>> april 18, 2023 hybrid in person and virtual meeting of san francisco entertainment commission. my name is ben bleiman the commission president. >> we like to start the meeting with the 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. this meeting

is held in hybrid format broadcast live on sfgovtv. using meeting id 86677 faiv 37204. we welcome to the public participation. there will be a opportunity for public comment at the beginning and comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. each comment is limited to 3 minutes. those attending remotely the commission will hear up to [speaker speaking too fast]

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zoom. commissioners and staff aret noallowed to respond to comment or questions during public comment. thank you sfgovtv and media service. >> thank you. let's do roll call. [roll call] >> commissioner perez is excused. >> thank you. the next item is 2, which is general public comment. comments on items not listed on the agenda today. >> there are no general public comments. >> alright. we'll close public comment and the next item is 3, approval of the minutes for april 4, 2023 commission meeting. do we have a motion? >> move to approve.

>> second. >> any public comment on the approval of the minutes? >> no public comment on this item. >> we can vote. [roll call] >> the minutes have been approved and next item is 4 which is report from director weiland. >> thank you. good evening commissioners. i'm enjoying the silly vibes i'm getting from all you. i think we needed a light-hearted evening and thank you to spring time for being here. so, it is official our 13th annual summit returns in person on monday june 5. we are really excited for anybody that is going to watch this later on and fiend out from here however we did send out a news letter friday with all this information. we will be returning to the same

location at 49 south van ness in the ground floor conference center and more information about the announcement is in your google folder. this year we are going to continue our long-standing tradition of focusing on addressing the issues facing our industry and discussing ways in which the city and the industry can work together toward long-term recovery. staff is working really hard now on finalizing the summit agenda. we'll share the final program and speaker line up in the coming weeks, but in the mean fime i want to give you a few highlights here of our presentation topics that we are considering. first off, we are looking at having a section in which we will have individual speakers electeds are invited for that. we will likely have a presentation from a department head around downtown recovry. we will also have a presentation on

economic recovery for small businesses with highlights around downtown recovery. we are still building the panel out, but we are likely going to be featuring staff from oewd, office of small business, small business owners as well as downtown advocates. the conversation would address the city's recovery goals and strategy and how this work will support night life and entertainment here in the city. our second panel will be around public safety, so we want to provide our permit holders with a little bit more solution oriented tools and discussion on some measures that folks can take to insure safety at their business or at their events, so the goals of this panel would be addressing these strategies with our permit holders so they can have more agency over their own business public safety

and also learn ways in which they can work better with sfpd. president bleiman will moderating the panel and working with commissioner falzon to help with the panel and identify representative from sfpd to join the conversation and invited commissioner wong to be a panelist so she can provide a insurance perspective and are absolutely be including venue owners and managers in this conversation as well. probably one, maybe two as well as representative from a local security companyism in addition to these presentations, new this year will be a resource fair thin lobby in which we'll host our first hour of the summit with city departments tabling, so we think that will be a new great new addition in which folks can meet their other city departments, folks that may have been

working in the permit center for example, and it will be a great who's who. beyond that we are going to do a happy hour afterwards which is long standing tudition rchl we are tradition. we are open to ideas. hopefully somewhere in walking distance from here and we like to go to places that do not have entertainment permits and we don't need to get into the reasons for that right now, but if you have any ideas, please let me know and we'll keep you posted in the coming weeks as we finalize the agenda and if you have issues, concerns, questions, feedback, please let me know directly and i will share those with our commissioner working group and staff. outside the summit i want to highlight a couple events coming up here in the city that we are proud to

recognize. 420is two days away. besides international day of celebrating all things cannabis related i want to make sure you are aware of the fact the city is offering a week long cannabis celebration called evergreen sf. this is the second year. it is happening now, april 16-24 and celebrating the cannabis industry and culture with diverse array of cannabis themed activities and experiences so excited to see the initiative continue to grow and further deepen the local cannabis industry connections to entertainment and night life. for those watching or attending if you want more information visit evergreensan francisco.org. i wanted to let you know about make music day. this is returning to san francisco this year. it was based on the paris events and

