to make this happen today. it's a great day. thank you, very much. >> hello, i'm brenna mcnulty and i'm delighted to be here. this is so exciting and so much has been said and it's hot so i'm going to trim down my acknowledgements. but i want to emphasize that this really is a beautiful example of community driven design and that our district eight offices and supervisors through the years and their staff and the rec and park project management staff consistently showed up met with us, looked for funding to fund things out of scope. listen to our crazy ideas. thank you for getting these funky old sculptures inspected

for safety. thank you to treaty construction for executing them and finding a place to store them during the construction phase and thank you for really, what like i said is a community driven design. we really felt heard. we really felt like people were advocating along with us. maintaining swings, they heard us and came through and we're just so grateful for this whole project team. it's a beautiful playground and exceptionally beautiful playground in an exceptionally beautiful spot. i think for the future for our group, we're going to keep striving to become a more exclusive group. we hope we can bring back the festival and show case more of our artists and neighbors and our businesses here and continue our mission of identifying and supporting the park needs. thank you. >> before you go, i forgot your certificate for friends of christopher park. so thank you so much for your

work. all right. let's cut this ribbon. >> yes. for all the kids that have been waiting so patiently, now is the time for the reward. come on up and let me just do a quick shout out to my team and now to the people who are taking care of this these are the men and women of this space we will steward along with you. so let's cut a ribbon.

>> president bleiman: i'm the commission president. due to covid-19 health emergency and to protect entertainment commission members all meeting rooms are closed. all members and employees will be participating in the meeting remotely. commission members and employees

will attend the meeting video conference. public comment will be available on each agenda item both channel 26 and sfgovtv.org, our streaming number across the screen. each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. opportunities to speak during comment period are available .using zoom platform to speak, select raised hand option by the time for public comment. you'll be unmuted when it's your turn to speak. while we recommend you use audio, you may submit public comment on the chat function on

zoom. we'll start with the roll call. [roll call] >> president bleiman: all right. first order of business is public comment. this is for any time that's not listed on the agenda. any public comment? >> clerk: there are no hands raised. >> president bleiman: we'll close public comment. next item is number two. approval minutes from the may 4t2021 meeting. do we have a motion to approve the minutes from may 4, 2021? is there a second? >> i will second. >> president bleiman: is there any public comment on the minutes from may 4th?

>> clerk: there's none. >> president bleiman: all right, the meeting minutes have been approve the. next agenda item is report from the executive director. >> we have to vote. >> president bleiman: they are not approved yet until we vote. [roll call vote] >> president bleiman: now the meeting minutes have been approved. next item 3, report from executive director >> hello commissioners. i do not have an update this evening. i held in some reserved items just in case we had big updates about anything for you. one thing i will just say that in debrief from friday's retreat, i thought that was

fantastic for smaller working groups to start working with that analysis in terms of how they move their groups forward. again, as much as staff can be helpful to all of you and putting out invites, we can use teams for this kind of activity and we can ensure that we have staff available to take notes and send out those numbers after the fact. happy to do that. happy to do research in between on items that are needed for working groups however we can be helpful. really looking forward to all of that. hoping that our leaders of each groups will start scheduling their meetings soon. we're going to meet tomorrow as a group and we can discuss those next steps in more details. thank everybody. it was really successful and you all had some great ideas and inspired all the staff to keep it moving.

that's all i have. >> president bleiman: any questions or comments? i want to say what a great job that our staff did, maggie and the team, in putting together that retreat. thank you so much. dylan, antonio and krystal and everyone else, thank you for all of that hard work. it was effective. i thought that was a really well done retreat. even though it's on zoom, i thought it was the most productive that we had. that was pretty cool. thank you. any public comment on the director's report? >> clerk: there is none. >> president bleiman: we'll close that item. move to the next. the next agenda item is number

4. which is report from senior inspector savino. >> thank you president bleiman. good evening commissioners. it's been an interesting two weeks regarding our approach to the venues. let me explain here. since our last hearing, there's been 25 sound complaints we issued three e.r.v.s. we believe highlights will support our enforcement efforts as well as those of the businesses we permit.

