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In 1989 lomaprieta earthquake altered the timeline and cost for renewal of Fishermans Wharf. Pier 45 the planned location for Seafood Center suffered significant earthquake damage and chased away the last number of dwindling company doing fishing at the port. The cost skyrocketed and for a moment it seemed there may no longer be any fish at Fishermans Wharf. Undaunted, we began a 14 million earthv quake repair project at the wharf at pier 45 which when completed turned into dee cap it seismicall...

Able to scale up the number of cases they are referring and mentoring without additional funding and additional staff. Additional resources and commitment from firms will be meaningless unless the Legal Services organization received significant additional funding. We therefore respectfully request that you approve the supplemental funding for San Francisco Legal Services organization so they can expand their staff and resources and thereby leverage available open resources for children and fami...

Into dee cap it seismically pier into a receiving processing center. I can recall pundits at the time saying the industry was too far gone and it would never come back to San Francisco. Even if we fixed pier 45. Luckily, when the facility opened in 1995, the receiving and processes and companies flocked back to Fishermans Wharf and the sheds were unleashed to capacity almost immediately. Today they remain at capacity with over 100,000 square feet of modern fish handling distribution space to 20 ...

Today they remain at capacity with over 100,000 square feet of modern fish handling distribution space to 20 Fish Processors and receivers. It is today northern californias leading seafood center. The next Infrastructure Project was the construction of the 7 million hyde street harbor. Commissioner brandon, you were on the commission when that was approved and ratified. It provides berthing for the larger more modern fishing vessels. It opened in 2001 and has 62 berths for with modern amenities ...

Opened in 1995, the receiving and processes and companies flocked back to Fishermans Wharf and the sheds were unleashed to capacity almost immediately. Today they remain at capacity with over 100,000 square feet of modern fish handling distribution space to 20 Fish Processors and receivers. It is today northern californias leading seafood center. The next Infrastructure Project was the construction of the 7 million hyde street harbor. Commissioner brandon, you were on the commission when that wa...

And all the city and port has leveraged through the planning and preparation for the event. From that initial feedback that we received on april 9th, were coming back before you today to present an mou, memorandum of understanding as well as the underpinnings of the goals of the program. At the last presentation you asked about what specific considerations, specific assets that we were considering, how the funding would work, both in term of the funds that were raised and what expenditures there...

Law firm with 11 offices including 2 here in the bay area and San Francisco and palo alto. Im also a cofounder and board member of the National Association of pro bono counsel. Professional organization of attorneys managing pro bono practices at law firms around the country. It is in that capacity that im here today. On behalf of the association of pro bono counsel and our Law Firm Pro Bono counsel members, i would like to stress express the strong as possible support for the supplemental fundi...

Association of pro bono counsel and our Law Firm Pro Bono counsel members, i would like to stress express the strong as possible support for the supplemental funding for Legal Services providers. Although many of our law firms already do promote pro bono work for children and families in the areas of asylum and guardianship and special immigrant juvenile status, we are not able to do that work on our own. We do not work in partnerships with Legal Services providers. Which provides training, scre...

Many of our law firms already do promote pro bono work for children and families in the areas of asylum and guardianship and special immigrant juvenile status, we are not able to do that work on our own. We do not work in partnerships with Legal Services providers. Which provides training, screening, and mentoring, referral, and expertise. However, many of these organizations were already at capacity work on reduce staffing before this crisis. They are simply not able to scale up the number of c...

Unfortunately we have not had a lot of updates as of late. One of the other speakers spoke to two event that have happened in the Police Department and i have spoken and it is unfortunate when clyde talks about the guard and he leaves before i ever hears me respond to what happens and so i will save my comments there, but that case is at the occ. And if the officers were found to be outside of being appropriate, i will take the appropriate action, i did have a meeting with chalk and a bunch of k...