number five, supervisor mar to write the proponent argument for the initiative ordinance regarding prohibitions on campaign distributions.

number six, supervisor walton to write the opponent argument for the petition initiative ordinance on vapor products. can i have a motion for -- on these amendments? motion by supervisor walton, and seconded by supervisor fewer. then, without objection, these amendments are adopted. [gavel]. >> president yee: on the resolution, can we take this item, same house, same call as amended? without objection, this amendment is approved unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, let's go back to item 60 which was scheduled pursuant to motion m-19. >> clerk: this is where public comment to enter into closed

session was taken for the board to convene in closed session for the purpose of receiving advise or conferring with the city attorney in a case which pacific gas and electric is an adverse party. >> president yee: okay. we've already had public comment on that, and we'll go into closed session. [inaudible] >> president yee: members of the public, we ask that you exit the chambers and the sheriffs to lock the doors behind them. we will open

. >> president yee: okay. we are back in open session. may i have a motion that the board finds that it is in the best interest of the public that the board elect not to disclose this closed session deliberations. motion made by supervisor ronen, seconded by supervisor mandelman. then without any objection we will not disclose our closed session deliberations. madam clerk, please read the in memoriams. >> clerk: today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the of the following loved individuals, motion made a supervisor walton by the late

mr. walton, sr., and on behalf of clifford benjamin henry, on behalf of supervisor brown on behalf of the late hannah sigri, and on behalf of supervisor stefani, on behalf of the victims of the gilroy shooting. >> president yee: colleagues, that brings us to the end of the agenda. madam clerk, is there any further business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes this session. >> president yee: this is our last meeting before our recess session. have a great summer, and we are done with the agenda. [gavel]

>> [inaudible] i'm a illustrator by day and a [inaudible] composition teacher. right now i'm practice by

transscribing [inaudible] that is what i have been doing the past couple years, teaching myself. california college of 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.

>> this is the san francisco entertainment commission. i am the commission vice president. if you are a member of the public and like to speak, there are speaker forms you can fill out that are located at the front of the tables, and hand it to our staff, or come to the

microphone when a call for public comment we do ask that you turn off your cell phone put it on silent, including commissioners and staff. thank you to san francisco government t.v. and media services for sharing this meeting with the public. we can start with roll call. [roll call] >> just a quick correction, he is not attending. three are excused. >> okay. >> the first order of business is public comment. is there any public comment for items not listed on the agenda? seeing none, public comment is closed. the next item on the agenda is item two, approval of our minutes for july 16th, 2019.

do we have a motion on the approval of the minutes? >> so moved. >> second. [roll call] >> okay. the minutes have been approved. the next item on the agenda is the report from our executive director. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners. i have a brief report for you this evening. i have a couple legislative updates. we are very happy to share with everyone that the board of supervisors file number 181211, this is the spa business permit streamlining legislation, has finally passed at the full board , board, and is in front of the mayor's office for her signature. this is something that we have

been working on for months now, and we are very pleased with where this legislation has gone, and we are really excited about how it will impact our work and our constituents. i'll actually plan to have been come and give a quick presentation of how this will roll out in our world and impact our work. we will hear from him soon. and another piece of legislation that was passed to the full board is the board of supervisors file 190689, this is the interim zoning control -- control legislation requiring a conditional use authorization for a change of use of nighttime entertainment to any other use allowed in the defined south of south of market area. this was specifically around the venue, mezzanine, so this, i believe it was either signed by

the mayor, because it had a much tighter, ten-day turnaround, or it was just past because of the deadline had already passed. she did support it initially. i wouldn't be surprised if she was able to sign it. so that interim voting control is now in place. i don't have any other substantive updates about mezzanine, though, at this time, so we will be sure to keep you all apprised of the progress, and we're hoping for a positive outcome and hoping that this legislation will help protect them and at least be able to keep entertainment as the use of this location. finally, i wanted to give a quick update of a discussion that i facilitated last week. i was approached by the department of emergency management to convene a group of stakeholders from entertainment and nightlife to discuss the

public public safety power shut off program, and how that might impact large-size venues, so i brought together a group of folks from lawyers arena, from the giants, from several large live music venues in this city, and a group of probably 20 or 25 people who came. we just discussed where the gaps were for them in trying to plan for a potential 48 to 72 hour power shut off, and how they could potentially help the public in a situation like that, or how they would potentially need city services to help accommodate, and really looking at what happened in new york recently with their power shut off, and they -- and there were broadway shows it ended in the middle of the show, and jayla was mid-set and had to stop, and they had to evacuate everyone out of the premises. so this is really something that

could really happen in san francisco. we want everybody to be prepared for that. [please stand by]

>> legislation is getting would of duplicative sessions -- sections. >> i know that the deputy director will be very happy to share that with all her permit applicants because after we hear someone at a hearing tonight, they get a conditional grant of a permit, and then the onus is on them to get inspections from different agencies, it from a place that has to get those inspections just to open, we are asking them to do it a second time. now we are taking that away, which is great. >> it is good for city resources it frees up our own stuff and other city agencies. >> absolutely. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> thank you. okay, is there any public comment on the record of the executive director? seeing none, public comment is closed. the next item on the agenda is the agenda item number 4, report from our deputy director.

