Streaming the number across the screen and each speak will be allowed two minutes to speak. Opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available during the zoom platform using meeting i. D. 89143696905 or calling 833 5480276 toll free. Using zoom platform, select the raised hand option for Public Comment. Dial star 9 if calling by phone and you will be unmuted when its your turn to speak. Please call from a quiet location and turn down your television or radio. When your item of interest comes up, alternatively, while we recommend that you use zoom audio or telephone for Public Comment, you may submit a written Public Comment through the chat function on zoom. I want to thank sf gov tv and Media Services for sharing is with the public and thank you to the board of appeal for their Technical Assistance for this meeting and we will start with a role call. role call . Thank you very much. And the first order of business is general Public Comment and this is Public Comment not listed on our agenda tonight. We have a comment for general Public Comment from barry toronto. It looks like he wrote in the chat, he or she wrote in the chat that they may need further direction on how to speak during Public Comment if i wonder if its for general Public Comment or an agenda item. President , i have barry torontos hand is raised and i will unmute him right now. Yes, my name is barry toronto. Im an activist on the San FranciscoTaxi Workers Alliance and im calling in because i see that the Entertainment Commission is in charge of sert which is related to shared spaces and all of these different departments are involved. The reason im contacting the Entertainment Commission is im filing a complaint that the sausage factor as usurped the taxi zone. Im not saying they shouldnt have Outdoor Dining. But the guidelines say you dont take over a disabled parking space or a bus zone or a wide zone. White zone. If you go to the castro if the evening hours, its the busiest commercial district in the city outside of valencia street. Without having actually provided an alternative at the same time, its a stealing of income from another service and we probably serve a lot more people throughout the day than that restaurant serves during its afternoon and evening hours that its open. Not only that, but if you see the photographs, youll see it doesnt have an accessibility ramp for that dining space. And so, i would like to have someone contact me from your department to be able to work something out because it is not fair to take away one business that is a necessary business to one, where pardon the pun, theres lots of sausage offered in other business along that corridor. Thank you for your time and im hoping that we can resolve this as soon as possible. And i dont even see the permit on posted anywhere that allows us to usurp that space. Thank you very much. Im done. I will just know, barry, if you want to leave use email address in the chat, we will note it and you can go ahead and we will email you so you can file your complaint. Is there any more Public Comment that were seeing . Hearing no more Public Comment, we will move on to the next agenda item. The next agenda item is number 2, the approval the minutes for the june 30, 2020 meeting and do we have a motion to approve the minutes of june 30th, 2020 . I move to approve the minutes of the june 20th meeting. Second. Before we vote, is there any Public Comment on our minutes . Ill take that as a no. There are none. Public comment is closed. role call . The minutes have been approved. Gavel down. The next agenda item is the report from our executive director wylen. Thank you, president blymin. Good evening, commissioners. Its nice to see all of your faces, even though its on zoom. And there goes our president. And i also do want to just note all of the attendees in the room. This is many more people than we normally see on any given Entertainment Commission hearing night and i appreciate youre here tonight and i encourage you to reach out to our office and i will just provide during our update some ways in which you can engage further than tonight. And so currently, i do want to just talk about our engagement with the Economic Recovery Task force. And then i will get into a little bit more of the outreach that we have been doing to the industry and then i can briefly update you on our staffing assignments right now supporting the work of the Community Education and Response Team. And so, relative to the task force, you know, you are all lickly very aware of the creation of it, the mayor and board convened to guide the citys efforts into revising businesses and employment here in San Francisco. We started in june and the group is compromised of community and Industry Leaders and city officials and this fall, were tasked with submitting a report to the mayor and board of supervisors with final recommendations on how to guyede the citys recovery effort. So within this group, we branched out into four smaller groups, one of which is called arts, culture, hospitality and entertainment. President blymin are both serving on the task force and both sitting within the policy group. I am also the policy lead for this group on the Staff Support side which means i am helping to guide policy discussions and making sure that the group is in alignment with the overarching goals and strategies for the Economic Recovery Task force. And i have a great Staff Support team. Dillon has been essential in helping and joanne lee from the Arts Commission and ben van houten, along with beth reubenste rbgin who has been da fantastic job and Benjamin Peterson and so this group has come very far along in the last few weeks and at this point, we have come up with some policy proposals that well be presenting this week to the large Economic Recovery Task force and so, the goal is that by our next hearing on august 18th, well be joined by some city Staff Support members, possibly beth and ben, to provide some updates on our policy proposals and then take some more comment from the public on that. And as a part of that process, though, i do want to know that we did put out another survey that this is our second survey that weve done during the pandemic and this one was really focused on those beginning proposals as they were beginning to marinade within the Task Force Member group, trying to ground troop them in our community and see how important they were as priorities for our industry. And so that was very helpful. Theres going to be more ways in which you can engage. Were ensuring were updating anything related to covid19 and we do a newsletter immediately. But were constantly updating the sf. Gov website and i highly encourage the public to check that out. Again, educating on the roles, we had a new Face Covering rule that went into effect on july 24th and you now have to wear a Face Covering in more situations, such as within six feet of people outside and passingpassing people on the si. You have to remain the rules and youre ensuring that our reopening process and timeline can stay on track and especially now with whats going on within San Francisco. So again, beyond the education that we constantly try to do, we are Holding Virtual office hours and this is something thatten tn van houten are doing together and if theres anyone that wants a half an hour with us on zoom to discuss the current rules, go over any of your plans for how you hope to reopen and at this time, we can do a lot of speculation, but a lot of what were doing is really encouraging the industry to come together and to be a louder voice and if our Commission Hearing is the first place for that, we encourage it. And so far weve conducted over 90 of these meetings. This is the first touch that goes out relative to 311 complaints that come in about businesses and how they may or may not be operating in compliance and our group does not have enforcement powers. So the real aim of it is to educate businesses about what compliance looks like and, of of course, correcting while were there. We environment support of the City Attorney to review all of the reports that come in to ensure that those reports get routed through the appropriate channels, to let the enforcement agencies know that, hey, were able to bring this into compliance or this may need further enforcement and so im happy to answer any questions about that. The only other kind of big stat that i would share that we have completed within that program 616 investigations. So we are going out to many investigations in San Francisco far and wide and making a big impact in educating people in San Francisco, at least when it comes to that kind of reactive method that were dealing with in this program. I know thats a big update. Let me know if you have any questions. Commissioners, any questions . I want to thank you for your exceptional work . What have been the big challenges in this . Are there areas to do more here are you referring to serts . Yes. Yeah. I think, you know, our gaffes, weve been meeting them along the way and a lot of them was resources in that way, just because we want fair inspectors who are out there and were pulling them from other agencies and there arent a huge pool of people who have that skillset. We try to be as educational and fair and approach prior to even disciplinary action with a lot of education. And so thats what were looking for in our inspectors and we ensure that the folks that we have in the field do just that and so that has definitely been a bottlenext at times and then, also, just work on workflows with other agencies that i think were at a pretty good place right now as we have now achieved longterm activations for all of our folks and thats a huge weight off of our shoulders. We have the people we have now through the end of this calendar year and so that means the more we continue to educate them on what is correct, were investing in these human beings now and theyll be doing a great job. Thank you. Anything else . I just have a couple of items if nobody else has anything. So one, im on the frontlines. Certainly many bar owners and restaurants get a visit from sert and i hear about it, generally, and i want to say that overall, the experience has been positive. That is in stark contrast from other agencies, where it feels like people just want to treat everyone like theyre a criminal, every Business Owner like theyre criminal and they need to be cited or changed and so i appreciate that. I think this is a good to have a hearing, are we hearing from permit holders right now and if so, could you boil it down to some general things that are coming up. Is there anything thats coming up regularly or anything thats surprising or what are we hearing from the Entertainment Permit holders, if anything . You know, generally, we are hearing about plans for the future in whatever way, shape or form that may be. Huh can we move this idea forward relative to policy making . And then, you know, other people are closer toward being able to reopen in some other way and some those folks are nightclubs that, you know, may want to activate a parking lot and whats good, we environment mayor, had another supplemental declaration pass this last week to allow for temporary use authorization within parking lots and so that will cover Outdoor Dining. However, folks are thinking really creatively about how they can host entertainment outside. I think one of the big challenges were seeing come up, too, is how limiting it is to not able to have a vocalist within entertainment and, so, that includes any kind of spoken word participation because of the transmission issues. Ive heard great, great ideas, though. I mean, i kind of dont want to put the yeahs on blast, though, just because you may actually see them crop up. But there are some ideas that actually can fall within Outdoor Dining guidelines that allow for entertainment. When the world progresses beyond Outdoor Dining, this could potentially Carry Forward and so youll be hearing about that possibly by this next hearing, which is great, but im spinning out. Ive got one question. So even though we cant open as an entertainment venue, but we have a Liquor License and when the order is lifted that bars can open again, the Entertainment Venues are not restricted to do so, correct . They can still open as a bar as long theyre not running entertainment . So the hypothetical is that, ok, when bars are included like a type 48. I think if i can just clarify, i think the governor, it seemed to us and the expect that he was pretty unclear when he said that Entertainment Venues could not open. And correct me if im wrong, commissioner lee, but i think hes asking when bars are allowed to open outdoor or indoor, if they happen to be an entertainment venue, that will mean whether theyre under the governors directive or they can open as a bar as long theyre not an entertainment venue. If bars get included in outdoor dine asking they dont t have to serve as bonafide meal, that would include the entertainment venue. Venue. What if we just want to open our bar inside. Bars . So right now, bars are not allowed to be open outdoors, but if theyre serving food yes, i know that. Then theyre treated as a bonnified eating place. Fids not a venue depending on the size and all of the things from sacramento, they would conceivably be able to open within the rules as long theyre following guidelines. Were going to look for that pathway. If you own an entertainment firm, you wont get penalized, even if you dont have a dj and you want to open your bar and serve drinks, whether its with the restaurant or whatever. Entertainment venues could do that now and some are, right. They could do entertainment within the outdoor tuning guide. Ok, thank you. Any more questions for the executive director . Is there any Public Comment . President bleiman, we have Michelle Delaney with her hand up in zoom. Ok. Im going unmute her right now. Hi, guys. How are you doing . Thank you for taking my question. So steve brought up something that i thought about and maybe mentioned it. Just curious if there would be a possibility for if the downtown area will stay as dead as it might for awhile, with every possibility fopossibility for ur Liquor License in the city where there are maybe residents or people, just to try to think of options we might have if well be closed down for awhile down there. And the answer . So Public Comment is not question and answer. Ok, sorry. So this is a time to make your comments, but also, were all available to help you answer questions and so in reality, im writing this down as an idea. Usually theres a time for comment and were a stoic group of people. You guys are awesome. Follow up with our staff and we will you can always ask questions and well try to get in touch with you as quickly was can. Thank you. Are there any other Public Comments on this agenda item . I do not see any other hands raised. Were going to close Public Comment on this agenda item and so, now we are the next agenda item, actually, i would like to propose that we make a motion to move it and we want to move it correct me if im wrong, dillon between item five and six instead of where it is now. Is that correct. That is correct. So the presentation on the city shared Spaces Program, robin needs a little extra time before he can make his presentation. We have to vote on this and before we vote obviously, we need a motion and second it. But well do Public Comment. Lets start with the motion. I make a motion to move item 4 to after 5. Do we have a second . Second. Is there any Public Comment on the motion to move this item . President blieman, i see no hands raised. We can have a vote. role call . Even without commissioner falzons vote, it still passed so well move that agenda item. This ithat was 5 and now this i. Hearing impossible action for permits under the jurisdiction of the Entertainment Commission and this is 5 and i will have the Deputy Director introduce the items. indiscernible . This is located at 333 11th w owner and peter lin of p p inc have plans to maintain this as a nightclub. Their programming includes bringing in live djs and using the space for events and theyre applying to maintain the same parameters which would allow entertainment until 6 00 a. M. This is namely for continuity as they do not inten