It was a lot of fun, such a great space. The topic of the presentation was success through vendor management, and i think we had some good eking out when it came to high levels of operation of events that are complex with multiple different kinds of foods and beverages and different kinds of backgrounds of vendors. We had speakers and presenters from event hub, the s. F. Street festival, and eat and drink as of. Attendees included organizers from festivals and venues on the fillmore street fair, the midway , union square bid, how we festival and the street fair, and a bunch of other new faces. And some producers really pulled me aside and said how much they appreciated the content, and how much they appreciated the party the event where everyone gets up and says who they are and what they represent in terms of an event or innovation. It really helps them him find people they wanted to talk to. That was really exciting. There will be another one in the fall. And then circling back about streamlining our onetime event permitting application process, i am project managing the rollout of the new screen door application for the onetime outdoor event permit, as well as the onetime indoor. For the onetime indoor, my colleague, krystal crystal stewart and i, we were doing unit testing, through the Digital Services agency and it was very enlightening, very sobering because they asked really hard questions. He really had to think about making this online application, is this clear, have we reduced complexity, are we really improving event compliance and including Customer Experience in the process. It is really pretty long because included the venturer questions. You can see the types of questions, and finally, the success page that when they hit submit, and we are planning on launching this as a soft launch sometime in the next few weeks. If you have any questions, let me know. I did have a question. What is your average time that someone is filling out the application . I dont have that data in front of me, but one thing we are going to be preparing ourselves for his we are asking more security plan questions then we have in the past, so that will take more thought, but it is in the interest of protecting Public Safety and welfare. Thank you. Dylan, good to see you on sunday. Are there any more vendors coming out with carton selling, since you were going zero waste, people are very thirsty with no water because nobody was serving water in plastic containers. Have you noticed any vendors coming up . I havent talked to any vendors yet, but i did talk to the organizer and said that they actually had a successful rollout of the compostable food and beverage where. Is that we were talking about . You know, people were asking for bottled water, you know, and we just couldnt they didnt want us to give out or sell any, so, you know, we should only offer, you know, nonsugary drinks, but even though it has a lot of sodium, and you get more thirsty after you drink one of those. Im just curious, as we are in that age now, it is more vendors coming up asking to be doing presentations, or are you guys going to be searching for water cartons that can be purchased . The passed legislation was a couple of years ago, which said bottled water is no longer allowed to be distributed or sold on city property, which includes city streets, so that is what that is based on, so they do a lot of training and inviting. Encouraging people to bring their own Water Bottles so they can have giant things like water monsters, for example. Or you can use portable water that is available from fire hydrants, so a lot of the things i do, i do trainings that help them navigate how they can find a way to access the water sources. There are waivers that you can apply for from the Environment Department if you can show that there is that it is going to be financial duress to the organization to try to bring in the water from outside, or if there is not availability of Water Infrastructure at that location. Theres different ways you can make those requests, but it is a big change, everyone is going to have to it is the new normal for the city. Thanks. Just a very brief comment. I really wanted to be at your event at jolenes i was unexpectedly out of the city that night, but i think what you are doing is awesome. That was a particularly interesting topic. That is why i met myself that it couldnt be there. Sincere thanks for doing it. Thank you. Thank you, Senior Analyst rice. Is there any Public Comment on the report from the Senior Analyst . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. The next item on the agenda is agenda item number 6, Police Department comments and questions. I see no officers that are present to speak. Okay. Next item on the agenda is item number 7, hearing and possible action regarding applications for permit under the jurisdiction of the Entertainment Commission. [laughter] commissioners, before i read the introduction, i want to point your attention directly below tab seven. There is a memo that includes a few bullet points that of the staff recommendation. So were we are all on the same page. The only application on the agendas for a place of entertainment for the hibernia, located at one jones street. They have restore the old bank to its original state and planned to use it as a venue for a wide variety of events such as seminars, fashion shows, fundraisers, private parties, and live performances. It has four levels, the basement , ground floor, second floor, and the penthouse. In addition to indoor entertainment, they like to have ample sound on the outdoor deck of the pentose level, daily between 9 00 a. M. And midnight, and the Municipal Police code states that unless otherwise permitted by the Entertainment Commission, hours of operation of outdoor amplified sound equipment shall be no other than 9 00 a. M. And no later than 10 00 p. M. The applicants are requesting the commission to condition them