laura thomas sitting in for our president bryant tan. so welcome, it looks like we're up and running. first of all, please make sure any cell phones, pagers noise making devices are set to silent and thank you to sfgov tv for broadcasti broadcasting this to the community. we wanted to start with expressing condolences to bryant tan, the commission president on behalf of the commissioners and staff for the loss of his partner nick, we know that he and his partner really love the entertainment industry and night life and celebration, so we are very sad to hear this news and hope that bryant is back with us soon. we will let people know about donations and memorial services and stuff like that. our condolences. can we have a roll call? (roll call ( >> vice president thomas: the first item of business is general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on items not on our agenda today. is there anyone who would like to make public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. the second item, approval of meeting min

laura thomas sitting in for our president bryant tan.t looks like we're up and running. first of all, please make sure any cell phones, pagers noise making devices are set to silent and thank you to sfgov tv for broadcasti broadcasting this to the community. we wanted to start with expressing condolences to bryant tan, the commission president on behalf of the commissioners and staff for the loss of his partner nick, we know that he and his partner really love the entertainment industry and night life and celebration, so

. >> january 18th, laura thomas sitting in for bryant tan. please turnoff cell phones.

>> january 18th, laura thomas sitting in for bryant tan. please turnoff cell phones. thank you for sfgov tv. can we have a roll call please. >> commissioner bleiman commissioner perez vice president thomas. and we'll note president tan is excused. >> great. the first item of business is general public comment for items not on the agenda. i have one card for general public comment from michael noltey. there's my mic. you have two minutes. >> can i have overhead? it actually says five. anyway, i wanted to point out that the guidelines for mentioning neighborhood outreach, i was at one of the hearings some time ago in regards to the black cat and i asked that the black hat do outreach to the community groups and to date, they have not. and one of the conditions of approval was coming to the neighborhood groups, the pacific alliance for better district six. they failed to do it. i sent e-mails. i guess they figure they have been approved and got the permit, and it was just too much to think about. and i think that flies in the face of the actual guidelines that state what

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