one example is curio. we intend to implement this approach with businesses you see on this list. first business is 16th street on mission. i been to this business three times. regarding live noise. found that the business was hosting indoor entertainment but not have place of entertainment permit. since the business continue to operate without a permit, director bleiman decided to issue notice of violation on wednesday may 12th. we sent destructions to talk to

the director if they wish to apply for a p.o.e. their location ma make it challenging by the planning department. next up is foreign lens. located in north beach. we been to this business twice in response to a complaint made the supervisor of the district. not only this business but the street has become increasingly louder in the past few weeks and nuance to the neighborhood. the first visit the inspector educated the business owner on the j.a.m. application. found they were waiting for pending shared spaces permit approval. after the second visit, director weiland issued notice of violation on wednesday may 12th for continuing to operate without a permit. the business has not submitted a j.a.m. application as they are still waiting to be approved for an s.f.p. i followed up with this to the

owner this past weekend. we'll continue to be in touch to make sure their application is submitted. we can bring them into compliance. next i like to bring to your attention kapla gardens. this has one neighbor that's displeased. this business is not operating within their j.a.m. permit conditions as made over ten complaints via 311 platform and through e-mail since they opened about a month ago. we have visited on four separate occasions. last wednesday i conducted a sound test and issued sound limits. moving forward i will return to conduct the secondary test for approved special events that will include special specific days where they want to host live bands which are inherently louder. the plan is to approve them for

special events a month and if and when they're able to produce these events without complaints we'll be able to consider increasing their number of events a month. the last business that i have flagged for you is the midway. this business has received three noise complaints in the last two weeks. two of them from complaints located in two miles from the business. i was able to visit the compliance with air sound levels. the business wasn't seven decibels over the sound limit. after the sound check, i drove

up to the location to see if the sound frequency were noticeable. they were. due to the topography of the city and potentially due to the way sound carries when we're experiencing fog, which we had a great deal of the past couple of weeks. i was able to hear the base frequencies all the way in noelly valley. director weiland decided to issue a notice of violation due to business operating in access of their allowable sound limit. please let me know if you have questions. >> i'm shocked that someone in noe valley hearing the noise

from bayview. how did they narrow it down to this noise? >> you may know about that. this is not the first time -- this has happened many times in the past from that specific location either pier 70 or midway because it's so close to the bay during those foggy nights. it can kick up the hill and that's all of a sudden, the only place where sound is being heard and complaints are happening. >> i remember that one. >> pier 70 and midway had these issues before. that's why we noted the fog. for whatever reason, it's a limit that helped carry it. tony, do you have any idea? >> no. potentially the residents have lived there for a long time. they've heard it before maybe

during beyonce or other events. that's why myself and the manager and a sound -- someone from the sound department, we went up there and listened ourselves and were texting the other staff members to turn the volume down and up. then collectively, we agreed that, this is coming from the midway. for a moment, it could be just a car. in my professional opinion, i think it was coming from the midway. >> pretty cool you did that. >> thank you for the detective work. >> for sure. >> president bleiman: any more questions? thank you very much inspector

savino. is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> clerk: there's is none. >> president bleiman: we'll close this item and move on to the next. item 5 which is hearing and possible action regarding application -- sorry. next item is number five, hearing possible action regarding applications for permit under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commission. director weiland will introduce one item today. then we have a visit from one of the aides, supervisor peskin here.

>> commissioners, only permit onent agenda is place of entertainment for club fugazi experiences. you may know this location because it was formally home to a long-running beach show here in san francisco that closed at the end of 2019. we're delighted that this space will continue on as an entertainment space and i'm really excited for you guys to meet the new owners. david and eric from club fugazi will tell you about their actual plans and circus performances, i will mention that space will be used for neighborhood community and private events.

there are five letters in support in your file. there was no opposition to this permit. the officer did approve it. here to tell you more about their application and planned activities this evening are david dower and eric eislund from club fugazi.

