. >> the city hall meeting rooms are called, however, this meeting will be taking place remotely. commissioners and participants will attend the meeting remotely and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were present. public comment will be available on each agenda item, and both sfgovtv and cable

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streaming this meeting, and we can start with a roll call. >> clerk: all right. [roll call] >> clerk: please note for the record that we have an excused absence for commissioner falzon, who may be arriving late. >> the first item is general public comment. >> operator: good evening, president bleiman and commissioners. there is no one in line for public comment, and no hands raised in the chat box.

>> thank you. we will move onto item 2, which is approval of the minutes of the december 21, 2021 meeting. do we have a motion to approve the minutes from december 21, 2021. that's fine. >> so moved. >> i'll second. >> is there any public comment on the minutes? >> operator: there is none. >> all right. having no public comment, we will close it, and we can take a vote. >> clerk: okay. [roll call] >> well, isn't that nice? the minutes are approved. moving on, we have item number 3, which is a report from the executive director. >> all right. thank you, president bleiman.

good evening again, commissioners. last week, we sent out a newsletter to you and all of our constituents that impact indoor and outdoor megaevents. these changes are in answer to the recent surge of the highly transmissible omicron variantum you'll see the letter in your folder. i want to go over some of the chief takeaways from the january 10 health order so you're all on the same page regarding the changes. beginning january 15, the city lowered the indoor attendance threshold at megaevents to 500 attendees from the previous 1,000, and outdoor megaevents are now at 5,000 or more attendees, and this is in line with the state's definition of

megaevents. the state health commissioner recommends wherever possible, anyone in attendance wear a kn-95, an n95, or a surgical mask with a cloth mask over it. beginning february 1, patrons 16 and up will be required to show proof that they received a booster if they're eligible to do so, in addition to showing that they've been fully vaccinated. vaccinations are five months after the moderna or pfizer or two months after the johnson & johnson. staff must show this prove within eight days of being

eligible for a booster. finally, indoor megaevents of 1,000 or more attendees continue to be required to submit a health and safety plan to the health officer. however, the new health order says that indoor megaevents between 501 and 999 attendees are not required to submit a health and safety plan. the proof of booster requirements still applies to those events, and that's a key distinction here that those events that are between 500 and 999 do not have to submit a health and safety plan. host and operators of outdoor megaevents, and again, this is 5,000-plus attendees, are asked to require attendees to show proof of vaccination in

addition a booster. if you have any questions about any of these health order updates, please do let me know. both myself and senior analysts are here to answer any questions that we can. lastly, i just wanted to provide you all with a brief new year's eve recap. so new year's eve was pretty quiet this year. in your file for the director's report, you can see a list of the events that we pulled together that were advertised, and we sent all of those to our first responder agencies, and we had those in the field for those that were out, however, we did learn that a number of those were cancelled because of the omicron variant.

on december 31, inspector fiorentino had a chance to meet with the harvard student who's been meeting with ben houghton to do his cap stone project in san francisco. what was fun that he was able to do a walk along, not a ride along, because he's not a city employee, but with inspector fiorentino in north beach on new year's eve, so they were able to go to several sites and events. in total, we did issue ten one-time event permits for new year's even weekends, and the evening was quiet and successful. however, you will see that there are several violations that came in for new year's eve, and we will discuss those

in compliance reports. if you have any questions, let me know. >> questions? >> operator: check. and there's no public comment. >> the next item is a report from deputy director azevedo. >> good morning, president bleiman and commissioners. you'll see that we have prepared a report for you citing 55 complaints for you. the first business that i'd like to discuss is edinburgh castle pub. on january 15, i received a

letter from the neighbor stating that edinburgh castle's music had been operating nearly 40 hours. inspector fiorentino reported back that he believed the base is not able to emanate into the complainants building as they are alleging that it is, and he noted that they are not even located directly adjacent to edinburgh castle pub, and it would have to travel through another building to reach them. i did visit the building on january 1 and speak with the owner about the complaint. the owner assured officer welsh

that he would be taking care of the situation, and the neighbor has taken to yelp and google to disparage the business. the next item i wanted to discuss was the midway. over new year's eve, we received 24 complaints about the venue. inspector fiorentino responded in real-time to the complaints that were made on new year's eve and new year's day and showed that the business was operating in excess of their sound limit on both occasions. while he was on-site, inspector fiorentino worked with the owner to bring the volume down into compliance, which the owner was amenable to. on january 2, the complaint came in after inspector fiorentino's shift concluded, so he was not able to respond in person, but he did contact the owner. in addition, we did receive 15

