corporations we need more women like that and they're out there. >> we get have to get to help them. >> i five hybrid in-person and virtual meeting of the san francisco entertainment commission. my name is zin wang and i'm the commission's vice president. >> we will start with announcements we'd like to start the meeting with the land acknowledgment we are the san francisco entertainment commission and acknowledge that we are on the unceded we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramakrishna loney who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions the raw

material only 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 elders and relatives of the romantic community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. this meeting is being held in hybrid format with the meeting occurring in person in city hall room for one six broadcast live on tv and available to view on zoom or listen to by calling 16699006833 using meeting id 89837844725. we welcome the public's participation during public comment periods there will be an opportunity for public comment at the beginning of the meeting and there will be an opportunity to comment on each

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is also on her way and president bowman is excused. >> all right. the next item on the agenda is agenda item number two general public comment and here comes commissioner thomas. >> are there any public comments for items not listed on the agenda? no public comment. all right. seeing none public comment is closed. next item on the agenda is item number three approval of the minutes for the february fourth ,2024 commission meeting. do we have a motion on this motion to approve the minutes of the last meeting? >> second, any public comments on the minutes? >> no public comment. all right. >> public comment is now closed. commission secretary, please take a vote.

>> vice president wong i. commissioner davis i. commissioner perez i. commissioner podio. i. commissioner salander is still not here yet and commissioner thomas i. >> all right. meeting minutes have been approved. next item is agenda item number four report from the executive director. >> good evening, vice president wong. good evening, commissioners. i would like to share the beginning of my executive director report with ben van houten from the office of economic and workforce development who is here with us this evening and is going to provide a little feedback around s.f. music week and its first week ever. let that occur last week or first year ever. we're really excited to share about this so thanks for joining us. >> thank you. thank you, director weiland. good evening, commissioners. nice to see you all again.

you know, we're still i think, you know, thinking about outcomes and lessons learned from music week. but you know, having just concluded on sunday, i think we really feel very positive that it was a really successful effort all week long at a number of the convenings that i attended. folks were saying oh when can we do this again? we should do this more often which i feel like is a a good indicator of the success of this sort of you know, first year first year effort. we said that, you know, from a city perspective the kickoff event at empire studios, the industry summit on friday, the the happy hour event monday night at harlem records and then artists development day at music city, san francisco where they sort of flagship public facing offerings that were all really great in their own respective ways. it was great to have the mayor speak at the summit and then also attend the happy

hour. a lot of great, great conversations throughout the week. the kickoff event you can see that conversation about the history of hip hop in the bay area with gazi and dan the automator. it's entirely on youtube and it's really stellar as it both a conversation about sort of the history of hip hop in the bay area but also about what motivates the independent spirit and why people do creative work music work here and why it's important to them in addition to those events was really fortunate to facilitate a meeting that the san francisco venue coalition held in city hall on monday afternoon. the commissioner davis thank you for being a part of that conversation of venue owners really trying to take the temperature of where the venue landscape is right now coming out of the pandemic. and one of the strengths one of the challenges where there opportunity is you know, like the other convenings that i spoke about, you know, i think there was a really collaborative positive spirit

that all the venues brought to it and certainly a lot of good ideas that we were hoping to continue those sorts of conversations with venues in a group like that in the future. so looking forward to to doing that as well. >> a number of great partner events throughout the week i was able to attend some of them was not able to attend all of them. i know that commissioner schlanger was on a panel at iheart radio about filipinos and event promotion that i heard report was a really great another really great conversation. but but yeah so really just that appreciative of all the support and getting the word out about music week thanks to our partners at that noise pop and plant agency for truly tireless efforts to make it happen and yeah hopefully it's the start of more work to support our local music ecosystem from venues to studios to labels and you know there's clearly a lot of folks

who are doing very creative work and that are really fired up about being part of solutions to sustain and grow that ecosystem. and thank you to commissioner perez for being there all day on friday and and and to so many folks from the team. >> yeah, happy to field any questions if it makes sense or come back at a later date once we've had a little bit more time to wrap our head around some of the some of the learnings. >> anyone have any questions for ben? >> i have a question just a comment. just congratulations. thank you so much for calling on this amazing event yet disallowed great dialog between performing arts venue operators and promoters from the summit that i went to. so congratulations i'm looking forward to working with you on future events. >> thank you. >> fabulous. anything else? well we are very proud of you and your colleagues in iwd and noise pop for standing us up and for all of the partnership that went into it and all of the venues that participated

