n o . 5 3 COLLABORATIVE PUBLISHED CENTRAL CITY BY THE SAN FRANCISCO Westside STUDY CENTER FEBRUARY seeks warm 2006 welcome, gets cold shoulder GARDENIAS Support nil FOR REMY for plan to move IN THE SAN FRANCISCO 3 mental health PARK programs to TL PAGE 3 D ECO L OUNGE U NDER F IRE

BY M ARJORIE B EGGS

BNER Boles, head of Westside Community Mental Health ACenter, came to the Tender- loin Futures Collaborative in Decem- ber to garner support for moving COPS three programs, now in Western Addition, into the Tenderloin — 166 MISFIRE Golden Gate near Leavenworth. Westside’s adult crisis, adult out- WITH DATA patient and Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) programs have to IN LICENSE move, Boles said, because building owner St. Paulus Church wants the space at 888 Turk St. near Gough. FIGHT Westside opened in 1967, a pio- neer in community-based mental PAGE 5 health treatment. From its adminis- trative offices at “Don’t get the Oak near Divisa- dero it operates 19 idea that we programs. The three it don’t care. … wants to move P HOTOS BY L ENNY L IMJOCO serve a lot of North Male stripper Quiet Storm started off looking like a ninja all in black before paring but we feel of Market folks, down to a G-string to open Strip-o-rama on a Sunday night at Deco Lounge. the rest of Boles said. Adult crisis helps 3,000 the city is not clients annually connect with men- pitching in.” tal health profes- sionals; 75% of the The Rev. clients live in the Glenda Hope TL and SoMa. S.F. NETWORK MINISTRIES Just under half BAR BATTLE of the 300 to 400 clients in West- Deco Lounge, a gay bar at 510 Larkin St. side’s adult outpatient program live Yee says he’ll that wants to transfer a full bar permit from North of Market; 20% to 30% live TENDERLOIN a Polk Street watering hole that closed two South of Market; the rest live in the push bill to give years ago. But neighborhood activists held Western Addition, Boles said. TRACK up the process at a November hearing and And of the 100 ACT clients, the bar owners await the administrative law “most are here in the Tenderloin,” TEAM citizens more clout judge’s ruling expected any day now. Boles said. To help them stay in the New ground rules for the on-again, off- community, they get food, rent BY T OM C ARTER again battle may be the target of legislation money and other incentives. OFF AND in Sacramento next year to give citizens The response to the idea of more say-so. another social service provider in RUNNING HE fight to limit bars in the “I’m hearing more and more complaints the neighborhood was predictable: Tenderloin pits activists against against the ABC,” Assemblyman Leland Yee Not in My Back Yard. PAGE 6 the Alcoholic Beverage Control said in an interview with The Extra. “People Who owns the Golden Gate department and the patchwork are writing letters about the ABC not being building? came the first question. system that regulates liquor responsive. I’m going to be very interested Boles said he didn’t know. licenses.T in this in the Senate.” Laughter erupted around the table The most recent skirmish is over the Yee, who as District 4 supervisor and several Collaborative members authored the moratoriums on Tenderloin named him: Paul Bochetti. massage parlors in 1998 and liquor stores in Bochetti is well-known in the 1999, was back in the neighborhood Jan. 11 neighborhood. Elaine Zamora, inter- to speak at the Alliance for A Better District im district manager of the new TL 6 monthly meeting. Alliance members are Community Benefit District, later primary protesters of the Deco Lounge, told The Extra that Bochetti owns 17 though that’s not why Yee was there. apartment buildings, SROs and Afterward, when asked about the con- tourist hotels in the Tenderloin — so tinuing protests over liquor licenses not only many properties, Zamora said, that in the Tenderloin but Haight-Ashbury and he is one of the four top owners in other neighborhoods, Yee said “citizens the CBD, after the Hilton Hotel, groups should have a direct voice.” The Hastings College of the Law and ABC and police can put restrictive condi- TNDC. Many of his buildings, which tions on licenses that are based on data, he’s owned since the 1960s, are in such as security measures in high-crime disrepair, she added. areas, but may not include all the neighbor- And Bochetti hasn’t been neigh- hood’s concerns. borly. “He voted repeatedly against “Citizens groups should be able to put the benefit district and never was conditions on licenses as well,” Yee said. No neighbors in the 500 block of Currently, they can protest in writing to the ® CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Larkin Street objected to the bar. ® CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 FUTURES COLLABORATIVE Asian Inc. does it again Developer takes another small building, turns studios into larger units

® CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “We’re looking at other locations. We’ve already looked in SoMa and the interested in TSIP,” Zamora said. Western Addition, but there were Extra to publish map “Leroy Looper tried to get him issues of availability and cost.” He esti- involved on many occasions, but it mated that it would cost $1.2 million never worked.” Looper is founder of to $2 million just for the renovation on of fresh food in Tenderloin Reality House West, longtime owner of Golden Gate. Boles said he’d return soon. the Cadillac Hotel, across Leavenworth AN Francisco Study Center, which publishes Central City from Bochetti’s Verona Hotel. Extra, has completed a fresh food survey in Bayview-Hunters Asked when the three programs TENDERLOIN HOUSING TREND Point and in the Tenderloin under grants from the Bay Area Continuing a mini-trend toward S would have to vacate Turk Street, Nutrition and Physical Activity Collaborative and the S.F. Boles said maybe in two years. more housing for families in the Department of Public Health. “We’ve already been looking for Tenderloin, Asian Inc. presented plans It will publish maps of all fresh food outlets in the city’s two two years,” he said. “We’ve begun talks in November for a rehab of its 47 low- lowest-income neighborhoods. Tenderloin is on the bottom, with with the owner on Golden Gate, and income rental units at 575 Eddy, a an average annual income of $15,000 below Bayview. his building’s been vacant for five or six seven–story building that the nonprof- The Tenderloin map also will be published in a coming issue years. We’ve submitted preliminary it developer bought in 1992. of The Extra, said Publisher Geoff Link. I architectural plans and he’s considering Project Manager Hershey Hirsch- our offer. If all goes well, I think we kop said 120 people currently live in could occupy it a year from now.” the building’s 35 studios and 12 one- “I’m going out on a limb,” said bedroom apartments. After rehab, the Terrance Alan, Entertainment commis- number of units will stay the same but struction loan interest and fees, reloca- Yoshioka said. sioner and nightclub owner. “This will be reconfigured to favor families: tion costs, operating reserves.” LEJ offers perks to stores that join: community has the sense that it’s serv- the studios will be cut by two-thirds, The rehab at 575 Eddy will start signs identifying them as a “good iced the disadvantaged more and to 12; the one-bedrooms will more early in March. neighbor” to post in their windows; longer than any other San Francisco than double, to 29; and six two-bed- group-buying at wholesale prices plus rooms will be added. neighborhood. I think your proposal FRESH IDEA free delivery; free in-store energy-effi- is going to be resisted by those who The project is similar to a 29-unit Housing covered, the Collabo- cient retrofits; promotional advertising wonder why it’s always the building Asian Inc. renovated in 2004 rative moved on to that other essen- through coupons and store tastings; Tenderloin. Why not other neighbor- at 421 Turk St. tial: food. training in how to stock produce with hoods?” Asian Inc. will relocate the tenants Fresh, affordable victuals are minimum loss; modest façade “The people we want to serve during rehab. abundant in the Tenderloin only on improvements; and help writing grants mostly live here,” Boles responded. “We’re planning to rent neighbor- Wednesdays and Sundays, when to get funding for larger renovations. “We see it as service improvement. hood apartments for them, and pay Heart of the City farmers’ market And the outcomes to date? But I understand your concern. We any rent difference and moving costs. comes to U.N. Plaza. “We have four stores actively par- have talked to other Tenderloin When they come back, their rent So Jerry Jai, TNDC staffer who ticipating and three more are in the providers. Some said they’d love to should be comparable to what it is coordinates Collaborative meetings, process of signing up,” Yoshioka said. have us here; others said it might be now, $600 to $800 a month.” invited Literacy for Environmental Collaborative members listened duplicative. So we’re considering not Hirschkop said. “The interior work Justice, a Bayview-Hunters Point politely to the presentation but asked moving the outpatient services.” will be done in three phases so, at youth group working to give residents no questions afterward. “I wouldn’t expect a welcome mat most, tenants won’t have to be out for access to fresh food. A few weeks later, Jai told The for your project,” said David Villa- more than five or six months.” Erin Yoshioka, manager of LEJ’s Extra that he didn’t sense a big “spark” Lobos, director of Community Besides refurbished apartments Youth Envision Program, came to talk in Collaborative members’ interest, Leadership Alliance. “How much will they’ll find the garage roof converted about its “good neighbor program” but, he said, he hoped that the idea the community’s input weigh in your to a terrace and playground; a new staffed by young volunteers and might set a bonfire under someone in decision?” community room, kitchen, computer interns. The two-year pilot is a partner- the Tenderloin. (See sidebar.) I Boles’ reply was short: “We have lab, program office and laundry room; ship of LEJ, Supervisor Sophie Maxwell to have community input.” new windows and freshly painted and the city’s Tobacco Free Project. In San Francisco, public mental facade; electrical, plumbing, fire, heat “In our community,” Yoshioka health programs and private nonprofits and ADA upgrades; and a paved, said, “we’re concerned about super- CORRECTIONS like Westside that have city contracts planted back yard. There will be a market flight, lack of fresh produce, half-time social worker to coordinate must follow DPH’s 1988 “good neighbor and all the junk food, alcohol and The November 2005 Extra stated building activities and refer tenants to policy.” New programs, or programs smoke products sold at corner mar- that the Mid-Market Redevelopment other services as needed. wanting to move to another neighbor- kets.” Sounds like the Tenderloin. Plan would have a hearing Nov. 22 “We’ve worked hard to keep the hood, have to meet with “residents, The project started with a baseline before the Board of Supervisors, based tenants involved in what we’re doing,” merchants and community organiza- survey of what Bayview stores were on information received from the clerk. Hirschkop said. “We’ve had a newslet- tions to discuss . . . any concerns they selling. Its goals were modest: Get The plan is not yet scheduled for a ter, several group meetings, and meet- have,” as well as “to allay fears and pro- eight stores to increase their stock of hearing. The 3% decline Redevelop- ings with individual households to vide reassurances that we will be good healthy comestibles by 30%, 10% of ment reported in the project area’s find out if they have special moving or neighbors,” states DPH’s policy. which have to be fresh. Stores must property value was a one-year compar- relocation needs. I expect we’ll lose a Roy Crew, director of Office of take food stamps and participate in ison, 2005-06, to the previous year. The few along the way — they may decide Self-Help, a city-funded mental health WIC, a federal nutrition program for area’s low-income residents, plus those to move only once and not want to peer support program at Seventh and women and their young children, plus from surrounding neighborhoods come back, but we’re doing every- Market, told The Extra that because of the stores have to limit tobacco and including the Tenderloin, would be eli- thing we can to make this as easy as anti-discrimination laws and provi- alcohol advertising. gible for affordable housing. possible.” sions of the Americans with Dis- “In our survey, we found that one In the bedbug story, the Tenderloin Hirschkop said returning tenants abilities Act, neighbors rarely win store was getting $1,200 a month for Housing Clinic found 52 buildings that still must still meet the low-income when they oppose the location of a displaying a single tobacco poster,” were infested; 28 were hotels and the requirement, 30% to 40% of the area mental health program in their com- paid for by the tobacco company, rest apartment buildings. I munity. median income, which, according to “We’ll put the skids on [moving to the Mayor’s Office of Housing Web the Tenderloin] if the community site, suggests rent for a studio, with CENTRAL CITY opposes it,” he said. “But I hope we utilities, should be capped at $594, a one-bedroom at $679 and a two-bed- can come to a compromise.” EDITOR AND PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Link room at $764. Market rate rentals for SENIOR WRITER/EDITOR: Marjorie Beggs Central YMCA Director Carmela SAN FRANCISCO Gold didn’t think so. “I have strong such units are almost double. REPORTERS: Tom Carter, Phil Tracy, Anne reservations. We’re trying to move the It all sounded good to Colla- CENTRAL CITY EXTRA is published monthly by Marie Jordan, Meg Dixit DESIGN AND LAYOUT: Lenny Limjoco Tenderloin to a residential and busi- borative members, who had no ques- San Francisco Study Center Inc., a private tions about the $7.5 million project. nonprofit serving the community since DESIGN CONSULTANT: Don McCartney ness base and away from a provider 1972. The Extra was initiated through PHOTOGRAPHERS: Lenny Limjoco, Mark base.” The corner of Golden Gate and About $3.5 million of that is for the physical rehab, Hirschkop said. grants from the S.F. Hotel Tax Fund and Ellinger Leavenworth, she said, is already the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund. CONTRIBUTORS: Adrian D. Varnedoe, “Re the other costs,” she later e- “almost debilitating” in the severity of The contents are copyrighted by the San Diamond Dave, William Crain, Mark Hedin, its problems. mailed The Extra, “the old partnership Francisco Study Center, 1095 Market Street, John Burks, Eric Robertson “Don’t get the idea that we don’t sells the property to a new partnership Suite 602, San Francisco, CA 94103. EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE: care,” added S.F. Network Ministries for a third-party appraised price, PHONE: (415) 626-1650 David Baker, Michael Nulty, Debbie Larkin, AX (415) 626-7276 Director Glenda Hope. “We do care which can add a few million. Other F : Nicholas Rosenberg, Brad Paul, Tariq E-MAIL: [email protected] Alazraie about people in need — but we feel than that big chunk, [there are] archi- the rest of the city is not pitching in.” tects, engineers, legal fees, consultant fees for feasibility study, market study, Central City Extra is a member of the Boles was asked where Westside S AN F RANCISCO N EIGHBORHOOD N EWSPAPER A SSOCIATION would go if the Tenderloin doesn’t fly. financial consultants, financial fees associated with bond issuance, con-

