for everybody, it is easy to understand it. if they come to chinatown, they see that chinatown station. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. i want to show you guys a video about the chinatown station. i want to show you guys a video about it. [♪ music playing ]

>> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm here to air the video

given by a merchant, from easy travel. he cannot come to this meeting, he was too busy. >> i support chinatown station. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please.

>> i am here on behalf of the owner of the chinatown hair salon. he cannot come today. [video playing] i support chinatown station only because it represents all chinese. this is what i want to say. >> thank you.

>> this video is also from chinatown. the owner could not be here. i am glad to play for her. [video playing]

>> next speaker, please. >> hello board of supervisors. today i am here to speak on behalf of of eight chinatown business owners. like thousands of san francisco residents against -- most of them cannot be here today because i have to take care of their own business. i bring their letters here, and let their voice to be heard and let supervisors to stop push rose pack naming. as you can see the letters written by workshop owners. crown plaza hotel managing partner, and the fortune cookie owner.

[inaudible] all of these owners do not want chinatown station attached to rose pack. first, rose pack had an f.b.i. file on her because she committed illegal actions to acquiring a bmr unit. second, she has defied a judge's order. also, she had intimidated many and made threats. a lot of people have lived in her fear for many years. please listen to the public's voice, please do not push naming after rose pack.

-- rose pak next speaker, please. >> good afternoon everyone. i am from the good content printing shop. [video playing] [speaking native language] i'm a business owner in chinatown. we wish chinatown to be known all over the world. i don't know why naming it rose

pak, we just want to name to be chinatown. [video playing] [speaking native language] if you talk about the history of rose pak, you cover your ears. whenever she opens up her mouth that is all dirty work. how can we name the station after her name? i represent good content contained shop. >> thank you.

>> good evening board of supervisors. i am the owner of a chinatown restaurant. i support the name chinatown station only. [inaudible] just go to chinatown station i go one block, and find my restaurant. a lot of people come from mexico, china, and they say let's go to china -- chinatown station instead of saying -- [inaudible] i own a restaurant and i am off

chinatown station. it is easy, it is a symbol. you go to chinatown, go to chinatown station. simple. thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors. we are against rose pak. she had a bad name. we do not want her name on it. thank you. >> good afternoon everybody. i am playing this radio from chinatown, chinese medicine doctor.

[video playing] thank you. >> good afternoon. i come from san francisco. i come to your meeting, a lot of

my friends, they support chinatown station. now, i show you a video of one of them. [video playing] >> excuse me, sir. you are not allowed to translate a video, the speaker's time is allotted for the speaker themselves. if that individual would like to translate the video, she is more than welcome to. but this is not your time to speak. >> next speaker, please.

[speaking native language] >> my english is not very good. sorry. [speaking native language] >> she is the owner of a trading company, i does not have time to come up here. they asked me to come here to play this video for him.

[video playing]

everybody says no rose pak. i hope every supervisor to think about why. nobody likes it. chinatown only. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is alan, i live in on bernal heights. i just want to share with you what we went through the last couple of days. we know how the merchants feel about that, and the resident which had persuaded to come forth. very difficult. if they walk away, they have to find a replacement. it is very difficult. they really want to do it. they want to speak out. they ask us to record their word, then play it here.

in front of me, this stat, 10,300 names collected by july 15. we will send the clerk the online version of that. all of them are residents of san francisco. you can check them, you can audit them. it has a phone number, or address, or both. i want you to know, this is not an ongoing issue. just a small portion of the people do not like this idea. chinatown businesses, many many people do not like this idea. please think it over. do not do the wrong thing. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> today at 3:37 p.m., i

understand stefani is the one, the supervisor over here. okay. let's go back to, you are always decayed it as i told you before, where's your compassion? [inaudible] i am telling you rose pak is not deserved to put her name over

there, because she was gang related. >> if you want the truth, come to me. [inaudible] don't let her spirits influence you all. be a well-educated supervisor chinatown is the proper name.