occurring june 21, which is the date that it occurs globally, so this is community lead celebration here in san francisco of live music that wells come all musicians, businesses, homes and anyone who loves music to join in the festivities for the day. performances will take place across the city and public and private spaces such as store front businesses, community centers, libraries, restaurants, parklets and even backyards and people front steps. so, musicians and businesses can sign up to participate at makemusicidate.org/san francisco and we hope that you check it out on june 21. commissioners, let me know if you have questions about these updates. okay. >> no questions for me. any

public comment on the director's report? >> no public comment on this item. >> close public comment and move on to the next agenda item which is number 5, which is report from deputy director azevedo. >> thanks president bleiman. we received 51, 311 complaints. i have a brief update but let me know if you have questions and also want to let you know moving forward senior inspector (indiscernible) will give the enforcement report. he is managing enforcement tracking spreadsheet and will daa great job in the new role he is taking on. the first update for you tonight is about club (indiscernible) located at 543 divisadero on april 1, 12 a.m. received 311 complaint about sound being too loud. responded at 1 a.m. and took a sound measurement and it showed they operating 10dba allowable the sound limit. we

issued citation for the permit violation. i do want to note the club completed major improvements to mitigate sound leakage issue s. inspector scheduled a new sound test on thursday of this week to retest their sound limit to see if we are able to give them a higher internal sound limit. next update is hotel via located 138 king street. they hold a llp permit for the outdoor roof top. april 1, 4:30 received 311 complaent about the roof top event taking place. responded at 535 p.m. and took a sound measurement which showed operating above the sound limit. issued a nov for the permit violation but i want to note hotel via manager and sound engine eroos have beenamicable with inspectors. they are always trying to make a good faith effort to follow the permit conditions. during this visit however it

was aapparent the crowd noise was impacting the sound measurement it was clear the volume of the music exceeded the sound limit so the sound engineer worked with staff to bring into compliance and management let us know they become more strict with who they are booking for events letting the performers know in advance they have a llp and there are conditions they must agree to and adhere before they hire them to perform. the next update is marios 1811 haight street holds a jam permit and april 7 received a complaint stating the (indiscernible) responded at 930 p.m. and upon arrival observed the music was exceeded ambiant sound levels 50 feet from the property lane. after inspector spoke with the

bartender the bartender turned off the outdoor speakers since nobody was outside anyway and inspector saw dj setting up to perform inside the business but they dopet hold a permit for indoor entertainment. issued a notice of violation and been in touch with the owner about the violations. the owner purchased a new phone set up shortly and planning to apply for a llp permit to cover inside and out door amplified sound once they have the legislative shared spaces perm. the last update is about (indiscernible) located 10 south van ness that has taken one time event permits from the office when they host entertainment but applied for a llp permit for indoor and outdoor spaces. on april 1, received four, 311 complaints for excessive noise on the roof top.

responded to the complaint that day at 4:30 and she did observe quite a heavy bass presence. she found a manager and they explained the entertainment was over by the time she arrived, but in response senior inspector scheduled a sound test on tuesday april 25 to set a limit for the outdoor space. we are hoping that there will be no issues moving forward. let me know if you have questions please. >> i see it is roof top season. >> i knew you would see that. [laughter] >> i'm just noting that. as more roof tops are a lot more congenial when not pouring rain and we get more complaints, so if you are listening and you run a roof top bar,

keep a eye on your sound levels please. >> that could be a cute news letter item. we know the weather is nice, remember your sound limit. >> i feel this is a greatest hits of the roof tops between (indiscernible) and jones and (indiscernible) often in front of us are getting complaints called on them, so hopefully they will keep their noise levels within compliance. >> i just wanted to say some thanks and appreciation to entertainment commission staff for indulgeing me in letting me do a ride along with the inspectors of the entertainment commission and i specifically want to thank the

