Just a quick correction, he is not attending. Three are excused. Okay. The first order of business is Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment for items not listed on the agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. The next item on the agenda is item two, approval of our minutes for july 16th, 2019. Do we have a motion on the approval of the minutes . So moved. Second. [roll call] okay. The minutes have been approved. The next item on the agenda is the report from our executive director. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. I have a brief report for you this evening. I have a couple legislative updates. We are very happy to share with everyone that the board of supervisors file number 181211, this is the spa business permit streamlining legislation, has finally passed at the full board , board, and is in front of the Mayors Office for her signature. This is something that we have been working on for months now, and we are very pleased with where this legislation has gone, and we are really excited about how it will impact our work and our constituents. Ill actually plan to have been come and give a quick presentation of how this will roll out in our world and impact our work. We will hear from him soon. And another piece of legislation that was passed to the full board is the board of supervisors file 190689, this is the interim zoning control control legislation requiring a conditional use authorization for a change of use of nighttime entertainment to any other use allowed in the defined south of south of market area. This was specifically around the venue, mezzanine, so this, i believe it was either signed by the mayor, because it had a much tighter, tenday turnaround, or it was just past because of the deadline had already passed. She did support it initially. I wouldnt be surprised if she was able to sign it. So that interim voting control is now in place. I dont have any other substantive updates about mezzanine, though, at this time, so we will be sure to keep you all apprised of the progress, and were hoping for a positive outcome and hoping that this legislation will help protect them and at least be able to keep entertainment as the use of this location. Finally, i wanted to give a quick update of a discussion that i facilitated last week. I was approached by the department of Emergency Management to convene a group of stakeholders from entertainment and nightlife to discuss the Public Public safety power shut off program, and how that might impact largesize venues, so i brought together a group of folks from lawyers arena, from the giants, from several large live music venues in this city, and a group of probably 20 or 25 people who came. We just discussed where the gaps were for them in trying to plan for a potential 48 to 72 hour power shut off, and how they could potentially help the public in a situation like that, or how they would potentially need City Services to help accommodate, and really looking at what happened in new york recently with their power shut off, and they and there were broadway shows it ended in the middle of the show, and jayla was midset and had to stop, and they had to evacuate everyone out of the premises. So this is really something that could really happen in San Francisco. We want everybody to be prepared for that. [please stand by] legislation is getting would of duplicative sessions sections. I know that the Deputy Director will be very happy to share that with all her permit applicants because after we hear someone at a hearing tonight, they get a conditional grant of a permit, and then the onus is on them to get inspections from different agencies, it from a place that has to get those inspections just to open, we are asking them to do it a second time. Now we are taking that away, which is great. It is good for city resources it frees up our own stuff and other city agencies. Absolutely. Thank you. Youre welcome. Thank you. Okay, is there any Public Comment on the record of the executive director . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. The next item on the agenda is the agenda item number 4, report from our Deputy Director. Good evening, commissioners. This is a very lengthy report, and i do want to give gratitude to inspector roberts who helped compile this 20 page enforcement report. As highlighted, some items that we will be discussing, and i will be telling you about, so lets get started. On page 2, i highlighted a location that is in the mission district, and has been having unpermitted entertainment that weve gotten multiple complaints about, just very loud into the wee hours of the night, so upon further inspection, we did actually have an inspector go out and find them having a d. J. I have been in communication with the venue operator. The owner is in mexico, so there is a manager in town, and they are not zoned for a p. O. E. They are having d. J. S until 2 0. They would like a p. O. E. , but they are not eligible for one. He has said we will not have entertainment, and then we got a sound complaint, and we did catch them having entertainment, so we did issue a citation to this location. Well keep them on the radar. It is unfortunate about the zoning situation, but they could go for an l. L. P. On page 3, ive highlighted arena s. F. , and i want to give you an update on the progress there. I received a phone call from a neighbor