Minutes. Motion please. I move. There is a motion and a second already. Are there any corrections to the minutes . I had a question. Sure. On the request for follow up from Human Resources about progress on streamlining and making more effective hiring which seems to be a drag on progress in many of the departments in terms of meeting their objectives. When can we get that update . I believe the hr director will speak to you. Director. Good afternoon. We have a event in the last week of august and mapping it out and making improvements and i believe i asked to come back in september to give an update and i will check with mark to make sure im on the agenda. Perfect. Thank you. Youre welcome. Okay. Any other comments or questions on the corrections . If not all in favor say aye. The minutes are approved. Next item please. The next item is the directors report. Good afternoon. I am sitting in for director garcia who is on a well deserved vacation in hawaii right now and the first is the
Adjustment its more about the fact we just adapted our budget the mayor signed it i cant remember last week he signed is and the resolution was introduced i guess the same and it strikes me as uncomfortable we guess through a budget process through the difficulties of a budget Analyst Report Progress Making the difficult choices and right as we are approving the budget doing a supplemental i understand the desire to had had supplemental but i i dont like the precedent that it sets. Thats not to say you know what might happen if this comes down as a supplemental over the course of the year well take that when it and if it comes. Ill say this to those aclu and other nonprofits one of the challenges we had this year as also in the context of the budget we have a very limit set of funds to work with when the budget comes to the board and its the way the system is set up the mayor has a lot more latitude in terms of the budget so the budget came to us we had the revenue for our nonprofits p
Port commission at the time included all of the ports properties in the plan and didnt thifrpg that it made since to look at only the piers per proposition h. The plan identifies acceptable uses for every port facility on a long term basis as well as setting, leasing guidelines for the interim uses that take place in the port facilities. And there was a water front land use, water front plan Advisory Board that was set up by the mayor and the board of supervisors, and the Port Commissioners at the time. And they worked to recognize the water front plan, which the Port Commission, embraced and adopted, with the addition of a water front design and access element. And i think that the importance of that element was really to set the stage for a comprehensive water front open space system. And some, urban design and architect you aral guidelines to guide what the form and the look of development along the water front should take. And Historic Preservation principals to save and to treasur
Per proposition h. The plan identifies acceptable uses for every port facility on a long term basis as well as setting, leasing guidelines for the interim uses that take place in the port facilities. And there was a water front land use, water front plan Advisory Board that was set up by the mayor and the board of supervisors, and the Port Commissioners at the time. And they worked to recognize the water front plan, which the Port Commission, embraced and adopted, with the addition of a water front design and access element. And i think that the importance of that element was really to set the stage for a comprehensive water front open space system. And some, urban design and architect you aral guidelines to guide what the form and the look of development along the water front should take. And Historic Preservation principals to save and to treasure the Historic Resources that we had along the water front. Pier 70, and the embarkadero piers were recognized then and so it is a pleasure
Terminal, i think that it is something that provides that bridge between the Ferry Building area and Fishermans Wharf that we think has, you know, been a wonderful resource and has attracted so many more people to the water front. And there have been, however, difficulties with the development in the north east water front that is chronicled in this report. And we had the Hotel Project that went through the long process, almost got to the finish line but, for the lack of public consensus on the design. And that process failed, and there was also a high profile, proposal for piers 27 to 31 by the Mills Development corporation, and that again, was a mixed use, recreation project and had too much retail and did not achieve the kind of public consensus needed to get through the public process and so on that basis, we see that there are really still some work to do, with our relations with the community, and that will come forth and our recommendations for fostering those further conversati