Call the meeting to order roll call commissioner president katz commissioner adams commissioner brandon approval of the minutes for october 22nd. So moved second. All in favor, say i. I. Item 3 Public Comment in executive session seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 4 executive session so moved. Second. All in favor, say i. I. Council of legal matter negotiator. Open session. Second. All in favor, say i. I. I move to not disclosure anything in closed session. All in favor, say i. I. Next item pledge of allegiance of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, phones, please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing electronic devices. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to 3 minutes important item 8 items not listed on the agenda. Any Public Comment . Lee radner. And after that we have Thomas Jensen and thats it so. Thank you, commissioners for the stay that i think im back in the Pacific Islands with the weather today but if so nice and cool in here im lee radner the chairs of golden gate fog for the last 13 years thats not been dull over 27 hundred supporters that have any diverse opinions and thoughts i wonder hundred percent that is maintaining of the Outdoor RecreationalCommunity Center on the socalled broosh property i understand that john and others were here so im doing the clean up for whats going on we noted i nodded in our conference the executive session your covering just about every issue coagulate through to the public and in the court we recognize what the decision by both the voters and the courts so im hoping that your settling down and working towards some mutual agreement to focus on developing Proper Development on those properties i know were going into the waterfront phase right now of updating and im hoping that after 13 years we can come together and work particularly as our concern on sea level lot 351 some thoughts and ideas well to keep this open to the public by rue but at the same time providing revenues to the port not built in expensive condo for a few rich people that wont live here those radio my thoughts i was hoping youll expressed some ideas what went on in our executive committee i didnt believe that would happen thank you very much anyway. Thank you next Thomas Jensen. Good afternoon commissioners thank you for allowing me to speak sinbads wants to point out were acting as best we can to resolve all the litigations weve been in contact with our Council Working out everything and Commission Discussion is required before anything can be finalized were hopefully and can be scheduled on our agenda late october 27th thank you for your time. Public comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed next item. Item 9 executive director report. Good afternoon, commissioners and members of the public board staff thank you for joining us coming 2, 3, 4 from the heat as mr. Radner pointed out this is an oxymoron to report back on our el 99 precipitation commissioners at a previous meeting discussing our new business i requested an update on the activity in preparation for el nino as you may know there is a el 99 weather parented forecasted by the National Services to hesitate Northern California this winter the port is such as the port could experience storms and related gage damage by wind and rain to flooding and power out oxens to facilities and surface flooding that would impact the embarcadero roadway or the promenade or cause details to infer services depending on the wind to plan for in the port is the clerk will take the roll with agencies to prepare our contingency plan anticipated in the plan of a savior storm the city Operation Manager will operate for the during of an event or events plural the port will open an operation city administrators to manager the activities to date port homelands working to identify concerns and responses so as far we have been addressing our resource making sure that our generators and generate our equipment are serviced and anticipated deployment were stockpiling and staging other resources such as a boom and electrical hearts and barricades and plywood and mapping our Communication Systems to get to outreach to our tenants in needed whats the matter. Go ahead. And were choshg with the Public Utilities commission and making sure our catch baseline and drains are cleared and cleaned if you would on our own place of residence and in addition a concrete barrier other than or around the sewer pump that are fragile we are in the process of preparing the city in the preparation and anticipating the worse and hoping for the best next id like to report ones the mission rock Farmers Market as you recall as part of outreach pop up at mission rock a faefrmz was anticipated and launched on september 27th it is mostly through the end of the year a Farmers Market on september 7th the next one is october and the one is in front of 22 and the one after that will be december 20th from 10 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. They do a terrific job the pop up is the harvest and holiday it got 25 veterans with one thousand teentsdz between 10 00 a. M. And 2 00 p. M. We got coverage in the San Francisco website San Francisco gate the giants have been actively prompting the market and looking to see if this is sustainable for the term of pop up lease so well see how the next 3 events october 25th and november 22nd and faefrmz added sea level lot at the mission rock pop up site so those i think Everybody Knows a tremendous week the last full on week and actually began a week ago monday and end yesterday this was the 33 fleet week in 1981 pie mayor denying feinstein for the services weve only missed one year because the Second Degree striation it occurs during the lighting week with the significant events of its kind in the nation and faefrnlz Education Programs that bring together seven and military to share the historian assistance and emergency and Disaster Response it is ukly recognized by the defendant as a model of fleet week so kudos to the committee for their hard work and general mit and moving up the standard and hard to honor armdz and as i said to advance the historian this fleet week began a week dont on october 5th and concluded october 12th we saw the uss transport dock peer pier 30 32 the destroyer a gilded mills and the uss coronado a combat ship and all into pier the cal great at pier in 29 thousand people boarded the ship an absolutely read from thursday through monday. How many. 29 thousand. Wow. So kudos to everyone for their great work in that and many events i want to mention the first was the kickoff last monday the first of october which was an experience at pier 50 a tour britsz the department of emergency to work on the ability to bring in resources to respond in the event of a cat traffic earthquake the scenario is the response to pier 50 board the hudson that went well, you may have seen press coverage the mexico was the annual Senior Leadership seminar and memorial the seminar on top specific as to the humanitarian assistance with the earthquake that was quite interesting and dramatic actually to say the at least as well as the types of responds and Technology Communications and energy recession the keynote speakers were general the general of Medicaid Medical Services from the army and dr. Ernest the u. S. Secretary of energy was fantastic and the annual prayed of chips by the Golden Gate Bridge and with the blue angels and this year was the noggin pier feast for housing for the tours also had concerts and 8 tranquilizes and beer garden and so well over 10 thousand visitors to pier 80 alone pretty expressive i want to give my special thanks to detraffic with others john and, sidney, michael and denise i know im anythings joe reilly and keep going i know a whole aaron a whole host of others including real estate and maintenance staff that kept the waterfront operational and clean there was a lot of people to for the weekend so really terrific any kudos to all great part and parcel from the Mayors Office, from the department of emergency, from the San FranciscoMunicipal Transportation Agency and all kinds of agencies very, very gratifying so next id like to congratulate our architecture resources on their three anniversary on october 22nd our architecture resources was funded in 1980 they were a textural firm it specialize in renovation they have a belief that Historical Building have a man and woman so theyre a full Services Architecture firm from the San Francisco and pasadena and portland, oregon theyre a port a9 housed since 1983 and nationally recognized experts received over one hundred 50 awards and award the governors award for the coit tower and pier one with ab in 1998 with horn blower and pier 3 that helped us with the pier 28 crews terminal and another underway and working on this at the coffee park in 1996 named the firm of year so id like to congratulate them on again on their 35 anniversary and thank them for their tremendous partnership on an saturday october 31st the third work festive a free festival and he would say on the embarcadero running north and powell street in the parking lot at James Weldon Johnson and taylor there the photographers sign hosted by the Fishermans Wharf benefit district to celebrate the San Francisco waterfront district gives a chance for boyer folks to visit and while the weather is good this years festival a Cross Country competition by the hard rock cafeteria and activities and entertainment next id like to sate with great proud pride our own john davis the harvest master of the year john was named the harvest of the year clapping. by the California Association of hash masters and port captain the ward was on october 7th at the association 67 training conference the criteria for the award is awarded to someone that action and deeds epitomize the extraordinary efforts of association and to provide combrierld heroic services and john has an integral in all things maritime but most notably the success the terminal a fabulous game ways that function and as well as keeping the Ferry Service running in light of many dan on the service over the last couple of years and fishing fleet and newcomers other objectives so kudos for you john for being named the state master of year hope you enjoy it. Now the last thing to talk about is the resignation of our jim mellone working with us at the port for 8 years singles 1998 of 7 performed a lot of work and over the cry much of the world prompting our pier and over the bay area prompting our Foreign Trade bill youll hear this afternoon as well as prompting our cargo business gym is a fabulous to work with i know you already know and i think gym when we met you, you testified on behalf of the uss iowa he brought all those things his job as is maritime marketing generator he is among the colleagues amongst the state and with a heavy heart were wishing him well and off whatever for him but we are very in depth for all the work youve brought and want to say a deep, deep thank you to you bon voyage but not good by please join me in thanking mr. Mellone for his services clapping. want to also comment on jims resignation so i think ive known jim longer than many of you many of you may not royals it we were freshmen together no college i remember jim as one of the nicer guys on campus we transferred after that we didnt see each other for a number of years and connected in San Francisco but when i came to the Port Commission i was thrilled that jim was here and had the pleasure to work with him ive talked to countless people a variety of different programs