and i for 1 a.m. really excited to be a part of all of the future events related to this work. >> so congratulations. thank you. thanks for coming. sure. >> a couple more updates for you within the directors report item. i just wanted to share a reminder with everybody as a save the date for our annual nightlife and entertainment summit on may 12th and this is occurring at 49 south fan us so not quite as fun of a venue as swedish american cafe du nord however we're really looking forward to it. we started building out our panels and our executive leadership group all share just a little bit again about what we're looking out for that day . so the event will run from 12 to 4. we'll have a resource fair again and the lobby which we're looking to expand a little bit this year working with

workforce team at iwd potentially making it a little bit more of a job fair tbd on that but that's something that mission secretary liang is working on right now and beyond that we'll have presentations and sessions from 1 to 4. so we're trimming down the summit hours just a little bit this year we'll still have our beginning portion where you'll hear from executive leadership. now we are inviting mayor lurie and then will go into two different panels. the first panel discussion that will have is where the did all the customers go and how do we get them back? so that is our focus for that session. we have ideas on panelists. we started to reach out to some commissioners for feedback around that. if anything jumps to mind for folks that you might want to have as a part of that, please let us know we are inviting

commissioner slander to be on that panel to represent an event promoter who's really successful in getting folks out to events. so we're going to have a perspective from a venue as well and that's undecided so far. we also want to invite somebody who might be representative of gen z potentially an influencer or somebody who can share a little bit more wisdom on what might get the younger generations out and enjoying my life here in san francisco. we'll also be inviting somebody from s.f. travel. so if you have any ideas and you want to chime in on that please reach out to me directly and then the second panel is going to be a town hall. and so that's really going to be leadership myself included president and vice president wong i will be inviting a representative from the mayor's office to be on that panel where folks can ask us

questions directly from the audience. we really felt like from the last couple of years the feedback that we've received from folks that have attended our summit that that's something that might be lacking is a little bit more engaged meant back and forth with folks in the audience and we want to provide an opportunity for that. in addition to that as ben mentioned just last week we hosted a roundtable which commissioner davis was a part of where we were able to have some of that dialog back and forth. that's something that we want to continue to participate in as well so that we can foster more of that communication with our music venues or our event promoters. so if you have any ideas for the summit and you want to reach out please let us know it is getting pretty cooked at this point we all are. >> we are also trying to figure out our happy hour venue so just noting that for everybody if there's an idea of someplace

local to hear that you want to pitch to me, please let me know. we cannot go to permitted venues so that definitely limits us quite a bit which is a good thing in our world that so many places have permits finally and i'll take questions at the end on these two items i just wanted to update you all on an appeal. so at our previous hearing that you i can't remember which of you were in attendance at we heard habib lounge for their place of entertainment and extended hours premises permits and they did appeal the commission's decision on that determination and just as a reminder they were only given a conditional grant of those permits that evening because they still had to complete required inspections and a couple other things they appealed the decision and last wednesday deputy director as a veto represent and the entertainment commission at the

board of appeals hearing and she won which won on behalf of the entertainment commission so upheld the decision that you made. so we wanted to let you all know about that and just a little more details about that . you all had made a decision to impose a 2 a.m. cutoff time for indoor entertainment rather than the applicant's 3:30 a.m. requested and time just and of note for you all the business owner did not attend the hearing but his representative the architect who was here at this hearing was present at the hearing and spoke on behalf of the venue overall the hearing went well as you can hear deputy director as a veto won that. but just an update for you all on some of the things that they're still missing in order to obtain those permits. the business has not completed their dba and fire inspections and they still have other outstanding paperwork. they need to submit so that we

can issue those permits. so that's still outstanding. and we'll also just add that the last sound complaint we received about the business was on january 26th and we had inspectors go by during the late night shift at 3 a.m. the following weekend on february 2nd and the business was closed . so if you have any questions about either our summit or the appeal, let me know. >> all right. thank you for the update. executive director any public comments on that report or any comments from my fellow commissioners? >> i just have a comment. just wanted to thank the staff, thank caitlin, thank maggie. that was i watched the appeal. i watched every minute of it and it was very professionally done and i know that you could tell a lot of preparation went in on that many hours of preparation. so thank you for representing us professionally in front of that appeals board. thank you. any public comments?