complaints on sunday, in addition to three phone calls and three e-mails that came in to me. i did ask that midway submit a statement via e-mail on behalf of their venue. additionally, i made the following requests. i suggested a person walk out with a sound limit every 30 minutes during a show, and record their findings, and three, install a meter if they're unable to monitor the music in real-time. in addition, i learned some really good ideas had come from their conversations, and that everyone was worked with them to find their solution. he'd like to come before you

all to share the details. i will be reaching out to invite them to attend our first hearing in february, and will also discuss the status of the implementation of our staff recommendations listed above. the next business i'd like to share with you is gestalt. they hold an l.l.p. permit, which allows indoor entertainment until 11:00 p.m. on november 15, inspector fiorentino arrived at the business and found them playing music after 11:00 p.m. and issued a violation over a sound complaint. this last thursday, january 13, i corresponded with the owner about paying for the outstanding citations, and i requested that they submit a compliance plan detailing how

they would address compliance moving forward. the owner told me that in order to ensure compliance, he'd do the following: not allow deejays to come in randomly when he hasn't approved it, measure sound levels, and that he'd have an instrument going into the q.f.c. speakers, and that he have a mixing board so that he can control the main volume. i confirmed the plan, offered to send an inspector out to review the plans. the following day, inspector fiorentino responded to a complaint at 11:15 p.m. and observed a jazz trio playing inside. he spoke with the owner about the violation and said he'd have the trio stop performing, and then, he became agitated

with inspector fiorentino, accusing him of disrupting the music scene in our city. to deescalate the situation, inspector fiorentino stepped outside. our main priority here is getting this permit holder to follow their current permit conditions and abide by the rules. if you have any suggestions or comments, please let us know. the last item to discuss this evening is about park lab gardens and park social, which are located on mission bay boulevard, directly across from one another. as a reminder, park lab gardens holds a j.a.m. permit, and spark social holds an outdoor l.l.p. since the last hearing, we've received four complaints about

the food trucks playing music and disrupting the tenants in the area. since both clients have food trucks, and the complaints are anonymous and never indicate which premises are causing the problem, inspector fiorentino always visits both when he responds to a complaint. so far in january, he has visited three times. the first on january 1, when he arrived, there was no amplified sound playing. the second was january 8, and the businesses were operating within sound compliance during his last visit, and the last visit was on sunday, january 9, and while he was on-site, a complaint came in alleging music was blasting throughout several blocks in the area. inspector fiorentino was able to discredit the complaints as he measured the music as no longer than any other music coming from other venues in the

area, and that concludes my report this evening. >> questions? comments? >> quick question. with the midway, other than that weekend, have we had other issues? >> yes -- oh, i saw a different -- none that we haven't already reported on, but yeah, go for it. >> i think it's possible, commissioner wang, you weren't here at the previous meeting. it was all condensed in two weekends. one that occurred in november and one that occurred in late december, and we have discussed those with the midway owners. >> yeah, they came to the -- staff had them come virtually

in person, and we asked them a bunch of questions, and they assured us that there were not going to be any sound concerns, but it sounds like that didn't happen. >> they promised, but, you know, that happens. >> is there any chance that the food truck complaints are, at least for the first weekend, were actually the midway sound instead? just given that we know the midway sound travels sort of oddly? >> i think it's hard to pinpoint what is actually going on down in mission bay. you know, i also just want to mention that food trucks park in the area because people patronize them because of the [inaudible] being down there, and it may not be associated

with the partial social or park lab gardens at all, and unfortunately, i think it just continues to be pinned on that premises specifically, and they've demonstrated on going compliance but also working closely with me to ensure that their j.a.m. permit hours are updated. the owner is really responsive, but we've never found them being in violation of allegations like their sound. the complaints are also anonymous, too, so it makes it difficult while the person is saying -- you can see in the complaint that it's saying that it's traveling down numerous corridors, but we don't actually know where the complaint is located. >> this sound seems to bounce around so much, and yeah, we know the midway sound travels, and it's -- i don't know. as for the edinburgh castle, i

don't want venue owners being accused of violations if they're having violations that come into compliance. >> there has to be some kind of end game. we've gone out there so many times, and the police have been out there so many times, and we can only do so much. >> yeah, it seems that the person who's complaining is responding to something else entirely, and not to anything

coming from the edinburgh castle. >> and that particular neighbor is not letting us go inside their unit, right? >> correct. >> so, i mean, without really knowing which wall it's coming from, you know, it could be coming from the back wall, you know, which is on the other side. you know, if they're not cooperating, there's only so much we can do. >> the owner of the business also asked to gain entry, as well, so it came -- there was a recommendation that our inspector visit as well as the business owner, and that was not something the resident was willing to do. >> any other questions or comments? all right. yeah, i mean, one at a time here. i think, you know, i do think we -- that in terms of the

