>> hybrid and in person-sorry. is it still hybrid? in person and virtual meeting och the san francisco entertainment commission. we'll start with announcements. before we start with announcements, i just want to-we'll talk about it later but i want to dedicate this commission hearing which i know is not much of a thing, but to the memory of

hecklina, good friend of many of ours. now we'll have announcements. >> we would like to start the meeting with land acknowledgment. we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the

ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. this meeting is held in hybrid format broadcast live on san sfgovtv. using meeting id89968385486. we welcome the public participation. there will be a opportunity for general public comment beginning of the meeting and there will be a opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. each comment is limited to 3 minutes. for those attending remotely, the commission will hear up to 20 minutes of public comment total for each item. becausef the time limit it is possible not every person in the queue will have a opportunity to provide remote public comment. remote public comment from people who received accommodation due to disability will not count toward the 20 minute limit. public comment will be taken in person and remotely by video or call in. the commission will take public comment from people attendeding the meeting and attending remotely. for those in person fill out a speaker card located at the side table or podium. come up to the podium, state your name and affiliations and comments. you will have three

minutes. once finished hands your speaker card. calling by phone dial star 9 to be added to the speaker line. you are asked to unmute by hitting star 6. call from a quite location, speak clearly and slowly. if you are also viewing the meeting on sfgovtv mute before speaker during public comment. we recommend you use zoom audio or telephone you may submit written public comment through the chat function on zoom. commissioners are not allowed to respond to comments during public comment. thank you sfgovtv for and media service for sharing this meeting with the public. >> thank you. let's do a roll

call. [roll call] commissioner falzon is excused and commissioner-you are here. i'm sorry. commissioner thomas. thank you so much. >> i snuck in. >> great. >> thank you. the next item is general public comment. these are items not listed on the agenda. >> (indiscernible) >> they got it. it should be reflected. >> it is on zoom.

>> i guess i'll do that. >> there you go. [microphone not on. unable to hear speaker] that was sent from ben bleiman to provide (indiscernible) this was during a meeting where i was here and ben was complaining that the sign i was holding that said, rafael (indiscernible) drop dead. as you see ben, as i are misspelled his

name. so, let's come back to me, please. from sfgovtv. so, i brought a sign that says, bleiman (indiscernible) you need to come back to me. >> i know, one second. >> please stop the timer. there we go. >> i like my 20 seconds returned, please. >> it was 5 seconds but i'll give you some time. go ahead. i paused it. >> will you give me 20 seconds? >> it wasn't 20 seconds. i will give you 10 seconds extra. >> 20 seconds because of the tech problem. >> i don't know how to make it go but i'll let it go and give 20 seconds after. >> (indiscernible) wanted me to bring. this is

unacceptable. it clearly shows you do not respect the public. now, you all are volunteers. you're taking time out of your day to come here, and i'm asking you to respect the public. and i also want this committee, especially steven torres to schedule on the agenda save the seats, save the castro theater. steven, you are a bartender. you know very well the detrimental effects that (indiscernible) not showing movies at the castro theater. this commission is not talking about the castro theater, and the night life that it is harming. that really needs to change. this committee can do a lot to help reduce the trauma

in the gay community because no movies are being shown at the castro theater. and my last 30 seconds, i want to tell ben bleiman (indiscernible) in one of your texts you talk about sneaking in a liquor license. they will be investigating whether you have adequately fallowed the law. thank you very much. i have a speaker card. i want you to spell my name correctly in the record. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. i hope we can get that fixed next time for no tech troubles. >> anymore general public comment? are we still doing

online? >> yes, we are still doing online and no public comments. >> the next item is 3, approval of minutes for march 21, 2023 commission meeting. do we have a motion to approve the minutes? >> so moved. >> second. >> is there any public comment on the meeting minutes? >> there are no more public comments for this item. >> alright, then we can have a vote. [roll call] >> our minutes are approved. the next item is number 4, which is report from executive director weiland. >> thank you president bleiman. good evening commissioners happy tuesday. i will start with announcements. first of all, i wanted to share an event coming up soon that should be on our radar for all of our night life and entertainment

