effort to keep the great jobs in the state but have the balance between growing the economy and protecting the environment that's essential and the mayor said it's nonld essential in the balance we should chief but a formula for connect all the things we're talking about are done in the virl assigned way we're talking about reducing emissions about moving people taking them out of their cars and moving people all of it as ed said buy american the labels buy in america we want those to be green technology at the end of the day so we have a cash foot to the extent possible this is not only a one of the considerations it's a fundamental vail fundamental value of how we do this in a village sound way. >> i also think that infrastructure you know for california now, it's also going to be the water infrastructure that we need to really think and fund that's a current debate in sacramento but i agree whooeld r wholeheartedly with leader pelosi position and the manufacturing for the future the green house gas emissions we ought to give more consideration to that product. (inaudible) >> by 200 r 2018 (inaudible). >> for those how didn't hear bits about equality. those union jobs i know that mike knows that better than everyone else here our middle-class jobs for workers that want to earner their way forward the more projects that are infrastructure related and transportation related and water is from related for good paying jobs that i expect tesla to pay are all part of reestablishing and making sure we don't lose the middle-class that is the whole purpose of buy the american bonds act it is reestablishing what we have for the middle-class we need to do more in san francisco we need to do more and part pftd my responsibility is to build enough housing aimed at the sector with helping the low income >> i didn't say another piece of our make it in america one piece is to stop tank breaks to companies that send jobs oversees instead of companies that produce good paying jobs in america and build jobs in america but if are your a company that wants to raise the pay and you want to go on behalf of a million dollars a year you can't take an additional tax write that off unnecessary unless i gave a raise to our employees because the income equality is a reality it's a growing gap and it's something that must be addressed so we can use the tax code to say we don't resent success we recognize that people take risks their xrirl they maybe worth of the increase by not sub disby the american people by giving them a write off if you want to you have to give a raise to our employees that is thinking in a different way this is a bill chris and in the first one hundred days in the democratic majority we'll passes r pass those pyritic's legislation but this goes to the heart of your question what is important to note is structurally its not anecdotal it's real go back 40 years ago the disparity between the ceo and the workers was about foments; right? mike and product rows and the pay rose and the workers so it went together productivity and ceo raise that's called stakeholder capital liberalism you made decisions in terms of investors and the community at large and your customers the stakeholders in our community. somewhere about a do so years ago maybe two it become she can't recall capitalism that had one thing the bottom line that means that now as productivity rises worker's wages stagnate and the ceo goes up liam like this it's about 350 others say 4 hundred times the ceo pay versus the worker it's a right acknowledge going in the wrong direction it must be addressed with no - with all the respect in the world with achievement and awards in the workplace but you understand that success comes from the worker and if that bottom line is big and the ceo pay is big because of the expectation of the workers we're not going to underwrite it in the tax code that's why it's there and something that applies offer over the country we're blessed in the competition for space it makes a great challenge for the mayor but we're here to help over 7, 8, 9 with probably more affordable housing coming in san francisco and more initiate and low income tax credits and all kinds of projects recognizing that here boston and washington in some places where the cost of housing is having the balance of low income families in our city that is something we value. yes, ma'am >> (inaudible). >> well, i also it's a difference but 2 will be our hope because electives are about two i elect to fill the job and the debate to the american people know the choices so one thing it could happen hearing a drumbeat for the minimum wage maybe more republicans will come on board and hearing the entire really the interest of the american people for building the san francisco for america they see it relates to the quality of their lives and the success of their businesses that maybe change their mind we want to use the campaign to see where you are on the minimum wage and equal worth and where are you on building the infrastructure and where are you on the cutting of the interest rates and the student loans and jobs and education and when women succeed america successes when affordable chaefr pays raising the minimum wage we hope that the outcome of the election they'll embrace those when discussions are made we get rejected every time we bring up the raising the minimum wage harry reid gets the recreation but the act it's one of the best things you can do it grow the economy is increase the minimum wage you may not know a lot of people that make the minimum wage or maybe you do but i thank you for whatever you make because it's about consumer power. and raising the minimum wage gives consumer power injefferson county demands and gross the economy it's about growth where are you on growth who's side you come down on in supporting the growth a bigger disparity in income we're very excited it's not all the things that people think of concerning a campaign but about job creation that's the major concern of american people thank you all for being here thank you, very much.much. >> call the meeting to order. >> katz. >> brandon. >> here. woo ho. >> here. >> approval of minutes. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor, aye. >> minute approved. >> okay, the pledge of allegiance? >> please be advising that the ringing of cell phones and pagers and similar sound prodaoutioning electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting, the chair may order the removal from the meeting room any person for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound producing electronic device, a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter period on any item, item five, public comment on items not listed on the agenda? i have comment cards on specific items, is there anyone wishing to speak on any item not the on agenda. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> six a, executive director's report. >> good afternoon, commissioners, members of the public, port staff and thank you for joining us today it is a great turn out and i appreciate that. commissioners i have a few things to report on, and beginning item is that the forest city development the developer at the water front site has proposed a ballot measure for the november election. for proposition b, this particular measure will increase the height limit at the building limit up to 90 feet. 90 feet is the height that was envisioned during the master planning process, proposition b, a measure to go before the voters if the height are amended on the port property. and forest city has moved forward with the ballot measure for the november elections. the proposed measure also includes, non-binding policies, which will guide the development by and these policies will be working through the regular public process and regulatory process to address the issues of open space and affordable housing and the reuse of the historic structures and the place for the arts and transportation improvements and so that measure will go before the voters at the november 4, 2014 election. >> next i would like to report on a very successful contract opportunity workshop that was hosted by metro cruise who is the adooring contractor for the cruise activities at piers 27, 35, and 30, 32, their consultant, is here as well, today, together they posted a opportunity workshop on july 11, of 2014 and invited the local business enterprise contractors to attend the workshop and there were 40 to 50 individuals representing the janitorial and security, and printing and photography and pest control companies, a representative for the commission, rye on young, were in attendance to help the various companies learn how to contract with the city, and offer them, offer to help them get set up. so, it was a very successful event. bless you. and commissioner and president katz, thank you very much for your attendance and for your words on behalf of the port's commitment to the lbe, work and i understand that you have encouraged everyone to stand up and get to know each other as part of their own networking and not, and very well received, so thank you for doing that and my thanks to veroinca and others for hosting the event and we look forward to working with the lbes that were in attendance. >> next, also good news, on july 22nd, the san francisco board of supervisors unanimously approved the lease agreement between the port and the orton development ink for the pier 70 historic buildings, and they plan to renovate, 6 of the buildings with more than a quarter of a million square feet of renovated use. and the board also unanimously approved the issuance of the city of general obligation bonds for seismic rehabilitation of those same buildings. and so, this moves the orton transaction forward and they are hoping to begin their construction later this calendar year. and which will take about 18 to 24 months. and during construction, we expect to see 250 full time workers and there after, 400 to 500 permanent jobs when the project is completed and leased and so i want to particularly acknowledge jonathan stern and rep and phil williamson and brad benson and elaine forbes for the work in getting this item through and i apologize if i forgot anyone, but very, very great to see this milestone happening after a lot of work on pier 70 over the last 8 years. >> and next is i would like to announce and congratulate bay delta maritime on the chrisening of i believe the 6th tug boat, yes, thank you. and on august 2, they chrisened a new maritime tug boat named the delta audry, all of them are named the delta somebody and that is usually a special family member and in this case, it is sean bennett 7-year-old daughter, what a great birthday present for her. and bay and delta, as you may have know have been serving the san francisco bay since 1982, they are a port ten apartment at pier 17 and offer ship assistance and patrol and escort and general towing services throughout the bay area and i am sure that you see them moving vessels of all sizes and configuration around the bay. and we are pleased that they are increasing their investment in the bay and thank you for that. and i would like to invite president katz to say a few words and, recognize sean bennett, the president of bay and delta maritime. >> go ahead. >> and stand up. >> yeah. >> so, we are absolutely thrilled that we are here for this come men ration of a new vessel, and particularly pleased that it is named after your daughter, i think that it is a lovely touch and i know that will be something that she will appreciate, more and more as she gets older. so very special. and with that, we would like to present a plaque on behalf of the port. [ applause ] >> so congratulations to bay and delta, and thank you for the loyalty to the port and all of the work that you do for us in the bay and i hope that everyone gets a chance to go out for a ride. because it is a great vessel and so a lot of fun, next commissioners as you know we are going to be holding our first off site commission meeting at the end of september, september 23rd, at the south east community facility at 1800 oak dale avenue. and it is a change of location, the commission meeting time is expected to be, its normal time of open session at 3:15 and the meeting will be at the 1800 oak dale avenue, and this is something that the commission thought would be beneficial, and to host more of the meetings out in the community and so this will be the very first one. for those of you who plan to attend, parking is a little challenging and so plan to come early and car pool if you could or better yet take the t line but we look forward to seeing all of you on september 23rd, at the south east community facility. and then the very two days later i guess, on september 25th, at noon, after more than a decade, we will be officially opening the james r. herm an cruise terminal, and the new gang way is somewhere in the atlantic and she has been boarded on a vessel after being fa bricated in sweden and sthe will arrive straight to pier 27 and off listing the gang way on to the pier and it will take hours and hours and so i hope that you get a chance to see this because it is going to be cool to see it sort of hanging above the new cruise ship terminal and once that is in place, we will be able to begin, processing the passengers through the new terminal and we have even more good news, which is that on july 30, we received a temporary certificate of occupancy and reached the substantial completing on phase two, one day ahead of schedule and i am happy to report and so congratulations to all of the project team which is too numerous to name individually. and on august 18th, next month, the next border of protection, agency will be moving into the new facility, and you may recall that phase two, consisted of building out the facilities for the u.s. border and customs border protection, which includes two jail cells, and i want to warn you to behave ourself, or you might get to see them and a terrific new, grand transportation that will help to alleviate the traffic, and the cruise plaza and the one is in and so we are waiting for the lawn to get cozy before we open that up for use, and the various substructure repairs and equipment and the marine system, and the very own maintenance division but very, very interesting and the upgrade to the equipment to accommodate, the changing size and the design of the very large cruise ship and so a lot of major milestones have been met with the respect to the cruise terminal and look forward to officially opening on september 25, at noon and that event will be open to the public as open as we are allowed on to be with the cruise ship in port and so we look forward to seeing everybody there. >> and then also, on september 8, which is a monday, we will be hosting in this building right out there in the second floor, a civic celebration to honor mimi soberg who is the president and the ceo of the delancy street foundation, that is open to the public at 5:30 and monday, september 8th to 8:00 p.m. on the ferry building on the second level and that will recognize all of the tremendous contributions that she has endoed upon all of us in this community, for particularly in the central water front. and then, sadly, i wanted to mention that one of our retired employees renee jones who was with the port for 32 years, passed away last month. and renee worked for the port, she graduated from balboa high school and came over to work at the port and she began in october *f 1973 as a temporary clerk and typist and 32 years later she retired from the real estate division as the collection's supervisor and she was a wonderful aunt and god mother and had numerous nieces and nephews and leaves behind her father, her brother and sister and her good friend, patricia jackson and left a great legacy with all of us and she will be greatly missed and so i wanted to take a moment to recognize that she has departed us. so thank you for that. >> and that concludes my report. >> any public comment on the executive's director's report? >> seeing none, commissioners reports? >> commissioner? anything to report on? >> and just that the two very brief things. one is that i just want to reiterate the public celebration in honor of dr. mimi, and i hope that you will all be able to join us and attend on september 8th, as the executive director mentioned it is free, and i think that many of you are well aware of how visionary dr. solber g and the street were when they located the facility on the water front and so it is exciting to see what their sort of toe hold here brought forward and now looking at it and seeing the changes and so i think that it was really a very opportune time of the 20th anniversary of having been in that location and then seeing the work that has gone up around and how the water front has really thrived, in that time. and so, very visionary, on her part as well as well as just all of the tremendous service to all of us here in the san francisco family. so i hope that you will be able to join us. and just that we don't always acknowledge some of the large and small victories that we have and i wanted to thank some of the staff members on july 17th, we had such a five items at the board of supervisors. and all five went through with tremendous support. from putting forward three items related to the orton development that was mentioned earlier and pier 70 and the approval for the art installation that has gone up and the lights are on at the pier 14. and so that was with megan and elaine and brad and jonathan, as or who was with the orton project. and brad was able to get a project through with the hoe down yard that we have worked with for some time and i want to take a moment to thank the staff because you don't always see the important steps so i want to thank all of you for making those happens, and so thank you. >> i think that is it for me. >> item under on the consent calendar, item a. >> okay, public comment. >> seeing none. >> next item. >> okay. >> item 7 arequest authorization to award construction contract no. 2765, pier 35 building & roof repair project, to roebuck construction, inc. in the amount of $2,041,010, and authorization for a contract contingency fund of 10% of the contract amount (or $204,101) for unanticipated contingencies, for a total authorization not to exceed $2,245,111. (resolution no. 14-48) >> and item 7 b,request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract no. 2769, port security fences project, phase iv. (resolution no. 14-49). and item 7 c,request authorization to issue a request for qualifications to establish a pre-qualified pool for multiple contracts to implement an emergency preparedness training program at the port. (resolution no. 14-50). >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> i am sorry, public comment? >> seeing none. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> all consent items carry. >> okay. >> item 9 a, informational presentation under the 17 year review, 1997 to 2014. >> brad? thank you. >> >> good afternoon, president katz, members and commissioners. woo ho and brandon, i'm diano oshimo with the port's planning and development division. we, me, and brad benson, together will be making this presentation on the overview on the water front land use plan. i wanted to thank everyone and welcome the members of the public who have come. and this has been quite an undertaking on the part of the port. and we have only just released to the port, it became live yesterday, late last night on the port's website and so we appreciate that, there is a lot of information that we will try and summarize for you today. this is a draft report, and so we recognize the need for people to be able to review and absorb, and we will be looking forward to taking comments through september, and then be able to take stock of the comments and feedbacks if we get back to before we finalize the report. thank you for your patience to everyone actually for the website, access. >> so hopefully, if you have any problems, let us know, it should be available. the project that we have tried to undertake is looking at the full 17 years of
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i have comment cards on specific items, is there anyone wishing to speak on any item not the on agenda. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> six a, executive director's report. >> good afternoon, commissioners, members of the public, port staff and thank you for joining us today it is a great turn out and i appreciate that. commissioners i have a few things to report on, and beginning item is that the forest city development the developer at the water front site has proposed a ballot measure for the november election. for proposition b, this particular measure will increase the height limit at the building limit up to 90 feet. 90 feet is the height that was envisioned during the master planning process, proposition b, a measure to go before the voters if the height are amended on the port property. and forest city has moved forward with the ballot measure for the november elections. the proposed measure also includes, non-binding policies, which will guide the development by and these policies will be working through the regular public process and regulatory process to address the issues of open space and affordable housing and the reuse of the historic structures and the place for the arts and transportation improvements and so that measure will go before the voters at the november 4, 2014 election. >> next i would like to report on a very successful contract opportunity workshop that was hosted by metro cruise who is the adooring contractor for the cruise activities at piers 27, 35, and 30, 32, their consultant, is here as well, today, together they posted a opportunity workshop on july 11, of 2014 and invited the local business enterprise contractors to attend the workshop and there were 40 to 50 individuals representing the janitorial and security, and printing and photography and pest control companies, a representative for the commission, rye on young, were in attendance to help the various companies learn how to contract with the city, and offer them, offer to help them get set up. so, it was a very successful event. bless you. and commissioner and president katz, thank you very much for your attendance and for your words on behalf of the port's commitment to the lbe, work and i understand that you have encouraged everyone to stand up and get to know each other as part of their own networking and not, and very well received, so thank you for doing that and my thanks to veroinca and others for hosting the event and we look forward to working with the lbes that were in attendance. >> next, also good news, on july 22nd, the san francisco board of supervisors unanimously approved the lease agreement between the port and the orton development ink for the pier 70 historic buildings, and they plan to renovate, 6 of the buildings with more than a quarter of a million square feet of renovated use. and the board also unanimously approved the issuance of the city of general obligation bonds for seismic rehabilitation of those same buildings. and so, this moves the orton transaction forward and they are hoping to begin their construction later this calendar year. and which will take about 18 to 24 months. and during construction, we expect to see 250 full time workers and there after, 400 to 500 permanent jobs when the project is completed and leased and so i want to particularly acknowledge jonathan stern and rep and phil williamson and brad benson and elaine forbes for the work in getting this item through and i apologize if i forgot anyone, but very, very great to see this milestone happening after a lot of work on pier 70 over the last 8 years. >> and next is i would like to announce and congratulate bay delta maritime on the chrisening of i believe the 6th tug boat, yes, thank you. and on august 2, they chrisened a new maritime tug boat named the delta audry, all of them are named the delta somebody and that is usually a special family member and in this case, it is sean bennett 7-year-old daughter, what a great birthday present for her. and bay and delta, as you may have know have been serving the san francisco bay since 1982, they are a port ten apartment at pier 17 and offer ship assistance and patrol and escort and general towing services throughout the bay area and i am sure that you see them moving vessels of all sizes and configuration around the bay. and we are pleased that they are increasing their investment in the bay and thank you for that. and i would like to invite president katz to say a few words and, recognize sean bennett, the president of bay and delta maritime. >> go ahead. >> and stand up. >> yeah. >> so, we are absolutely thrilled that we are here for this come men ration of a new vessel, and particularly pleased that it is named after your daughter, i think that it is a lovely touch and i know that will be something that she will appreciate, more and more as she gets older. so very special. and with that, we would like to present a plaque on behalf of the port. [ applause ] >> so congratulations to bay and delta, and thank you for the loyalty to the port and all of the work that you do for us in the bay and i hope that everyone gets a chance to go out for a ride. because it is a great vessel and so a lot of fun, next commissioners as you know we are going to be holding our first off site commission meeting at the end of