midway and some of the other venues, i think -- you know, i think we -- i'm proud that we erred on the side of, like, being -- trying to get people in compliance during times like these, and covid is going to be with us and we have to get back into regular life, we can't have venues that are consistently out of compliance over and over and over again,

so we -- clearly, there's never been an issue that we've been able to find since the first very time we went in there, i think, long, long, long ago. and then, with gestalt, this was a concern when they came in, asking for their permit. the concern was are they going to follow the rules, and it seems like they're not. we're going to have to have a conversation with them and see if we can get them to follow the law. any other comments? all right. is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> operator: just going to

flash the slide a few seconds as a courtesy. >> all right. let's go ahead and close public comment and move onto the next agenda item. i believe it's actually number 5, not 6, which is hearing and possible action regarding fluxes for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commission, and i'll ask deputy director azevedo to introduce the matter, on the agenda, and i believe that's all we have. >> that's correct, president bleiman. we only have one item on the consent agenda this evening, and it's a limited live performance permit for gentilly, which is located at

4826 mission street. there are no added conditions and no recommendations from the police department, so we are recommending to approve the permit with the good neighbor policy. and just as a reminder, this is on consent, so we were not even going to be pulling the applicant in. >> i move approve of the item on consent -- i move approval of the consent calendar. >> second. >> is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> operator: checking, and there is none. >> all right. we'll close public comment, and we can have a vote. >> clerk: okay. [roll call] >> all right. congratulations to the applicant, whoever they are.

please follow up with our staff at your earliest convenience for your next steps, and oh, man, the next agenda item is number 6, which is consideration and possible action to adopt a resolution making findings to allow teleconferenced meetings under the california government code since -- section 54953-e. do we have a motion to approval this resolution to allow it? >> -- to make the motion. >> second. >> is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> operator: there is none. >> all right. let's go ahead and have a vote. [roll call]

>> all right. we did it again. we can have a teleconference meeting. all right. the final agenda item are commissioner comments and questions and new business requests for future agenda items. what have we got? nothing. all right. well, neither do i, so let's go to public comment on this agenda item. is there any? >> operator: president bleiman and commissioners, there are none. >> well, it's been a pleasure, everyone. enjoyable meeting. we will adjourn it at 5:59 p.m. this evening, and we'll see you for the next one.

i'm sure we'll have a jam packed agenda. thank you. >> bye. >> thank you. >> farewell. >> operator: thank you. have a good night. >> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and

challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb

elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery

for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful murals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local people will spend their money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪♪♪ ]

>> one more statement. we are the one. that is our first single that we made. that is our opinion. >> i can't argue with you. >> you are responsible please do not know his exact. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in

my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪♪♪] it brought all of the punks on the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support

the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪♪♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys.

>> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free. everything in the library is

free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it? >> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco

history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuff from their grandparents, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future.

>> we worked very hard with the san francisco venue coalition, the independent venue alliance to advocate for venues. put this issue on the radar of the supervisors and obviously mayor breed. the entertainment commission and the office of small business and we went to meetings and showed up and did public comment and it was a concerted effort between 50 venues in the city and they are kind of traditional like live performance venues and we all made a concerted effort to get out there and sound the

alarm and to her credit, maybe breed really stepped up, worked with matt haney, who is a supervisor haney was a huge champion for us and they got this done and they got $3 million into the sf venue recovery fund. >> we have represented about 40 independent venues in san francisco. basically, all the venues closed on march 13th, 2020. we were the first to close and we will be the last to reopen and we've had all the of the overhead costs are rent, mortgage, payroll, utilities and insurance with zero revenue. so many of these venues have been burning $1,000 a day just to stay closed. >> we have a huge music history

here in san francisco and the part of our cultural fab lick but it's also an economic driver. we produce $7 billion annual' here in san francisco and it's formidable. >> we've been very fortunate here. we've had the department of emergency management and ems division and using part of our building since last april and aside from being proud to i can't tell you how important to have some cost recovery coming in and income to keep the doors open. >> typically we'll have, three to 400 people working behind the teens to support the show and

that is everything from the teamsters and security staff and usualers, ticket takers, the folks that do our medical and the bar tenders and the people in the kitchen preparing food for backstage and concession and the people that sell key shirts and it's a pretty staggering amount of people that are out of work as a result of this one verne you going tarkanian. it doesn't work to open at reduced capacity. when we get past june 15th, out of the into the blue print for our economy we can open it it 100% and look at the festival in full capacity in october and we're just so grateful for the leadership of the mavor and dr. coal fax to make us the safest ♪ america and this is been hard for everybody in san