workers in san francisco, including both businesses and potential employees. so, next wednesday april 12 the oewd and office of small business will be hosting their second annual hospitality and small business job fair at the ferry building. the job fair is a free opportunity for employers and job seekers to connect and help advance our city economic recovery. and the deadline for businesses to request a booth past, job seekers can register on oewd website. we also shared a link to the event in the latest news letter and it is in our social channel. wanted to let you know something very fun that occurred yesterday. senior analyst dylan rice president bleiman and commissioner thomas were all together shooting some raw footage that will be used for a overdose prevention training video that the entertainment commission will be promoting as a part of our harm reduction

advocacy efforts. might take more then 30 seconds. >> let's get the sheriff back up. >> let me speed it up. as you are all well aware, sentinel -fentanyl is leading overdose death in the united states as well as san francisco. a small amount of fentanyl can be fatal and people quhoo use drugs may be unintentionally exposed to it. fentanyl can be found in other street drugs share as heroin, cocaine, pressed pills. sfgovtv thank you so much and drag queen (indiscernible) this training video will give night life workers and patrons a basic understanding how to use narcon to reverse a ovdose and save a life and also two, will help you understand how to use fentanyl test strips to test drugs for the

presence of fentanyl so we plan to release the video in the coming weeks as a part of them capain. we also plan to show at the summit june 5. so, again just special thanks to commissioner thomas for her advocacy and all this work and thought partnership. the city has a important first step in the larger vision for a night life industry that is fully resourced and well positioned to prevent overdose and save lives so thank you and thanks to dylan for project managing this. that is a really big win for us and thank you president bleiman for playing a supporting role yesterday. >> starring role. >> starring role. okay, big deal. >> pretty sure there was a drag queen there and they used me to set the baseline. >> exactly. perfect. final update is just around legislation. on march

21 supervisor peskin introduced ord nchbs amending the police code to change from 10 to 11 p.m. that time at which limited live performance permitted in the polk street ncd conclude so that is fancly way of saying there are three zoning districts left in the entire city that limit limited live performance ending at 10. this removes one of the zoning districts um. it is under a 30 day rule and i just wanted to bring this to you all tonight and change up my director's report item to make it so you can take an action here if you like and direct staff to essentially send along comment that supports this item to the clerk of the board. i would suggest that you do. it is kind of a slam dunk in our opinion as staff to continue to relieve some of these

barriers for accessories permits in the city. just for information sake, the only two other remaining areas will be one, the north beach ncd and there is a area in the marina that is not a specified zoning district, so just wanted to see if you would like to support that and i can send over general comments. >> so, just to be clear, the question is whether or not we support amending tonight's hearing to add it or? >> no, all you need do is send is direct staff to send your support for this legislation. >> it just a voting item that we would do? >> i think you should vote, yeah. >> we can do this by directing that to happen? >> yes, you would make a motion. >> i own bar with limited live music permit direct in that district, so i'll recuse myself from the conversation. >> sounds good. smart. thank

you. >> you want to make a motion or me to make a motion? i guess i'm chairing. >> that is good call. if anyone would like to make a motion to support the motion and basic comments sent to the board of supervisors. >> i like to make a motion as the entertainment commission we support this legislation to expand the limited live permits to 11 and direct commission staff to make our views known. >> perfect. second. >> can we take public comment on this item? okay. to the left, to the right. how about zoom? >> no. >> alright, public comment is

closed. can we have a vote, please? [roll call] >> the motion has passed. we will bring bleiman back in the room. >> back. i should have left. sorry. >> you're fine. >> is that the end of your report or do you have more? >> that's it right there. just a shout out to dylan rice. i was there for much of the morning yesterday and if you are doing a complicated video shoot i highly recommend producer rice. [laughter] he had everything down to what color socks everyone had to wear. well done dylan. >> big shout out to sfgovtv. it was nice to meet