september, september 23rd, at the south east community facility at 1800 oak dale avenue. and it is a change of location, the commission meeting time is expected to be, its normal time of open session at 3:15 and the meeting will be at the 1800 oak dale avenue, and this is something that the commission thought would be beneficial, and to host more of the meetings out in the community and so this will be the very first one. for those of you who plan to attend, parking is a little challenging and so plan to come early and car pool if you could or better yet take the t line but we look forward to seeing all of you on september 23rd, at the south east community facility. and then the very two days later i guess, on september 25th, at noon, after more than a decade, we will be officially opening the james r. herm an cruise terminal, and the new gang way is somewhere in the atlantic and she has been boarded on a vessel after being fa bricated in sweden and sthe will arrive straight to pier 27 and off listing the gang way on to the pier and it will take hours and hours and so i hope that you get a chance to see this because it is going to be cool to see it sort of hanging above the new cruise ship terminal and once that is in place, we will be able to begin, processing the passengers through the new terminal and we have even more good news, which is that on july 30, we received a temporary certificate of occupancy and reached the substantial completing on phase two, one day ahead of schedule and i am happy to report and so congratulations to all of the project team which is too numerous to name individually. and on august 18th, next month, the next border of protection, agency will be moving into the new facility, and you may recall that phase two, consisted of building out the facilities for the u.s. border and customs border protection, which includes two jail cells, and i want to warn you to behave ourself, or you might get to see them and a terrific new, grand transportation that will help to alleviate the traffic, and the cruise plaza and the one is in and so we are waiting for the lawn to get cozy before we open that up for use, and the various substructure repairs and equipment and the marine system, and the very own maintenance division but very, very interesting and the upgrade to the equipment to accommodate, the changing size and the design of the very large cruise ship and so a lot of major milestones have been met with the respect to the cruise terminal and look forward to officially opening on september 25, at noon and that event will be open to the public as open as we are allowed on to be with the cruise ship in port and so we look forward to seeing everybody there. >> and then also, on september 8, which is a monday, we will be hosting in this building right out there in the second floor, a civic celebration to honor mimi soberg who is the president and the ceo of the delancy street foundation, that is open to the public at 5:30 and monday, september 8th to 8:00 p.m. on the ferry building on the second level and that will recognize all of the tremendous contributions that she has endoed upon all of us in this community, for particularly in the central water front. and then, sadly, i wanted to mention that one of our retired employees renee jones who was with the port for 32 years, passed away last month. and renee worked for the port, she graduated from balboa high school and came over to work at the port and she began in october *f 1973 as a temporary clerk and typist and 32 years later she retired from the real estate division as the collection's supervisor and she was a wonderful aunt and god mother and had numerous nieces and nephews and leaves behind her father, her brother and sister and her good friend, patricia jackson and left a great legacy with all of us and she will be greatly missed and so i wanted to take a moment to recognize that she has departed us. so thank you for that. >> and that concludes my report. >> any public comment on the executive's director's report? >> seeing none, commissioners reports? >> commissioner? anything to report on? >> and just that the two very brief things. one is that i just want to reiterate the public celebration in honor of dr. mimi, and i hope that you will all be able to join us and attend on september 8th, as the executive director mentioned it is free, and i think that many of you are well aware of how visionary dr. solber g and the street were when they located the facility on the water front and so it is exciting to see what their sort of toe hold here brought forward and now looking at it and seeing the changes and so i think that it was really a very opportune time of the 20th anniversary of having been in that location and then seeing the work that has gone up around and how the water front has really thrived, in that time. and so, very visionary, on her part as well as well as just all of the tremendous service to all of us here in the san francisco family. so i hope that you will be able to join us. and just that we don't always acknowledge some of the large and small victories that we have and i wanted to thank some of the staff members on july 17th, we had such a five items at the board of supervisors. and all five went through with tremendous support. from putting forward three items related to the orton development that was mentioned earlier and pier 70 and the approval for the art installation that has gone up and the lights are on at the pier 14. and so that was with megan and elaine and brad and jonathan, as or who was with the orton project. and brad was able to get a project through with the hoe down yard that we have worked with for some time and i want to take a moment to thank the staff because you don't always see the important steps so i want to thank all of you for making those happens, and so thank you. >> i think that is it for me. >> item under on the consent calendar, item a. >> okay, public comment. >> seeing none. >> next item. >> okay. >> item 7 arequest authorization to award construction contract no. 2765, pier 35 building & roof repair project, to roebuck construction, inc. in the amount of $2,041,010, and authorization for a contract contingency fund of 10% of the contract amount (or $204,101) for unanticipated contingencies, for a total authorization not to exceed $2,245,111. (resolution no. 14-48) >> and item 7 b,request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract no. 2769, port security fences project, phase iv. (resolution no. 14-49). and item 7 c,request authorization to issue a request for qualifications to establish a pre-qualified pool for multiple contracts to implement an emergency preparedness training program at the port. (resolution no. 14-50). >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> i am sorry, public comment? >> seeing none. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> all consent items carry. >> okay. >> item 9 a, informational presentation under the 17 year review, 1997 to 2014. >> brad? thank you. >> >> good afternoon, president katz, members and commissioners. woo ho and brandon, i'm diano oshimo with the port's planning and development division. we, me, and brad benson, together will be making this presentation on the overview on the water front land use plan. i wanted to thank everyone and welcome the members of the public who have come. and this has been quite an undertaking on the part of the port. and we have only just released to the port, it became live yesterday, late last night on the port's website and so we appreciate that, there is a lot of information that we will try and summarize for you today. this is a draft report, and so we recognize the need for people to be able to review and absorb, and we will be looking forward to taking comments through september, and then be able to take stock of the comments and feedbacks if we get back to before we finalize the report. thank you for your patience to everyone actually for the website, access. >> so hopefully, if you have any problems, let us know, it should be available. the project that we have tried to undertake is looking at the full 17 years of the water front plan has been in place and we were required to look at a 5-year time window but we extended it to look at the full array of things that have happened on the water front to pride, education for the public, and there are 123 different projects that have been profiled in the report, and while that is a lot, that is not every project, that has happened, but we think that it is reflective of the breadth of the activities that have taken place and it all started after the city's effort to tear down the freeway and replace it with the transportation improvements and both projects were separate, but coordinated in time. and so, what we thought that we could do is just start out with just some images to give you a flavor for what the water front looked like back then in 1997. verses what we enjoy today. and starting from fisherman's wharf, this is one of the more recent accomplishments, but clearly, at pier 43, what we enjoy today and what was available for america's cup, was once a dilapidated parking lot that really blocked people's views and the enjoyment of tlk
union local 258 with respect to the extension of the term june 30th, 2017. >> any public comment on that item? >> yes. one member of the public has so indicated. >> good afternoon. good afternoon director nolan and director reiskin i'm a muni coach operator i still get nervous when i come here i'm in support of contracted and a lot of the members want this they were in in favor of this they voted for it is a way of moving forward and as far as the economics we're changed but the original contract is not changed we have a strong spirited leader we could have gotten more done as far as the whole contract and i'm in support of this but i want to see a little bit more with the contract done with the work conditions and new equipment and so and about the new operators coming in and gain top pay in the fifth year after 4 years after 2 years of working in the city here and, you know, they deserve top pay we want to keep them if another public transit agency is going to match our top pay then they might go somewhere else anyway, we have a good group of people i want to see the transit operators we deal with the people all the time we've got a lot of residential buildings and sales force and officers could have important people coming in and we need more operator thank you very much i support this contract >> is there another motion open the contract. >> i move the contracts if i may take 30 seconds. >> a second first. >> second. >> go ahead. >> i want to thank our staff from the director reiskin all the way down to our negotiating teams and everyone that worked to really thread an appropriate battle to act as management to get a good deal for the citizens of this city but at the same time to recognize the value of our employees to be positive and to promote them and not undermine the respect we have for the work and you ed. >> your staff did it and i congratulate you for that. >> director reiskin you wish to say anything. >> i'd echo the accomodation if the staff as well the city attorney's office and mayors lee and brown for the completion those agreements respecter good agreements for the agency and with very strongly recommend our approval. is there a motion and second all in favor, say i. opposed? so anything else >> that concludes the business before you. >> it is the new record isn't it. >> the last one was 12 minutes. >> 3 minutes. >> wow, it certainly wasn't that much. >> we're adjourned. thank >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to work. >> there still is no other device to conquer these hills better than a cable car. nobody wanted to live up here because you had to climb up here. with the invention of the cable car, these hills became accessible. he watched horses be dragged to death. cable cars were invent in san francisco to solve the problem with it's unique, vertically challenged terrain. we are still using cars a century old >> the old cable car is the most unique thing, it's still going. it was a good design by then and is still now. if we don't do something now. it's going to be worse later. >> the cable cars are built the same as they were in the late 1800's. we use a modern machinery. we haven't changed a thing. it's just how we get there. >> it's a time consuming job. we go for the quality rather than the production. we take pride in our work and it shows in the end product. >> the california line is mostly locals. the commuters in the morning, i see a lot of the same people. we don't have as tourists. we are coming up to street to chinatown. since 1957, we are the only city in the world that runs cable cars. these cars right here are part of national parks system. in the early 1960's, they became the first roles monument. the way city spread changed with the invention of the cable car. >> people know in san francisco, first thing they think about is, let's go >> call the meeting to order. >> katz. >> brandon. >> here. woo ho. >> here. >> approval of minutes. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor, aye. >> minute approved. >> okay, the pledge of allegiance? >> please be advising that the ringing of cell phones and pagers and similar sound prodaoutioning electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting, the chair may order the removal from the meeting room any person for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound producing electronic device, a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter period on any item, item five, public comment on items not listed on the agenda? i have comment cards on specific items, is there anyone wishing to speak on any item not the on agenda. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> six a, executive director's report. >> good afternoon, commissioners, members of the public, port staff and thank you for joining us today it is a great turn out and i appreciate that. commissioners i have a few things to report on, and beginning item is that the forest city development the developer at the water front site has proposed a ballot measure for the november election. for proposition b, this particular measure will increase the height limit at the building limit up to 90 feet. 90 feet is the height that was envisioned during the master planning process, proposition b, a measure to go before the voters if the height are amended on the port property. and forest city has moved forward with the ballot measure for the november elections. the proposed measure also includes, non-binding licies, which will guide the development by and these policies will be working through the regular public process and regulatory process to address the issues of open space and affordable housing and the reuse of the historic structures and the place for the arts and transportation improvements and so that measure will go before the voters at the november 4, 2014 election. >> next i would like to report on a very successful contract opportunity workshop that was hosted by metro cruise who is the adooring contractor for the cruise activities at piers 27, 35, and 30, 32, their consultant, is here as well, today, together they posted a opportunity workshop on july 11, of 2014 and invited the local business enterprise contractors to attend the workshop and there were 40 to 50 individuals representing the janitorial and security, and printing and photography and pest control companies, a representative for the commission, rye on young, were in attendance to help the various companies learn how to contract with the city, and offer them, offer to help them get set up. so, it was a very successful event. bless you. and commissioner and president katz, thank you very much for your attendance and for your words on behalf of the port's commitment to the lbe, work and i understand that you have encouraged everyone to stand up and get to know each other as part of their own networking and not, and very well received, so thank you for doing that and my thanks to veroinca and others for hosting the event and we look forward to working with the lbes that were in attendance. >> next, also good news, on july 22nd, the san francisco board of supervisors unanimously approved the lease agreement between the port and the orton development ink for the pier 70 historic buildings, and they plan to renovate, 6 of the buildings with more than a quarter of a million square feet of renovated use. and the board also unanimously approved the issuance of the city of general obligation bonds for seismic rehabilitation of those same buildings. and so, this moves the orton transaction forward and they are hoping to begin their construction later this calendar year. and which will take about 18 to 24 months. and during construction, we expect to see 250 full time workers and there after, 400 to 500 permanent jobs when the project is completed and leased and so i want to particularly acknowledge jonathan stern and rep and phil williamson and brad benson and elaine forbes for the work in getting this item through and i apologize if i forgot anyone, but very, very great to see this milestone happening after a lot of work on pier 70 over the last 8 years. >> and next is i would like to announce and congratulate bay delta maritime on the chrisening of i believe the 6th tug boat, yes, thank you. and on august 2, they chrisened a new maritime tug boat named the delta audry, all of them are named the delta somebody and that is usually a special family member and in this case, it is sean bennett 7-year-old daughter, what a great birthday present for her. and bay and delta, as you may have know have been serving the san francisco bay since 1982, they are a port ten apartment at pier 17 and offer ship assistance and patrol and escort and general towing services throughout the bay area and i am sure that you see them moving vessels of all sizes and configuration around the bay. and we are pleased that they are increasing their investment in the bay and thank you for that. and i would like to invite president katz to say a few words and, recognize sean bennett, the president of bay and delta maritime. >> go ahead. >> and stand up. >> yeah. >> so, we are absolutely thrilled that we are here for this come men ration of a new vessel, and particularly pleased that it is named after your daughter, i think that it is a lovely touch and i know that will be something that she will appreciate, more and more as she gets older. so very special. and with that, we would like to present a plaque on behalf of the port. [ applause ] >> so congratulations to bay and delta, and thank you for the loyalty to the port and all of the work that you do for us in the bay and i hope that everyone gets a chance to go out for a ride. because it is a great vessel and so a lot of fun, next commissioners as you know we are going to be holding our first off site commission meeting at the end of september, september 23rd, at the south east community facility at 1800 oak dale avenue. and it is a change of location, the commission meeting time is expected to be, its normal time of open session at 3:15 and the meeting will be at the 1800 oak dale avenue, and this is something that the commission thought would be beneficial, and to host more of the meetings out in the community and so this will be the very first one. for those of you who plan to attend, parking is a little challenging and so plan to come early and car pool if you could or better yet take the t line but we look forward to seeing all of you on september 23rd, at the south east community facility. and then the very two days later i guess, on september 25th, at noon, after more than a decade, we will be officially opening the james r. herm an cruise terminal, and the new gang way is somewhere in the atlantic and she has been boarded on a vessel after being fa bricated in sweden and sthe will arrive straight to pier 27 and off listing the gang way on to the pier and it will take hours and hours and so i hope that you get a chance to see this because it is going to be cool to see it sort of hanging above the new cruise ship terminal and once that is in place, we will be able to begin, processing the passengers through the new terminal and we have even more good news, which is that on july 30, we received a temporary certificate of occupancy and reached the substantial completing on phase two, one day ahead of schedule and i am happy to report and so congratulations to all of the project team which is too numerous to name individually. and on august 18th, next month, the next border of protection, agency will be moving into the new facility, and you may recall that phase two, consisted of building out the facilities for the u.s. border and customs border protection, which includes two jail cells, and i want to warn you to behave ourself, or you might get to see them and a terrific new, grand transportation that will help to alleviate the traffic, and the cruise plaza and the one is in and so we are waiting for the lawn to get cozy before we open that up for use, and the various substructure repairs and equipment and the marine system, and the very own maintenance division but very, very interesting and the upgrade to the equipment to accommodate, the changing size and the design of the very large cruise ship and so a lot of major milestones have been met with the respect to the cruise terminal and look forward to officially opening on september 25, at noon and that event will be open to the public as open as we are allowed on to be with the cruise ship in port and so we look forward to seeing everybody there. >> and then also, on september 8, which is a monday, we will be hosting in this building right out there in the second floor, a civic celebration to honor mimi soberg who is the president and the ceo of the delancy street foundation, that is open to the public at 5:30 and monday, september 8th to 8:00 p.m. on the ferry building on the second level and that will recognize all of the tremendous contributions that she has endoed upon all of us in this community, for particularly in the central water front. and then, sadly, i wanted to mention that one of our retired employees renee jones who was with the port for 32 years, passed away last month. and renee worked for the port, she graduated from balboa high school and came over to work at the port and she began in october *f 1973 as a temporary clerk and typist and 32 years later she retired from the real estate division as the collection's supervisor and she was a wonderful aunt and god mother and had numerous nieces and nephews and leaves behind her father, her brother and sister and her good friend, patricia jackson and left a great legacy with all of us and she will be greatly missed and so i wanted to take a moment to recognize that she has departed us. so thank you for that. >> and that concludes my report. >> any public comment on the executive's director's report? >> seeing none, commissioners reports? >> commissioner? anything to report on? >> and just that the two very brief things. one is that i just want to reiterate the public celebration in honor of dr. mimi, and i hope that you will all be able to join us and attend on september 8th, as the executive director mentioned it is free, and i think that many of you are well aware of how visionary dr. solber g and the street were when they located the facility on the water front and so it is exciting to see what their sort of toe hold here brought forward and now looking at it and seeing the changes and so i think that it was really a very opportune time of the 20th anniversary of having been in that location and then seeing the work that has gone up around and how the water front has really thrived, in that time. and so, very visionary, on her part as well as well as just all of the tremendous service to all of us here in the san francisco family. so i hope that you will be able to join us. and just that we don't always acknowledge some of the large and small victories that we have and i wanted to thank some of the staff members on july 17th, we had such a five items at the board of supervisors. and all five went through with tremendous support. from putting forward three items related to the orton development that was mentioned earlier and pier 70 and the approval for the art installation that has gone up and the lights are on at the pier 14. and so that was with megan and elaine and brad and jonathan, as or who was with the orton project. and brad was able to get a project through with the hoe down yard that we have worked with for some time and i want to take a moment to thank the staff because you don't always see the important steps so i want to thank all of you for making those happens, and so thank you. >> i think that is it for me. >> item under on the consent calendar, item a. >> okay, public comment. >> seeing none. >> next item. >> okay. >> item 7 arequest authorization to award construction contract no. 2765, pier 35 building & roof repair project, to roebuck construction, inc. in the amount of $2,041,010, and authorization for a contract contingency fund of 10% of the contract amount (or $204,101) for unanticipated contingencies, for a total authorization not to exceed $2,245,111. (resolution no. 14-48) >> and item 7 b,request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract no. 2769, port security fences project, phase iv. (resolution no. 14-49). and item 7 c,request authorization to issue a request for qualifications to establish a pre-qualified pool for multiple contracts to implement an emergency preparedness training program at the port. (resolution no. 14-50). >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> i am sorry, public comment? >> seeing none. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> all consent items carry. >> okay. >> item 9 a, informational presentation under the 17 year review, 1997 to 2014. >> brad? thank you. >> >> good afternoon, president katz, members and commissioners. woo ho and brandon, i'm diano oshimo with the port's planning and development division. we, me, and brad benson, together will be making this presentation on the overview on the water front land use plan. i wanted to thank everyone and welcome the members of the public who have come. and this has been quite an undertaking on the part of the port. and we have only just released to the port, it became live yesterday, late last night on the port's website and so we appreciate that, there is a lot of information that we will try and summarize for you today. this is a draft report, and so we recognize the need for people to be able to review and absorb, and we will be looking forward to taking comments through september, and then be able to take stock of the comments and feedbacks if we get back to before we finalize the report. thank you for your patience to everyone actually for the website, access. >> so hopefully, if you have any problems, let us know, it should be available. the project that we have tried to undertake is looking at the full 17 years of the water front plan has been in place and we were required to look at a 5-year time window but we extended it to look at the full array of things that have happened on the water front to pride, education for the public, and there are 123 different projects that have been profiled in the report, and while that is a lot, that is not every project, that has happened, but we think that it is reflective of the breadth of the activities that have taken place and it all started after the city's effort to tear down the freeway and replace it with the transportation improvements and both projects were separate, but coordinated in time. and so, what we thought that we could do is just start out with just some images to give you a flavor for what the water front looked like back then in 1997. verses what we enjoy today. and starting from fisherman's wharf, this is one of the more recent accomplishments, but clearly, at pier 43, what we enjoy today and what was available for america's cup, was once a dilapidated parking lot that really blocked people's views and the enjoyment of the alkatraz island and i think that we have seen the successes of having the people flock to the northern end of the water front and then continuing down. here is pier 1517, the eastern phase of that pier, which was the parker caught in the warehouse at the time and, it was an operating warehouse, and industrial in nature verses now, the families and children that flock to the water front and enjoy, not just the interactive science museum but all of the access and the views back to the city. pier one, we are all familiar with the port's headquarters, buildings today, and the transformation of that sugar warehouse shed, which prior to the construction was a very important parking resource for the water front. so, it, and i am glad to say that it is a very functional change that i think has also benefited the public for as much as those base side confer r