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> your time is concluded, sir. your time is concluded, sir. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon fellow american citizens. my name is kathleen wells, i am an entrepreneur and i am the american government. i exercise my united states constitution rights, and all other rights. i have a copy of the united states constitution with bill of

rights in my possession right now. i exercise my right to collect my funds, and i demand my funds from a united states constitutional demand. in the amount of $8,250,000, $5 billion on the 110 trillion purchasing power scientifically. an executive branches of our government, during years tran11-2016 and with this government body on july 16, 2019. i demand that the city of san francisco provide a recent auditing report, accompanied with bank statements on account numbers being used by the city. the last time i gave a public comment, i was talking about what has happened with the federal reserve, and its dictatorial practices and how it has caused the current homelessness problem, which i see. you know, i have lived here from 1985-1996. i moved to new york city, that i

move back recently in in january of 2019, i am completely shocked at how many homeless american citizens there are in your streets. it is unacceptable. expert authority, thomas jefferson wrote to albert gallatin, "if the american people ever allow central banks to control, then the inflation and deflation and manipulations will deprive the people of their property, until their children wake-up homeless, on the continent their fathers conquered". my background is american monetary history, and policy, and the constitution of light. i will be happy to help thank you very much for your attention. >> next speaker, please. [singing] single ♪ ♪ america, america, i want my

money back. [laughter] people are telling their genealogy today. i say yeah,, warehouse local six. i was in that union for a couple of years. >> next speaker, please. step up, please. >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. i am from the medallion holders, not the union, but one of the medallion holders. we do support chinatown, and like the u.s. speaker said, there is a lot of homelessness and by san francisco city, not helping the taxi drivers they are basically trying to create

more homeless people. please be kind to all of the taxi medallion buyers, and please buy those medallions back and give the money back to those medallion buyers so they can rebuild their lives. also, all of the time and money they have lost, san francisco said he basically owes them for their loss of income. i would suggest to please by all of the medallions back, and also refund the loss of income that they have incurred on them, because san francisco is supporting uber and lyft. they are driving and making money on the city of san francisco streets. please help the medallion buyers. thank you.

>> i have not seen a homeless person today, for the first time in memory. regarding the need waste program. good money is chasing bad litter in the win. i'm facilitating a dirty habit. you do not hand out cigarettes, you should not have a purely toxic program. given the recent spate of public fumes that have ended in tragic fatalities, i am imagining you are, as i am, against senseless acts of violence. i believe it is worth supporting the roll of media in general which far too often repeat grotesque mischaracterization, outright melissa lies and inflammatory rhetoric. immigrant families are being kidnapped, separated and taken to concentration camps, where

women are told to drink water from toilets, children are locked in cages, left to sleep on cold hard concrete and said to be dying in the immigration authorities custody with u.s. border agents being vilified as fascist and nazis. unfortunately, such slander has vulgar attempts to my emotional manipulation or the commonplace tactics of character disordered individuals and borderline personalities. it comes as no surprise, given the reckless insight to violence , with the wolf tickets sold, dog whistles blown respectively. eventually a misguided lone wolf does show up and allegedly armed in front of an emigration facility, rifle in hand, attempting to detonate a propane tank, having set nearby cars and buildings of flame. is it any wonder, when uniform mexican soldiers enter the u.s.

illegally, and disarm a national guardsmen, at gunpoint, as a very likely, wrongly imagined they are avenging -- >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> mr. president i will add, before the next speaker. any other members of the public that would like to address the board during general public comment, step up to your right hand side. otherwise this will be the last speaker. >> business in chinatown for 50 years, after hearing naming the station either chinatown or rose pak, my opinion, since i've been here for 50 years, do not name it after anyone. leave the station as chinatown. like i said, rose is a great person and the present, but in the past she has a dark side. i am here 50 years, and we don't

choose. thank you. >> thank you. that will conclude our public comments for today. madame clerk, please call for adoption of our committee agenda items 61-65. . >> clerk: introduced for adoption without reference to committee, unanimous vote is required for resolutions today right alternatively any supervisor may require a resolution to go to committee. . >> supervisor yee: would any of my colleagues like to sever any items? >> 62. >> 61. >> i just want to make sure i'm added as a cosponsor to 52 -- 62. . >> supervisor yee: and, 65. okay.

