commission. and you have our attention. you have the chief's attention. and it's important that you do what you can do for the city and the youth commission. to my fellow commissioners, two of the most insightful opportunities we've had tonight are from the youth that have spoken. they have been clear unambiguous and insightful. between you and the pal cadet that came forward, that's probably the most beneficial aspect of tonight so thank you. >> thanks very much. >> thank you very much. >> next item, please. >> line item 1e, commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings. action. >> any announcements? okay. seeing none, next item, please. the public is now invited to comment on items 1a through 1e. >> all right. this is not general public comment yet. it's comment on what we have discussed already. so anybody who has comments on that, please. >> good evening commissioners. thank

you for being here this late. my name is jodine and i'm the executive director of walk san francisco. we are the only pedestrian advocacy organization in san francisco making our streets safe for everyone. the organization that really helped pass vision zero in 2014. it is the goal of eliminating all severe and fatal car crashes in san francisco by 20224. and the sfpd is part of the vision zero commitment with the goal of 50 percent traffic citations on the top five focus on the five. unfortunately the numbers this year of people dying from traffic violations has been many. we've already seen 14 and this includes one mildchild and one person on a bike. so we are equal to 2018 numbers and we still have several months left. as we heard tonight from commander perea the sfpd has a lot of work to do to meet its part of the goal.

can i put this year? sorry. as you can see from my graph, the focus on the five has been plummeting the last few years. we know the numbers of trips has gone up. 170,000 additional trips per day has been from lyft and uber alone. we know 60 percent of those drivers don't live in san francisco. we hear that it feels like the wild west out there and we know enforcement has been part of it. in 2015 we had 41,000 focus on the five citations. this year, we are tracking to only meet 2018 numbers. and that's half, that's only 20,000 focus on the five. we know that driver behavior change is definitely necessary but that's not the only ask. i want to ask that we are looking at the citations on the most dangerous streets. i have been

asking and i hope that you can ask this too, we would love to see where the citations are being given. we saw tonight the tenderloin, we know every street in the tenderloin is on a high injury network and those numbers are pittance. the same thing with southern station. what san francisco has been asking for and i encourage you to inquire where the locations are for the focus on the five. and if this commission can commit to making sure that we are laser focused on these dangerous streets. we all deserve to be safe. thank you very much. i look forward to working with commission, the new commander and also acting captain. thank you very much. >> i want to ask you a question. >> absolutely. >> when you say where the violations are, are you asking for an exact location, address or just which station. >> no, we have all the stations. i'm

asking for the streets. because we have the high injury network map. so we know where these streets are that have the most dangerous conditions where people are speeding, running red lights, doing all the five, not yielding to pedestrian in crosswalks we have all that mapped. so my question is where are these citations being given? are they being given on those streets? >> thank you. >> any other questions? >> any other public comment on the items we've addressed already? okay. seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> line item 2 general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or dpa personnel. under police commission rules of order during public comment neither police nor dpa or

commissioners are required to respond to comments made by the public but may provide a brief response. they should refrain from entering into any debates or discussions with speakers during public comment. >> linda chapman. what i was being investigated by the sheriff's deputy for weapons, he said to me i hope you have an enjoyable evening. and i will have as a result of our various encounters, eventually will be able to have the case investigated properly and also reform the procedures in the special victims unit. and eventually i'm going to suggest a few small changes. but right now i just want you to know for sure what an extreme public danger exists as a result of the failure of the police to investigate this. this was not just my impression the special victims advocate at the da's office and adult protective services

were deeply concerned about this as a matter of public safety. we have a deranged nurse who is practicing medicine unauthorized medicine, and playing doctor. and i told the police investigators that i would not be able to predict if she is going to be a serial sexual predator but i don't have any doubt i was not the first person she played doctor with and i will not be the last. when you wake up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a registered nurse there registered nurses or any of the others are not allowed to practice anything on patients unless it's in the written plan, unless an emergency comes up. and the written plan was that sent me a tablet from gynecology which in the daytime a nurse gave me, had nothing to do with 5:30 in the morning. in

her mind she made a connection that it came from gynecology there must be information, i'm going to begin the pelvic examination. so i wake up with this woman suddenly pulls off my clothes didn't take time to turn on the light or put on gloves even, sticks her hands in my pubic area and rubs back and forth. of course there was nothing to observe. she didn't even acknowledge my existence as a person. they are all required to tell you what they are planning to do. i could have been a mannequin. but she talked to herself. she said, i don't see anything. because that's what she was there for she came for this examination. she couldn't see why she didn't see this thing she made up in her mind and when i suddenly shouted at her, what are you doing, she said medication. so that was the thing that set her off. and we all know what happens when there are nurses who engage in their own practices. there was one who was caught after 300 deaths