some in person and see their faces and they did a great job managing it and eileen larkin from department of public health was the fantastic expert talking about overdose and (indiscernible) the narcan queen. very cool. >> alright. is there any further comments for director weiland? questions? >> just thanks to commissioner thomas and dylan and cochina and everyone involved with the video on narcan because that's just such a hugely important issue for our community and also the notice about the job fair, i think that is really important right now. >> any public comment on this agenda item? >> no comments on this item. >> we'll close public comment and move on to number 5, which is report from deputy director

azevedo. >> thank you. good evening commissioners. we received 34, 311 complaints since the last hearing two weeks ago and had a quick update about two businesses that are not listed on the enforcement report. as always, feel free to ask questions if you have them. the first is (indiscernible) hearing on december 20, 2022 we had a item for discussion and possible action to amend the permit conditions of limited live performance permit ec1601 at 3159 (indiscernible) as you may recall, the owner of the business didn't show up to the hearing and the manager came to speak on bemalf of the business. at the hearing you voted to amend the conditions so can host entertainment friday and saturday night and can't coast sunday-thursday. since then we only received 1

complaint (indiscernible) however the business was in compliance when we followed during inspector next scheduled shift. the owner reached out to me expressing desire to host entertainment during the week stating that is when they get the most business so i bring this up to get direction how to proceed. would you like to bring the owner back before the commission to (indiscernible) after done reading through the memo i'll take your direction for next steps. my other update tonight is about imperial palace. they hold a poe permit. at the last hearing i advised the business had been hosting after hours parties and issued two citations for unpermitted events. i also explained that i learned the business was under different ownership then what 80 had on file noting the previous owner sold the business to his sister and everything was kept under the same corporate entity

name and business account number and i was working on getting the new owner to submit a change in ownership application, so since that update or after the update the commissioner present that night asked for the new owner to come into hearing when they submit the change in ownership application and ypted to bring this back to your attention to advice since our last hearing i received payment for both citations, they paid the amendment fee for the change in ownership and updated application is now current in the file and since the citation were issued i had a few calls with the owner son who manages the business explaining they cannot host the after hours party and they are not in a zoning district that allows extended hours premises permit and the city attorney office (indiscernible) about the ramifications having unpermitted events so feel the manager and owner have been made very clear of the rules and only operate under

their permit conditions going forward so the updated (indiscernible) do not need to come back before the commission for change in ownership, but please #5d vice if you like to discuss this further. >> comments on either of these? i tell how i'm feeling about both--right up until the end of 2022 was a open revolt against the rules or lack of better term, so i'm not sure that i personally have seen enough of a track record of compliance to personally entertain the idea of bringing them back in. i don't know how long that will be but think at least

6 months reasonable considering what seemed to be beyond blatant disregard for the rules, but that is where i'm coming from. for imperial palace, i'm personally seems like the recommendation on moving administratively is completely reasonable to me at this point. >> i just had clarifying question in regards to gastolt, i remember the employee that came in to speak before us referred to a ownership change and something along-do we have update with that? >> that hasn't happened. >> okay. i'm inclined to agree with president bleiman then in regard to them. >> other comments, anybody? okay. >> i can let the owner know 6 months we can- >> that would be my

recommendation is-we want the president and commission seems to have a consensus that after 6 months we are willing to entertain the idea. keep using the word, confusing, willing to have them back or consider having them back. >> okay, i'll let them know. >> any public comment on this agenda item? >> no public comment on this item. >> okay, close public comment and move on to number 6, which hearing and possible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction and entertainment commission. i believe we have one item on consent agenda. >> we have one limited live performance for indoor entertainment 540 rogue. staff have set a sound limit for the premises, no opposition or recommended conditions, so the staff recommendation is for you

all to just vote to approve consent agenda with staff recommendations listed below. >> i move the consent calendar. >> second. >> any public comment on the consent calendar? >> no public comment. >> alright. we can vote. [roll call] >> alright. congratulations wherever you are. please follow up with our staff at your earliest convenience or as soon as possible. next we have one item on the regular agenda or- >> two. >> two. start with the first. >> first permit tonight is for poe permit amendment to include outdoor amplified sound and entertainment for chamber eat and drink at 601 eddie street. chambers is hosting outdoor events for decades but when they obtained a permit