>> 63, 64. . >> supervisor yee: i think we need to take roll call. i see somebody missing. supervisor haney, are you around . >> clerk: item 63 and 64, supervisor haney. i'm sorry, mr. president we need a roll call. go ahead. [roll call] [please stand by]

. ease stand by] >> >> 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]

>> i just wanted to comment that i have the privilege and pleasure of. [indiscernible] it is a great turnout. they really have it together. i think that concert series is in a really good place. i think one of the guys who was running it for 30 years, passing the torch to his kids, so to speak, so it is a good age. i just think it was a real good san francisco event. >> thank you very much. >> all right. saying no more general public comment, public comment is closed. the next agenda item is item number two, approval of the minutes for august 6th, 2019, and i will ask if i have a motion to approve. >> motion to approve.

>> second. >> is there any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. [roll call] >> the minutes have been approved. mark moving along to agenda item number three which is our report from the executive director. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners. this evening, for my director's report under the legislative and policy update, i wanted to share and an update with you from oewd on the project he has been working on to research and develop the san francisco music strategy along with sound diplomacy. just an update on that, last year, the organization found a project supported by oewd to developing the strategies for san francisco, in which the entertainment commission took part in, and facilitated some

focus groups with a lot of our constituents, either from the event side or from brick-and-mortar permitted places of entertainment. the strategy will map the city's music related assets and will identify recommendations for ways the city can better support local music. as part of that work, there is an online survey that is open right now for music businesses, venues, musicians, and music fans to offer feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of the local music ecosystem. we will be pushing some messaging out about that online through our various media channels and we will encourage you to do that, as well. we will provide you with the link as well as some social media language so you can share with your friends and people, just because we want this to reach far and wide. the deputy director is also

going to be reaching out to folks from our parroted venues to help them engage, as well -- our permitted venues to help them engage. moving on, we wanted to bring up our commission retreat at this evening's hearing. just to get a little feedback on where we are in the planning process. you should refer under the director's report to the details that i have provided their there see can follow along with me. our retreat will be on friday, october 18th. we will start at 11:00 a.m. and go until 4:00 p.m. we will have lunch until noon and then that is one the real agenda will begin. we are looking at a four our retreat. again, i will be reaching out for lunch orders shortly, as

well as asking you all for some song recommendations because we'll be putting together a music playlist this time around. >> i can't wait. >> we want to make it fun and speak to our love of entertainment, and i've gone over some of these discussion topics already with the board, so i already have their feedback and collaboration, but would love any further advice or thoughts on where we are at with our topics. so really a meat of what we're looking at. we are looking to have a strategic planning session. last year we had a fun session where we threw up ideas on the wall of what our mission, vision , and values are. we are going to rent that out for you in draft form for you to take a look at this meeting. we can play around with that. we will also get updates from ben van helton a little bit --

he little bit further detail on the sound diplomacy project, and then we really want to talk about something that the president has made is near and dear to his heart, is talking about this piece of promoting entertainment and nightlife more we do a really good job of regulating in san francisco, and we are a model across the world, but we could definitely work a little bit harder on supporting our venues and promoting the good work that everybody does in our ecosystem in san francisco. so how can we do that? we want to focus on the how and what we want to convey to our constituents. another thing that's been brought up several times is the desire to clean up our residential development review process, so that something that the senior inspector jordan roberts will be helping me with. we will talk about that at our

retreat, and finally, we will close with, you know, anything else that you want from us. we want to learn from us, or have us do better. you can go over your binders for your hearings and walk you through how they work a little bit better if that helps. since this incident -- we will not be setting up on t.v., in a stage like setting. we can have a little bit more fun and get more in the lead. is there anything else you would want at the treat that we are missing, or anything you don't think is necessary that is on there? you can always talk to me at a later time, as well. i will keep moving. finally, we are dealing with an appeal right now. this is an appeal of a citation, so it doesn't go before the board of appeals.