many are never caught. there must be many people who become ill or die because of people like this running around. and until that nurse and the administrate administerrer at the jewish home are out of the field i will never give up on this subject. >> is this something is department is aware of? i would invite you to speak with a representative from sfpd. >> we'll follow up. i'm not aware of that case, but we will follow up. >> thank you. >> have a good evening ma'am. >> good evening commissioners. my name is brian with the public defender's office. dpa published its 2018 annual report last week. 275 days late. the

data report was confusing. since i have a few minutes to speak i'm going to highlight three points. first they report that 59 percent of sustained cases nine month internal completion goal but 293 percent improvement over the previous year. i did the math. the math suggests that just 15 percent of cases met that goal. i realize the goal was just a benchmark. both the percentages receive a failing grade in any school. an increase sounds impressive but sounds absurd under scrutiny. they said the public filed one misconduct allegation. of those officers 85 percent had more than one allegation. actual numbers instead of percentages which are the more vivid story. that story is this. nearly 600 had more than one allegation in a single year, over 200 had one nearly every other month and 55 had one almost every month. the way

they present the data matters and here they present data in a way that obscures what's happening and that's imbalance. finally, dpa claims in appendix a the chief lowered the punishment in nine cases. i went through the cases and identified how often the chief lowered the discipline from a written reprimand to no punishment. i found at least 60 instances when it happened. i don't know how this represents the number of nine. that undermining the credibility of the report. so mathematical mistakes are one thing misrepresenting the truth is another. so i'm looking forward to next week's presentation. we can dive into statistics a bit more. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other public comment? general public comment? >> good evening ms. brown.

>> yes, good evening everyone. i would like to use the overhead. i'm a little tired today. as usual i always come here to talk about my son who was murdered august 14, 2006 and to this day his case is a cold case and is unsolved. and i bring these with me all the time. thomas hannibal, paris moffet, jason thompson, anthony hunger and marcus hunger. these are the people that were there when my son was being shot. and these are the perpetrators. one of them is deceased. and i ask for the last 14 years, i've been

bringing these names here. and i just didn't pull them out of a hat. they are down at 8:50 in the homicide detail on the fifth floor with these names there and my son's case. and i'm still asking why haven't any of these names and these people been arrested. i know people are saying we need someone to come forward. but how long and when? is there anything else you can do beside waiting for someone else to come forward? there's a $250,000 reward. take that money and investigate this case. i know you hired a new investigator for me. but nothing has happened. i'm still in the dark. i

come all the time, i bring all these other faces with me. and i stand with some of these mothers for unsolved homicides. and that's my quest is unsolved homicides. because my son's case is not solved. and i do ask where was everybody when my son and these other victims were murdered. i bring these pictures with me all the time because i want people to see what i have to deal with for the rest of my life and what i have to remember of my son for the rest of my life. and it hurts. and it still hurts. i continue to go to every form that i think i can go to where officials are there so that my son's face and memory wouldn't be forgotten. and people that are trying to be reelected into office and they are talking about

public safety and people being murdered every day need to stop solve these cases so that i can heal. >> thank you. there is a $250,000 reward out there for information, i think leading to the arrest and conviction. 415-57-5444 is the tip line. any other public comment? . >> good evening everyone. my name is danielle harris. i'm the director of public policy for san francisco public defender's office. i'm here again to ask this commission to take a formal and hard look at dpa's ability and commitment to fulfill their mission, which which as far as i can tell, is laid out in the charter. and it has been affirmed by the

electorate over 80 percent to hold police accountable. as i told you at the last commission meeting the current rate of records released by dpa at that rate, it will take a quarter century for all the records to be released on just the current sworn sfpd. that in itself is unacceptable. then we have strategic plans presented tonight which nowhere acknowledged that holding police accountable is the reason dpa exists. i heard discussion about refining our mission and defining our mission. it is not up to dpa to define their mission. their mission is defined very clearly in the city charter. and it can't be in name only. the only place that i see the words police accountability