francisco and the world but our leadership has kept us safe and i trust them that they will let us know when it's safe to do that. >> a lot of people know about america is military stuff, bullying stuff, corporate stuff. when people like me and my friends go to these foreign country and play music, we're giving them an american cultural experience. it's important. the same way they can bring that here. it sounds comfy buyia, you know, we're a punk band and we're nasty and we were never much for peace and love and everything but that's the fertilizer that grows the big stuff that some day goes to bill graham's place and takes everybody's money but you have to start with us and so my hope is that allel groups and

people make music and get together because without out, hanging together we'll hang separately, you know. >> other venues like this, all over the place, not just in the san francisco bay area need to exist in order for communities to thrive and i'm not just talking about the arts communities, even if you are here to see a chuckle bucket comedy show and you are still experiencing humanity and in specific ways being able to gather with people and experience something together. and especially coming out of the pandemic, the loss of that in-person human connection recovering that in good ways is going to be vital for our entire society. >> it's a family club. most our staff has been working

with us for 10 years so we feel like a family. >> what people think of when they think of bottom of the hill and i get a lot of this is first of all, the first place i met my husband or where we had our first date and i love that and we love doing weddings and i expect there to be a wedding season post 2021 of all the make up we haddings and i hope that many people do that because we have had so many rock ep role weddings. >> i told my girlfriend, make sure you stand at the front of the stage and i can give you a kiss at midnight. at this got down on one knee at the stroke of midnight. it wasn't a public thing, i got down on one knee and said will you marry me and is he she had are you [beep] kidding me and i said no, i'm dead serious and

she said yes. we were any time homicideel of the show. we just paused for new year's eve and that was where i proposed to my wife. this is more than just a professional relationship it's more than just a relationship from a love of arts, it's where my family started. we'll always have a special place in my heart. >> venues, you know, represent so much. they are cultural beckons of a city. neighbors can learn and celebrate and mourn and dance together. venues and arts and culture are characterized as second responders to crisis and they provide a mental health outlet and a community center for people to come together at and it's the shared history of our city and these spaces is where we all come together and can celebrate. >> art often music opens up

people to understanding the fellow man and i mean, taz always necessary and if anything, it's going to be even more necessary as we come out of this to reach out and connect with people. >> we can sustain with food, water and shelter is accurate and does anybody have a good time over the last year? no. >> san francisco is a great down. i've been here many years and i love it here and it's a beautiful, beautiful, place to be music and art is key to that. drama, acting, movies, everything, everything that makes life worth living and that's what we've got to mow proteasome no san francisco and that's what is important now.

>> this is a huge catalyst for change. >> it will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of operation. >> one of the main drivers is a

one stopper mitt center for -- permit center. >> special events. we are a one stop shop for those three things. >> this has many different uses throughout if years. >> in 1940s it was coca-cola and the flagship as part of the construction project we are retaining the clock tower. the permit center is little working closely with the digital services team on how can we modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move to a more digital world. >> the digital services team was created in 2017. it is 2.5 years. our job is to make it possible to get things done with the city online. >> one of the reasons permitting is so difficult in this city and county is really about the scale. we have 58 different department in the city and 18 of them

involve permitting. >> we are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. it is difficult and we have heard that from many people we interviewed. our goal is you don't have to know the department. you are dealing with the city. >> now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules. >> there are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. there is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing people to apply online for the a.d.u.

it is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. it is a very complicated permit. you have to speak to different departments to get it approved. we are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high volume permits. they are simple to issue. another one is restaurant permitting. while the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated business process. people struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to navigate. >> the city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. >> when people arrive they canshay what they are here to. it helps them workout which cue

they neat to be in. if they rant to run anker rapid she can do that. we say you are next in line make sure you are back ready for your appointment. >> we want it all-in-one location across the many departments involved. it is clear where customers go to play. >> on june 5, 2019 the ceremony was held to celebrate the placement of the last beam on top of the structures. six months later construction is complete. >> we will be moving next summer. >> the flu building -- the new building will be building. it was designed with light in mind. employees will appreciate these amenities. >> solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle chargers in the basement levels, benefiting from gray watery use and secured bicycle parking for 300

bicycles. when you are on the higher floors of the building you might catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. >> it is so exciting for the team. it is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. it is allowing the different departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. we hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. we are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a high-quality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling in forms.

they will have good conversations with our staff.