Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Well start with the roll call. [roll call] president bleiman all right. The first order of on the agenda is for general Public Comment. This is for comment on any item thats not on the regular agenda. Does anyone have anything to say . Seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. Number 2 is the approval of the Meeting Minutes for november 19, 2019 and december 3, 2019. Ill raise a motion to approve. Second. President bleiman is there any Public Comment on the approval of the Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [roll call] president bleiman all right. And we do have one proposed change to the schedule tonight. We do have one Law Enforcement member that has a meeting, a lieutenant, so were asking that we move item 5c, the beauty bar item, to now, but we will need a motion to do so. I move. Second. President bleiman is there any Public Comment on the rearrangement of our agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [ro [roll call] president bleiman all right. It is so moved. If we could have acting director davido please introduce this item. The first permit on tonights agenda is for an amendment to the place of Entertainment Permit for beauty bar, located at 2299 mission street. Beauty bar has held an active p. O. E. Since 1998, which was issued by the Police Department. Recently, there was an incident outside the location that prompted the sfpd and the venue staff to review the security plan. Due to the fact that the Police Department issued the permit so long ago, the owner did not have a security plan on file. Following the incident, e. C. Staff and sfpd mission station met with the owner and general manager about their operations and security. The owner and g. M. Have been very responsive to our requests and recommendations, and they are making every effort to be safe and in compliance. So what i have outlined here is its in section 5. Beauty bars the last permit section. Were just skipping ahead, and what youll see is their existing p. O. E. Permit, the police permit. So the recommendation of what has happened here is on the memo that ive written for you is a list of their current permit conditions and a copy of their existing permit. So what we are recommending president bleiman so you can be clear yes, i can be clear. President bleiman what we are looking at, the piece of paper that has red writing on it, which should be right next to the blue divider, or the divider, so the red are the old the old permit conditions . This is the original permit that i did not type out which was all covered by statute, which is the original permit thats in the file. President bleiman great. I saw every flipping. So the recommendation is that we eliminate all of the existing permit conditions except for number 1e, which is highlighted in yellow, and that we replace all of the existing permit conditions with the staff recommended conditions on the very last page of the memo. This has been discussed with the owners and mission station, and everybody is in agreement with where were standing moving forward. President bleiman all right. So just give a chance for the commissioners to find this. Yep. We have an extra copy. President bleiman we can use this page. Let me just give you mine. I know you requested a copy of the memo or the permit. The memo, please. I can pass it back. Okay. Great, great, great. Questions for staff. You mentioned the highlighted section on e. Youre wanting to retain that. That is correct. But i dont see any proposed conditions. So on the last page, proposed conditions. So were going to add e to your proposed conditions. Thank you. President bleiman yeah. Just give a chance for them to catch up. So while were reading through that, i think i would like to hear from the lieutenant whos here and so that we can send him on his way. Thank you. Good evening, mr. President , Vice President , and commissioners. My name is chris canning. Im a lieutenant at Mission Police station. Ive been assigned there as a lieutenant over two years. And i wanted to put on the record what a positive experience this was. This is an example of an incident that occurred in an area where there was an establishment for evening entertainment that led to the response of the Police Department, and throughout the course of our investigation, we had the occasion to contact and work and speak with the owners and management of the establishment, and i wanted to let the commission know that we appreciate the assistance of your staff, the executive director, and the assistant directive director. We found this was a very positive assistant executive director. We found this was a very positive experience to work with the owner of the establishment to find a solution that we feel is going to maintain a continual working relationship, and so i wanted to thank the commission, the staff, as well, for this positive experience. I think this was a good example of the Police Department and owners and management working together to create a plan of sorts to identify things that may need to be reviewed and create a path for working together moving forward. So that for that, i thank you. I can take any questions if you have any, but i dont want to deal too much with the specifics of the investigation, but i can talk generally about the investigation that we had beauty bar ownership and management. Hi. Thanks for coming in. Was the Business Owner able to provide you with a security plan that you were agreeable to . Absolutely. And as to the collaborative part that i spoke about, we felt that this was a very good experience. There was a timeline that staff put in place. It didnt feel rushed, but it felt it was a positive step in a direction moving forward. Theyve always been very cooperative in any past experiences that weve had in and about their establishment, and so this was another example, of businesses and the Police Department