all right. >> seeing them there's none. thank you. public comment is now closed. >> next item is agenda item number five report from the senior inspector. thank you. good evening, commissioners. we have received 91 311 complaints since our last commission hearing on february fourth. i have a few updates below. please let me know if you have any questions. my first update is about heron arts located at seven heron street who does not hold any permits from our office on saturday february 15th at 12:45 a.m.. inspector young rice responding to a complaint submitted earlier that evening on friday february 14th at 10:45 p.m.. upon arrival he spoke with management and their sound engineer who claimed that the music was not coming from a deejay and denied the inspector entry into the business. after inspector yung rice explained what constitutes a deejay. he noted that management ultimately agreed that a deejay

was performing inside and they were able to lower internal volumes. management also noticed that that entertainment was scheduled to end at 4 a.m.. e c staff has have received 6311 complaints starting in june of 2024 resulting in several visits by e c inspectors where they were able to provide onsite education to management on the necessity for permitting when hosting entertainment. management also corresponded with via email. where do you see staff about permitting requirements as such? heron arts was issued a notice of violation on february 20th for operating entertainment without a permit. since the issuance the business owner has been in touch with e c staff acknowledging that they will apply for one time permits for their occasional entertainment and have also expressed great interest in being put in touch with their neighbors directly. i emailed the neighbor last week to see if they were comfortable with me sharing their contact information with

heron arts and i'm still awaiting a reply. my next update is about music city located at 1355 bush street who holds a poem with our office on friday february 14th at 9:05 p.m.. inspector young rice responded to a complaint submitted earlier that evening at 6:05 p.m.. when he arrived he noted that the front door was closed but there was outdoor prerecorded music in operation. >> inside he took a non-compliant sound measurement of the band at 92.8 db a and 103.5 dbc while the approved sound limit is 90 dba and 98 dbc inspector young i spoke with the manager and sound engineer about the reason for his visit and explained that outdoor amplified sound is not currently included on music city's popi permit. additionally, he reeducated the owner and sound engineer how to monitor internal volumes to ensure compliance with the approved sound limit. on february 20th music city was issued a notice of violation

for having unpermitted outdoor amplified sound and exceeding their allowable sound limit. my next update is about barbie's located at 4541 mission street who does not hold a permit with our office? on friday february 7th we received a311 sound complaint about barbies at 8 p.m.. inspector young writes responded quickly at 8:30 p.m. and upon arrival he noted that the front door was open and the internal sound curtain was partially closed and the music from the bar was quite loud and could be heard outside. inside inspector young i saw a dj performing. he noted in his report that he noticed the owner have the dj stop when he noticed the inspector entered the business. the business has been educated on permitting requirements in person and through email correspondence. barbie's was issued a citation on february 11th for hosting entertainment without a permit from our office. the business has since applied for a one time permit. >> my next update is about

rampant bottle and bar located at 3516 balboa street who does not host entertainment or hold any permits from our office. since june 2024 we have received 54311 complaints about the business. of the five submitted complaints, inspectors have responded in real time on three occasions and once retroactively in response to two consecutive complaints. during these four visits the business was found to be compliant as they do not host any indoor entertainment or outdoor amplified sound. namely the complaints we are receiving are about regular operations and pantry patron noise before 10 p.m. when the business closes. additionally management has informed inspectors that on one recent occasion the complainant harassed the business's staff and patrons and refused to leave the premises until as a pd was called. management also informed inspectors that s.f. pd has visited the business twice and since your door d prioritized pd response based on the lack

