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last quarter of last year without incident, and these incidences in question did not actually occur in most of the last quarter, with the first one taking place toward the end of December, and then another one unfortunately happened in January. He indicated that these incidences had nothing to do with how the club was marketed or with the change in name and reopening as Club Neo in October. Mr. Mull stated that the club has had an increasingly African - American presence. He added that many times in the nightclub industry, an unfortunate term is used — but one used all the time — that that is when the place started to go dark. He indicated that they have talked to the Police and have had very good relations with Lt. Knox who works that area in the evenings. He noted that the incidences took place anyway, not because of the dance music or the way the club was managed. He stated that both incidents in December and January happened at closing time, after the lights were turned on, and people were being moved out. He added that in the January incident, some fights started inside the club, and their security was on top of it and moved everybody outside the club. He continued that about a half -hour later, there were still people in the parking area and the shooting took place. He indicated that they have been told by their intelligence that it took place while a car was driving by, but they were not exactly sure how that happened. Mr. Mull stated that their security person is trying very hard to work with Pleasanton Police and the other officers to move people out and do the right thing. He indicated that this is not a thing where they can look and say that there was some shortfall or shortcoming in their security plan; the incident happened, even with the best of security. He noted that the number of security officers that night was three times what is required in the Conditional Use Permit; they were very well- trained and did their job, but still something went wrong. Mr. Mull stated that what they are positing to the Planning Commission is not to cut down the maximum number to 300. He indicated that he is not sure of the sociology behind this urban crowd that has, for whatever reason, taken it upon themselves to come to this club. He added that, without coming straight out and talking about racial profiling, what they would like to do is change the nature of the people coming to this place by having a different format as a choice that his client has made. He stated that this is something that they have heard feedback about from Police and from other cities that he believes would be a good idea. He stated that he, as a parent of a 16- year -old, and his girlfriend with her 16- year -old, had a party at their house a couple of years ago and with social networking ended up with 250 children showing up although they had no intention of having more than ten of them there. He added that, for whatever reason, this club, which is in Pleasanton, had certain people on the Internet, with Facebook pages and other means, telling everybody to please come, and out of the blue, their club was hi- jacked. Mr. Mull indicated that they want to fix this. He stated that they are on the same page as the City and that it is not a good thing to come in here and have the maximum number of customers knocked down to 300. He noted that this is an approximately PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, February 8, 2012 Page 6 of 23