Here. A commissioner falzon. Here. We have a quorum and before we do the first order of business, i want to acknowledge that today or this week is Deputy Director acevedos oneyear anniversary with the Entertainment Commission. Already . First of all, i cant believe its been one year. I would have said its been like five months because it is so quickly. And i cant remember what we did without you. So thank you for the work this year. And i cant even remember. I think that director wyland did an incredible job and you have brought a lot of things into order that is very much appreciated. So thank you. So the first order of business is for Public Comment for any item not on the regular agenda. Seeing none, my cell phone says that Public Comment is closed. Next, agenda item is number 2 which is approval of the minutes from november 5, 2019. Do we have a motion to i a prove the minutes . An ill raise the motion. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes from november 5, 2019 . We can vote. A commissioner perez. Aye. President bleiman. Aye. Commissioner lee lee. Aye. Commissioner falzon. Aye. The next item is the executive director report. Normally i say thank you, president bleiman, but i am not sure after that intro. Just kidding. Good evening, commissioners. I wanted to provide a brief update about the Holiday Party that will be the next regularly scheduled Entertainment Commission evening, so that will be tuesday, december 3 at mezzanine this year. We are really looking forward to it. We have close to 700 rsvps right now but with attrition, that may be less so we encourage you to use your wonderful networks to continue to push the party invite out. It is free and open to the public and we want you to enjoy celebrating with all of us and just another year of entertainment in San Francisco. And also in our outreach for having our inspectors go out on the weekends with these flyers that are in your binder and going to businesses directly and letting management and bartenders and other staff know they are welcome and should come to this event. So we have a little Planning Committee in our office, and i really want to thank katelyn and dylan for helping prepare for the party. So were working on all of our food donations and other fun items for everybody for that evening. So again, looking very much forward to it and we are just nearing the end of the year, and its been such a great one working with all of you. That is my update. If you have any questions, let me know. Is there any Public Comment on the directors report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. The next agenda item is report from our Deputy Director azevedo. Thank you, president bleiman, and good evening, commissioners. Thank you for that awesome shoutout. Its been an awesome and great first year, so i have enjoyed it very much. On the phone rsment report tonight on the enforcement report tonight, there is only a couple of things highlighted. On page one, royal soak a business that has a lot of complaints, but has not had Live Entertainment until two weekends ago when our inspector went by and they were having a live singer. So i have been working diligently to try and contact the owners. They are nonresponsive. And we are eager to try and get them a permit. Im also working in conjunction with sfpd northern station. It just so happens that every time the Police Department happens to go by, they dont have the sound up. So were working on it. Keeping them in our purview. Page two, you will see that i have highlighted delirium. Delirium has a vent in the back area where the d. J. Performs that is open. And all of the sound is escaping onto the street. So this has been like this for some time, but were thinking a new neighbor moved into the area because now were getting an uptick of complaints. So we have gone out and theyre in compliance otherwise. Its just the vent. Senior inspector roberts has made recommendations on how to amend the situation because it needs to be closed. So letting you know that we have a solution or at least have provided recommendations here. And then taking you to the last page, it is not highlighted excuse me, not the last page. On page four, it is not highlighted, but i do have an update about 26 mix. This business has been on our enforcement report since may consistently. And weve responded on the weekends. Theyre in compliance, but i really want mission station to go out during the week because the complaints are coming in during business nights, work nights. I finally had headway and corresponded with captain there and i also spoke with the new permit officer today, officer ortiz who had me compile all of our 311 complaints. We have receive 2d 1 from the same neighbor since may. And again, every time we go out, they are in compliance. So we really need sfpd mission station to go out during the work week, and hes working on that with the night lieutenant to make that happen. Im happy about the progress there. Thats it. If you have any questions, let me know. Can i just make sure i got that right . All the 311 calls are from one person. Yes. Okay. That should be we should be capable of fixing that then. When i say we i mean either department or us. I would agree with that. What the complaints are coming in sunday through wednesday when we dont have phone rsment out in the fields. Exactly. When we dont have enforcement in the field. We clearly have a frustrated neighbor. I have been in correspondence with her. Is she cooperative . Absolutely, with me. She is just really irritated at 2 00 in the morning. So i have been in correspondence via email with her few months and in some of the 311 complaints it says thank you, Entertainment Commission, but we just need eyes on there when we are not in the field. I should have