ringing of cell phones and pagers and similar sound prodaoutioning electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting, the chair may order the removal from the meeting room any person for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound producing electronic device, a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter period on any item, item five, public comment on items not listed on the agenda? i have comment cards on specific items, is there anyone wishing to speak on any item not the on agenda. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> six a, executive director's report. >> good afternoon, commissioners, members of the public, port staff and thank you for joining us today it is a great turn out and i appreciate that. commissioners i have a few things to report on, and beginning item is that the forest city development the developer at the water front site has proposed a ballot measure for the november election. for proposition b, this particular measure will increase the height limit at the building limit up to 90 feet. 90 feet is the height that was envisioned during the master planning process, proposition b, a measure to go before the voters if the height are amended on the port property. and forest city has moved forward with the ballot measure for the november elections. the proposed measure also includes, non-binding policies, which will guide the development by and these policies will be working through the regular public process and regulatory process to address the issues of open space and affordable housing and the reuse of the historic structures and the place for the arts and transportation improvements and so that measure will go before the voters at the november 4, 2014 election. >> next i would like to report on a very successful contract opportunity workshop that was hosted by metro cruise who is the adooring contractor for the cruise activities at piers 27, 35, and 30, 32, their consultant, is here as well, today, together they posted a opportunity workshop on july 11, of 2014 and invited the local business enterprise contractors to attend the workshop and there were 40 to 50 individuals representing the janitorial and security, and printing and photography and pest control companies, a representative for the commission, rye on young, were in attendance to help the various companies learn how to contract with the city, and offer them, offer to help them get set up. so, it was a very successful event. bless you. and commissioner and president katz, thank you very much for your attendance and for your words on behalf of the port's commitment to the lbe, work and i understand that you have encouraged everyone to stand up and get to know each other as part of their own networking and not, and very well received, so thank you for doing that and my thanks to veroinca and others for hosting the event and we look forward to working with the lbes that were in attendance. >> next, also good news, on july 22nd, the san francisco board of supervisors unanimously approved the lease agreement between the port and the orton development ink for the pier 70 historic buildings, and they plan to renovate, 6 of the buildings with more than a quarter of a million square feet of renovated use. and the board also unanimously approved the issuance of the city of general obligation bonds for seismic rehabilitation of those same buildings. and so, this moves the orton transaction forward and they are hoping to begin their construction later this calendar year. and which will take about 18 to 24 months. and during construction, we expect to see 250 full time workers and there after, 400 to 500 permanent jobs when the project is completed and leased and so i want to particularly acknowledge jonathan stern and rep and phil williamson and brad benson and elaine forbes for the work in getting this item through and i apologize if i forgot anyone, but very, very great to see this milestone happening after a lot of work on pier 70 over the last 8 years. >> and next is i would like to announce and congratulate bay delta maritime on the chrisening of i believe the 6th tug boat, yes, thank you. and on august 2, they chrisened a new maritime tug boat named the delta audry, all of them are named the delta somebody and that is usually a special family member and in this case, it is sean bennett 7-year-old daughter, what a great birthday present for her. and bay and delta, as you may have know have been serving the san francisco bay since 1982, they are a port ten apartment at pier 17 and offer ship assistance and patrol and escort and general towing services throughout the bay area and i am sure that you see them moving vessels of all sizes and configuration around the bay. and we are pleased that they are increasing their investment in the bay and thank you for that. and i would like to invite president katz to say a few words and, recognize sean bennett, the president of bay and delta maritime. >> go ahead. >> and stand up. >> yeah. >> so, we are absolutely thrilled that we are here for this come men ration of a new vessel, and particularly pleased that it is named after your daughter, i think that it is a lovely touch and i know that will be something that she will appreciate, more and more as she gets older. so very special. and with that, we would like to present a plaque on behalf of the port. [ applause ] >> so congratulations to bay and delta, and thank you for the loyalty to the port and all of the work that you do for us in the bay and i hope that everyone gets a chance to go out for a ride. because it is a great vessel and so a lot of fun, next commissioners as you know we are going to be holding our first off site commission meeting at the end of september, september 23rd, at the south east community facility at 1800 oak dale avenue. and it is a change of location, the commission meeting time is expected to be, its normal time of open session at 3:15 and the meeting will be at the 1800 oak dale avenue, and this is something that the commission thought would be beneficial, and to host more of the meetings out in the community and so this will be the very first one. for those of you who plan to attend, parking is a little challenging and so plan to come early and car pool if you could or better yet take the t line but we look forward to seeing all of you on september 23rd, at the south east community facility. and then the very two days later i guess, on september 25th, at noon, after more than a decade, we will be officially opening the james r. herm an cruise terminal, and the new gang way is somewhere in the atlantic and she has been boarded on a vessel after being fa bricated in sweden and sthe will arrive straight to pier 27 and off listing the gang way on to the pier and it will take hours and hours and so i hope that you get a chance to see this because it is going to be cool to see it sort of hanging above the new cruise ship terminal and once that is in place, we will be able to begin, processing the passengers through the new terminal and we have even more good news, which is that on july 30, we received a temporary certificate of occupancy and reached the substantial completing on phase two, one day ahead of schedule and i am happy to report and so congratulations to all of the project team which is too numerous to name individually. and on august 18th, next month, the next border of protection, agency will be moving into the new facility, and you may recall that phase two, consisted of building out the facilities for the u.s. border and customs border protection, which includes two jail cells, and i want to warn you to behave ourself, or you might get to see them and a terrific new, grand transportation that will help to alleviate the traffic, and the cruise plaza and the one is in and so we are waiting for the lawn to get cozy before we open that up for use, and the various substructure repairs and equipment and the marine system, and the very own maintenance division but very, very interesting and the upgrade to the equipment to accommodate, the changing size and the design of the very large cruise ship and so a lot of major milestones have been met with the respect to the cruise terminal and look forward to officially opening on september 25, at noon and that event will be open to the public as open as we are allowed on to be with the cruise ship in port and so we look forward to seeing everybody there. >> and then also, on september 8, which is a monday, we will be hosting in this building right out there in the second floor, a civic celebration to honor mimi soberg who is the president and the ceo of the delancy street foundation, that is open to the public at 5:30 and monday, september 8th to 8:00 p.m. on the ferry building on the second level and that will recognize all of the tremendous contributions that she has endoed upon all of us in this community, for particularly in the central water front. and then, sadly, i wanted to mention that one of our retired employees renee jones who was with the port for 32 years, passed away last month. and renee worked for the port, she graduated from balboa high school and came over to work at the port and she began in october *f 1973 as a temporary clerk and typist and 32 years later she retired from the real estate division as the collection's supervisor and she was a wonderful aunt and god mother and had numerous nieces and nephews and leaves behind her father, her brother and sister and her good friend, patricia jackson and left a great legacy with all of us and she will be greatly missed and so i wanted to take a moment to recognize that she has departed us. so thank you for that. >> and that concludes my report. >> any public comment on the executive's director's report? >> seeing none, commissioners reports? >> commissioner? anything to report on? >> and just that the two very brief things. one is that i just want to reiterate the public celebration in honor of dr. mimi, and i hope that you will all be able to join us and attend on september 8th, as the executive director mentioned it is free, and i think that many of you are well aware of how visionary dr. solber g and the street were when they located the facility on the water front and so it is exciting to see what their sort of toe hold here brought forward and now looking at it and seeing the changes and so i think that it was really a very opportune time of the 20th anniversary of having been in that location and then seeing the work that has gone up around and how the water front has really thrived, in that time. and so, very visionary, on her part as well as well as just all of the tremendous service to all of us here in the san francisco family. so i hope that you will be able to join us. and just that we don't always acknowledge some of the large and small victories that we have and i wanted to thank some of the staff members on july 17th, we had such a five items at the board of supervisors. and all five went through with tremendous support. from putting forward three items related to the orton development that was mentioned earlier and pier 70 and the approval for the art installation that has gone up and the lights are on at the pier 14. and so that was with megan and elaine and brad and jonathan, as or who was with the orton project. and brad was able to get a project through with the hoe down yard that we have worked with for some time and i want to take a moment to thank the staff because you don't always see the important steps so i want to thank all of you for making those happens, and so thank you. >> i think that is it for me. >> item under on the consent calendar, item a. >> okay, public comment. >> seeing none. >> next item. >> okay. >> item 7 arequest authorization to award construction contract no. 2765, pier 35 building & roof repair project, to roebuck construction, inc. in the amount of $2,041,010, and authorization for a contract contingency fund of 10% of the contract amount (or $204,101) for unanticipated contingencies, for a total authorization not to exceed $2,245,111. (resolution no. 14-48) >> and item 7 b,request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract no. 2769, port security fences project, phase iv. (resolution no. 14-49). and item 7 c,request authorization to issue a request for qualifications to establish a pre-qualified pool for multiple contracts to implement an emergency preparedness training program at the port. (resolution no. 14-50). >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> i am sorry, public comment? >> seeing none. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> all consent items carry. >> okay. >> item 9 a, informational presentation under the 17 year review, 1997 to 2014. >> brad? thank you. >> >> good afternoon, president katz, members and commissioners. woo ho and brandon, i'm diano oshimo with the port's planning and development division. we, me, and brad benson, together will be making this presentation on the overview on the water front land use plan. i wanted to thank everyone and welcome the members of the public who have come. and this has been quite an undertaking on the part of the port. and we have only just released to the port, it became live yesterday, late last night on the port's website and so we appreciate that, there is a lot of information that we will try and summarize for you today. this is a draft report, and so we recognize the need for people to be able to review and absorb, and we will be looking forward to taking comments through september, and then be able to take stock of the comments and feedbacks if we get back to before we finalize the report. thank you for your patience to everyone actually for the website, access. >> so hopefully, if you have any problems, let us know, it should be available. the project that we have tried to undertake is looking at the full 17 years of the water front plan has been in place and we were required to look at a 5-year time window but we extended it to look at the full array of things that have happened on the water front to pride, education for the public, and there are 123 different projects that have been profiled in the report, and while that is a lot, that is not every project, that has happened, but we think that it is reflective of the breadth of the activities that have taken place and it all started after the city's effort to tear down the freeway and replace it with the transportation improvements and both projects were separate, but coordinated in time. and so, what we thought that we could do is just start out with just some images to give you a flavor for what the water front looked like back then in 1997. verses what we enjoy today. and starting from fisherman's wharf, this is one of the more recent accomplishments, but clearly, at pier 43, what we enjoy today and what was available for america's cup, was once a dilapidated parking lot that really blocked people's views and the enjoyment of the alkatraz island and i think that we have seen the successes of having the people flock to the northern end of the water front and then continuing down. here is pier 1517, the eastern phase of that pier, which was the parker caught in the warehouse at the time and, it was an operating warehouse, and industrial in nature verses now, the families and children that flock to the water front and enjoy, not just the interactive science museum but all of the access and the views back to the city. pier one, we are all familiar with the port's headquarters, buildings today, and the transformation of that sugar warehouse shed, which prior to the construction was a very important parking resource for the water front. so, it, and i am glad to say that it is a very functional change that i think has also benefited the public for as much as those base side conference rooms get used for very public meetings. next door, piers 1 and a half, i don't know that the public understands how decrepid that facility was and it had been condemned and basically left for dead before we put it together in the pier's one and half three five, project opportunity that was improved by san francisco water front partners. and then, moving down, obviously, the brandon street wharf and a new improvement that we are all able to enjoy. there were two prao*ers there, 34, and 36 and both had been condemned are on their way there. and the removal of those piers was part of an arrangement that the port commission and the bcds commission set up to be able to focus the major public improvements for the public open space and fill removal in exchange for being able to do the variety of land uses that we now see in the developments today. and then moving south into the southern water front, i think that the herins head park and the various layers of improvements that have taken shape down there. and for taking a spit of land that was just dead fill. and making improvements, and so that it made it publicly accessible and then available for a natural habitat area. creating the environmental education programs, that commissioner brandon was very centrally involved in, with the bay view community. and then bringing it forward to the ecocenter, and there and barely off of the grid facility that furthers the facility programming and then more recently the next park improvement that was put in place last year, for the entrance to the herns head park and it sort of shows how the collaborations between the port and the city and the community have been able to bring forth a really valuable resource in the area. the water front land use itself provides the overview for the projects port wide as well as the individual sites that many people have been focusing on the projects recently, and it was required as a result of a ballot initiative that was passed in 1990, proposition h, where the piers were required to be included in the plan, the port commission at the time included all of the port's properties in the plan and didn't 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 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 to look at what we have been able to do on the new resources. and the water front plan also set out guidelines, and anticipating public, private partnerships as an important vehicle to be able to improve these piers because it was clearer than it is now, that there was a lot of deferred maintenance, and there were very few financing resources, and that the thought was public, private partnerships would bring the changes along and so there was a process for setting out how you work with the community before you have the development projects and then, once you have the development partner, moving forward, since then, in this report, we have counted over 1.6 billion, worth of private and public investment in the improvement projects that will summarize here. and there are in addition port leasing and other many maintenance and engineering projects that we have not been able to profile here in addition to that. >> in terms of the policy framework from the water front plan the division of the water front advisory plan was to reunite san francisco with the water front and the foundation points for that were the goals that you see on this slide to really promote, and embrace san francisco's diverse maritime, working water front, to revitalize the port for public enjoyment. to broaden the array of uses and activities that should be offers along the water front to subscribe to the urbanty of san francisco. to expand the public access to transportation access along the water front as part of its improvement. and to design and come up with new projects, that are mineful of the history, and to the design of creativity and the urban design and the setting and related a lot with tying how in how it relates to the rest of the city and there was a lot of coordination from the department and from the outset and economic access and trying to make sure that we still in the improvement of the water front to be sure that there are places for blue collar and for families and children, and to have a place to enjoy along the water front. the water front plan, really organizes the 7 and a half miles into five geographic subareas. fisherman's wharf is the northern most and in our report, we have identified the specific projects and also, sumized at a high level, what has been happening in each one of these subareas. clearly for the fisherman's wharf the big news for the port was to able to resurrect the commercial fishing degree which was really in a weakened mode at the time that the plan was improved. with the fishing harbor and pier 45, fish processing facilities it created and renewed really the center of fisherman's wharf, which really is what people want to see. and the port's effort since then have really focused a lot on public realm, i think that is represented in the pier 43, as well as the jefferson street and tie lor street to welcome the visitors that come to the wharf and that has spurred a lot of partnerships with the cbd and the tenants to be able to make the investments with the businesses and so that the restaurants and the venue and activities interact well with the public realm and we are working with the bcdc to identify further improvements for the fisherman's wharf area and so there is still work to do to change some regulations that will make it easier for the restaurant owners to do seismic up grades and retrofits to their restaurants where they sit on a pile supported decks and so that work has been under way through the bcdc port working through the process which we have briefed you on previously. in the north east water front, and we have quite a bit of improvement just through the director's announcement on opening of the herm an cruise terminal, the plaza, and clearly the explore torium has been a game changer for the north east water front and it is hard to imagine the change if you were not here then, but pier 27 was a news print terminal, when the plan was adopted. when a cotton warehouse and we had a foreign trade zone with the semitrucks crossing in 19 and 23, and so what the public has been able to enjoy, with the america's cup and with the permanent developments here with the opening of the cruise terminal, i think that it is something that provides that bridge between the ferry building area and fisherman's wharf that we think has, you know, been a wonderful resource and has attracted so many more people to the wa