2 CENTRAL CITY EXTRA / FEBRUARY 2006 Gardenias in the park for Phillips, gunned down in unsolved slaying

BY T OM C ARTER At Boeddeker, McDaniels has been collect- GOOD ing donations among the regulars to buy saplings for the children’s corner to honor EMY Phillips, 25, was standing in front of deceased people who have made contributions the 21 Club at the corner of Turk and to the park. He felt Phillips had made enough RTaylor at 2:40 a.m. on Nov. 11 when of a difference on the court to be worthy. for... someone walked up and pumped multiple “He was an all-around point guard and for... rounds into him. It’s believed Phillips was could do anything — he could have played in NEWS wearing a bulletproof vest and there was talk college,” McDaniels said of the stocky 5-foot-7 FOR 4TH, 5TH GRADERS De Marillac Middle School, which celebrated its fifth anniversary Jan. 29 it was a drug-related hit. man he met on the Boeddeker court when with a 12:15 p.m. Mass at St. Boniface followed by a Phillips had a history in the ’hood. He was Phillips was 18. “He was always encouraging school open house, announced that it will add grade a basketball player, good enough to have left people to play harder and then he’d congratu- 4 next year and grade 5 in 2007. “We won’t be a an impression that talented athletes enjoy. And late them. He made people laugh a lot, too. grades 6 through 8 middle school anymore, but this for that reason he got a gardenia bush planted But a couple of years ago, he drifted away. He is what seems to be needed in the community,” said in his memory in Boeddeker Park on Dec. 3, only came back every now and then for games. school President Catherine Ronan Karrels. The name park Recreation Director Robert McDaniels “I know it wasn’t positive the way he died. of the school will change, but that’s still TBA, she told The Extra. And I wouldn’t normally do this. But he made said. De Marillac, a Catholic school sponsored by the Homicide Inspectors Herman Jones and a difference with basketball.” De La Salle Christian Brothers and the Daughters of Edward Wynkoop are continuing to interview McDaniels said at the last minute he chose Charity, is accepting applications for 2006-07, includ- “several” witnesses and pursuing “some leads,” a gardenia shrub for Phillips because of its ing for 4th-grade students. The 5th grade will open in a department spokesman said. white fragrant flowers. It is next to the two 2007-08. Karrels expects the additional grades to Tenderloin Capt. Kathryn Brown said at trees planted for Carmelita Richardson and push enrollment to 100. Sixty students are enrolled the Nov. 29 police community meeting that Joycelyn Marie Jones. Richardson was a 46- now. Nearly 50 live in the Tenderloin or nearby, she although 50% of the neighborhood’s drug year-old mother who died Nov. 1 of brain can- says. The school is tuition-free, but students’ families, busts involving a “lot of dealers from out of cer. She lived over on Third Street but often which must be low-income, are asked to pay a $30- town” occur at Turk and Taylor, this homicide came to Boeddeker to make barbecue dinners $75 monthly activity fee, she said. Call 552-5220 or was over “a boy-girl thing.” to cheer up homeless people and draw the www.demarillac.org. Jones and Wynkoop wouldn’t comment community together, McDaniels said. The 56- on the love angle, SFPD spokesman year-old Jones was a retired nurse and park KIDS IN CARS The Department of Public Health’s Dewayne Tully said. And almost a month regular who suffered from a painful stomach Community Health Education Section is launching an after the killing, they would neither confirm condition that killed her. $80,000 child passenger safety project this month that nor deny that Phillips was wearing a bullet- “She never complained and she inspired teaches low-income families, families of color, and proof vest. But Bob, the daytime bartender at people and told them not to worry,” families for whom English is a second language how the 21 Club, said the night man — who was McDaniels said. I to keep their children safe in vehicles. According to still closing up at the time of project head Nicamer Tolentino, 124 children were the slaying — saw a bullet- injured in car accidents in the city in 2004, nearly proof vest on the sidewalk next triple the number two years earlier. Four community to the body. agencies will receive $20,000 each to operate the 10- Phillips apparently had month program. A Feb. 14 special event will offer more than Boeddeker Director free inspection and installation of car and booster McDaniels mourning his death. seats, and — best of all — free boosters to the first A shrine sprang up on the cor- 42 families that show up or call for an inspection and ner outside the bar: flowers, installation appointment. The event will be held from candles, beer and whiskey bot- 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Cala Foods parking lot, 1245 tles, hand-scrawled notes a cou- South Van Ness, between 23rd and 24th streets. For ple of feet high. appointments, call Yecenia Zamora, 982-4777 x23, “Some people were throw- Feb. 7-9. Project info: 581-2420 or nicamer.tolenti- ing trash on it and burning it [email protected]. and pissing on it,” said Bob, who didn’t want his last name OLDER WOMEN IN RECOVERY On Jan. 20, the used, “and it got so big, maybe Curry Senior Center, formerly North of Market Senior 6-feet-by-6 feet, that it was Services, began offering a support group for women, blocking the door. It was bad 55 and up, in all stages of recovery. Staffer Molly for business. People were com- Lucier says women who are even thinking about plaining.” quitting alcohol or drugs, as well as those who’ve Two weeks after the shrine relapsed, are welcome. “There’s no commitment went up, Mayor Newsom came required for the group,” Lucier says. “Come and try it into the bar on his out and see if it’s a good fit.” Facilitated by Curry Thanksgiving holiday walk staff, the group will meet Fridays from 2-3 p.m. at 315 through the neighborhood. Bob Turk. Call Lucier or JoAnn McAbee, 885-2274. asked him if the city could remove the messy shrine. If you have some good news, send it to “’Your wish is my command,’” Bob said the mayor told him. [email protected] or [email protected]. And the city scraped it up and hauled it away. PESTEC IPM PROVIDERS