inspectors. inspectors for facilitating the ride along and mike for letting me ride along with them as this past saturday. it was a really good experience i think for me to get appreciation of what it is like to be a inspector. it is a very detail orient ed role and one that requires a lot of nuance and finesse navigating relationships. it was shared with me sometimes this is no one wants to ever see us when we show up, and i can appreciate that having worked on that side of this industry for such a long time, and i think it is important we have the inspectors we do who are so

adepth at building these relationships and building this trust and understanding that component of it, because this entity allows not to just be a regulatory entity but one that is supportive and think they are excellent ambassadors in conveying that. that we are here to support them and will work with all businesses in making sure they are in compliance and assessing their needs in terms of sound limitations and so forth. i really want to say thank you so much for putting up with me and riding in the car. it was really fun. i just wanted to say thank you. >> thank you. that makes me really happy and i encourage any commissioner who wants to go out with the inspectors, we can set that up. >> highly recommend it. >> we have to do a ride along

or go out with the inspectors on a night off? >> eel i'll go for that. [laughter] >> i'll join you for either. >> anymore questions? thank you. i dont have any. any public comment on this agenda item? >> no public comment on this item. >> alright. we'll move along to number 6, which is laering and possible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commission. deputy director is up. >> thanks. we have two limited live performance permit applications on consent this evening both for indoor entertainment. set internal sound limit for both premises and there was no opposition from any applicants or added conditions from sfpd so the recommendation is to approve both agenda items with staff

recommendation listed below. >> any public comment on the consent agenda? >> no public comment. >> close public comment. questions? motions? >> i move consent calendar. >> second. >> alright. we can vote. >> president bleiman. >> aye. >> vice president >> aye. >> commissioner falzon >> aye. commissioner torres. >> aye. >> commissioner wong. >> aye. >> consent calendar is approved and on to the first permit application. >> next is for our very first fixed placed amplified sound permit. this permit application is for proposition chicken restaurant 3465 california street. proposition chicken held a jam

permit since october 2021 and now applying for the permit to continue hosting outdoor amplified sound for diners during business hours. they were limited to 6 hours amplified sound per day between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. and the reason they are on regular agenda is because under the permit they are requesting 10 hours, 11 a.m. to 9 a.m. the owner distributed outreach letter to the surrounder commercial neighbors and there was no opposition to the permit. sfpd richmond stations did not have added conditions and here to speak is one of the owners, max. yep. >> i like to thank the panel for your time. kaitlyn, thank you so much for all your help, especially in the transition from my partner

elizabeth who just had her second child. all we are try toog do is extend the hours in which we can play soft ambiant music for the two outdoor tables to cover the entire operating hours of business. that is pretty much it. (indiscernible) we dont have a roof top bar. [laughter] >> just want to say i'm a huge fan of proposition chicken and i was so sad when you moved from your old location out to california street because i was no longer within the delivery range, but sometimes still figure how to make it work. i was a regular at southpaw and followed the proposition chicken and ordered a lot of proposition chicken over the last 3 years, so thank you. and i highly recommend

the fried chicken salad. congratulations on being our first fpass perm applicant. >> thank you. thanks for putting all that in the record. i appreciate it. >> very welcome. happy to talk at length how much i love proposition chicken. [laughter] >> i was going to say i got really hungry from the announcement, so sad there is no chicken. [laughter] >> if i knew i was going to get showered in compliments. maybe next time i have a tough day i'll swing by- >> we are here every first and third tuesday. >> noted. >> we can place a order and pay for it and you can watch us live. >> only if you have absolutely no life. >> we do have to pay for it. i don't have questions. any further- >> no concerns here.