of evidence that they were doing anything wrong. ac staff are asking for your guidance tonight and d prioritizing complaint response the business does not as the business does not need a permit from our office at this time. >> thank you. all right. thank you. >> commissioner's comments. >> so it sounds like our combined all-star weekend and lunar new year managed okay without too many complaints. so congratulations everyone. >> but that said, thank you for what still was a pretty high volume of considering a very busy weekend a very busy weekend. >> i think low is hanging fruit here. the rampant bar. it's it's it's pretty easy to provide guidance to deprioritized since it doesn't

sound like they're out of compliance and they don't need a permit. >> would you all agree with that? yes. yes. >> yes. okay. if you like a motion maybe or do we need a motion for that? >> yes. okay. yep. >> okay. motions i'd like to make a motion to direct our inspectors to prioritize responding to concerns from the rampant rampant bottle and bar. >> second second. that's fine. okay. um. vice president wong i. commissioner davis. all right. commissioner perez. hi. commissioner poggioli. i. commissioner salander. and commissioner thomas. i regarding the other two that really stood out, herren seemed

particularly problematic in that they didn't allow an inspector indoors to inspect. >> is that something they've been educated on? generally, yes. yes. we've had multiple opportunity needs to educate the management and though the complaints are relatively few and far between we have experienced the same thing multiple times and this time i believe deputy director has a veto was able to get them to apply for a permit in the most recent correspondence correct. >> the business owner just agreed to pull one times moving forward. was the response to that a.b.? i do have a problem issuing even when times. for businesses that are going to be hostile to our staff and not allow them to inspect. >> i agree. second, how would you like us

to. can you give us guidance on that for future applications that are submitted in the one time through the one time portal? >> so we would i think what are the options? yeah, i think we might need to get back to you quite honestly and once. dylan you might have a response on that but we would probably have to okay we would probably have to research code just a little bit around denial and grounds for denial. okay. so and that's something that we can administratively do. >> so even if we're not going to deny would like an opportunity to speak to them so that they can under. sure. yeah but the landscape is. yeah, that can be our aim. >> yeah. establishing a protocol for that would i think time and time again i think would be really helpful. >> okay. all right. we'll probably be reporting back to you at our next hearing on that. >> thank you.

yeah, because that wasn't even the only one reported in the in the inspectors report where the inspectors were denied entry. >> mm hmm. it happens, you know, and then we have to go and educate and other ways. >> so that was also the case with barbie's or in in that situation it looks like inspector young rice was allowed in. >> yes, he was allowed in in that instance. i believe what you're referring to is the fact that they once they noticed his presence they ended entertainment operations for which they were cited for. right. >> okay.

>> well, in that instance at least they were cited and it sounds like they're in the process of now getting their implants. okay. >> do we have any public comment on the report from the senior inspector? >> there is none. >> mm hmm. okay. public comment is now closed. >> next item on the agenda is item number six hearing and possible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment commissioner. >> deputy director, would you like to introduce the permit application on the consent agenda? >> thanks. vice president long good evening commissioners. we just have one permit agenda item on consent tonight and it's for an lp permit for bambu restaurant on polk street. there was no opposition for this permit and sf pd northern station had no added concerns so the safaricom's intention is to approve the permit. with the staff recommendations

listed on your memo. >> okay great. thank you. just a quick show of hands is anyone here to give public comment on this item? no. okay. great. okay. okay. in that case public comment or any there's no public comments on this permit application either. >> okay. public comment is closed. >> commissioners, do we have a motion to approve this permit? i move approval of the consent calendar. second. >> okay. vice president wong. hi, commissioner davis. all right. commissioner perez high commissioner podio. i am sure slander. all right. and commissioner thomas i. all right. bamboo restaurant folks your permit application is conditionally granted. please follow up with deputy director as a veto. >> thank you. thank you. >> deputy director, would you

like to introduce the first permit app on the regular agenda? >> the first item on the regular agenda. i'm actually going to request continuance for. it's for an llp permit that i'm working with the applicant on. so i'd like to request continuance please. >> okay. motion i'd like to make a motion to continue the permit for the black feather back to back application. >> second. all right. do we need also to ask for public comment on this? any public comment on this? >> there is none. oh, i'm sorry. >> okay. then this will be continued. >> we have to vote. vice president wong okay i. commissioner davis. all right, mr. perez. high commissioner po jo. all right. commissioner slater. >> all right. commissioner thomas i. >> all right. all right.