from the cap trade and the efforts to additional trade i cant count the number of times jims name came up interested in the port and to approach them what a fabulous person a terrific embodiment of all that the port stand for and great representative for the port so i know you wouldnt be too far away i know well continue to be friends i guess i can say i was married to him twice sort of performed the ceremony anyone for him twice i know ill continue to feel i will certainly miss you representing the port from our colleagues to people extraordinarily and be able to work with you at the port but jim thank you for your your incredible time and service here and if so certainly with sadness we see you go but continue to do great things and colleagues. Definitely going to miss you jim it is just been such a pleasure working with you your passion and commission and your knowledge of all the cargo industry and so passion youve shown in trying to bring in more business its a pleasure to work with you im jealous of our travels coming up so but im sure youre very deserving. I want to say when i heard that jim was leaving i was really same day ive gotten to know jim hes a friend comes from the industry and i kind of consider him any additional ego it was my travel partner to china and jim was ma tickers very, very detailed i was also hoping he would step up but hes moving forward a class act and i know once before jim was going to leave and stated i appreciated that i didnt call you once you made up our mind you were shoving off i wish you the best success and hope that peter or whoever comes brown behind you were like docking holiday and finishing not okay coral i hope well continue our friendship and in our honor a clearing we have a desire to bring more maritime to pier 96 dont think because youre leaving our dream about fall by the way side ill work with peter or whoever and hope youll come back and see youve laid out the ground work weve provided and do the heavy lifting you were the inspiration and hopefully, you guys get the last leg so good luck with your journey youll do something you want to get in life i understand life is short so do what you got to do i wish you the best. On behalf of the Port Commission thank you for all youve done for the port and for all the hard work and i think can speak on behalf of the port staff youll be mibsz missed we know youll be back hopefully visiting and working on projects that come before us if were lucky but tutor the time and dedication youve put in to chief Financial Officer things here in San Francisco best of luck. Is there Public Comment . Commissioners peter daily maritime director i echo the sentiments jim its a professional loss for the port and city and personal loss as mentioned over traveling buddy i want to mention tomorrow at 5 oclock a reception for jim and everyone to come to send jim off in a maritime manner but jimmy appreciate everything youve done and your friendship and integrity and save travels to you and andy have a great time and good packers. Maybe a few others feel free to line up. Thank you if i may access the day im in the Advisory Committee when i heard the news i said off my word were really losing an important person for the port he was the first time one that took me by the arm and said ellen i want you to lead the Maritime Committee with others and i want you to know your dream as said will continue in the 96 well continue to support that and do we we can for the maritime port thank you jim and well keep looking for you thank you. Well, good afternoon commission Brad Benson Jimmy want to say what an extreme pleasure that work with you this last 8 years when peter came to say he have is hiring you he was so enthusiastic about bringing you on board and he was right you know youve those past 8 years shown incredible ethics in the way you approach our work and great optimism youre one the few people when frustrated you were kind and patient and worked through it your ex particular employee i hope youll stay in touch with our after our amazing trip thank you for your time. Dining with the recent or ports Management Division layer on jim youre the intent professional so patient and kind and knowledgeable weve been advanced by everything youve done at port and going to miss you so much i know your job is very difficult to try to move heavy industrial shipping with so many changes what youve forged in the publics understanding about the Port Commission it is price else it is your legacy and i hope youll always come back every fleet week to really joy wasnt youve done for us all those years so thank you. Good afternoon david with the planning and development i want to tolling to jim ive enjoyed working with him for the last 8 years jim has helped us what the outreach to the committee to a number of meeting providing updates to the community to bring in cargo in addition a real pleasure to work with jim well miss you thanks. Anyone else Public Comment is closed. Jim would you like to come up and make a few remarks . Im overwhelmed and so thankful for the comments and for the attribute today, im humbled and feel touched and move forward thank you very much for the comments and the sport over the years its been a wonderful opportunity to work here for the port address do speak really meaningful work and impactful work i feel like i can leave here feeling yeah what ive done ive left a legacy it can be picked up by another capable person and grateful to have worked here i have been so honored to work with Monique Moyer so ably steadier this department this port for the entire time im in. With the changes at the port and with you know all the projects weve had going on and im in. Inspired but your work and wish you success monique and peter my boss its been amazing working with you youve been an incredible partner and providing support been a great sounding board for all the kinds of different ideas weve been trying to throw around and correct or crack this nut and you did a great traveling partner with the south america conference and christie for coming its an honor and privilege to representative the port with you peter and others then commissioners, i fraulz commissioner adams i echo youve been a friend and weve a traveled to ass asia ive lost track of how many times to china and the time out of our busy schedule to come with us to china, to attend the great china conference and meet with customers and try to do everything you could to continue to promote the work were trying to do it youre a great travel partner and this year we conducted the philippines we represented the Port Authority and i echo id like to continue the friendship and offer whatever support i can to do the efforts and commissioner president katz in addition to an oldtime friend you mar me twice without getting divorced. Thats how it workout we went to asia and japan and monique representing the port at the conference in 2013 a good trip and continued on met with customers in japan and went on to korea the seoul to meet with folks an interesting story and shopping story well be able to laugh about laughter the details. Glad were not in the finance department. And commissioner brandon youve been an incredible support with the waterfront to me and all of us working in the southern waterfront we appreciate our guidance and feedback your advice, youre taking the time to meet with the port staff i relieve appreciated how guidance and support so thank you i think you know interests a lot of good continuous at ts at pier 80 and 96 the future is bright for the cargo business and fun things for the people that packing takes my place it is fun to revitalizes program the program has changed even in the last few years weve changed with it and you know bring it to a lot more businesses in the area so with that, id like to say thank you for your support im humbled and appreciative of you honoring me today and the whole staff i also want to say i neglected to share a real pleasure working with all the port staff here i felt people distancing that the senator itself group of people ive worked in the private sector and the nonprofits this is a high powder group of people i call most of all of you friends its been a great privilege working with you rather than saying good bye but so long ill be hearing visiting from from time to time and if i need to figure out where all the documents or bodies are buried with that, thank you very, very much appreciate it. Thank you clapping. of course well be back up to here to presents. Commissioners, i neglected to thank the fleet week and go through the list and jim more to follow tomorrow night. President s report. Preparation by the Mayors Office of housing and Community DevelopmentOpportunity Partnership and engagement under the stills homelessness issue. Commissioners an item that was requested during our new business i commissioner adams and we once before had beven duffey the director of the Mayors Office of Housing Partnership and engagement yesterday sam dodge was pointed out as the mayors interim director for the office of hope to combat homeless to Homes Initiative and the homes for heros to address the Veterans Issues sam worked at the tenderloin clinic and a labor organizer for the California Nursing Association a batches degree in Public Administration from Columbia University in new york city and generally good smart guy and so with great noouchl to gives you an update on the office. Thank you commissioners, i appreciate this opportunity ill start with a short video then well get into it. It effects everyone in our city in many different ways is a is 2013 San FranciscoHomeless Center 64 homeless individual in the city to try to address the issue to the citizens are a program to provide a solution to combat homelessness in San Francisco welcome to the Navigation Center. This Pilot Project is aimed at People Living other than the streets it makes a it different from other shelters able to accompany entire Homeless People allowing us to keep and bring their personal bloomgz. It is a whole program that people dont want to be homeless and from the services dont meet them where they are are theyre not relevant to where their lives are theyll for the be successful in the embarcadero people can assess twentyfour hours a day for the laundry and the Navigation Center is designed to be an impactful dynamic residential experience where on this site we have for families and sign up for gentle think assistants and food stamps and medal those he knows issues are complicated. The thing the agency actually coming on site to provide services and that is exist with the goal streamlining the hole process of how to get people into general assistance as quickly as possible. Truly different way totally different you can come and go as you, please while your servicing showers anytime you can 24 7 a day wherever you want to do it not like any other other. Thats an example when a for what they did for the entire mission and they reach out on the other hand, and do what they can to where do we have to get you set up and straight i couldnt imagine were doing this this place is different and a lot better. The Navigation Center is a collaboration of partnerships between several nonprofits in the Department One of those project sponsors is the homeless partnerships from the district 2. Air force weve well have our partners go out and try to bring you guys in dont go anywhere early the next day well send out our team into the population and hang out with them and transport people in the process with them when they get there inaudible myself and all