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FEBRUARY 2006 / CENTRAL CITY EXTRA 3 Eateries add to growing TL license total

® CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 all over the state becaue the issues are the The protest is a continuing reaction same in all 58 counties. against bars in the high-crime neighborhood ABC and, depending on the type of license, The Deco Lounge jumped through all that has more on-sale licenses than state law testify at supervisors’ meetings. “The next the required government hoops to get its mandates. The California Business and generation of liquor license law would give liquor license transferred. But then it faced Professions Code limits general on-sale more say to neighborhoods,” he said. its stickiest wicket in a four-hour ABC hear- licenses (for beer, wine and booze) to 1 Yee said if he wins in November, he’ll ing at the Tenderloin Police Station on Nov. license for every 2,000 people. The ABC introduce a citizen-friendly bill to further 22 because it ignored TL activists along the uses the Department of Finance census, restrict liquor licenses in neighborhoods that way. which puts San Francisco’s population at have more than their share. Seven people in the audience of 16 tes- 799,650. A veteran of the liquor license fight, tified against the license and none for it. The David Baker, said it’s a losing battle because piano bar that features female impersonators 6 TIMES TOO MANY LICENSES no elected official wants to say no to new and a Sunday night male striptease contest By that measure, San Francisco should businesses. (down to their underwear) has been doing have 400 on-sale licenses. It has 2,424. “Since the passage of the 1995 ABC law business since Sept. 1 on a temporary Though many licenses have ancient histo- that turned over final decisions to the super- license, granted after the ABC determined ries and have been sold and resold, which visors, the problem has been with the uni- the applicant is qualified, and extended in the ABC can’t prevent, new licenses have verse of licenses,” Baker said. “The supervi- December to April 30 because of the proliferated since the ratio was established sors are okaying everything because they?re protest. in 1955. sympathetic to small businesses. They may Opponents said the hearing could have The ABC says the Tenderloin is “author- think that imposing conditions controls the been avoided had the bar owners reached ized” for 94 on-sale licenses for bars and situation, but it doesn’t. Also, places that out to the community. Six residents, four of restaurants; the neighborhood has 185. serve alcohol have a short life — they go them Alliance members acting as individu- (ABC spokesmen said “authorized” is deter- out of business and then we?re stuck with als, wrote protests to the ABC in June when mined by dividing the county’s population the license. I think there should be a limit to they learned of the license application. And by its number of on-sale licenses, then the universe.” after the ABC sent it on to the supervisors’ dividing the population of a specific census City Operations and Neighborhood Service tract by that number.) However, licenses are A TELLING STORY Committee for a recommendation, several being added yearly in the neighborhood Three blocks from the Police protested in person on Aug. 1. On Aug. 12, through transfers that the ABC approves. It Community Room where Yee had the full board approved the license 10-0. approves some new licenses, too. addressed the Alliance, the gay bar’s pro- Supervisor Daly voted for it, and the mayor Most license transfers are within the tracted struggle with Alliance members to affirmed it a few days later. same census tract but can go from one San transfer its liquor license nine blocks from Repeated efforts over several weeks to Francisco neighborhood to another, though Polk and Bush to Larkin and Turk offers the reach Daly for comment, including by tele- they cannot come in from another county. opportunity to understand the complex phone, e-mail and dropping by his office, Too many on-sale licenses — citing nature of the battle here and, for that matter, failed. ABC’s data — is the protesters’ main com- plaint. New licenses and transfers coming from outside account for the oversaturation in the Tenderloin.

TRANSFER FROM POLK ST. Deco Lounge owners Paul Xavier, Battle the neighborhood won Douglas Cox and David Kapp want to trans- fer a license that Xavier and Kapp had at the Rendez-Vous, a bar at Polk and Sutter in Census Tract 120 until December 2004. The Off-sale moratorium still on ABC tracks liquor licenses by census tract because of the per-capita ratio. Deco Lounge was previously another CTIVISTS trying to stem the tide of on-sale joined by other cities and counties that have bar, Jezebel’s Joint. The census tract is 124 liquor licenses in the Tenderloin will called a halt to off-sale beer and wine licenses. which includes the Civic Center and part of Ahave to work hard to match the chutzpa According to the ABC, as of January 2005, 46 of Little Saigon and is just up the block from of an earlier liquor battle — the one that ended California’s 58 counties had full or partial mora- Harrington’s Pub, the neighborhood stalwart in an off-sale license moratorium that morphed toriums on off-sale licenses. The ABC updates that got its license in September 1979. It into an outright prohibition, part of the city’s its list of moratoriums every five years. Since opened Sept. 1. Planning Code. 2000, 28 cities and one county, San Bernardino, After paying the ABC $2,147 in fees and In 1998, fresh from two successful cam- no longer had moratoriums; nine cities and one garnering all the necessary civic approvals, paigns — the first banned new smoke shops in county, Marin, had enacted new moratoriums. getting the liquor license seemed a slam the neighborhood, the second new massage dunk. parlors — a group called Tenderloin Com- FORTIFIED WINE FIGHT “They (the owners) didn’t come to the munity on Patrol set its sights on liquor stores. The Tenderloin had an earlier fight against community,” said Marvis Phillips, Alliance Assemblyman Leland Yee, then a supervisor neighborhood booze that was less formal than member and former president of the North for District 4 (Sunset and Parkside), sponsored the moratorium, but also effective, recalls Baker. of Market Planning Coalition. an ordinance to prohibit any new liquor store “It was in the late 1980s — not really a cam- “If they had consulted us, this hearing from opening in the North of Market Residential paign but more a PR appeal to the wineries like might not be necessary,” said Michael Nulty, Special Use District, an area bounded by Post, Gallo and others to stop promoting the sale of Alliance president who requested the hear- Polk, Golden Gate and Taylor. cheap fortified wines in the Tenderloin,” Baker ing before Administrative Law Judge Arnold “We had a little coalition that got the three said. “Those high-alcohol-level wines really Greenberg. “We just want to be in the loop.” moratoriums enacted,” recalled Jim Thompson, appealed to the wino trade. North of Market Phillips, Nulty and his brother John, property manager at 165 Turk and founder of Planning Coalition and some individuals met Susan Bryan and two other residents had TCOP. “I remember going to a workshop and with Gallo’s general manager and he was written protests in June objecting to the apparently we’d achieved some degree of fame responsive. Gallo, for one, quit selling in the over-subscription of licenses, the bar’s loca- across the state for our three campaigns.” Tenderloin.” tion in a high-crime area, the noise it might Others in TCOP were resident David Baker, Brad Paul, senior program officer and hous- cause, possible loitering outside, and the TL police Capt. Susan Manheimer (now San ing specialist with Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. proximity of the Tenderloin Community Mateo city police chief), former TNDC Executive Fund, was head of NOMPC at that time. “Off- School 1? blocks west on Turk. Director Kelly Cullen, other TNDC staff, and sale was the big issue,” he said. The Tenderloin Futures Collaborative “people who floated in and out of the group,” “We had a grocery store in our building, at repeatedly invited the Deco Lounge co- Thompson said. Eddy and Jones, and it sold individual cigarettes owners to address its monthly meeting, a “Leland really was the one who kicked off and paper cups of fortified wine,” he said. TFC spokesman said, but Kapp later said he the liquor law, but we all worked on it,” he said. People would stand around outside, he remem- didn’t have time to attend. “I remember that Leland found out that the bers, getting drunker and drunker and “bother- Tenderloin had the highest concentration of off- ing everyone.” THE APPLICATION PROCESS sale licenses outside of New York.” Paul says he doesn’t have a problem with Applying May 23 for the liquor license When the moratorium went into effect, the on-sale licenses, especially those for restaurants transfer, the Deco Lounge owners were special use district had one off-sale license for whose evening hours and clientele are good for required to hand deliver to the ABC a writ- every 327 residents, according to Yee, who was the Tenderloin. ten explanation of their intentions, get fin- quoted in the March 16, 1999, Chronicle. A No one has compared bar numbers over the gerprinted, then post notice of the applica- week earlier, the Examiner had reported that, years, but Thompson says that at least in his tion on the premises. The owners also had citywide, there was an off-sale license for every immediate vicinity, he’s seen a significant drop. to place an ad in a newspaper three times 719 residents. The state authorizes 1 for every “On Turk, I can count at least four bars that announcing the application. Foes had 30 1,250 residents in the county. have closed in the last 10 years,” he said. I days to oppose the transfer. Over the years, San Francisco has been — MARJORIE B EGGS After receiving the lounge’s type 48 full bar on-sale transfer application, the ABC

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4 CENTRAL CITY EXTRA / FEBRUARY 2006 Protest on Powell over 2-license request Police report shows high-crime data for wrong census tract