appear in those strategic plans are in the name of the agency. that is a problem. and then we heard from him that the annual report is inaccurate, misleading, unreliable and gives itself even a failing grade. the idea that these two reports, the strategic plans leave out these essential legally required tasks like two-year audits and 1421 while they are refining and defining their mission says it all. they need to refocus. they need to reorganize. if these things weren't concerning enough, let me tell you something, what happened yesterday. as you may know, we have an open request to dpa for all 1421 records. and as individual

cases arise we make specific requests. i would like to -- i have copies of these two letters we got yesterday for everybody. we first got a letter yesterday in a specific case stating that sergeant daniel silver from the dpa has no records under 1421. much to our surprise, the same afternoon. >> all right i'm sorry your time is up. we will take the letters. just let us have the documents and we will have them distributed. >> [off mic]. >> i don't actually, but we'll get them. okay. thank you. next speaker. >> good evening commissioners. my name is rebecca young. i'm a deputy public defender for the

last 17 years in the city and county of san francisco. i co-chair the racial justice committee. this is the first time i'm appearing in front of this newly-formed police commission, and i'm very happy to see all the new faces. because i work very closely with danielle harris i would like to finish her comments which is that on the same day that we received a letter from dpa saying no record on officer silver, we also received a letter from dpa saying that officer silver has reportable records under sb1421. and the records involved an officer-involved shooting. and so it becomes something that cries out for explanation. how is it that on the very same day dpa can send out two completely different letters on the same officer one saying absolutely no record, and the other

one saying records of an officer-involved shooting. so the first letter says there are no records that qualify under penal code section 832.7. this requires an explanation. and i am hopeful because the commission has oversight over dpa that the commission is as concerned about this 180 response on the same officer on the same issue as the public defender's office is. having said that, i listen very carefully tonight to ms. hawkins presentation, which was excellent, i agree with commissioner mazzucco on that. and i listened carefully to commissioner henderson's report. and i heard a couple of things which would give me some pause. and one is there is new program and not all the cases have been run through the program. and the old

data has not been integrated with the new data and there's brand new attorneys there and brand new investigators. and basically we are in a huge learning curve with dpa. that's fine. that should be understood by everybody including the public defender's office. however, i want, and i would expect the commission to set a deadline and its own expectations for how the dpa responds to records under sb1421. sb1421 is essentially an accountability by the state of california. all departments must comply. and we've met with nothing but resistance. thank you for listening. >> can i give public comment on the bicycle reign issue? >> you have eight seconds. >> as a resident of the bayview i am really, and as a person that needs a lot more exercise. >> your time is up. all right. thank

you. any other public comment? okay. public comment is closed. next item please. >> line item 3 adjournment action item. >> is there a motion? we have no closed session i take it? is there a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> is there public comment on the motion to adjourn? no public comment. all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? all right. motion carries. we had four votes in favor. [end of meeting]

. >> i just feel like this is what i was born to do when i was a little kid i would make up performances and daydream it was always performing and doing something i feel if i can't do that than i can't be me me. >> i just get excited and my nickname is x usher my mom calls me i stuck out like a sore thumb for sure hey everybody i'm susan kitten on the keys

from there, i working in vintage clothing and chris in the 30's and fosz and aesthetic. >> i think part of the what i did i could have put on my poa he focus on a lot of different musical eras. >> shirley temple is created as ahsha safai the nation with happens and light heartenness shirley temple my biggest influence i love david boo and el john and may i west coast their flamboyant and show people (singing) can't be unhappy as a dr. murase and it is so fun it is a joyful instrument i learned more about

music by playing the piano it was interesting the way i was brought up the youth taught me about music he picked up the a correspond that was so hard my first performing experience happened as 3-year-old an age i did executive services and also thanks to the lord and sank in youth groups people will be powering grave over their turk i'll be playing better and better back la i worked as places where men make more money than me i was in bands i was treated as other the next thing i know i'm in grants performing for a huge protection with a few of my friends berry elect and new berry elect and can be ray

was then and we kept getting invited back you are shows got better we made it to paris in 2005 a famous arc we ended up getting a months residencey other than an island and he came to our show and started writing a script based on our troop of 6 american burr elect performs in france we were woman of all this angels and shapes and sizes and it was very exciting to be part of the a few lettering elect scene at the time he here he was bay area born and breed braces and with glossaries all of a sudden walking 9 red carpet in i

walgreens pedestrian care. >> land for best director that was backpack in 2010 the french love this music i come back here and because of film was not released in the united states nobody gave a rats ass let's say the music and berry elect and performing doesn't pay very much i definitely feel into a huge depression especially, when it ended i didn't feel kemgd to france anymore he definitely didn't feel connected to the scene i almost feel like i have to beg for tips i hey i'm from the bay area and an artist you don't make a living it changed my represent tar to appeal and the folks that are