this is going to be heard at the controller's office, and so that hearing is on september 9th, and there are several deadlines that we have between now and then, in the deputy director is managing this process, which is great, and our prehearing statement is do this coming monday. it is pretty basic. it was a one-time event permit that we issued, and the permit holder was out of compliance with one of the conditions that was provided by the police department that they shall not block sidewalks. they wound up blocking the entire street, and the police department had to respond to the event and sent several officers out. we will keep you apprised of how that appeal process goes. any questions? >> i have a quick one. going back to the project of the

music strategy, is part of this that we would identify areas of the city that are lacking entertainment components and hopefully work towards developing those? >> yes. they are doing some geo- mapping as part of this. >> awesome. >> this will be a great tool for this office and hours to make policy recommendations to the mayor and board. >> also eventually to land-use? >> absolutely in the cards. >> thank you. >> well, the report include this place of entertainment or and outdoor events and festivals? >> it is inclusive of anybody that hose entertainment or is involved in the music industry in san francisco. so we connected the folks from sound diplomacy with a tone of our constituents.

they held focus groups already speaking directly to the source, and then there is going to be a survey. if there is anybody else that wants to provide feedback, that survey is a -- survey is a great opportunity. >> can i ask one more question? have you heard any more about the possible funding for soundproofing grants? >> the soundproofing program is moving forward. we just need to work on implementation. that was approved in the budget. >> right, so it will happen? >> yes. >> nice job. >> that is an oewd thing so we should thank director torres and thank everyone that approved the budget. >> outstanding. thank you. >> thank you. any public comment for the report? seeing none, public comment is closed. the next item agenda is the agenda from -- the item report from the deputy director.

>> thank you. good evening, commissioners. the enforcement report this week is fairly lengthy, but there isn't too much to report out to you. you will see what i have highlighted in yellow throughout the report. there was a lot of site inspections that took place and dropping off new good neighbor policies. so if you look at page one, you will see club 26. we had a handful of complaints come in about this venue over a short period of time, and they were the same as the couple who lived -- lives directly across the street from the club and their complaint is that every single night at closing time at 1:45 a.m., people come out to the street and they are disruptive. both of the inspectors have been out. i have spoken with their head of security and since last weekend, we haven't had any complaints. they are being very diligent in

adhering to their security plan. basically it is just moving people along. we have seen an improvement and i'm happy to report that. i've also connected with mission station about the problem and he himself said he would drive by at 2:00 a.m. i asked him via e-mail and if he had done that and i did not hear back. if there any updates i will let you know. on page two, i have highlighted outside lands. we did get seven complaints on 311, and the director forwarded those along to the recreation and park director. not too crazy. on page ten, i've highlighted the blue light. i just want to bring this incident to your attention. we did issue a notice of violation for them exceeding their sound limit, and there was an incident that occurred where it was a little bit of a mixup about the issuance date of their permit for a one time to go past