>> this is not crazy so you can have a seat. >> thank you. >> any public comment on this agenda item? >> no public comment on this item. >> close public comment. further questions, comments, motions? >> i do want to point out, we haven't had a nice little power point presentation in a while, can we make sure that comes back and- >> for what? >> (indiscernible) >> she likes history. >> everyone is encouraged and invited to do it. >> we miss it. it has been a long time. >> we had a couple. [multiple speakers] >> alright. >> at the next hearing i guarantee you will see some presentations. i do think we should get samples of our favorite so it won't be such a daunting- >> we can play in the

background. does anybody want a motion on this specific item? >> i like to move approval. >> seconded. >> we can vote. >> president bleiman. >> aye. >> vice president. >> aye. >> commissioner falzon. >> aye. >> commissioner thomas. >> aye. >> commissioner torres >> aye. >> commissioner wong. >> aye. >> congratulations. the first f pass is official! exciting. the next is second and final permit application and believe inspector rice doing this? virtually. >> yes, can everyone hear me? >> yes. >> good evening. dylan rice senior panelist. i will permit on one time outdoor permit with generation for sf jazz gala. hosting live jazz and dj in the

parking lot at 110 franklin street from 5:30 to 11 p.m. the reason they are on the regular agenda is because the outdoor entertainment goes after 10 p.m. and there is no precedent for that event. the applicant conducted neighborhood outreach to effected neighbors which you will see in the folder and there is no opposition to the permit. sfpd northern station did not respond with recommendations within the response window and assume they have no issue with the permit. staff is recommending approval with conditions listed in your memo. here to speak tonight on behalf of the event is audrey joseph. i will bring her in in just a minute on zoom. >> audrey, where are you? >> stand by- >> i can impersonate

her. >> audrey, please unmute yourself. we also want to see your face. thank you. >> hi. so, hi, everybody. nice to see you all. >> there she is. >> i'll be at the next meeting because maggie invited me in may. so, i am here to represent sf jazz. this is their 10th anniversary gala. they took a big hit during the pandemic. this is is a huge fund raiser for them. their building cannot accommodate all the people that wanted to come, so we have a parking lot. the parking lot has residential around it. it is mostly businesses. it is right behind the consurtorry. they start at a dinner 5:30 to 8:30 and there will be a student jazz

ensemble playing ambiant jazz music during dinner and some people talking. it is the retirement of their founder and artistic director, randal, so he'll be talking, and then they will leave and there will be a change over of furniture. i don't know why, but there will be. there will be like-then they are all going to go into the building for a concert, and then they are coming back to the tent for like an after-party, which is going to be exactly one hour long between 10 and 11 if they even come back in my opinion and there will be a jazz dj at that point. the attendance will be approximately 275 people in the tent. and that's it.

i'm here to answer any questions. >> is the event sold out? >> the event is sold out! >> glad i know you. [laughter] congratulations. >> audrey, welcome back. >> why, thank you. (indiscernible) i'm in palm springs. i will be town on your may 2 meeting so i'll come by and see you in person. >> when dylan announced your name, i do have to say it was like the voice of god introducing his right hand, because audrey joseph is a legend cht >> stop! >> you want to describe the speaker system for all of us? [laughter] >> (indiscernible) is providing a smallish speaker system. i do believe

it is couple speakers hung from the rafters of the tent facing downward, and it is small. i don't have the specks on it, but i'm sure it is not bigger then a self-powered speaker. >> there you have it. >> two of them. there is also a microphone. the jazz ensemble is not-they are acoustic, accept for the guitar which will have a amp. >> great. thank you. >> it sounds wonderful. i have to say, i was at the 2013 event and they had the most yellow tulips i have seen in my life. there was a pergola, a very grand one and there is no-it was the best pergola ever. i sound very shallow saying it, but it was such a beautiful celebration and sure this 10 year anniversary is not going

to disappoint. >> you know, i don't know how many other of you are on the commission at the time, but when sf jazz first opened its doors jocelyn and i went over there and they did a new orleans thing in the street with jazz musicians and horns and it was amazing and this is my second gig with them and it is amazing to work with these people and for the gala they pull out all the stops, so everything is- (indiscernible) [laughter] >> any further questions for audrey? hi, audrey? >> it is nice to see you. >> great to see you audrey. >> great seeing you all! nice to see you dave. >> great to see you. you look way better then i do.