do you have really. Being homeless and bring the belongings you with wherever you go this place here is for storage i dont have to worry about it. Youre here you get things done that need to be done to get people off the street a lot of hopelessness is gone. An accomodation to if youre hurry go eat need a shower go get one. Your hanging out. The Navigation Center was fund for a 3 million unanimous donation as of may 2013 an additional 3,000 arrest warrant was in the program inaudible . When you go there you see people come out theyre ready to go into the future homes and know how valuable the Navigation Center is. My message for the constituents is that, yes something has to be down to address homelessness and it is being done. Theyve set an example for San Francisco to take an area that was funky not looking great what were trying to do is help their neighbors getting sicker and more frail and broken down on the street and theyve welcomed us to come here thats. Powerful state. People are excited people will beginning to see for folks theyre able to find housing. We want to help them theyre in survival mode and inaudible and theyre much more kind of inaudible . To i mean, the first days that i was here he had appointment to go to appointment and everything was made all i had to do was go to them thats different. Settled in a helping hand, get on my feet and take care of issues i had and this is so wonderful. Even though the Navigation Center has been open since may 2015 creating successful outcomes for the clients. A month ago we came and asked me to come into a program so i have been here and three weeks later im in my own place i feel great it is all mine i can lock the door and not worry about my stuff i feel like a human again like part of this. Okay. So thats just a little brief update ive passed out some of our weekly dashboard and one of the great things youve been wlorl with the project so not a report 2 years ago later as stated in the video this was funded with the 3 million gift to the city and it is nice to be able to design and implement a project where youre kind of free from a little bit of the normal constraints through the budget process and others so because it was a success initially we thought phil an important gap in the services in the city the mayor has backed up with further investment and looking for more locations to open similar programs i think you know people get a chance to look at our weekly dashboard you can see that people are there you know we go from 60 to 75 people at any one time and try to work down and go and invite in a whole group of guests to come in and take advantage of services and you know recently just today, we had invited 5 people in from district 3 and district 2 right close to the waterfront area here and previously we have gone and invited in the guests from the Justin Herman plaza area and you know a couple from up around the cable car turn around if you look at the map on the second page some of the earlier activities collected here and as you can see where weve been grabbing or inviting people in and a lot of that it clustered around the Mission District where the Navigation Center is thats natural a lot of people in the Mission District and can vascular and working well with them to rove their homelessness if there was an opportunity to open up something here on the portland it will cluster up like that around the embarcadero and thats an in violation of section i want to you know really make for the port i think we can do some Amazing Things to find a great facility to house that at as you can see further on depending on the path of the client there is different average lengths of stay overall 50 days right now people come into for various reasons and as you can see the tracks of work in and out for each week weve been really proud and tomorrow morning you know the hud secretary will come and invite curious i was present at the National Alliance to end homelessness an industry in d. C. Will be this project and its spurred a lot of interests in other cities i know it comes as a little bit of a shock to san franciscans but you know chronic homelessness is a National Epidemic especially in the california climate the climate is bad la a 12 percent increase and 87 percent in encampments the la county was 44 thousand they did a survey and found that using all their administrative data 10 thousand people a most are fwaul into homelessness a chronic systemic problem in the itself especially in high rent community and in San Francisco it is nice to show we have approaches were not going to surround but really lead with a helping hand and reorganize our resources to make sure that we can resolve peoples homelessness on the street so ive been very excited about the Navigation Center and id like to talk about it but this is not even the limit of what were doing the Mayors Office of homelessness we have a tremendous effort with federal resources to try to reduce homelessness among the veteran population a goal at the end of this year the resources in place to end veteran homelessness which maples veterans that have been homeless a year or more and weve been able to house hundreds of veterans were down to our last hundred and 60 veterans that are eligible for federal support we have vouchers in their hands weve worked with the leader pelosi to raise the reimbursement of those vouchers to assess units on the private market opened a great building on 250 green hundred and thirty units with private baths and veterans have moistened there were proud we have more to go and well be able to get there a family homelessness and experiences a little bit different in our city a long wait list for families to get into settlers were working with a great grant from the School Foundation and able to target homeless families or faemsz at risk in schools together without initiatives were cut the wait list in half for the families seeking Emergency Services through homeless families and saturating them opened up a number of building with transitional age youth but the chronic street homelessness is still i know a pressing issue were seeing everyday and received can you do if our staff and responded to the Homeless Outreach teams to get a sense of what is going on here ive also been spending some mornings walk arenas the plazas and around the support area for the last month and a half to get a sense of how people are experiencing homelessness i know we have work to do and so i think over the next few months well be spending more time with the Homeless Outreach team and bring people into the thats correct center this is you know going to be as closed to a sure thing was we can get for an el nino winter and in the 7 not an el nino in San FranciscoSan Francisco opened up a monster shelter which i dont think anyone was proud of only happy to have people in the shelter but didnt workout that well, if were strategizing about what we do lead into this el nino year well void that in not well be coming you, you guys likely and looking to open a big Emergency Shelter i hope we can think pro Telegraph Hill and straechl to help to reduce homelessness and get people into the safe and secure housing thank you. Thank you. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed commissioner adams. Thank you very much for that presentation its really exciting to have the Navigation Center and actually seeing people that are using it and that is absolutely wonderful i know that the city has had long time issues with homeless and it seems to be getting worse it is great to have a resource like that if you want to look to the port where would you look to open a shelter. Ill have to rely on our expertise you know the great thing is that you know the Navigation Center was a pop up it has got were going to do build affordable Family Apartments there, there is runway for june at least but at some point well have to break ground so that was an abandoned school site it was hell converted with a a little bit of capital work you know working on a laundry facility a shower and raising up things to be acceptable so you know, i think that we need to free over minds of what a traditional shelter has been a lot of it has to do with with how were treating each other and what were doing with people once weve invited them the Navigation Center weve committed to housing them once that is established you know you start to take away the other rules no Security Guard no curfew and no strict time people dont losses their beds the only really obligation to treat them with respect and the result has been an incredibly reactions it takes a lot of the amth of anxiety down and not this thing youre turning people through every night but really work with people towards the housing so i could see very easily many of the port areas working as a place for a Navigation Center you know we have those bun losses at the current site they can be moved ive seen the ambition sheds and maybe work inside those i think theres many spaces anything to park a car in basically, we, get it to work thank you. Same thanks for coming out and congratulations. Thank you. You know kind of like hell has come to the waterfront nobody said something nobody wants Something Like that in their neighborhood i get this when the delanceycy street up to Pacific Heights didnt want them we cant have excons and ellen and others remember that so people like jim herman and nancy pelosi and john burton and me we said okay. Well bring them into down to the waterfront and look at the success it is a good thing to do but take it somewhere else they had the political courage to do who was right we had a shooting on the waterfront it was so sad i was down here that day having a meeting with director moore and some of the staff megan was there that day it i remember the waterfront and a lot of time we dont talk about the all the people with the mental problems lawful people with mental problems reagan shut down the Mental Institution so our San FranciscoPolice Department do the best they can and do a great job but it is epidemic and the mayor cant do it alone and people are so step up im sure the people returning for wants whether democrats reasonable person republicans they have to address the issue of homelessness and most cant relate theyre rich anyway and dont live in the neighborhood or not effected by homelessness so i dont think those politicians they can get their head around this is something that effects everybody people are that are Common People like might have ordinary people that have money we cannot turn our back on this initially thirty million tourist sometime its a lot of money floating around but people need help and sometimes, people have to take one to the team and i dont care if i have Something Like that in my neighborhood but deal with the issue it is so political you know it is sad why would Something Like that b be so political i dont get it there is about right or wrong this shouldnt even having to question yourself this is something that people debate i dont understand i appreciate director moore contacting you did i wanted to know more and some of the commissioned e commissions a lot of people didnt see it on our doorstep people get in their cars and go hope yes, maam to the saved i see it everyday i feel this is part of fiber of this community we all have to pitch in with the mayor and businesses and everybody weve got to get solutions we ought to be taking the leads and at the forefront you know were not going to say go into the corner like about super bowl comes were a leader we have the sense and resources and weve