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Food insecure, Substance Abuse experience, and what im here to say if youre going to put a white dude on the panel, im the one you want. [laughter] since coming back from the military, like, you could find me when were protesting on the streets of oakland. Im eyeball to eyeball with the police. Im standing between the police and the community, inviting the tear gas and rubber bullets on me to buffer between the Violent Police and the december Desperate Community demanding justice. Im here to lev...

Ownership rights. For veterans, thats an irrational choice. Okay, thank you very much. Do you have any questions supervisor mar . How important is it that diversity be on this committee . Absolutely. The majority of the veterans i serve are veterans of color, low income, disabled, housing and food insecure, Substance Abuse experience, and what im here to say if youre going to put a white dude on the panel, im the one you want. [laughter] since coming back from the military, like, you could find ...

Carmichael schools. I urge you all to have this go through. Our process has been working. Our Community Voices have been heard so i urge you to do the right thing and push it forward. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, commissioners, i am Heather Phillips on the eastern neighborhood cac. I am part of Soma Community for the last 16 years, and i am just so excited to see the work between the community, Supervisors Office and planning staff to come together to look at what it takes to...

Serves a low income and water and come is very important. You have people that come in and say, Pay Attention to us. And you have people that are paid to bump the department about getting the project through. The Planning Department, in my perception, listens to the group of people who they want to get the permits approved very fast without any real input from the public. And you are it for the Planning Department. You have a role to play to tell the Planning Department, Pay Attention to the peo...

Restaurants are doing well there so you will be the only tenant in this building, or is there no, there is a c. V. S. Operating on the first floor street level and basement and you enter our restaurant on the street level closer to the hand delivery, and then we are on the second and third level, our restaurant is on the second and third level. And the terraces are in view of the hotels . It is not an ocean view, but it is not a bad view. The terrorists or patio only exists on the third floor. I...

The permit to have a hidden d. J. Where they can make playlists and try to not have our ipad behind the bar controlling the music that somewhere out of the distractions of bartenders, as well as we didnt want to have we did not want any customers to see that we were doing that. It was a mistake. I called and as soon as i got the email and she explained to me why it was a mistake. We will not do it again. Since we did take over the blue light, we did make quite a few changes. Blue light has been ...

Thank you. That was my time. Moving along. Okay. The next permit application is for place of entertainment and change of ownership for dimples cocktail lounge. The new owner intends to keep the Business Operations exactly as they are, a small karaoke bar a small bar with karaoke rooms. They received a letter of support from the president of the japan town Merchants Group as well as signatures of support from the neighboring businesses, which are included in your file. The new manager worked at d...

Delivery, and then we are on the second and third level, our restaurant is on the second and third level. And the terraces are in view of the hotels . It is not an ocean view, but it is not a bad view. The terrorists or patio only exists on the third floor. Im looking at this poor sound. Not. The application did get revised to say the entertainment would be during hours of operation, potentially until 2 00 a. M. Thank you for that. So were just trying to get it out there. You can do it until 2 0...

Employee under you can be consistent about whatever you agree with is important. So im kind of curious how you plan to do that. Every time there has been a noise complaint, my staff we have spoken about it they have told me that they have turned the music down or, you know, whatever he needed to happen. I am guessing that the neighbors were not happy with that. I mean, you know, any time there is a noise complaint, we respond to it. Okay. I am supportive of this permit, but i want to make sure y...

Consistent about whatever you agree with is important. So im kind of curious how you plan to do that. Every time there has been a noise complaint, my staff we have spoken about it they have told me that they have turned the music down or, you know, whatever he needed to happen. I am guessing that the neighbors were not happy with that. I mean, you know, any time there is a noise complaint, we respond to it. Okay. I am supportive of this permit, but i want to make sure you do have a tight communi...