coming into the wars these days people are not listening they love the idea of having a live musician but don't really nurture it like having a potted plant if you don't warrant it it dizzy sort of feel like a potted plant (laughter) i'm going to give san francisco one more year i've been here since 1981 born and raised in the bay area i know that is not for me i'll keep on trying and if the struggle becomes too hard i'll have to move on i don't know where that will be but i love here so so much i used to dab he will in substances i don't do that i'm sober and part of the being is an and sober and happy to be able to play music

and perform and express myself if i make. >> few people happy of all ages i've gone my job so i have so stay is an i feel like the piano and music in general with my voice together i feel really powerful and strong

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[standby]>> it is 5:38 p.m. on october 15. welcome to the commission

meeting of the san francisco entertainment. my name is ben bleiman, i'm the member president. if you would like to speak, there are speaker forms on the tables and you can hand them to staff or you can just come to the microphone when i call public comment. that is fine too. we ask that everyone turns off their cell phones, including staff and commissioners. i want to thank sf gov tv and media services for sharing this meeting with the public. we will start with a roll call. >> commissioner perez is en route. [roll call] commissioner thomas is an excused absence. >> thank you very much. the first order of business is general public comment. this is for any item that is not currently on the agenda for this evening. do we have anybody speaking on that? seeing none, public comment is closed. regular agenda. all right. the next

agenda item is number 2 the approval of our minutes from october 1, 2019. do we have a motion to approve the minutes? >> i move to approve. >> second. >> is there any public comment on the approval of the minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> vice president camino. [roll call]. >> the minutes have been approved. the next agenda item is a report from executive director weiland. >> thank you president bleiman. good evening commissioners. i have a brief report this evening. i wanted to provide an update for all of you that we have been conducting some community outreach efforts as staff and really in gratitude to deputy director azevedo for leading the charge. but in educating neighborhoods in merchant corridors around our

limited live performance permits specifically and around other permit offerings that we have. a few months back, she had attended a merchants town meeting and recently we spoke at the cultural center department meeting for all the cultural centers in san francisco regarding places of entertainment and other ways to activate their spaces with entertainment. and on tonight's agenda there are four permits for small businesses on the 24th street corridor in the mission. latino cultural district awarded four businesses a mini grant to pay for their llp permit. so that's what brings them here tonight. so we are really excited about that. and also we are pleased that all their applications are on the consent agenda. they've done a lot of outreach in preparation for tonight. and we are very pleased they are joining our community. i wanted to let you know about that. and we are happy to continue to promote night life and entertainment opportunities

via outreach and education in these ways. that's all i have. >> questions for director weiland? thank you very much. looking forward to the retreat this friday. is there any public comment on the director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. the next agenda item is number 4, which is a report from deputy director azevedo. >> thank you president bleiman. good evening commissioners. so the enforcement report, i just have a few things highlighted here for you this evening if you want to go ahead and follow along here. so page 1 you'll see i've highlighted this. we received a large amount of complaints about the olympic in a concentrated period of time and upon investigation determined that they are not having live entertainment. it's just a loud bar. so we did respond to that. but i wanted to mention what the recourse was there since we've had a lot of complaints.

on page 6 you'll see 22 is highlighted. i brought this up at a hearing recently as well. just giving you an update that we are still trying to get in contact with ownership there, management won't give ownership information. but we have a manager's e-mail address. they are still having live entertainment, full-blown live entertainment. so the next step is that i'll be sending an e-mail out notifying them they have another week. and if they are still having entertainment within that week we will be issuing a citation. so we are following up there. page 8 you'll see that 3910 lounge is highlighted. and this business had closed. so they were recently, this year granted a poe permit and mad permit. but due to somali core license -- due tosome liquor

license situation they are closed. i received a call from sfpd permit officer day that he received notification that the hotel has outdoor speakers on the facade of the building. and they are stopping homeless folks from staying too long outside the hotel but it's disruptive to people living in the nearby vicinity. so technically this falls into an s path or fixed place amplified speaker permit. so inspector fiorentino went out this weekend to gather contact information. when he went the speakers were off. i will be following up with the management to see if they are using the speakers and if so we can have our first permit. that is all i have highlighted but i'm happy to answer any questions.