in 2011 it was just indoor entertainment. they held a jam permit since 2021 and applying to formalize the outdoor entertainment under the existing permit. the reason they are on regular agenda versus consent is because the jam permit has specific daily fixed hour increments for programming but under the permit amendment they request to have the flexibility to host outdoor entertainment and or amplified sound between 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. not to exceed 6 hours a day. while the permit had a condition about outdoor sound levels staff will go out to set a limit in accordance with 1060.16 once the next outdoor programming begins later this months. the applicant conducted extensive outreach sending a letter notifying the commercial and residential neighbors of the amendment as well as posting to the neighborhoods next door page which is geared towards residents. as of 2

p.m. today we had not received any opposition for the permit but as you may recall when chambers was limited to one time event permits there was a neighbor who sometimes complained about their sound. reached out this afternoon asking we return to the pre-jam permit limited to two events per month only on the weekdays and need to end by 6 p.m. sun day so the letter is included in the file tonight for consideration. otherwise there was no opposition for the permit and tenderloin station didn't have added conditions. here to speak is owner isabel manchester. >> hi, everyone. my name is isabel manchester the managing partner of the phoenix hotel and chambers eat and

drink. the phoenix hotel has been here since 1987 when my partner chip conley bought the hotel. he is the original owner of the boutique hotel and bought the hotel and decided it will be a perfect place for traveling bands and buses. since then that is 36 years. we have been home to lots of traveling artists and bands and hosted the events in the courtyard since then. i became a partner in 2010 and we opened chambers eat and drinks the restaurant still there at the phoenix hotel today. we are primarily hotel and restaurant and where the indoor permit started. because we have the amazing courtyard we found to be home to amazing events. we host corporate events and galas and fundraisers. we do an annual fundraiser in tandem with the tndc, raised over $5

million for the children of the tenderloin and also have special programming in the summers as she was mentioning where we bring in sort of highly rated national artists and we generally do that programming on sundays from 1-6 and it is occasionally throughout juts summer months. and we have been doing this 12 years so familiar with the good neighbor policy. we do have one neighbor who we try to communicate very well with about these events. we are also a hotel and so it is important to us that we are insuring that our hotel guests have quite enjoyment so very careful about our programming in the courtyard. >> questions? >> thanks for coming.

welcome. i see the letter from this one neighbor who had some issues. did you get a chance to speak with this particular neighbor? >> many times. >> okay. >> many many many times over the past 12 years. >> what the policy of a complaint from not particularly this neighbor, but any potential neighbor that might have issue with the noise? what is the policy to address in real time? >> all our neighbors, everyone has our phone number, all the phone numbers for anybody on property. if there is complaint we encourage them to call and we can try to address the complaints there are. we work closely with entertainment commission and have every year with our sound volume levels we are allowed to have. we had one that has been there forever and we have somebody coming in again for the next event to make sure that is still compliant. we always work within the parameters. we have sound technicians on site for every event to make

sure we never go past those. for this neighbor in particular, we actually give him a update. we try to give him a update at least once a month for every single event we have upcoming, sometimes one or two fall through because we have a rain date and forget to let him know but do a good job trying to keep him up to date as to our events. >> with regards to the speakers, are you able to position so they don't directly face the neighbor? >> over the years we tried a lot of different ways of-we added more speakers so the sound doesn't just shoot one way so added a lot of speakers and the sound techs we have on property now know how to really work the sound volumes and they know things i don't know understand to make sure that it lowers the impact it has on this one particular

neighbor. >> thank you. >> sure. >> i just want to say the phoenix hotel is a legacy organization in the tenderloin and glad to see that you guys are still operating. i know also that during the pandemic you opened your doors to house young women and families, and yeah, i fully support this and if we are ready to take a motion, i like to. >> thank you. >> i would just like to add support to phoenix hotel is-i agree is a legacy business, and provides a anchor in the tenderloin. it is also provided a space for many community events, especially lgbtq events, of course the transgender cultural district is one block over and always appreciate your dedication to supporting the community. i also actually was a waiter at the black flip. >> wow. >> one of the first