working together to ensure the business can succeed and we can provide the level of supervision nez for them necessary for them to have a successful business. Lieutenant canning, nice to see you. Its good to have somebody willing to come down and speak to us. Thank you. Any other concerns you think we should be aware of . None at all. Awesome. Thank you very much. Thank you, commissioner. President bleiman yes, thank you so much for coming down. I know you have to run. I dont have any other questions. Its great to see everybody working together. Its awesome and justifies what were seeing here. Thank you. Thank you, mr. President. Good night. President bleiman all right. I think i think just for the sake of amending these, that i would like to talk to the permit holder and the manager, if you guys want to step up. I just have some questions. Is there anything that you wanted to say first . Do you have anything prepared . You dont have to. No. I agree president bleiman can you state your name, please. Yeah. The meeting that we had president bleiman im sorry. State your name, please. Oh, aaron burhz. The meeting we had was great, and were absolutely capable of following all the new rules or whatever, so yeah. Sorry. Little nervous. Amendments, yes. President bleiman absolutely. Does anyone have any questions . Yeah. So i would just say i dont have any specific questions, but i would just say so again, amending this permit, i think, is really important, especially if you read the previous conditions that you had which maybe dont hold up to draconian. President bleiman which maybe dont hold up to our standards in 2019. But it sounds like you guys are in it to win it. Its follow up on these things. You can expect that we will definitely be checking in. I do understand that block very well, and i do understand that things have changed on that block recently, and different elements have moved in, and things maybe have gotten a little more unsafe for a brief period of time, and so i do think these we do have some solid plans that are going to keep it safe for our customers. President bleiman yeah. We just want to make sure that theres follow through. It sounds like you guys have done this. Another thing to note, theres a lot of different tools that we have as a commission. This one, amending, we specifically chose because you guys were so forthcoming with the police. I want to show everyone that if we Work Together, we can find solutions, rather than finding ways to work with each other. So i appreciate that, and thank you, and i dont have anything else. You guys can have a seat. Okay. Thank you. So is there any Public Comment on this topic specifically . All right. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed, and we can discuss the proposed conditions. I was going to make a motion to accept the staff recommendation to delete all of the existing permit conditions except number 1e and adopt the nine proposed conditions, and im happy to read them if needed, but thats my motion. President bleiman i think we should read them into the record, whether its you or Deputy Director. So it would delete all of the existing permit conditions except for the one requiring at least one manager and a sound technician to be onsite of all hours of d. J. Or Live Entertainment. And then, the nine new proposed conditions, one is that a monthly Event Calendar be sent to sfpd and mission station and the Entertainment Commission at the beginning of each month. Occupancy shall not exceed 49 people per San Francisco fire department. Property shall have three cameras installed on the exterior of the premises and two interior cameras on the interior of the premises. Security shall perform pat downs and bag checks on patrons upon entry and reentry into the promises. Management shall keep a list of patrons going into the premises. Shall utilize a metal did etec and scanner. Theyre fairly standard. Can i ask a question, and this might be for staff. Im just curious, regarding condition number 4, why are we exclusively directing security to be lead trained . Because lead trained is about the security dispensing of alcohol. So im wondering why were requiring security to be president bleiman would it be guard card . Maybe, its a typo. Is it guard card . Well, i said they all must be lead train. The guard cards there. Im fine with that. That can be amended oh, no, i dont mind it, im just thinking especially since we have the owner here, it might open up the opportunity because if were thinking about training, it might as well be the bar staff. It is a Good Neighbor policy, as well. Is it . Yes. I believe you. Having just completed my lead training online, i actually found it to be worthwhile. Oh, no, im cool. If its in the Good Neighbor either way, im covered. President bleiman okay. So the motion is to ill second it. President bleiman okay. So once again, the motion is to amend the conditions except for 1e and including the proposed conditions from staff, which were read into record, and it has been seconded. [roll call] president bleiman your permit has been amended. Thank you for coming in. Please follow up with the Deputy Director at your earliest convenience just for next steps, and again, thank you, lieutenant. I know you have to run. Appreciate it. President , can i ask a question of staff . President bleiman sure. So its it was impressive to read these conditions from 2002 . Do you have a sense of how many of our existing venues have a permit with such outdated language in it . Theres a decent amount that have outdated language, however none of these extent. There were a lot of permit conditions for one dated this long ago. So one, for a Police Department permit, they may have a couple that read wonky compared to what our permits read now. Do you know why beauty bar ended up with such is it was such an old permit that we didnt obtain the file, so that didnt make the transfer over. Somehow we had