>> good evening, commissioners. this is a very lengthy report, and i do want to give gratitude to inspector roberts who helped compile this 20 page enforcement report. as highlighted, some items that we will be discussing, and i will be telling you about, so let's get started. on page 2, i highlighted a location that is in the mission district, and has been having unpermitted entertainment that we've gotten multiple complaints about, just very loud into the wee hours of the night, so upon further inspection, we did actually have an inspector go out and find them having a d.j. i have been in communication with the venue operator. the owner is in mexico, so there is a manager in town, and they are not zoned for a p.o.e. they are having d.j.s until 2:0. they would like a p.o.e., but they are not eligible for one.

he has said we will not have entertainment, and then we got a sound complaint, and we did catch them having entertainment, so we did issue a citation to this location. we'll keep them on the radar. it is unfortunate about the zoning situation, but they could go for an l.l.p. on page 3, i've highlighted arena s.f., and i want to give you an update on the progress there. i received a phone call from a neighbor who lives directly across the street from arena s.f. who was complaining about the base and -- the base emanating from outside. we learned that they had installed speakers or were now utilizing speakers directly upon the entryway of the building, so that was causing a lot of disruption to the folks living across the street or at least specifically this one neighbor who contacted me. i did speak with the management and the new owners. they are undergoing a change of ownership right now to become the full owners of the business. they were very responsive, they did reach out to the neighbor

who was the complainant and they also ceased using those speakers right away. so last weekend, they did not have the speakers in use, and we didn't receive any sound complaints. we are happy about that progression. they also followed up with me on monday. did we have any sound complaints i think they are eager to be in compliance. starting on page 5, we had ten complaints about an outdoor rooftop event. one of the reasons why the report is so long. so we did have an inspector respond, and moving forward, we will be setting a sound limit for any future rooftop event. the permit holder was made aware of the complaint. if we go to page 9, i've highlighted of highlighted virgin hotel. virgin hotel has four permitted

locations on sight within the hotel. the rooftop, the mezzanine, the commons club, and the funny library. all of those locations have been permitted when they came to a hearing last year, but recently, we have been receiving complaints about the rooftop causing disruptions to the neighbor, so when i followed up with the permit holder, i learned that the person i've been in contact is no longer with the business. so i've been in touch with new management, and we had a conference call last week where i explained there permit condition. they were unaware that they were not permitted to have entertainment past 10:00 p.m. on the rooftop. that is actually per planning due to the zoning discharge that they are in. we discussed that, and the commission also conditions them that their speakers on the ground floor, outside of the hotel, also have to be off by 10:00 p.m. i made them aware of there permit conditions, and hopefully moving forward, we will not

experience these complaints. i now have contact information at the hotel, so that is helpful page 10, i've highlighted 1226 nick his, we received a phone call from a neighbor who was directly across the street saying that like clockwork, every single night to closing time, 1:45 a.m., the patrons come out, and they're so loud, and they loiter, and it is really disruptive, so we had an inspector go out friday and saturday, and he observed exactly that, that the patrons are leaving intoxicated, and loitering outside of the club. are inspector did speak to a manager there, and expressed that this is a problem and it is not allowed, and that they need to move the folks along. that was on friday when he had that conversation, and so on saturday, you went back and he witnessed that manager assuring people down the street. it wasn't security that was doing this, it was a manager.

to follow up, there will be -- i will be reaching out to the owners or whomever i can get a hold of to discuss the permit conditions, because upon review, they have a lot of conditions about security, but we haven't had this on the radar, at least since i have been in this position. we will need to review this with the operators. and i believe that is all that is highlighted, but i'm happy to answer any questions if you have any. >> it seems like it is summer and rooftops are happening all over the city, it seems to be a consistent theme across all of these, and obviously virgin and the south van ness suite, and it looks like all jobs wasn't having a rooftop party. >> not this weekend. >> just given that this is a

consistent point of conflict with neighbors, and i know that we see people come in with open air or rooftop spaces, but i am wondering if there's anything more that we can be doing as the entertainment commission when places with route up -- rooftop spaces come in front of us. to some extent, if it is 10:00 p.m., then they are somehow not aware of it, i mean, you know, hopefully they stay in compliance, but i'm just wondering if there's more we should be doing. >> i actually do have thoughts on this. since this is a fairly new process, as we are reviewing applications that include outdoor, so i think it does come with a lot of growing pains. there are spaces that we are seeing consistently that have complaints and issues. we can do what we can