otherwise and permit amplified sound on the outdoor deck of the penthouse daily until midnight. There is no opposition to this permit application and the owners received i think five or six letters of support, which are included in your file. The tenderloin station approves this permit with two recommended conditions that are listed below here to tell you more are some individuals. Good evening, commissioners. Im here tonight with a really exciting project, a beautiful, beautiful building. It is the old Hibernia Bank at one jones, which is jones and Market Street. The applicant is actually an s. Of entertainment group, and it is going to operate this as the Public Events facility in a large corporate event and meeting space. The interestingly, this place has been operating for approximately five years, and over the last 24 months, they have held a number of events in that facility. The first event was a large rally for Hillary Clinton and governor newsom. There are some photographs i will show you in a moment. With all of these events that we have had so far, oneday alcohol permits, and oneday event licenses, a. K. A. One night dance licenses, has there has never been one noise complaint or sound complaint, no neighbor complaints. Outreach is always important with my clients and you have actually seven letters in the file, and these include letters from don faulk in the tenderloin neighborhood development, michael nolte, who is the alliance for a better district six, our nextdoor neighbor, the proper hotel, which is one of San Franciscos finest hotels. Dave seward from hastings law school, randy shaw from the tenderloin housing clinic, sean steen and company that runs a property at 1066 market, believe it or not, they have 303 new apartments going in. To quote one of these letters from michael nolte, the type of business that is being proposed will be a great benefit to this area and assist with the overall revitalization of the midmarket. If you havent been down there in a while, it is an interesting area. Theres a lot of building going on between jones and market, going down to the Flood Building huge projects. Hotels coming in, large condo complexes. When this finally gets done in a few years, it is going to be pretty spectacular. I think if i could have the overhead, this is, along with city hall on and the flood zone, probably one of the most beautiful buildings in San Francisco. Our first event was interestingly enough, just to give you idea of how the people built these properties in 1892, it is just spectacular. The heights of the banks. I remember in the midseventies, this skylight was leaking and rebuilt, and it turned out that this was done by tiffany studios in new york and restored in about 1975. It is an absolutely spectacular building. It holds, depending on the crowd , approximately 1,000 people, and this is on four levels. It has 80 facilities for large meetings, its got a former Tenderloin Police station in the basement, which is now used for intimate dance parties. It is a great space for conventions to take place, and that is pretty much what we intend to use the facility for. There is an upstairs space that is a meeting room for about 100, outside of it because it has been brought up already, i will mention that there is a small deck outside of the room as you saw before. It is right across from the proper hotel, but it is surrounded and set off the property. If you are looking out that way, it is about 20 feet to the properly line and it is totally enveloped by our property, and very solid marble walls and stone walls. It tends to deflect the sound and keeps it inside. Again, this has been open several times, there has never been a sound complaint from the property. We discussed this with the proper Hotel Management and they never heard a word. Tonight i think they mentioned charmaines wishes across the street. It is a roof bar on the proper hotel. They doesnt seem to be any sound complaints from that particular property, either. The sound attenuation, we have done a little bit of work. We have a major sound Company Coming in next week with a d. J. Well start doing our own sound tests prior to the commission taking a sound test. We will do whatever sound attenuation or probably not so much sound attenuation for the outside, but sound dampening for the inside because as you noticed, this is a lot of marble , a lot of stone surfaces, and to sort of condition the sound, we think that is important. Im also theres also an interesting thing that happened. These large windows, if you look behind our former secretary of state, you will see these large windows. Theyre 25 feet by 10 feet. They have what used to be cranked up steel gates, which any lounge saud, party, or anything that will generate sound, we can bring this down and they pretty much stop any sound from coming into the building. That was done right after the earthquake to keep fire out. Basically, we believe that when finished with all the upgrades were doing right now, this will be a pretty good space, a corporate event space downtown, and a great addition to the midmarket neighborhood. I have, tonight with me, weve got jury who is event facilities manager and buna, the communications and external Communications Person for the company. They can offer answers to any questions you might have, but we we would like tonight as a conditional grant on this property. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioners, do you have any questions . I work across Market Street from this building and i have worked in the tenderloin for many years, and i love the building, i always wanted to see it be put to better use, or any use, really. I think i worked at the Police Office for a little bit, so this all sounds fantastic. It sounds like a great use for the building, as well as for the inside, it looks really lovely. Obviously we are, you know, as you heard earlier this evening, we are getting a lot of complaints from rooftop bars, so i appreciate the location and the fact that you are working with the Hotels Across the street, and im also conscious that there is so much Residential Construction happening within a block, basically, and so, you know, i think rooftop bars are great, and rooftop spaces are great, so i want to move forward with this i just want to hopefully not get complaints from any of the in particulars and new residents that are going up, and i know we have some ability to do reviews of new development and let them know when there is an existing place of Entertainment Permit so the residents know that, its a little different because you were coming in after they are already well underway, so we cant have that same sort of control of making sure everyone is in there. I want to move forward, im just adding in there a note of caution about keeping an eye on the rooftop noise to ensure that we are able to prevent conflicts from any neighbors and anything happening in the future that would make us have to go back and relook at the conditions. You are asking for not just 10 00 p. M. , but later, i mean honestly, i think it is completely reasonable. I support that. Okay. Are you ready . [laughter] what is your capacity . We are working on final capacity with the fire department, but we believe it will be 1,000 on the main level and theres probably that will go up to 300, any time over 999, we have to have fire watch. How will security be handled . It is a very challenging neighborhood at night time, also , i want to know where you are doing external lighting. Will you light up the sidewalks . Especially on jones . Isnt there a park across the street . Maybe not. That is up further, a block up. Security wise, theres a number of things. Security sorry, right now, were putting a security sop into practice. Our parties have all been different, the basically, it is about 100 persons to one security officer. So for a party of a thousand people, youd have 13 officers. We have been engaged with the Copper Program and they have been very supportive of us. As you were saying, when we do have those officers on duty, they typically and to stand in a more visible area. In a way, we provide light to them at their post, which is ultimately lighting up the sidewalks. We are doing perimeter checks on an hourly basis, and being aware across the street, as well. The parkas one block up from us, his we dont really have do you have a security manager that is working with your team . We are outsourcing all of our security at this point, but that is a position that we are looking to implement moving forward. Because my thing is, when people leave and theres a lot of people, theres either going to be a lot of uber, theres going to be a lot of taxis, i spoke to the Vice President of yellow cab today. We are talking about putting some controlled areas into practice were not turning 700 people loose on the area. In general, working with other agencies here or there, it is not like there is a policy or there is i come from where we have a surgeon team. If were going to have 1,000 people, then i already have a team in place, you have a meeting in a security manager will handle, whether it is yellow cab, or whether it is going to be maybe ten outer Securities Just handling the crowd control, so the neighborhood is not impacted. Sure. That is what are saying earlier with our standard operating procedures. Having a set time for entertainment to end, giving a window of time around that, giving clear instruction within the building where you up the lights inside the building so people are leaving in an orderly fashion. I come from a casino environment , so have a lot of experience with that. So theres really no plan right now, you dont have any actual plan or street plan on the security part of it . I have been a conversation with john windsor who his builder is probably the best in town, and he is excited about this project. We are going to sit and work on some of these issues. We did meet with the tenderloin station and a. L. U. The other day , and their concerns, after looking at what weve got in these facilities, they have no concern about us. They have a big concern about the neighborhood, and we agree. The type of people that can afford to rent a facility, also can afford to have large buses, even just to take them back to the center. Neighbors dont like buses running. Were looking at jones street , and right now, Market Street is in a horrible place, and it will not be great. Okay. What im saying is that when an application comes in, especially with such a large facility, it would be nice to know how you would handle such a thing because we do get complaints from the neighbors about large crowds coming out at night, his we want to try and prevent that and we want to know how you will prevent that. It is good that if you had an inhouse security manager, maybe working with john windsor, he is also running clubs that have been before us, as well. It is not like he doesnt know what he is doing, is sometimes it just happens, and we just dont want to get we dont want to deal with, later after we give the permits, and then suddenly they said, no, its not us, is not the proper, its charmaines. And to know when they were getting complaints, maybe you were having a oneoff event and maybe it was you guys, and we were bugging them because we didnt know. These are the things i think the space is great, i have seen the movie one Beverly Hills cop was in there and eddie murphy did a movie in there, and thats great, and im glad that spaces being used, but is a huge space, and it is in a neighborhood that is kind of new. We still have a lot of problems with car breakins and, you know , i dont know where youre going to be putting those people at, these are things to consider , and other businesses are having problems with that right now. One neighborhood chinatown, for example, they tore it down because all their cars are getting broken into and