>> thank you for having us. i'm david. >> i'm eric. >> i'm dana. >> as maggie said, we are taking over the lease at club fugazi. the previous tenant was there for 45 years. one of the wonderful things with working with the owners of the building is that they said to us very early on when we started talking about our interest there that success for them would be that they never have to talk to a new tenant again. it's kind of a marriage on both sides of hope for a long and happy relationship. i did want to take a few minutes to walk you through what we have planned. i think you can hear in some of

the letters of support. tomorrow you're going to see all the press hit. you'll get a lot more information at that point. i want to give you some sense of the ideas behind what we're doing. this is the presentation that we've been giving in the neighborhoods. we done it in a number of neighborhood organizations. we've done it with businesses. it's been a really wonderful process getting to know the neighborhood. we think of this as a phoenix rising story. we didn't know when we started this was the bird on the flag of city of san francisco. it's about the venue and forum. our culture has taken hit in san francisco over the past year. this is our project to rise again. club fugazi, many of you know,

has a huge history. we feel like we're in continuity with that long history and that it's always been a space that was about what was coming. beach blanket was a brand new idea. when it jumped in, grateful dead first album released. we feel like we're in a great tradition in this venue. fugazi back through the wonders of very accomplished global brand call the seven fingers. which is contemporary circus company. one of the largest brands in san francisco. based in montreal but founded here in san francisco.

the team includes two san francisco natives who are creating the show. gypsy, child of the founders of pickle family circus, they ran off to join cirque du soleil and think haven't been able to come home. this is their first opportunity to create a project in the city of san francisco and to return. they've been looking for a space for years. club fugazi was the first time it came together. we think of san francisco as much as an idea as the geography. we are as interested in the myth of the place as in the physical plant of the space. it's this myth of myth and

magic, we want our show to recreate on stage. circus does not tell story through tech. it's not a verbal form. it tells more like in the manner of dance. it's an emotional art. it's through tableau and the human body as opposed through the voice. we still expect this experience to deliver us kind of love letter to san francisco. we start from the premise that our city has been dealt a series of blows over long period of time now. it's time to recover. we want to make sure that when we come to into this recovery, we are moving forward and not going back to normal. part of the situation of normal is what led us in the problems that we had prior to the pandemic and all the things that have arisen through the pandemic. we think of part of our job is to tell the story of our interdependence. it's unity and our differences that will lead us forward.

circus is the best way to learn that without having to be beaten over the head by it. largely in a circus performance, every performer is dependent on the other performer for their lives. if you are on the tight wire and i decide not to spot you, you fall and you die. in circus every moment every performance we can see how we're all are one to another. what if through this jewel of theater, we retell the story of our capacity to rise. this is not a pipe dream. there's no recovery without imagination. there's no recovery without optimism. that's what our project is about. we can't leave the job of our resurgence to the politicians

and to the engineers and business people. we need our artist as well. we need our stories. stories with powers are resilient. here's shana and gypsy. pickle family circus. lot of work on broadway. they've done opening ceremonies in the olympics. they've done events for stadiums of 100,000 people. they've done night clubs around the country. it's not a dream. it's real. the team is in place. the vision is clear. the venue is now ours. and the city is with us. if you think about this little act in the circus what you see here in this picture, you jump on one end and the person on the other end is flying. all i'm asking you to jump with both feet and we'll take it from there. timing, spring of 2021 is now and we begun operations. we started the demolition in

this space. we'll be doing the renovations throughout the summer. we go tomorrow all the publicity drops. including in the "new york times" and the chronicle and live feed from the television morning news. tickets go on sale 2021 and for all of 2021, we expect to be in performance. what we kind of need is permission [laughter] hopefully we're not ahead of ourselves. we're scheduling all of this to drop tomorrow. there we are. that's the basic outline what we're up to. eric, did you want to add anything? you're muted. >> david and gypsy and shana.

