>> in person and virtual meeting of the san francisco entertain commission. my name is benn clee man and i'm the board president. we'll start with announcements. >> so we want to start the meeting with land acknowledgement. [land acknowledgement]

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the public. >> and now we'll begin with the roll call. >> president bleiman? >> here. >> commissioner thomas? >> here. >> commissioner torres? >> here. >> commissioner wong? >> here. >> i would like to note for the record, pardon me, we have three excused absences this evening for commissioners caminong and falzon and perez. >> the first order of business is consideration and possible action to adopt a resolution making findings to allow teleconferenced meeting under california government section 59453e which i'm told is only going to last another month. do we have a motion to adopt this resolution? >> so moved. >> seconded. >> is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> there's none. >> all right. then we can vote.

>> okay. [roll call] >> all right. it has been approved. the next agenda item is number two, which is general public comment. is there anybody who wants to comment on something that is not on agenda tonight? i don't think anybody in the gallery. >> president bleiman, one person on zoom would like to make a comment on zoom. their hand is raised and i'll unmute them shortly. >> mr. tarano, if you can hear us, unmute yourself and you have three minutes. >> this is (indiscernible) tarano, can you hear me? >> yes. i'm monitoring the mr. -- the mta board meeting and i want to welcome commissioner torres as the new entertainment commission. it's great to have someone representing the castro

area and (indiscernible). and i'm calling in to say that, you know, bond bar switched to mother bar, the same person who owns the park side and the problem is this -- the sky rock is still creating parking on illegal parking on rundale alley and people hanging out. i hope the new owner doesn't have to deal with the same issues that andrea had to deal with as bond bar, but i heard that the tax -- the sound engineer or investigator fell asleep in his car while watching it and i think -- i'm not saying that (indiscernible), but it is a problem that you're not fully investigating sky lar. sorry to put it this way but it's dangerous for everybody else.

the next thing is, some of the nightclubs are still taking up too much street space which interfering with bikes and droop drop-offs and parking. the audio and (indiscernible) are letting cars park in the bicycle lane and double parking and leaving the cars unoccupied especially next to the shared spaces so i don't know why you don't want to participate in making it safer street for everybody, but you're encouraging this type of egregious behavior by allowing these unauthorized vehicles to double park especially on 11th street and some of the other nightclubs are occupying especially great northern. they are taking up way too much street space with their poles and that's not appropriate, considering they don't own the street. so, i'd appreciate it that you deal with this issue sooner than later. thank you

very much and good luck to you. i know it's a short agenda. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> all right. is there any more general public comment? >> there's none. >> all right. we'll close that item and we'll move onto number three which is approval of the minutes for december 20, 2022. commission meeting, do i have a motion to approve the minutes? >> so moved. >> second. >> all right. we can open the public comment. >> there's none. >> all right. we can vote. >> president bleiman? >> aye. >> commissioner thomas? >> aye. >> commissioner torres? >> aye. >> commissioner wang. >> approved. number four, report from executive director. >> good evening commissioners. i have a brief update this evening. i wanted to officially

introduce you to our newest sound inspector, this is sid and we're very excited to have her. she's the first woman to serve in this role and we've been commissioned for 20 years now so that feels like a very big deal. she has been in training since new year's eve weekend. deputy director asavito went out with her and other inspectors at the start of the year on january 67th and i think she's already a great addition to the team, so i would just strongly encourage you to say hi after the hearing and we're just very happy to have a full team right now, so that's all i have. i'm happy to answer any questions you might have. >> oh, so sorry. sid, if you want to say anything, you can feel free to hello. >> thank you to maggie and dylan and it's an honor to join the

entertainment commission. hope to see you soon. >> questions. >> all right. i have no questions myself. is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> there's none. >> all right. then we can move on to number five which is report from deputy director azevedo. >> thank you, president bleiman and good evening, commissioners. we have received 32 311 complaints since december 20th. i have a small update for you this evening but i wanted to share we received two complaints on new year's eve this year which is great. and as always, please feel free to ask questions after my reports. i want to update you on white rabbit on fillmore street. they hold a permit from us and on december 31st inspector infurero responded to loud music and when he spoke to the manager, the

manager said the door was opened the night before because the patriots requested fresh air. he responded to another complaint on january 7th. at 1:15 a.m. and when he arrived the front door was propped open and he heard a base presence. they were operating above their sound limit to he worked with the manager to bring them into compliance. there was a notice of violation for exceeding their sound limit. that's the only update i have to share with you. let me know if you have questions. >> commissioners? >> impressive new year's eve. >> it was pouring rain. >> it was pouring rain. >> i'll take it. it did stop that night and a good time was had by some; i will say. [laughter] >> is there any public comment