BY T OM C ARTER drinking and public intoxication. And type 21 to Tracts aside, the address is in Tenderloin them smelled like a liquor store, although Sirhed’s Station’s triangle of jurisdiction, which is sided by plan didn’t sound like one. Geary, Market and Larkin. AM Sirhed wants to kick things up a notch at “NOMPC instructed me to work out the condi- Officer Mike Torres, who reviews permits and his marble-floored, three-story Gallery at 222 tions we wanted on the licenses with the lawyers,” applications for the TL police, says he doesn’t see S Powell St. Phillips said. “any benefit” in approving either license. “It adds Operating his upscale business for almost a year Phillips filed a protest with the ABC on Nov. 11 more,” he says, “and the whole idea is to have less.” after sinking $6.5 million into the building, Sirhed then met with Sirhed’s lawyer on Nov. 29 at the Torres repeated his objection before the super- offers eclectic objects such as 6-foot-long carved ele- Alexander Residence where Phillips lives. They visors’ City Operations and Neighborhood Services phant tusks and matching lion statues as well as agreed on a number of conditions, most of them Committee that considered the license at City Hall exotic furniture, jewelry and paintings. Now he’d designed to keep the proposed “Gallery Market” on Jan. 23. The committee had put the matter over like to have wine tastings, too, and sell gourmet from resembling a liquor store. In his follow-up let- from December. Vice Crimes Inspector Richard wines and spirits to go — along with caviar, fine ter, Strike told Phillips that Sirhed also agreed to McNaughton opposed it, too, as did TL activist cheeses and pates. So he applied last October to the hold fundraisers to donate revenue “to worthy non- Michael Nulty, and Elaine Zamora acting general state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control for two liquor profit organizations, including NOMPC.” manager of the new North of Market Community licenses, one a transfer, the other new. But Phillips said he still worried that “market” in Benefits District. Phillips didn’t attend for health rea- His applications are being protested by North of the new name would appeal to the brown-baggers. sons, Nulty said. Market Planning Coalition, one of the Deco Lounge Morever, what if Sirhed went out of business? What Sirhed was supported by several business repre- opponents and the head of the TL community ben- might a license transfer bring? Phillips hasn’t met sentatives, including Marsha Garland, executive direc- efit district. The police also recommend disapproval. again with Strike. tor of the North Beach Chamber of Commerce, who The case is before the Board of Supervisors, but Police oppose the license. According to a Vice called his upscale venture, “not a liquor store, but fine with incorrect data from the police. Crimes report to the supervisors’ committee that will food and wine,” and a potential boon to the city. The police report to the supervisors committee review Sirhed’s application, 1,506 police reports Sirhed told the committee he agreed with some that is reviewing Sirhed’s application uses data from were filed in 2003 in the plot where 222 Powell of the objections but he needed to go forward. a Tenderloin census tract indicating much higher resides, five times the 282 reports that defined a Rents of “$40,000 a month,” he said, are driving crime in the area than across the street in Census high-crime area. businesses off the block. He said he had invited Tract 117, where the Gallery is located. The report by Inspector Dave Falzon on Nov. 30 police to come see his business but they told him Activist Marvis Phillips got wind of the applica- also said the Gallery is in Census Tract 123 where they were too busy. tion in a phone call from the Tenderloin Police there are 3 to 4 times more licenses than allowed. Neighborhood Services Chairman Jake McGold- Station. Twenty on-sale licenses are “authorized” and 77 are rick got into a shouting match with Sirhed when “And I’m the one that got them to the meeting,” “active”; eight off-sale are authorized and 27 exist, Sirhed waffled on saying when he learned of the Phillips says. the report said. police opposition. “I found out in the last two or That was NOMPC’s Oct.19 meeting. Phillips, its Under law, the ABC cannot approve an off-sale three weeks,” Sirhed finally said. Police, responding former president, telephoned Sirhed’s lawyer at type 21 license in an area having an “undue concen- to McGoldrick, said their report was available in Hinman & Carmichael and said he and others had tration” of them unless the Board of Supervisors December. concerns about the license, even though the busi- finds that “public convenience and necessity” would Torres said the police hadn’t approved an off- ness was nearer Union Square than the Tenderloin. be served. sale license in 15 years. He said if Sirhed dropped Could they, or Sirhed, attend the meeting and “Vice Crimes Division concurs with the DISAP- both licenses and applied for a type 41 license, explain the intentions? PROVAL recommendation forwarded by Tenderloin which allows beer and wine to be sold at a restau- Sirhed ’s lawyer, Barry Strike, took the high road Police Station,” the report says, using capital letters. rant, the police wouldn’t object. and went to the neighborhood group’s meeting However, 222 Powell is not in Tract 123. It is in McGoldrick said he “strongly” disapproved of hoping to get support. Strike explained why Sirhed Tract 117, which begins across the street. And the 77 the licenses, but committee members Fiona Ma and needed a type 42 license for the on-sale beer and on-sale licenses don’t match up with a 71 count Bevan Dufty thought a postponement would give wine and a type 21 off-sale general that he would from a current list compiled by the ABC and sup- Sirhed and his opposition a chance to work things transfer from 4100 24th St., formerly Graystone Wine plied The Extra. Falzon couldn’t be reached because out. On a 2-1 vote, McGoldrick voting no, the mat- and Liquor now Vendima Vintage, a women’s cloth- he is on extended medical leave. But a spokesman ter was put over until Feb. 6. ing store. said the difference might be 2003 numbers versus Sirhed came to this country 31 years ago and But NOMPC and Phillips weren’t buying it. They 2005 numbers, or an inclusion of licenses of clubs, after a stint as a cab driver made his money in real said they were concerned about anything that might caterers, theaters or seasonal permits. The ABC estate, he said afterward. “I have a gallery, I don’t encourage the longtime TL scourge of brown bag issues 80 different types of licenses. want a restaurant.” I

® CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 notified the city agencies that must weigh in on the license decision: the Board of Supervisors, the Police Department and City Planning, which confirms the appropriate zoning. The supervisors are involved because a 1995 state law prohibits the ABC from awarding outright a full bar license in a high-crime or oversubscribed area. The law allows local government to contain the growth of licenses. But only the ABC decides on applications for restaurants and hotels. First, the ABC investigates the type 48 license applicant and premises, then coordi- nates the police evaluation and the planning report and shoots the application to a coun- ty’s Board of Supervisors with a recommen- dation to approve or not. In committee, the supervisors consider the reports and hear public testimony. Then it goes to the full board where no testimony is taken. Typically, despite opposition, the supervisors determine that “public conven- ience or necessity” would be served by granting the license and make their recom- mendation to the ABC, which invariably approves the license. The supes’ Deco Lounge resolution included fairly standard police conditions on full bars to restrict noise, loitering, littering and prohibit alcohol sales between 2 a.m. and 9 a.m. and off-sale privileges. Tenderloin crime figures don’t stop an P HOTO BY L ENNY L IMJOCO application, though state law decrees that if the rate of crime at an applicant’s location Pianist Houston Allred, garrulous son of a Texas governor, mixes politics with his songs on Sundays before strippers take the Deco Lounge stage. “Keep on Lyin’ Condoleeza” is his signature piece. ® CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

FEBRUARY 2006 / CENTRAL CITY EXTRA 5 Running with MacCanDo

® CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 First nonprofit track team in the Tenderloin ‘It’s about self-confidence and education, too’

T EXT BY T OM C ARTER AND M ARJORIE B EGGS

P HOTOS BY L ENNY L IMJOCO

Above: VERY Wednesday after school, up to 30 up 64 of them to race by threes, 40 yards up “We went to about 10 years of seminars,” Boeddeker Park boys and girls pile into Boeddeker Park, the wide brick walkway’s chalked lanes. A he said, shaking his head at the effort it took. Recreation Director Robert hooting and hollering as they race up and piercing blast from his coach’s whistle set Meanwhile, keeping the team active since McDaniels starts down. In any other neighborhood, this them off, ponytails flying and arms pump- 1992 has cost him about $5,000 out of pock- the Christian would be business as usual, but in the grit- ing, their classmates yelling and squeal- et, he estimates. Academy’s deter- ty Tenderloin, it’s a cause for celebration. ing encouragement. The meet concluded But his fund-raising has turned things mined speedsters E (from left) Leitzel The kids are members of the MacCanDo with the long jump competition on the around. The team’s first grant came from Martinez, Tenderloin Youth Track Club, a dream team assem- playground. the Bay Area Women’s and Children’s Stephanie bled by the park’s recreation director Robert From this group, McDaniels says he’s Center at 318 Leavenworth, followed by Miramontes and McDaniels, who also hosts a monthly track meet for Rosa Valencia in recruited eight for his team. The rest come others from Variety–The Children’s Charity the 40-yard dash kids 5 to 12 from the Christian Academy across the from the neighborhood, including the captain, of New York, Wells Fargo, 2003 mayoral up the middle of street at 230 Jones. Jamilia Cato, 13, who lives across the street and has candidate Mike Denny and the Hilton Hotel. the park. McDaniels had the idea for the club 14 years ago been a member seven years. A talented track and bas- The club, a registered member of the USA Track Top far right: — a time when Boeddeker Park was so populated ketball player, she’s headed for a college athletic and Field’s Pacific Association, has a $51,000 budget Miramontes and with drunks and dope dealers that when he first invit- scholarship, McDaniels believes. Her brothers, that goes for travel, food and uniforms. Valencia are nearly neck-and- ed Tenderloin kids to visit the park and run track, they Anthony, 11, and Demarcus, 15, also are on the team. “I had one kid who graduated from Lowell, a pole- neck in the home couldn’t. “The team is everything to my kids,” says their vaulter, but I’m no good with names,” McDaniels said. stretch. “The park was packed with drug dealers so we ran mother, Baretta Cato. “They try to recruit for the team. “He went into the Marines and was in the first Gulf Bottom around and around the whole block,” says McDaniels, And Jamilia, she’s going War. Now he’s back and in school. One of my far right: 48, then a new Rec and Park employee and former to take this all the way girls moved to San Jose and is on the high school The Christian star high hurdler at San Francisco State. Running were to the top, honey.” track team. She called and thanked me the other Academy’s Francisco more than a dozen kids, a mix of Filipinos, Spanish, The backbone of day. That was nice. Heredia executes Asian, black and white kids he called his “rainbow” the team is Yuko, “But anyone can be on my team. This is to a tuck style broad team. McDaniels’ wife, get kids involved and off the street.” jump in fine “It was hard times, and there was some negativity, form. Some kids who helped guide Under McDaniels’ supervision, Boeddeker jumped 5-plus people on the sidelines saying a track team could it to nonprofit also hosts the track event of the five-day Sgt. feet. never happen.” status last year Sugrue Tenderloin Games in August, named Center: But it did. McDaniels followed his bliss and persist- and its first after TL cop Ken Sugrue who died of a heart Leitzel Martinez ed with the young ones — the teenagers were budget, he attack three years after he started the tries to achieve a involved then in a basketball program. Slowly the city said. Games in 1995. distance mark in the long jump, the began focusing on the park’s problems, and in the McDaniels has added something afternoon’s last mid-1990s police were assigned there four hours a unique to the Tenderloin, says Dan Yee, exercise. day. Children’s Playground director who “The drunks and dealers wouldn’t come in then,” serves on the track club’s board. McDaniels says, “so I brought the kids in and they’ve “Robert has created the first nonprof- stayed.” it track team in the Tenderloin,” he From those originals has sprung the track club, says. “He gets those kids involved in which also practices Saturdays at Kezar Stadium — on track and keeps them busy. But he a real track — and competes in Los Gatos, San Jose incorporates more than track. It’s and Berkeley. about self-confidence and education, In November, at the monthly track meet for too. He told me once he kept kids Christian Academy kids, the 6-foot-6 McDaniels lined from competing because their grades weren’t good enough.” I