got to political encourage 80 counselor to deal with this issue homelessness is not good not a good issue we have to deal with it thank you. Thank you. Thank you for coming and congratulations we look forward to working with you in your new role very exciting so where to start thats where a lot of people feel when they look at the homeless situations it is not one category that people fall into i think one of the reasons we also wanted to have you back its an opportunity sincerely users this platform that things are beg done not a simple solution i was struck by beven came to us last time with the numbers of homelessness in the city it has remained a stagnant number ive shared that strategic with people it means we are doing something to move people out of homelessness and this incredible expensive city so many working homelessness people dont see them their visible folks on the street that are there for varies impairment be that Mental Health and other families do so People Living in their cars and working cant get housing in the city it lets remind people given the numbers of the thinking fluctuation of homeless and the numbers are increasing it stated means were getting people housdz i want to reiterate you can put it more articulately than i but take advantage to highlight again, all the work youve been doing and the programs clearly are actually making a difference in the people are getting housed so were not seeing the numbers skoekt because of people being sent here a cough i wanted to ask you in terms of specifically with the port replacement we set up the center in the 7 we had lessons pointed out in the Navigation Center people show up with their pets and accommodated and that was something were struck by in the 7 the coordination is animal control to allow people to have a safe place for their tare pets humanity people have a connection with theyre pets and wouldnt come off the streets theyll losses theirs animal xhoomz so a slew of new people into the system and able to assess services and help because we met them on their terms hopefully not have a stormwater like this we need the water but the impact of living on the streets the storms was scarey to make sure we save lives if youre looking to the port as ball park if we dont have all the Solutions Start the discussions sooner rather than later so were prepared and act when the times comes there will, a lot of steps well needing need to go through so i encourage you and your staff to encourage the discussions and if feasible what well need to do or a smaller facilities where it works. Theres a lot of questions you could ask profoundly not jermaine for the port but weve finished fleet week and percentage wise how many of the homeless are veterans i dont know if you got those numbers but just interesting to see if we have you know immigrants living on the street veterans and others we see if there are other programs we can start to help in that way but struck with fleet week and speaking to some of the leaders in the military involved in disaster preparation he had lynch reason with a retired general during the 1989 earthquake necessary brought up a ship and the military the navy actually helped to run a program to get people housed during that time if this is something in discussions but they have beds and births and people that run the mess haul and got compliments on food if were facing a potential disaster if we have the kind of storm everyone is predicting this is the last point and continue to have you come back and doing periodic reports as we do with planning and thank you commissioner adams for starting this process important to let the public know what is happening especially people see a lot of homeless along the waterfront we have the facilities and i think along those people want to help and often dont know how im going to ask you if you will calling the 311 i call if someone is a danger to themselves but the public to know who to contact it in the different situations take advantage of our opportunity to get this information out you know if there is someone walking along the port if there is a Different Number or entity what people can side im going to turn it over to touch on things. Thank you wonderful on your comments i agree that is as commissioner adams you know made clear it is a moral issue and something we can change and we have the tools to change you know so we talked about the numbers and recently this last january we did a point if time study by the government we have a population at one point of 6 thousand 8 hundred Homeless People and 3 thousand 5 hundred are building on the streets so thats tremendous. You you know so our veteran population is although dropped dramatically it is still around 5 hundred and you know so theres still a lot of work to be done there. Recently last week, we did Media Attention the 36g app can be used for homeless assistance call 311 and get the Homeless Outreach team and get other assistance to help to deck but use the app and the go locates and the first police are First Responder they help bring in the Homeless Team or decide to bring in an ambulance 911 is not a wrong number if youre worried about someone being a danger to themselves they cant be in theyre good stage you know extremely agitated dont seem to be responding to stimulus or in traffic i think it is the right number to call a lot of times and its okay to that but sometimes, people you know want to shy away from that and use the app and call 36g i call the Homeless Outreach team with a dispatch number that number 4157344233 it is great they come out and assess and help to direct people to what they do as the case when i came out with them to work with a woman living in the vicinity here and they knew her very well from the ficus emergency. Other types of things she participated it was nice to see them interact with her and have this Background Information i really encourage that. Get that number. Psa we have it running across 4147344233. So also today, we had at honor of a Ribbon Cutting and Baldwin Hotel it is a fully renovated hotel on 6th street hundred and thirty units were moving people in and especially the Homeless Population the homeless first and really exciting were part of an effort for the mayor to add 5 hundred unions to our portfolio this year 4 thousand units ultimate this is where we need to go and we do almost 200 units and three hundred more by the end of the year i look forward to working with you and returning. Thank you for inviting me for coming. Thanks very much. Items on this consent calendar item 10 a. Commission report. Port commissioners report. Commissioner adams. Commissioner brandon. I have the honor of attending the friends of status of women luncheon last week over own Monique Moyer was honored for their mentorship in mentoring women so congratulations it was a wonderful luncheon and i really enjoyed it clapping. very exciting to see her and speaking on, on the leadership of the women of the port. I also want to congratulate commission mirror for her work well deserved im sorry. laughter i need a forum so we can go to the restroom no congratulation and well diversified honor i also wanted to put in any thanks to everyone that participated in the recent fleet week it was the most successful ever from the locals it was significantly improved that was nice to see a lot of activities for residents of San Francisco families others, etc. It was really a fabulous weather didnt hurt but i want to thank the Fleet Week Committee an all volunteer group what a labor of love i dont want to start naming names ill miss some but the volunteers at fleet week really extraordinarily as mentioned the focus on disaster precipitation not only on the tours but having something significant and substantive bringing together the leadership and talents that came forward for the disaster precipitation programming was really special john, congratulations as well and i know im forgetting something i think its been an exciting time at the port also was ground water great to see all this cruise ships in and out recently so thank you to everyone for the cooperation. Item 10 a consent calendar for the executive director to represent the port of San Franciscos San Francisco annual conference in miami, florida 10 b to rise the rules and regulations for the agreement and other administrative South Bay Harbor and request the approval of one of crane park projects to includes 8 hundred through these plus for the clear up of gone down and 3 of adoption of the California Environmental quality act findings and the reporting programs in connection with the construction of crane coffee park linked in the pier 70 and at 34 eleanor between mariposa street. So moved. All in favor, say i. I. Im sorry. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Oh, sorry you have sorry corin i apologize. Hi im corinne woods member of the group a long time vaccine for the park and i just wanted to thank you for move forward was that this it is a Long Time Coming i voluntary two questions one is that you dont forget the work that paul nixon who died last summer gave to the human power assess to the bay that was such an sdwral part of planning and request i consider naming the Aquatic Center the paul nixon Aquatic Center and the second request that you encourage the staff to go out and look for Grant Funding to help with phase two of the crane coffee park project is a tremendously expensive project the staff has done a tremendous job figuring out how to shovel the project into the budget by the more we if anyway to go out i outside and get publicprivate help to help to move this faster it would be great, thank you. Thank you. Any further Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed all in charge of the consent calendar its approved. Item 11 informational presentation on the contracting activities in fiscal year 20142015. The matter before you is an informational contracting activity in the fiscal year 20142015 this is a period covering july 1st, 2014, to june 30th, 2015, there are a number ever ordinances that govern contracting in the city and county of San Francisco today ill focus on 3 the local business ordinance and the local hire ordinance and finally ill discuss the changes made to chapter 6 the Construction Contracting ordinance. As you may know the local business lbe levied the certify lbes have advantageous in the skrauth goals the Contract Monitoring Division certifies the firm and clays classes them as Women Business enterprise or other business xrisz 1300 lbes have a 3 percent dropped and minority have clarified by a ethnicity and the representation of the firms the same as a year ago with 46 asianamerican and 20 percent africanamerican and 20232 percent latino owned businesses we were what did you do 16 now contract 26 million only 8 contracts governed by the lbe and 64 percent of contract were what did you do to lbe firms this is 6. 