administratively to try and bring them into compliance, but it will likely come to a point, if it continues, where we need to bring them back to a hearing to potentially recondition them, and that is within your purview to bring that up at a hearing during commissioner comments and questions if you want to specifically review a permit. the president or the vice president can also ask that of me off-line, as well. other than that, i think when you are reviewing these applications now, we are trying to do a better job of due diligence up front now, in terms of offering new conditions that make sense to approve, and so we may look at, again, it is time, place and manner, we may look at ours and recommend specific hours, but better yet, especially now that we have inspector roberts on board, he is up and give a lot of sound direction to our staff. we can always provide a recommendation in advance of a hearing of a sound limit.

this can be based on something separate from what code dictates , which is 250 feet in audibility, or essentially you are at ambient 250 feet away. it can be more conservative than that for a space that has neighbors that are a hundred feet away. so with your direction, i'm happy to start doing that more in advance. you actually have a location before you tonight that is asking for outdoor, as well, and so -- >> yeah,. also, it would also be helpful for us to have applicants to give us a sense of who is within hearing range of those outdoor spaces. i remember there was a union square restaurant that had an open-air patio, and they couldn't really answer who their neighbors were, and just, either

some show of due diligence on the part of the applicants of, you know, were at least an explanation of, you know, this hotel overlooks the space, or something like that, so that we can try to head off or mitigate conflicts related to the noise. >> which is something that the deputy director always asks during intake, but we can incorporate that better into our application, as well. again, the other thing is, if we want to make a practice of it, we can send inspectors out in advance of a hearing to try to provide a better recommendation regarding sound in advance. and that review of the premises can also include scoping out where residential is within earshot. >> yeah, even just standing on the roof and looking around, i think and spotting stuff, you know, i love rooftop bars, they are lovely, and they seem to be

generating a lot of conflicts, some of which is bad behaviour on the part -- or lack of information on the part of the managers, but some of which is just noise travels. >> my question is, on south then ness, is that a bar up there? >> that is the old fillmore, it is a huge premises. it is where the honda building was for a long time. >> is it actually a bar up there , or is it just a common area where the residents decided to have a party? >> no residence, it is totally commercial space, plus ultra. they are operating the space mostly for rental, full buyouts, or partial buyouts, and they offer that outdoor space as a part of it. they always apply for one-time permits because they did not go for a place of entertainment, and so we do want to go out and

just set a limit for them that is potentially more conservative than what is dictated in 1060.16 about 250 feet. >> this particular event had a one-day permit. >> yes. >> okay. i think the one-day permit thing and rooftops, as soon as we give them the permit, you know, just seems to go haywire, and then management changes. especially at virgin, there is management that changes from one month to another, and then they don't tell them what the requirements are. >> the deputy director caught that within a month i would say, because she is just very fast. [laughter] >> there were complaints. how is charmaine? is she okay? we haven't heard from them for a while. >> no complaints. >> okay. >> i had another comment. i noticed we seem to have a

state of turning down the sound when the inspectors walk in, which is kind of rude, but it doesn't seem much of a sign of good faith in our process, and surely in our inspectors. that disturbs me that they are so blatantly disregarding the regulations and their conditions >> its everybody. it's the same places. >> i did notice it is more than one listed tonight. >> i think we need to continue to monitor those specific locations very closely. >> i would also add, we need to continue to evaluate the consequence because our fee structure is so low that there really isn't a consequence. i know we've had the conversation before, and since

i'm now talking, i will continue deputy director, a question for you. your report, to be send this to the permit officers? >> nope, not at this point. >> can we? >> yep. >> i think that would be helpful for us as a commission because it also puts them on notice if there is a role in this process and it helps improve education across the board. that would be awesome. thank you. secondly, i wanted to complement , i see st. mary's pub is in compliance, you went out there and took a look, that is nice to see because they were recently before us. that is a positive example of the work we are doing where there was a problem, and now we actually took a problem, licensed it, and now they are in compliance. knocking on wood that will continue. >> i'm with you. >> all right. that's all i had. thank you. >> thank you. okay, is there any public comment on the report of the deputy director? seeing none, public comment is

closed. the next on item on the agenda is agenda item number 5, report from the senior analyst. >> good evening, commissioners. i will try to be brief. in terms of education and networking, real quick, just about the outdoor event planning permitting guide, it is up-to-date on our website for july in terms of new permit fees , new city employee contacts , and then some zero ways changes, just f.y.i. i didn't include it in your binder because it is a lot of paper, we can take a look at it on the outer events page. just a reminder, this guide is updated for every july and every january. education and networking, we had a really wonderful program on july 22nd as part of the us of outdoor events network at jolene 's in the mission.