the opportunity to work on this and involve the community is central to what we're doing and central to the seven fingers work. it's a great opportunity and beautiful venue to present a show. it's also sort of a model for how a show can work within a community with a venue. we're excited about that. we got a great marketing team local bay area. people have been beyond with and other shows. i think we're going to do a great job in terms of getting the word out and hopefully reaching lot of people. >> we don't tend to focus much on our own experience. all these institutions have been about fostering transformation through our culture. eric has worked in massive global brands as a general manager of global enterprises like disney on ice.

i'm returning, i was here for --20 years. it's a lot about homecoming. dana is helping us navigate the permitting process and also made her way back home. lot of us who are coming back to pull this off. dana, did you have anything to add? >> it's been a delight to reconnect with david. i've been helping with the performance arts association. delighted that we team up with david and eric -- [indiscernible]. i will be helping with some

logistics and administrative items. any questions? >> president bleiman: thanks for presenting. commissioner lee goes first. >> only thing i can say, i'm really happy that -- i was wondering what's going to happy after they left. when i used to run -- i took over -- we used to do little circus performance.

>> my background, i was with felt entertainment for years. i was a promoter for years. then i started a company when i left, i got married and decided to stay here in san francisco with my wife and kid. i started a company that produced shows and we ended up

working selling the company. my background is a promoter and building audiences. this show like the presentation that david mapped out for you, is something we strongly believe in but also is reflected in the show. what's interesting about the concept that shane and gypsy come up with. it's unique niche in san francisco. we can fill in niche in a new way. it will reach tourists when tourists come back.

this show is going to reflect that. it's very young and fresh. we do have great marketing team in terms of getting the word out and having a compelling message.

we're hopeful dome -- come out of the box strong with ticket sale and ride demand so we can have a sustainable business that works with the community and all the staff that works on the show. we do have a plan to reflesh the show every two years. there's a plan to refresh the show and have people come back and want to see it. there's sort of this hybrid of definitely model to reach locals which we're excited about going at again. i know i am.

>> i would add, two of the first people to raise their hand or businesses to raise their hand potential sponsors and partner, one is san francisco travel association. they see it as a win for them to be able to track tourists back. they see a win for them to be able to market to potential -- people are considering san francisco as a tourist locations. in that sense, it's going to do both things. we are already have seen from the travel industry that they are anxious to have us come back so they can pick up where they left off. >> that's great. we need the show back, for sure. there's not very many. i saw the news that the governor

spending lot of money on tourism. maybe you can get some of that. [laughter] >> good to ask. good luck to you. i don't see any security issues small venues now, unfortunately, i come from a larger venue. i run a small venue now. i tell you to stay in business these days, sometimes smaller is better than bigger. >> one of the things, -- i put up a seat map. this is the street side. when you come in, this is what you'll see. these are community tables with seats on both sides. the show will take place all up and down these aisles. we're not sure what capacity is going to be. how many can we see.

these seat will go in as we can increase the density of the space. the space will look full even if you're at 50% capacity or social distance of 6 feet. we'll fill in it club as it goes. it will feel like a success. this strategy here has been to keep the floor flat so that the unicycle oare on a flat floor.

i have no other questions. >> watch the chronicle tomorrow. come join us. commissioner perez? >> commissioner perez: thank you so much for your presentation and welcome. i have couple of questions and comments. i was lucky enough to be able to attend the very last performance. very emotional. very nice show. i hope that your show will have the same legacy. good luck for you. two questions. the first one is during your rebuilding, are you planning on adding additional soundproofing things inside the space? >> we are not intending to do additional mitigation unless we

find it becomes necessary on inspection. beach blanket was a vocal show with 13 people on mics. they're not belting while they're flipping around. [laughter] i think the sound load is going to be lighter than what it has been prior. if we find -- we are working with meyer sound, which is the sound designer in the bay area. we may find that we have to and we're prepared to do what we need to do to make the venue functional. so far, our load will be lighter. >> commissioner perez: my second question is about community outreach. i'm glad to see you have several