second permit application project and communication manager rice. >> would you like to introduce it? yes. thank you. good evening, commissioners. the next item on the regular agenda is a one time outdoor event permit from the mid-market foundation to host basket, a music series that features local musicians playing busking sets on market street between fifth street and eighth street as well as adjacent locations at taylor street and mcallister street. >> the goal of the series is to bring joy and to change the experience on market street by hiring local talent and highlighting small businesses. >> now in its second year basket will feature street performer style performances over nine months from march 10th through december 20th of this year. these curated performances will happen at a dozen locations on the sidewalk and private patios at businesses such as saloon clasico bakery, la cuisine café sam's diner, holey stitch and

others along the market street corridor. >> each set will last two hours and will occur around lunchtime or the end of the day commute. >> the total hours of entertainment are amplified sound will not exceed six hours per day. >> the applicant is requesting the daily hours of 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. so they have more flexibility with scheduling musicians as you'll see in your folder. >> their permit application, their neighborhood outreach letter and map the permission letters from the participating businesses and a copy of their slide deck presentation which mr. ready will be showing shortly. >> the applicant conducted neighborhood outreach and we did not receive any opposition from neighbors for this permit. >> s.f. pd tenderloin station did not respond with any recommendations with the within the response window so we assume they have no concerns with the permit. >> staff are recommending approval with the good neighbor policy and the conditions you

see listed in the memo here to speak with you this evening is rob reddy on behalf of the mid-market foundation. >> thank you. good evening, commissioners and thank you for your consideration and thanks to staff dillon and may in particular. >> we're always hopeful that calming. >> my name is rob reddy and tonight i'm speaking on behalf of the mid-market business association and foundation urging your support for a one time outdoor event permit for a free live music program basket . give me a stick here for me, babe. okay. a work eventually probably. i'll come down there right?

yeah. there's, you know, fun stuff in here. here we go. okay. so mba and f51c6 and c three is collective vision of a safe and clean business setting that fosters a sense of community inclusion and contribution by and for everyone. to that end, our main project is market street arts a neighborhood economic recovery strategy that capitalizes on the area's creative infrastructure while creating community and awareness and building a world class arts and entertainment district in the heart of san francisco. >> we do this by fostering community amongst world-class arts orgs in the area filling vacant spaces with new businesses or pop ups creating signature events and of course marketing all these cool projects and people. tonight we're here for one of those signature events.

basket a free live music program in which we are local artists to play to our sidewalk sets in front of partner businesses like hotel arts, school bakery, the red tail beer and wine bar or mo greens to name a few. all for the joy of passers by or folks sitting and eating at cafes or people who like venerated pop star robin just keep dancing on their own. >> last year's program was incredibly successful. we paid out over $150,000 to local artists directly hired 150 130 different musicians brought customers and good vibes to local businesses, generated positive press coverage for the neighborhood and supplied 550 hours of free live music to the general public. here's some photos you can see of just kind of what it looks like. it's exactly what it sounds like really excellent san francisco bay area musicians playing free live music of all different stripes for anyone who wants to hear it

. with those results we humbly ask that the commission once again approve a one time outdoor entertainment permit for busking. thank you so much and i yield my time to thank you rob and thank you for doing this good work just hearing you talk about the mission of building a world class arts and entertainment district, i mean we could not be more aligned obviously. >> yeah. >> commissioners, any comments ? this looks like a fantastic project an area that needs revitalization and also just getting the money right to the artists of it. yeah, incredible stuff. >> oh yeah. also congratulations. i remember you guys coming last year so this was really exciting. so you say you expanded the programing to is it more venues and more or is it longer footprint?