who lives directly across the street from arena s. F. Who was complaining about the base and the base emanating from outside. We learned that they had installed speakers or were now utilizing speakers directly upon the entryway of the building, so that was causing a lot of disruption to the folks living across the street or at least specifically this one neighbor who contacted me. I did speak with the management and the new owners. They are undergoing a change of ownership right now to become the full owners of the business. They were very responsive, they did reach out to the neighbor who was the complainant and they also ceased using those speakers right away. So last weekend, they did not have the speakers in use, and we didnt receive any sound complaints. We are happy about that progression. They also followed up with me on monday. Did we have any sound complaints i think they are eager to be in compliance. Starting on page 5, we had ten complaints about an outdoor rooftop event. One of the reasons why the report is so long. So we did have an inspector respond, and moving forward, we will be setting a sound limit for any future rooftop event. The permit holder was made aware of the complaint. If we go to page 9, ive highlighted of highlighted virgin hotel. Virgin hotel has four permitted locations on sight within the hotel. The rooftop, the mezzanine, the commons club, and the funny library. All of those locations have been permitted when they came to a hearing last year, but recently, we have been receiving complaints about the rooftop causing disruptions to the neighbor, so when i followed up with the permit holder, i learned that the person ive been in contact is no longer with the business. So ive been in touch with new management, and we had a Conference Call last week where i explained there permit condition. They were unaware that they were not permitted to have entertainment past 10 00 p. M. On the rooftop. That is actually per planning due to the zoning discharge that they are in. We discussed that, and the Commission Also conditions them that their speakers on the ground floor, outside of the hotel, also have to be off by 10 00 p. M. I made them aware of there permit conditions, and hopefully moving forward, we will not experience these complaints. I now have Contact Information at the hotel, so that is helpful page 10, ive highlighted 1226 nick his, we received a phone call from a neighbor who was directly across the street saying that like clockwork, every single night to closing time, 1 45 a. M. , the patrons come out, and theyre so loud, and they loiter, and it is really disruptive, so we had an inspector go out friday and saturday, and he observed exactly that, that the patrons are leaving intoxicated, and loitering outside of the club. Are inspector did speak to a manager there, and expressed that this is a problem and it is not allowed, and that they need to move the folks along. That was on friday when he had that conversation, and so on saturday, you went back and he witnessed that manager assuring people down the street. It wasnt security that was doing this, it was a manager. To follow up, there will be i will be reaching out to the owners or whomever i can get a hold of to discuss the permit conditions, because upon review, they have a lot of conditions about security, but we havent had this on the radar, at least since i have been in this position. We will need to review this with the operators. And i believe that is all that is highlighted, but im happy to answer any questions if you have any. It seems like it is summer and rooftops are happening all over the city, it seems to be a consistent theme across all of these, and obviously virgin and the south van ness suite, and it looks like all jobs wasnt having a rooftop party. Not this weekend. Just given that this is a consistent point of conflict with neighbors, and i know that we see people come in with open air or rooftop spaces, but i am wondering if theres anything more that we can be doing as the Entertainment Commission when places with route up rooftop spaces come in front of us. To some extent, if it is 10 00 p. M. , then they are somehow not aware of it, i mean, you know, hopefully they stay in compliance, but im just wondering if theres more we should be doing. I actually do have thoughts on this. Since this is a fairly new process, as we are reviewing applications that include outdoor, so i think it does come with a lot of growing pains. There are spaces that we are seeing consistently that have complaints and issues. We can do what we can administratively to try and bring them into compliance, but it will likely come to a point, if it continues, where we need to bring them back to a hearing to potentially recondition them, and that is within your purview to bring that up at a hearing during commissioner comments and questions if you want to specifically review a permit. The president or the Vice President can also ask that of me offline, as well. Other than that, i think when you are reviewing these applications now, we are trying to do a better job of Due Diligence up front now, in terms of offering new conditions that make sense to approve, and so we may look at, again, it is time, place and manner, we may look at ours and recommend specific hours, but better yet, especially now that we have inspector roberts on board, he is up and give a lot of sound