6 CENTRAL CITY EXTRA / FEBRUARY 2006 FEBRUARY 2006 / CENTRAL CITY EXTRA 7 Tenderloin liquor licenses and how they multiplied

® CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 “the wettest of the wet” towns in California. The Fairmont’s Cirque Room was the first bar exceeds 20% of the county average the to operate after Prohibition’s license should be denied. Police typically repeal. blame the high rate of arrests in a Liquor lobbyist Artie Tenderloin applicant’s census tract on the Samish of San Francisco bent substance abuse of the homeless visiting the Alcoholic Beverage nearby nonprofits and state that the bar is Control Act of 1935 to his unlikely to make things worse. That’s what desires. He called the shots for the police said about the Deco Lounge. the liquor industry, bought The battle is mainly over the continuing politicians and bragged he approval of on-sale licenses to bars in over- was “the governor of the subscribed census tracts. There’s little argu- Legislature.” Samish was jailed ment about off-sale licenses for liquor stores in the 1950s for tax evasion and corner groceries. No new off-sale and things started to change. license has been granted the TL in 15 years, police say. SETTING THE RATIO Oversubscribed on-sale licenses pose a In 1955, the license-to- conundrum unlikely to be solved in San population ratio was set and Francisco. The number, style and quantity of the ABC was taken out from bars and restaurants is essential to San under the overworked State Francisco’s prosperity and the supervisors Franchise Tax Board and are loath to discourage them. given its own director. No additional on-sale general LEGACY OF LIQUOR licenses were to be issued if Booze is a pillar of San Francisco’s col- the total in any county orful heritage that began with swilling min- exceeded 1 per 2,000 of cen- ers in the freewheeling port’s Barbary Coast sus population. P HOTO BY L ENNY L IMJOCO and went on to play a starring role in city But the large number of history. previously existing licenses During Prohibition, San Francisco was resold over the years keep the Owners of the Deco Lounge figured the fate of their ratio grossly out of whack, liquor license transfer from Polk Street would be known according to ABC spokesman before the end of the holidays. It wasn’t, so they got an John Carr. Additions under extension on their interim license. “public convenience and The business of buying, necessity,” or PCN, as it is referred to, compound that. (See sidebar.) A pair of blue neon rods overhang the In the Deco Lounge census tract, the bar’s smart gold and black Art Deco façade selling liquor licenses ratio of on-sale licenses is 1 to 186, based on that resembles an entrance to a 1930s movie 8,188 population and 44 existing licenses, theater. Inside is a fixed bar, a piano bar, and a stage that features drag contests and HE American Liquor License Exchange, Amlex it’s according to ABC figures. The majority of the licenses are common beer and wine male striptease. Capacity:49. The game room called, is one of a dozen specialists nationwide has pinball, video games and a pool table. in the field of liquor license brokering — the transfers, mostly one restaurant replacing T another at the same address. But since 2000, Co-owner Kapp’s application to the ABC buying and selling of licenses — according to its head nine new licenses have been issued and oth- didn’t miss a political trick. He wrote that he broker, Jon C. Mejia. is a gay entrepreneur who fled discrimina- “Most of our work is in California,” Mejia said. The ers are lining up. Among tract 124’s licenses are 12 for full tion in the Pennsylvania town where he company is in Santa Monica. “I’d say we handle about grew up. He came to San Francisco in 1982 150 to 250 licenses a year, 10% to 15% in San Francisco. bar restaurants. Three were transfers from other tracts, two of them from other neigh- and landed a bartending job at The Endup, “Since I started 22 years ago, there’ve been no new happy to find a tolerant, urban environment. hard liquor licenses in San Francisco, either on-sale or borhoods. The California Pizza Kitchen license on Van Ness near McAllister came Five years later, he wrote, he went to work off-sale,” Mejia said. Half a century ago the state tied at the Rendez-Vous, eventually buying the the number of liquor licenses to county population. from Geary and Taylor (tract 123) in February. Chevys at Van Ness and Golden bar with Xavier. San Francisco’s is relatively stable. “That means anyone The Rendez-Vous at 1312 Polk St. lost its who wants a license has to buy it on the open market. Gate got one from the Outer Richmond; and Senor Peppers’ license at Van Ness and lease when the building was sold in 2004 to And as for how much it costs, it’s all supply and the First Congregational Church, which now demand.” Eddy came from O’Donoghue’s Pub on Monterey Boulevard in July 2003. holds services there. Kapp says a “smear An on-sale license in San Francisco is $50,000 to campaign” by Lower Polk Neighbors, charg- $60,000, he said, “pretty much middle of the road for The 1995 law, meant to stem the tide of the Samish years, has instead offered a path ing that male prostitutes plied the congested California. In Napa County, with its low population and sidewalk in front of the Rendez-Vous and high demand, it can go as high as $250,000.” around the issue of oversubscription. PCN is the password. drunks slept in its doorway, stopped him After 2000, when the dot-com bubble burst, and from relocating elsewhere on Polk. restaurants and high-end bars were folding citywide, The ABC’s investigation found nothing to hold up the Deco Lounge application, so “you couldn’t give licenses away in San Francisco,” he POLICE STATION HEARING said. Things now are back to pre-2000 levels in the city. with no protests the license transfer could have been approved in three months. But In switching neighborhoods, the Deco Mejia noted that besides buying through brokers Lounge owners bypassed appearances like Amlex, restaurants, bars, stores and others wanting this case will stretch to nine months, and if the administrative judge rules against the before TL organizations but faced their rep- liquor licenses in California can participate in Alcohol resentatives in the police station hearing. and Beverage Control’s annual September lottery. lounge and the decision is appealed, it could take a year. Kapp was there in shirt sleeves with co- When there are more applicants than licenses available, owner Cox, sitting at a front table. They ABC holds “priority drawings ” in counties and issues a The supervisors’ seemingly automatic approvals disturb protesters. spoke without notes, a contrast to the ABC’s limited number of type 47 (on-sale for general eating lawyer and investigator in black suits nearby establishments) and type 21 (off-sale) licenses; licenses “How are we going to get the number down to where it should be if the city and whose table brimmed with thick documents are available only in counties whose populations supporting the lounge’s application. increased since the previous lottery. the ABC keep approving licenses?” Michael Nulty asked at the hearing. The question Under oath, ABC investigator Lee Reigler San Francisco was not among ABC’s list of counties said all the considerations of the police and where there were drawings last September. went unanswered. The activists reiterated their arguments, the city Entertainment Commission had been Neighboring Alameda County, by comparison, issued met, including soundproofing, security six off-sale licenses, 27 on-sale; Fresno County had 13 but their salient points were dashed by the testimony of the ABC investigator. inside and outside, and hiring a doorman to on-sale and 42 off-sale. The big winner in ABC’s lottery keep the sidewalk clear. There were 285 is always Los Angeles. Last year its drawing listed 32 DECO IN DECOROUS SETTING offenses that police reported in the census off-sale and 115 on-sale. tract, three more than the maximum 282 per- Like all lotteries, the ABC’s priority drawing has a The Deco Lounge is a cozy little bar on the tree-lined east side of Larkin Street that mitted for a license there. Reigler said Vice financial incentive: It sells its type 47 and type 21 Crimes Inspector David Falzon blamed the licenses for an economical $12,000. winces under random graffiti. It’s across the street from the Phoenix Hotel, site of bump in crime on drug use and the home- According to ABC’s Web site, the agency is a “spe- less and didn’t believe the bar would add “to cial fund agency” whose entire budget and special pro- TNDC’s annual celebrity pool toss. A travel I agency, launderette, copy store and two the existing police problem,” Reigler said. grams are funded by license fees. The police opposed the automatic type 48 — MARJORIE B EGGS notaries public as well as the venerable Saigon Sandwiches shop occupy storefronts provision for off-sale beer and wine, Reigler on the block, which is dominated by five said, and the owners agreed to drop it. contiguous, six-story apartment buildings. ® CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Reigler said she got no response from information letters about the bar she sent to S.F. liquor license trends: Rec and Park, which has a minipark at Turk and Hyde. The Tenderloin Community School principal later sent a letter to the ABC saying he wanted no more bars in the neigh- On-sale up, off-sale down borhood. But the Deco Lounge can’t be seen from the school, Reigler said, and it isn’t in session during the bar’s peak nighttime HE granting of liquor licenses for restau- “The only ones that can possibly be hours, though it opens at 9 a.m. rants has kept pace with the growth of approved under the moratorium are 41s, not Reigler said she also sent letters to resi- TSan Francisco as the dining capital of the 47s,” says John Carr, the ABC information offi- dents of 120 apartments living within 100 West Coast, even as off-sale licenses in the city cer. “The ABC has stopped accepting applica- feet of the bar and got no responses. have become almost impossible to get, accord- tions for 47s (the license type for full bar in a “Ninety percent of the residents don’t ing to figures furnished by the Alcoholic restaurant) because the licenses are oversaturat- speak English,” Michael Nulty said. Beverage Control’s office in Sacramento. ed. But we are accepting them for 41s (wine “The letter was in several languages,” The city has 1% fewer liquor licenses now and beer in a restaurant).” Reminded that 41s she retorted. than in 1980. Since then, San Francisco has are included in the excess (see sidebar), he was “Is there wheelchair access?” he asked. pared off-sale general liquor licenses by a third, asked why the double standard. “I don’t know “It’s not relevant to the ABC license.” off-sale beer and wine permits by 43% and on- how to answer that,” he said. “We just do.” “The applicant did no outreach.” sale beer-only by a whopping 75%. The number Here is a partial list of citywide license “It’s not required.” of type 48 licenses also indicates there are 30% totals. Nulty pointed out that social service fewer full-service bars in the city than in 1980. agencies are nearby and homeless people Meantime, another trend has emerged in San Francisco Liquor Licenses 1980-2005 linger on the sidewalks. The judge said the keeping with the city’s culinary reputation. On- 1980 2005 bar had agreed to manage any “loitering.” sale beer and wine licenses at eateries jumped Phillips said the bar’s video games could from 818 to 1,362, or 67% in the same 25 years, Total licenses 3,505 3461 serve as cover for drug dealing. He said he and general licenses, which include distilled was speaking from experience. “I was a spirits, increased from 590 to 671, or 14%. Type 20, off-sale beer and wine 334 192 drug dealer 20 years ago and that was my Liquor licenses for restaurants were not Type 21, off-sale general 1,036 708 cover,” said Phillips, who later said he specified in a 1999 off-sale moratorium in the Type 40, on-sale, beer 108 27 rehabbed and has been clean and sober for Tenderloin aimed at liquor stores. And state law going on 12 years. “I hadn’t heard anything doesn’t require the ABC to refer those applica- Type 41, on-sale, beer/wine, restaurant 818 1,362 about cameras before (today), but I am glad tions to a vote of the Board of Supervisors Type 47, on-sale, full bar, restaurant 590 671 there are cameras.” before it can act, as it does with bars. But, as if Type 48, on-sale, full bar 523 364 to expand the moratorium, the ABC is denying LOOKS LIKE A BREAKTHROUGH all applications for the full bar restaurant Other licenses (ABC has 80 different types) 96 137 Judge Greenberg sensed the protesters license, type 47, while approving beer and wine — TOM C ARTER and owners were “working toward a com- restaurant licenses, type 41, despite being over- mon objective.” He suggested a 20-minute subscribed. Source: Alcoholic Beverage Control conference, so Phillips and Nulty pulled up their chairs to the owners’ table. After nearly an hour the conference was a bust, having deteriorated into quibbling. “Let’s go back on record,” the judge said. The police generally go along with a HEARING WRAPS UP “Anything I can do to help you? If you’ve liquor license for a restaurant if the majority At the November hearing, the protesters agreed on a condition, it can be part of the of its sales is food. That becomes a condition were uncomfortable with the bar’s image. decision.” of approval. But Kapp was adamant about keeping it But there was no consensus. John Nulty “If it’s about a restaurant opening,” says intact for his regulars who expect amuse- later said the owners wouldn’t agree to limit Michael Torres, the Tenderloin cop who ments like the Oct. 14 wet jock contest and their bar operations to one of the three makes police recommendations on pro- the male striptease contests on Sundays. floors they lease. posed licenses, “we think that’s an opportu- “This isn’t a neighborhood bar,” Nulty “We’ve complied with every legal hur- nity that should be given. But just a bar, we said. “It caters to a different population com- dle,” Cox said. have more than enough, and I see no bene- ing from outside the city.” “The neighborhood is getting shafted,” fit to the community. It’s a lucrative busi- But, Kapp said, “most of the clientele is said Phillips. “You can’t expect us in 45 min- ness. And if it were up to us (the police), in the neighborhood.” When the judge utes to settle this.” we’d be even stricter. asked if Kapp was willing to get rid of exot- The opposition had its turn in calling “Take a walk around the Tenderloin and ic dancing to promote neighborhood peace, witnesses. Three were from the Rescue see what oversaturation does. People are he said no. Mission on Jones Street. impacted by alcohol. But we don’t give the Among the written materials the bar “This is an attempt to move something license, like most people think. We only rec- owners submitted was a list of more than 30 into the Tenderloin that isn’t accepted else- ommend. But somebody has to put their gay and straight organizations the Rende- where,” Chaplain Earl Rogers said. “And this foot down.” Vous had donated to, including the Larkin was well down the pike before we got wind ABC spokesman John Carr could not say Street Youth Center, the American Red Cross of it. whether the ABC has ever refused a San and Project Open Hand. “The ABC has seen fit to go over the Francisco application supported by the Judge Greenberg’s decision is expected limit 18 times,” he said of the difference supervisors. any day. I between the number of liquor licenses authorized and those existing. “The highest 27 ON-SALES ISSUED SINCE 2000 concentration in the city is in the So the on-sale numbers rise because of Tenderloin.” restaurants, less so because of bars. Census (ABC’s Carr couldn’t confirm if it is the tract 124, where 26 on-sale licenses are highest. “However,” he said, “the Tenderloin allowed, has 37 on-sale beer and wine and is one of a few areas with higher concentra- general licenses for restaurants, 27 of these Liquor licenses in TL tions of liquor licenses. Other areas include issued since 2000, according to ABC figures. the Mission District, Third Street Corridor The tract also has five type 48 bar licenses. HE ABC has issued 179 on-sale liquor licenses of and Haight-Ashbury.”) The last, and the only one since 1996, was issued June 21, 2004, for the Orpheum varying types to bars and restaurants in the “Getting another liquor license doesn’t Tenderloin’s four census tracts. This is almost necessarily help the city,” Rogers said. “But Theater. T Ironically, despite oversaturation, the twice the number allowed under state law. the board (of supervisors) will approve any- Census Tract 123 is home to nearly 40% of such thing.” ABC is bowing to local control. It does what the supervisors want. In the Artie Samish licenses in the neighborhood. The tract is bounded by Powell, Ellis, Leavenworth and Post streets. 4 LICENSES ON BLOCK IN 5 YEARS days, the ABC gave local communities no say about liquor licenses. And their common Inexplicably, the police claim there are 77 licenses The supervisors have approved four on- there, 6 more than the ABC’s data show. sale beer and wine licenses on the west side complaint, according to Gilman M. of the 600 block of Larkin Street since 2000. Ostrander, author of “The Prohibition The fifth license on that block was approved Movement in California,” published in 1957, Census Tract Licenses Allowed Actual in 1983 for First Restaurant, serving Chinese was that the ABC “forced bars and liquor and Thai food. The block’s latest license, stores into communities against the over- 122** 23** 28** approved by the ABC in October, was for whelming opposition of local opinion” — so 123** 20** 71** Gyro Kebob, an elongated Mediterranean the state could get more revenue. 124** 26** 44** restaurant plopped in the middle of Little Though the written protests accompa- 125** 25** 36** Saigon’s Vietnamese cuisine. nied the Deco Lounge file when the super- ______The ABC can keep the trend rolling with visors voted Aug. 12 for the license transfer, the Mangosteen restaurant at Larkin and Daly spokesman John Avalos said the on- 94** 179** Eddy. It opened last year and applied for a sale protests “haven’t been brought immedi- — TOM C ARTER type 41 license on Dec. 12. The airy, lime- ately to our attention. But we’d like to hear green Vietnamese restaurant’s imperial rolls from people about how it impacts the Source: Alcoholic Beverage Control data supplied in December 2005. were among the tastes leading a Chronicle neighborhood,” he said. “Then we can fol- reviewer to call Mangosteen “a keeper.” low up.”