on this agenda item? >> there's none. >> all right. we'll close public comment and we'll move onto the next item which is report from ben van houten and you can come up, ben. i'm mentioning this because there's a man, i won't say hero because what's a hero but sometimes there's a man and i'm talking about the beard here. sometimes there's a man, he's a man for his time and place. he fits in there and that's the beard in san francisco and even if he's a hard working man and the beard was certainly that, quite possibly, the most hard working in all of san francisco county which places him at high running for the most hard working worldwide but sometimes they're a man, sometimes there's a man. i lost my train of thought here, but -- >> that's okay. >> i've introduced him enough. mr. ben van houten.

>> thank you, president bleiman. and what a wonderful introduction. it has been a few months, so a lot to catch up on including -- i have to get used to the intros again. i'm with night life business assistance update. wonderful. i have some updates on some state and local policies and programs, some of which carry over from last year, but it's still ongoing too. first off, just to highlight some of the 2022 legislation at the state level that was signed into law, we were pleased that the governor signed sb793 which was senator wiener's bill to create a new type of liquor license for live music venues, again, i'm sure you know, but given the cap on full liquor licenses in san francisco, there's a high cost to acquire a full liquor license on secondary market and it makes it challenges for music venues to get -- venue to get started and

it has a food service requirement on all ages music venues and this license type is available from abc and avoiding the secondary market and no longer requires food service at venues provided that they are operating as a music venue. exciting to have that in law and now the abc is currently working on some emergency regulations to implement these licenses. i don't think they are accepting applications for licenses just yet. while that regulatory process is going and there's the possibility of permanent regulations on this site. it's a longer timeline but i've been working with the venue, the state venue association on some feedback on the emergency regulations, as well as we're thinking about industry outreach once these licenses are available to help educate everyone about the opportunities. certainly, for new venue operators but also for some existing venue operators who may want to switch from a

restaurant style, you know, 47 or a bar style 48 liquor license to music venue. some venues have had their licenses for decades so applying for a new license is a new endeavor for them. state bill signed into law last year, sb1116, which is a grant program for small nonprofit performing arts theaters and fiscal sponsored theater projects that's tied to the amount that they pay in payroll to staff, which is a really innovative and exciting program for those nonprofit theaters. in the governor's signing statement, he noted there was no funding attached to the program in the legislation, so that needed to be hashed out during the budget process, which candidly i'm not sure what the stalt -- what the status is for that funding but

something we'll be monitoring. with the start of the year, new legislation affront and late last year, senator maine announced ab24 requiring certain businesses including bars to acquire opioid antagonist kits and having the locks behind the bar. there are a couple of other different industry sectors, i think, gas stations and sro's are among the others but bars are callout as one of those categories so certainly something we're monitoring and then locally, we've been have having conversations with the department of public health and how to expand on the training work they are doing with individual businesses and thinking about how to build that more into industry, how to amplify that work across the sector. secondly, senator wiener introduced sb76 last week. that bill would allow local governments to create

entertainment zones which could be shared outdoor alcohol consumption areas which really would be i think in conjunction with street fare -- street fairs and restaurants to participate in the activity happening on the street as opposed to the festival operator getting their own separate alcohol vendor. really exciting opportunity for local businesses to participate in and engage in those sorts of activities and the bill makes a couple of technical attends with respect to the music venue licenses that's helpful too. additionally, late last year, the abc put out their draft regulations for alcohol service in non-contiguous areas. this is the idea of parklets and spaces separated from a business by public sidewalk. there were, i think, among industry stakeholders, a number of concerns around the drafted regulations that abc issued including that all alcohol carried from inside the business

into the parklet had to be carried by a server as well as some other post patrons and other concerns about requirements of site lines and other issues. the comment period for those draft regulations closed in november. there were significant feedback from local night life operators and i think we expect updated draft regulations or response to a lot of that public feedback to happen sometime early this year so something we are keeping an eye on. final state update on is the california state venues program. that's the statement venue of the shuttered venues grant program. the feds administered it, it's a program to impact -- for venues impacted by covid. i believe it was $150 million program, grant program. there were some issues at the outset with the implementation of the program, so there's a second phase now open with some