6 million or 69 percent of dollars annulment awarded going to local certified firms the lbe were expediting on the size and scope the projects awarded dwurg the record were sued and 86 percent of dollars went to lbe the 6 contracts were exempt from the lbe ordinance due to take our small size or waivers 51 percent of exempt went to local businesses. Over 12 million was paid out for contractors during the fiscal year additional 47 percent went to lbe firms on average were studying the sgraukt goals it is 14 percent awhile 18 percent of payments went to lbe sgraushths this is important to note that each the categories are individual contract with their subcontracting goals the open contract and their lbe performances are included in our staff report and the corresponding attachment overall the late numbers are continuing the trend established in the first half the fiscal year and informal lbe participation. By comparison during in fiscal year 20142015 both our lbe ward and percentages were higher than the Previous Year last year the contract went to lbes that was 69 percent your our expenditure sees in 20132014 were greater in last year part to payments made on the cruise ship terminology 60 millions of is 67 millions in the table was related to the cruise ship terminal projects, however, the percentage of lbe payments to lbes were 14 percent higher than the Previous Year. Two contracts were firmly closed both lbe set aside and exceeded the ordinances the greenway was hundred Percent Complete and completed its set goal and 3 additional prongs are very near competition and all of our meeting the lbe goals Construction Projects over one Million Dollars are subject to the citys local hire ordinance since the inception of the ordinances in 201114 projects have been subject to the ordinance and met the citys local hiring process and the local threshold is thirty for better or worse start at 22 percent. All of the contracts are stooeftd the requirements one of the contractors cal state has been given a waiver for offsite waivers to meet the lbe local hire goal. Two of the citys chapter 14 lbe ordinance and chapter 6 the Construction Contracting ordinance were amended during the reporting period the new lobe ordinance is effect on july 1st some of the legislation highlights are an inclusion of citywide lbe goal of 40 percent the port exceeded that in the last two reporting periods well be able to do that as long as the soundproofed firms are the same or increase additionally the new ordinance has a San FranciscoFirst Program a program that mandates we solicit bids if local firearms prior to local small firms for the contracts additionally the agreement adopted by the board of supervisors have to have lbe plans those are similar to the plans at the metro peer 27 and pier 38 ill be including update to those plans in future update in august the Zoning Administrator kicked off the pro she and 14 mentors and thirty pro shes their matched with two pro shes with a Steering Committee put together and as mentors meet certain provisions or deliverables and my name is within the work plans they are afforded waivers of certain provisions of the lobe ordinance two port Staff Members serving on the Steering Committee in august the board of supervisors passes the legislation to reform the contracting ordinance of chapter of the majority of provisions apply to Large Department that have construction protocols over 6 million, however, changes that impact this year at the port one significant change the increase in the threshold from 4 hundred to 6 hundred thousand that allows us to issue smaller contractors and micro settled contract a bit faster in conclusion that was a strong year for lbe 64 percent of dollars went to lbe and others to local firms meeting the local requirements and working with the colleagues and other city departments to implement the changes project sponsor pass by the board of supervisors that concludes my presentation. Im available to answer any questions. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner adams. I guess i made sure you have time to talk. Oh, yeah and commissioner brandon. Thank you so much for this wonderful report it is so exciting to see were doing a wonderful job a couple of things regarding the new or new ordinance and when San FranciscoFirst Programmed small informal contracts it that below 6 hundred thousand. And for professional Services Contract below one hundred 10 thousands. The new protouch live lobe firms can sign up and basically, thats their work plan whether the professional service the Steering Committee has milestones for instance, billing or the mentor show the protouch how to submit invoices to the city those types and once the milestones are met the mentor is giving advantages on future contract bids with the city some advancing with waiver of the citys good Faith Outreach requirements. So basically like a Training Program. A Training Program right. It is unpaid. Right. Only voluntary. Great thats wonderful i see that the c m. D. Breaks down their classification by lbe type and ethnicity so we do that. Those are the designations we use. Right but as far our contract do we know how many are late night and africanamerican and asianamerican. We dont give preferences that is all tracked. Im asking can we report it by lbe type and mbe firms. It is included in the attachment weve identified. Is this for us are the city. This is for the city. Right im wondering if we can do it for all contractor. Yeah. Thats wonderful. You did it already. It is in the attachment ive identified each the primer contractors as lbe, mbe or w b e in the actual staff report noticing not in the presentation. Not saying the ethnicity thats what commissioner brandon is saying i saying correct commissioner brandon. Yes. So i didnt see that in the staff report or this. Thank you. I like this report but want to see the breakdown of the ethnicity of the report broken down so we can track it and city to know that sometimes things get put in numbers. Stuff like this i want to so how much for asianamerican and latino americans. Weve done a racket job at the port i want to commends the numbers and the focus has been made i want to thank everyone for that great report can you kwok go back to the professional services. And you know thats where again, our numbers are higher than average but lower than on the construction is that because of the size of the firms that get hired do qualify. Many more lobe firms that are construction than professional service and the contracts we awarded are under 4 million where lbe tends to do really well, that is the primary reason. And on the professional services this is a smaller amount that qualifies. Correct one and 10,000 some of the professional contracts with a certain expertise or not certified within not lbe certified workplace this realm and therefore, no lbes to compete for the contracts. And then if this is in excess of that amount not constitute or quality for the lbe. Correct. Given the cost of professional services would that account for this of that added. Correct. Thank you very much. Any other questions . All right. Oh, actually do i have any sense of how many contracts recidivism for the next year. 12 last year and 14 this year it will be in the same ball park. Thank you. I have one more question usually in our report a list of the businesses that were contracting with and exactly how much they got i dont see that in here i see the gateway. On each four of the report addressed the contract activities each the contracts and the type of firms and the firms that was awarded the contract and in the attachments at the ends that includes the prime contractors and the apartments. I dont think we got that that wasnt included. You dont have the attachments commissioners. Thats 11 a i got it. This is what youre talking about 415. What page. Panning 4 thats not all the contract for the quarter no, i dont have that. We didnt get that. You can just send is to us. Thank you laughter . Tests an different report something else. Thank you. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you next. Item 11 b for the approval of executive director salary. Good Evening Commission im Elaine Forbes the Deputy Superintendant of the administration and joined by my colleague and as you may know charter section b3. 481 grants this Commission Executive authority for the compensation of the director provides guidance in that compensation shall not exceed the salaries of maritime employment do a Salary Survey to help you decide on the rate of compensation for the port director and make recommendations the same as the increases or changes to the Municipal Executive Association our capital hill executive director is not represented but many are and ms. Holmes completed the Salary Survey finds that our port director is paid less than other seaport director by an average ever 31,000 and less than Department Heads on average about 25,000 we do make a staff recommendation we considered a policy decision if he were to correct that issue we made the recommendation for you to increase the executive director salary 3. 25 percent consistent with a m e a contract agreement that would bring the executive directors salary to about 200 and a 71,000 and then for next fiscal year to increase it between 2. 24 a 3. 25 percent that rate has not been negotiated for they employees thats staffs recommendation following the mbe guidelines you have exclusive authority to set the executive directors director salary shes earning less than her peers and ann and i are here to answer any questions. I move. Second. Public comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed commissioner adams. Yeah. I like to make a motion if i could get a second id like to see two increases of 3. 75 one in october of 2015 the next in july of 2016 the package will result in a salary of 20,087 in july of 2016 that brings our executive director up to pair still other port directors throughout the country and others above her with her stellar performance i hope i can get a second. Second. So im sorry so the first increase is its a effective june 2nd or retroactive. Effect 1010 of 2015. Thats retro as a written in the resolved clauses weve set it up like any employees so the increase for the employees was october 10th it says effective and so for the chance that you recommended commissioner president lazarus well trike 3. 25 and put 3. 75 and the similarly changes to 271, 827 and then in the next resolve clause it will say effective july one 2016 the port executive director will receive a base salary of 282021 rep a 3. 