10:00 p.m. for their regular issued l.l.p. permit. so the inspector did believe that the permit was for saturday night, and upon going, they found the door open and took a sound measurement. they were exceeding their sound limit. it turns out the event was actually for friday night, so we issued in n.o.v. or their sound limit being exceeded. the next step in the enforcement escalation would be a citation or sound. there's a lot in here and i'm happy to answer any questions, but those are the highlights that stick out. >> question, when the 311 complaints come in, do you guys respond the next day? you get the 311 complaints, or does it come live? >> it comes live. when they are in the field on friday and saturday nights, they are receiving them in realtime

and responding in realtime. in the events where they happen where there's nobody in the field, we respond to them the next time someone is in the field or we follow up in the office with a call or an e-mail. >> have any inspectors gone there and there's music playing and they don't have a permit and they actually shut them down and say you have to turn it off? >> where are you referring to. >> any time. if there's a 311 call where the inspector found they had no permit. >> the process that the inspectors have been following as we received lots of 311 complaints for sound, and if we determine it is an unpermitted venue, then they go in and explain the permitting process. they are required to have a permit have live entertainment, this is considered live entertainment. they get contact information then they provide that to the director and i when they returned back to the office, and then i sent an intro e-mail stating -- >> if they're in the process, let's say they go there and they are in the beginning, and 70

complaints are you guys go there and say, hey, you are not permitted, do you take any steps to shut them down or you just -- >> when you say shut them down -- >> you don't have a permit, we have to turn off the music. >> that is a little severe, i would say. >> i don't know what the procedure normally is. i know in the past that we go after the fact and we have extra inspectors. is anybody come across -- >> the goal is we want to bring you into compliance. so if they are operating entertainment without a permit, sometimes they don't even know we exist. if they are a repeat offender, then we have to start taking further action. we could use our enforcement tools, and then we can always bring the police department out with us, which usually is how we would do it if it is happening -- if it has happened a few times. we have one right now that we are likely going to have to do that with. >> okay. >> if i can add a comment,

generally speaking, at least from the police department's perspective, we do not shut businesses down because you have to be careful you are not becoming a judge judge and making a final determination. we have to do it through due process. at least for the police department, especially when i was doing this, unless there was significant exigency, we would not shut things down. we would certainly document and follow up after the fact. >> right. and then the only department that has the authority to actually shut a place down entirely as the fire department. >> that is your backup. you can always call fire out. >> i was just wondering -- i know we didn't have enough night people, and i know these things

are coming up where there are 311 calls. i'm just curious if we happen to walk into one and say, you don't have a permit, and his 500 people in there, they will say, shut off your music. you have to wait for the next day to contact them. >> we usually take the approach of education first. >> okay. >> you also don't want to create an exigency. >> right. >> question, with regards to blue light on page ten, if they were given a notice of violation , i am just wondering, can you remind me, notice of violation is not a preferable warning, and what is the escalation -- do they get a citation, and then the directors just something happened? can you remind me with the process is? >> the first step is a verbal warning, and then -- it is a verbal, notice of violation,

then citation. if -- it is -- if three citations for center issued within a 90 day period, the director can suspend their permit for up to two weeks. the reason why this went straight to a notice of violation is because we have had a lot of conversations with the blue light about being in compliance, and so they've had plenty of verbal warnings, but this is their first time being documented in excess of their sound limit. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. is that any public comment on the deputy director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. moving along, item number five, i believe, which is police department -- no, wait, is that five? yes, that is five. did i miss one? >> you got it. >> all right. police department comments and

questions. i don't see any members of the police department here so we will move on. we are on to number six, which is hearing and possible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commission. we will have the deputy director introduce the consent calendar. >> the only permit on our consent agenda this evening is for a billiard her -- pilar permit at a bar restaurant. there is no opposition to this permit application, and the police department had no recommendations. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> i would like to make a motion to approve. >> second. [roll call]

>> all right. the billiards permit has been approved. congratulations, if you are here >> i wanted to bring your attention to the memo that is included in your binder following tab five, six and the reason is because the next memo here, the next two applicants, it is very long in there is a lot of follow along with. there with me, but here we go. the first permit on the regular agenda is for a limited life perform it permit -- performance permit for a zeitgeist. the applicants have held a b.p. permit in 2001, and regularly apply for one time after entertainment event permits. they have decided to apply for a permit to continue hosting their annual outdoor events and give them flexibility to host other indoor and outdoor events year round. due to