that support business organization. i was wondering if you can expand more on your outreach to specific neighbors and residents in the neighborhood? >> sure. lot of the north beach neighbors are residential group. we did those early. we wanted to make sure that we had reached the neighborhood groups before they heard it in it paper. since then, i've been walking around the neighborhood with these letters. i put them in mailboxes or taped them on the vestibule probably six blocks around several hundred at this point have gone out into the neighborhood. we only had couple of people check in with us. most of the people lived there, literally next door and one from across the street. i haven't had a lot of response to the letter. but the letter is out there.

all -- it's in all of the businesses. all the businesses on green street, all the businesses on stockton and vallejo and to powell and down to washington square park and down greene to grant. one of the things that maggie alluded to was that we want the space. we want to bring that back. it's only accessible down flight of it stairs. it would allow for community meetings, it would allow for the partners that we have in the space to be able to have additional space. it's a lot of -- that's an important room.

a.came up several times. that's a ram that matters to them. it's important to us because of the location there, on the even side is north beach and outside is chinatown. we're commit to this notion of this connectivity in this space but that downstairs room is going to be important for that. everybody is happy that we're back and wanting to know if we'll get the downstairs open. >> did get to see the condition from the police department? are you okay with it? >> yes. part of the thing is, we're actually marketing an experience not a show. for us, it's going to be really

important that the experience is the same whether it's our resident show in there or music presenter. the experience for the patron has to be the same. it's got to be friendly. it has to be organized and efficient. it has to be safe and comfortable. we will always have -- when that venue is open to the public, it will be member of the fugazi team on site in charge. >> commissioner perez: thank you so much david and eric. >> president bleiman: any more questions? i don't have any questions. i'm so happy this space is being activated again. you guys have a lot of

experience. i think i speak for at least myself. we're excited for this project. we want to see it succeed. with that, i will -- there's no other commissioner comments. did sonny ever make it? i have a feeling she will be in support of this. [laughter] >> i want to turn to take public comment. >> president bleiman: i appreciate that. is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> clerk: i'm going to flash the screen again just for short bit.

>> i would like to say, everybody we've been involved with in the city has been incredibly helpful. you don't always hear that story. i want you to guys to hear that story. from economic workforce development and supervisor peskin staff. just so responsive and to seeinger to -- so eager to help. it's been incredible with the amount of support and patience and accessibility and responsiveness that we've gotten. >> we're trying to open in the fall. we're in a hurry. >> president bleiman: still no public comment? >> clerk: there's none.

>> president bleiman: we'll close public comment. we'll leave up to motion. >> i'll make a motion that we approve club fugazi experiences for a place of entertainment permit with the staff recommendation of approval good neighbor policy and sfpd central station recommended condition that a managing staff member shall be on premise. >> second. >> president bleiman: we can vote. [roll call vote] >> president bleiman: all right, so moved. congratulations on your permit. just reach out to our staff as soon as you can. they'll follow-up with you. thank you so much for coming in. >> thank you all.

>> come on june 4th. there's an open house at 6:00 on june 4th. >> thank you. >> president bleiman: i believe we are on to our final agenda item. which is commissioner comments and questions and new business request for future agenda items. what we got? we just had the retreat, there was lot of time. >> i think that said everything that i need to say. >> president bleiman: my jaw hurt from talking so much. usually it's fine. all right. i don't have anything. thanks again for all the work the staff did and thanks to all the commissioners for showing up last friday and really making the most of it. any public comment on this

agenda item? >> clerk: there's no public comment. >> president bleiman: with that, we will adjourn the meeting at 6:15 p.m. thank you everyone. have a wonderful day. streets. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i wanted to wish you a best

wishes and congratulations the community has shifted a lot of when i was growing up in the 60s and 50's a good portion of chicano-american chinese-american lived in north beach a nob hill community. >> as part the immigrant family is some of the recreation centers are making people have the ability to get together and meet 0 other people if communities in the 60s a 70s and 80s and 90s saw a move to the richmond the sunset district and more recently out to the excelsior the avenue community as well as the ensuring u bayview so chinese family living all over the city and when he grape it