places i worked in san francisco. >> i just want to give you kudos for not leading with what happened in your neighborhood since the pandemic started and i think that shows a lot of integrity because i spend a lot of time around there and i can't imagine that the rise of the fentanyl crisis and all of the issues that we had that have been by the pandemic didn't effect your business in really tough ways so i want to acknowledge that so you don't have to and i appreciate that you didn't try to use that as a sob story, but i'll do it for you. it must have been hard. even on that specific area outside of the hotel can be absolutely packed with individuals who are not necessarily encouraging customers to come into

your space. >> little of a struggle. thank you. >> i guess we have been doing-you can have a seat. anymore questions? good? comments? so, i guess we will-does anybody want to motion? i do that after the motions usually. >> really. >> in a book i read about running board meetings-i did when i started. >> i like to move to approve with staff recommendations. >> second. >> is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> there are no public comments on this item. >> alright. we can vote. [roll call] >> alright. congratulations and just follow up with kaitlyn and maggie at your earliest convenience. thank you for coming in. next.

>> the final permit on the agenda this evening is for place of entertainment permit for music city hotel located at 135 flee bush street. this is a unique business which house multiple recording studios, hotel (indiscernible) the applicant is apply frg the poe permit for the -consist of musical performance such as bands, dj and possibility of comedy act. (indiscernible) article 29 once the instillation of the sound system is complete. sent a letter to the residential and commercial neighbors all of which included in the file. there is no opposition for this permit and sfpd, northern station did not have added conditions. here today is april lacy and director of

operations alvy adams. >> i'll bring you in shortly to be seen and heard on zoom. >> currently we have a pitch deck here that alvy would like to show and if you can have him share his screen we can run through the aspects of music city. >> thank you so much april. let me do a quick screen share and put it on a slide show. thank you again to everybody. so, this is just showing a little bit of the front of our building. it is

historic building built in 1907 and this shows what is on each floor. we have the hotel and hostile on the top 2 floors along with bar and restaurant at the bush level and then you see 3 floors dedicated to rehearsal spaces for our local musicians including the basement and on the first and second floor as well. we have a a breakdown on the left side the basement, the purple rooms are going to be our different rehearsal spaces. the striped rooms are actually private event spaces for any sort of events for community members or private events or corporate events. in the middle we have the gold our main music venue with two bars and you'll see studios throughout that floor along with karaoke rooms in the back in orange and the right hand size we have the

mezzanine, with a ton of different studios along with our karaoke rooms in the back. so, we are building 23 new rehearsal studios for all our musicians. there is zero hourly rehearsal studios in san francisco now so there is a huge need in the community. we are also provided live streaming along with recording out of all the rehearsal spaces. and a little about the venue itself is on the main venue, around 153 people and also the three basement venues which have 35 people in two of those and 60 people in one of the larger event spaces, and we are really looking forward to bringing entertainment to the neighborhood, which is seems to be a big need as well. that's kind of all that we are doing and really excited to

be opening this summer hopefully in july. >> questions? >> hello, sorry, i did not catch your name. >> my name is alvy. >> hi, alvy, you mentioned you did extensive neighborhood outreach. can you give a review or summary of the results from that outreach, please? >> yeah, april is best to answer that. >> i can comment on that. i was the one that did the outreach. along with the extensive outreach i did i'm board member with lower polk neighbors and the lower polk cdb so did outreach through both of those organizations as well, but i reached out to (indiscernible) who is one of our neighbors who

we worked with providing music programming in the past. we have a great relationship with them, also with on lock, the senior center, we provided music at the senior center so we have a existing relationship. (indiscernible) architects, 3d bike fit. this is all on bush street within a few block radius from us from music city. the first congressional church, we reached out to tammy groves, the minister there who we have existing relationship with, and her response was that she was glad to hear from me and excited to see about the progress of opening music city. we also reached out to terrace apartments. nobody got back to me there. the sfmta polk garage, we made them aware we will be opening in the summer. nobody got back to me there. we reached out to the

