my name is maggie weiland. and i'm the director of the entertainment commission. nice to see high oh, thank you all so much nice to see all of your faces today. although this is our 13th annual summit. this is actually our 20th year of being a city department here in san francisco. so this is a big year for us. um i don't believe i see him in the audience. but i did want to thank terence alan today for all of you t

my name is maggie weiland. and i'm the director of the entertainment commission. nice to see high oh, thank you all so much nice to see all of your faces today. although this is our 13th annual summit. this is actually our 20th year of being a city department here in san francisco. so this is a big year for us. um i don't believe i see him in the audience. but i did want to thank terence alan today for all of you that know him. yes so terrence was a founding commissioner on the entertainment commission, and he had the vision in the early oughts to create this department . um and really, um, find a way to strike a balance and find compatibility between nightlife , venues, neighbors and law enforcement. so thank you to terrence. hopefully he is watching this somewhere. ah um or watching it later, and i just wanted to thank all of my current commissioners who are here today. you're going to be hearing from many of them during the programming today. i wanted to give a special thanks, especially to commissioner al perez, who unfortunately is not here in person today, b