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KEITH STEVENS at San Francisco General Hospital of a head injury set with handsome wood chairs and a white cloth- ‘The best man’ from unknown causes. He was 64. covered table. On it, three floral arrangements cele- Keith Stevens and his wife of 15 years, Jennifer Mr. Mikell was in a wheelchair, all 6-foot-3 of brated the lives of Jan Castro, who was 53; Bernard Lee, moved into the Union Hotel in May. They were him, when he left the West Hotel on Nov. 5. No one Clark, who was 38; and Franklin Mosby, who was 61. happy to be there and made everyone else glad to noticed him leaving and he was carrying no identi- Ms. Castro went to St. Francis Hospital on her have them. But their pleasure was short-lived: Mr. fication. birthday, Nov. 21, and died of pneumonia on Dec. 4. Stevens had a heart attack and died in his hotel According to Tomiquia Moss, the hotel’s social “I had a denim skirt for her,” said one of the room Oct. 25. He was 51. worker, Mr. Mikell was brought to the hospital after dozen mourners. “She died before I could give it to At a front table at the Nov. 16 memorial for Mr. being injured “somewhere out in the community.” her. Her death broke my heart. She was my friend.” Stevens, two huge bouquets and a foot-high card, He told E.R. staff his last name, but it sounded like Ms. Castro had come to the hotel in May to be signed by dozens of friends, flanked his smiling por- “Michael” to them, which delayed efforts to identify close to a companion, Jeffrey Leggett, and soon trait. him for four days. began volunteering for the hotel’s social activities, “I’ll always remember Keith smiling, no matter At a Nov. 30 memorial at the West, Jan said the hotel’s case manager, Mariko Obrero. how he was feeling,” said the hotel social worker. Shropshire, his public health nurse since last Mr. Clark, who died Dec. 11, was a Jefferson “I’m glad I got to know him.” January, remembered him fondly. Hotel resident less than a month when he went into Added Marjorie King, the hotel’s residential “Joseph was such a an Oakland hospital where he died while on a sup- manager, “Keith was one of our nicest residents, gentle soul, and he port system. always so polite. And you, Jennifer, always made seemed to be flower- “Both Mr. Clark and Ms. Castro were expected to the staff feel good.” ing,” Shropshire said. come back, and that’s what makes it so hard,” Lee, who attended the memorial with her son, “He was looking better Obrero said. Cordero, 19, and daughter, Kristian, 20 — Mr. than ever, though I Mr. Mosby, a 13-year resident, died in his room Stevens’ stepchildren — thanked King. She was too know he had shadows Dec. 9 of natural causes. “The three losses have overcome to share anything about her husband, she and struggles. I’m just been very painful for our community,” Obrero said, then leaned against Kristian, who put her arm so sorry I couldn’t have added. around her mother. been with him at the Randy Burns sobbed and struggled as he spoke After the memorial, Kevine Boggess, Mr. hospital.” of Mr. Mosby, a drinking buddy for 20 years and a Stevens’ half-brother, told The Extra that Mr. Stevens Moss knew him gay man like himself. well. “I saw him thrive “He’d always say, ‘Randy, be strong for gay peo- was born in New Jersey and moved to San Francisco P HOTO COURTESY W EST H OTEL 20 years ago. King explained that the couple had here and become part ple with AIDS.’ He knew all the gay people who been homeless for three years before moving to the Joseph Mikell of the community. died of AIDS. I can’t believe he’s gone. I loved him Union, one of the city’s master lease buildings for Also, he had great a so much. He was a very special person.” the formerly homeless. support system and lots of friends in the building A neighbor of his on the second floor said Mr. Asked for a few details about her husband’s life, who were sorry not to be able to say good-bye.” Mosby always greeted him with “have a good day Ms. Lee said he served in the military, stationed at She recalled that when Mr. Mikell lost all his and enjoy yourself.” Fort Dix in Jersey City. “I think he was in ‘Nam, but teeth, she and his other professional supporters According to Obrero, Mr. Mosby was a diabetic. he didn’t talk about it,” she said. worked hard to get him dentures. But it didn’t stop him from drinking daily at the “All I know is he was the best man I ever had in “The day he got his uppers, he knocked on my Brown Jug where he became a close friend of Ralph my life.” door, and when I opened it he paused a minute, Schaefer, a bartender and owner for 37 years. — MARJORIE B EGGS then gave me a big smile,” Moss said. “His smile was “He was in here every day for more than 15 lovely even without his teeth — but it was even bet- years,” Schaefer said over a country and western TIJUANA RIOS ter with.” song from the bar’s jukebox. The place is fairly dark Mother of 7 dies at 35 For just under a year, Mr. Mikell’s caregiver at unless the door is open and two muted televisions Thirty-five friends and relatives gathered at the the hotel was Rebecca Janozo. She confirmed his are kept going at either end of the old-timey bar. A Cadillac Hotel Nov. 30 to remember the life of appreciation of the care he was receiving. man nursing a beer said he had known Mr. Mosby Tijuana Rios. “He’d always say to me, ‘Sit down and watch 30 years, and that he worked as a maintenance man “I am the mother of seven children, and she was TV. Stop working.’ And my baby, a sweet, sweet girl, but she was a sick every day when I left girl,” said Dorothy Payton, Mrs. Rios’ mother. “I told he’d say, ‘Okay, sweet- her every day that I loved her. She knew I loved heart, see you tomor- her.” row, but be careful out- In 1998, Mrs. Rios left her native Louisiana and side,’ and he’d apologize started a new life in San Francisco. Within a year, if he spilled ashes in the she married Richard Torres Rios, a Texan, and room,” Janozo said. moved into the Cadillac where he was already liv- On the last day she Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center ing. He was more than twice her age, but for six saw him, he seemed .=F<=JDGAF#-,=KGMJ;==FL=J years, they were a steady couple. unwilling to get out of Outreach and Community Events February 2006 In December 2004, Richard Rios died of a stroke bed, Janozo remem- /UTREACHAND#OMMUNITY%VENTS.OVEMBER in their room. He was 72. bered, but he refused to HIV Education Forum In November, Mrs. Rios died in her room of an let her call the doctor or Topic: HIV Side Effects(EALTH%DUCATION&ORUM and How to Talk to Your Doctor About Them 4OPIC4RANSGENDER3ERVICES5PDATE aneurysm. She was 35. 911. Speaker: Bill Stewart, Cal-PEP “She was sick for a long time,” her mother said, The few people at 3PEAKER-ARTIN+ING 0EER!DVOCATE “but she didn’t want to have surgery.” Mr Mikell’s memorial, $ATE4IMEDate/Time:7EDNESDAY .OVEMBER  PM February 15, 6 - 7 pm Mrs. Rios’ aunt, Hazel M. Collins, thanked every- officiated by the Rev. HIV Housing Forum one for coming Glenda Hope, agreed 3OCIAL3ERVICES%DUCATION&ORUM Topic: Accessing Housing in San Francisco to the memorial with Moss’ last thoughts 4OPIC(OUSINGAND(OWIT7ORKS about her client: “I cele- and, looking Speaker:3PEAKER Tyrone4YRONE0AYNE (OUSING0ROGRAM-ANAGER Payne, Housing Services Manager around the brate the kind of person Date/Time: February 22, 6 - 7 pm Cadillac’s large he was. It was a pleas- $ATE4IME7EDNESDAY .OVEMBER  PM lobby where ure to have known him.” Location for Forums: 175 Golden Gate Ave. the service was Mr. Mikell is sur- ,OCATIONFOR&ORUMS(St. Boniface Marion'OLDEN'ATE!VE3T"ONIFACE-ARION'ROUP2OOM  Group Room); light meal will be provided held, said, “I vived by two sons in LIGHTMEALWILLBEPROVIDED can see Tijuana Florida. Client Advisory Panel had a lot of — MARJORIE B EGGS Come talk with Alexander#LIENT!DVISORY0ANEL#!0 Fields, Consumer Board Representative; Tracy friends. I hope #OMETALKWITH!LEXANDER&IELDS #ONSUMER"OARD2EPRESENTATIVE4RACY"ROWN 4!2#gS P HOTO COURTESY C ARL J EROME L EWIS Brown, TARC’s Executive Director and program managers about plans for all of you will JAN CASTRO %XECUTIVE$IRECTORANDPROGRAMMANAGERSABOUTPLANSFOR4!2#!LSOPROVIDEINPUTONNEW TARC. Also provide input on new services and how we can improve. say a prayer for Richard and Tijuana Rios BERNARD CLARK SERVICESANDHOWWECANIMPROVE FRANKLIN MOSBY her.” Date/Time:$ATE4IME Wednesday,7EDNESDAY .OVEMBER AM PM February 8, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm; Mrs. Rios’ brother, Carl Jerome Lewis, also a 3 residents Wednesday, February 22, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Cadillac resident, spoke briefly: “I’m the baby son of of Jefferson Hotel 7EDNESDAY .OVEMBER AM PM the family. She was the baby girl. In the last hours A cloud of sorrow Volunteer for TARC 6OLUNTEERFOR4!2# of her life, she was smiling — she left with a smile. settled on the Jefferson Orientations: Sunday, February 19, 10 am - 5 pm (lunch provided) Hotel at 44 Turk St. /RIENTATION3ATURDAY .OVEMBER AM PMLUNCHPROVIDED  Ti, I’ll always miss you.” Sunday, February 26 10 am - 5 pm (lunch provided) Minister Jerry Shaw of the Christ Mission before Christmas when 3UNDAY .OVEMBER AM PMLUNCHPROVIDED Fellowship officiated. He read from Job, Chap. 28, three residents died 183'OLDEN'ATE!VE Golden Gate Ave. Verse 12, delivered a sermon on wisdom, and sang within a week of each You9OUMUSTPRE REGISTERFORVOLUNTEERTRAININGS3TOPINORCALL must pregister for volunteer trainings. Stop in/call.EDAT   David (415) 934-1792. and played the guitar to open and close the service. other, one of them a For current groups’ schedule or for more information In addition to her mother, brothers and sisters, warm-hearted mainte- &ORTHECURRENTGROUPSSCHEDULEORMOREINFORMATION nance man who lived Mrs. Rios is survived by seven children, aged 8 to call:CALLORGOTOWWWTARCSFORG 415.431.7476 or go to www.tarcsf.org 16, who live in Baton Rouge. there more than a dozen — MARJORIE B EGGS years and was a cher- ished regular at Brown JOSEPH MIKELL Jug bar over on Hyde ‘Gentle soul’ who died alone Street. Life seemed to be on the up-and-up for Joseph The hotel held a Mikell, according to his public health nurse, his memorial for them on Dec. 16 in a bright, car- caregiver and his social worker at the West Hotel, HEALTHPROMOTIONsSOCIALSERVICESs()6HOUSING peted basement room where he’d lived for a year. But on Nov. 9 he died &ORMOREINFORMATIONVISITWWWTARCSFORG