an electronic version of the permit but no physical version with a list of the conditions. All right. Thank you. President bleiman all right. Now were back to our regular agenda order, and i believe were on number 3, am i correct . So approval of minutes. Oh, agenda it goes straight yeah, okay. The next item on the agenda is number 3, which is a report from Deputy Director, also acting director azevedo today. Okay. So its been a month since weve met and talked about enforcement, so its a fairly thick report here, so ive highlighted on some items to share. Highlights on page 4, i have a 26 mix. I have spoke with management, and we are bringing them in in january to sit down and talk with director weiland and myself about the ongoing sound complaints. Its been determined that this is not from inside the venue but patron noise outside, and we plan to figure out a resolution and make this problem be solved soon. Going down to oracle park, there was dream force, correct . Dream force that just happened, and so Fleetwood Mac played, and we received six complaints, and letting you know that we forwarded the complaints and they will let you know how they handled it. Item 4, this is about record lounge. Theres also been complaints about repetitive singing, and so weve found that theres a restaurant that after hours is letting their staff do karaoke. Were letting you know that were getting to the bottom of it. Were getting the pizza place in compliance, and ive spoken to the restaurant staff, letting them know the restaurant owner, letting them know that they have to have a permit, even if its just staff singing at 2 00 in the morning. An update, on page cafe, when this was submitted, we did issue a notice of violation on november 16 for being out of compliance with their sound limit on saturday, the 14. Revolution cafe owner is coming in to speak with me on thursday, so we are hoping to discuss their programming and hopefully make the complaints go away. Page 14, youll see that ive highlighted trade market and copyright. We are inspector fiorentino did an inspection, and they were violating at 11 30. Further down the page, color block, we also issued a citation for this venue. This is a location that has applied for an l. L. P. Theyre required to apply for onetime permits in the interim, but theyve had an event and told about meeting requirements for onetime events. They had a d. J. That did not have a onetime event. Ill note that color block has been very good about applying for onetimes and has been consistent with that since that violation was issued. I highlighted 906 location. Th this location applied for a permit but it was denied. In turn, we ended up denying a onetime event permit that they applied for. They had entertainment that night even though it was denied, and so we did issue a citation for that. Page 17, i just highlighted color block to tell you that theyve been being good actors since citation, and thats all that ive highlighted, and im happy to answer any questions that you might have. I just i notice the one dated december 1, bottom of the hill, first night, moved into new home adjacent to bottom of hill, and all the walls in the basement keep shaking. Cannot sleep because of the sound. Is this a new or old new neighbor. New neighbor. So we are working on that. So we dont have any new places. Several other i notice theres several other calls about bottom of the hill, but i assume its just from the same individual. Thats correct. And bottom of the hill is working on their sound. And its anonymous, their complaints, so were unable to contact the neighbor who is making the complaints at this time. Who chose to move in next to an active barclub. Rock and roll. Yes. I dont really have any comment other than that. Okay. I just was noticing, and i wonder why people move in next to bars and then complain about it. President bleiman can you tell us more about the revolution cafe and what happened over there . I know you just went over it. Yeah. Revolution cafe has no sound abatement, and so theyre not really really equipped to hold sound, and their programming has been more and more geared towards d. J. S with heavy bass and bands with full drum kits. So my visit on thursday is to revisit the sound limit, which is 70 d. B. A. , which is very, very low, and discuss a plan of action for how they might mitigation future complaints. President bleiman all right. Anymore questions . Thank you very much for that report. Is there any Public Comment on the Deputy Directors report . Seeing none, that agenda item is closed. The next item agenda is number 4, which is discussion and possible action to adopt written comments and recommendations to be submitted by the executive director of the Planning Department and or department of building inspection regarding noise issues for proposed residential and or hotelmotel projects per chapter 116 of the administrative codes, and im going to ask Senior Inspector roberts to introduce this project. Thank you, president bleiman, for reading that. Good evening, commissioners. The proposed project would demolish an existing twostory residential building and construction a 12story Tourist Hotel with approximately 165 guest rooms. Representatives of the project sponsor have conducted outreach with nearby places of entertainment as shown in your file have received no opposition that were aware of. A sound study that was measured and calculated multiple sound sources, including sound from each place of entertainment. The sound study recommended sound rated windows at various building facades in order to achieve noise level criteria. Entertainment Commission Staff reviewed the project documents, and we are recommending the following. Approval with standard conditions for chapter 116, residential projects, and the following additional conditions. 1, the project is to incorporate all recommended facad

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