support in with recommendation we'll take that without objection. and madam clerk, any other business before this committee? >> there's no further business. . then we are adjourned. >> call the meeting to order. >> katz. >> brandon. >> here. woo ho. >> here. >> approval of minutes. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor, aye. >> minute approved. >> okay, the pledge of allegiance? >> please be advising that the ringing of cell phones and pagers and similar sound prodaoutioning electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting, the chair may order the removal from the meeting room any person for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound producing electronic device, a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter period on any item, item five, public comment on items not listed on the agenda? i have comment cards on specific items, is there anyone wishing to speak on any item not the on agenda. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> six a, executive director's report. >> good afternoon, commissioners, members of the public, port staff and thank you for joining us today it is a great turn out and i appreciate that. commissioners i have a few things to report on, and beginning item is that the forest city development the developer at the water front site has proposed a ballot measure for the november election. for proposition b, this particular measure will increase the height limit at the building limit up to 90 feet. 90 feet is the height that was envisioned during the master planning process, proposition b, a measure to go before the voters if the height are amended on the port property. and forest city has moved forward with the ballot measure for the november elections. the proposed measure also includes, non-binding policies, which will guide the development by and these policies will be working through the regular public process and regulatory process to address the issues of open space and affordable housing and the reuse of the historic structures and the place for the arts and transportation improvements and so that measure will go before the voters at the november 4, 2014 election. >> next i would like to report on a very successful contract opportunity workshop that was hosted by metro cruise who is the adooring contractor for the cruise activities at piers 27, 35, and 30, 32, their consultant, is here as well, today, together they posted a opportunity workshop on july 11, of 2014 and invited the local business enterprise contractors to attend the workshop and there were 40 to 50 individuals representing the janitorial and security, and printing and photography and pest control companies, a representative for the commission, rye on young, were in attendance to help the various companies learn how to contract with the city, and offer them, offer to help them get set up. so, it was a very successful event. bless you. and commissioner and president katz, thank you very much for your attendance and for your words on behalf of the port's commitment to the lbe, work and i understand that you have encouraged everyone to stand up and get to know each other as part of their own networking and not, and very well received, so thank you for doing that and my thanks to veroinca and others for hosting the event and we look forward to working with the lbes that were in attendance. >> next, also good news, on july 22nd, the san francisco board of supervisors unanimously approved the lease agreement between the port and the orton development ink for the pier 70 historic buildings, and they plan to renovate, 6 of the buildings with more than a quarter of a million square feet of renovated use. and the board also unanimously approved the issuance of the city of general obligation bonds for seismic rehabilitation of those same buildings. and so, this moves the orton transaction forward and they are hoping to begin their construction later this calendar year. and which will take about 18 to 24 months. and during construction, we expect to see 250 full time workers and there after, 400 to 500 permanent jobs when the project is completed and leased and so i want to particularly acknowledge jonathan stern and rep and phil williamson and brad benson and elaine forbes for the work in getting this item through and i apologize if i forgot anyone, but very, very great to see this milestone happening after a lot of work on pier 70 over the last 8 years. >> and next is i would like to announce and congratulate bay delta maritime on the chrisening of i believe the 6th tug boat, yes, thank you. and on august 2, they chrisened a new maritime tug boat named the delta audry, all of them are named the delta somebody and that is usually a special family member and in this case, it is sean bennett 7-year-old daughter, what a great birthday present for her. and bay and delta, as you may have know have been serving the san francisco bay since 1982, they are a port ten apartment at pier 17 and offer ship assistance and patrol and escort and general towing services throughout the bay area and i am sure that you see them moving vessels of all sizes and configuration around the bay. and we are pleased that they are increasing their investment in the bay and thank you for that. and i would like to invite president katz to say a few words and, recognize sean bennett, the president of bay and delta maritime. >> go ahead. >> and stand up. >> yeah. >> so, we are absolutely thrilled that we are here for this come men ration of a new vessel, and particularly pleased that it is named after your daughter, i think that it is a lovely touch and i know that will be something that she will appreciate, more and more as she gets older. so very special. and with that, we would like to present a plaque on behalf of the port. [ applause ] >> so congratulations to bay and delta, and thank you for the loyalty to the port and all of the work that you do for us in the bay and i hope that everyone gets a chance to go out for a ride. because it is a great vessel and so a lot of fun, next commissioners as you know we are going to be holding our first off site commission meeting at the end of september, september 23rd, at the south east community facility at 1800 oak dale avenue. and it is a change of location, the commission meeting time is expected to be, its normal time of open session at 3:15 and the meeting will be at the 1800 oak dale avenue, and this is something that the commission thought would be beneficial, and to host more of the meetings out in the community and so this will be the very first one. for those of you who plan to attend, parking is a little challenging and so plan to come early and car pool if you could or better yet take the t line but we look forward to seeing all of you on september 23rd, at the south east community facility. and then the very two days later i guess, on september 25th, at noon, after more than a decade, we will be officially opening the james r. herm an cruise terminal, and the new gang way is somewhere in the atlantic and she has been boarded on a vessel after being fa bricated in sweden and sthe will arrive straight to pier 27 and off listing the gang way on to the pier and it will take hours and hours and so i hope that you get a chance to see this because it is going to be cool to see it sort of hanging above the new cruise ship terminal and once that is in place, we will be able to begin, processing the passengers through the new terminal and we have even more good news, which is that on july 30, we received a temporary certificate of occupancy and reached the substantial completing on phase two, one day ahead of schedule and i am happy to report and so congratulations to all of the project team which is too numerous to name individually. and on august 18th, next month, the next border of protection, agency will be moving into the new facility, and you may recall that phase two, consisted of building out the facilities for the u.s. border and customs border protection, which includes two jail cells, and i want to warn you to behave ourself, or you might get to see them and a terrific new, grand transportation that will help to alleviate the traffic, and the cruise plaza and the one is in and so we are waiting for the lawn to get cozy before we open that up for use, and the various substructure repairs and equipment and the marine system, and the very own maintenance division but very, very interesting and the upgrade to the equipment to accommodate, the changing size and the design of the very large cruise ship and so a lot of major milestones have been met with the respect to the cruise terminal and look forward to officially opening on september 25, at noon and that event will be open to the public as open as we are allowed on to be with the cruise ship in port and so we look forward to seeing everybody there. >> and then also, on september 8, which is a monday, we will be hosting in this building right out there in the second floor, a civic celebration to honor mimi soberg who is the president and the ceo of the delancy street foundation, that is open to the public at 5:30 and monday, september 8th to 8:00 p.m. on the ferry building on the second level and that will recognize all of the tremendous contributions that she has endoed upon all of us in this community, for particularly in the central water front. and then, sadly, i wanted to mention that one of our retired employees renee jones who was with the port for 32 years, passed away last month. and renee worked for the port, she graduated from balboa high school and came over to work at the port and she began in october *f 1973 as a temporary clerk and typist and 32 years later she retired from the real estate division as the collection's supervisor and she was a wonderful aunt and god mother and had numerous nieces and nephews and leaves behind her father, her brother and sister and her good friend, patricia jackson and left a great legacy with all of us and she will be greatly missed and so i wanted to take a moment to recognize that she has departed us. so thank you for that. >> and that concludes my report. >> any public comment on the executive's director's report? >> seeing none, commissioners reports? >> commissioner? anything to report on? >> and just that the two very brief things. one is that i just want to reiterate the public celebration in honor of dr. mimi, and i hope that you will all be able to join us and attend on september 8th, as the executive director mentioned it is free, and i think that many of you are well aware of how visionary dr. solber g and the street were when they located the facility on the water front and so it is exciting to see what their sort of toe hold here brought forward and now looking at it and seeing the changes and so i think that it was really a very opportune time of the 20th anniversary of having been in that location and then seeing the work that has gone up around and how the water front has really thrived, in that time. and so, very visionary, on her part as well as well as just all of the tremendous service to all of us here in the san francisco family. so i hope that you will be able to join us. and just that we don't always acknowledge some of the large and small victories that we have and i wanted to thank some of the staff members on july 17th, we had such a five items at the board of supervisors. and all five went through with tremendous support. from putting forward three items related to the orton development that was mentioned earlier and pier 70 and the approval for the art installation that has gone up and the lights are on at the pier 14. and so that was with megan and elaine and brad and jonathan, as or who was with the orton project. and brad was able to get a project through with the hoe down yard that we have worked with for some time and i want to take a moment to thank the staff because you don't always see the important steps so i want to thank all of you for making those happens, and so thank you. >> i think that is it for me. >> item under on the consent calendar, item a. >> okay, public comment. >> seeing none. >> next item. >> okay. >> item 7 arequest authorization to award construction contract no. 2765, pier 35 building & roof repair project, to roebuck construction, inc. in the amount of $2,041,010, and authorization for a contract contingency fund of 10% of the contract amount (or $204,101) for unanticipated contingencies, for a total authorization not to exceed $2,245,111. (resolution no. 14-48) >> and item 7 b,request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract no. 2769, port security fences project, phase iv. (resolution no. 14-49). and item 7 c,request authorization to issue a request for qualifications to establish a pre-qualified pool for multiple contracts to implement an emergency preparedness training program at the port. (resolution no. 14-50). >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> i am sorry, public comment? >> seeing none. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> all consent items carry. >> okay. >> item 9 a, informational presentation under the 17 year review, 1997 to 2014. >> brad? thank you. >> >> good afternoon, president katz, members and commissioners. woo ho and brandon, i'm diano oshimo with the port's planning and development division. we, me, and brad benson, together will be making this presentation on the overview on the water front land use plan. i wanted to thank everyone and welcome the members of the public who have come. and this has been quite an undertaking on the part of the port. and we have only just released to the port, it became live yesterday, late last night on the port's website and so we appreciate that, there is a lot of information that we will try and summarize for you today. this is a draft report, and so we recognize the need for people to be able to review and absorb, and we will be looking forward to taking comments through september, and then be able to take stock of the comments and feedbacks if we get back to before we finalize the report. thank you for your patience to everyone actually for the website, access. >> so hopefully, if you have any problems, let us know, it should be available. the project that we have tried to undertake is looking at the full 17 years of the water front plan has been in place and we were required to look at a 5-year time window but we extended it to look at the full array of things that have happened on the water front to pride, education for the public, and there are 123 different projects that have been profiled in the report, and while that is a lot, that is not every project, that has happened, but we think that it is reflective of the breadth of the activities that have taken place and it all started after the city's effort to tear down the freeway and replace it with the transportation improvements and both projects were separate, but coordinated in time. and so, what we thought that we could do is just start out with just some images to give you a flavor for what the water front looked like back then in 1997. verses what we enjoy today. and starting from fisherman's wharf, this is one of the more recent accomplishments, but clearly, at pier 43, what we enjoy today and what was available for america's cup, was once a dilapidated parking lot that really blocked people's views and the enjoyment of the alkatraz island and i think that we have seen the successes of having the people flock to the northern end of the water front and then continuing down. here is pier 1517, the eastern phase of that pier, which was the parker caught in the warehouse at the time and, it was an operating warehouse, and industrial in nature verses now, the families and children that flock to the water front and enjoy, not just the interactive science museum but all of the access and the views back to the city. pier one, we are all familiar with the port's headquarters, buildings today, and the transformation of that sugar warehouse shed, which prior to the construction was a very important parking resource for the water front. so, it, and i am glad to say that it is a very functional change that i think has also benefited the public for as much as those base side conference rooms get used for very public meetings. next door, piers 1 and a half, i don't know that the public understands how decrepid that facility was and it had been condemned and basically left for dead before we put it together in the pier's one and half three five, project opportunity that was improved by san francisco water front partners. and then, moving down, obviously, the brandon street wharf and a new improvement that we are all able to enjoy. there were two prao*ers there, 34, and 36 and both had been condemned are on their way there. and the removal of those piers was part of an arrangement that the port commission and the bcds commission set up to be able to focus the major public improvements for the public open space and fill removal in exchange for being able to do the variety of land uses that we now see in the developments today. and then moving south into the southern water front, i think that the herins head park and the various layers of improvements that have taken shape down there. and for taking a spit of land that was just dead fill. and making improvements, and so that it made it publicly accessible and then available for a natural habitat area. creating the environmental education programs, that commissioner brandon was very centrally involved in, with the bay view community. and then bringing it forward to the ecocenter, and there and barely off of the grid facility that furthers the facility programming and then more recently the next park improvement that was put in place last year, for the entrance to the herns head park and it sort of shows how the collaborations between the port and the city and the community have been able to bring forth a really valuable resource in the area. the water front land use itself provides the overview for the projects port wide as well as the individual sites that many people have been focusing on the projects recently, and it was required as a result of a ballot initiative that was passed in 1990, proposition h, where the piers were required to be included in the plan, the port commission at the time included all of the port's properties in the plan and didn't 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 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 to look at what we have been able to do on the new resources. and the water front plan also set out guidelines, and anticipating public, private partnerships as an important vehicle to be able to improve these piers because it was clearer than it is now, that there was a lot of deferred maintenance, and there were very few financing resources, and that the thought was public, private partnerships would bring the changes along and so there was a process for setting out how you work with the community before you have the development projects and then, once you have the development partner, moving forward, since then, in this report, we have counted over 1.6 billion, worth of private and public investment in the improvement projects that will summarize here. and there are in addition port leasing and other many maintenance and engineering projects that we have not been able to profile here in addition to that. >> in terms of the policy framework from the water front plan the division of the water front advisory plan was to reunite san francisco with the water front and the foundation points for that were the goals that you see on this slide to really promote, and embrace san francisco's diverse maritime, working water front, to revitalize the port for public enjoyment. to broaden the array of uses and activities that should be offers along the water front to subscribe to the urbanty of san francisco. to expand the public access to transportation access along the water front as part of its improvement. and to design and come up with new projects, that are mineful of the history, and to the design of creativity and the urban design and the setting and related a lot with tying how in how it relates to the rest of the city and there was a lot of coordination from the department and from the outset and economic access and trying to make sure that we still in the improvement of the water front to be sure that there are places for blue collar and for families and children, and to have a place to enjoy along the water front. the water front plan, really organizes the 7 and a half miles into five geographic subareas. fisherman's wharf is the northern most and in our report, we have identified the specific projects and also, sumized at a high level, what has been happening in each one of these subareas. clearly for the fisherman's wharf the big news for the port was to able to resurrect the commercial fishing degree which was really in a weakened mode at the time that the plan was improved. with the fishing harbor and pier 45, fish processing facilities it created and renewed really the center of fisherman's wharf, which really is what people want to see. and the port's effort since then have really focused a lot on public realm, i think that is represented in the pier 43, as well as the jefferson street and tie lor street to welcome the visitors that come to the wharf and that has spurred a lot of partnerships with the cbd and the tenants to be able to make the investments with the businesses and so that the restaurants and the venue and activities interact well with the public realm and we are working with the bcdc to identify further improvements for the fisherman's wharf area and so there is still work to do to change some regulations that will make it easier for the restaurant owners to do seismic up grades and retrofits to their restaurants where they sit on a pi
