the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living. we hired many interns into employees from our restaurants. my partner is also a graduate of city college. >> so my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines. i actually have developed a few connections through this program in italy, which i am excited to support. >> i'm thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for about two, three year so i can save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. >> yeah, i want to go back to china. i want to bring something that i learned here, the french

cooking, the western system, back to china. >> so we want them to have a full toolkit. we're trying to make them ready for the world out there. >> my name is ben bleiman and i'm the commissioner president. to protect entertainment commission members, city employees and the public the city hall meeting rooms are closed however members and it is taken pursuant to the local state and federal orders, decorations and directives and commissioner members and employees will a continued through video conference and participate to the same extent if they were physically present. public comment will be available on channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number across the

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rice for this. >> all right, i'm checking right now. president bleiman, there's no hand raised and the attendees box. it looks like we don't have any public comment. all right. thank you. >> therefore, public comment is closed. next agenda item is number 2, approval of our minutes for the september 15th, 2020 meeting. i'll ask if we have a motion to approve the minutes from september 15th, 2020. >> so moved. >> i'll second. >> is there any public comment on the minutes? >> there's no one with their hand raised and there's also no zoom chat. >> right. we'll close public comment and we can have a vote.

[ roll call vote ] >> the minutes have been approved. the next agenda item is a report from director wi-lan. >> thank you. this evening, i wanted to walk you through the new jam permit and and if can you bring up that presentation that would be good. >> bringing it up now. >> can you see if? >> i can. success. you can just toggle over to slide one. thank you for being in charge of

this all right, so, just to provide a little bit of background information i know that i've been bringing the permit idea up to all of you, and conversations both in smaller groups and within these commissioners hearings around creating a permit to match covid times. essentially since covid happened, we have not been issuing many permits at all and has known we've been going through a period of time in which a lot of businesses are on the brink of closure and i know that i'm saying to this, for all of our viewers out there it's really our bars and our night clubs and live music venues, event organizers and musician that's have been some of the hardest hit in the industry and just our workforce in general during covid-19. we wanted to find a way to try to bring entertainment

activities back online prior to phase 4 within the given orders. background stats, we conducted that survey back in may here here are some of those stats in the meaning behind our arguments to create this permit. the reason why we needed to create something new as opposed to using our one-time applications or our place of entertainment, live performance permit application was because we were very limited in constrained by where we could permit activities in our door locations that are activated right now by way of shared spaces so we would only be able to permit 12 days per calender

year as one these locations on a one-time basis and they could not even achieve one through our previous processes because we would permit and regulating activities that are happening in the public realm so that's what we needed to fall for here in creating this new permit. so jam is the name of it and essentially we're ak ta rate ising outdoor amplified sound and entertainment in framework of most commonly outdoor dining or outdoor small gatherings and we know it's already happening in the community and our entertainment commission inspectors have been going out and they haven't had a way to

bring folks into compliance through conditions on permits. this was our idea and with the support of a lot of you we pushed this forward as a user friendly experience and programs that can support small businesses in ak ta rate ising entertainment and earlier phase. so if you could keep going. this is just our cute image that dillon worked hard with digital services to create as a part of our roll out. you can keep going. so, kind to give you a little bit of background so it makes more sense to you, being able to access entertainment outside right now during this pandemic is not simple and so, this is in-depth and our team is working diligent leon the review. these are not pubber stamp permits so there's a lot we need

to account for at the very beginning. the first thing is location. location, location, location. it's very important. these are the types of spaces that we could activate potentially so shared spaces, permit holders and public works, cafe table and chairs and it's a permit holder so these are pre covid and if they're doing a small outdoor gatherings they can add sound and there's activities on out dor private business properties and some of which is actually going to be permitted in regulated already by us as you know, we had several permits come before prior to covid when they amps down to their out dor premises those folks don't need a jam permit from us but there are 'tises in the city that have had back patios or other outdoor privacy like a proof top that