was in this area. >> we're united. >> and growing up in the area that was a big part of the my leave you know playing basketball and mycy took band lessons and grew up. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> allergies welcome to the community fair it kicks off three weeks of celebrations for the year and let's keep everybody safe and celebrate the

biggest parade outside of china on february 11th go best wishes and congratulations and 3, 2, 1 happy enough is enough. >> i grew up volley ball education and in media professional contrary as an educator he work with all skids whether or not caucasian hispanic and i african-american cumber a lot of arrest binge kids my philosophy to work with all kids but being here and griping in the chinese community being a chinese-american is important going to american school during the day but went to chinese school that is community is important working with all the kids and having them exposed to

all culture it is important to me. >> it is a mask evening. >> i'd like to thank you a you all to celebrate an installation of the days here in the asian art museum. >> one time has become so many things in the past two centuries because of the different did i licks the immigration officer didn't understand it became no standard chinese marine or cantonese sproupgs it became so many different sounds this is convenient for the immigration officer this okay your family name so this tells the generations of immigrants where they come from and also many stories behind it

too. >> and what a better way to celebrate the enough is enough nuru with the light nothing is more important at an the hope the energy we. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> relative to the current administration it is, it is touching very worrisome for our immigrant frames you know and some of the stability in the country and i know how this new president is doing you know immigration as well as immigrants (fireworks)

later than you think new year the largest holiday no asia and china those of us when my grandparents came over in the 19 hundreds and celebrated in the united states chinese nuru is traditional with a lot of meaning. >> good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessor-recorder i want to wish everything a happy new year thank you for joining us i want to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm proud to be a native san

franciscan i grew up in the chinatown, north beach community port commission important to come back and work with those that live in the community that i grew up in and that that very, very important to give back to continue to work with the community and hope e help those who may not be as capable in under serving come back and give >> >>[music] >> i came in with her impression of what i thought it was good >> what i knew about auditing with the irs spears i actually

knew nothing about auditing >> in my mind it was purely financial. with people that audited the pain no one wants to deal with it >> now i see a lot of time explaining auditing is not just about taxes. >> oftentimes most students believe that auditing is only financial whereas when they come into a government environment we do much more than financial audits. we do operational audits that were looking at the operations of the department for economy and efficiency and effectiveness. >> when i hire an intern some of the things that i am looking for first of all is is this individual agile and flexible because i am our environment is so fast-paced and where are switching from project to project depending on what's going on in the government at any given time. >> primarily i didn't with audits on utilities management across city departments. >> citywide this ods management audit was also been assisting with housing authority audit program

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stan abused [inaudible] they prepare me for full-time employment because i knew i could not to challenge myself in order to be an auditor. >> at the [inaudible] we are a content feedback and communication and they pointed out areas where i need to grow. >> one of the things i like about working at [inaudible] is that they actually give you quite a bit of autonomy i feel like kevin sage trusted me. >> the environment really [inaudible] to everyone feeling super collaborative and wanting to get to know one another. which i think at the end of the date is a better work environment and gives you a better workflow. >> i believe that a really is a great experience because it provides an opportunity to have a better understanding of how government works. >> i think what i've learned so far is that every audit is unique everyday. different

learning opportunities. >> the recordation we make in on its i can honestly go home at the end of the day and zack and treated [inaudible] in a better way. >> even of not familiar with what auditing is you should deftly find out. it's been really really awesome he was it turns out there's a whole world of auditing that i cannot open file oriented performance and [inaudible] and that's an exciting. audit is a lot broader than i ever knew before. >>

>> chair borden: sectors please call the roll. [roll call] director bringman is not expected at today's meeting. item 3, announcement of sound producing devices during the meeting. there's no announcement. item number 4, approval of minutes for the may