75 percent increase. Not retroactive those are only guidance for you you have the executive. We do it recommending but and when do we make it effective is it usually 10 one. It changes from year by year whether july one or october 10th. What of the directors last increase. I am sorry to ms. Holmes. Good afternoon, commissioners Human Resources director the last was effective 7, one of 2014. We should make that retro introduce. Yeah. To 7, on one. A motion to make it retro. So that means the first resolve clause is july one 2015 instead of 2016. Perfect. And then that makes all the changes motion want to make sure we have all itself adjustments here so without fallout discussion. All in favor, say i. I. For the resolution as amended. I. I. Opposed thank you monique for all our hard work we hope this is somewhat symbolic our appreciation and lets you know how much we appreciate the hard work and what youve done to steer the port interesting creative difficult times and done weve been personality all youve done and this is a smalltology of the accomplishment how much we value our contributions. Thank you so much im a little bit speechless ill think of something thank you all very, very much. Make sure the Port Commissioner got a raise i dont make 50,000 thousand dollars a year and state legislators make in washington show us a little bit of love help us. laughter . So thank you next item. Informational update on the earthquake vulnerable study on the waterfront seawall. Good afternoon, commissioners executive director mirror and port staff and members of the public my name is stephen real an engineering project manager and today iceland give an earthquake study on the northern seawall this is for information on and a review of the seawall function and history describe the earthquake vulnerability study and highlight work completdz to date and describe the next steps this is a graphically heavy preparation arrived by boat this is a shallow mud flat and piers and wafers and commissioners to control the title of lands in 1863 and comprehends into a mecca of maritime commerce a great seawall as sometimes no one was proposed by thomas j arnolds in 1873 and lefgd in 1887 and constructed beginning in 1878, 4 miles long and located self feet from the shoreline and helped to create largo portions of downtown. Today, the seawall anchors the northern waterfront slightly providing support for the head wharves and building and protecting the shoreline and hold back the lands carmen infrastructure including the embarcadero promenade and roadway and muni lighting and key areas serving the city every day thousands of people enter and leave it by crossing over the seawall by ferries and criticizeships ships or traveling under the sea level and they run and bike and skate to ball park are to experience the sarin beauty of bay. Seawall was constructed by a trench through the mud several hundred feats through the shoreline it is 20 feet deep filled with rock to create a pyramid shaped dike with the bulk head wharf and the lands behind was filled to create a thoroughfare in the embarcadero later most of timber an engineering drawings from 1909 showing section 11 this is one of the concrete walls and wafers this is over by pier 38 the bryant street wharf many say a bulk head beyond and this is the concrete bulk head today there are 22 sections of wall over 55 combination of bulk heads and wafers one time over 40 piers and now half remain the earthquake equivalent study was led by joint venture between engineering communication g hd a national modestly firm and a local enterprise Geotechnical Firm the Contract Value was 425,000. 25 percent of sub consultant participation goal the scope the contract includes a comprehensive view of information that work is complete and phase two the vulnerable analyze it in progress and largely complete and the mitigation recommendations this work is in process speculate contracts for pier review the specific scopes establishing the zone of the influence both bay ward and landward and section maps and generating sites predictions with the ground shaking and analyzing the rock for stability and the uplands formulate i cant tell supernatural analysis of bulk head wafers and this recent for performance oar mapping of utilities within the zone of influence and work with the utility providers to assess potential damage and impacts from the land subtleties and assessing the posts earthquake flood hazards due do the ground settles a highlevel Impact Analysis conceptually designs associated with the cost based analysis and finally recommendations including ranking and prioritizing areas for irrigation and detailed information thats a full plate. So what have we found the zone of influence the zone in which the seawall impacts the soils and supporting structures it extend up to 12 hundred feet beyond the seawall towards downtown sub surface mapping the red dots are atms exciting geotechnical boards this is based on existing information not budget to go out and do new geofunds that runs 10 to 15,000 a piece great information this map shows the thickness of artificial soil this is a cross up it is 25 feet thick in pier one it is sandy in nature and liquor fax a phenomenon that the soil is fluid like in this case is increases the pressures on the seawall young bay mud victims this is the thickness of the young bay to mud i mud it is saturated clay deposited two thousand to 7,000 years ago there is from monique deposited during 3 stages of flooding and draining of the bay rally during and after the wisconsin innovation the bay filled 3 straight times this is highly compressable and offers little sheer resistance not good for foundations this is a closeup it representatives thickness up to one hundred feet near the Ferry Building this is the bedrock it varies from 40 to 200 feet below the seawall near the Ferry Building. With sub surface mapping complete the team choose 3 stekz sections this is near photographers im going to flip those through those quickly a variety of conditions that have thick layers of mud you dont below the seawall section one near pier 49 a potential sand under the rock dike and section 3 near pier 29 a section 7 in the vicinity of pier 3 quite a bit of thickness of bay mud and near the Ferry Building 9 a of the vicinity of howard street, section 12 which is the vicinity of pier 38, and section 46 near at t park in addition to the geotechnical section the team choose four representative sections for the wafer structures for the dpoe analysis ill quickly go through those this is important to note those are pile structures sometimes the piles are within the rock dike and sometimes blow below it and varies sections of concrete wall at the top this is pier 17 area and pier 26, 28 and the pier 38 area so earthquake hazards we live in earthquake country with an educationally quiet periods following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake all indications this could end soon the United States working gron group on the california kwaeshthd is 72 percent of major earthquakes in the barrier magnitude 6 point plus this is a major earthquake for the 72 percent number. The 1989 loma prieta earthquake was not a major earthquake for San Francisco. Estimate in 1906 it was over 60 million away produced only moderate consists this is what the loma prieta in the 1906 earthquake from loma prieta on the top and 1906 on the bottom to give you an idea of interest it take 40, 1989 so equal the 1906 this is offshore in san o 1906 this is offshore in san to 1906 this is offshore in San Francisco. Waterfront trends in ground shaking the team looked at the fault probability you can see the faults on this map team analyzed the fault and generated the ground motions along the waterfront for a variety of return periods this is call schematic analysis this graph shows the trends in the ground acceleration versus the ground return this is on the left and return periods on the bottom the 1906 earthquake was approximately 200 year return period and what those trends show that quickly you get into high levels of ground shaking at early return periods less than one hundred years after about 5 hundred years they start to trail off. So when we look at risk within the next 10 or 20 or 50 years the probability felt structures on the waterfront this type of information is great for us to consider in risk based recommendations. Then the next steps a complete draft of equivalent results is expended at the end of 2015 the pier review also 2015 and the final draft of the recommendations been released in early 2016 and this will inform efforts to help with the resiliency and climatic change plan. What you see here is the 2014 south napping earthquake as measured by the bryan street whatever we included i believe 10 accelerate obama terrace in the seawall and several are the down hold pile up to 85 feet below the deck tied not strongest you strumentdtion of the south napa valley earthquake this was used to tune the assumptions being made in the seawall with that, that concludes my presentation. And im here for questions. Thank you Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed well, i know who laughter . Commissioner brandon i can be first. Thank you this was good its a lot of information and not quite sure what is really saying i know it is not actually predicting when the next differentiate will be but definitely giving us time to prepare i hope he look forward to the result and the recommendations from the study and understanding it further. Thank you. Commissioner adams. Yes. Stephen you and your crew this is good work it says the 1r50u7b89 study it is pretty heavy and a lot to get our heads around and the cautioned one takes and cant say tell life has so much uncertainty but disrespect that will happen and kind of got that feeling what kind of mechanism and prepare for it is a lot of information i hope youll come back to us and just keep us you can informed like i have been doing but i mean, you kind of say what do we do from here to get ready and be out front for that. And pray to god it didnt happen you have a feeling but you dont know when so i appreciate this thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mixed thoughts i know we dont have the folks on the waterfront that participated but hopefully give them a headsup the studies is come out and not sure what were doing to inform everyone he hope your tenants are thinking about it is not you know something that everyone will have so think about and be prepared we have a lot of tenants along the waterfront and the probability i took my staff classes i dont want to look at what were going to be facing in the future but i think that will be helpful to let our tenants know perhaps sharing the information and give them the heads up and encourage them to do their own preparations so i appreciate well two questions he have and maybe beyond the subject here i know well be getting the results of study hopefully the draft that results towards the ends of this year when we get the recommendations a little bit after that is there some way of getting those to include the ideas on funding to implement the recommendations so not just going to be straight up remedies but approaches towards how to get the funding to implement that. Sure well definitely include that were in discussion with the Capital ImprovementPlan Committee regarding the potential goendz and meeting with the u. S. Army of engineering with regards to Sea Level Rise with spending the money at the seawall weve found the earthquake component and theres were still in discussion. And is there anyone from any entity looking at federal grant money that will be applied not just looking at bond money but. We can certainly a lot into that once we understand the magnitude of the problem if there is one. laughter pursue clarify that. And laughter and what types of of fixes in the cost range and look at the option for funding. Thank you. You know if there is a large project the funding is typically federal anticipate on the waterfront from the u. S. Army corp. Or fema but were in discussions. Thank you. And regarding the results we have brought it up with several the key tenants were discussed what were planning and asked them to share information which they have and you know were very careful about releasing information as we dont want to scare anyone. Right. This type of engineering study youre dealing with the urban nonsense the geotechnical conditions the earthquake shaking and the Structural Conditions you get strange results and go back and look at it and poke it look at it a different way and take the engineering experts in the fields about you come forward with good results. Okay. Commissioners and you know stephen our saying that because recently ive been meows especially the last of months all the building in the city everywhere and highrise those report makes me think i think personally so many knows and so much weight i thought that was going to sink into the ocean with all the weight and highrise their throwing them up six and seven i feel the weight so much and the for the gratified on so much like anything you go going along so long and it makes me think more about that i appreciate the things. Ive got the same feeling