resident hotel, spoke to them briefly and i sent over the information, but nobody responded. also redding elementary, we have existing relationship there. they are aware of music city. in addition we reached out to 1299 bush street. the management company there. jackson fuller real estate. a lot of these people we reached out to with the property management companies did not respond. we reached out to mercy housing. and then we have the existing music city hotel where my coworkers is the manager, brian davie and through brian we reached out to the long-term tenants we have staying at the property so they know that this is all under development. but that was it as far as outreach. >> that is a lot. thank you. that is very extensive. >> yeah. thank you.

>> with regards to your karaoke rooms, do you have windows on the doors? >> we do. >> awesome. just want to check. i think that is required, right? >> it is required. >> awesome. thank you. >> of course. thank you for the question. >> this is commissioner thomas. just a request that you as you get your staff hired up that you include training on overdose recognition and response as you may have heard earlier, we are in the process of developing a training video, and are going to be moving forward or going to be asking our permit holders to insure that their staff are able to respond to overdose, given the scope of the public health crisis right now. i just wanted to say that we

love to have you train your staff in how to identify an overdose and respond to it. >> absolutely. we have no problem with that and think that is a great idea. anything we can do to help. >> thank you. >> of course. >> i just-this is commissioner torres. i just also had a question about staff. can you speak a little bit to the composition of your staff, bartenders, sound techs, that kind of-security and that kind of thing. how many? are they local? >> we dont have all them hired at the moment, but we are planning on doing as best we can to hire within the community, especially the lower polk neighborhood, but that's something that we definitely want to try to do is to help the neighborhood to get anyone that we can to work within the

neighborhood. when it comes to security we are going through the protocols there. for every hundred people in the building we will have a security person. we plan having two on the weekdays and one on the week days. and then if we need more for any special events we'll definitely do that, but we plan on using definitely different local sound people. we have a connection through just all the different music organizations that we already worked with, so plan on using as many people locally as we possibly can. >> thank you. i would just encourage you to reach out to community stakeholder groups in the area, especially lower polk. there is lots of vulnerable communities with people that could use the work and there is the transgender cultural district is nearby, and there is other groups that can help distribute information about your hiring.

>> definitely. we would definitely love to use those resources. >> absolutely. thank you. >> can you--i heard about this coming for a long time. i actually think i toured it once like years ago. can you give a sense of how long this project has been in the works? >> yeah. so, the project has been going on for over 10 years. our owner rudey colombini had hardships. he is a musician in san francisco and has been his whole life so this is something we wants to give back to the community especially with arts and culture leaving the city. we like to do something to bring it back. unfortunately he had a bran an urism and

that stopped the project and had trouble with the financial crisis in 2008 and the pandemic as well, which is why it took so long to get to where we are now. everything is moving forward and have plans to open this summer. >> great. i don't have further questions. anybody else? alright. comments? motions? >> i move approval with staff conditions. >> i second. >> alright. is there any public comment on this item? >> no public comment on this item. >> we'll close public comment and entertain votes. [roll call] >> alright. one step

closer music city. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. >> alright. i believe that's the last item before commissioner comments and questions. i'm correct. number 7, commissioner comments and questions. who wants to lead us off? >> i have a couple. too bad we lost some of our public participation because my first announcement is actually from the castro cultural district on behalf of the friends of the castro theater coalition of stakeholders. they are kicking off the first of their film sing along film series castro exile programming at theroxy theater with grease, a sing along grease this friday. i think it might be sold out already, but look for more. there is probably going to be some pride programming

as well. and then there is-i did have a question that i would-if i may ask staff to look into, and i can assist with in doing if you need anything from me. i as it was referenced, i am a bartender and work at twin peaks in the castro. one thing that changed since we had to get our leed recertification earlier, while extended but everyber tender and security guard has to do this now, and one thing that changed in terms of identification is the (indiscernible) component of that and how it is narrowed and so, things that are-that had been previous-for example, for vizsters