y i was going to say palm springs has been very kind to you. you look fantastic. >> i have about at the computer all day. >> sure she just came from cochela. >> for those-can you guys see me? >> yeah! [multiple speakers] >> he wont be with me may 2, so think the opportunity arose. >> alright. i don't think we have anymore questions. it sounds buttoned up to me. any public comment on this item? >> no public comment on this item. >> we'll close public comment. anybody want to entertain a motion >> i move to approve this with staff recommendations. >> i second. >> alright. we can

vote. [roll call] >> thank you all very much. >> you did it audrey. [laughter] >> alright. we'll be in touch. >> see you guys in a couple weeks. >> stay safe. >> bye bye. >> alright. the next item is number 7, which is discussion and possible action to amend the permit conditions of the limited live performance permit for adobe books 3130 24 street in san francisco at request of the commission. i think deputy director is going to lead us through this. >> thank you. adobe books who holds a llp permit last appeared before you all at the hearing february 21. at that hearing there was discussion about imposing

security relating conditions on the llp permit due to violent incident that occurred outside it business january 13 this year. rather then imposing staffition cans you voted to have the permit holder submit security plan that was more in line with their business model. after a few iterations of a security plan that were sent between myself and the business they determined a static security plan won't work with their ever changing programming. instead they worked with myself and director weiland to come up with practical security related conditions both enforceable and applicable to events. i also want to mention that the business held a community meeting with nearby neighbors as well as legislative aid santiago from supervisor ronen's office april 3 and permit holder and santiago reported the meeting went well and the neighbors voiced positive feedback. staff recommendation you will see 4 froposed conditions to add to the llp permit.

notably we determined adobe books only needs a security guard during a special event which we define as any events with expected attendance of 49 or more guests. the permit holder heather is not able to join this evening but someone is here on her behalf so if you have questions for her or myself or director weiland please let us know, otherwise the staff recommended conditions are listed for you on the memo. >> would you mind reading the staff conditions for us? >> sure thing. number one, special event defined as any event with expected attendance of 49 or more guest over the course of the event. two, permit holders shald send the entertainment commission a monthly calendar of special events at least one week prior to the start of each month to entertainment.enforceme nt@sfgov. org. if they special events notify the entertainment commission of the change by e-mail

at least 72 hours prior to any additional event. four, permit holder shall have one security person present during all special events. and five, security or volunteer staff monitor attendedance during all special events not to exceed the location 49 person capacity at any time. >> alright. is there any public comment on this agenda item before we discuss? >> no public comment on this item. >> alright. i'll open by saying that deputy director azevedo and director weiland spnt incredible amount of time working with adobe on this and times it was challenging but great they all came to a mutually agreed upon way to insure safety at that establishment if they have larger events, and i just want to reiterate and correct if i'm

wrong, but the applicant is not not able to attend tonight, but e-mailed to say they are 100 percent in support of the conditions- >> yes. enthusiastically agree upon the conditions and there is someoneprint -present if you have questions. >> got it. questions? >> just thank you to the staff entertainment commission staff and adobe and supervisor ronen's office and everyone who helped work on this. glad we were able to come up with something that given the business model is not the usual one that comes in front of us, you were able to figure out something that worked so thank you. >> yeah. thanks to everyone. appreciate and acknowledge the work that went into this. i are do have a couple questions. one is, how they would gauge when the special event is spthed to have 49 or more guests if we talk through that

at all, and secondly, i want to confirm their insurance policy contemplates live entertainment. maybe if that could be rolled into any type of-i don't know if that is out of our jurisdiction but it does worry me. >> did you want to pose that question to staff? >> i don't know- >>b i believe the name is siena. it doesn't- >> there is someone, i castillo, don't know if that is the representative but if they want to raise their hand their can. looks like they are--raising their hand. >> it appears there is not representation from the business this evening. we did discuss how they would be gauging the 49 person capacity. we had the question

ourselves. they indicated they would be using event bright or type of rsvp service to gauge how many guests they can anticipate. they said they have a understanding how many people they expect at the events and which events bring out a larger audience then others and of course they can't speak to the insurance question. >> okay. that would have been nice if they had a representative here. i do want to note you all are at liberty to take action without attendance. >> can i understand what is going on, if they dont have insurance how does that effect our permit? is that on them to have insurance? >> it is on them to have insurance, yeah. >> those are two separate items. >> i think it is more informational. >> got it. >> i want to echo