>> hello. let me start with a question first. do our investigators have the capability of writing an incident report or do we just issue citations? >> we have notice of violation which is a step below citation but we don't have what we would call an instant report. >> every time you issue a notice of violation you send it along with a narrative in your e-mail that is very detailed and could constitute an incident report. >> i'm just looking at the kave22 and the refusal to provide the owner's information. i actually think it's a violation of our local laws but it's a violation of the abc act. and making notification to abc would trigger an investigation on them. if they want to be that noncompliant

that might be the most effective route. >> okay. >> but i'm happy to make that notification on the commission's behalf that this occurred. if we don't have -- but it might be something to think about down the road. maybe kind of an incident report way of memorializing what we are doing. doesn't have to be really complicated. maybe on friday. >> okay. >> thank you. >> thank you for that. >> thank you for the report. i have no comments personally. is there any public comment on the deputy director's report. seeing none, public comment is closed. moving along. agenda item number 6, which is police department questions and comments. i don't see any members from the police department here so we are going to move along as well. i'm sorry, that was 5. yep, that was 5. and then moving along to number 6

which is a hearing impossible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commission. and deputy director azevedo please introduce the items on consent agenda for this evening. thank you. >> as director weiland mentioned four permits tonight are mini grant funded, which is very exciting. however all five permits on the consent agenda this evening are accessory use permits. there was no opposition submitted. the respective police districts had no conditions. and they had a lot of neighborhood support gathered. happy to answer any questions if you have them. >> our representative from calle24 here? i have a few good questions for you. >> do you want to call specific businesses

or. >> more curious about the program that they've put together and how they implemented it. >> hello, good evening. i'm the liaison for the calle latino cultural district. >> got it. so thank you for coming in. we really appreciate it. this is the first i've heard of this. it's pretty exciting to me. can you explain what motivated you to do this and how you went about doing it because i think it might be a model for others. >> the cultural district became a cultural district five years ago. it is in an effort to bring a more cohesive community, invested in the neighborhood and businesses, so it was a grant that was allocated

by the department of -- diane? okay. by the department. so we got a grant for some businesses that were long time businesses within the latino cultural district recently established that met some criteria. the criteria was they had to be in the neighborhood for quite a while. they could host some sort of live entertainment. their lease would be at least three years long as of this time. i think that was it. and so based on this criteria, i went from business to business to

see how many of them would qualify for this grant. and if there was any interest in this grant. and so it is more for businesses that whose primary business is not live entertainment or music or poetry, things like that, right? so we came up with, we have on the list a bakery, we have on the list a small tiny family business restaurant that doesn't seat more than 25 people. we have a bookstore. so it was very exciting for us to come up with this idea, there was a lot of interest. very many wanted to participate. and so it's just a matter of our board actually looking through the paperwork that i have provided them. and then they wrote it. and that's how we arrived to today.

diana? >> just to provide a little context. from the office of workforce development. so it's one of our grantee partners in terms of through our invested neighborhoods program. part of the grant is to support technical assistance with small businesses on the ground, activations, events, and so the mini grant program grew out of that support to support the entire economic strategy for the corridor. so obviously it's a cultural district with lots of events, cultural things happening. in the past there had been entertainment naturally happening in these restaurants. and it went away. so we also saw this as a way to strengthen what was already there to make it more vibrant and for businesses to be able to participate in a way that was within regulation. so with gabby's support as our business liaison on the ground for the cultural district, she was able to help and work

directly with the department with the entertainment commission to help them through the process. because a lot of times it's not even necessarily the money but it's also the bureaucracy the understanding of how to do that. so she served as our liaison to get them through that process and be able to package it in a way that would be accessible to these small businesses. so with that, part of the funding provided the initiation for the grant and to get that through to benefit overall the overall strategy of the area and the district itself. so this is the first four. and we'll see how it goes from there. but we are super excited to be here, to be supporting that and for them to be a part and collaborate as there are activations along the corridor not just individually on their own and being able to use it as a tool for revenue and to support themselves but also to be part of the bigger picture when there are events and to

be able to leverage that for the entire corridor. >> do you know if they have plans to replicate this program in other neighborhoods? >> yes. i know there's been discussions in the bayview. and we are looking at it from this model we'll be looking at other cultural districts and how we can support that in the same way. >> cool. so do you educate them as well, you know, about the good neighborhood policies and all that? i mean because having a permit is one thing but to understand how to not disturb the neighbors to keep going. >> i think that's a very key piece of the neighborhood the local calle 24 cultural district wanted to be responsible in terms of a permit of what it means and also to protect themselves in in terms of what responsibilities come with the permit itself. so that's part of actually gabby's job as the liaison. she's not only liaison to small businesses but also with the community. it's very well integrated into it.