so it's great to see everyone came back to the play ground where kids and community should always be able to go and we and the mayor and the rest of the city agencies here are committed to this neighborhood and this park should be for the kids and the community, not just on national night out but any night of the work to come and enjoy so there will be cops here regularly. soon enough they will be using this clubhouse as a place they use as the base of operations and there's not -- i can't say enough how much time we want to spend with the young people in san francisco and for all of the people that contributed tonight and for the mayor and his leadership supervisor cohen, the district attorney, and others and i think you jinxed us with saying the rain isn't coming and have a good time and next year will be even better. >> thank you sir. we are blessed to have the supervisor for district 10 so let's welcome supervisor cohen. >> hello family. hello. what a beautiful day. my god we couldn't have prayed for something better than this. thank you for everyone for coming out. thank you. because you know what national night out is about? it's very simple. it's one night when cities all around the country come together to say we're taking back our parks, taking back our streets, taking back our cities, taking it back from the violent crime element and reclaiming it as a safe haven for the community. there are people here that deserve some recognition. i want to recognize the community partners and specifically list up ms. ruth jackson sitting here in the green. this woman deserves serious recognition and love. i want to recognize the fact that we have a true community. you look around here we've got sano ans, asian pacific islander community, the chinese community, african-americans, caucasians. we have literally the physical man festation of what makes san francisco biewsm. we have the latino community. this is incredible. we have young people. we have seniors this. is exactly what this is about and what visitation valley is about and i want to thank all of the sponsors and partners who made this possible and all of my friends out there in the back serving and grilling and packaging food and giving from their hearts and that's what this is about. this is a labor of love so remember that as we continue to have a good time tonight. i am malia cohen. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much and we have -- blessed to have our district attorney here, district attorney gas con. >> thank you reverend and mayor and malia. the essence of community is the ability to come together and have good people use the open space, and today not only are we celebrating people coming together and using this park, but also we're celebrating the fact that as a community we refuse to allow violence to define us. we as a community are coming together, neighbors, police officers, supervisors, the district attorney's office, our probation because we refuse to allow our community to be defined by the worse moment -- by a bad moment of violence, so i am very proud of being here today. this park is a wonderful place. it's a place that we want to want to make sure the community uses and we are committed to ensuring this is a safe place for all to play. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. i also want to recognize rec and park for really providing so much of what you see here, the table and the chairs and the bouncy houses and that thing, whatever it is. it's been fantastic and a blessing with being accommodating and with this we have a closing prayer. this will go on to 8:00 o'clock but we want god's blessing on this park and now to forever only things happen to you. we ask you for your spirit here and god rebuke all violence and evil from this area. we pray in the name jesus. we know you can do it. have grace and amen. thank you very much. [applause] >> call the meeting to order. >> katz. >> brandon. >> here. woo ho. >> here. >> approval of minutes. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor, aye. >> minute approved. >> okay, the pledge of allegiance? >> please be advising that the ringing of cell phones and pagers and similar sound prodaoutioning electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting, the chair may order the removal from the meeting room any person for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound producing electronic device, a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter period on any item, item five, public comment on items not listed on the agenda? i have comment cards on specific items, is there anyone wishing to speak on any item not the on agenda. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> six a, executive director's report. >> good afternoon, commissioners, members of the public, port staff and thank you for joining us today it is a great turn out and i appreciate that. commissioners i have a few things to report on, and beginning item is that the forest city development the developer at the water front site has proposed a ballot measure for the november election. for proposition b, this particular measure will increase the height limit at the building limit up to 90 feet. 90 feet is the height that was envisioned during the master planning process, proposition b, a measure to go before the voters if the height are amended on the port property. and forest city has moved forward with the ballot measure for the november elections. the proposed measure also includes, non-binding policies, which will guide the development by and these policies will be working through the regular public process and regulatory process to address the issues of open space and affordable housing and the reuse of the historic structures and the place for the arts and transportation improvements and so that measure will go before the voters at the november 4, 2014 election. >> next i would like to report on a very successful contract opportunity workshop that was hosted by metro cruise who is the adooring contractor for the cruise activities at piers 27, 35, and 30, 32, their consultant, is here as well, today, together they posted a opportunity workshop on july 11, of 2014 and invited the local business enterprise contractors to attend the workshop and there were 40 to 50 individuals representing the janitorial and security, and printing and photography and pest control companies, a representative for the commission, rye on young, were in attendance to help the various companies learn how to contract with the city, and offer them, offer to help them get set up. so, it was a very successful event. bless you. and commissioner and president katz, thank you very much for your attendance and for your words on behalf of the port's commitment to the lbe, work and i understand that you have encouraged everyone to stand up and get to know each other as part of their own networking and not, and very well received, so thank you for doing that and my thanks to veroinca and others for hosting the event and we look forward to working with the lbes that were in attendance. >> next, also good news, on july 22nd, the san francisco board of supervisors unanimously approved the lease agreement between the port and the orton development ink for the pier 70 historic buildings, and they plan to renovate, 6 of the buildings with more than a quarter of a million square feet of renovated use. and the board also unanimously approved the issuance of the city of general obligation bonds for seismic rehabilitation of those same buildings. and so, this moves the orton transaction forward and they are hoping to begin their construction later this calendar year. and which will take about 18 to 24 months. and during construction, we expect to see 250 full time workers and there after, 400 to 500 permanent jobs when the project is completed and leased and so i want to particularly acknowledge jonathan stern and rep and phil williamson and brad benson and elaine forbes for the work in getting this item through and i apologize if i forgot anyone, but very, very great to see this milestone happening after a lot of work on pier 70 over the last 8 years. >> and next is i would like to announce and congratulate bay delta maritime on the chrisening of i believe the 6th tug boat, yes, thank you. and on august 2, they chrisened a new maritime tug boat named the delta audry, all of them are named the delta somebody and that is usually a special family member and in this case, it is sean bennett 7-year-old daughter, what a great birthday present for her. and bay and delta, as you may have know have been serving the san francisco bay since 1982, they are a port ten apartment at pier 17 and offer ship assistance and patrol and escort and general towing services throughout the bay area and i am sure that you see them moving vessels of all sizes and configuration around the bay. and we are pleased that they are increasing their investment in the bay and thank you for that. and i would like to invite president katz to say a few words and, recognize sean bennett, the president of bay and delta maritime. >> go ahead. >> and stand up. >> yeah. >> so, we are absolutely thrilled that we are here for this come men ration of a new vessel, and particularly pleased that it is named after your daughter, i think that it is a lovely touch and i know that will be something that she will appreciate, more and more as she gets older. so very special. and with that, we would like to present a plaque on behalf of the port. [ applause ] >> so congratulations to bay and delta, and thank you for the loyalty to the port and all of the work that you do for us in the bay and i hope that everyone gets a chance to go out for a ride. because it is a great vessel and so a lot of fun, next commissioners as you know we are going to be holding our first off site commission meeting at the end of september, september 23rd, at the south east community facility at 1800 oak dale avenue. and it is a change of location, the commission meeting time is expected to be, its normal time of open session at 3:15 and the meeting will be at the 1800 oak dale avenue, and this is something that the commission thought would be beneficial, and to host more of the meetings out in the community and so this will be the very first one. for those of you who plan to attend, parking is a little challenging and so plan to come early and car pool if you could or better yet take the t line but we look forward to seeing all of you on september 23rd, at the south east community facility. and then the very two days later i guess, on september 25th, at noon, after more than a decade, we will be officially opening the james r. herm an cruise terminal, and the new gang way is somewhere in the atlantic and she has been boarded on a vessel after being fa bricated in sweden and sthe will arrive straight to pier 27 and off listing the gang way on to the pier and it will take hours and hours and so i hope that you get a chance to see this because it is going to be cool to see it sort of hanging above the new cruise ship terminal and once that is in place, we will be able to begin, processing the passengers through the new terminal and we have even more good news, which is that on july 30, we received a temporary certificate of occupancy and reached the substantial completing on phase two, one day ahead of schedule and i am happy to report and so congratulations to all of the project team which is too numerous to name individually. and on august 18th, next month, the next border of protection, agency will be moving into the new facility, and you may recall that phase two, consisted of building out the facilities for the u.s. border and customs border protection, which includes two jail cells, and i want to warn you to behave ourself, or you might get to see them and a terrific new, grand transportation that will help to alleviate the traffic, and the cruise plaza and the one is in and so we are waiting for the lawn to get cozy before we open that up for use, and the various substructure repairs and equipment and the marine system, and the very own maintenance division but very, very interesting and the upgrade to the equipment to accommodate, the changing size and the design of the very large cruise ship and so a lot of major milestones have been met with the respect to the cruise terminal and look forward to officially opening on september 25, at noon and that event will be open to the public as open as we are allowed on to be with the cruise ship in port and so we look forward to seeing everybody there. >> and then also, on september 8, which is a monday, we will be hosting in this building right out there in the second floor, a civic celebration to honor mimi soberg who is the president and the ceo of the delancy street foundation, that is open to the public at 5:30 and monday, september 8th to 8:00 p.m. on the ferry building on the second level and that will recognize all of the tremendous contributions that she has endoed upon all of us in this community, for particularly in the central water front. and then, sadly, i wanted to mention that one of our retired employees renee jones who was with the port for 32 years, passed away last month. and renee worked for the port, she graduated from balboa high school and came over to work at the port and she began in october *f 1973 as a temporary clerk and typist and 32 years later she retired from the real estate division as the collection's supervisor and she was a wonderful aunt and god mother and had numerous nieces and nephews and leaves behind her father, her brother and sister and her good friend, patricia jackson and left a great legacy with all of us and she will be greatly missed and so i wanted to take a moment to recognize that she has departed us. so thank you for that. >> and that concludes my report. >> any public comment on the executive's director's report? >> seeing none, commissioners reports? >> commissioner? anything to report on? >> and just that the two very brief things. one is that i just want to reiterate the public celebration in honor of dr. mimi, and i hope that you will all be able to join us and attend on september 8th, as the executive director mentioned it is free, and i think that many of you are well aware of how visionary dr. solber g and the street were when they located the facility on the water front and so it is exciting to see what their sort of toe hold here brought forward and now looking at it and seeing the changes and so i think that it was really a very opportune time of the 20th anniversary of having been in that location and then seeing the work that has gone up around and how the water front has really thrived, in that time. and so, very visionary, on her part as well as well as just all of the tremendous service to all of us here in the san francisco family. so i hope that you will be able to join us. and just that we don't always acknowledge some of the large and small victories that we have and i wanted to thank some of the staff members on july 17th, we had such a five items at the board of supervisors. and all five went through with tremendous support. from putting forward three items related to the orton development that was mentioned earlier and pier 70 and the approval for the art installation that has gone up and the lights are on at the pier 14. and so that was with megan and elaine and brad and jonathan, as or who was with the orton project. and brad was able to get a project through with the hoe down yard that we have worked with for some time and i want to take a moment to thank the staff because you don't always see the important steps so i want to thank all of you for making those happens, and so thank you. >> i think that is it for me. >> item under on the consent calendar, item a. >> okay, public comment. >> seeing none. >> next item. >> okay. >> item 7 arequest authorization to award construction contract no. 2765, pier 35 building & roof repair project, to roebuck construction, inc. in the amount of $2,041,010, and authorization for a contract contingency fund of 10% of the contract amount (or $204,101) for unanticipated contingencies, for a total authorization not to exceed $2,245,111. (resolution no. 14-48) >> and item 7 b,request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract no. 2769, port security fences project, phase iv. (resolution no. 14-49). and item 7 c,request authorization to issue a request for qualifications to establish a pre-qualified pool for multiple contracts to implement an emergency preparedness training program at the port. (resolution no. 14-50). >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> i am sorry, public comment? >> seeing none. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> all consent items carry. >> okay. >> item 9 a, informational presentation under the 17 year review, 1997 to 2014. >> brad? thank you. >> >> good afternoon, president katz, members and commissioners. woo ho and brandon, i'm diano oshimo with the port's planning and development division. we, me, and brad benson, together will be making this presentation on the overview on the water front land use plan. i wanted to thank everyone and welcome the members of the public who have come. and this has been quite an undertaking on the part of the port. and we have only just released to the port, it became live yesterday, late last night on the port's website and so we appreciate that, there is a lot of information that we will try and summarize for you today. this is a draft report, and so we recognize the need for people to be able to review and absorb, and we will be looking forward to taking comments through september, and then be able to take stock of the comments and feedbacks if we get back to before we finalize the report. thank you for your patience to everyone actually for the website, access. >> so hopefully, if you have any problems, let us know, it should be available. the project that we have tried to undertake is looking at the full 17 years of the water front plan has been in place and we were required to look at a 5-year time window but we extended it to look at the full array of things that have happened on the water front to pride, education for the public, and there are 123 different projects that have been profiled in the report, and while that is a lot, that is not every project, that has happened, but we think that it is reflective of the breadth of the activities that have taken place and it all started after the city's effort to tear down the freeway and replace it with the transportation improvements and both projects were separate, but coordinated in time. and so, what we thought that we could do is just start out with just some images to give you a flavor for what the water front looked like back then in 1997. verses what we enjoy today. and starting from fisherman's wharf, this is one of the more recent accomplishments, but clearly, at pier 43, what we enjoy today and what was available for america's cup, was once a dilapidated parking lot that really blocked people's views and the enjoyment of the alkatraz island and i think that we have seen the successes of having the people flock to the northern end of the water front and then continuing down. here is pier 1517, the eastern phase of that pier, which was the parker caught in the warehouse at the time and, it was an operating warehouse, and industrial in nature verses now, the families and children that flock to the water front and enjoy, not just the interactive science museum but all of the access and the views back to the city. pier one, we are all familiar with the port's headquarters, buildings today, and the transformation of that sugar warehouse shed, which prior to the construction was a very important parking resource for the water front. so, it, and i am glad to say that it is a very functional change that i think has also benefited the public for as much as those base side conference rooms get used for very public meetings. next door, piers 1 and a half, i don't know that the public understands how decrepid that facility was and it had been condemned and basically left for dead before we put it together in the pier's one and half three five, project opportunity that was improved by san francisco water front partners. and then, moving down, obviously, the brandon street wharf and a new improvement that we are all able to enjoy. there were two prao*ers there, 34, and 36 and both had been condemned are on their way there. and the removal of those piers was part of an arrangement that the port commission and the bcds commission set up to be able to focus the major public improvements for the public open space and fill removal in exchange for being able to do the variety of land uses that we now see in the developments today. and then moving south into the southern water front, i think that the herins head park and the various layers of improvements that have taken shape down there. and for taking a spit of land that was just dead fill. and making improvements, and so that it made it publicly accessible and then available for a natural habitat area. creating the environmental education programs, that commissioner brandon was very centrally involved in, with the bay view community. and then bringing it forward to the ecocenter, and there and barely off of the grid facility that furthers the facility programming and then more recently the next park improvement that was put in place last year, for the entrance to the herns head park and it sort of shows how the collaborations between the port and the city and the community have been able to bring forth a really valuable resource in the area. the water front land use itself provides the overview for the projects port wide as well as the individual sites that many people have been focusing on the projects recently, and it was required as a result of a ballot initiative that was passed in 1990, proposition h, where the piers were
discretions of the district attorney. >> i'll move the similar opinion. >> okay mr. pacheco. >> we have a motion from the vice president to uphold the finding that the va did not bylaw abuse his discretion. commissioner fung. commissioner president lazarus. sxhold is absences the vote is 3 to zero the granting of this variance is upheld with that finding thank you >> thank you there's no further business. >> we're adjourned. >> this lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools don't have fish. this is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930's and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year, the world championship of fly casting is held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil, general manage of san francisco rec and parks department at the anglers lodge. what do you think about this? >> it is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll and a space cast. >> there are people from all over the world come to san francisco and say this is the place to be. >> yeah. it's amazing, we have teams from all over the world here today and they are thrilled. >> i flew from ireland to be here. and been practicing since for the competition. all the best casters in the world come here. my fellow countryman came in first place and james is on the current team and he is the head man. >> it's unique. will not see anything like it where you go to compete in the world. competitions in ireland, scotland, norway, japan, russia each year, the facilities here in the park are second to none. there is no complex in the world that can touch it. >> i'm here with bob, and he has kindly agreed to tell me everything i need to know about casting. i'm going to suit up and next, we're in the water. >> what any gentleman should do. golden gate angling has free lessons the second saturday of every month. we have equipment show up on the 9:30 on the second saturday of every month and we'll teach them to fly cast. >> ok. we are in the water. >> let me acquaint you with the fly rod. >> nice to meet you. >> this is the lower grip and the upper grip. this is a reel and a fly line. we are going to use the flex of this rod to fling away. exactly as you moved your hands. >> that's it? >> that's it. >> i'm a natural. >> push both arms forward and snap the lower hand into your tummy. push forward. >> i did gave it a try and had great time but i might need some more practice. i met someone else with real fly casting skills. her name is donna and she is an international fly casting champion. >> i have competed in the casting ponds in golden gate park in san francisco. i have been to japan and norway for fly casting competition. i spend my weekends here at the club and at the casting pond. it's a great place to learn and have fun. on a season day like this, it was the perfect spot to be. i find fly casting very relaxing and also at the same time very challenging sport. takes me out into the nature. almost like drawing art in the air. and then i can make these beautiful loops out there. >> even though people from across the globe come here to compete, it's still a place where locals in the know relax and enjoy some rely unique scenery. until next time, get out and play! >> call the meeting to order. >> katz. >> brandon. >> here. woo ho. >> here. >> approval of minutes. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor, aye. >> minute approved. >> okay, the pledge of allegiance? >> please be advising that the ringing of cell phones and pagers and similar sound prodaoutioning electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting, the chair may order the removal from the meeting room any person for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound producing electronic device, a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter period on any item, item five, public comment on items not listed on the agenda? i have comment cards on specific items, is there anyone wishing to speak on any item not the on agenda. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> six a, executive director's report. >> good afternoon, commissioners, members of the public, port staff and thank you for joining us today it is a great turn out and i appreciate that. commissioners i have a few things to report on, and beginning item is that the forest city development the developer at the water front site has proposed a ballot measure for the november election. for proposition b, this particular measure will increase the height limit at the building limit up to 90 feet. 90 feet is the height that was envisioned during the master planning process, proposition b, a measure to go before the voters if the height are amended on the port property. and forest city has moved forward with the ballot measure for the november elections. the proposed measure also includes, non-binding policies, which will guide the development by and these policies will be working through the regular public process and regulatory process to address the issues of open space and affordable housing and the reuse of the historic structures and the place for the arts and transportation improvements and so that measure will go before the voters at the november 4, 2014 election. >> next i would like to report on a very successful contract opportunity workshop that was hosted by metro cruise who is the adooring contractor for the cruise activities at piers 27, 35, and 30, 32, their consultant, is here as well, today, together they posted a opportunity workshop on july 11, of 2014 and invited the local business enterprise contractors to attend the workshop and there were 40 to 50 individuals representing the janitorial and security, and printing and photography and pest control companies, a representative for the commission, rye on young, were in attendance to help the various companies learn how to contract with the city, and offer them, offer to help them get set up. so, it was a very successful event. bless you. and commissioner and president katz, thank you very much for your attendance and for your words on behalf of the port's commitment to the lbe, work and i understand that you have encouraged everyone to stand up and get to know each other as part of their own networking and not, and very well received, so thank you for doing that and my thanks to veroinca and others for hosting the event and we look forward to working with the lbes that were in attendance. >> next, also good news, on july 22nd, the san francisco board of supervisors unanimously approved the lease agreement between the port and the orton development ink for the pier 70 historic buildings, and they plan to renovate, 6 of the buildings with more than a quarter of a million square feet of renovated use. and the board also unanimously approved the issuance of the city of general obligation bonds for seismic rehabilitation of those same buildings. and so, this moves the orton transaction forward and they are hoping to begin their construction later this calendar year. and which will take about 18 to 24 months. and during construction, we expect to see 250 full time workers and there after, 400 to 500 permanent jobs when the project is completed and leased and so i want to particularly acknowledge jonathan stern and rep and phil williamson and brad benson and elaine forbes for the work in getting this item through and i apologize if i forgot anyone, but very, very great to see this milestone happening after a lot of work on pier 70 over the last 8 years. >> and next is i would like to announce and congratulate bay delta maritime on the chrisening of i believe the 6th tug boat, yes, thank you. and on august 2, they chrisened a new maritime tug boat named the delta audry, all of them are named the delta somebody and that is usually a special family member and in this case, it is sean bennett 7-year-old daughter, what a great birthday present for her. and bay and delta, as you may have know have been serving the san francisco bay since 1982, they are a port ten apartment at pier 17 and offer ship assistance and patrol and escort and general towing services throughout the bay area and i am sure that you see them moving vessels of all sizes and configuration around the bay. and we are pleased that they are increasing their investment in the bay and thank you for that. and i would like to invite president katz to say a few words and, recognize sean bennett, the president of bay and delta maritime. >> go ahead. >> and stand up. >> yeah. >> so, we are absolutely thrilled that we are here for this come men ration of a new vessel, and particularly pleased that it is named after your daughter, i think that it is a lovely touch and i know that will be something that she will appreciate, more and more as she gets older. so very special. and with that, we would like to present a plaque on behalf of the port. [ applause ] >> so congratulations to bay and delta, and thank you for the loyalty to the port and all of the work that you do for us in the bay and i hope that everyone gets a chance to go out for a ride. because it is a great vessel and so a lot of fun, next commissioners as you know we are going to be holding our first off site commission meeting at the end of september, september 23rd, at the south east community facility at 1800 oak dale avenue. and it is a change of location, the commission meeting time is expected to be, its normal time of open session at 3:15 and the meeting will be at the 1800 oak dale avenue, and this is something that the commission thought would be beneficial, and to host more of the meetings out in the community and so this will be the very first one. for those of you who plan to attend, parking is a little challenging and so plan to come early and car pool if you could or better yet take the t line but we look forward to seeing all of you on september 23rd, at the south east community facility. and then the very two days later i guess, on september 25th, at noon, after more than a decade, we will be officially opening the james r. herm an cruise terminal, and the new gang way is somewhere in the atlantic and she has been boarded on a vessel after being fa bricated in sweden and sthe will arrive straight to pier 27 and off listing the gang way on to the pier and it will take hours and hours and so i hope that you get a chance to see this because it is going to be cool to see it sort of hanging above the new cruise ship terminal and once that is in place, we will be able to begin, processing the passengers through the new terminal and we have even more good news, which is that on july 30, we received a temporary certificate of occupancy and reached the substantial completing on phase two, one day ahead of schedule and i am happy to report and so congratulations to all of the project team which is too numerous to name individually. and on august 18th, next month, the next border of protection, agency will be moving into the new facility, and you may recall that phase two, consisted of building out the facilities for the u.s. border and customs border protection, which includes two jail cells, and i want to warn you to behave ourself, or you might get to see them and a terrific new, grand transportation that will help to alleviate the traffic, and the cruise plaza and the one is in and so we are waiting for the lawn to get cozy before we open that up for use, and the various substructure repairs and equipment and the marine system, and the very own maintenance division but very, very interesting and the upgrade to the equipment to accommodate, the changing size and the design of the very large cruise ship and so a lot of major milestones have been met with the respect to the cruise terminal and look forward to officially opening on september 25, at noon and that event will be open to the public as open as we are allowed on to be with the cruise ship in port and so we look forward to seeing everybody there. >> and then also, on september 8, which is a monday, we will be hosting in this building right out there in the second floor, a civic celebration to honor mimi soberg who is the president and the ceo of the delancy street foundation, that is open to the public at 5:30 and monday, september 8th to 8:00 p.m. on the ferry building on the second level and that will recognize all of the tremendous contributions that she has endoed upon all of us in this community, for particularly in the central water front. and then, sadly, i wanted to mention that one of our retired employees renee jones who was with the port for 32 years, passed away last month. and renee worked for the port, she graduated from balboa high school and came over to work at the port and she began in october *f 1973 as a temporary clerk and typist and 32 years later she retired from the real estate division as the collection's supervisor and she was a wonderful aunt and god mother and had numerous nieces and nephews and leaves behind her father, her brother and sister and her good friend, patricia jackson and left a great legacy with all of us and she will be greatly missed and so i wanted to take a moment to recognize that she has departed us. so thank you for that. >> and that concludes my report. >> any public comment on the executive's director's report? >> seeing none, commissioners reports? >> commissioner? anything to report on? >> and just that the two very brief things. one is that i just want to reiterate the public celebration in honor of dr. mimi, and i hope that you will all be able to join us and attend on september 8th, as the executive director mentioned it is free, and i think that many of you are well aware of how visionary dr. solber g and the street were when they located the facility on the water front and so it is exciting to see what their sort of toe hold here brought forward and now looking at it and seeing the changes and so i think that it was really a very opportune time of the 20th anniversary of having been in that location and then seeing the work that has gone up around and how the water front has really thrived, in that time. and so, very visionary, on her part as well as well as just all of the tremendous service to all of us here in the san francisco family. so i hope that you will be able to join us. and just that we don't always acknowledge some of the large and small victories that we have and i wanted to thank some of the staff members on july 17th, we had such a five items at the board of supervisors. and all five went through with tremendous support. from putting forward three items related to the orton development that was mentioned earlier and pier 70 and the approval for the art installation that has gone up and the lights are on at the pier 14. and so that was with megan and elaine and brad and jonathan, as or who was with the orton project. and brad was able to get a project through with the hoe down yard that we have worked with for some time and i want to take a moment to thank the staff because you don't always see the important steps so i want to thank all of you for making those happens, and so thank you. >> i think that is it for me. >> item under on the consent calendar, item a. >> okay, public comment. >> seeing none. >> next item. >> okay. >> item 7 arequest authorization to award construction contract no. 2765, pier 35 building & roof repair project, to roebuck construction, inc. in the amount of $2,041,010, and authorization for a contract contingency fund of 10% of the contract amount (or $204,101) for unanticipated contingencies, for a total authorization not to exceed $2,245,111. (resolution no. 14-48) >> and item 7 b,request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract no. 2769, port security fences project, phase iv. (resolution no. 14-49). and item 7 c,request authorization to issue a request for qualifications to establish a pre-qualified pool for multiple contracts to implement an emergency preparedness training program at the port. (resolution no. 14-50). >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> i am sorry, public comment? >> seeing none. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> all consent items carry. >> okay. >> item 9 a, informational presentation under the 17 year review, 1997 to 2014. >> brad? thank you. >> >> good afternoon, president katz, members and commissioners. woo ho and brandon, i'm diano oshimo with the port's planning and development division. we, me, and brad benson, together will be making this presentation on the overview on the water front land use plan. i wanted to thank everyone and welcome the members of the public who have come. and this has been quite an undertaking on the part of the port. and we have only just released to the port, it became live yesterday, late last night on the port's website and so we appreciate that, there is a lot of information that we will try and summarize for you today. this is a draft report, and so we recognize the need for people to be able to review and absorb, and we will be looking forward to taking comments through september, and then be able to take stock of the comments and feedbacks if we get back to before we finalize the report. thank you for your patience to everyone actually for the website, access. >> so hopefully, if you have any problems, let us know, it should be available. the project that we have tried to undertake is looking at the full 17 years of the water front plan has been in place and we were required to look at a 5-year time window but we extended it to look at the full array of things that have happened on the water front to pride, education for the public, and there are 123 different projects that have been profiled in the report, and while that is a lot, that is not every project, that has happened, but we think that it is reflective of the breadth of the activities that have taken place and it all started after the city's effort to tear down the freeway and replace it with the transportation improvements and both projects were separate, but coordinated in time. and so, what we thought that we could do is just start out with just some images to give you a flavor for what the water front looked like back then in 1997. verses what we enjoy today. and starting from fisherman's wharf, this is one of the more recent accomplishments, but clearly, at pier 43, what we enjoy today and what was available for america's cup, was once a dilapidated parking lot that really blocked people's views and the enjoyment of the alkatraz island and i think that we have seen the successes of having the people flock to the northern end of the water front and then continuing down. here is pier 1517, the eastern phase of that pier, which was the parker caught in the warehouse at the time and, it was an operating warehouse, and industrial in nature verses now, the families and children that flock to the water front and enjoy, not just the interactive science museum but all of the access and the views back to the city. pier one, we are all familiar with the port's headquarters, buildings today, and the transformation of that sugar warehouse shed, which prior to the construction was a very important parking resource for the water front. so, it, and i am glad to say that it is a very functional change that i think has also benefited the public for as much as those base side conference rooms get used for very public meetings. next door, piers 1 and a half, i don't know that the public understands how decrepid that facility was and it had been condemned and basically left for dead before we put it together in the pier's one and half three five, project opportunity that was improved by san francisco water front partners. and then, moving down, obviously, the brandon street wharf and a new improvement that we are all able to enjoy. there were two prao*ers there, 34, and 36 and both had been condemned are on their way there. and the removal of those piers was part of an arrangement that the port commission and the bcds commission set up to be able to focus the major public improvements for the public open space and fill removal in exchange for being able to do the variety of land uses that we now see in the developments today. and then moving south into the southern water front, i think that the herins head park and the various layers of improvements that have taken shape down there. and for taking a spit of land that was just dead fill. and making improvements, and so that it made it publicly accessible and then available for a natural habitat area. creating the environmental education programs, that commissioner brandon was very centrally involved in, with the bay view community. and then bringing it forward to the ecocenter, and there and barely off of the grid facility that furthers the facility programming and then more recently the next park improvement that was put in place last year, for the entrance to the herns head park and it sort of shows how the collaborations between the port and the city and the community have been able to bring forth a really valuable resource in the area. the water front land use itself provides the overview for the projects port wide as well as the individual sites that many people have been focusing on the projects recently, and it was required as a result of a ballot initiative that was passed in 1990, proposition h, where the piers were required to be included in the plan, the port commission at the time included all of the port's properties in the plan and didn't thifrpg that it made since to lo
>> second. >> all in favor, aye. >> minute approved. >> okay, the pledge of allegiance? >> please be advising that the ringing of cell phones and pagers and similar sound prodaoutioning electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting, the chair may order the removal from the meeting room any person for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound producing electronic device, a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter period on any item, item five, public comment on items not listed on the agenda? i have comment cards on specific items, is there anyone wishing to speak on any item not the on agenda. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> six a, executive director's report. >> good afternoon, commissioners, members of the public, port staff and thank you for joining us today it is a great turn out and i appreciate that. commissioners i have a few things to report on, and beginning item is that the forest city development the developer at the water front site has proposed a ballot measure for the november election. for proposition b, this particular measure will increase the height limit at the building limit up to 90 feet. 90 feet is the height that was envisioned during the master planning process, proposition b, a measure to go before the voters if the height are amended on the port property. and forest city has moved forward with the ballot measure for the november elections. the proposed measure also includes, non-binding policies, which will guide the development by and these policies will be working through the regular public process and regulatory process to address the issues of open space and affordable housing and the reuse of the historic structures and the place for the arts and transportation improvements and so that measure will go before the voters at the november 4, 2014 election. >> next i would like to report on a very successful contract opportunity workshop that was hosted by metro cruise who is the adooring contractor for the cruise activities at piers 27, 35, and 30, 32, their consultant, is here as well, today, together they posted a opportunity workshop on july 11, of 2014 and invited the local business enterprise contractors to attend the workshop and there were 40 to 50 individuals representing the janitorial and security, and printing and photography and pest control companies, a representative for the commission, rye on young, were in attendance to help the various companies learn how to contract with the city, and offer them, offer to help them get set up. so, it was a very successful event. bless you. and commissioner and president katz, thank you very much for your attendance and for your words on behalf of the port's commitment to the lbe, work and i understand that you have encouraged everyone to stand up and get to know each other as part of their own networking and not, and very well received, so thank you for doing that and my thanks to veroinca and others for hosting the event and we look forward to working with the lbes that were in attendance. >> next, also good news, on july 22nd, the san francisco board of supervisors unanimously approved the lease agreement between the port and the orton development ink for the pier 70 historic buildings, and they plan to renovate, 6 of the buildings with more than a quarter of a million square feet of renovated use. and the board also unanimously approved the issuance of the city of general obligation bonds for seismic rehabilitation of those same buildings. and so, this moves the orton transaction forward and they are hoping to begin their construction later this calendar year. and which will take about 18 to 24 months. and during construction, we expect to see 250 full time workers and there after, 400 to 500 permanent jobs when the project is completed and leased and so i want to particularly acknowledge jonathan stern and rep and phil williamson and brad benson and elaine forbes for the work in getting this item through and i apologize if i forgot anyone, but very, very great to see this milestone happening after a lot of work on pier 70 over the last 8 years. >> and next is i would like to announce and congratulate bay delta maritime on the chrisening of i believe the 6th tug boat, yes, thank you. and on august 2, they chrisened a new maritime tug boat named the delta audry, all of them are named the delta somebody and that is usually a special family member and in this case, it is sean bennett 7-year-old daughter, what a great birthday present for her. and bay and delta, as you may have know have been serving the san francisco bay since 1982, they are a port ten apartment at pier 17 and offer ship assistance and patrol and escort and general towing services throughout the bay area and i am sure that you see them moving vessels of all sizes and configuration around the bay. and we are pleased that they are increasing their investment in the bay and thank you for that. and i would like to invite president katz to say a few words and, recognize sean bennett, the president of bay and delta maritime. >> go ahead. >> and stand up. >> yeah. >> so, we are absolutely thrilled that we are here for this come men ration of a new vessel, and particularly pleased that it is named after your daughter, i think that it is a lovely touch and i know that will be something that she will appreciate, more and more as she gets older. so very special. and with that, we would like to present a plaque on behalf of the port. [ applause ] >> so congratulations to bay and delta, and thank you for the loyalty to the port and all of the work that you do for us in the bay and i hope that everyone gets a chance to go out for a ride. because it is a great vessel and so a lot of fun, next commissioners as you know we are going to be holding our first off site commission meeting at the end of september, september 23rd, at the south east community facility at 1800 oak dale avenue. and it is a change of location, the commission meeting time is expected to be, its normal time of open session at 3:15 and the meeting will be at the 1800 oak dale avenue, and this is something that the commission thought would be beneficial, and to host more of the meetings out in the community and so this will be the very first one. for those of you who plan to attend, parking is a little challenging and so plan to come early and car pool if you could or better yet take the t line but we look forward to seeing all of you on september 23rd, at the south east community facility. and then the very two days later i guess, on september 25th, at noon, after more than a decade, we will be officially opening the james r. herm an cruise terminal, and the new gang way is somewhere in the atlantic and she has been boarded on a vessel after being fa bricated in sweden and sthe will arrive straight to pier 27 and off listing the gang way on to the pier and it will take hours and hours and so i hope that you get a chance to see this because it is going to be cool to see it sort of hanging above the new cruise ship terminal and once that is in place, we will be able to begin, processing the passengers through the new terminal and we have even more good news, which is that on july 30, we received a temporary certificate of occupancy and reached the substantial completing on phase two, one day ahead of schedule and i am happy to report and so congratulations to all of the project team which is too numerous to name individually. and on august 18th, next month, the next border of protection, agency will be moving into the new facility, and you may recall that phase two, consisted of building out the facilities for the u.s. border and customs border protection, which includes two jail cells, and i want to warn you to behave ourself, or you might get to see them and a terrific new, grand transportation that will help to alleviate the traffic, and the cruise plaza and the one is in and so we are waiting for the lawn to get cozy before we open that up for use, and the various substructure repairs and equipment and the marine system, and the very own maintenance division but very, very interesting and the upgrade to the equipment to accommodate, the changing size and the design of the very large cruise ship and so a lot of major milestones have been met with the respect to the cruise terminal and look forward to officially opening on september 25, at noon and that event will be open to the public as open as we are allowed on to be with the cruise ship in port and so we look forward to seeing everybody there. >> and then also, on september 8, which is a monday, we will be hosting in this building right out there in the second floor, a civic celebration to honor mimi soberg who is the president and the ceo of the delancy street foundation, that is open to the public at 5:30 and monday, september 8th to 8:00 p.m. on the ferry building on the second level and that will recognize all of the tremendous contributions that she has endoed upon all of us in this community, for particularly in the central water front. and then, sadly, i wanted to mention that one of our retired employees renee jones who was with the port for 32 years, passed away last month. and renee worked for the port, she graduated from balboa high school and came over to work at the port and she began in october *f 1973 as a temporary clerk and typist and 32 years later she retired from the real estate division as the collection's supervisor and she was a wonderful aunt and god mother and had numerous nieces and nephews and leaves behind her father, her brother and sister and her good friend, patricia jackson and left a great legacy with all of us and she will be greatly missed and so i wanted to take a moment to recognize that she has departed us. so thank you for that. >> and that concludes my report. >> any public comment on the executive's director's report? >> seeing none, commissioners reports? >> commissioner? anything to report on? >> and just that the two very brief things. one is that i just want to reiterate the public celebration in honor of dr. mimi, and i hope that you will all be able to join us and attend on september 8th, as the executive director mentioned it is free, and i think that many of you are well aware of how visionary dr. solber g and the street were when they located the facility on the water front and so it is exciting to see what their sort of toe hold here brought forward and now looking at it and seeing the changes and so i think that it was really a very opportune time of the 20th anniversary of having been in that location and then seeing the work that has gone up around and how the water front has really thrived, in that time. and so, very visionary, on her part as well as well as just all of the tremendous service to all of us here in the san francisco family. so i hope that you will be able to join us. and just that we don't always acknowledge some of the large and small victories that we have and i wanted to thank some of the staff members on july 17th, we had such a five items at the board of supervisors. and all five went through with tremendous support. from putting forward three items related to the orton development that was mentioned earlier and pier 70 and the approval for the art installation that has gone up and the lights are on at the pier 14. and so that was with megan and elaine and brad and jonathan, as or who was with the orton project. and brad was able to get a project through with the hoe down yard that we have worked with for some time and i want to take a moment to thank the staff because you don't always see the important steps so i want to thank all of you for making those happens, and so thank you. >> i think that is it for me. >> item under on the consent calendar, item a. >> okay, public comment. >> seeing none. >> next item. >> okay. >> item 7 arequest authorization to award construction contract no. 2765, pier 35 building & roof repair project, to roebuck construction, inc. in the amount of $2,041,010, and authorization for a contract contingency fund of 10% of the contract amount (or $204,101) for unanticipated contingencies, for a total authorization not to exceed $2,245,111. (resolution no. 14-48) >> and item 7 b,request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract no. 2769, port security fences project, phase iv. (resolution no. 14-49). and item 7 c,request authorization to issue a request for qualifications to establish a pre-qualified pool for multiple contracts to implement an emergency preparedness training program at the port. (resolution no. 14-50). >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> i am sorry, public comment? >> seeing none. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> all consent items carry. >> okay. >> item 9 a, informational presentation under the 17 year review, 1997 to 2014. >> brad? thank you. >> >> good afternoon, president katz, members and commissioners. woo ho and brandon, i'm diano oshimo with the port's planning and development division. we, me, and brad benson, together will be making this presentation on the overview on the water front land use plan. i wanted to thank everyone and welcome the members of the public who have come. and this has been quite an undertaking on the part of the port. and we have only just released to the port, it became live yesterday, late last night on the port's website and so we appreciate that, there is a lot of information that we will try and summarize for you today. this is a draft report, and so we recognize the need for people to be able to review and absorb, and we will be looking forward to taking comments through september, and then be able to take stock of the comments and feedbacks if we get back to before we finalize the report. thank you for your patience to everyone actually for the website, access. >> so hopefully, if you have any problems, let us know, it should be available. the project that we have tried to undertake is looking at the full 17 years of the water front plan has been in place and we were required to look at a 5-year time window but we extended it to look at the full array of things that have happened on the water front to pride, education for the public, and there are 123 different projects that have been profiled in the report, and while that is a lot, that is not every project, that has happened, but we think that it is reflective of the breadth of the activities that have taken place and it all started after the city's effort to tear down the freeway and replace it with the transportation improvements and both projects were separate, but coordinated in time. and so, what we thought that we could do is just start out with just some images to give you a flavor for what the water front looked like back then in 1997. verses what we enjoy today. and starting from fisherman's wharf, this is one of the more recent accomplishments, but clearly, at pier 43, what we enjoy today and what was available for america's cup, was once a dilapidated parking lot that really blocked people's views and the enjoyment of the alkatraz island and i think that we have seen the successes of having the people flock to the northern end of the water front and then continuing down. here is pier 1517, the eastern phase of that pier, which was the parker caught in the warehouse at the time and, it was an operating warehouse, and industrial in nature verses now, the families and children that flock to the water front and enjoy, not just the interactive science museum but all of the access and the views back to the city. pier one, we are all familiar with the port's headquarters, buildings today, and the transformation of that sugar warehouse shed, which prior to the construction was a very important parking resource for the water front. so, it, and i am glad to say that it is a very functional change that i think has also benefited the public for as much as those base side conference rooms get used for very public meetings. next door, piers 1 and a half, i don't know that the public understands how decrepid that facility was and it had been condemned and basically left for dead before we put it together in the pier's one and half three five, project opportunity that was improved by san francisco water front partners. and then, moving down, obviously, the brandon street wharf and a new improvement that we are all able to enjoy. there were two prao*ers there, 34, and 36 and both had been condemned are on their way there. and the removal of those piers was part of an arrangement that the port commission and the bcds commission set up to be able to focus the major public improvements for the public open space and fill removal in exchange for being able to do the variety of land uses that we now see in the developments today. and then moving south into the southern water front, i think that the herins head park and the various layers of improvements that have taken shape down there. and for taking a spit of land that was just dead fill. and making improvements, and so that it made it publicly accessible and then available for a natural habitat area. creating the environmental education programs, that commissioner brandon was very centrally involved in, with the bay view community. and then bringing it forward to the ecocenter, and there and barely off of the grid facility that furthers the facility programming and then more recently the next park improvement that was put in place last year, for the entrance to the herns head park and it sort of shows how the collaborations between the port and the city and the community have been able to bring forth a really valuable resource in the area. the water front land use itself provides the overview for the projects port wide as well as the individual sites that many people have been focusing on the projects recently, and it was required as a result of a ballot initiative that was passed in 1990, proposition h, where the piers were required to be included in the plan, the port commission at the time included all of the port's properties in the plan and didn't 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 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 to look at what we have been able to do on the new resources. and the water front plan also set out guidelines, and anticipating public, private partnerships as an important vehicle to be able to improve these piers because it was clearer than it is now, that there was a lot of deferred maintenance, and there were very few financing resources, and that the thought was public, private partnerships would bring the changes along and so there was a process for setting out how you work with the community before you have the development projects and then, once you have the development partner, moving forward, since then, in this report, we have counted over 1.6 billion, worth of private and public investment in the improvement projects that will summarize here. and there are in addition port leasing and other many maintenance and engineering projects that we have not been able to profile here in addition to that. >> in terms of the policy framework from the water front plan the division of the water front advisory plan was to reunite san francisco with the water front and the foundation points for that were the goals that you see on this slide to really promote, and embrace san francisco's diverse maritime, working water front, to revitalize the port for public enjoyment. to broaden the array of uses and activities that should be offers along the water front to subscribe to the urbanty of san francisco. to expand the public access to transportation access along the water front as part of its improvement. and to design and come up with new projects, that are mineful of the history, and to the design of creativity and the urban design and the setting and related a lot with tying how in how it relates to the rest of the city and there was a lot of coordination from the department and from the outset and economic access and trying to make sure that we still in the improvement of the water front to be sure that there are places for blue collar and for families and children, and to have a place to enjoy along the water front. the water front plan, really organizes the 7 and a half miles into five geographic subareas. fisherman's wharf is the northern most and in our report, we have identified the specific projects and also, sumized at a high level, what has been happening in each one of these subareas. clearly for the fisherman's wharf the big news for the port was to able to resurrect the commercial fishing degree which was really in a weakened mode at the time that the plan was improved. with the fishing harbor and pier 45, fish processing facilities it created and renewed really the center of fisherman's wharf, which really is what people want to see. and the port's effort since then have really focused a lot on public realm, i think that is represented in the pier 43, as well as the jefferson street and tie lor street to welcome the visitors that come to the wharf and that has spurred a lot of partnerships with the cbd and the tenants to be able to make the investments with the businesses and so that the restaurants and the venue and activities interact well with the public realm and we are working with the bcdc to identify further improvements for the fisherman's wharf area and so there is still work to do to change some regulations that will make it easier for the restaurant owners to do seismic up grades and retrofits to their restaurants where they sit on a pile supported decks and so that work has been under way through the bcdc port working through the process which we have briefed you on previously. in the north east water front, and we have quite a bit of improvement just through the director's announcement on opening of the herm an cruise terminal, the plaza, and clearly the explore torium has been a game changer for the north east water front and it is hard to imagine the change if you were not here then, but pier 27 was a news print terminal, when the plan was adopted. when a cotton warehouse and we had a foreign trade zone with the semitrucks crossing in 19 and 23, and so what the public has been able to enjoy, with the america's cup and with the permanent developmen
ringing of cell phones and pagers and similar sound prodaoutioning electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting, the chair may order the removal from the meeting room any person for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound producing electronic device, a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter period on any item, item five, public comment on items not listed on the agenda? i have comment cards on specific items, is there anyone wishing to speak on any item not the on agenda. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> six a, executive director's report. >> good afternoon, commissioners, members of the public, port staff and thank you for joining us today it is a great turn out and i appreciate that. commissioners i have a few things to report on, and beginning item is that the forest city development the developer at the water front site has proposed a ballot measure for the november election. for proposition b, this particular measure will increase the height limit at the building limit up to 90 feet. 90 feet is the height that was envisioned during the master planning process, proposition b, a measure to go before the voters if the height are amended on the port property. and forest city has moved forward with the ballot measure for the november elections. the proposed measure also includes, non-binding policies, which will guide the development by and these policies will be working through the regular public process and regulatory process to address the issues of open space and affordable housing and the reuse of the historic structures and the place for the arts and transportation improvements and so that measure will go before the voters at the november 4, 2014 election. >> next i would like to report on a very successful contract opportunity workshop that was hosted by metro cruise who is the adooring contractor for the cruise activities at piers 27, 35, and 30, 32, their consultant, is here as well, today, together they posted a opportunity workshop on july 11, of 2014 and invited the local business enterprise contractors to attend the workshop and there were 40 to 50 individuals representing the janitorial and security, and printing and photography and pest control companies, a representative for the commission, rye on young, were in attendance to help the various companies learn how to contract with the city, and offer them, offer to help them get set up. so, it was a very successful event. bless you. and commissioner and president katz, thank you very much for your attendance and for your words on behalf of the port's commitment to the lbe, work and i understand that you have encouraged everyone to stand up and get to know each other as part of their own networking and not, and very well received, so thank you for doing that and my thanks to veroinca and others for hosting the event and we look forward to working with the lbes that were in attendance. >> next, also good news, on july 22nd, the san francisco board of supervisors unanimously approved the lease agreement between the port and the orton development ink for the pier 70 historic buildings, and they plan to renovate, 6 of the buildings with more than a quarter of a million square feet of renovated use. and the board also unanimously approved the issuance of the city of general obligation bonds for seismic rehabilitation of those same buildings. and so, this moves the orton transaction forward and they are hoping to begin their construction later this calendar year. and which will take about 18 to 24 months. and during construction, we expect to see 250 full time workers and there after, 400 to 500 permanent jobs when the project is completed and leased and so i want to particularly acknowledge jonathan stern and rep and phil williamson and brad benson and elaine forbes for the work in getting this item through and i apologize if i forgot anyone, but very, very great to see this milestone happening after a lot of work on pier 70 over the last 8 years. >> and next is i would like to announce and congratulate bay delta maritime on the chrisening of i believe the 6th tug boat, yes, thank you. and on august 2, they chrisened a new maritime tug boat named the delta audry, all of them are named the delta somebody and that is usually a special family member and in this case, it is sean bennett 7-year-old daughter, what a great birthday present for her. and bay and delta, as you may have know have been serving the san francisco bay since 1982, they are a port ten apartment at pier 17 and offer ship assistance and patrol and escort and general towing services throughout the bay area and i am sure that you see them moving vessels of all sizes and configuration around the bay. and we are pleased that they are increasing their investment in the bay and thank you for that. and i would like to invite president katz to say a few words and, recognize sean bennett, the president of bay and delta maritime. >> go ahead. >> and stand up. >> yeah. >> so, we are absolutely thrilled that we are here for this come men ration of a new vessel, and particularly pleased that it is named after your daughter, i think that it is a lovely touch and i know that will be something that she will appreciate, more and more as she gets older. so very special. and with that, we would like to present a plaque on behalf of the port. [ applause ] >> so congratulations to bay and delta, and thank you for the loyalty to the port and all of the work that you do for us in the bay and i hope that everyone gets a chance to go out for a ride. because it is a great vessel and so a lot of fun, next commissioners as you know we are going to be holding our first off site commission meeting at the end of september, september 23rd, at the south east community facility at 1800 oak dale avenue. and it is a change of location, the commission meeting time is expected to be, its normal time of open session at 3:15 and the meeting will be at the 1800 oak dale avenue, and this is something that the commission thought would be beneficial, and to host more of the meetings out in the community and so this will be the very first one. for those of you who plan to attend, parking is a little challenging and so plan to come early and car pool if you could or better yet take the t line but we look forward to seeing all of you on september 23rd, at the south east community facility. and then the very two days later i guess, on september 25th, at noon, after more than a decade, we will be officially opening the james r. herm an cruise terminal, and the new gang way is somewhere in the atlantic and she has been boarded on a vessel after being fa bricated in sweden and sthe will arrive straight to pier 27 and off listing the gang way on to the pier and it will take hours and hours and so i hope that you get a chance to see this because it is going to be cool to see it sort of hanging above the new cruise ship terminal and once that is in place, we will be able to begin, processing the passengers through the new terminal and we have even more good news, which is that on july 30, we received a temporary certificate of occupancy and reached the substantial completing on phase two, one day ahead of schedule and i am happy to report and so congratulations to all of the project team which is too numerous to name individually. and on august 18th, next month, the next border of protection, agency will be moving into the new facility, and you may recall that phase two, consisted of building out the facilities for the u.s. border and customs border protection, which includes two jail cells, and i want to warn you to behave ourself, or you might get to see them and a terrific new, grand transportation that will help to alleviate the traffic, and the cruise plaza and the one is in and so we are waiting for the lawn to get cozy before we open that up for use, and the various substructure repairs and equipment and the marine system, and the very own maintenance division but very, very interesting and the upgrade to the equipment to accommodate, the changing size and the design of the very large cruise ship and so a lot of major milestones have been met with the respect to the cruise terminal and look forward to officially opening on september 25, at noon and that event will be open to the public as open as we are allowed on to be with the cruise ship in port and so we look forward to seeing everybody there. >> and then also, on september 8, which is a monday, we will be hosting in this building right out there in the second floor, a civic celebration to honor mimi soberg who is the president and the ceo of the delancy street foundation, that is open to the public at 5:30 and monday, september 8th to 8:00 p.m. on the ferry building on the second level and that will recognize all of the tremendous contributions that she has endoed upon all of us in this community, for particularly in the central water front. and then, sadly, i wanted to mention that one of our retired employees renee jones who was with the port for 32 years, passed away last month. and renee worked for the port, she graduated from balboa high school and came over to work at the port and she began in october *f 1973 as a temporary clerk and typist and 32 years later she retired from the real estate division as the collection's supervisor and she was a wonderful aunt and god mother and had numerous nieces and nephews and leaves behind her father, her brother and sister and her good friend, patricia jackson and left a great legacy with all of us and she will be greatly missed and so i wanted to take a moment to recognize that she has departed us. so thank you for that. >> and that concludes my report. >> any public comment on the executive's director's report? >> seeing none, commissioners reports? >> commissioner? anything to report on? >> and just that the two very brief things. one is that i just want to reiterate the public celebration in honor of dr. mimi, and i hope that you will all be able to join us and attend on september 8th, as the executive director mentioned it is free, and i think that many of you are well aware of how visionary dr. solber g and the street were when they located the facility on the water front and so it is exciting to see what their sort of toe hold here brought forward and now looking at it and seeing the changes and so i think that it was really a very opportune time of the 20th anniversary of having been in that location and then seeing the work that has gone up around and how the water front has really thrived, in that time. and so, very visionary, on her part as well as well as just all of the tremendous service to all of us here in the san francisco family. so i hope that you will be able to join us. and just that we don't always acknowledge some of the large and small victories that we have and i wanted to thank some of the staff members on july 17th, we had such a five items at the board of supervisors. and all five went through with tremendous support. from putting forward three items related to the orton development that was mentioned earlier and pier 70 and the approval for the art installation that has gone up and the lights are on at the pier 14. and so that was with megan and elaine and brad and jonathan, as or who was with the orton project. and brad was able to get a project through with the hoe down yard that we have worked with for some time and i want to take a moment to thank the staff because you don't always see the important steps so i want to thank all of you for making those happens, and so thank you. >> i think that is it for me. >> item under on the consent calendar, item a. >> okay, public comment. >> seeing none. >> next item. >> okay. >> item 7 arequest authorization to award construction contract no. 2765, pier 35 building & roof repair project, to roebuck construction, inc. in the amount of $2,041,010, and authorization for a contract contingency fund of 10% of the contract amount (or $204,101) for unanticipated contingencies, for a total authorization not to exceed $2,245,111. (resolution no. 14-48) >> and item 7 b,request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract no. 2769, port security fences project, phase iv. (resolution no. 14-49). and item 7 c,request authorization to issue a request for qualifications to establish a pre-qualified pool for multiple contracts to implement an emergency preparedness training program at the port. (resolution no. 14-50). >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> i am sorry, public comment? >> seeing none. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> all consent items carry. >> okay. >> item 9 a, informational presentation under the 17 year review, 1997 to 2014. >> brad? thank you. >> >> good afternoon, president katz, members and commissioners. woo ho and brandon, i'm diano oshimo with the port's planning and development division. we, me, and brad benson, together will be making this presentation on the overview on the water front land use plan. i wanted to thank everyone and welcome the members of the public who have come. and this has been quite an undertaking on the part of the port. and we have only just released to the port, it became live yesterday, late last night on the port's website and so we appreciate that, there is a lot of information that we will try and summarize for you today. this is a draft report, and so we recognize the need for people to be able to review and absorb, and we will be looking forward to taking comments through september, and then be able to take stock of the comments and feedbacks if we get back to before we finalize the report. thank you for your patience to everyone actually for the website, access. >> so hopefully, if you have any problems, let us know, it should be available. the project that we have tried to undertake is looking at the full 17 years of the water front plan has been in place and we were required to look at a 5-year time window but we extended it to look at the full array of things that have happened on the water front to pride, education for the public, and there are 123 different projects that have been profiled in the report, and while that is a lot, that is not every project, that has happened, but we think that it is reflective of the breadth of the activities that have taken place and it all started after the city's effort to tear down the freeway and replace it with the transportation improvements and both projects were separate, but coordinated in time. and so, what we thought that we could do is just start out with just some images to give you a flavor for what the water front looked like back then in 1997. verses what we enjoy today. and starting from fisherman's wharf, this is one of the more recent accomplishments, but clearly, at pier 43, what we enjoy today and what was available for america's cup, was once a dilapidated parking lot that really blocked people's views and the enjoyment of the alkatraz island and i think that we have seen the successes of having the people flock to the northern end of the water front and then continuing down. here is pier 1517, the eastern phase of that pier, which was the parker caught in the warehouse at the time and, it was an operating warehouse, and industrial in nature verses now, the families and children that flock to the water front and enjoy, not just the interactive science museum but all of the access and the views back to the city. pier one, we are all familiar with the port's headquarters, buildings today, and the transformation of that sugar warehouse shed, which prior to the construction was a very important parking resource for the water front. so, it, and i am glad to say that it is a very functional change that i think has also benefited the public for as much as those base side conference rooms get used for very public meetings. next door, piers 1 and a half, i don't know that the public understands how decrepid that facility was and it had been condemned and basically left for dead before we put it together in the pier's one and half three five, project opportunity that was improved by san francisco water front partners. and then, moving down, obviously, the brandon street wharf and a new improvement that we are all able to enjoy. there were two prao*ers there, 34, and 36 and both had been condemned are on their way there. and the removal of those piers was part of an arrangement that the port commission and the bcds commission set up to be able to focus the major public improvements for the public open space and fill removal in exchange for being able to do the variety of land uses that we now see in the developments today. and then moving south into the southern water front, i think that the herins head park and the various layers of improvements that have taken shape down there. and for taking a spit of land that was just dead fill. and making improvements, and so that it made it publicly accessible and then available for a natural habitat area. creating the environmental education programs, that commissioner brandon was very centrally involved in, with the bay view community. and then bringing it forward to the ecocenter, and there and barely off of the grid facility that furthers the facility programming and then more recently the next park improvement that was put in place last year, for the entrance to the herns head park and it sort of shows how the collaborations between the port and the city and the community have been able to bring forth a really valuable resource in the area. the water front land use itself provides the overview for the projects port wide as well as the individual sites that many people have been focusing on the projects recently, and it was required as a result of a ballot initiative that was passed in 1990, proposition h, where the piers were required to be included in the plan, the port commission at the time included all of the port's properties in the plan and didn't 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 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 to look at what we have been able to do on the new resources. and the water front plan also set out guidelines, and anticipating public, private partnerships as an important vehicle to be able to improve these piers because it was clearer than it is now, that there was a lot of deferred maintenance, and there were very few financing resources, and that the thought was public, private partnerships would bring the changes along and so there was a process for setting out how you work with the community before you have the development projects and then, once you have the development partner, moving forward, since then, in this report, we have counted over 1.6 billion, worth of private and public investment in the improvement projects that will summarize here. and there are in addition port leasing and other many maintenance and engineering projects that we have not been able to profile here in addition to that. >> in terms of the policy framework from the water front plan the division of the water front advisory plan was to reunite san francisco with the water front and the foundation points for that were the goals that you see on this slide to really promote, and embrace san francisco's diverse maritime, working water front, to revitalize the port for public enjoyment. to broaden the array of uses and activities that should be offers along the water front to subscribe to the urbanty of san francisco. to expand the public access to transportation access along the water front as part of its improvement. and to design and come up with new projects, that are mineful of the history, and to the design of creativity and the urban design and the setting and related a lot with tying how in how it relates to the rest of the city and there was a lot of coordination from the department and from the outset and economic access and trying to make sure that we still in the improvement of the water front to be sure that there are places for blue collar and for families and children, and to have a place to enjoy along the water front. the water front plan, really organizes the 7 and a half miles into five geographic subareas. fisherman's wharf is the northern most and in our report, we have identified the specific projects and also, sumized at a high level, what has been happening in each one of these subareas. clearly for the fisherman's wharf the big news for the port was to able to resurrect the commercial fishing degree which was really in a weakened mode at the time that the plan was improved. with the fishing harbor and pier 45, fish processing facilities it created and renewed really the center of fisherman's wharf, which really is what people want to see. and the port's effort since then have really focused a lot on public realm, i think that is represented in the pier 43, as well as the jefferson street and tie lor street to welcome the visitors that come to the wharf and that has spurred a lot of partnerships with the cbd and the tenants to be able to make the investments with the businesses and so that the restaurants and the venue and activities interact well with the public realm and we are working with the bcdc to identify further improvements for the fisherman's wharf area and so there is still work to do to change some regulations that will make it easier for the restaurant owners to do seismic up grades and retrofits to their restaurants where they sit on a pile supported decks and so that work has been under way through the bcdc port working through the process which we have briefed you on previously. in the north east water front, and we have quite a bit of improvement just through the director's announcement on opening of the herm an cruise terminal, the plaza, and clearly the explore torium has been a game changer for the north east water front and it is hard to imagine the change if you were not here then, but pier 27 was a news print terminal, when the plan was adopted. when a cotton warehouse and we had a foreign trade zone with the semitrucks crossing in 19 and 23, and so what the public has been able to enjoy, with the america's cup and with the permanent developments here with the opening of the cruise terminal, i think that it is something that provides that bridge between the ferry building area and fisherman's 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 es
you basically the target of our return and what the value and the return will be in the marketplace. that's what i'm looking for. >> i will do a little bit of clean up here. first on the new allocation mixes that we have. there are two of them. i will put them by date. november 25th has two new ones and they were provided at my request. and we have a december 3rd, alternative special mix that was combined with a combination of the director. so those are the origins of the document. >> right. >> and the mixes. for the purpose of the motion and the second, i believe that the maker is speaking about the december 3rd memo in the alternative special mix giving direction for three scenarios under the hedge funds. one being a fund to fund, one being in-house and one being a mix to see how the numbers fall. is that accurate? >> that is accurate. >> i'm reading into your comments that you didn't expect the due diligence on staff's part to be between 30 and 60 days but you had something less in mind although i'm not sure if there was a specific date, so for the sake of the motion. >> for the sake of the motion, i will yield to our director, he knows how long it will take to get the data in terms of time span. i would yield to him for the data. >> we are confident we can have the data for the february board meeting. at the time we will propose to schedule it at the january board meeting. my concern is that available resources and the time involved over the holiday season might limit it. so , we've had discussions and we are comfortable that we can have it prepared for the february board meeting. >> i think it's fair and it will give the staff time to be comfortable with it. it will give them an opportunity to review it and see where we are on the current allocations and will give everyone an opportunity to step back and do a full evaluation. i would like to do a full evaluation sitting with staff to answer questions. >> i would say staff has had less than 24 hours to digesting this information, recommendation. >> great, now we all know what the lay of the land is. i will open up for public comment on this item and the action. first speaker is allen cobb. >> do you want to speak? >> yes. this issue of generating the days to see the subclass areas in the mix which is in one sense another way of doing it or a new way of doing it and the issue of the strategy and the hedge fund areas, there are 16-20 strategies. i believe it was never our intent to go back to the questions i posed in june and they were not all going to be recommended to us. if we are breaking things down further, only those strategies that we would reasonably want to do, that kind of breakdown should also be in here. it would approve the risk numbers as well as the rate of return number. i'm sure that number is possible to generate based on the consultants and as well as cambridge as our consultants. that's a request on the same timeline. >> go ahead. >> in terms of the research, i think it has to be, i heard comments from the customers here that i have heard say that it has not been objective. i would like to see it objective, that is not everything compared to hedge funds. it has to be objective, it has to be unbiased and both sides of the issue. it can't just be this is the way it's going to be done and provide only data that supports that which is what i perceive has been done in the past that we've seen one side of the issue. for example, talk about the success of orange county, we have not seen discussions of the other one. to clarify, orange county is the county that declared bankruptcy a year ago. it's not just going to be i want hedge funds and have just the data to support hedge funds. it's important to see both sides of the issue. also, we really have not discussed suit ability on this which is one of the criterias for the cfa code of ethics. no. 3, duties to clients suit ability. the customers are here in the audience. these are the customers, it's their money going into this fund that we are managing and that's why we are at the table, that's why we hired the executive director who hires the chief officer. without the customers, we are not here. that's why we have to discuss this. i have not seen anything at all. you hear talk about hedge funds and all we hear is about the risk. there is more deeper than the risk. also this whole detail about process. it's a model. it is a theory. you have to understand that it's just a theory. so you cannot say without any doubt that hedge funds will provide the diversification. let me say one more thing. will rodgers said that things don't work as well in practice as they do in theory. all you said a theory here. the context was we had a very stable current goal as pegged from the 1830s to 1930s to $20 an ounce and now the gold is in at $35 an ounce. what happened was the greatest deflation period, i can stand and know which horse is going to win the race. the moment i leave the grandstand to put a $5 bet on that horse, he seem to know it and runs away differently. things don't work as well in practice as they do in theory. will rodgers also said there is two things that can destroy this country, the first one is the board and the second is the reserve board. which happened in 1929. understand this as a theory. there is one other issue. >> you are now one became two. >> this is based on standard deviation. i don't think everybody understand what standard deviation. the one 1 one 1 percent with a standard deviation of one. what's the chance of casting this money? pretty small, right? what is the chance in 1 year that our cash portfolio would have a loss, 1 year cash negative 37 percent. cash at a loss of 37 percent for the 12 months dated june 30, 2009. we are mildly 1 percent return on that. this is the weakness of all the variance optimizes that you are using. what we are talking about are the very stressful events such as we are talking about 2008 where standard deviations don't work. cash doesn't have a return of 28 negative. you may looked in the past and think hedge funds have lower risk and diversifying effects just as the hundred years. but there are other things to consider in that is the reality aspect. things don't work well in practice as they do in theory. [ applause ] >> welcome, allen. sorry you had to stand so long. >> my name is allen cobb. i am a retiree. i'm not a retiree of the city of san francisco, but i am a retiree from a private company, and i would hate to see the progressive city of san francisco set a bad example to the private companies out there and risk their pensions. i think this is going in the wrong direction. i think the state of california is going in the right direction. i'm a former statistics an. i have had some friends whose pension disappeared. i have had other friends whose pensions were in half because of these risky types of investments, and that is my concern. thank you. [ applause ] >> ms. landry followed by michael seville by john spencer. >> good afternoon, commissioners and/or trustees. as you know, my name is cynthia landry and i'm with sciu 1021 and i sit on the secure retirement committee. as you know trustees, you have a fiduciary duty to your pensioners and to future retirees who depend on this trust, the safety of this trust to sustain them in their golden years. there is a tremendous amount of anxiety and uncomfortableness about changing the allocation which has provided a safe, secure, retirement to the pensioners, and as the director or the president said there that you have been able to make all your future, you have been able to make all your payments on time. pension funds should be transparent, they should be safe, they should be secure, they should be regulated and they should provide among other things slow steady growth. in fact, the city charter requires prudent investments. there is no regrettably quick rich schemes to fund pension plans, only safe secure financial and well tested instruments. so, please reconsider your hedge fundamental -- fund -- allocation. also there should be transparency and should be data back to support the future trends that are being predicted. thank you. >> thank you, michael, welcome. >> michael seville followed by john stenson. >> thank you, mr. president, michael seville with icp local 21. i wanted to talk quickly about the process that we have used in coming up with our support. i have a lesser amount of hedge funds that staff put forward. we have an advisory committee members in san francisco those supporting and those against the hedge funds and really doug into diagonal. the first reminder is what we are trying to do and that is to protect the hedge funds. we need to hit the mark of 7.5 percent and how we are doing that. i have been troubled over the process in the last 8 months. i have learned more about hedge funds that i thought i would need to and i hope everyone else has. the recommendations supporting the 3 being mixed at the time. we understand there are new proposals being put forward and we have not had the opportunity to review those with the details and we are supporting the proposal at this time. i would remind the board that the retirement department represents civil servants and i think they represent good hard work everyday and i feel bad about the lack of trust for the department. >> i have a couple questions. when you say you and your advisory board are supporting the 3 mix are you supporting the staff recommended or the current one that trustee bridges is introducing? >> the 3b was one with the less amount of fund -- allocation which is 10 percent. >> okay. >> the staff's third recommendation which is a 10 percent allocation to hedge funds. >> those were the three put forward to us. we sat down, we looked through quite a few pages of data and had the conversations we are having here. we have citizens of san francisco that we want to protect. there is a policy that driscoll might have addressed that that the board before coming forward with the policy and proposal of moving into hedge funds at the time of the investment and those policies protect us from this policy and you determine whether or not to make those investments. that's something we had concerns about and we think policy in place addresses some of those concerns. >> my final question was you feeling troubled about the process. i was curious you mean about this body's process as to asset allocations? >> no. as i said from the beginning that local 21 prides itself at looking at hard and difficult issues. when the proposal was made 3 days ago, we want to be comfortable going back to our membership saying we believe that based on the members digestion of information and me making the recommendations, we don't feel they have had enough time to analyze appropriately and for us to consider the information before i can make the recommendation to you. >> you agree with us? >> yes, i support the deferral to allow more time. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> john? >> my name is john stenson. i belong to the retirement plan for the past 40 years. this is an important issue and it's a good chance if you vote the hedge funds, you will not be reelected. first of all i would like to read you part of your mission statement. "to prudently invest in fund assets". anyone who wants to invest in a hedge funds, you need to take the best advice and you need the best hedge fund manager in the world. he says that hedge funds are a risky investment. pension funds have no business investing in hedge funds. i will give you ten reasons why we should. the first reason is it's often, they are often liquid investments, meaning you can't cash in. you are stuck with it for years. second reason, they engage in leverage and other practices. third reason, they are not required to produce and answer reports. ask angela about the hedge funds in the islands and see how much information you get about their hedge funds. they also may raise complex tax issues. the 5th reason, they place limitations on investors to withdraw the funds. sixth reasons, there are very high management fees, 2 percent and 20 percent of profits. that's completely ridiculous investment. 7th reason, they are very bad 1 and 5-year and 10-year performance record. eighth reason, in 2013 only 10 hedge funds out performed the sfp 500. ninth reason, a lot of institutions are going to hedge funds because of poor performance. take note of state of california, they let pension funds into hedge funds and now they are going to lead them out. hopefully we don't get in so we don't have to let them out. 10th reason, confirmed that a standard portfolio of 60 percent stocks, 40 percent bonds out performed most hedge funds in the past five and 10 years. one more thing to say, if you have two baskets here and this basket equals 500 hedge funds and this is 500. if you are the top hedge funds invested, take out the funds and here it has 100, i bet anybody on this board that the monkey would out perform the hedge fund. [ applause ] rebecca followed by patricia jackson. >> my name is rebecca, i'm a public health nurse for the city and county. i have been a public health registered nurse and i would like to retire if there is going to be money in the retirement system. i do have faith in our union and i was circulating a petition and thought well, gosh, i should look up the definition of a hedge fund. just go for it. i'm not going to pretend with you that i'm going to analyze this data in the next 5 minutes. i looked it up and it said a limited partnership with investors using a high investment in the hopes of large capital gain. everybody in the hospital that i approached, some in other unions, they could not sign up fast enough. so far at this meeting i don't have a lot of confidence because of one member who i believe was trying to support the hedge funds clearly say this, that this was a reasonable thing. the only rational that i heard him give was what my mother would tell me was a pitfall which is just because other people are jumping off the cliff, doesn't mean we want to go with them. so, that's really it. i have got to get back to the hospital. >> before you get back to the hospital, rebecca, i have a quick question. where did you get your information from? >> wikipedia. [ laughter ] >> you know what, that's your members understand. honest to god, i mean, how many people didn't even know, don't ava -- have a clue what hedge funds are. they do know that we will be impacted. i don't care if you are a janitor or dietician. it doesn't matter. they do understand that. >> thank you. patricia followed by kate walker, followed by lynn gavin. >> good afternoon, i am patricia jackson, a retiree. i work with the water pollution under the puc and also the convener and board member of san francisco. i'm here to speak against the investment of hedge funds. i have a 160-word statement which i understand i have to have it in writing and i want to have it submitted to the official record. i will read that statement now. i request that this statement be put into the record. the city charter mandates the board act with prunes -- prudence for the benefit of actors and beneficiaries. these are our funds and we contributed a percentage of our paycheck the whole time we were working into these funds and we have a right and duty to protect our pensions and our concerns need to be heard and he'ded. people before me made ample statements, the precautionary principal and the high risk and higher fees and the percentage of profit. as we all know calpers pulled out of hedge funds. hedge funds represents a large amount of money and across the country they are being tapped, not ours as we would like to say. our funds are the most stable in the country, there is no reason to start investing in risky hedge funds. instead i think we should contribute into natural resources and into our community as supervisor avalos suggest a san francisco bank and also it would be nice to invest in housing so those of us who live here and worked for decades can stay in this city. and one more thing i would like to report the grand jury report in 2012 they recommended that they will take an in depth investigation of hedge fund loses reported in 2009. this report questions the level investment in high risk and volatile investment policies and this was completely ignored by the mayor ed lee and i believe also this board. i would also say that i would like to support commissioner herb -- recommendation. thank you. [ applause ] >> good afternoon, my name is kate walker and i have been a member since 1972. i do not want hedge funds as part of the portfolio. everyone who has spoken especially the last speaker has said what i wanted to say. this business of the risk taking and adding it to other risk. there are risks in some of the other investments as well like private equity. i don't think that a pension fund is a place for that level of risk taking. the thing that really gets to me is the lack of transparency in hedge funds, and a lot of us that live here and this is reflective of our culture, staff stating due to a lot of speculation and gentrification that this all goes upon us now, hedge funds are indicative of that. true, according to what i have read and i have read a lot online about hedge funds and a lot of negative stuff and we can't check or the board can't check where those investments go. we want positive investments. i never realized until i started looking online as to how much investments or how investment could be used to change the world. as you are investing in deru