>> i think we added a couple of addresses to this year's permit of folks who expressed interest that might actually not be true. it might just be about the same but it's still focused. the partner businesses are you know there's a couple of hotels, there's a couple of cafes. there's the red two oh yeah the red tail beer wine bar which is a new business as of september of 2020 four which we helped to open. >> holistic is part of that. that's another new business on market street which we helped open. namely filling vacant vacant spaces with new and interesting businesses that kind of support the work that we're doing. the major expansion was probably just in types of artists and people that we hired to help come down and play music. but it's a very similar program to what happened last year. >> and our aim is to keep it going.

all right. >> be you being right next to the soma filipino cultural heritage district i noticed that on your photo you had my friend lenny ukulele. yeah. i'm glad to see that he was participating. >> so this is a great friend of mine and a collaborator. i've played with him before and he's a of a musician. >> awesome. so do you remember any particular complaints from the neighbors or any hurdles that you had to it's been remarkably smooth. to be honest there was i think we got one email from a resident who worked i think he worked nights and so he was and he was a little annoyed once about the like noon set at our cycle during the day which is, you know reasonable but right beyond that we have heard and to be honest nothing else.

>> all right. and you expanding the time this year or so at least did you say nine months? yes. i think we're we're trying to go from march through about mid-december is the goal and part of that was to be able to put we worked with mr. tipples to put out musicians like jazz musicians in front of the different theaters during their holiday programing that seem to be really successful. so we wanted to extend that a little bit into december. awesome. thank you and good luck. >> thank you. >> yeah, i think you can take a seat now. thank you. are there any public comments on the permit application? no comments. >> all right. do we have a permit? i do have a motion to approve the permit. >> motion to approve a second vice president wong.

hi, commissioner davis. hi, commissioner perez. hi, commissioner podio. i. >> commissioner lander and commissioner thomas i. >> your permit application is conditionally granted. please follow up with project and comms manager rice for next steps. >> thanks rob. >> i buy things from. all right. the last item on the regular agenda is an amendment to a one time outdoor event permit for live music on the hayes street shared space the hayes valley neighborhood association is producing this free series of music performances on the block of hayes street between octavia and goff to activate the shared space with arts and culture and encourage pedestrian traffic to local businesses. they plan to host a variety of programing like solo musicians, bands, deejays as well as dance performances and classes. >> the series launched in 2023

with occasional programing on fridays and saturdays and in 2025 they would like to expand their programing to include every friday and saturday from march seventh through november 22nd. >> on fridays they would like to host music from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. and on saturdays from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.. note that they will not exceed six hours total per day of outdoor entertainment or amplified sound you'll see in their folder their original permit application and the amendment request. you'll see their neighborhood outreach letter and map the applicant conducted neighborhood outreach from the neighbors. >> we received one letter of opposition and five letters in support and just today we received a letter of support from supervisor bilal mahmood. >> these are all located in your folder and we also gave you a hard copy of the letter from the supervisor.

>> sfp northern station did not respond with any recommendations within this response window so we assume they have no concerns with the permit. staff are recommending approval with the good neighbor policy and the conditions you see listed in the memo here to speak with you this evening is andrew senior from our assigner excuse me from hayes valley neighborhood association. >> thanks, dylan. that pretty much sums it up. i'll be really quick. thanks so much. my name is andrew signature. i'm representing the hayes valley neighborhood association. applying for this permit i'm going to go through really quick a little bit of history of our program the activations we've done and the neighborhood support that we've gotten. so this is part of a street closure one block of history that goes back to a covid era program that we've been running for the last five years. i've been involved in these one time permits for amplified sound for the last two ish years and through a lot of help

from dylan and may dealing with this kind of amending the permit and trying to get it as dates change trying to make adjustments. y'all have been extremely accommodating. we're here today based on recommendation from working with you all to hopefully make that process a little smoother so we can kind of plan out longer term programs without having to come back to you every time. so really quick just going through some of the types of events we've done i should say all of these events are free to the public. it provides a space for people of all backgrounds to enjoy life music. we do we pay all of our musicians and we take donations and that all goes to permits and musicians and that's it. >> we ran a ten concert music series a while back. >> we do an event every year a holiday stroll that brings thousands of people to the neighborhood. we also in partnership with into the streets ran a four

event program called saturdays in the city last summer. we're hoping to do that again this summer. this just gives kind of a quick vibe check on on what the what the event looks like. >> sometimes pretty low key but but great for kind of everybody to come on out. >> we also did a series of art walks in partnership with the s.f. arts commission. the artists came in and you know, sold their wares and then we paid musicians to kind of complement the event. >> we do a carnival every year. this is another event that brings thousands of people to to our neighborhood. and then on the endorsement side, this isn't specific to the sound permit but we've been collecting support to make this whole program permanent like the way we activate it and having events like this. we've gotten over 2500 neighbors to to sign it. and then on the merchant side there are 23 merchants on the block where we hold these events. of those 21 are in support of making this program permanent too. we haven't gotten a response yet. so the support is is quite