visitors from san francisco, we are only allowed to accept passports so this can provide a little obstacle to visitors to the city if they are not adequately prepared to carry their passport with them. another item that is listed as not being bona fida is the u.s. government identification card. if someone has not apply ied for the california id which in our state you can do so as a immigrant, but the-or it isn't as widely available in other states so i was wondering maybe if we can look into this and although the alcoholic beverage control is a different entity, perhaps we might look into somehow distributing information and better education to allow visitors to know what they do have

to carry so it makes things more easy for night life workers who have to check this kind of identification. >> sorry. it's okay. i think that is a great idea. we should chat about different ideas i have around that, because we certainly talk to abc, also thinking sf travel. >> yeah. whatever-it is just from two components here. one is equity component for folks that are just not carrying whatever id they think they need, and then also just from a night life worker perspective, especially for those of us that work in establishments that don't have a security presence at the door, checking id is just part of the job and it slows things down when you try to explain to someone who may

not be a english speaker or so son so forth or if they are, that they need this additional form of identification. >> really good point to raise. i think we should definitely chat more about it. >> thank you. >> yeah. >> i imagine the president will probably say something about hecklina, so i won't. i do want to make sure folks know about the drag fight back march and rally this coming weekday. it will be saturday april 8. start at 11 a.m. with a rally at san francisco city hall. (indiscernible) 1245 a show in union square. the drag community has been such an incredible backbone of entertainment and night life since the beginning

and it is currently under attack. it is hard for some in san francisco to wrap our ahead around why anyone would be going after drag queens knowing everything that they bring to us and to our night life and entertainment and just to our social and political life in a place like san francisco, but that is the realty now both drag queens and trans gender diverse individuals are under attack so encourage folks if they are able to show up for the march and rally and again this saturday april 8 starting at 11 at a rally at san francisco city hall. thank you. >> so, i did want to talk about hecklina. i think we heard the news but it came as quite a shock yesterday out of

the blue our friend passed away in london. so, i met hecklina in 2011 i believe at a bar i had called rebel and she and darcie started the sex in the city live shows at rebel and they were a instant run away success to the point where we had to beat bacheloretparties 59 the door to keep them out. we became very quick friends and she officiated my wedding with my wife and me in 2012. we worked together a little bit. i helped a little bit tiny bit at oasis to set up the bar and get her program i & known her. even during the pandemic i became a de facto

booking agent for drag queen corp ht shows and would book hecklina via room. she was one of the most amazing people i have met in the city of san francisco and what struck me post about her was just how gracious her spirit was and full of love and life she was. she never lost-even as her prominence rose and rose and she was already a legend by the time i met her but as prominence rose and she became one of the icons of san francisco drag community and our community night life community as a whole, she never lost who she was. she was incredibly down to earth and gracious, one of the people when she talked to anyone they felt they were the only person, which is just such a gift and she was so serious about it and she was so funny, and she was so raunchy and never

lost that side of her, even right up to this weekday hosting she did and before. she never apologized and wasn't afraid to say what a lot of people are always thinking and she is willing to say it. her heart was just amazing and the other thing i think your can't mention without talking about hecklina is how much a professional she was. so well prepared, so quick on her feet, and so truly a host or hostess of the situation she was in and i'm sure it seemed effortless but know behind the scenes the amount of work to hone the craft and make it amazing. we go to see golden girls and my wife starlted watching golden girls beginning to end every episode in a row,

which i highly recommend. she kept saying you have no idea how much hecklina nails dorothy and you think she is just impersonating dorthy but you realize incredible amount of work that went behind it and know hecklina changed san francisco for the better and truly representative of all most everything i love for the city. it is a place people can come to be themselves and celebrated rather then shamed or told called horrible names or all the things that happened outside san francisco that we are so blessed to have and i'll always remember her and she certainly changed me so here is to hecklina and she will be sorely missed. any comments? public? >> no public comments for this item.

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