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and janitor at describing her as a strong-willed woman with a win- sidewalk and collapsed. The cab driver then called many bars in the ning personality who weathered her stormy life with 911. An ambulance came and took Ms. Redmon to TL such as the flair. St. Luke’s Hospital where she died. Anderson said Ram’s Head on About 80 mourners of all ages, most dressed in her mother was “jokin’ till the last.” Taylor and Leona’s church finery, some of them the staffs of recovery The memorial program said Ms. Redmon was a Cocktail Lounge programs that Ms. Redmon successfully completed “proud alumni” two years ago of San Francisco on Turk. in the Tenderloin, filled all 16 pews and stood in SafeHouse, a program for women leaving prostitu- “He was my back of the First Presbyterian Church at 32 Ocean tion. It was founded in 1998 by the Rev. Hope handyman,” Ave. clutching eight-page programs. through her San Francisco Network Ministries in the Schaefer said. In front, flower sprays surrounded a handsome Tenderloin. “He’d do plumbing blown-up picture of Ms. Redmon whose soulful “She was one of our most successful graduates,” and electrical, eyes looked out over the sanctuary. Near the pulpit, Hope said afterward. “She even came back to work small things. I’d a poster on the wall read: “Together we make a dif- with the staff and to help and encourage other pay him. And ference.” During vocal tributes, some mourners women. She was helping on the day she died. She when I’d have a burst into spontaneous song at the Nov. 11 memo- loved children, too. bar party he’d rial conducted by the Rev.Glenda Hope, who offici- “She’d be alive today if we had a health care sys- P HOTO COURTESY R ALPH S CHAEFER always volunteer ates at many services for Tenderloin residents. tem that served everyone,” she said. to do the cooking.” Ms. Redmon died Nov. 5 of a heart attack. The The mourners attended a repast downstairs in Franklin Mosby Sitting at his mother of five children and grandmother to 11 was the church dining hall. regular spot, the 60 years old. — TOM C ARTER third stool from the end of the bar near the door so A native of San Francisco, Ms. Redmon lived for he could look outside, Mr. Mosby was a soft touch a period in Alabama. She once resided in the LORI KOHNIKA and LUCINDA CARLOS for his acquaintances. Hamlin Hotel at Eddy and Leavenworth, according Women of the West “People would come in and whisper in his ear, to close family friend Phil McKnight, a longtime A half dozen mourners gathered at the West then he’d borrow $5 from me and give it away,” Sixth Street grocery operator, now retired. She had Hotel to commemorate the lives of Lori Kohnika Schaefer said. “He always paid me at the end of the a “magnetic personality,” he said, and had success- and Lucinda Carlos, residents of the renovated hotel month. But he never got his money back. He was a fully battled a substance abuse problem. “She was a since it opened a year ago at 141 Eddy. drinker. He couldn’t remember everything.” graduate of Walden House and had been clean for Ms. Kohinka died Thanksgiving Day in St. Francis When Mr. Mosby didn’t show up at his seat on four years,” McKnight said. Hospital. She was 44. Hotel social worker Tomiquia Thursday, Dec. 8, Schaefer sent three people at dif- Her son Thaddeous said his mother was raised Moss said Ms. Kohinka had recovered from a blood ferent times to the hotel to check on him, he said. in “racist times” but taught him “not to hate, and I’m clot in her leg that had traveled to her heart. But after The last was a resident who got management on better because of that.” Her sister, Bethola Harper, returning to the hotel, she relapsed and went back to Friday to open his door and they found him dead. said Ms. Redmon was remarkable for quickly apol- the hospital where she died of complications. She is “We were close buddies,” Schaefer said. “He ogizing after losing her temper, and never holding a survived by her husband of 15 years who lives in was gay, you know. I’m going to get a brass plate grudge against anyone. another Tenderloin SRO, Moss said. engraved with his name and ‘rest in peace’ and put “My mother was strong, strong, strong,” said her Ms. Carlos, who has family in the Bay Area, for- it on the bar at his seat. only daughter, LaRonda Anderson, a Department of merly worked as a dental assistant and on a factory “I got a whole barful of people I’d gladly change Public Works employee. “She taught me to hold my assembly line. She attended all the hotel’s social for him. That’s the way I feel about it.” head up when I walked and I always have. And she events and was “a sweetheart,” Moss said. She died worked hard. I never wanted for grits.” — TOM C ARTER alone in her room of natural causes on Dec. 1 She Ms. Redmon, a former nursing assistant, had was 56 . trouble breathing the afternoon of her death. But DONNA JEAN REDMON “It’s been very hard,” Moss said of the losses. she wouldn’t call 911 to her sister’s residence near ‘Proud alumni’ of SafeHouse The Rev. Glenda Hope suggested the mourners the church where she was living because it was Relatives and friends of Donna Jean Redmon seek out people during the holidays who are alone. “too expensive,” her daughter said. Instead, she crammed the small sanctuary of an Outer Mission “Give them the gift of your presence,” she said. called a cab. church to overflowing in a memorial service, When it arrived, Ms. Redmon got as far as the — TOM C ARTER