broad among all the merchants that are along there. that's it. so thank you so much for your consideration. >> very cool. >> thank you. any comments from my fellow commissioners? >> can you just. it said it was an expansion or an amendment. will you just. i'm sorry. i know this is probably in your application. what is it? expand it to like what are the the change of hours or days? >> it's really we've been working off of the the permits that allow like 12 days like like specified ahead of time and this would allow us to kind of pick and choose as needed the days that we want to have live music. >> i see. yeah i can also help clarify so he wanted to do a11 off event as a part of the series in january and so he applied for the permit and then he requested to meet amend the

permit through an extension of the series so i explained to him because it it it triggered a hearing, you know, the number of days he wanted that you know, he would have to do the outreach for the amendment. >> oh i see. yeah. okay. thank you. and just a notice there's a public comment letter of concern about this or i guess opposition but one of their concerns is that they are unable to get to their car and to their garage. that does seem like a pretty significant accessibility and safety issue. >> so i'm wondering if you have a plan or some way to to mitigate the hardship for that individual. yeah, that relates to our s.f. mta shared spaces permit. so i saw that letter that was unfortunately that's the first i've heard of this. we have a site plan with s.f. mta that maintains the 20 foot

fire lane down the middle and also maintains access to that one. there's one driveway on the block and we always ensure that people can drive in and out of of that driveway to get building access. i feel bad that this person was not able to get out. i don't know which event this happened at. i met the vast majority of events and it's it's known among our volunteers there that if somebody is coming in or out that needs that driveway, they always have access. so it's probably on me to go back and make sure that like every single volunteer understands that. but unfortunately this is the very first i've heard of it that it well it sounds like possibly communication with the residents of that building whatever whoever has access to that garage also might be needed to. thank you. it seemed like there should be a plan in place so it's good to know that there is a plan in place. >> yeah, i.

i used to live in a neighborhood so this is great news and you know, congratulations and continue the great work. yeah, i just want to say congratulations also and thanking thank you for making this initiative to bring joy and vibrancy during neighborhoods and it's a lot of work. so thank you. >> any public comments? >> good evening commissioners and staff. my name is david robinson and i'm a resident and homeowner in hayes valley. i'm also the president hayes valley neighborhood association. i can't say much more than andrew's already covered. he has put blood, sweat and tears into this program and they started as he said during covid when we originally were allowed to close off a portion of of the block at the 400 block of hayes and really made took lemons and made lemonade out of it. and since then have progressed

with different activations through the last five years. he mentioned our big events of course holiday stroll and the carnival but all the other events we have there such as the saturdays and the street, the art walks it's it's it's become especially on a really nice weekend sort of our front yard of hayes valley and we've got people from all over the community to visit not just the neighborhood and it's become sort of our our our our source of pride in the city so again can't say anything much more than andrew just said. >> so hopefully we can proceed with this and go forward. >> thank you so much for your time. you thank you. any other we have one hand raised on zoom. initials h. >> j. >> hello everyone.

my name is heather jackson. i'm also commenting in support of this permit and that is the end of my public comment. thank you. >> thank you very much. okay. >> and there are no other hands raised on zoom. >> all right. public comment is now closed. do we have a motion to approve the permit? >> i'm going to make a motion to approve the permit. second faster than me tonight. >> okay. vice president wang. hi, commissioner davis. hi, commissioner perez. i. commissioner poggio high commissioner lander. all right. commissioner thomas i. all right. your permit application is conditionally granted. please follow up with project incomes manager rice for next steps. >> the next item on the agenda is item number seven