direction to our staff. We can always provide a recommendation in advance of a hearing of a sound limit. This can be based on something separate from what code dictates , which is 250 feet in audibility, or essentially you are at ambient 250 feet away. It can be more conservative than that for a space that has neighbors that are a hundred feet away. So with your direction, im happy to start doing that more in advance. You actually have a location before you tonight that is asking for outdoor, as well, and so yeah,. Also, it would also be helpful for us to have applicants to give us a sense of who is within hearing range of those outdoor spaces. I remember there was a Union Square Restaurant that had an openair patio, and they couldnt really answer who their neighbors were, and just, either some show of Due Diligence on the part of the applicants of, you know, were at least an explanation of, you know, this hotel overlooks the space, or Something Like that, so that we can try to head off or mitigate conflicts related to the noise. Which is something that the Deputy Director always asks during intake, but we can incorporate that better into our application, as well. Again, the other thing is, if we want to make a practice of it, we can send inspectors out in advance of a hearing to try to provide a better recommendation regarding sound in advance. And that review of the premises can also include scoping out where residential is within earshot. Yeah, even just standing on the roof and looking around, i think and spotting stuff, you know, i love rooftop bars, they are lovely, and they seem to be generating a lot of conflicts, some of which is bad behaviour on the part or lack of information on the part of the managers, but some of which is just noise travels. My question is, on south then ness, is that a bar up there . That is the old fillmore, it is a huge premises. It is where the honda building was for a long time. Is it actually a bar up there , or is it just a common area where the residents decided to have a party . No residence, it is totally commercial space, plus ultra. They are operating the space mostly for rental, full buyouts, or partial buyouts, and they offer that outdoor space as a part of it. They always apply for onetime permits because they did not go for a place of entertainment, and so we do want to go out and just set a limit for them that is potentially more conservative than what is dictated in 1060. 16 about 250 feet. This particular event had a oneday permit. Yes. Okay. I think the oneday permit thing and rooftops, as soon as we give them the permit, you know, just seems to go haywire, and then management changes. Especially at virgin, there is management that changes from one month to another, and then they dont tell them what the requirements are. The Deputy Director caught that within a month i would say, because she is just very fast. [laughter] there were complaints. How is charmaine . Is she okay . We havent heard from them for a while. No complaints. Okay. I had another comment. I noticed we seem to have a state of turning down the sound when the inspectors walk in, which is kind of rude, but it doesnt seem much of a sign of good faith in our process, and surely in our inspectors. That disturbs me that they are so blatantly disregarding the regulations and their conditions its everybody. Its the same places. I did notice it is more than one listed tonight. I think we need to continue to monitor those specific locations very closely. I would also add, we need to continue to evaluate the consequence because our Fee Structure is so low that there really isnt a consequence. I know weve had the conversation before, and since im now talking, i will continue Deputy Director, a question for you. Your report, to be send this to the permit officers . Nope, not at this point. Can we . Yep. I think that would be helpful for us as a commission because it also puts them on notice if there is a role in this process and it helps improve education across the board. That would be awesome. Thank you. Secondly, i wanted to complement , i see st. Marys pub is in compliance, you went out there and took a look, that is nice to see because they were recently before us. That is a positive example of the work we are doing where there was a problem, and now we actually took a problem, licensed it, and now they are in compliance. Knocking on wood that will continue. Im with you. All right. Thats all i had. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, is there any Public Comment on the report of the Deputy Director . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. The next on item on the agenda is agenda item number 5, report from the Senior Analyst. Good evening, commissioners. I will try to be brief. In terms of education and networking, real quick, just about the outdoor Event Planning permitting guide, it is uptodate on our website for july in terms of new permit fees , new City Employee contacts , and then some zero ways changes, just f. Y. I. I didnt include it in your binder because it is a lot of paper, we can take a look at it on the outer events page. Just a reminder, this guide is updated for every july and every january. Education and networking, we had a really Wonderful Program on july 22nd as part of the us of Outdoor Events network at jolene s in the mission. 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