expanded eligibility for businesses that were not able to participate in it previously. the ability to participate was determined by a business's makes and district coding, so in the second round, there's expanded, an expanded set of businesses that can participate and businesses need to show a lesser degree of loss of financial impact from covid. so, businesses, if businesses have not applied, they should apply at the link but california arts have been doing good work to educate the industry about this and moving to the second phase is just another technical layer of requirements on top of it, so really direct people as well. on the local front, supervisor dorsey's legislation that would do planning code, reorganization

and also make a number of reforms to zoning in the south of market is continuing to move forward. it's currently pending in the land use committee after getting out of the planning commission late last year. in terms of entertainment zoning, the legislation was narrowed in planning commission to expand entertainment uses, nighttime entertainment issues along folsom street and 11th street and remove the buffers that made that challenges previously. there's additional work to do to look at continuing to expanding access to entertainment uses in the south of market, but a lot of good stuff in this legislation as it moves forward. secondly, supervisor dorsey's hearing that he called late last year on the nightmare concept on -- and i think more broadly on how we can collectively and more effectively support the night life and entertainment sector, it's my impression it's something they are looking at in

terms of identifying a date for that hearing. and then final update here is on the shares spaces program. the emergency program ends march 31st. applications for the legislative program were due january 15th, but if businesses have not submitted those applications, they really should do so as soon as possible. legislation was just recently introduced to extend the grace period after the march deadline to help departments in supporting the transition from the emergency program to the legislative program including just add music permits as needed and there's a variety of resources on the shared spaces page including some videos around design guidance and there's some upcoming design training sessions including one on the 24th. and that's my update at

this time. happy to take any questions, thank you. >> thank you. >> i had a question about the south of market legislation, is that -- are they waiting for the new land use committee to be set and then -- do we have any idea of the timeline on that? >> we don't, but that's a good yes. i'm happy to follow up with the supervisor's office. i know with the change in committee compositions, i'm not sure that any of the -- [multiple voices] yeah! >> yeah, because i'd like to partake in that hearing, if i can. any other questions? all right. is there any public comment for mr. van houten? >> there's none. >> all right >> all right. we'll close public comment and we can move along to number seven which is hearing and possible action regarding

applications for permits undered jurisdiction of the entertain commission and deputy director asvito will introduce this. >> i have one permit on the consent agenda -- agenda this evening. you rubbed off on me there. so, for conditions, i want to point out due to the zoning district of libreria which is our consent agenda, this would have to end by 10:00 p.m. rather than 11:00 and the permit officer include one standard calendar and condition for the permit. ec staff set an internal sound limit for the business which is list below so the staff recommendation for the commission is to vote to approve the consent agenda with the staff recommendations. >> got it. do we have any questions before we open to public comment? all right. is there any public comment on the

consent agenda? >> there is none. >> all right. we'll close public comment. and then we will entertain a motion. >> i move approval of the con -- consent agenda. >> second it. >> we can -- we can vote. [roll call] >> i actually thought i had done something wrong and you were saying president bleiman, can you -- i didn't realize i was voting, aye is what i meant. i said please go on. i wasn't trying to say, please get this over with. >> for the record, president bleiman gives his approval. >> please approve this, everybody. i was like, tell me what i did wrong, i thought you were going to say, president bleiman, you forgot this. congratulations, you have been approved and get with our staff for next steps. thank you. the next and last agenda item is number eight which is comments and questions. what do we got?

>> nothing. >> i just want to note that there was a chronicle article last week about state of night life and hospitality and going out and it's very dismal out there. it seems like the people haven't yet returned and everybody's kind of wondering is there ever going to return to previous numbers. something to keep everybody's ears and eyes on as we make rules about night life going forward. if there's many, many fewer companies, we need to adapt as a government to support the industry because of its economic impact. i want to mention that. any public comment on this agenda item? >> there's nothing. >> we'll close public comment and adjourn this lightning meeting at this moment. it's 6:02 p.m. fantastic! thank you, everybody. (music).

>> i started the o was with a financing and had a business partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two

weeks later the pandemic h-4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. >> we created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasn't used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. >> what the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately

and created this. >> (unintelligible). >> where we would offer food delivery services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. we had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we created club hours where you can

watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. >> we got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i can't let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. and it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what we're doing. this

building used to be a- and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we don't realize how much we affect the community around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. and inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we