laughter every time i look at an aerial view of malayan i spent spend a good part of my career looking at structures and really consider the impacts as a whole upon an area. Thank you. Maybe some adams waterfront land those folks by moscone thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. Okay. We can. Oh, yeah. We can go ahead. Want to go ahead. Yeah. Item 13 informational presentation and the port of San FranciscoForeign Trade zones an overview of the zones program. Good afternoon once again. Were trying to not let you get out of here. Thank you for having me, im gym malone this is my last preparation on the result of the Commission Meeting at your request in back in august present at chevy one irony want to give you an overview a lot more detail in the staff report but give a general overview of the Foreign Trades Problem Program and the history of it in San Francisco the Foreign Trades number 3 port of sophistications Foreign Trade established in 1948 when the San FranciscoPort Commission got a Foreign Trade zone boards part of u. S. Department of commerce back then well, first of all, as a o grantee with the grant of authority of apart acts a Foreign Trade program in our local area so we tried to identify businesses that could benefit from the program in our area we also worked with them to vest the tint indeed they can benefit and help them with the application and activation and setting up their Zoning Program it was opened in 1948 at pier 45 to help with the coffee imports that was the original produce in the program but eventually that was moved to pier 43 and recent changes that made the changes port able to outside properties with the difficulty of handing large truck activities on the embarcadero waterfront led the port to deactivate the Foreign Trade site in 2009 port staffs priority continues to be leveraging the f t z and the vehicular tool to help skpz to be more competitive and encourage new businesses to locate in our area it coffers all or part the 7 bay area county they can utilize any port Councilmember Reid the port of San Francisco and oakland and Foreign Trades limousine serves 4 local businesses including chevron and exerts international and a fifth site approved by the foreign zone aviation in the International Airport and were awaiting kilograms to activate their site as an f t z greetings the regulars for wire we proclaiming operates it as a public utility and allow assess and charging fees for the operation of the zone were also required to provide auditorium treatment to all businesses in our area that operate in the zone failure to adu her would result in finances up to one thousand dollars a day or risk loss of our Grant Authority altogether so briefly heres how the Foreign Trade zone Program Works sierra club their secure areas and generally within 60 are 90 minute radius of a port of entry and while the zones with inside u. S. Interpreted foreign goods not limited to to zones where are considered outside of u. S. Customs material they collect duties when the the goods leave the zones in a general purpose zone or can be declared a driven site they come to the company it is operating outside of the zone port area once up and running some of the activities are manufacturers, assembling are processing and storing and relabeling and destroying and exhibiting, etc. So a lot of activities can be performed no retail or production of alcohol is allowed in the Foreign Trade zones, however, phone trade operations are under the control of foreign Border Protection and is department of architectural but regulations dont apply until that he leave the don so upgrade the produced in the zone rather than abroad this is to promote u. S. Activities the Program Allows companies to defer, reduce or eliminate duties on key components materials and machinery first of all, companies can eliminate diets on exported goods by u. S. Based companies to produce final goods rather than be reexported the foreign source never interu. S. Commerce and because of that they never also file for duty drawback a program if duty is paid on an item and reexported they possible get duties reimbursed it avoids that process it has inverted tariffs for producers to pay higher duties on products than made aboard the example of autopsy industry for testing beulahs Foreign Trade zones 18 a in from time to time essentially an all costs is assessed at 2 and a half percent duties when it is import into the u. S. Tesla uses burmz or electronic or others have a higher duties it is essentially penalize or puts them an aon a less level the Playing Field and it imports did with the operating in the Foreign Trade don tesla imports those components and when the good leaves and the financial automobile leaves the planted in from time to time it is seated the 2 nature percent car produced in japan or any other cia country so that 11 and on the items all the cars that tesla executors tesla decades 60 percent to the export market trying to develop those market 60 percent of cars known the components will ever have to pay kilograms duty not entering those u. S. Commerce. And then if there is a scrape involved in any production process there is a certain amount of scrape and product that mass to be destroyed that product will not pay a duty either. So duty elimination on executors and duty reduction an components and other duty referral a producer what weight to pay the custom duties until the products leave the site so they can save on the cash flow of that money. Let me catch up to my notes here. For Foreign Trades notes provide the foreign supply trade a weekly entry a benefit that only is vertebral to Foreign Trade zone users an import erica take any number of shipments from the airports or seaports on a weekly basis and instead of having to file a customs entities they can wait and aggregate them into one weekly shipment it saves them costs of customs entries but perhaps a greater benefit it allows them to review their processing fees a federal fee that an importer has to pay based on the value of imports a minimum of 25 per customs sgri or a maximum of 485 by a congratulating having one thing entry rather than one over the course of a week and foreign trait yourself can also tampering of the direct delivery from goods from the ports that saves goods typically have to wait for customs clearance but acceptance for direct delivery they can save a day or two on the delivery of their goods for the reduce of the supply chance and provide. Secure assignment for doing business based on the regulatory requirement so Foreign Trades is considered a best practice under the federal kilograms trade partnership against terrorism or k p pack. Todays homes are a thriving sector of the u. S. Economy the latest board annual report to congress was released this past august the port showed one hundred and 79 active zones and 3 housing unit and 11 active manufacturing or production as of 2014 total of 27 hundred companies operated in zones in 2014 which is up more than a quarter in just two years so theres a lot of new activity 4 hundred and 20 thousand americans go both to work every day in the Foreign Trade zones it is faster than the rest of the economy and it includes manufacturers and mode of manufacturers and pharmaceutical and machinery and apparel and footwear. You know in 2014 exports reached a record of 899 billion through Foreign Trade zones many say triple the level of 2009 if you look at it as a comparison president Obama Took Office and launched his export to double exports into or double exports from the u. S. In 5 years unfortunately, the initiative fella ways short but Foreign Trade zones the export have more than tripled in the same period of time so they have Foreign Trade zone users have generated much faster growth in activities to give a brief hefty of the trade zone program it has evolved continually and has adjusted over the years to take into account the changing world the program was infected in 1934 to encourage foreign commerce to promote activity in the u. S. To protect the jobs north americas the u. S. Was trying to promote u. S. Trade but get as much trade activity to take place in the United States in 1950 the program was opened up to allow manufacturing inside zones in 19 the duty liability was reduced prior to that any user labor overhead or domestic parts were considered their value was considered one satisfying the customs duty that value added in the us is not part of value not part of an seated duty the Petroleum Sector was included in the 1990s and theres been dramatic growth in that sector since 1995 in 2000 this weekly entry benefit allows reduction in payment of manufacturing fees allowed for the fit in 2009 this Framework Program was introduced ill discuss more many a minute a drastic change and the f t had a Major Overhaul in 2013 this was a drastic impact on the zone program. This was a drastic impact on the zone program. 2 this was a drastic impact on the zone program. This allows approval for a warehouses operation in as little as 20 days for more production of manufacturing operation thats gown e down from 8 to telephone most from the regulatory change and a new form of administration called the alternative Framework Program was introduced in 2009, this allows the zone to cover a modestly county area any county one of the zone of that service area will be eligible for the streamline approval process this fraction Program Makes the Foreign Trades benefits more portal to the 7 county area whereas in the past the activity needs to occur at or near the port Foreign Trade 3 was approved in 2010 we applied in 2009 to cover San Francisco and San Mateo County we were approved in 2010 and then duo due to the demands or the interest in the program we sxantd or expanded that to in custody the counties of custody the counties of marin contra costa can counties it mob approved for security in the inadvertent control and Key Employees we work closely with the u. S. Customs in the bay area and have four agents that are focused on the Foreign Trade zone two in the wellbeing and two in the San Francisco airport and two based on in oakland a number of businesses that have been approved is growing faster than ever. Again, the top condos eliminating the top zones naiths are first of all, the petroleum and crude refinancing industry followed by auto parts and Motor Vehicles i think every Auto Assembly plant operates within a for trade zone including tesla and electronic products and part electrical commit equipment and parts and farm sulz and chemicals so were using this as a guide to direct our market efforts to the types of biz businesses that can benefit from the program the Bay Area Companies utilizing the Foreign Trade program currently are chevron and va last year and Space Systems produce facilities if the Silicon Valley and the Lamb Research to produce the equipment that helps with the manufacturers of south america con direct your attention and expediteers international a site in bris by an and phils 6 of in and the aviation that operates a service copy at Sf International aircraft theyve been approved wear waiting for customs. Again, we seem strong interests in the foreign zip codes as a result of Program Reforms we also been activate if making presentation on the program to local businesses and ports and airport and City Economic Development officials and chamber of commerce and trade groups and collaborated groups with the Foreign Trade zones in oakland and santa fe and collaborating to identify businesses that we think could benefit from the Program Given the idea our business eco is similar throughout the bay and to that ends Port Commissionss i couldnt we recently organized a public informational trade forum that took place in oakland in september we did this in contraction with the oakland Foreign Trade zone we did that in part so we could utilize the contacts and get as much participation as we could we have 65 businesses that participated in the followup frourm forum we got strong interests part of benefits of holding forums we help to educate the partners and especially folks out there working with businesses and they can help us to identify businesses that potentially could and should be working with the Foreign Trade zone program if our belief and that are the folks at santa fe the Foreign Trade zone much untapped demands for the program with the existing Bay Area Companies that would benefit from the program and continue our outreach efforts to educate local businesses on the benefits of participating in the program and also that continue our efforts with the Economic Development folks to make sure that businesses that are looking to locate in the bay area are aware this program exist and were ready to do business with them with that, ill close my comments and open up to any questions you might have thank you. Thank you. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed commissioner adams. Great presentation jim that was your finale jim one a couple of questions here i said you had this meeting no oakland and business was to community and labor invited. Question invited labor as well. Were they there. Thats a good question i dont believe. Any Community People there that got a chance to talk and express themselves and we had folks from the municipalities around the bay the city of richmond we reached out to weve wraechd out to pretty much all the communities weve been in touch with lets see trying to think of what other cities we had we the outreach. Okay. Thank you. If anyone from the labor was there i cant recall. I remember seeing Community Members on your list in san jose not remembering the labor. Yeah. Should have brought the list. Jim was know what the tax breaks are for tesla and Space Systems sethey receive by the giving the Foreign Trade zones, and, secondly, maybe director moore can metropolitan me when i decide do you add backward e background check what if in their innovate a good Corporate Citizen though do i deal with those not having Good Behavior and understand on the business pack some companies only about making money and care less about the community do you look at of or monique when you look at everything and you kind of screen them and go have they a reputation for bad behavior and good Corporate Citizens do you do that and in terms of our first question on the tax break it would be the benefit they will awe country whatever duties savings but. Theyll chief through deferring payment of their duties or reducing the duty say by being able to utilize the duty amount of the final proud rather than the components those are higher than the final product or anything we export it eliminate the duties so the duty deferral eliminations or reduction or 3 of the big ones again, a number of companies especially companies that have time sensitive or high valued items well take advantage the weekly entry savings and reduce tare administrative costs plus the manufactured fte those fte fees those are the major one federal fees that go into the us treasury and in terms of vesting what we do we help well, we work with the Company First of all, to see if they benefit from the program and in terms of vesting them for bad behavior we dont play that role but certainly can consider in the future, however, in a way a middleman here we help them pit together their application to the Foreign Trade zone board that evaluates the company and the activities theyre trying to chief and theyll decide whether the company is can be approved to operate a Foreign Trade zone on site and manufacturers themselves the hundred and 20 days because their manufacturers their is an extra level of approval that needs to be made they have to also additionally apply for Production Authority and that likewise for a Public Comment period of that is why that period is one and 20 days an allowance for the public to make comments on Companies Making applications were required not only is it published in the federal register this company applied for Production Authority but on a local basis advertise in a local newspaper that company has applied for zone status and hopefully, the local Community Members can weigh in on the application and then customs and aboarder production have the final decision they weigh in whether they 12 this particular business is capable of operating and has the appropriate security and the appropriate personnel theyve vested and the proper access for the zone there are a few levels of approval that is required and there is as i said at least on companies that are mustard and producing the Public Comment period that is loud for as well the Foreign Trade before takes into account Public Comment. Two questions about corporate bad behavior not all companies are a good fits in my opinion there are times in certain communities in the place in the u. S. Wouldnt want a walmart and other places would love to have a walmart this year needs to be a Value Companies need to be held to a standard and if a reputations for corporate bad behavior this should be said not a good fit something to been Going Forward not all companies are a good corporate behavior and i dont think we were talking about and we were liz those companies it is nice but not all companies are good Corporate Citizens the communities and it reflect on our repgs reputation if someone didnt have a good sculptor reputation and had a has a record of by a behavior thank you. Thank you very much for that report it great that the program has been so successful and grown over the years. And i really appreciate learning more about the Foreign Trade zone and how it operates good luck. Thank you. Appreciate that. And thank you for summary i appreciate over coming back and presenting to us and hopefully others saw the presentation i want to put on my legal hat for a moment a following up on commissioner adams point the problem we face is under the rules and regulations to serve as the Foreign Trade zone we cant make d when someone applies to utilize the designation we have no is a oneway or the other if we like them; is that correct so either were in a Foreign Trade zone and have to abide by the rules to make it available is that accurate. Weve got to the two regulations for as you the grantees we can define or be real penalties if we dont follow through an them properly one is public utility and alu allow all businesses that want access for the zone benefits to be able to apply through the zone so that really kind of pits is onerous on Foreign Trade boards and kilograms to decide whether or not you know theyll accept or approve a site and do we were any Ability Agency commissioner adams pointed out an ability to weigh in and say let me see if i understand this correctly. We neither approve or disapprove we have the right to not do business if they refuse to obey our operating agreement by the rules board; is that correct. In the operation agreement is between the user and the ports alone. Can we put standards in that agreement. Or would that will subject to this fair utility and yeah. Maybe thats something to explore. We typically among protections we state that its that the user must be abide by the all local state and federal regulations if they dont thats a cause are for us to terminate our operating agreement they cant operate a zone wautd without an operation agreement with the grantees is essentially thank you for clarifying moorj we can through the operations agreement put clear language in there that states we expect them to act in con formation with the regulations that would be cause if they dont for termination our language is pretty strong in our agreement. I think commissioner adams is getting to more social than legal enormous are rebreaking the law this is pretty clear i think commissioner adams was talk about more less quantifyable so we need to explore that future. Thats what i was asking for accountability. Any at regulation that is pretty uniform treatment we need to treat like users in a like manner. Have we be able to use our Foreign Trade zone status to work with the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development to try to attack more businesses into our area in particular but i know your zone is pretty board but you mentioned tesla in fremont any other large manufacturers to use this as a tool to attract them into our areas or done that kind of outreach they had had marketing and here on behalf of the appellant. Yeah. Weve done a lot of outreach again, i think reaching out to the economic folks like the Mayors Office of Economic Workforce Development or the San Francisco chamber of commerce or china sf the center of development and folks like that weve met and talked about the program and let them know and encourage them to identify the businesses currently located in San Francisco or our area that benefits but be wear when theyre talking to businesses that maybe looking at to locate in our and were make them aware this Program Available one more tool in the economic quality of life vera speaks for itself and were trying to make sure that the economic bay folks in the area know about the program and eye that and the chamber of commerce and the city Municipal Managers and anyone that is out there looking to help develop and bring in businesses in california were in touch with the Governor Office of go busy exactly. In fact, theyve cul de sac United States us to ask if our Foreign Trade zones covers last week the big aircraft manufacturers that is setting up shop in barkville and need access to the Foreign Trade program a company that is looking to location her in san leandro that would need assess and worked with sf made and oneonone sf g based on the Pacific Heights aluminum corridor and other manufacturers grasps e groups with 17 percent of Foreign Trade sdoernz are manufacturers and could benefit from the program weve been trying to get into the wine country to benefit that industry and met that constellations brands they own whiners in the u. S. And other spirit labels like black velvet and career they do importing and bottling and all kinds of interesting stuff to making their own wine in california sites in our area but in the extra valley and kentucky and up state new york weve been working with organizing areas to see how they can benefit and working with an outdoor consultants a foreign aid of consultants that do deep dives and help the companies do a Feasibility Analysis to determine if they could benefit at the we work closely with them in the wine industry, of course, is big in our area. Thank you gym for that information very informative. I appreciate all the hard work you did on this and all our hard work at the port. Labor of love a wonderful challenge thank you. Thank you. Item 14 new business. Anything new commissioners weve crossed a couple off the list today. I said something and cant finds my notes i think some of the points that corin seeking alternative sources. Youll hear more about that if thats okay. I seem this is that the works. I think that should cover it and i move to adjourn. I second. Only one thing the commissioners need a raise and laughter . I wrote that all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Were adjourned thank y