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FEBRUARY 2006 / CENTRAL CITY EXTRA 11 COMMUNITY CALENDAR SPECIAL EVENTS the month, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Family Service Agency, 1010 Gough, Friends of Boeddeker Park, 2nd Thursday of the month, 5th Fl. Contact 905-6264. Family member group, open to 5-6:30 p.m., Boeddeker Rec Center, 240 Eddy. Plan park events, Adult Health Screening Day, Feb. 10, 330 Ellis, Freedom Hall, 9 consumers and the public. activities and improvements. Contact: 552-4866. a.m.-4 p.m., sponsored by Glide Health Services. Free blood South of Market Project Area Committee, 3rd Monday of the pressure, cholesterol, asthma screenings, HIV testing, immuniza- SAFETY month, 6 p.m., 1035 Folsom, between 6th & 7th. Contact: tions and more. Info: 674-6140. SoMa Police Community Relations Forum, 4th Monday of SOMPAC office, 487-2166. Mark Ellinger’s “Hotel Project,” more than 100 images on the month, 6-7:30 p.m. Location changes monthly. To receive North of Market Planning Coalition, 3rd Wednesday of the display in Supervisor Chris Daly’s office during the month of monthly information by e-mail, contact Lisa Block, 538-8100 month, 6 p.m., 301 Eddy. Contact: 820-1412. TL 2000, February. Opening event for the exhibition TBA. ext. 202 [email protected]. neighborhood planning. Tenderloin Police Station Community Meeting, last Tuesday Boeddeker Park cleanup, 3rd Saturday of the month, 9-noon, of the month, 6 p.m., police station Community Room, 301 COMMUNITY: REGULAR SCHEDULE organized by the Friends of Boeddeker Park. To RSVP to work Eddy. Note change: previously was last Wednesday of the month. or for information, contact Betty Traynor at the Neighborhood Contact Susan Black, 345-7300. Neighborhood safety. HOUSING Parks Council, 621-3260. North of Market NERT, bimonthly meeting. Contact Tim Agar, Tenant Associations Coalition of San Francisco, 1st Wednesday Community Leadership Alliance, quarterly informational forums 674-6142, or Lt. Juanita Hodge, S.F. Fire Department, 558-3456. of the month, noon, 201 Turk Community Room. Contact with guest presenters and speakers, sharing news of upcoming Disaster preparedness training by the Fire Department. Michael Nulty, 339-8327. Resident unity, leadership training, events, proposals, resources. Meetings are first Thursday in Jan, facilitate communication. NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT April, July, Oct. Contact David Villa-Lobos, 921-4192 or Supportive Housing Network, 4th Thursday of the month, [email protected] Land Use Subcommittee of the Tenderloin Futures 3-5 p.m., location TBA. Contact: Alecia Hopper, 421-2926 x302. Collaborative, 1st Friday of the month, 11 a.m., 100 McAllister, SENIORS AND DISABLED Room 325. Tracks new and continuing building projects and HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH Mayor’s Disability Council, 3rd Friday of the month, 1-3 p.m., other land use changes in the Tenderloin. Open to public, but City Hall, Rm. 400. Contact: 554-6789. Open to the public. Health & Wellness Action Advocates, 1st Thursday of the call to confirm attendance, 557-7887. month, 1-3 p.m., Mental Health Association, 870 Market, Suite Senior Action Network, general meeting, second Thursday, 10 Alliance for a Better District 6, 2nd Tuesday of the month, 928. Contact: 421-2926 x306. a.m.-noon, St. Mary’s Cathedral. Monthly committee meetings, 6 p.m., 301 Eddy. Contact Michael Nulty, 820-1560 or 975 Mission #700. Fundraising, first Thursday, 2 p.m.; Mental Health Board, 2nd Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8:30 [email protected]. Districtwide association, civic educa- Pedestrian Safety, second Friday, 10 a.m.; Sr. Housing Action, p.m., CMHS, 1380 Howard, Rm. 537. CMHS advisory committee, tion. open to the public. Contact: 255-3474. third Wednesday, 1:30; Health, last Thursday, 1:30. Information: Mid-Market Project Area Committee, 2nd Wednesday of the 546-1333. Hoarders and Clutterers Support Group, 2nd Monday and 4th month, 5:30 p.m., Ramada Hotel, 1231 Market. Contact Carolyn Wednesday of each month, 6-7 p.m. 870 Market, Suite 928. Diamond, 362-2500. Market Street redevelopment on Fifth to SUPERVISORS’ COMMITTEES City Hall, Room 263 Contact: 421-2926 x306. Tenth street. Budget Committee Daly, Dufty, Peskin, Thursday, 1 p.m. CMHS Consumer Council, 3rd Monday of the month, 5:30-7:30, Tenderloin Futures Collaborative, 2nd Wednesday of the month, CMHS, 1380 Howard, Rm. 537. Contact: 255-3428. Advisory City Services Committee McGoldrick, Dufty, Ma, first and third 10 a.m., Tenderloin Police community room, 301 Eddy. Contact Monday, 1 p.m. group of consumers from self-help organizations and other Jerry Jai at 358-3956 for information. Network of residents, mental health consumer advocates. Open to the public. nonprofits and businesses sharing information and taking on Land Use Committee Maxwell, Sandoval, McGoldrick, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill-S.F., 3rd Wednesday of neighborhood development issues. Wednesday, 1 p.m.

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