made that clear. Thanks for with 311, noise complaints, do they ever get routed to the police . When our inspectors reallocate them, they do. Weve also trained 311 staff on figuring out what noise complaints or sound complaints as i prefer to call them should come to us versus the Police Department and sometimes we get residential sound complaints, for example, but a like in this scenario, out of curiosity, is this being dispatched to the police as a c priority run or not even looped in . No, its coming to us. And the complainant knows they can reach out to nonemergency and mission station and she has done that repetitively with no response. Are they putting that as a c priority run . I dont know. Not that we know of just because she hasnt seen any changes and she hasnt seen any police go out, am i right . Correct. However, i did have some information unveiled with the permit officer in Police Incident reports that we have not been made aware of, so i am working on those because one as as recent as the 16th of november. And we have never seen a copy of that. Okay. Im just thinking that possibly part of the fix might be because with the development of 311 as excellent as it is and it really is, and we have all probably used it for a variety of issues, im just wondering if there is an unintended consequence here that maybe should be thought about because this is a perfect scenario. We have a resident that has called 20 times, and i understand our staff is not working. And its not being communicated to the police, and honestly, telling people to call district station, the police arent even allowed to dispatch out of a station. We are not allowed to do that. Okay. 0123 which is the nonemergency is our dispatch. So if she is calling that number and she is requesting a unit response, well, just to wrap this up, my suggestion if you talk to her again or email her is to call the nonemergency next time this happens. Request a unit respond and have her ask for the cab number, cad. For the call. And then we can at least backtrack it after the fact and see the exact outcome. Okay, great. Thank you. And with the situation with 311, two points. One is that we are coming up and working with 311 to come up with different filters because right now things like buskers and residential is all coming to us because its just sound. So it needs to be piecemealed out into the appropriate party. And then secondarily, this is entertainment, and so it is correctly coming to us, but it just so happens that were not in the field. I agree except that were not staffed. This woman does deserve a response. I will get this information to her tomorrow. You got it. And then by chance, are dog complaints coming to you, too . Say it again is this dog complaints, are those coming like barking dogs . No. No. Very good. I wasnt sure when you said you are getting noise complaints. No dogs. That is awesome. Thanks. And speaking of residential, i notice there is a whole bunch of complaints that seem to be somewhere around delores and 17th or something. But it sounded like theyre all residential, not permitted and then use. No. And found things quiet. Correct. And two weekends ago there was a similar situation where it was a d. J. , but it was on the roof of a home. And it was really loud and there were people in the street. But it was very much residential. And so our inspector called the Nonemergency Police and requested a police car come out. He stuck around for about 30 minutes, but they didnt come by. So in this case he didnt see the d. J. Playing, but it sounds like someone had a house party. And just one other suggestion to note, it is also if you are getting involved with this and encourage them to reach out to the fire marshal if they are on rooftops. Fire will shut that down. We cant. But fire can and will. Take notes, listening audience. I have a question. Why are we i mean, i understand we have the inspectors, but it seems like were getting them all now. Is that something that the department has just decided that were going to be the screening out . Getting all of the sound complaints . Whether its i think its rooftop, residential. And theres some distinction. It is actually 311 has gotten a lot better over time, and it is really an annual training and to our contact at 311 to make sure all their staff who essentially is dispatch for those nonemergency complaints knows how to allocate them. And so we just need to get back on the education game with this. Because sometimes they are better than others. And they have our map of permitted venn use and they have the master calendar of events and they have the tools to be able to respond properly and allocate to the right agency, but probably just need another training from us. A caller isnt necessarily going to know if it is coming from a residential party or a permitted venue. I just wondering if there is another way to seems like were bogged down with the other thing is that you dont have to be a caller to be a 311 complainant. You can submit online. In the app. That is the other reason why often times well get these complaints and theyre not anything that we have jurisdiction over and we have to reallocate and unfortunately, since we are reallocating not right away, those could potentially go unanswered unless someone figured out they need to call nonemergency. I know what were getting into the weeds here a little bit, but so everyone knows with the 311 app, they can actually submit photos. And that might be helpful for our inspectors since if they are coming to you, if they did take photos, giver something with the inspectors to followup with. Just a thought. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. Is there any Public Comment on the Deputy Directors report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And our next item agenda, sorry, is number 5, hearing possible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the Entertainment Commission. I will ask the Deputy Director to introduce the consent cal der. We have two permits on tonights Consent Agenda. Both are for limited Live Performance permits, accessory use. They both had tons of support. No opposition. And neither had Police District conditions. Happy to answer any questions if you have them. Is there any Public Comment on the Consent Agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And we will vote on the Consent Agenda as one item. And apologize. And to approve the Consent Agenda with the Good Neighbor policy. And the motion. One more time. Commissioner perez. Commissioner thomas. President bleiman. Commissioner lee. Commissioner falzon. Yai yai. The Consent Agenda has been approved. Congratulations. Follow up with the Deputy Director at your earliest convenience. Thank you, commissioner perez, for making us motion it as well. That was huge. It would have had to come back otherwise. The next item is the regular agenda, and i will have Deputy Director azevedo introduce that as well. The nl o permit on the excuse me. Lets start over. The only permits on the regular agenda and the mechanical amusement and device permits and at 2636 and westwood is a new music bar in the Marina District and is the first to have a mechanical bull. The application is to host live d. J. Performances and the mad permit is for the mechanical bull. The owner has done extensive soundproofing including building a roof over the alley to dampen sound bleed, resurfacing the entire roof, installing fans to prevent the doors being open and installing sound dampening fabric behind the speakers. This application includes the use of two outdoor speakers on the patio. If you are in your file are four letters of support, two of which were submitted by tenant who is live directly above westwood. A letter distributed to the four neighboring residential units, and correspondence between the owner and neighbor who was previously concerned but is now in support of westwoods application. The applicant collected 350 signatures from supporting patrons. In your file is one letter of concern submitted to the Planning Department and shared with me months ago, and otherwise there was no opposition. Northern station approve this is permit with no added conditions, and here to tell you more is the owner kingston wu. Good evening, commissioners. I can kind of rego over some of the items that katelyn brought up, but if there is any questions in particular that you would like me to answer, i would be happy to do that. I want to say that we are a Country Music themed restaurant and bar opening up in the marina. I know that we have often described as a bar, but i think that we have fabulous food. As a matter of fact, our chef spent 10 years working at Mission Kitchen as an sous chef over there and we deliver a great meal and ample spirits if the customers ask for it. Were open wednesday through sunday. And wednesday through friday we open in the evening from 5 00 to close. And saturday and sunday we do a great brunch and open at 10 00 in the morning and go until whenever the crowd dies out. And we do have a mechanical bull and we run that really tightly. We have separate insurance for that. We have separate workmens comp for that and ample waivers and cameras positioned on top of the bull. What we want to do is offer live music to our guests on wednesday nights, hiring local artists. Weve thinking about bringing in some bigger acts as well if we can get the right kind of support behind it. And then on fridays and saturday nights, we would like to do Country Music, d. J. S, and we stick really with the theme and that is the genera of muse that i can we play throughout. The rest of the time we have a jukebox thats got all other generas of music restricted so that only Country Music plays. Happy to answer any other questions you might have. Just a comment as a Country Music fan. I object to the description of them in one of these letters from one of your neighbors, but otherwise thank you. I had no idea you were a Country Music fan. Yes. That is pretty cool. A professional sound System Installed by a professional a. V. Team. I dont know how to divy it up. We spent nearly 80,000 on a combination of internet, phone, and sound system. I would say its the little teardrop speakers that kind of like that most restaurants use throughout the entire place. And where the stage is, where we would like to have large music, we have larger speakers that project outward to lombard street. The residences in the area are kind of behind us. The speakers projects outwards. They brought up a neighbor that had concerns about the sound to their unit, and what we have done is that neighbor actually was a musician and so he came on in and a number of what we were catching up on stuff and had recommended and already implemented in terms of sound frequencies and carry the lowend frequencies and the sound system is sophisticated enough that we were able to squash all the below 250 hertz frequencies so that lowend doesnt transmit. As a result, we have been able to sway him from someone who was concerned about the programming to someone that is more in support of it. You know when you go to live performer, live band, either you pipe everything through your system or they will bring their own speakers. It is actually very good that you mention that. We have the bands that we can afford to kind of bring on board tend to be the smaller acts and stuff like that, so we can dictate to them that we prefer them to use our system. Now, whether that happens or not is up in the air, but i think that weve put that out there as our request. Sim