>> great. well, i'm really excited about this. i think this might be a model that could be used all over the city to encourage artists and performers and venues for hiring people. so thank you very much for contributing here. this is really cool. it's great to hear. >> thank you. >> did you have something you wanted to say too? >> i'm one of the founders of the calle 24. we have a board of 19. we have four committees under us. we will be watching them and guiding them and looking for anything that is out of line and trying to make it work for everybody. >> thank you very much. it's great work. and great work for the ewe. is there any public comment on this specific agenda item? i mean the consent the entire consent calendar? seeing none, public comment is closed. wait. i'm sorry.

motion. we have to motion first. i didn't make the motion yet. i'll make the motion to approve. >> i second. >> all right. now we got it. >> all right. [roll call] >> congratulations. it's been approved. please follow up with our deputy director as soon as you can for next steps. thank you. >> good luck. congratulations. >> all right. and now we have a one-time event permit request. and i'm going to ask commission aid crystal stewart to introduce this for us. >> the only item on the regular agenda is for one time-out door entertainment event for the seventh annual on saturday october 19 from 11 to 8:30 p.m. from 12 to 3 there will be a

chowder competition between local restaurants. and four local bands will play. at 4:00 p.m. they will host a benefit concert featuring four bands including the slide deal with grammy winning artist charlie collins. and frazier of sugar lake and joel and scott owen of the pawnshop kings. the concert stage will be positioned toward the bay with film projected away from the local businesses and hotels along jefferson street. the applicant requested to attend tonight's hearing because they anticipate exceeding the standard outdoor sound regulations of npc260.16. staff recommendations and entertainment commission inspectors set a sound prior to the event during a sound check based on the closest receptor. we approve with conditions listed below. i

have sullivan here to speak on behalf of his application. >> it's great to be here. thank you for having me and hearing me at the end. i'm excited. i have a jump drive. i can show pictures and things of the set map. just tell me if that's appropriate. it's right here, i'm going to just pop it in. >> with technology you never quite know what's going to happen. >> i have a degree in computer science. >> then we are lucky. this will be the one we don't need a. >> i will go ahead and show you. give you a visual. i don't know if you can really see it if it's big enough. you can see our stage over here. can you see that okay? >> we are pretty familiar with the

spot. >> there we go. can you hear me okay? sorry. give me a second here. sorry. >> have to rotate i think. >> i think that works. we can see it. >> i can enlarge it a little bit. >> we have individual monitors. >> so you can see how we configured this year's event. the way the footprint looks it's in front

of the bakery and right between the francisco and pier 39 is off to the right there. so really how we are really thinking of doing this is starting our event at 11:00 a.m. for v.i.p. guests. we have a v.i.p. lounge furniture with donated furniture for the day. we are paying for the shipping for it. we have our v.i.p. area. and you'll see the stage. and the greenrooms in the back. and so the idea would be to have -- we have four bands going on. we are going to be opening with a band called the heather nation, she's a cover band, local lady and real mellow acoustic guitar type sound. she'll be starting at noon and going until 1:30 and the other band, the cary bailey band, swing music followed by a group called the walking dead, a cover band more

'90s grunge rock sound going into the side deal which is our new super group a new band these guys i've been dealing with them today on the phone. great group. it's three grammy award winners. it's stan frazier from the pawnshop kings we've got charlie colins from train who is a grammy award winning song writer. they've gotten together and formed this group. so they are using this as their launch event for their new album. so while all this music is playing during the day, we are going to start our chowder competition at 12 p.m so we are going to do three hours of chowder tasting with vintners beer. i believe mayor breed is going to award the chowder trophy. we have five chowder judges that will be voting on who gets the best chowder. from

there the event turned from a foody, wine thing into a music kind of a rock 'n' roll event. it goes from the really the focus on the music will be from 4:00 p.m. until about 8 p.m. and it will end up wrapping up at 8 p.m. so it's a complex event. but it's nonetheless it will be kind of fun. all the benefits and proceeds go to wharf cares which is our benefit program. >> i have a question. >> sure. >> who is running your sound system? >> we have a guy we are working with called glen, called audio north. and he is going to be handling all the sound for the tonight. >> have they done outdoor events before?