commissioner thomas's-i thank you to staff for seeing this through. i was a little more nuanced then most of these, but also this is a legacy business in the mission as i said when they were first before us i used to live around the corner for them and they are a integral part of 24 street so i'm happy there is a way for them to move forward. i do share commissioner wong's concerns about the-i think that is a valid question to raise in terms of insurance, but that is maybe not necessarily under our purview, but i hope that if there are representatives from adobe books listening that they could look into that and make sure they are taken care of because that is a very important component of this. >> alright. did we have

motions yet? i don't think we did. anybody want to motion? >> approve with conditions proposed by staff. >> second. >> alright. we can vote. >> president bleiman. >> aye. >> vice president. >> aye. >> commissioner falzon >> aye. >> commissioner thomas >> aye. >> commissioner torres >> aye. >> commissioner wong. >> aye. >> we approvered that. that is number 7, and last item is number 8, commissioner comments and questions. who wants to go first? leave to the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake today. worth mentioning. >> wow!

>> (indiscernible) >> hard to wake up at 3 a.m. >> no earthquake. >> i like to invite everybody to polk street this saturday. we have a outdoor music festival that goes from 12 to 6 with incredible acts, including anna chris tina from zep rela who hinted the rest of the members will be joining her. i will mention they are a all female zeppelin cover band that is unbelievable. we also have a blue grass band named mr. sun only fortunate to get to play for us (indiscernible) they are unbelievable and finally, we have others, but most excited personally for martin luther mccoy a sf jazz fellow who will be playing with his funk ensemble

which includes members of prince's band and funk and soul drummers. in the (indiscernible) bob's doughnuts. we got them a accordion player which i think is appropriate. every bar and restaurant on polk between california and broadway will have show that night. every now is free to the public and so come on by. partnered with aquarium of the bay for earth day so will have a family friendly interactive aquarium stuff they will be doing during it day. should be really cool, really fun, please come. going to be exciting. anything else? >> happy belated 415 day. >> belated 415.

evergreen sf is here. any public comment on the final agenda item? >> no public comment on this item. >> alright, then we will adjourn this hearing at 615 p.m. thank you everybody. [meeting adjourned]

>> 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. ♪♪ >> san francisco! ♪♪

>> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by

men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all

the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot

of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into that outside of the museum into

>> i am iris long. we are a family business that started in san francisco chinatown by my parents who started the business in the mid 1980s. today we follow the same footsteps of my parents. we source the teas by the harvest season and style of crafting and the specific variety. we specialize in premium tea.

today i still visit many of the farms we work with multigenerational farms that produce premium teas with its own natural flavors. it is very much like grapes for wine. what we do is more specialized, but it is more natural. growing up in san francisco i used to come and help my parents after school whether in middle school or high school and throughout college. i went to san francisco state university. i did stay home and i helped my parents work throughout the summers to learn what it is that makes our community so special. after graduating i worked for an investment bank in hong kong for a few years before returning when my dad said he was

retiring. he passed away a few years ago. after taking over the business we made this a little more accessible for visitors as well as residents of san francisco to visit. many of our teas were traditionally labeled only in chinese for the older generation. today of our tea drinkkers are quite young. it is easy to look on the website to view all of our products and fun to come in and look at the different varieties. they are able to explore what we source, premium teas from the providence and the delicious flavors. san francisco is a beautiful city to me as well as many of the residents and businesses here in chinatown. it is great for tourists to

visit apsee how our community thrived through the years. this retail location is open daily. we have minimal hours because of our small team during covid. we do welcome visitors to come in and browse through our products. also, visit us online. we have minimal hours. it is nice to set up viewings of these products here.

our city our home committee it is friday, april 14, 2023. start roll. why member catalano. >> here. >> cunningham-denning absent. >> vice chair d'antonio. absent. >> member friedenbach. >> present. >> chair williams. >> present we don't have quorum. and will not be able to take votes at this time yoochl thank you very much. we'll start with the land acknowledgment. we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland