Cooking, the western system, back to china. So we want them to have a full toolkit. Were trying to make them ready for the world out there. My name is ben bleiman and im the commissioner president. To protect Entertainment Commission members, City Employees and the public the city hall meeting rooms are closed however members and it is taken pursuant to the local state and federal orders, decorations and directives and commissioner members and employees will a continued through Video Conference and participate to the same extent if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Opportunities to speak during Public Comment are available via the zoom platform using 825 8546 336 or call 669 9006833 tollfree. Using zoom platforms, select the raised hand option when its time for Public Comment. 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Next agenda item is number 2, approval of our minutes for the september 15th, 2020 meeting. Ill ask if we have a motion to approve the minutes from september 15th, 2020. So moved. Ill second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes . Theres no one with their hand raised and theres also no zoom chat. Right. Well close Public Comment and we can have a vote. [ roll call vote ] the minutes have been approved. The next agenda item is a report from director wilan. Thank you. This evening, i wanted to walk you through the new jam permit and and if can you bring up that presentation that would be good. Bringing it up now. Can you see if . I can. Success. You can just toggle over to slide one. Thank you for being in charge of this all right, so, just to provide a little bit of Background Information i know that ive been bringing the permit idea up to all of you, and conversations both in smaller groups and within these commissioners hearings around creating a permit to match covid times. Essentially since covid happened, we have not been issuing many permits at all and has known weve been going through a period of time in which a lot of businesses are on the brink of closure and i know that im saying to this, for all of our viewers out there its really our bars and our night clubs and live music venues, event organizers and musician thats have been some of the hardest hit in the industry and just our workforce in general during covid19. We wanted to find a way to try to bring entertainment activities back online prior to phase 4 within the given orders. Background stats, we conducted that survey back in may here here are some of those stats in the meaning behind our arguments to create this permit. The reason why we needed to create something new as opposed to using our onetime applications or our place of entertainment, Live Performance permit application was because we were very limited in constrained by where we could permit activities in our door locations that are activated right now by way of shared spaces so we would only be able to permit 12 days per calender year as one these locations on a onetime basis and they could not even achieve one through our previous processes because we would permit and regulating activities that are happening in the public realm so thats what we needed to fall for here in creating this new permit. So jam is the name of it and essentially were ak ta rate ising outdoor amplified sound and entertainment in framework of most commonly Outdoor Dining or outdoor small gatherings and we know its already happening in the community and our Entertainment Commission inspectors have been going out and they havent had a way to bring folks into compliance through conditions on permits. This was our idea and with the support of a lot of you we pushed this forward as a user friendly experience and programs that can support Small Businesses in ak ta rate ising entertainment and earlier phase. So if you could keep going. This is just our cute image that dillon worked hard with Digital Services to create as a part of our roll out. You can keep going. So, kind to give you a little bit of background so it makes more sense to you, being able to access entertainment outside right now during this pandemic is not simple and so, this is indepth and our team is working diligent leon the review. These are not pubber stamp permits so theres a lot we need to account for at the very beginning. The first thing is location. Location, location, location. Its very important. These are the types of spaces that we could activate potentially so shared spaces, permit holders and public works, cafe table and chairs and its a permit holder so these are pre covid and if theyre doing a small outdoor gatherings they can add sound and theres activities on out dor private Business Properties and some of which is actually going to be permitted in regulated already by us as you know, we had several permits come before prior to covid when they amps down to their out dor premises those folks dont need a jam permit from us but there are tises in the city that have had back patios or other outdoor privacy like a proof top that maybe theyve always had a bar or a dining area but they never added in their sound and this is their turned to do that by way of this permit free of charge. We consider parking lots so they can activate the space so the shared spaces permit, from a appreciate activity and add entertainment or sound to that and also farmers markets have a pathway as well as games and go to the next slide i can get into this a little bit more so when we have the Location Security permitted or we know its permitted, we need to check what activities are you trying to add our sounds to so these are the buckets, theres Outdoor Dining with its own guidance and rules and theyre small Outdoor Activities and theyre limited so its six people maximum with and theres a farmers and Outdoor Fitness and just for and then theres drive in gatherings and however and theres is outdoor and you can think of a band being filmed and performing and thats the example. So ill go through this quickly because you can see this online at sf. Gov slash jam before the permit application just lives. Ill point out this nuance on this page. Were asking for two weeks to process these permit application and ill get into it a little bit more. We feel these are activities we can permit and regulate with specific conditions so live music or a band a d. J. And theater, comedy or dance performances with specific roles for performers and so on and so fourth. We can keep going. Theyve got to provide that outdoor property and keep going. These are the rules the city has published that are relative to the type of activities that wore permit sewing this is why this process can be lengthy for our staff to understand the rules and the way theyre answering their questions and the proposed activity theyre providing to us as well as the types of attachments we asked for in the application and a health and safety plan specific to the too i am of activity and everyone has to submit that as part of the application. If we keep going. And it makes it a little different from normal and think about for dance it will be problem more of the interpreter tie rather than partner danceing and rules for amp sound ill get into so keep on going. I think you can go past these. This is just User Experience and this is us doing our work and if you keep going. Thank you. So, sample sound conditions here, these are pretty nuanced and we thought these throughs with our Enforcement Team by going out in the field and actually taking measurements of what is happening out there now. What is not causing disturbances and what to their experience was not to be at ambient 50 people from the Permanent Location so its across the street. They shouldnt raise it to am bee around levels and r while we feel this measurement makes sense based on what weve seen in the community. We want t. Since these are all administratively reviewed and issues, we want to offer hours per day and well make sense with neighbors and ours are limited to 9 00 a. M. To 10 00 p. M. And you can only do sound for six hours a day. So they pick the hours. Again, we have the ability to recondition permits as we see fit if mediation occurs and we can always bring a permit to the Entertainment Commission itself and present the case for you all to recondition as you see fit. That may come up and we will obviously keep you informed through our enforcement reporting. And then amplified sound equipment has to be fixed to a specific location and that is a Good Neighbor policy thing and as woman as th well as for our e beginning with number four. Its a regular condition. The first part of it, about compliance within a proved security plan so everybody that spills out the application answers about eight specific security questions about how they would manage any loitering, how they would prevent any crowding, things of that nature that are more concern now during covid19 times than pre covid and so when we review, we can actually amend their answers with them and theyve got to then comply with that submitted security plan just like our other applicants in the past we call directive they have to comply with with hosting entertainment. We have a place holder there just in case we need to add a security condition on a number of staff that need to be there and these are really for spaces where the location might be harder to maintain because its a more open space. If that makes sense. Potentially like a street closure. If we keep going, what enforcement will look like. Basically, the entertainment its manage our u. C. Results and certain were cross training our certain inspectors to call our Entertainment Commission and we did complete especially when theyre about health order compliance and so Deputy Director is working on that streamlining and processing and beyond that, i just want to call out the fact we have all of the tools in our toolbox as before its just that me as director, i can issue as before, a citation and now i can as director amend conditions if needed and i can even revoke a permit. Beyond that, i do want to note that i want to utilize this commission to take actions like that and i think thats the thinking is keeping you all involved with any enforcement cases that rise to the top that we may want to bring to a hearing to essentially just have the further back up that were on the right path for reconditioning or taking action and thats what you all are here for and experts on so ill make sure to do that if we need to. Also, just note if anyone appeals one of these permits the only folks that are allowed to appeal a decision are the permit holders themselves. If we denied a permit application or were revoking a permit, they can appeal to you all as an Entertainment Commission, however they do not have means to go to the board of appeals beyond that. Thats the change in that process here. Well continue to be essentially commoditiesbe complaint driven. If we can go on, these of our stacks to give you an update and well issue our first permit tomorrow. We should have four coming out tomorrow. We have had to deny 10 permit applications and these are the reasons. Four of them actually were occurring or proposed to be occurring on property we dont have jurisdiction over so we refer them to departments and reservations or they were a street performer wanting a permit and were not permitting individuals that are street performers. You would have to have it associated with a permissable activity like Outdoor Dining or small outdoor gatherings with a business with outdoor property. Just hoping on, it looks like were just missing some permission to use property too so we want to ensure we issue a permit for entertainment you have permission to do that and if you keep going these are some next steps and on going work those and essentially maintaining implementing new permitting and enforcement structures within our team so its a learning process right now and i think its challenging but were all growing a lot from it and so, im excited to continue to roll this out with the team. Thats all i have for you t let mtoday. Let me know if you have y questions. If you go to that last slide, i wants to have that up for just a second to show members of the public if theyre watching right now they can see our contacts on the final slide. Just one more down. So, essentially if folks have questions about the jam permit itself they contact entertainment. Commission and our Enforcement Division still handles complaints that we always encourage people to just use 311 and finally if you want to reach out about sets thats our email address. Any questions before i move on to another topic . Later on would it be amended to have singers with face shields possibly . Great question, commissioner lee. So, what is good about the jam permit is that it is very dynamic in its ability to change and so as health order rules and directives change, we can update our rules section. So that would include if singing became allowable with specific rules. Who addressed that . Is that something we address to dbh . Yeah, so i think we have received this inkawartha res and previousances from the community about the permit application because of the fact that there is Entertainment Limited including singing and horns. That is something that we encourage im to come to a hearing and i theyre those communities but this is a forum for us so if folks want to talk about that we will row lay those concerns upward. Were also hearing from larger organized groups and our San FranciscoVenue Coalition and the independent Venue Alliance about some of their asks which includes that as well. Those folks have a lot of say in pressing this with the mayor and the Health Department for their review. Im just not sure how if its going to have any traction due to the issues around transmission and confirming around transmission. Right, if they come up with a data, that would help im sure, right. Agreed. And now is the time and if folks have concerns and questions and they can use this as a platform for their experience. Its a good permit and it helps a lot of people and theyve been asking so im glad its happening and i just had get the singer involved. Lets see how we can do with it. This permit does not do everything hopeful for everyone. Its our hope we can get more businesses, types of business and types of entertainment activity on board because its what we support and we know the first version of this is not going to allow everyone access because of the limits. I mean, we got to start somewhere. Lets move to the next so we can approve it. Thank you, maggie, good job. Thank you. Anyone else . Quick question for director. I want to clarify. This particular permit does not include popup drivethru threaters, correct . So, we do have drive in gatherings drick tive and so, if theres a drive in gathering that is occurring we can permit it as long as it complies with the health order right now though, drive in gatherings do not allow for entertainment our Live Performances theyre only allowing essentially screenings and emphasize those. Thank you. No problem. More questions . Thank you for getting this solution through. I know a lot of folks are excited about it and im glad to hear its eye nam i can. My question is about the 12person cap i know we discussed this a little bit related to interest in a permit from queer night life margin. That number does seem conservative in terms of the work it takes to put together a performance and it sounded like there was flexibility if maybe theres a barrier between the group and how that number came to be and where the flexibility is. I actually do know where that number came to be within the small outdoor gatherings goals. I would assume though that they have had number of six for quite some time and not an Outdoor Dining too. Limited to a group of six and even within an outdoor small gathering if you add food and drink you have to limit six so you can increase that number as folks arent taking off their masks to enjoy food and drink and even within the 12 person gathering they encourage folks to be from the same household and if theyre not separate even within their small gathering. Again, a lot of the health order rules and directives are not created with the goals to allow for more adaptive business experiences and theyre made with a goal of contain particular the virus and so, i know you all know that but i dont know beyond that commissio