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>> 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. >> 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. >> >> shared spaces have transformed san francisco's streets and sidewalks. local business communities are more resilient and our neighborhood centers are more vibrant and lively. fire blocks and parking lanes can be for seating and merchandising and other community activities. we're counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are safe and accessible for all. when pair mets, firefighters and other first responders arrive at

a scene, they need clear visual access to see the building entrances, exits and storefront windows from the street. that means parklets should be transfer in the areas above inches above the sidewalk level. it's best if these areas are totally unobstructed by transparent materials may be okay. you can check with fire department staff to make sure your site meets visibility requirements. emergency response crews and their equipment need to be move easily between streets, sidewalks and buildings, especially when they are using medical gurneys, ladders and other fire fighting tools. that means that parklet structures need a three foot wide emergency feet every 20 feet and 3 feet from marked parking spaces and emergency access gaps need to be open to the sky, without obstructions, like canopies, roofs, or cables and should always be clear of tables, chairs, planters and

other furnishings. emergency responders need to use ladders to reach windows and roofs to buildings and the ladders need unobstructed overhead clearance and room to be placed at a 72-degree angle against the building. clearances needed around the ladders to move equipment and people safely up and down. so not all parklets can have roofs ask canopies depending on the width of the sidewalk in your area. please make sure that your electric cables are hung so they are out of the way and (indiscernible) to the structure, they can be pulled down by firefighters. cable connections need to be powered from an outdoor reciprocal in the building facade because hard wire connections are much more difficult to disconnect quickly. these updates to the shared spaces program will ensure safety and accessibility for everyone, so we can all enjoy these public spaces. more

information is available at sf dot gov slash shared spaces. . >> (music). >> the ferry building one of san francisco most famous that

as many of 15 thousand commuters pass through that each gay. >> one of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding san francisco is how young the city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. there was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in san francisco. and then the gold rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here to start

a new life. >> by 1850 roughly 16 thousand ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the

trams came to that area also. but by the late 1880s we needed something better than the ferry building. a bond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grand ferry building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two

how and was not completed and killed. but it opened a greater claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but market street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and mission street up to nob hill and the fisherman's area. and then the earthquake hit in 190 six the ferry building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. and 80 percent of the city would not

survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a dennis herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to

chance to show how electrical cars and we're going to get on top this. >> take 10 years for the city to rebuild. side ferry use was increasing for a international exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was the center for celebration. the upper level of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or world war two had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted

to to be a gathering place in that ferry building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our international exposition 18 million living in san francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 san francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught

without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and san francisco was hit hard by the pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what we're supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. >> the way the ferry building was originally built the lower level with the natural light was used for take it off lunge storage. the second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting

point to talk about because such a large building one major stairway and we're talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the ferry building and the embarcadero on market street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have san francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. as the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach san francisco. and automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots

varnished. the dramatic draw in ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. take the care ferry and to san francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. >> when the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our sales force transit center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having

a purpose. >> what happened in the 40 and 50's because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a world trade center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of ferry building and completely impractical. after the cars the tower administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united states. so they had an

intrastate free plan the plan for major freeway systems to go throughout san francisco. and so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. the plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the san francisco saw had human services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. which cut us off from the ferry building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. and that was the

renaissance of ferry building. >> that land was developed for a new ferry building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didn't want- that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. >> the san francisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the

future and feel that by making a reliable ferry system once the ferry building will be there to surface. >> learned and expand it across the city. [♪♪]

the tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers, and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin emergency initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services, and increase investments in the neighborhood. >> the department of homelessness and supportive housing is responsible for providing resources to people living on the streets. we can do assessments on the streets to see what people are eligible for as far as permanent housing. we also link people with shelter that's available. it could be congregate shelter, the navigation center, the homeless outreach team links those people with those resources and the tenderloin needs that more than anywhere else in the city. >> they're staffing a variety of our street teams, our street crisis response team, our street overdose response team, and our newly launched wellness

response team. we have received feedback from community members, from residents, community organizations that we need an extra level and an extra level of impact and more impactful care to serve this community's needs and that's what the fire department and the community's paramedics are bringing today to this issue. >> the staff at san francisco community health center has really taken up the initiative of providing a community-based outreach for the neighborhood. so we're out there at this point monday through saturday letting residents know this is a service they can access really just describing the service, you know, the shower, the laundry, the food, all the different resources and referrals that can be made and really just providing the neighborhood with a face, this is something that we've seen work and something you can trust. >> together, city and community-based teams work daily to connect people to services,.

>> [gavel] >> good morning. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the january 19, 2023 regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee of the san francisco board of supervisors i am supervisor dean preston chair of the committee joined by vice chair connie chan and supervisor mandelman. the clerk today is stephanie cabrera and i want thank our team at sf govtv for staffing this meeting. madam clerk any announcements. >> yes the board of supervisors and it says committees are convening hybrid meetings for attendance and public comment and via telephone. the board recognizesth