commissioner comments and questions and commissioners. >> just so happy all-star weekend is over to go. i have a comment please save the date. we're going to have our class photos taken. >> thank you on may 18th and that meeting maybe two weeks from today? >> yes. so 4:30 p.m. the call time here. so right before our regular hearing. >> oh, so that make sure get your haircut beautified whatever you want to do. >> the photos will be used for our i guess we're everything. so everything for everything every appointment right before that. >> that's perfect. yeah, it'll be it's for our annual report on there'll be a staff photo and commission photo individual and maybe also

the group photos. >> so head shots as well. yeah. gosh, thank you so much for all that you and your friend and and then we discussed too but we can take offline but i think we'll probably do the head shots like on the fourth floor just because it's so pretty though natural light coming in and then we'll do group photos may maybe there but i mean yeah yeah yeah so we'll do all kinds. >> we'll click on all the wedding folks. >> yeah. yes. yeah so please try out plan to be on time so that we can maximize the one hour that we have to get as many types of photo combinations that we can do. >> oh that was my question. do you need us all here at 430 because i have a bunch of work for you. >> you'll get an email from may. >> so she's going to do a whole schedule and put it together. i'll be in a meeting with the mayor's office from 4 to 5. >> so i imagine we'll probably schedule all the headshots from four 3035 and then we'll do group shots. >> maybe you can be on the tail . yeah i can be. yeah. yeah, that's we can totally we'll schedule it out. yeah yeah you can be at or be at the same time as me right at

the end. >> yeah. maybe just show up in business casual or whatever. >> yeah. that's one way to represent yourself. i don't know if ben will do that, but we'll try this before go. >> we're still televised. okay. his version. >> cool. yeah, i'll be fine. thank you. i'll last for that. thank you. i'll okay. >> please just cool. all right. all right. any public comments on this item? >> no public comments. all right. seeing none is public comments closed and this meeting is adjourned at 6:26 p.m.. >> all right. all right. >> all right

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me. >> i just get excited and my nickname is x usher my mom calls me i stuck out like a sore thumb for sure hey everybody i'm susan kitten on the keys from there, i working in vintage clothing and chris in the 30's and fosz and aesthetic. >> i think part of the what i did i could have put on my poa he focus on a lot of different musical eras. >> shirley temple is created as ahsha safai the nation with happens and light heartenness

shirley temple my biggest influence i love david boo and el john and may i west coast their flamboyant and show people (singing) can't be unhappy as a dr. murase and it is so fun it is a joyful instrument i learned more about music by playing the piano it was interesting the way i was brought up the youth taught me about music he picked up the a correspond that was so hard my first performing experience happened as 3-year-old an age i did executive services and also

thanks to the lord and sank in youth groups people will be powering grave over their turk i'll be playing better and better back la i worked as places where men make more money than me i was in bands i was treated as other the next thing i know i'm in grants performing for a huge protection with a few of my friends berry elect and new berry elect and can be ray was then and we kept getting invited back you are shows got better we made it to paris in 2005 a famous arc we ended up getting a months residencey other than an island and he came to our show and started writing a script based

on our troop of 6 american burr elect performs in france we were woman of all this angels and shapes and sizes and it was very exciting to be part of the a few lettering elect scene at the time he here he was bay area born and breed braces and with glossaries all of a sudden walking 9 red carpet in i walgreens pedestrian care. >> land for best director that was backpack in 2010 the french love this music i come back here and because of film was not released in the united states nobody gave a rats ass let's say the music and berry elect and

performing doesn't pay very much i definitely feel into a huge depression especially, when it ended i didn't feel kemgd to france anymore he definitely didn't feel connected to the scene i almost feel like i have to beg for tips i hey i'm from the bay area and an artist you don't make a living it changed my represent tar to appeal and the folks that are coming into the wars these days people are not listening they love the idea of having a live musician but don't really nurture it like having a potted plant if you don't warrant it it dizzy sort of feel like a potted plant (laughter) i'm going to give san francisco one more year i've been here

since 1981 born and raised in the bay area i know that is not for me i'll keep on trying and if the struggle becomes too hard i'll have to move on i don't know where that will be but i love here so so much i used to dab he will in substances i don't do that i'm sober and part of the being is an and sober and happy to be able to play music and perform and express myself if i make. >> few people happy of all ages i've gone my job so i have so stay is an i feel like the piano and music in general with my voice together i feel really powerful and strong

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