maybe they've always had a bar or a dining area but they never added in their sound and this is their turned to do that by way of this permit free of charge. we consider parking lots so they can activate the space so the shared spaces permit, from a appreciate activity and add entertainment or sound to that and also farmers markets have a pathway as well as games and go to the next slide i can get into this a little bit more so when we have the location security permitted or we know it's permitted, we need to check what activities are you trying to add our sounds to so these are the buckets, there's outdoor dining with its own guidance and rules and they're small outdoor activities and they're limited

so it's six people maximum with and there's a farmers and outdoor fitness and just for and then there's drive in gatherings and however and there's is outdoor and you can think of a band being filmed and performing and that's the example. so i'll go through this quickly because you can see this online at sf.gov slash jam before the permit application just lives. i'll point out this nuance on this page. we're asking for two weeks to process these permit application and i'll get into it a little

bit more. we feel these are activities we can permit and regulate with specific conditions so live music or a band a d.j. and theater, comedy or dance performances with specific roles for performers and so on and so fourth. we can keep going. they've got to provide that outdoor property and keep going. these are the rules the city has published that are relative to the type of activities that wore permit sewing this is why this

process can be lengthy for our staff to understand the rules and the way they're answering their questions and the proposed activity they're providing to us as well as the types of attachments we asked for in the application and a health and safety plan specific to the too i am of activity and everyone has to submit that as part of the application. if we keep going. and it makes it a little different from normal and think about for dance it will be problem more of the interpreter tie rather than partner danceing and rules for amp sound i'll get

into so keep on going. i think you can go past these. this is just user experience and this is us doing our work and if you keep going. thank you. so, sample sound conditions here, these are pretty nuanced and we thought these throughs with our enforcement team by going out in the field and actually taking measurements of what is happening out there now. what is not causing disturbances and what to their experience was not to be at ambient 50 people

from the permanent location so it's across the street. they shouldn't raise it to am bee around levels and r while we feel this measurement makes sense based on what we've seen in the community. we want t. since these are all administratively reviewed and issues, we want to offer hours per day and we'll make sense with neighbors and ours are limited to 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and you can only do sound for six hours a day. so they pick the hours. again, we have the ability to recondition permits as we see fit if mediation occurs and we can always bring a permit to the

entertainment commission itself and present the case for you all to recondition as you see fit. that may come up and we will obviously keep you informed through our enforcement reporting. and then amplified sound equipment has to be fixed to a specific location and that is a good neighbor policy thing and as woman as th well as for our e beginning with number four. it's a regular condition. the first part of it, about compliance within a proved security plan so everybody that spills out the application answers about eight specific security questions about how they would manage any loitering, how they would prevent any crowding, things of that nature

that are more concern now during covid-19 times than pre covid and so when we review, we can actually amend their answers with them and they've got to then comply with that submitted security plan just like our other applicants in the past we call directive they have to comply with with hosting entertainment. we have a place holder there just in case we need to add a security condition on a number of staff that need to be there and these are really for spaces where the location might be harder to maintain because it's a more open space. if that makes sense. potentially like a street closure. if we keep going, what enforcement will look like. basically, the entertainment

it's manage our u.c. results and certain we're cross training our certain inspectors to call our entertainment commission and we did complete especially when they're about health order compliance and so deputy director is working on that streamlining and processing and beyond that, i just want to call out the fact we have all of the tools in our toolbox as before it's just that me as director, i can issue -- as before, a citation and now i can as director amend conditions if needed and i can even revoke a permit. beyond that, i do want to note that i want to utilize this commission to take actions like that and i think that's the thinking is keeping you all involved with any enforcement cases that rise to the top that we may want to bring to a hearing to essentially just have the further back up that we're on the right path for

reconditioning or taking action and that's what you all are here for and experts on so i'll make sure to do that if we need to. also, just note if anyone appeals one of these permits the only folks that are allowed to appeal a decision are the permit holders themselves. if we denied a permit application or we're revoking a permit, they can appeal to you all as an entertainment commission, however they do not have means to go to the board of appeals beyond that. that's the change in that process here. we'll continue to be essentially "commoditiesbe complaint driven. if we can go on, these of our stacks to give you an update and we'll issue our first permit tomorrow. we should have four coming out

tomorrow. we have had to deny 10 permit applications and these are the reasons. four of them actually were occurring or proposed to be occurring on property we don't have jurisdiction over so we refer them to departments and reservations or they were a street performer wanting a permit and we're not permitting individuals that are street performers. you would have to have it associated with a permissable activity like outdoor dining or small outdoor gatherings with a business with outdoor property. just hoping on, it looks like we're just missing some permission to use property too so we want to ensure we issue a permit for entertainment you have permission to do that and if you keep going these are some next steps and on going work those and essentially

maintaining implementing new permitting and enforcement structures within our team so it's a learning process right now and i think it's challenging but we're all growing a lot from it and so, i'm excited to continue to roll this out with the team. that's all i have for you t let mtoday.let me know if you have y questions. if you go to that last slide, i wants to have that up for just a second to show members of the public if they're watching right now they can see our contacts on the final slide. just one more down. so, essentially if folks have questions about the jam permit itself they contact entertainment.commission and our enforcement division still handles complaints that we always encourage people to just use 311 and finally if you want to reach out about sets that's

our e-mail address. any questions before i move on to another topic? >> later on would it be amended to have singers with face shields possibly? >> great question, commissioner lee. so, what is good about the jam permit is that it is very dynamic in its ability to change and so as health order rules and directives change, we can update our rules section. so that would include if singing became allowable with specific rules. >> who addressed that? is that something we address to dbh? >> yeah, so i think we have received this inkawartha res and

previousances from the community about the permit application because of the fact that there is entertainment limited including singing and horns. that is something that we encourage i'm to come to a hearing and i they're those communities but this is a forum for us so if folks want to talk about that we will row lay those concerns upward. we're also hearing from larger organized groups and our san francisco venue coalition and the independent venue alliance about some of their asks which includes that as well. those folks have a lot of say in pressing this with the mayor and the health department for their review. i'm just not sure how if it's going to have any traction due to the issues around transmission and confirming around transmission. >> right, if they come up with a data, that would help i'm sure,

right. >> agreed. >> and now is the time and if folks have concerns and questions and they can use this as a platform for their experience. >> it's a good permit and it helps a lot of people and they've been asking so i'm glad it's happening and i just had get the singer involved. >> let's see how we can do with it. >> this permit does not do everything hopeful for everyone. it's our hope we can get more businesses, types of business and types of entertainment activity on board because it's what we support and we know the first version of this is not going to allow everyone access

because of the limits. >> i mean, we got to start somewhere. let's move to the next so we can approve it. >> thank you, maggie, good job. >> thank you. >> anyone else? >> quick question for director. i want to clarify. this particular permit does not include pop-up drive-thru threaters, correct? >> so, we do have drive in gatherings drick tive and so, if there's a drive in gathering that is occurring we can permit it as long as it complies with the health order right now though, drive in gatherings do not allow for entertainment our live performances they're only allowing essentially screenings and emphasize those. >> thank you. >> no problem. >> more questions?

>> thank you for getting this solution through. i know a lot of folks are excited about it and i'm glad to hear it's eye nam i can. my question is about the 12-person cap i know we discussed this a little bit related to interest in a permit from queer night life margin. that number does seem conservative in terms of the work it takes to put together a performance and it sounded like there was flexibility if maybe there's a barrier between the group and how that number came to be and where the flexibility is. >> i actually do know where that number came to be within the small outdoor gatherings goals. i would assume though that they have had number of six for quite some time and not an outdoor dining too. limited to a group of six and

even within an outdoor small gathering if you add food and drink you have to limit six so you can increase that number as folks aren't taking off their masks to enjoy food and drink and even within the 12 person gathering they encourage folks to be from the same household and if they're not separate even within their small gathering. again, a lot of the health order rules and directives are not created with the goals to allow for more adaptive business experiences and they're made with a goal of contain particular the virus and so, i know you all know that but i don't know beyond that commissioner thomas knows where that number came from. >> i do not, no. >> so commissioner wang, i think what is interesting about the proposal from castro merchants

and queer night life is just that these folks are essentially making a proposal where they have two small outdoor gatherings which could be permissable with the way that the outdoor small gathering rules are written as long as they can separate the two groups. that's one that we would row view with d.p.h. and just to make sure that we're interpret particular this correctly. >> wonderful. thank you. i just have been getting a lot of questions about that. thank you. >> no problem. >> any other questions? >> i just have a couple. can you just rewind us. how many people have taken language of this permit so far. 38 people have a floyd. not a lot so you will see in deputy director's presentation she's reaching out specifically to quite a few businesses that we have received sound complaints about so compliance

issues. after this week we're ready to do a big push to be frank within the last two weeks we have been creating our processes as this permit has been rolled out. it's been good in a lot of ways that we've had a smaller pool to work with in the beginning. >> and how can we be helpful as a commission to spread the word and what can we do because i think that the -- we have a role to play here as well and we node to make sure people are a employing for this because it's great. what we'll do after this week we'll probablying feeling much more on top of it and we'll just have dillon can circulate around some social media tool kits you can all use to just copy and

paste however you see fit within your different channels, that would be good. seems like no more questions on this and can i just jump to the neck thing. i wanted to provide you all with an annual update. at our last meeting we mentioned we put together our achievement for clients but since then we presented our annual updates more formally to city administrator kelly so i wanted to provide you all with that presentation essentially. dillon, if you can bring that up for me. i have a cat on my lapie and i'm able to enjoy it while in this commission hearing. >> you are not alone. amazing. i love her.

ok. all right. so he can go to the first slide there. we'll keep going. that's our agenda for this discussion. so this is a nice picture. i don't know if you all remember this. this is our holiday party back in december when times were just a little bit different. there's a lot of us having a good time in there. you can keep going. so, i wanted to kind of briefly go over our numbers just annually to show you these. you might be able to notice the numbers have changed i would eight about in this last year so just for example, if you look and you will note that there's

it there was a big bump in fiscal year 18-19 trending across permit types and that declined in fiscal year 19 and 20 so we don't know whether the roughly 300 place of entertainment licenses renewals we saw in 2018 and 2020 was like the normal level and the bump we saw in 2019 at about 250 was abnormal or if the new normal was 350 this last year and covid-19 dropped it back to 300. and i guess the ladder. if you look here you will see they're lower and this you really see it with the actual permit permit applications for places of entertainment, for example, keep going, so one time

event permits you will see a big dip. none of this is a surprise if we look at what happens with covid-19 and so we'll be anticipating even bigger drops in this next year, unfortunately. and enforcements, so again this is information from our impact survey that i brought up earlier so you've all seen all of the

this but a couple of the staggering points are at the bottom so 4,306 total event have been canceled in 2020 due to covid-19 an and it equates into huge amounts annually this last december we were reporting 7.2 billion annual dollars being generate sod it will be interesting to see what those numbers coming out from our controller office will be when we see them in terms of the change from covid-19. if you keep going, so this is a cute screen shot from our summit virtual summit this year and it was a nice panel. if you keep going, these are some of our high level

accomplishment and it was set up just before covid and so the recommendations coming out of that report did not get a lot of traction because it was completed literally days before we'll see if any of that can apply to the future can he convene our summit as you all know you were there and we adopted a new mission, vision and value statement at our retreat this last year and we bloated the digitization phase of our transition to a electronic permit database so we're almost fully online now which is incredible and we moved our office to 49 south van ness from city hall so when you visit us again we won't be in city hall beyond that, i served as a member on the erts along with

commissioner blue man and dial on and i lead to art, culture, hospitality and entertainment and we worked to vet through the policy proposals that would then put into the draft so dillon worked hard on sf.gov and it compiles all of the best practices relevant to our industry and online and we launched and that effort and we also held virtual office hour and we've been doing that since the beginning with issues and pathways and resources and all of that.

we worked on the jam permit so we don't need to get into that. they are the buckets where we drop our rolling basis but it was created based on buckets within the five year strategic plan we were supposed to create a few years back so we just have been improving upon that document essentially and and however we can support small businesses we will so it will

require a legislative process and we will implement within our license renewals and also deepening the connection to our other arts agencies in the city which we've had great experiences with so it's a great example of that because for small businesses and community folks and i don't know that completing our online permit database project we're nearly there thank you so much. you've taken this on and everybody has been making it happen. meet induce tremendous stakeholders. we're all doing that and promoting equity and equality in our industry. right now dillon is working with the office of racial equity and

ensuring our goals are with the over all city goals. i'm serving as i a policy lead within division heads to discuss racial equity or our staff and so that we support and regulate. strengthening the workforce through education and training. we've been doing a lot of virtual webinars and sum its and if you have presentations you want to have happen or people come and present, to use these

to engage with people there's another program that i will update you later on but essentially i'd love to be able to support health order monitoring so people can educate businesses about health order problems. if we keep going, ensuring public safety through the presentation of entertainment just developing implement and data tracking tools for our enforcement teams to use and it

will be advocating for programs that can provide more support for high density activities as well as high need areas and on the front end with educational interventions and prior to any kind of progressive discipline. working with sfp d & d ph and city attorney's office to refine guidelines and as commissioner lee brought up, just making sure that we're ready for our permitting process to be flexible with the changing rules. we'll work on a program that i'll discuss in a moment. there's some of us, keep going. legislation there was an ordinance amendment and zoning and china town and this past

year the bigger one was a small business streamlining legislation that passes september 2019 and if you keep going, we'll see the slides for upcoming legislation. this is not upcoming but just the jam permit had to be crayated by a supplemental mayoral declaration with the suspension of certain pieces of police codes to review, proper and condition these permits without public hearing and noticing and without high fees. so yeah on that and the second one down, this is kind of an update and you probably noticed but the house of representatives announced a new heroes act so this has key provisions that include the restaurants act and

save our stages act providing sound round of ppe loans and sba grants and more and another one is proposition h the save our small business initiative which would simplify procedures and allow greater plex ability to be certain kinds of businesses and those are coming up and impact our work. these are all stats you've seen before so all just high level we have 2300 investigations and i would thank the deputy director for taking such a leadership role with our certs team and she's been doing a fantastic job in rolling out this program that was completely new as of apri

april 1. and we will streamline our workflows with cert. if you keep going, deposit you tee director and i meet weekly with representatives from rec and park and the fire department, sfpd and the sheriff's department to ensure that there are folks supplementing park ranger staff educating individual members of the public around health order com buyance and wearing masks so we just led this group and make sure it's supported and we provide p.p.e. that we received from the covid-19 command center and so the data is crazy.

this group has issued 90,000 admonishments to individuals and parks and 48,000 face coverings so that is kind of incredible dent and the program is made up of sfpd a did he tell or alert folks or nert folks and there is always uniformed officers there to ensure that they can folks arthey aresupportive. questions. you can stop the screen share though. thank you maggie and all the entertainment commission and staff it's an enormous amount of

work and i also so many of us have different jobs but just to say we see all the work that you are doing and thank you it's a huge amount to take on. >> thank you that means amount. more questions or comments? >> >> good job. a whole year no questions? >> that's great. i will end with one staff update for you all we're very excited because as of this last saturday, we on boarded tony saseen o with the entertainment and you are on board and no longer part-time and position dg

othehe is doingother stuff. permit administration so he is reviewing a lot of these jam permits and supporting the deputy director and finally i'm going to on board him with our residential review work so do you want to say anything at your first entertainment hearing commission ever before we pass it back to president bleiman. >> of course i do. this is a great hearing. this is my first time but, i'm learning a lot just listening to everyone speak and the past few years has been a lot of fun. i love the live music experience and working for the entertainment commission and it's really cool to be in the field and talking to all the different businesses and helping

them bring their businesses and the city back to life and everyone is prout and grateful for what we do andism too. it's so much fun and i couldn't be happier to work for such a cool group. it's cool. the entertainment commission. thank you. and we'll see you around. >> whoa! >> and i'll just note that ton tee is in our new office right now. that is the background. >> i thought i recognized that ceiling. >> congratulations, tony. >> thank you director for everything we've done this year and thank you for the update. ton oh welcome. we're really excited to have awe board and you have an awesome hair do. i'm going to save the questions about how falzon recognizes the ceiling in that office for a later date.

i'm going to open this -- >> same. [laughter] >> open this to public comment now. is there nick public comment on the executive director's report? i'll share the screen again. there's no one with their hands raised and no chats in zoom. >> i'm going to close public comment and we can move on. the final agenda item is number 4, report from deputy director acevedo. >> thank you, president bleiman and good evening commissioners. if you want to pull up that powerpoint for enforcement.

this water point presentation is just like a launching pad for what will be to come so, there will be a more robust. since jam went live on the 26th this is a high-level overview of what we've encountered over the shelter in place and since jam went live. just for some numbers for you. since the beginning of shelter in place, to when the jam permit went life we received 75 complaints in the entertainment commission 311 queue.

the entertainment commission did respond to a few of these complaints but many of the complaints were rolled into inspection and they're also serving as cert inspectors so many of the responses were tied into the investigation report. since jam went live on the 25th of september, we received 31 complaints about 33 tive businesses. four of the 22 businesses generated 13 of those complaints so we did have a handful of businesses generating quite a few complaints. three have submitted jam applications and three of the 22 businesses do not need jam permits and that's because they already hold a permit with

outdoor entertainment and it was a llp outdoor permit holder we received a complaint for and the complaint was unfounded anyway and and of the 31 complaints they've responded to 30 of those and the outstanding complaint will be addressed by inspector when he is out in the field this thursday. and they were reminded the jam permit is required so we will follow-up with these businesses to reminds them they must apply if they wish to continue with their sound or entertainment. next slide, please. i just want to touch on a few important notes, giving you folks some high-level details

here of challenging beer facing. street closes are happening in the city but we have been working working diligently with internal city staff about constraints by constituents so as a recourse the director assigned him to go out two saturdays ago to just sit and watch the street closure. the street closure ends at 10:00 p.m. and the inspector was there from 9:00 to 11:30 and he was just watching and going up and down the street watching what was going on and were these

businesses out of compliance? the answer is no. he witnesses zero businesses out of compliance. i would like to mention this is also on day one or the first saturday of the jam permit going live. it's something of note i want to share is there are individual name tony who has received the name tony the scooter guy. he is on a moped going up and down valencia street with a boom box strapped to his moped playing it just extremely loud. he is driving up to businesses that are closed and turning on his music and trying to start a dance party. he witnessed this happen at five different businesses on valencia

street. businesses we were receiving complaints about for having amplified sound after 10:00 p.m. so it was very important to know they didn't have a manager to secretary person to leave. there was one business that was still open and they asked security ask tony the scooter guy to move along right away. he did so and scooted along to the next business closed and turned his music on and tried to start another dance party. not only did we hear about him the 26th but we received complaints about one of the

businesses on valencia street and upon a arrival, tarik august sound measurement, they also learned that tony the scooter guy was at their business this past saturday as well when the complaints were coming in. we have reached out to the city attorney code enforcement team and there is no action that they can take. i have reached out to captain of to notify him about this individual and just to put them on the radar. >> deputy director, isn't it true though that the only resource we can sort of potentially identify is the fact if the closure were open, they would be able to get tony the scooter guy out because it won't allow them to scoot on in.

>> that's great. that's a great point but this is after 10:00 p.m. after the street closure has ended so the street monitors are gone and at that point, he is allowed 20 scoot in. this may be an issue so i just want to bring it to your attention now. the other comments i have are to just let you know about the types of sound complaints we're receiving and they can all be mitigate by our jam permit which is great. we're seeing complaints about live entertainment and amplified sound occurring after 10:00 p.m. and we're also hearing that the live music is too loud whether it's a band or a d.j. performing and wearing hearing about and seeing unmasked performers and or folks using instruments that

are not allowed under the health order so whether it's singing or using read, wind or brass instruments. so all of these three points here would be counter acted by the jam permit just by following our basic rules. and the last slide here is just the picture of our jam permit which is really neat. so i am happy to answer questions that you have. the next hearing there will be more of a -- there will be a deeper dive into actual complaints and resource that we're seeing. >> thank you, does anybody have any questions? >> you can stop screen share, dillon, please.

>> thank you for the work we're doing. i think this jam thing is amazing and i also just think just the tony the scooter guy, as kind of ridiculous as it is, it kind of demonstrates something great which i greatert businesses do things by the book with the rules and sometimes being pigeon holed and unfairly blamed for things that are outside of their control. and the city is crazy right now. there's a lot going on and there's few people on the streets at night and things are quiet and ambient so i just think it's an interesting example of how our role can support businesses rather than just enforce rules on them.

we can prove it's not them doing it and very real way. thank you for that. i'm sure more of this will come up as we go forward. is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> don't see any hands raised and no zoom chat. >> all right. we'll close public comment and we'll move on to the final agenda item, questions and comments. what do we got? >> mr. perez, thank you. just want to wish everyone a happy latino heritage month. it takes place september 15t september 15th to october 15th and this month october is also filipino-american history month so i'm actually organizing a virtual celebration and conjunction with the mayor's

office and it will take place on wednesday october 21st at 5:30 p.m. and it will be virtually via the mayor facebook and twitter pages so i would like to invite everyone to check us out and celebrate filipino-american history. i think it's really important for us and our community to continue to celebrations even though in a virtual platform, to kind of keep our community together and showcase and celebrate our diversity and our even teunity so please, check u. >> i got one here. if anybody is down in china town and go down to went worth alley it's a half a block from ports lodge square and they just installed some new lanterns. they lit up the whole alley which is great for public

safety. and also they dump a lot of garbage there so i hope it stops. go down there and take a look. it kind of -- they had a ribbon cutting last week and it up lifted the community, you know, gave them something to look forward to and it's been tough in chinatown for the small businesses. people are hanging in there. the lighting ceremony was great. go down and take a look. >> thank you. >> commissioner lee, i like your in problem is too problem is to be solved without the right lighting solution. >> exactly. you need light. >> anybody else? i have some final thoughts here. so, right now, we're in a situation where obviously the department of public-health is very much focused on keeping us safe and healthy and by all standards, san francisco has exceeded expectations and i

think i read today that we have the lowest death rate of any city, major city in america which is just incredible and it's a testament to the work the department of health has done. i will say that recently there's been a rule change that allows for outdoor singing for political events and religious events, up to 100 people outdoors and we're still restricted in the entertainment world from having anyone singing in our events only going to up 12 people. i want to point out that discrepancy. this is not a -- i don't mean to take on the department of public-health. there's a lot of factors they have to consider for things but from the entertainment community's standpoint, it would make sense for people to reach

out and advocate for rules to be applied across sectors that are not just religion us and political in nature and i hope we can play a role in that in our commission and other people will stand up and advocate for it. i also hope it's done with the understanding that the department of public-health and leaders in city are keeping us safe. i want to point that out. that will be coming up soon for all of us as another issue to take on. with that s. there any public comment on the commissioner comments and questions? >> i'm checking right now and there is no one with their hand raised and no zoom chat. >> excellent. i will adjourn the meeting and it's 6:40p.m. and thank you very much much, everyone, w